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According to a report by the Korean News Agency, South Korea's five major commercial banks have all been suspected of being attacked by hackers possibly driven by artificial intelligence, with three of them experiencing customer information leaks. This simultaneous attack on all five banks is unprecedented in South Korea's financial industry.It is reported that BNK Busan Bank suffered a hacker attack that led to the leakage of personal information of 11 outsourced employees; KB Kookmin Bank had information of 119 customers leaked due to the hacker attack, and Hana Bank also stated that information of 89 customers was leaked.

The fitness and health application BRTFit's CEO Kevin Huang has released a new book titled "Exercise Covenant," subtitled "From Smart Wearable Devices to Open Health Protocols." The book discusses how technology can transform the willingness to exercise into sustained action, consisting of 25 chapters. The team discusses smart wearable devices, artificial intelligence, behavioral incentives, and Web3 in the book, and presents their vision for a healthier future.The same post also lists community activity arrangements. Daily faucets can receive 100 tBRT. The genesis airdrop is aimed at the first 10,000 eligible participants, with a total distribution of 1,000,000 BRT, weighted according to tBRT snapshots and valid referrals, each accounting for 50%.Participants holding at least 100 tBRT, submitting application reviews, and providing the required Binance Square participation proof can receive a feedback reward of 1 USDT. Users on Google Play must publish a BRTFit article on Binance Square and submit a screenshot via Discord for review. Feedback rewards are processed from Monday to Saturday, Beijing time, from 10:00 to 20:00, and are subject to activity rules and verification constraints. The official statement clarifies that tBRT is a test contribution token and does not guarantee a 1:1 correspondence with BRT. The application can be downloaded by searching for BRTFit on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Andrew Tate (0xfb0...1E9d) deposited 20,950 HYPE into Binance, worth 1.87 million dollars.He bought 122,827 HYPE about two years ago at a price of 4.48 dollars, worth 550,000 dollars, and currently still holds 63,550 HYPE, worth 5.62 million dollars. His total profit from HYPE trading is 7.24 million dollars, with a return rate of 1317%.

Bitwise Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated that after the Senate did not advance the CLARITY Act, stablecoin platforms retain the space to offer balance rewards to customers, and exchanges like Coinbase continue to hold the advantages of existing state-level licenses and the integration of trading and brokerage services.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a five-year exemption for tokenized stock trading, allowing eligible platforms to test using licensed automated market makers and liquidity pools. Hougan listed Securitize, which will serve tokenized funds for BlackRock, Apollo, and KKR, as a beneficiary. SEC staff updated the token buyback guidelines, stating that for networks that are functional and do not have a centralized party, buyback announcements do not constitute a commitment relied upon by buyers for expected profits; this guideline does not have legal effect.

According to Bitcoin.com, Microsoft's official X account was hacked and used to promote a meme coin themed around its classic Clippy assistant character, CLIPPY. The related violating content has been removed, and Microsoft has confirmed to the media that the account was subject to unauthorized access and stated that it is continuing to investigate the incident.

According to SEC filings, Coinbase submitted an 8-K form on October 2, disclosing that Chief Accounting Officer Jennifer Jones notified the company of her retirement decision on September 29.She will continue to serve until her successor takes over, while the company has initiated the search for a successor. This decision was not due to any disagreements with the company regarding operations, policies, or practices.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the PUMP institutional private placement address (E3M...9Cs) participated in the PUMP private placement last July with 4 million USD, acquiring 1 billion PUMP at a private placement price of 0.004 USD.This address transferred all PUMP to Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, valued at 5.36 million USD, with a price of 0.0054 USD; by selling the private placement PUMP, it made a profit of 1.36 million USD, with a return rate of 34%.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the trader "OuterHeavyBat" has achieved a floating profit of over $663,000 in the trading of the token MASK, with a return on investment of 655%.It is reported that the trader previously spent $101,000 to purchase 18.6 million MASK tokens and has not yet sold any positions. The current value of this asset is approximately $765,000.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Argentina vs Burkina Faso More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "First Half Total 4.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 47% an hour ago to the current 24.5% (a fluctuation of 22.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to The Block, the Solana ecosystem perpetual contract exchange Velocity (formerly Drift) has opened compensation claims for the April theft incident. Users can receive 1 DFX token for every 1 USDT lost, with the current payout rate being approximately 0.0104 USDT per DFX, which is about 1% of the loss.The current compensation pool is approximately 3.11 million USDT, with a total supply of DFX being around 299.5 million tokens and no further issuance planned. The Drift Foundation stated that the compensation pool will continue to be funded with protocol revenue, and Tether has committed to providing up to 127.5 million USDT to support the restart and user compensation, with the claim deadline set for January 1, 2028. Previously, Drift suffered an attack in April, resulting in a loss of approximately 295.4 million USD.

AI startup Tavus released a new model called Griffin on October 1, referring to it as the first "human interaction model" that can understand and generate face-to-face conversations, paying attention not only to wording but also to expressions and pauses. Tavus stated that in tests, after a one-minute video call with Griffin-Lite, 26 out of 54 participants (48%) believed the other party was a real person; its previous generation system only convinced 1 out of 41 participants.Participants were told they would have a one-minute video call with another person to discuss things they were looking forward to this year, and only at the end of the call were they asked if they suspected the other party was not a real person. Tavus noted that those who became suspicious typically noticed within 20 seconds. This result comes from Tavus's own research page, where participants were recruited through a channel they call an independent research platform. Community comments on X pointed out that these results have not been independently verified and do not meet standard protocols.In the NVIDIA VideoFDB benchmark, Tavus claimed Griffin-Lite ranked first, with a generation dimension score of 3.83, the next best system scoring 2.8, and human reference scoring 3.92; the perception dimension score was 3.73, with the strongest baseline at 3.44 and human reference at 4.2. Tavus stated that NVIDIA independently conducted this evaluation. Griffin supports full duplex, allowing it to listen, see, and speak simultaneously, with an average audio-video delay of 0.43 seconds on the NVIDIA H100 chip. Tavus completed a $40 million Series B funding round led by CRV in November 2025.

Market news reports that hackers have infiltrated the propulsion system of a tanker heading to the United States.

According to Bloomberg, Absa Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa, has become the first bank in Africa to offer Bitcoin custody services, primarily targeting institutional clients, and will also provide custody services for other digital assets. Rob Downes, the head of digital assets at Absa's Corporate and Investment Banking division, stated that Bitcoin is the largest asset under custody at the bank, with plans to include more asset classes in the future. Absa did not immediately respond to Bitcoin Magazine's request for comment.Many banks around the world are gradually integrating or launching Bitcoin-related products and services. Some banks in the United States and Europe have begun offering crypto asset custody for institutional clients. In 2022, BNY Mellon became the first large bank in the United States to offer digital asset custody services; this month, Deutsche Bank announced plans to launch Bitcoin custody services for European businesses and institutional clients later in 2026.Africa has a large base of crypto-native users. A report by Chainalysis in 2025 shows that South Africa's on-chain value reached $36 billion, ranking second in Sub-Saharan Africa, only behind Nigeria's $92.1 billion; South Africa ranks 30th in the global crypto adoption index. Unlike Nigeria, the South African market is characterized by more institutional features, with a relatively clear regulatory framework that has issued hundreds of licenses to virtual asset service providers, attracting professional investors and traditional financial institutions.

According to The Defiant, the asset tokenization protocol Centrifuge has confirmed that three tokenized funds JAAA, JTRSY, and HYB have been launched on Arc.These three funds cover U.S. Treasury and credit assets, and direct participation in fund investments is limited to non-U.S. professional investors.

Synthra Finance posted on X that it has directly repurchased nearly 2 million POLL from the market and completed the destruction.Synthra Finance stated that after this operation, the total amount destroyed is close to 7% of the total supply of POLL, and mentioned that the related repurchase comes from protocol revenue, marking another round of repurchase and destruction.

According to foreign media reports, Goldman Sachs bankers earned huge commissions while handling SpaceX's IPO. As early as five years ago, when SpaceX was valued at only tens of billions of dollars, Goldman Sachs helped high-net-worth clients invest in the company.After SpaceX went public with a valuation of $1.77 trillion, clients who sold shares received substantial profits and paid Goldman Sachs hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions.

The G7 leaders' statement reaffirms the commitment not to impose export restrictions on energy and energy products among the seven countries and calls on all producing countries to avoid implementing bans that could exacerbate market tensions.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool, Jiang Zhuoer, posted on the X platform stating that the number of ETH queued for withdrawal from staking has risen to 850,000, with the waiting time increasing to 14.77 days, both of which are the highest within 2026. This indicates that a group of coin holders believes the current coin price is relatively high and needs to sell coins to lock in profits.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, trader 0xd9A2 went long on 2900 ETH with 20x leverage on Aster DEX, with a position value of approximately 7.97 million USD.Currently, the unrealized profit of this position has exceeded 1 million USD, with a return rate of 251.68%.

NVIDIA launched the DGX SPARK 64GB configuration this month with major partners, supporting the operation of models with up to 100 billion parameters on the device.