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The People's Daily of China published an article titled "Disrupting the Capital Market, These Chaos of Financial Self-Media Accounts Need to Be Vigilant," which specifically names certain accounts that attract traffic for virtual currency trading by posting false profit information such as "hundred times coin" and "making millions a month from trading coins."The article again cites a previous notice from the central bank and eight other departments, emphasizing that activities related to virtual currencies are considered illegal financial activities. It points out that accounts and platforms providing traffic and technical services for illegal virtual currency trading are suspected of violating laws and regulations, which may threaten financial security and anti-money laundering efforts.

Web3 asset data platform RootData today released the third edition of the "Cryptocurrency Exchange Transparency Rankings (Stock Category)." This edition has undergone significant upgrades in its algorithm, incorporating market makers and traffic weight into the trading volume activity scoring system for the first time. Through a tiered coefficient calculation, it further eliminates discrepancies, enhancing the authenticity and reference value of the rankings.The biggest change in this edition is the official entry of OKX. Since supporting stock trading on February 25, OKX has performed strongly in this data backtest, ranking second on the list, thanks to its compliance licenses from multiple regions, including Singapore's MAS and the U.S. FinCEN.In a market environment where overall user activity is shrinking, Gate has become one of the few exchanges to achieve counter-trend growth in traffic this week. Its visits increased from 3.4M to 4.1M, coupled with a stable reserve of over 110 stock assets, further consolidating its leading position in the niche market.Additionally, while OrangeX maintained its sixth position, its traffic plummeted by over 60% (from 2.4M to 1M), facing severe pressure from existing user loss; XT.com, on the other hand, has seen its score decline for three consecutive weeks due to a lack of compliance licenses, with a trend of increasing marginalization becoming more evident.RootData adheres to the principle of "transparency first," providing investors with more effective data references through a dual evaluation system of "transparency + liquidity." In the future, RootData will continue to optimize data interfaces, assisting more platforms in addressing information disclosure shortcomings, and providing investors with more credible reference dimensions.

According to Jinshi, U.S. President Trump announced the establishment of a new military alliance to eliminate drug trafficking groups.

In response to the statement made by the so-called "former Binance listing manager Chase" in an interview regarding "the short-term price of cryptocurrencies being influenced by liquidity, attention, and chip structure," He Yi stated, "Short-term prices are indeed greatly affected by liquidity, traffic, and token structure, but whether the hype can transcend cycles depends on factors such as revenue, empowerment, issuance, and destruction. For example, BTC, ETH, and BNB have all broken free from the constraints of the first three elements. The crypto industry has been financing through storytelling for many years; the narrative is dead, and practicality must prevail."

Polkadot data shows that robots have generated 51% of the total network traffic, officially surpassing the proportion of human activity for the first time.

According to CoinDesk, a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York revealed that Rui-Siang Lin, the alleged operator of the dark web drug marketplace Incognito Market, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday. This marks the conclusion of one of the largest cases involving an online drug market since the Silk Road case.U.S. prosecutors stated that the operators of the dark web market Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymous tools to conceal their identities, but investigators ultimately linked them to the platform through domain records and digital footprints. Rui-Siang Lin operated under the online alias "Pharaoh." He pleaded guilty in December 2024 to multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit drug offenses, money laundering, and conspiracy to sell adulterated and falsely labeled drugs. Prosecutors indicated that the platform facilitated over $105 million in illegal drug transactions between October 2020 and March 2024, completing more than 640,000 transactions and serving hundreds of thousands of buyers worldwide.

The FBI has arrested former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding in Mexico City. The U.S. accuses him of orchestrating a transnational drug trafficking organization and extensively using cryptocurrencies and stablecoins for drug-related transactions and money laundering.FBI Director Kash Patel stated that Wedding will be extradited to the United States, facing multiple charges including cocaine trafficking and murder. Wedding has been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list since 2025, with a reward of up to $15 million. U.S. prosecutors claim that this criminal network, in collaboration with the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, transported hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and California to the United States and Canada.The U.S. Treasury previously noted that the organization moved funds through multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and BNB Chain, involving stablecoin payments and exhibiting multi-chain money laundering characteristics. In 2024, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on Wedding, his associates, and shell companies, freezing multiple sets of cryptocurrency addresses. Prosecutors also accused him of having directed the murder of informants and orchestrated several violent retaliation actions related to drug trafficking.

A traffic police officer in Ufa, Russia, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing approximately 20 million rubles (equivalent to several hundred thousand dollars) in Bitcoin. The case dates back to 2022, when the officer illegally obtained access to the mobile phones of two detainees while handling a case, transferring BTC through a messaging app and a cryptocurrency wallet, accompanied by violent evidence collection. The court sentenced him to 7 years in a regular security prison, ordered him to compensate the victims approximately 20 million rubles, and stripped him of his police rank.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced sanctions against former Canadian Olympic athlete Ryan James Wedding and his drug trafficking organization. Wedding is accused of leading an international drug trafficking network, with these sanctions involving 9 individuals and 9 entities being added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.Notably, the sanctions list includes multiple cryptocurrency addresses, involving various blockchain networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Tron, and Solana.The sanctioned individuals include several suspects from Mexico, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while the related entities span multiple industries, including jewelry manufacturing, private security, fuel wholesale, and motorcycle sales.

According to Caixin, a core member of a drug trafficking group, Zhang Zhidong (also known as "Zhang Zhihong"), has been arrested and extradited to the United States. He has used multiple aliases, including the most well-known nickname "Brother Wang."Mike Vigil, former head of the International Operations Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), stated that "Brother Wang" was responsible for converting the profits from drug trafficking into cryptocurrency assets. Investigators found approximately 150 companies and 170 bank accounts associated with him, which received about 20 million dollars between 2020 and 2021.

ChainCatcher news, focusing on the X Layer ecosystem, the Gamma protocol recently announced the launch of its innovative solution "Neutron Star" on October 31, targeting the long-standing user retention optimization needs in the decentralized exchange (DEX) sector.Gamma stated that, according to industry observation data, traditional DEXs often attract users through short-term incentive activities, and user activity tends to decline after these activities end; even within the X Layer ecosystem, which has the advantage of low Gas costs, there is still room for improvement in the participation of some on-chain users due to the need for better traffic operation mechanisms.As a fully closed-loop infrastructure focusing on the X Layer ecosystem, Gamma has built a collaborative architecture of "Gamma DEX (trading hub) + Neutron Star (traffic operation module) + Gamma IDO (compliance financing channel)", aiming to attract ecosystem traffic users and optimize service experience.The newly launched "Neutron Star" module will explore the operation of DEX traffic value, with specific details to be announced in subsequent release activities.

ChainCatcher news, focusing on the X Layer ecosystem, the Gamma protocol recently announced the launch of an innovative solution "Neutron Star" on October 31, aimed at addressing the long-standing user retention optimization needs in the decentralized exchange (DEX) sector.Gamma stated that, according to industry observation data, traditional DEXs often attract users through short-term incentive activities, but user activity tends to decline after these activities end; even in the X Layer ecosystem, which has the advantage of low Gas costs, the traffic operation mechanism still needs improvement, and there is still room for increased participation from some on-chain users.As a fully closed-loop infrastructure focusing on the X Layer ecosystem, Gamma has built a collaborative architecture of "Gamma DEX (trading hub) + Neutron Star (traffic operation module) + Gamma IDO (compliance financing channel)", aiming to attract ecosystem traffic users and optimize service experience. The newly launched "Neutron Star" module will explore the operation of DEX traffic value, with specific details to be announced in subsequent release activities.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine, Charles Schwab (managing and custodial assets of approximately $11 trillion) stated that user interest in its crypto products has increased, with a 90% year-over-year growth in traffic to its crypto website.