Bitcoin has achieved a volatility reduction of 43% in the past year, lower than the 5-year and 10-year average levels

On October 20th from 09:04 to 17:20 (UTC+8), an address (0xf517... c032) with a 100% winning rate in BTC trading increased its BTC short position from approximately $680000 to approximately $2.11 million, adding approximately $1.43 million to its holdings.

[Large-Cap Altcoin Leverage Nears Yearly High, Mid-Cap Altcoin Leverage Share Hits Record High] Glassnode monitoring shows that over 40% of large-cap altcoin leverage is approaching the highest level of the year, while the leverage share of mid-cap altcoins has risen to a yearly peak. If prices decline, a significant number of long positions in the market face liquidation risk.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino responded to US Senator Richard Blumenthal's sanctions enforcement report on X platform, stating that the report ignored Tether's proactive freezing of sanctioned addresses. Since 2023, Tether has implemented freezing on average 4 weeks earlier than officially recognized addresses by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Israel's National Counterterrorism Financing Facility (NBCTF), and in 99% of cases, addresses have been frozen before being flagged by Chainalysis.

Aptos has launched an encrypted memory pool function on the main network, which allows users to keep pending transactions encrypted until block sorting is determined, in order to prevent preemptive transactions and sandwich attacks. This feature is aimed at institutions, traders, AI agents, and developers. Over the past 12 months, Ethereum traders have lost $60 million due to sandwich attacks; The sandwich attack on Solana brought $29.7 million in revenue to the robot, involving nearly 6.9 million attacks and affecting approximately 2.2 million wallets.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that the Glamsterdam upgrade plan will be activated on the Hoodi testnet at 01:42:48 (UTC+8) on October 27th, and Hoodi's block gas limit will be increased to 200 million. This upgrade includes the separation of embedded proposers and builders, block level access lists, and gas billing adjustments. The Sepolia testnet was activated on October 6th, and the upgrade date for the Ethereum mainnet has not yet been determined. Node operators need to update the execution layer and consensus layer clients before Hoodi activation.