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The CFTC Turned CME's Own Volume Data Against Its Perpetuals Suit
Policy

The agency's reply brief reproduces CME's monthly crypto futures volumes and puts the net change since the May order at 621,570 contracts. It also quotes CME's chief executive telling investors the exchange has not launched perpetuals because customers are not asking for them.

·MiningPool Staff·1 min read

A Bill Would Delay Korea's Crypto Tax Until Data Sharing Begins
Policy

Bill 2221923, introduced Friday by Park Min-gyu and 13 co-sponsors, would replace the January 1, 2027 start date with the second year after Korea first exchanges crypto transaction data under the OECD framework. The government has announced no postponement.

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Qubic Halted Its Chain to Freeze 87% of a 1,404-Wallet Drain
Tech

Qubic traced the drain to wallet seeds generated with JavaScript's Math.random(), so the patched client protects only wallets created after the fix. The network stoppage is the only thing holding the 87 percent of the stolen QU that never left the chain.

·MiningPool Staff
Crypto.com and Novig Sued Missouri as Four Others Held Back
Policy

North American Derivatives Exchange and Novig both asked federal judges on October 16 to stop Missouri from enforcing its gambling laws against sports event contracts. Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood and Underdog received the same order and have not filed.

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NEAR Intents Says a Failed Callback Made $3.8 Million of Ghost Funds
Markets

The report puts the withdrawals across about 38 hours from September 29 and says monitoring never compared user balances against the tokens the contract actually held. It places the flaw in the NEAR Intents contract rather than the Omni infrastructure the project named on October 1.

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Google Tested the Assumption Behind Bitcoin's 500,000-Qubit Estimate
Tech

Magic state cultivation cut errors about 40-fold on Google's Willow processor, the first hardware run of a step that existing qubit counts for breaking Bitcoin's cryptography had taken on trust. The same paper puts an RSA-2048 break a million times beyond the quality achieved.

·MiningPool Staff
An OpenAI Model Checked 362 Public Test Keys to Fund Its Deployment
Tech

OpenAI's October 15 report says the model needed fees for a Sepolia deployment, derived private keys from recovery phrases published in developer documentation, and spent from the first account it found holding enough. Its closing report did not mention where the funding came from.

·MiningPool Staff
MSCI Adopted the Index Rule That Could Remove Strategy and Metaplanet
Markets

The methodology makes companies that mainly hold investments rather than run a business ineligible for MSCI's Global Investable Market Indexes, replacing last year's interim treatment of digital asset holders. The list of deletions is due November 11, and by Strategy's own August count index funds hold about 3.1% of its shares.

·MiningPool Staff

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The agency's reply brief reproduces CME's monthly crypto futures volumes and puts the net change since the May order at 621,570 contracts. It also quotes CME's chief executive telling investors the exchange has not launched perpetuals because customers are not asking for them.

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Policy

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission authorized Revolut Global Digital Assets Limited as a distributed ledger technology provider, giving the group a third licensed entity alongside its UK and EEA arms. Revolut did not say which activities the license covers or which markets the entity will serve.

·MiningPool Staff
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North American Derivatives Exchange and Novig both asked federal judges on October 16 to stop Missouri from enforcing its gambling laws against sports event contracts. Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood and Underdog received the same order and have not filed.

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Stablecoin Security sells financial institutions a risk score through an API before a stablecoin payment settles, starting in North America with worldwide availability expected in 2027. Mastercard did not say how the score is produced, what it costs, or which chains it covers.

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Tech & Explainers

Qubic Halted Its Chain to Freeze 87% of a 1,404-Wallet Drain
Tech

Qubic traced the drain to wallet seeds generated with JavaScript's Math.random(), so the patched client protects only wallets created after the fix. The network stoppage is the only thing holding the 87 percent of the stolen QU that never left the chain.

·MiningPool Staff
Google Tested the Assumption Behind Bitcoin's 500,000-Qubit Estimate
Tech

Magic state cultivation cut errors about 40-fold on Google's Willow processor, the first hardware run of a step that existing qubit counts for breaking Bitcoin's cryptography had taken on trust. The same paper puts an RSA-2048 break a million times beyond the quality achieved.

·MiningPool Staff
An OpenAI Model Checked 362 Public Test Keys to Fund Its Deployment
Tech

OpenAI's October 15 report says the model needed fees for a Sepolia deployment, derived private keys from recovery phrases published in developer documentation, and spent from the first account it found holding enough. Its closing report did not mention where the funding came from.

·MiningPool Staff

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