Odaily Planet Daily reports that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin launched the "Paranoid Mode" of his AI agent on October 16, designed to hide user identity, request sources, and payment traces. The solution integrates zkAPI, Tor, additional obfuscated traffic, and local large model prompt rewriting into a daemon compatible with OpenAI, and designs an outer wrapper for the agent framework pi. The system is already running on the Ethereum mainnet, supporting ETH and USDC deposits. Vitalik stat

Odaily Planet Daily reports that a trader holds a long position of 1205.30865 Bitcoin on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid, with a nominal value of approximately 97.87 million USD, using 40x isolated leverage. The average entry price of this position is 81913.80 USD, with an estimated liquidation price of 79828 USD. As of October 18 at 12:25, Bitcoin was quoted at 81117 USD on Bitstamp, 1.59% higher than the liquidation price of this position. The unrealized loss

Odaily Planet Daily reports that U.S. brokerage Charles Schwab is gradually opening external wallet transfers for Bitcoin and Ethereum to eligible clients, supporting the transfer of related assets into and out of external wallets. The service scope has expanded beyond merely providing market exposure within investment accounts. Charles Schwab stated that Bitcoin and Ethereum held through its service are not covered by FDIC insurance, and the related crypto assets are not considered insured trad

Odaily Planet Daily reports that on October 14, the South Korean Financial Services Commission disclosed that Streami, the operator of the Gopax exchange, was listed as one of the 16 financial institutions affected by a recent hacking incident. The incident impacted a total of 16 financial institutions, and regulatory authorities identified approximately 100,000 data breach cases during an industry-wide investigation; this number does not represent the number of Gopax's individual customers, and

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the Latvian Parliament has passed a cryptocurrency tax law, which will take effect in 2027, focusing on taxing withdrawal amounts exceeding deposits and including a one-time declaration mechanism.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that community user X Freeze, citing Similarweb data, stated that the X platform's website visits reached 13.43 billion in the third quarter of 2026, an increase of about 6% from 12.67 billion in the second quarter, adding 760 million visits in a single quarter. X Freeze said that as features such as social networking, payments, creators, video, and real-time news are gradually integrated, X is developing towards a unified ecosystem. In response, Musk said that X's us

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Bitcoin News posted on platform X that Strategy fell 9.6% on the first full trading day after MSCI proposed to remove the index inclusion qualification for companies mainly holding assets rather than conducting business. Strategy holds 848,250 bitcoins at an average purchase price of $75,444, and the current position value is still about $5 billion higher than the cost. Mining companies like MARA also fell despite not facing index qualification threats, with some

Odaily Planet Daily reports that earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a deferred prosecution agreement with Roger Ver, under which fraud and tax evasion charges against him will be dropped. In exchange, he must pay up to $49.9 million in taxes, fines, and interest. Roger Ver purchased a large amount of Bitcoin in 2011 at a cost of less than $3 million. After acquiring citizenship of Saint Kitts and Nevis in February 2014, he renounced his U.S. citizenship the following mo

Odaily Planet Daily reports that former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès is developing a low-cost device to detect hidden LTE antennas in hardware wallet supply chain attacks without opening the wallet. The device will emit weak radio waves and measure resonance frequencies to identify potential spy implants. Karpelès plans to make the circuit board design and specifications public so anyone can build it themselves; the project is currently in the conceptual stage, with a prototype expected to be relea

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the head of Galaxy Research posted on the X platform that the net inflow of Bitcoin ETFs has remained positive since the beginning of the year, reaching $355 million, and turned positive again in September.