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on October 30, BeInCrypto cited Chainalysis data showing that South Africa's crypto economy expanded by 52% to $39.3 billion over the twelve months ending June 2026, with increases across all tracked activities. Commercial payments, including those from local merchants and P2P traders, accounted for $8.34 billion, growing at a faster pace than institutional activity ($1.29 billion in inflows). Meanwhile, stablecoin inflows through P2P channels in Sub-Saharan Africa reached $14.6 billion, matching Bitcoin.

The draft crypto asset management regulations released on August 3 by the South African National Treasury and the central bank (SARB) stipulate that individuals can only transfer crypto assets abroad through authorized local service providers within their existing overseas quotas, while enterprises are prohibited from transferring crypto assets cross-border. As of March 31, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) had issued licenses to 310 crypto asset service providers, but these entities still require separate authorization from the SARB. On October 21, Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana stated that following the receipt of thousands of public comments, the Treasury will aim to publish a revised second draft, though no timeline has been disclosed.

on Oct. 30, according to CoinDesk, after Binance was hacked and lost approximately $6.3 billion in crypto assets, large Bitcoin traders quickly increased their positions in put options to hedge against short-term correction risks. Binance stated that approximately $3 billion of the stolen assets have been frozen, including $2.3 billion in USDT and USDC. According to Nicolas Quatravaux, head of Paradigm EMEA, the first large trade occurred about 15 minutes after funds first flowed out of the Binance wallet and before the news went public, when buyers purchased 250 BTC put options with a $78,000 strike price expiring on Oct. 31, with a notional value of approximately $20 million.

Three minutes later, prices for trades of similar size had risen by approximately 35%. Within eight hours of the incident, the notional value of large BTC options block trades handled by Paradigm totaled approximately $590 million, representing roughly half of Deribit’s total volume for the same period, with put options dominating. This included two put positions of 1,000 BTC each, expiring in mid-November at a $74,000 strike price, with a combined notional value of roughly $155 million. Order flow was concentrated in the $74,000 to $78,000 range, suggesting traders were primarily implementing defensive hedges against near-term pullbacks rather than positioning for a severe crash. According to Velo, BTC option skew briefly touched 18%, while skew across all tenors remained positive.

According to TechFlow, on October 30, crypto analyst The DeFi Investor (@TheDeFinvestor) stated that if someone told him the world's largest centralized exchange had been hacked with losses exceeding $6 billion, he would expect BTC's price to drop significantly. However, BTC only fell about 3% that day, suggesting the market bottom may be nearing.

CZ (@cz_binance) subsequently responded that traditional financial markets fell more than the crypto market that day. Historically, when traditional financial markets decline, investors tend to sell assets to hold cash, which in turn drags down the crypto market. Therefore, Bitcoin demonstrated strong resilience this time.

According to Bitfinex analysis, Strategy shareholders voted on October 28 to approve the proposal for daily dividends on STRC preferred shares, with preliminary results showing that 99.3% of votes supported the proposal. STRC is expected to change from bi-monthly dividends to daily dividends starting November 1, with the first cash dividend to be credited on November 2; the other three preferred shares under Strategy, STRF, STRK, and STRD, are expected to follow suit in January 2027.

This move by Strategy aims to reduce price volatility caused by ex-dividend dates. The company's CEO Phong Le stated that previously, when STRC paid monthly dividends, the average price dropped about 49 basis points around the ex-dividend date, which decreased to about 36 basis points after switching to bi-monthly dividends. The company expects that daily dividends will further disperse selling pressure and enhance price stability.

This model is not unique to Strategy. Bitcoin treasury company Strive switched its SATA preferred shares to daily dividends in June this year and launched a subordinate preferred share SATS with a fixed annual dividend rate of 15%. In October, Strive issued 7 million shares of SATS at $90 per share, raising approximately $630 million, and used about $511 million of that to purchase 6,182 BTC.

on October 30, according to Reuters, a source familiar with the matter said that following a $6.3 billion hack, Binance is cooperating with law enforcement agencies across multiple countries, including the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Secret Service (USSS). The U.S. Embassy in London declined to comment, and the USSS has not yet responded to requests for comment.

Synthetix posted on platform X that the SNX stolen from Binance has been recovered by Synthetix protocolDAO and is currently stored in the protocolDAO multi-signature wallet, to be returned at Binance's request. Synthetix has notified Binance.

On-chain data shows that Synthetix protocolDAO has returned approximately 8.41 million SNX from the attacker's address, valued at about 1.53 million USD.

Cybersecurity company XBOW published a statement disclosing a critical remote code execution vulnerability that can be exploited without authentication in a public web application of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). This application is used for resource and logistics calculations, not for voting machines or voter registration systems.

The vulnerability could allow attackers to execute code with root privileges in the backend container by crafting specific web requests, and access local protected resources and external networks. XBOW stated that it reported the issue according to the vulnerability disclosure policy published by the EAC, and after verification by the EAC team, the vulnerability was fixed before the U.S. federal midterm elections.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "LoL: Team Liquid vs LOS - World Championship Group Stage" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, dropping from 47.5% an hour ago to the current 30.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng responded to community users' comments regarding Bitcoin's resilience against declines, stating that considering the significant drop in traditional financial markets today, which exceeded that of the crypto market, Bitcoin's performance is quite surprising. Typically, a downturn in traditional financial markets drags down the crypto market as investors tend to sell off assets and hoard cash, but this time Bitcoin has shown remarkable resilience.

Previously, some community users indicated that if the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange faced a hack exceeding $6 billion, they expected Bitcoin's price to suffer a severe setback; however, it only dropped about 3% that day, suggesting that the market bottom may be approaching.

According to a report by Reuters citing informed sources, Binance is cooperating with law enforcement agencies around the world, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Secret Service (USSS), to investigate the theft of approximately $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency.

The U.S. Embassy in London stated that it would not comment on the matter, and the United States Secret Service has not yet responded to requests for comment.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, after all ETH long positions were liquidated this morning, Huang Licheng recharged 250,000 USDC in the afternoon to go long again, currently holding long positions in ETH, HYPE, and BTC with a total value of approximately 5.88 million dollars.

This time he is still using high leverage, with the liquidation price for the ETH position set at 2161 dollars, which is only about 86 dollars away from the market price at that time. Ma Ji has been trading on Hyperliquid for nearly a year and a half, with a cumulative trading volume of 15.86 billion dollars and a total loss of approximately 37.05 million dollars.

According to TechFlow, on October 30, The Defiant reported that Synthetix's protocolDAO stated it has recovered 8.4 million SNX stolen in the Binance hack, which are currently securely stored in its Safe and will be returned upon Binance's request.

Deutsche Bank stated that AI-driven market adjustments may change the traditional relationship between the dollar and U.S. stocks, with the dollar no longer necessarily being a safe-haven asset. Recently, technology stocks and the dollar have weakened in tandem, reflecting that the risks facing the dollar are more bidirectional than previously priced by the market.

The scale of U.S. stocks held by overseas investors exceeds $20 trillion, with approximately 90% of asset growth coming from rising stock prices rather than new purchases.

on October 30, Chloe, a columnist for HTX DeepThink and a researcher at HTX Research, noted that the cryptocurrency market this week was hit by a dual shock from tightening macroeconomic expectations and the Binance security incident, leading to a clear drop in short-term risk appetite. BTC briefly dipped below $77,000, triggering around $1.55 billion in full-market liquidations within 24 hours, including approximately $1.34 billion in long positions. Reports indicate that the security breach involves approximately $6.3 billion in assets. Institutions like Tether and Circle have assisted in freezing around $3 billion of the affected funds. While Binance has pledged to cover user losses, the ongoing resolution process will continue to influence the pace of market sentiment recovery.

In terms of capital flows, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of roughly $445 million over four consecutive trading days, though inflows decelerated to approximately $17.1 million on October 29. Institutional capital did not witness synchronized panic exits; however, ETF buying demand was also insufficient to fully offset the selling pressure stemming from the security incident and leveraged liquidations. Macroeconomically, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, while the performance of the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields continues to cap risk appetite. The upcoming U.S. midterm elections next week introduce political uncertainty that could further exacerbate market volatility.

Looking ahead to next week, BTC is anticipated to remain highly volatile within a weaker range, with $77,000 marking a critical short-term reference level. Should market sentiment stabilize gradually alongside sustained ETF net inflows, BTC could rebound to test the $80,000–$82,000 zone. Conversely, if panic endures and leveraged liquidations expand, prices may retest $75,000 or potentially dip lower. The pivot for short-term price action will hinge on whether the market can gradually digest the shock, preventing it from spiraling into a wider liquidity squeeze.

Disclaimer: This content does not constitute investment advice and should not be construed as an offer, solicitation, or recommendation regarding any investment product.

Hong Kong, October 30, 2026 — Global top-tier Bitcoin mining pool EMCD has launched EMCD Pool Worker, an open-source integration that connects EMCD Mining Pool to Tether’s Mining Development Kit (MDK). Miners and mine operators running infrastructure based on MDK can now feed their EMCD pool data into the same environment they use to monitor hardware and other systems. Pool Worker is now live, available globally, and free to use.

Most mines currently operate across multiple siloed systems: one for hardware monitoring, one for pool statistics, and another for infrastructure management. To get a full picture, operators must constantly switch between various dashboards, APIs, and monitoring tools. EMCD Pool Worker removes the mining pool from this list: EMCD data now flows directly into operators’ MDK environments using the same model as other MDK-compatible components.

MDK is Tether’s open-source framework designed to interconnect mining infrastructure and prepare it for AI-driven automation. On October 24, 2026, Tether announced that mine operators, ASIC miner manufacturers, and mining pools have committed to developing and maintaining MDK integrations. Tether aims to release the first stable version, MDK 1.0, by the end of 2026. EMCD Pool Worker marks EMCD’s first direct integration into the MDK ecosystem.

How It Works

Operators use their existing EMCD mining pool account to integrate EMCD Pool Worker into their MDK-based environment.

Pool Worker pulls operational data from EMCD, including hashrate, miner status, balance, and profitability metrics.

This data is displayed within the operator’s MDK environment alongside hardware and other MDK-compatible infrastructure.

Key Features

• Direct MDK integration for EMCD pool data. The pool no longer requires a separate monitoring environment.

• Unified infrastructure view. Pool-level data is consolidated with hardware and other mining systems in one place.

• Open source. Built on Tether’s open MDK framework, allowing technical teams to audit, deploy, and extend the code themselves.

• Standardized data access. EMCD data uses the same model as other MDK components, reducing integration effort.

• No additional fees. Aside from standard EMCD pool terms, there are no extra charges for this integration.

The typical user is a mining operation that mines via EMCD and manages its overall infrastructure through MDK-based systems. By integrating Pool Worker, operations can track EMCD hashrate, miner status, and profitability data alongside their miners in a single view, eliminating the need to monitor the pool separately.

"EMCD focuses on building technology that covers the entire mining lifecycle and providing operators with tools that truly drive efficiency," said EMCD CEO Michael Jerlis. "Many mines today operate like a cockpit with instruments from different vendors. Without a unified view, neither human operators nor AI agents can effectively optimize performance. Integrating with Tether’s MDK is a step toward changing this: operators can now seamlessly incorporate EMCD data directly into their existing infrastructure."

Launch and Access

EMCD Pool Worker is now live and available globally without geographic restrictions, requiring no additional setup beyond an existing EMCD pool account. Developers and operators can find the integration in the MDK repository on GitHub and consult setup instructions in the MDK documentation. Learn more about MDK at mdk.tether.io.

About EMCD

EMCD is a global provider of cryptocurrency mining pools and infrastructure. Founded in 2017, EMCD began as an early European industrial-grade Bitcoin mining operator and now serves users worldwide. Securing over 4% of the global hashrate and ranking in the top ten globally, EMCD remains steadfast in its commitment to security, reliability, and transparency. EMCD’s mission is to simplify the accumulation and earning of digital assets. EMCD was named Best Mining Pool by Coingape in 2026 and by Finance Feeds in 2025.