According to Bitcoin News, France has advanced Amendment 1649 AC, requiring citizens to declare the exact market value of their self-custodial cryptocurrencies, even if no taxable transactions have taken place. Critics warned that the measure was an undue intrusion into private life and would create a dangerous "data honeypot" of names, addresses and precise crypto balances.
Hester Peirce, commissioner of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and head of the SEC's cryptocurrency working group, reaffirmed the right to self-custody of cryptocurrencies and the privacy of financial transactions. Peirce added that online financial privacy should become the standard. Meanwhile, according to Senator Tim Scott, the Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act has been delayed until 2026. The bill is a cryptocurrency market structure bill with provisions such as self-custod...
According to CryptoQuant's on-chain data, counterfeit products now account for 60% of Binance's total trading volume, the highest level since early 2025. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have a transaction share of only 20%, far below previous levels. This reflects a large concentration of actual trading activity outside of mainstream currencies. Historical data shows that the increase in the share of counterfeit products transactions often coincides with the increase in market speculation. The current...
Self, a zero-knowledge identity and human proof protocol, announced the completion of a $9 million seed round from investors including Greenfield Capital, SoftBank funds, and several industry-renowned angel investors. Self also launched a points-based rewards program to promote widespread adoption of on-chain authentication.
零知识身份和人类证明协议Self宣布完成900万美元种子轮融资,投资方包括Greenfield Capital、SoftBank旗下基金及多位行业知名天使投资人。Self同时推出基于积分的奖励计划,旨在促进链上身份验证的广泛采用。

Anthropic’s Claude models showed early signs of self-awareness, detecting “injected thoughts" and both thrilling and unnerving researchers.
On October 20th, the latest "Cambridge Digital Mining Industry Report 2025" shows that Bitcoin's current annual electricity consumption is estimated at 138TWh, generating about 39.8Mt of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. The report states that 52.4% of Bitcoin mining energy currently comes from sustainable sources such as renewable energy and nuclear power. In contrast, Ethereum, after completing the "merger" upgrade in September 2022, has moved from proof of work (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS...

Polymarket’s CEO Shayne Coplan has entered the billionaire club—alongside Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, Michael Saylor, and Satoshi Nakamoto.