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Tokens
COMP Jumps 27%, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
COMP also led both benchmarks over seven and 28 days, while Compound’s total value locked remained below its late-September level.

Regulation & Politics
Utah Sues Kalshi and Susquehanna Firms to Halt Alleged Illegal Betting
The state seeks injunctions, restitution and profits, alleging that market makers helped sustain wagering despite Kalshi’s federal court defeat.

Infrastructure
Optimum Says Block Propagation Layer Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
The MIT-incubated network says 16 node operators and about 1.4 million ETH in stake are running mump2p, with ether.fi making it standard across its validator set

Blockchains
Starknet Foundation Launches Bramble Wallet With STRK20 Shielding
The Chrome-only wallet combines private balances, Ledger signing and multisig accounts, with a recovery phrase for backup.

DeFi
Lulo Says Boost Deposits Face 6.4% Drawdown From Neutrl Exposure
Protected deposits are unaffected, Lulo says, while Neutrl's redemption contract offers 0.51 USDC per NUSD.

Infrastructure
Celestia Activates Fibre, Opening Direct Validator Uploads for Rollups
The initial release allows 128 MiB blobs and 200 Fibre submissions per block, using smaller uploads and a slower block cadence than its terabit benchmark.
Podcast
The Ledger Implant Factory: Mark Karpelès on Who's Building Spy Chips at Scale
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès has spent two weeks opening Ledger hardware wallets bought from third-party sellers in Japan, Singapore and Germany. What he found inside wasn't a one-off: the boards carry revision markings, regional antenna variants and a design that has moved from hand-soldering to something built for volume.
Ledger says every confirmed theft traces back to a single Malaysian reseller. Karpelès's own devices didn't come from that reseller — and separate research suggests implants were transmitting seed phrases to overseas servers months before the drains became public.
Camila Russo talks to Karpelès about who is manufacturing these implants, how many are still sitting unopened in drawers and on shelves, why a security researcher's March warning to Ledger produced no public alert, and what a company does when it's holding a report it doesn't want to be true.
Date: Tue Oct 20, 10am ET
Guest: Mark Karpelès, former Mt. Gox CEO — X: @MagicalTux
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CeFi
Blockchain.com Launches Options Trading on Seven Cryptoassets
Buyers fund contracts in USDC and cannot exit before expiry. US and UK residents are among those excluded.

CeFi
MEXC to End Services for Users in Russia and Belarus
Affected customers will receive individual deadlines for closing positions and withdrawing assets. Users without a notice can continue subject to the exchange’s terms.

CeFi
Bitget to Buy Licensed Thai Exchange From Japan's GMO Internet
The Japanese seller disclosed the deal to the Tokyo Stock Exchange four weeks ago, with the price withheld at the buyer's request





