Odaily News: The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) issued a reserve asset audit circular on October 6, clarifying the minimum requirements for independent audits of VASPs. VASPs must maintain reserves of no less than 100% of customer liabilities throughout the entire review period, held 1:1 in the same virtual assets, with daily reconciliation. The audit scope must cover hot wallets, warm wallets, cold wallets, third-party wallet infrastructure, and third-party custodied assets, and must verify customer asset segregation, wallet control, and whether any re-staking, lending, or other use exists.

Odaily星球日报讯 The Rollup 创始人 Andy 发文表示，其援引消息人士称，除非出现重大负面新闻，预计再质押 ETH 仅会出现小幅解退。Andy 建议协议和投资者对所有涉及 Lido 敞口的再质押 ETH 头寸采取主动措施；其称目前情况似乎处于可控状态，但与多方沟通后发现“没人知道正在发生什么”。

According to Lookonchain monitoring, SharpLink Gaming staked another 42,100 ETH today, worth $113 million. SharpLink Gaming currently holds 892,100 ETH, worth $2.4 billion, and has earned 27,900 ETH in staking rewards, worth $75 million.

Odaily News: Ether.fi plans to sever the final structural link between its staking tokens and the restaking protocol EigenLayer by the end of this quarter. As of August, less than 1% of Ether.fi's assets remained in restaking, and EigenPod withdrawal credentials are expected to be removed before the end of the year.When Ether.fi launched in 2024, it automatically restaked user deposits on EigenLayer, but in August of this year it stripped the restaking feature from weETH, converting it into a standard liquid staking token. Users who wish to continue participating in restaking must opt for a separate token based on Symbiotic.Ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze stated that the exit was primarily driven by risk considerations, as restaking now lacks meaningful yield opportunities, while stakers' concerns about related risks have increased. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News Galaxy Digital's retail platform GalaxyOne has launched a crypto portfolio credit line, allowing qualified customers to borrow cash using Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and staked SOL as collateral without selling their assets. This product supports combining multiple crypto assets as collateral, offering loans in USD or USDC through a single revolving credit line with no fees and an annual interest rate of 8.99%. It does not involve collateral re-staking and is initially available in 40 U.S. states. Zac Prince, Managing Director of GalaxyOne, stated that the product leverages Galaxy's institutional-grade infrastructure.

Odaily News: Ethereum treasury company Sharplink (Nasdaq: SBET) announced it will stake $200 million worth of ETH through Lido, Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocol, to enhance returns on its ETH holdings.Sharplink stated that following this staking, the company will receive wrapped staked ETH (wstETH), which represents staked ETH and its rewards, with institutional-grade digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital responsible for custody. This allocation will further expand Sharplink's existing ETH staking and restaking strategies.Lido is currently one of Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocols, with approximately $16.5 billion in ETH staked on the platform. Its wstETH token has been integrated by over 100 protocols, with roughly $10 billion currently used as DeFi collateral. While holding wstETH, users' underlying ETH continues to accrue staking rewards and can still be utilized within the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem.Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that introducing Lido will further enhance the productivity of the company's ETH assets, leveraging wstETH's composability while maintaining institutional-grade risk management standards. This collaboration will strengthen the diversification of the company's treasury strategy and provide access to one of the most liquid and widely used assets in the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem.Vasiliy Shapovalov, Executive Director of the Lido Labs Foundation, stated that Sharplink's increased use of Ethereum's native staking protocols and DeFi ecosystem reflects its support for the Ethereum application ecosystem. (Globenewswire)

Odaily星球日报讯 Ether.fi has removed the restaking feature from its main token weETH, making it a standard Ethereum staking token, and has transferred the restaking function to the new token weETHs. Following the adjustment, users can choose to earn standard staking rewards through weETH or gain exposure to higher-yield, higher-risk restaking through weETHs. This change comes as Ethereum researchers have proposed a plan to reduce staking rewards to zero once staking participation exceeds a certain threshold, and the founder of Ether.fi has stated that the proposal would impact small stakers and staking-based products.

Odaily Odaily reports that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, after making over $1 million in profit today, a whale has re-staked 115,000 HYPE. The address holds 115,000 HYPE staked, a balance of 100,000 HYPE, and $1.1 million USDC; today, it closed a short position of $3.5 million MU, profiting $439,100, and closed a short position of $2.42 million SKHX, profiting $581,900. Address: 0x7fa9a4ab0849063241c757394b74f55f61a0211b.

Odaily, Mitchell Amador, CEO of bug bounty platform Immunefi, stated at the WAIB Summit that new AI models such as Claude Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5 are shifting the balance of cybersecurity offense and defense in favor of attackers, leading to a resurgence in crypto hacks in 2026. Data from DefiLlama shows that in April 2026, illicit actors stole over $634 million from crypto platforms, the highest monthly total since the Bybit hack in February 2025 drove losses of approximately $1.4 billion.Amador stated that the crypto industry is in a critical survival period for the next three to four years until security teams leverage similar AI models to build codebases that attackers cannot breach; if the industry adopts more crowd-sourced security solutions, this timeline could be shortened to within two years. The latest Claude Mythos model, Fable 5, from AI company Anthropic, previously raised concerns about accelerating the ability to exploit crypto vulnerabilities.Anthropic stated that Fable 5 has safeguards in place that will redirect topics related to cybersecurity and similar fields to Claude Opus 4.8. On April 19, an attacker transferred approximately 116,500 restaked Ethereum (rsETH) from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-based rsETH bridge, valued at around $290 million to $293 million at the time. Cross-chain protocol LayerZero stated that the 1/1 decentralized verification network configuration of Kelp DAO relied on a single verification path for processing cross-chain messages, creating a single point of failure. (Cointelegraph)

According to Odaily, crypto analyst EmberCN (@EmberCN) reported that 11 hours ago, Kraken redeemed 50,600 ETH from the restaking project EigenCloud (formerly EigenLayer), valued at approximately $107 million.EmberCN noted that the total TVL in the restaking sector has dropped from approximately $31 billion in August 2025 to the current level of around $11 billion. Among them, EigenCloud, as the sector leader, has also seen its TVL decline from about $22 billion to $5.5 billion.