BlockBeats news: On October 20, NEAR Protocol tweeted that its hackathon will be held from 8:00 on November 1 to 7:59 on November 15 Beijing time, with judging from November 16 to 18, and results announced no later than 7:59 on November 19. The event focuses on building smart agents, autonomous payments, and cross-chain value transfer applications using tools such as NEAR Intents, NEAR AI Cloud, and Chain Signatures. The total prize pool is $250,000 (paid in NEAR). Participants can join individ

BlockBeats news, on October 20, the Hyperliquid Policy Center is calling on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to exclude airdrops from the definition of securities. Their specific proposals include: incorporating the SEC's position proposed in March 2026 into the rules, stating that free airdrops do not constitute "monetary investment" and therefore are not investment contracts; extending this rule to announced airdrops, including periodic or regular distributions, provided the

BlockBeats news, on October 20, according to Lookonchain statistics, among the top 25 biggest losers in Papertrade, 21 people remained in a loss even after USDC rewards, while only 4 people were overall profitable. They generated a total trading volume of 111.5 billion USD and earned 2.06 billion PAPER (accounting for 23.4% of the supply). They received a total of 11.61 million USD in USDC rewards (accounting for 20.6% of the total rewards).

BlockBeats news: On October 20, the actual on-chain transactions of US stock contracts remained relatively limited, but large pending orders may provide a reference dimension for observing potential buying and selling pressure. From short selling and reducing positions near the current price to waiting for deeper pullbacks for phased buying, different targets have set order plans showing their respective price ranges. According to TradingBeats monitoring, a total of 77 sets of positions from 53

Breaking AI News: On October 19, the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned MiraclePlus, founded by Lu Qi. The entities named include its first and second venture capital funds, Zhiyuan Enterprise Management Center, and Shanghai Zhisu Technology, totaling 5 Chinese entities. The sanctions include freezing assets under U.S. jurisdiction, restricting financial transactions, and prohibiting U.S. persons from certain equity and debt investments. These sanctions stem from the trade secret theft

BlockBeats news, on October 20, U.S. President Trump posted this morning to thank Musk for the "All-American Airdrop." Trump stated, "Heartfelt thanks to our legendary friend Elon Musk, who generously donated SpaceX shares to millions of American children through the TRUMP account! This is exactly the vision when we established the TRUMP account—to bring together the great private sector, Elon, and many other forces to invest in our children, who are our most precious and important asset, so tha

BlockBeats news: On October 20, market analyst Murphy stated that on October 15, MSCI officially approved new regulations to exclude non-operating companies that do not meet standards from the global investable market index. In previous simulated screenings, MSTR (Strategy) was already listed on the proposed removal list. The final result will be announced on November 11 and take effect on November 30. After the announcement, MSTR plummeted. Currently, funds tracking the related index hold about

BlockBeats news, on October 20, Musk posted that the X platform timeline recommendation has undergone two important adjustments. First, a new artificial intelligence and superintelligence ranking model that can better predict the time users might spend; second, after training, the retrieval model tends to push posts that users are likely to read through completely. Musk also stated that the active seconds of users on the X platform are growing exponentially, setting new historical highs almost

BlockBeats news: On October 20, after two consecutive days of rebound and what seemed like a bottoming out, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) plunged again, with a drop of up to 4.76%, falling below the 5500-point mark during the session. Influenced by rising U.S. Treasury yields and a weak debut performance of a data center company, foreign investors rushed to reduce their holdings in Korean stocks, and institutional investors, including pension funds, also joined the selling, signi

BlockBeats news, on October 20, blockchain security research organization Asymmetric Research disclosed a vulnerability in the Solana on-chain governance program svmgov: when validators do not participate in voting, independent votes submitted early by their delegators may not be counted in the final result. This vulnerability was reported to the Solana Foundation on July 10 and was fixed on the mainnet by August 3, ahead of the governance vote on August 24. According to on-chain data calculati