VergeX users reported that their accounts were stolen after they received withdrawal verification emails. According to ChainCatcher, team member Tintin said only some users were affected and that they would receive full compensation within 72 hours.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba has ordered senior military commanders to prepare for renewed confrontation with the United States and Israel and expand Tehran’s retaliation options. According to Sina Finance, a statement released Saturday said Mojtaba told the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the army, and the armed forces’ general staff that “every level and type of threat must be met immediately and effectively, without geographic limits.” He ordered the military to update its list of potential targets to include “all tangible and intangible assets” of the United States and Israel within the armed forces’ strike range. Mojtaba also said he would maintain “intelligent combat readiness” for a forceful confrontation with the enemy, describing it as a prerequisite for achieving maximum deterrence, and urged the military to use new technology to enhance its capabilities. The statement did not say when or where the meeting took place. As far as is known, this was the first time he had convened the senior military commanders as head of state. He has not appeared publicly since the United States and Israel launched the war in February, and only a few Iranian officials have said they have spoken with him. The remarks underscored Iran’s heightened state of alert and its determination to respond more forcefully. Iran is preparing for possible renewed U.S. and Israeli strikes as diplomatic efforts to end the conflict resume. The United States has warned Gulf countries to prepare for another strike on Iran after the November 3 midterm elections. On Thursday, U.S. Central Command briefed U.S. President Donald Trump on possible military options. Mojtaba said: “If the enemy resumes military or terrorist attacks, the Iranian armed forces and the Iranian people will decide when and under what conditions they end.”

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Vladimir Putin’s possible attendance at the Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Florida in December could normalize war crimes and risk regularizing Russia’s return to international forums while its war in Ukraine continues, Bloomberg reported.

Uniswap v4 aggregator Hooks package external liquidity from Curve, Fluid and PancakeSwap as standard v4 pools, with fees directed to UNI burns. According to PANews, the move brings Uniswap closer to serving as an on-chain liquidity gateway, while its near-term effect on UNI value capture depends on whether fees are charged on high-volume pools.

NVIDIA showcased a prototype of its next-generation co-packaged optics solution, called OOI (Optics-on-Interposer), at SEMICON West 2026 in San Francisco. According to ChainCatcher, NVIDIA did not provide a commercialization timeline, while industry insiders expect mass production to begin after 2030.

Crypto-related groups have spent more than $200 million in the 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle. According to Sina Finance, citing Public Citizen, crypto groups outspent online gambling and data center development groups in federal corporate political spending during this cycle. The industry is seeking to repeat its 2024 success, when super PACs spent $250 million to elect pro-crypto lawmakers and reshape Congress. Fairshake and its affiliated super PACs are supporting 33 House candidates—19 Republicans and 14 Democrats—considered key supporters of the industry’s priorities. The network is prioritizing six House incumbents, providing at least $1 million in seed funding to each of their campaigns. The Republicans include Wisconsin Representative Brian Steil, chair of the House Digital Assets Subcommittee, and Arkansas Representative French Hill and Michigan Representative Bill Huizenga, who are chair and vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, respectively. Democratic recipients of at least $1 million in Fairshake funding include Oregon Representative Janelle Bynum, California Representative Derek Chen, and Nevada Representative Steven Horsford.

According to Jin10, a U.S. official told Axios that U.S. President Donald Trump may be more inclined to order a large-scale military operation against Iran if Republicans suffer a major defeat in the midterm elections. The official said, “If Trump feels embarrassed or disenfranchised, he will take bold action. Everyone is telling the Iranians that now is the best time to reach a deal.” A White House official said the election results would not affect Trump’s decisions on Iran.

Cross-chain protocol zkLink was attacked on October 29, resulting in losses of about $783,000. According to Odaily, the SlowMist security team said the attacker exploited a residual validation value in transient storage to forge a batch root used to verify withdrawals. The attacker made 12 withdrawals: one in ETH and 11 in ERC-20 tokens. The attacker first claimed a genuine cross-chain message to write the validation value, then reused it in a later call within the same transaction to forge the batch root through relay and gateway contracts. The contracts allowed relayers to specify external call targets and parameters, while the validation value was neither cleared nor bound to the current call; batch-root updates checked only the gateway’s identity and did not require independent proof verification.

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