Odaily report: The deployer posted on X platform stating that 30% of Bankr's token issuance revenue will be used for BNKR staking. The staking smart contract is expected to go live this weekend, with rewards to begin distribution shortly thereafter; the staking feature is not yet live.

Odaily reports that according to an announcement from the European Central Bank, Pontes, the Eurosystem's tokenized asset settlement infrastructure, went live on September 21. It supports wholesale tokenized asset transactions settled in central bank money and integrates issuance, trading, settlement, and custody through DLT, enabling smart contract automation.13 banks including Deutsche Bank, Banco Santander, Societe Generale, and the European Investment Bank, as well as 4 DLT operators including Clearstream, have been onboarded in the first batch; the infrastructure is planned to be fully completed by 2028.

Odaily News: Universal has officially announced that it will gradually shut down the Universal protocol because user adoption over the past two years has not reached the level needed to sustain the protocol over the long term. The protocol will continue normal operations for the next 60 days, and the existing infrastructure and the underlying asset backing for uAssets will not be affected; during the shutdown period, users can sell uAssets through the Universal app or directly redeem the underlying assets through the minting and redemption interface, and large redemptions can be handled by contacting the team. After November 17, 2026, the protocol will officially close, and remaining uAssets will be redeemed through smart contracts; uSOL, uXRP, uDOGE, uADA, uBTC, and uLTC on Base will each be exchanged for the corresponding bridged assets, while the remaining uAssets will be exchanged for USDC. The final redemption assets and smart contract information will be announced before the shutdown.

Odaily reports that privacy-focused public chain Midnight is preparing to open smart contract deployment on the mainnet.

According to TRM Labs monitoring, its "2026 AI Criminal Application Index" shows that criminals' use of AI increased by 40% year-over-year. Identified attack methods include using fake AI trading bot tutorials and programming instructional videos on YouTube to induce users to create wallets, copy code, deploy smart contracts, and deposit cryptocurrency funds into the contracts; the related malicious scripts are used to steal assets. These videos claim that Claude can be used to build AI-driven arbitrage bots.

Odaily reports: Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has released a report stating that hackers are increasingly leveraging open-source artificial intelligence (AI) to implant malware control instructions into on-chain transactions and smart contracts, with such cases surging approximately 440% in less than a year. Data shows that these incidents have risen from roughly 2 per day to approximately 11 per day. Attackers write malicious instructions on-chain to manipulate infected devices into stealing passwords and funds, and redirect assets to designated wallets; since on-chain records cannot be deleted, defense and interception are becoming increasingly difficult.The report notes that state-sponsored hackers from countries such as North Korea and Iran have become the primary drivers of such activity. Open-source models support local independent operation and modification, allowing them to directly bypass cloud-based defenses. However, the public and transparent nature of blockchain also leaves critical evidence for tracing attack infrastructure. (Bloomberg)

Odaily reports that institutional-grade onchain Vault infrastructure R25 has announced an upgrade to version 2.0, opening its previously closed infrastructure to a broader ecosystem. R25 2.0 positions itself as "Vault Infrastructure as a Service," offering asset managers, traders, quant teams, and emerging portfolio managers a one-stop solution for Vault deployment, operations, and scaling.The core change lies in the shift of the issuance threshold: qualified asset managers can configure, deploy, and operate Vault smart contracts in minutes using natural language, greatly lowering the technical barrier to turning curated strategies into composable, transparent smart contracts. R25 2.0 supports building strategies from over 2,000 onchain assets across RWA, Crypto, and DeFi, while preserving institutional-grade transparency and risk control standards; it also offers one-click Vault deployment and AI backtesting, supports access to the global onchain capital network, and connects custodians, exchanges, wallets, fintech/Neobanks, and crypto-native investors. In other words, asset managers only need to define strategy, fee rates, and risk parameters, while contract deployment, asset onboarding, NAV calculation, and capital distribution are handled by R25's modular infrastructure.This open architecture is built on the validation of R25 1.0. The R25 Curator lineup includes Axil, Raffaello, Ember Protocol, among others, with the private credit Vault issued by Axil reaching $130 million in TVL after launch. The production-grade infrastructure supporting such Vaults includes modular Vault architecture, asynchronous deposits and withdrawals, standardized NAV and portfolio accounting, onchain strategy management and execution, configurable fees and risk management, as well as multiple rounds of security audits. R25 2.0 is expected to officially launch in Q4 2026.

Odaily reports, according to SlowMist monitoring, a Brazilian banking malware operation tracked as REF9334, active since May 2025, has recently been exposed. Its KREMLIN malware ecosystem uses multi-stage loaders and malicious browser extensions to steal credentials, session tokens, and sensitive data, and can bypass Chromium integrity mechanisms to install itself into Chrome and Edge browsers without user approval. The operation also uses Ethereum smart contracts as a "dead drop resolver" to dynamically update C2 endpoints and payload hosting locations. After analysts registered a Canary domain, they observed 1,515 infected hosts checking in, 98.75% of which were located in Brazil.

Odaily reports that according to GMGN data, the market cap of Robinhood chain ecosystem token STANDARD has risen above $40 million, currently at $43.11 million.It is reported that The Standard Reserve bills itself as an "onchain sovereign central bank," aiming to replace traditional central banks or DAO governance with approximately 4,000 lines of immutable smart contract code to achieve automated monetary policy. The protocol adjusts STANDARD issuance based on the net flow of ETH in Uniswap v4's official trading pools, and adjusts reserve assets, protocol-owned liquidity, and token buyback-and-burn arrangements when there are net capital inflows or outflows, respectively.Odaily reminds users that Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.

Odaily reports, according to GMGN data, the market cap of Robinhood Chain ecosystem token STANDARD has fallen below $30 million, now at $28.1 million, with a 1-hour decline of over 16%.It is reported that The Standard Reserve bills itself as an "onchain sovereign central bank," aiming to replace traditional central banks or DAO governance with approximately 4,000 lines of immutable smart contract code to achieve automated monetary policy. The protocol adjusts STANDARD issuance based on the net flow of ETH in the official Uniswap v4 trading pool, and adjusts reserve assets, protocol-owned liquidity, and token buyback-and-burn arrangements when there is net capital inflow or outflow, respectively.Odaily reminds users that Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.