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The new AI Future Forum will take place in Dubai on 1–2 December 2026, alongside Blockchain Life 2026, with founders, investors, AI projects and robotics expected.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
RWA WEEK Singapore 2026 concludes after five days of tokenisation discussions
Institutional investors, financial institutions and digital asset businesses gathered in Singapore from 5–9 October for discussions and networking focused on real-world asset tokenisation.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
Ripple Nears $1bn Annualised Revenue as BNY Expands XRP Custody
Ripple is approaching $1 billion in annualised revenue as BNY broadens XRP custody, bringing institutional adoption and token demand into focus.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
Crypto market slides as Bitcoin falls below $77,000 and options expiry looms
Digital assets declined broadly on 30 October, with Bitcoin and Ethereum losing nearly 6% as traders weighed monetary policy concerns, a major options expiry and institutional adoption developments.
iG Crypto News Research · 30 October 2026
CCE.Cash Joins Swapzone’s Crypto Exchange Comparison Platform
CCE.Cash has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange aggregator Swapzone, adding its service to the providers available for users to explore and compare.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
North Korean Hackers Linked to Record $6.3bn Binance Crypto Theft
Binance has pledged to cover customer losses after a $6.3bn breach that blockchain analysts link to North Korea's TraderTraitor group.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
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Crypto policy and payments dominate as market data gap clouds daily picture
Regulatory scrutiny, payments expansion and tokenised trading shape the crypto news agenda on 30 October 2026, but unavailable market data prevents a verified assessment of the day’s performance.
Read story 02Sony Soneium Launches Incubation Programme Targeting PlayStation Games and Anime
Sony Soneium’s new incubation programme focuses on PlayStation games, anime, digital collectibles and fan communities.
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All newsRWA WEEK Singapore 2026 concludes after five days of tokenisation discussions
Institutional investors, financial institutions and digital asset businesses gathered in Singapore from 5–9 October for discussions and networking focused on real-world asset tokenisation.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
Ripple Nears $1bn Annualised Revenue as BNY Expands XRP Custody
Ripple is approaching $1 billion in annualised revenue as BNY broadens XRP custody, bringing institutional adoption and token demand into focus.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
CCE.Cash Joins Swapzone’s Crypto Exchange Comparison Platform
CCE.Cash has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange aggregator Swapzone, adding its service to the providers available for users to explore and compare.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
Bitcoin Rebounds Towards $81,000 as Nasdaq and KOSPI Rally
Bitcoin has moved back towards $81,000 alongside gains in the Nasdaq and KOSPI, while fears of an FOMC rate rise remain in focus.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
AI Future Forum to debut in Dubai alongside Blockchain Life 2026
The new AI Future Forum will take place in Dubai on 1–2 December 2026, alongside Blockchain Life 2026, with founders, investors, AI projects and robotics expected.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
Bitwise lifts Bitcoin price forecast to $1.6 million by 2036
Bitwise has raised its long-term Bitcoin price prediction, citing institutional demand, limited supply and growth in the market as the basis for its outlook.
iG Crypto News · 30 October 2026
Crypto and iGaming Converge as Payments, Platforms and Prediction Markets Expand
Supplier partnerships, crypto payment products and prediction-market plans are bringing gambling and digital finance closer together, while compliance and promotional practices face scrutiny.
iG Crypto News Research · 30 October 2026
Crypto regulation watch: licensing gains meet security and enforcement pressure
Crypto’s regulatory picture on 30 October 2026 combines broader institutional access with unresolved legislative disputes, anti-money laundering scrutiny and persistent security risks.
iG Crypto News Research · 30 October 2026
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All researcharXiv · 29 October 2026
Sparse Autoencoders as Implicit Diversification Regularisers for Cross-Sectional Cryptocurrency Returns
Factor models are central to asset pricing and portfolio construction, but neural factors are often difficult to interpret, and their effect on portfolio risk is unclear. A sparse autoencoder (SAE) may address both concerns by describing daily returns across many assets with only a few active features. We ask whether this sparse representation produces stable financial factors and better-diversified portfolios. We study cryptocurrency returns, use equities as a secondary test, and compare the SAE with common benchmarks in a time-ordered evaluation. We find consistently lower volatility in SAE portfolios and link this result to lower correlations among the selected assets. However, the SAE does not outperform a simple contrarian strategy on risk-adjusted return, and its factor identities are not stable across training runs. Our contribution is to show that sparse coding can support portfolio diversification, while clearly separating this risk effect from claims about alpha or stable factor identities.
arXiv · 29 October 2026
DICE: Decentralized Incentive-driven Federated Learning for Efficient & Scalable Customization of Pretrained Models in Web3
Customizing Pretrained Models (PMs) for downstream tasks demands task-specific data, which burgeoning Web3 applications provide abundantly. Blockchain-powered federated learning (BCFL) offers a secure and privacy-preserving paradigm to customize PMs among self-interested and untrusted Web3 participants. Yet, existing BCFL algorithms face severe efficiency and scalability challenges when applied to large PMs, due to their substantial computational and memory requirements and the hardware constraints of many participants. This paper introduces DICE, a novel BCFL algorithm that addresses the efficiency and scalability challenges of customizing large PMs in Web3 via two sets of synergistic techniques: (i) a dynamic progressive learning scheme and a model slice verification scheme to enable a wider range of honest participants, including those unable to deploy the full model, to engage in customizing PMs, while preserving model utility; (ii) a tree-structured committee consensus protocol and an efficiency-driven incentive scheme to address the dominant bottleneck that hinders existing BCFL algorithms from scaling to a larger number of data holders for customizing data-hungry large PMs,
arXiv · 28 October 2026
When LLM Architectures Meet Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: a Replication Study
Smart contracts are immutable programs deployed on blockchain platforms, where vulnerabilities can translate directly into financial loss. Among the techniques proposed for their detection, recent work has relied increasingly on Large Language Models (LLMs) guided by carefully crafted prompts. However, the evidence accumulated so far rests almost entirely on the dense Transformer architecture behind the GPT line and on model snapshots already scheduled for deprecation, leaving open the question of whether the reported behaviors reflect a general property of LLMs or an artifact of that specific design. This paper presents an extended replication of the empirical study by Chen et al. on LLM-based smart contract vulnerability detection. We replicate the original protocol on GPT-4 as a baseline, followed by a differentiated replication, executing the protocol on representative models based on Mixture-of-Experts and RNN-like designs, together with an attempted preliminary evaluation of State Space Models. The exact replication confirms the findings of Chen et al., including the high-recall, low-precision detection pattern they report on GPT-4. Nevertheless, the differentiated replicatio
arXiv · 27 October 2026
Measuring Where Intent Gets Lost in Agentic Smart Contract Synthesis
AI agents can now write software from a plain-English description, but code that runs is not the same as code that does what was asked. This gap matters most for smart contracts, the programs behind Web3 applications that move money on a blockchain and cannot be fixed once deployed. We ask how to check whether an AI-written contract behaves as it should, and where the requested behavior gets lost. We design an evaluation built on execution rather than opinion. We replay the same transactions on an AI-written contract and on the original it should reproduce and measure how often they agree. We test every grading tool on planted mistakes, compare against an answer key written without the description, and audit our own scorer until known wrong answers cannot pass. Common methods, such as AI judges and standard analysis tools, miss obvious mistakes, and scoring choices matter too. Checking only the functions every system includes hid about half the difference between pipelines. We then propose an elicitation-first architecture. Before writing code, the agent asks the client a short checklist of questions, checks the contract against an independently written executable answer key, and r
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