South Korean financial authorities are stepping up regulation of offshore perpetual contracts, cracking down on illegal marketing to domestic clients and referring violations to prosecutors.

Decentralized exchange platform Metric has announced the official launch of metric.xyz, supporting swaps, liquidity provision, and self-deployment of liquidity pools. The platform is currently live on Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Ethereum. Built on Active Pools and propAMM infrastructure, it caters to on-chain markets such as tokenized stocks and RWAs with real prices, with all quoting and trading processes executed on-chain. Separately, BNB Chain announced that users can trade bStocks and provide liquidity directly via Metric; its public DEX also opens an entry for traders and liquidity providers to participate in the bStocks market.

NEAR Protocol has announced support for earning SOL yields via secret accounts. Users deposit funds into vaults, which remain unaware of their addresses. The product features no lock-up period, allowing users to redeem or withdraw funds at any time. The relevant vaults are deployed on Kamino by Gauntlet.

Insight Beating AI Flash News: Anthropic announced it has brought six researchers from independent AI evaluation firm METR in-house, providing them with office space, work computers, and system permissions roughly matching those of its internal security assessment team. No longer just testing Claude from outside, the researchers now access internal tools to probe the model’s dangerous behaviors, security incidents, and protective safeguards. Anthropic compared this setup to permanent inspectors deployed by bank regulators to financial institutions. METR may publicly release its risk assessments and investigation findings independently, with Anthropic having no authority to block such reports. However, for customer data, legally confidential materials, and model architecture, Anthropic can still demand removal of relevant content. If METR considers the deletion unreasonable, it may publicly voice objections but cannot disclose the redacted original text. Anthropic categorizes external evaluations into three tiers, with METR now holding the highest access level. Another non-profit, SecureBio, is reviewing its bioweapon risks, while Accenture’s Faculty is also conducting model red teaming tests and security assessments. METR explicitly states it does not accept compensation or donations from frontier AI companies, while Anthropic previously announced it would directly fund Accenture’s evaluation work. In an October 14 statement, METR acknowledged that the current cooperation still relies on AI firms’ voluntary information provision, meaning evaluators may lack access to key evidence, and vendors can shape public visibility by restricting access and redacting reports.

Machi(@machibigbrother) generated $1.41B in trading volume on @papertrade_xyz and lost $416K. But he earned 57.6M $PAPER tokens and received $341K in USDC rewards by staking. This brings his total loss down to $74.7K.

SlowMist has issued a security alert warning of a counterfeit "Ledger firmware update" campaign exploiting recent Ledger supply chain incidents to defraud users. The fake website replicates processes including "authenticity verification", device selection, and "Update Now", with a highly realistic interface. The alert advises users not to update their devices via website links, and never to input their recovery phrases anywhere.

Upbit has added HBD and DNT to its transaction warning asset list, and suspended deposit and withdrawal services for the two tokens.