US Treasury Secretary Benson confirmed on Monday that the list of five final candidates to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Powell has been finalized, and expects Trump to make a decision before the end of the year. Benson told reporters on "Air Force One" on Monday that the candidate pool has narrowed down to current Federal Reserve Board members Waller and Bowman, former Federal Reserve Board member Wash, White House National Economic Council Director Hassett, and BlackRock executive Reed. Benson, who is in charge of the interview process for the position, reiterated that he plans to conduct a new round of interviews and hopes to submit a "list of excellent candidates" to Trump after the Thanksgiving holiday. Trump himself also told reporters that he expects to make a decision on the nomination before the end of the year. (FXStreet)

 the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox has once again postponed its repayment deadline for another year to October 2026. The restructuring trustee of Mt. Gox announced on Monday that it has "substantially completed" the basic repayment, early lump-sum repayment, and midterm repayment of all creditors who have successfully completed the repayment eligibility process. However, the announcement stated that many creditors have not yet received repayment due to failure to complete necessary procedures or problems during the process. "In order to make repayments to such restructuring creditors within a reasonable and feasible range, with the permission of the court, the repayment deadline has been changed from October 31, 2025 to October 31, 2026." This latest announcement marks the third time the repayment deadline for the defunct exchange has been postponed, originally set for October 31, 2023.

 according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the whale with a 100% winning rate urgently added 1 million USDC collateral to the opponent's position two hours ago, raising the liquidation price of its BTC short to $118,409. Currently, it has a floating loss of $4.07 million, with a $2,400 gap from the liquidation price.

 according to market data, the price of Binance Alpha's SnapX (XNAP) airdropped coins is currently at 0.078 US dollars, with a market value of 21.96 million US dollars. Each eligible user can receive 500 XNAP token airdrops, and the single number income from this airdrop activity is approximately 39 US dollars calculated at the current price.

the Federal Reserve will hold a monetary policy meeting on October 28-29, and the market generally expects that the overall situation of the Fed's rate cut in October has been determined. Polymarket shows that the probability of a 25 basis point rate cut by the Fed in October has reached 98%. At the same time, traders have started betting on a rate cut by the Fed in December, with Polymarket showing a 90% probability of a 25 basis point rate cut by the Fed in December.

US President Trump has ruled out the possibility of running as a vice presidential candidate in the 2028 election, with some of his supporters urging him to find a way to circumvent the constitutional provision that limits the president to two terms. "Too cute," Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Monday, saying he has ruled out this possibility.

 according to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), James Wynn (@JamesWynnReal), the trader who previously opened a long position worth $1.23 billion in Bitcoin at the end of May, received a commission income of 1,854 USDC 25 minutes ago. He then opened a short position of 0.95 Bitcoin at a price of $116,026, worth approximately $111,000.

according to official sources, Binance Alpha announced that it will be the first platform to launch the Semantic Layer (42), with Alpha trading starting on October 27, 2025 at 18:00 (UTC+8).

according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, after address 0xbBF withdrew 1.619 million LINK (worth $28.39 million) from Binance, a new wallet (0x068...daB) also withdrew 998,000 LINK (worth $18.33 million) from Binance in the past day. These two addresses are suspected to belong to the same whale or institution, and have collectively withdrawn 2.617 million LINK from Binance in the past 9 days, with a total value of $46.72 million, at an average price of $17.8.

On October 27th, according to official announcement, Huobi HTX has been listed on Binance Futures/USDT perpetual contract with a maximum leverage of 20 times. Previously, Huobi HTX has been listed on Binance Futures spot trading.

according to the official announcement, Binance Alpha is the first platform to launch SnapX (XNAP), and Alpha trading will start at 15:00 on October 27, 2025 (UTC+8).

 according to Whale Alert monitoring, a whale transferred 11,942 ETH (worth about $50,466,314) to Coinbase Institutional about 2 minutes ago.

 President Trump of the United States said that maybe by the end of this year, we will make relevant decisions on the Federal Reserve. 

according to an official announcement, the Farcaster application is currently experiencing a malfunction, and the team is working on fixing it.

the market shows that BTC has broken through $116,000, now reporting $116,017.19, with a 24-hour increase of 3.93%. The market is fluctuating greatly, please be cautious of risks.

Zhao Changpeng (CZ), the founder of Binance, clarified in a post on X platform that he has not recently accepted any interviews. He stated: "Although it sounds reasonable, I don't think I have accepted any interviews recently, nor have I said these things."

according to OnchainLens monitoring, in the past 6 hours, a whale sold 45.5 million TRX (worth $13.6 million) and bought 3332.6 ETH at a price of $4084. Over the past 3 months, this whale has sold 629.27 million TRX (worth $217.3 million) and bought 48,390 ETH at an average price of $4490. It is reported that this whale withdrew these TRX from Binance.

according to on-chain analyst OnchainLens (@OnchainLens), a newly created wallet has once again withdrawn 490,188 LINK tokens from Binance, worth approximately $9 million. The wallet currently holds 771,095 LINK tokens, with a total value of approximately $14 million, and is expected to continue with withdrawal operations.

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Web3 payment and compliance infrastructure Pieverse announced that it will launch the x402b protocol, extending the x402 protocol to BNB Chain using Pieverse Facilitator, supporting EIP-3009 gas-free payments and auditable receipts. x402b solves the gas-free problem by introducing pieUSD, allowing users to complete payments with just a signed message; at the same time, custom Facilitator generates receipts that comply with the jurisdiction at the time of payment settlement, and are immutably stored in BNB Greenfield.