TOP TEN CRYPTO HEADLINES ⚡Bitget is shutting accounts for users in Russia and Belarus, with some told they can't open new trades from today and have until October 21 to withdraw. 🚨 Cysic halted its bridge after an attacker exploited a flaw to mint 10M CYS on $BNB Chain, with about 2.8M still frozen in the hacker's wallet. 🇫🇷 REGULATION: French MPs voted 38 to 37 to tax crypto-to-stablecoin swaps at 31.4% from 2027, with only 100 of 577 lawmakers bothering to show up. 🚨🇰🇷 South Korea's 22% crypto tax has already been delayed three times. Now the country's five biggest exchanges are meeting the government on Tuesday to push for a fourth, with a ruling party bill aiming for 2029. 📊 Small and mid-cap crypto has been outgrowing Bitcoin since late August, with a market cap growth ratio of 41% versus BTC's 7%, per CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost. 🚨⚡ Nine crypto firms just formed a Quantum Alliance to set post-quantum standards, warning 6.04M BTC, about 30% of supply, is exposed if quantum computers catch up. 🔥 Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says the USDC issuer is eyeing around 40 new developing markets across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East as stablecoins hit the "mainstream scaling phase." 🔥 Tether is backing AIsa, a payments network that lets AI agents pay for their own data, APIs and compute, which says it already has 250K agents and 100M+ transactions. 🇹🇭 Thai police arrested a Chinese man allegedly behind crypto and FX exchanges for a crime network that moved $75M, found hiding in a Bangkok luxury house with fake documents, swapped number plates and a visa that expired over three years ago. 🔥 Solana snatched the #1 spot for stablecoin transfers with a record 557M in September, edging out BNB Chain's 543M by just 14M.