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According to the official announcement, the 150th Gate contract points airdrop will be open for collection from October 5th, 18:00 to 23:59 (UTC+8). This period has set up two points redemption prize pools, with limited rewards available on a first-come, first-served basis.Prize Pool One requires a Gate contract points balance of 120--90 points (decreasing). Users can consume 15 Gate contract points to redeem 0.016 QQQG; Prize Pool Two requires a points balance of no less than 40 points, and consuming 20 Gate contract points can redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher. Rewards are expected to be credited approximately 1 hour after successful collection.

Famous trader Killa stated that he does not believe Bitcoin will hit new lows again and is currently maintaining a long position. However, after the U.S. midterm elections, the market may still experience some de-risking behavior, so it is not the right time to establish hedge short positions in advance.Historically, Bitcoin's performance has been weak after every U.S. midterm election cycle. However, if Bitcoin continues to rise before the elections, traders can wait until the midterm elections are closer to decide whether to take action based on the price trends at that time.He believes that a more reasonable strategy right now is to continue holding long positions and observe market reactions before and after the midterm elections, and then consider whether to establish hedge short positions, rather than shorting in advance solely based on historical cycles.

According to the official announcement, Gate has launched HOOKED, HOOKR contract trading, trading robots, and Order Tracking features, with both contracts supporting 1-10 times leverage.HOOKED (Hooked) is a MEME Launchpad that supports programmable trading rules; HOOKR (Hookr.fun) is a functional Token of the programmable token issuance market protocol Hookr.fun on the Robinhood Chain.

Michael Selig, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated that various regulatory agencies already possess a significant amount of existing statutory authority. While participating in the presidential working group on digital assets, they have studied statutory authorizations and legislative-level powers, and will continue to issue regulatory rules in the cryptocurrency sector based on existing regulatory powers to prepare for the development of new financial fields.

Analyst Murphy pointed out that BTC has consecutively formed doji candles on the daily chart, with rare upper and lower wicks. Data shows that on August 1, two notable accumulation bars appeared in the range of $62,000 to $63,000, totaling approximately 1.68 million BTC, with a concentration of 12.9%; on October 3, two prominent accumulation bars also appeared in the range of $83,000 to $84,000, totaling approximately 1.52 million BTC, and the concentration has risen to 12%, with the upper warning zone close at hand.After this set of data combinations appeared on August 1, BTC rose from $60,000 to $80,000 in just 17 days. Murphy believes that the accumulation and rising concentration do not indicate a definite direction, but the probability of "amplified volatility" is increasing. It is expected that a significant event may occur in the market within a short period of 1 month or a longer period of 2 months.

Alon, co-founder of Pump.fun, stated that two months after the launch of the platform's $15 million Callout reward program, it was found that the initial mechanism inadvertently incentivized undesirable behavior, leading to a flood of low-quality content and weakening users' willingness to continuously create high-quality content.Pump.fun subsequently adjusted the reward algorithm to place greater emphasis on content quality rather than the quantity of posts. According to the new mechanism, the more Callouts a user posts each day, the lower the marginal returns from the new content. Alon mentioned that the reward mechanism is still undergoing iterations, but there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure that a large number of users can sustainably produce high-quality content over the long term.He also stated that the rewards currently cover both top accounts and accounts with fewer than 10 followers, with no favoritism or preferential treatment. Alon suggested that users focus on recommending quality tokens, building trader trust through content, and earning rewards based on the trading volume generated by their Callouts. He emphasized that simply flooding the platform with Callouts or dumping tokens to followers will not yield sustainable returns.

Due to the impact of weak non-farm payroll data from the United States and market turmoil in France, the urgency for interest rate hikes among Federal Reserve and European Central Bank policymakers has diminished. Both central banks will release the minutes from last month's meetings, which will reflect concerns about inflationary pressures. The Federal Reserve's September minutes may indicate expectations for another rate hike before the end of the year, but recent data suggests that the labor market has not fueled inflation, making the threshold for a rate hike in October high.

On October 3, TRON DeFi Summer announced that S3 will officially launch tomorrow (October 4) at 08:00 SGT, with a total prize pool of 2 million USD, including a TRX pool of 1 million USD, a USDD pool of 600,000 USD, a JST pool of 300,000 USD, and a SUN pool of 100,000 USD. The four major asset pools will simultaneously open a 60-day Boosted APR incentive.Users can enter JustLend DAO through Binance Wallet DeFi to participate. Users holding S2 positions do not need to take additional actions to automatically extend their S3 reward eligibility. New users can prepare assets in advance to seize the first day's earnings. With the S3 opening approaching, we sincerely invite both new and old users to join together and share in the 60 days of Boosted earnings.

Bitcoin Magazine reported that the Chief Business Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase stated that the company is working with advisors from six globally systemically important banks to increase exposure to Bitcoin.Coinbase Chief Business Officer: The company views this as an opportunity to expand the market and provide individuals with more ways to access Bitcoin. Globally systemically important banks are large banks identified by the Financial Stability Board that have a significant impact on the global financial system.

Digital asset media Generation Infinity (Genfinity) reported on October 2, 2026, that Luxembourg has confirmed that investment funds can issue shares natively on distributed ledgers, with relevant units existing only in token form. The account also stated that Luxembourg is the largest investment fund jurisdiction in Europe and the second-largest fund center in the world.The above confirmation corresponds to the first version of the "FAQ - Tokenisation" released the same day by the Luxembourg Financial Supervisory Authority (CSSF). The document clarifies that Luxembourg collective investment undertakings (UCI) can use distributed ledger technology to issue native shares or stocks that exist only in token form, but the operational model must comply with the applicable regulatory framework. Issuing on a distributed ledger does not determine the legal form of the underlying securities, and the relevant shares or stocks can be issued in registered or paperless form.

The GPU infrastructure financing platform Silicon Exchange has announced its launch, positioning itself as a financing method for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Users can hold real shares of GPU infrastructure, while the platform is responsible for deployment and hosting, and computing power clients use the related hardware.Silicon Exchange stated that users can visit its official website to view the first GPU vault. The official announcement has not disclosed the scale of the vault, hardware models, financing structure, or specific profit arrangements in this post.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 6.05% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 54.091 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 11.371 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 3.032 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 5.396 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 4.284 billion USD.

Volantis, a photonic interconnect chip company, announced on X that it has completed a $88 million Series A financing round. The company stated that it is addressing AI memory bottlenecks with optical solutions, configuring large amounts of high-speed memory for chips, and increasing single-chip memory bandwidth and capacity by several orders of magnitude to support high-speed inference for models with over 10 trillion parameters, with single-user speeds reaching up to 10,000 tokens per second.Volantis claims that this solution will initially be used to accelerate agents, reducing programming tasks from hours to minutes or seconds. The company also stated that the optical solution can enhance memory systems by several orders of magnitude generationally, rather than the typical doubling every year. Its team has been involved in the first CoWoS product, early HBM, the first silicon photonic CPO system, the first mass-produced tunable VCSELs, and the first processors with optical direct communication; it has now achieved transmission distances in chip packaging that exceed 10 times that of equivalent tiny conductive wires, with next-generation products already taped out, aiming to set records for bandwidth density at relevant distances.

According to the Arbitrum Security Committee report, in response to the increasingly complex risks of AI-assisted attacks, Arbitrum took emergency action around 23:30 Beijing time on October 2 to temporarily halt the activation of new Stylus contracts on the Arbitrum One and Nova networks.This restriction mainly targets programs and application updates that require new activation, while already activated Stylus applications can continue to operate, and the deployment and execution of regular Solidity contracts are not affected. Arbitrum officials stated that this preventive measure stems from threats of WebAssembly program attacks targeting non-standard Stylus compiler toolchains, and no risk of fund theft has been discovered so far. The main concerns are on-chain activity and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Developers can still extend the lifecycle of existing programs through a permissionless keep-alive renewal mechanism, but they cannot activate expired programs or new version applications.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, stated that recently the activity of developers within the ecosystem has increased and the development threshold has further lowered, focusing on what kind of applications to build and how to establish distribution channels.In this regard, he proposed a series of potential construction directions, covering AI electronic pets that combine NEAR AI on-chain verifiable reasoning with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a universal checkout component that supports full-chain intent payments, a decentralized encyclopedia that combines prediction markets with AI-generated content, a privacy off-chain trading (OTC) market based on NEAR Intents and management of anti-liquidation lending and perpetual contracts, a cross-chain activity registration custody tool in the form of a staking deposit, privacy code review agents, enterprise equity structure management tools, Delta neutral strategy management, privacy tracking single transactions based on view keys, end-to-end encrypted medical auxiliary diagnostic systems, privacy voice transcription desktop applications, and AI benchmarking based on private test sets.Regarding product distribution, he suggested combining NEARLegion with community channels like X, achieving multi-chain wallet compatibility through Aurora Intent Connect to lower cross-chain thresholds, and actively expanding across communities and platforms like Product Hunt.

CME Group Inc. decided to suspend its plan to launch a 24/7 crude oil futures contract after facing industry opposition.Market participants are concerned that insufficient liquidity over the weekend could distort WTI crude pricing, and continuous trading would increase pressure on weekend staffing, commercial hedging, and margin calls during non-business hours.CEO Terry Duffy stated in a statement on Friday that after extensive communication, it was found that core market participants generally have concerns, believing that hastily introducing around-the-clock energy trading without conducting sufficient due diligence could lead to unforeseen consequences and bring additional risks to the market.

On October 2, at 11:30 AM Eastern Time, the Arbitrum Security Committee executed an emergency upgrade on Arbitrum One and Nova, suspending the activation of all new Stylus contracts on both chains, while adding a protective mechanism against BoLD single-step proofs in the dispute system of Arbitrum One. The Arbitrum Foundation stated that this action is part of ongoing proactive security measures aimed at protecting the security and integrity of the network.Stylus allows developers to write smart contracts using languages such as Rust and C++, while maintaining compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, with its programs compiled into WebAssembly format. This suspension primarily targets manually written WASM programs that do not use the standard Stylus compiler toolchain and have not yet been patched by the current version of ArbOS. The Security Committee increased the gas required for activation to the theoretical maximum by calling ArbOwner.setWasmActivationGas(2^64 - 1), making new activations economically unfeasible. Activated Stylus contracts are unaffected and can continue to execute and renew, and the deployment and execution of Solidity contracts are also unrestricted.The newly added BoLD protection allows anyone to pause the settlement from Arbitrum One to Ethereum when two conflicting and accepted answers appear in the same dispute step, which may delay unconfirmed withdrawals to allow the Security Committee to deploy fixes. Officials pointed out that the currently discovered Stylus-related vulnerabilities mainly affect the activity of the chain, such as denial-of-service attacks, and do not jeopardize user funds.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reported that for the week ending September 29, stock fund speculators increased their net short positions in the S&P 500 CME by 575 contracts, bringing the total to 355,697 contracts; stock fund managers reduced their net long positions in the S&P 500 CME by 33,658 contracts, bringing the total to 901,255 contracts.

According to The Defiant, the asset tokenization protocol Centrifuge has confirmed that three tokenized funds JAAA, JTRSY, and HYB have been launched on Arc.These three funds cover U.S. Treasury and credit assets, and direct participation in fund investments is limited to non-U.S. professional investors.