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ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated that the cost reductions brought about by innovative platforms such as AI will gradually transmit to broader economic sectors, enhancing productivity and corporate profitability, and driving inflation rates down to levels below most investors' expectations, a phenomenon referred to as "benign deflation."Cathie Wood believes that the current AI inference costs are decreasing by 99.99% annually while maintaining performance levels. Meanwhile, OpenAI's annual revenue run rate has increased from $20 billion to $70 billion, indicating that the decline in costs is driving rapid growth in demand.ARK Invest expects that real GDP growth rates could reach high single digits, although this prediction seems "crazy" to most people; in a stronger real growth environment, interest rates may actually rise.

The U6 unemployment rate in the United States for September is 7.6%, lower than the expected 7.7%, and the previous value was 7.7.

Bitget PoolX has launched a new locking activity, where users can lock XAUT, SOL, or XRP to participate in the distribution of 100,000 BGB airdrop.As of the time of writing, the yield rate for the SOL locking pool is reported at 47.12% APR, the yield rate for the XRP locking pool is reported at 38.39% APR, and the yield rate for the XAUT locking pool is reported at 23.88% APR.The locking channel is open from October 2 to October 9.

According to Gate market data, spot silver has dropped over 1% today, currently priced at $60.36 per ounce. Spot gold has decreased by 0.9% today, currently priced at $4,138.86 per ounce.

The Chicago Fed's real-time unemployment rate forecast for September is 4.1%, slightly down from the 4.14% reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics last month.

For the week ending September 19, the number of continuing claims for unemployment benefits in the United States was 1.701 million, lower than the expected 1.725 million, and the previous value was revised from 1.719 million to 1.712 million.

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch the USD1 airdrop event on October 2, 2026, at 08:00. Eligible users can share a prize pool of 150 million WLFI tokens and up to 2.5 million USD1 tokens.The event is divided into two phases: the first phase rewards 75 million WLFI tokens, and the second phase rewards 75 million WLFI tokens and up to 2.5 million USD1 tokens. Rewards will be distributed before 02:00 every Saturday.

According to official news, the 149th Gate contract points airdrop will start on October 2 at 18:00 (UTC+8) and will last until 23:59 (UTC+8) on the same day.This period sets up two points redemption prize pools, both adopting a first-come, first-served mechanism. Among them, users with a contract points balance of 120--90 points (decreasing) can consume 15 Gate contract points to redeem 0.016 QQQG; users with a contract points balance of 40 points can consume 20 Gate contract points to redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher.

Analyst Darkfost stated that the demand from Bitcoin retail investors (trading volume of $0 - $10,000) has rapidly disappeared during this round of BTC price increase, with a 30-day change rate shifting from over 17% to -3.5%.

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange ranking released by RootData, possibly affected by macroeconomic uncertainties, the trading volume of the top five exchanges has significantly decreased in the last 24 hours.Among them, Hyperliquid experienced the largest decline, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 2.161 billion USD, down by 28.99%. Gate had the smallest decline, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 776 million USD, down by 13.04%.

Gold stabilized after rising on Tuesday, as traders weighed the drop in oil prices easing concerns about energy-driven inflation against the pressure from high U.S. Treasury yields.The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond rose to its highest level since 2002 on Tuesday. The market will focus on U.S. personal consumption expenditure data and non-farm payroll data for clues on the future path of interest rates.

According to Axel Adler Jr's monitoring, although the price of Bitcoin has further risen to around $87,000, the market's profit-taking pressure is weaker than in August. During the second round of price increases, profits realized were 19% lower than during the first round, and losses also decreased.At the peak of the first round of increases on August 26, the price of Bitcoin was about $78,600, with profits realized over the past 7 days reaching $9.1 billion; at the peak of the second round on September 24, the price of Bitcoin rose to $84,100, with profits realized over the past 7 days amounting to $7.3 billion, a 19% decrease from the previous round. During the same period, losses realized over the past 7 days dropped from $2.6 billion to $1.5 billion. As of today, Bitcoin's net realized profit over the past 7 days is $4.3 billion.The Short-Term Holder SOPR has remained above 1 since August 20, indicating that the overall Bitcoin transferred by short-term holders is still in profit, but the profit margin has narrowed. At the peak on August 26, the corresponding profit margin for short-term holder SOPR was 2.8%; it dropped to 1.6% at the peak on September 23; and as of today, it has further decreased to 1%. During the pullback of Bitcoin to $76,500 on September 17, the short-term holder SOPR fell to a low of 1.003, with the profit margin for short-term holders transferring Bitcoin narrowing to 0.3%, but it did not fall below 1.

Binance Wallet announced that Binance Alpha has launched Doppler Finance (XDP). Users holding at least 230 Binance Alpha points can claim 1666 XDP airdrops on the Alpha event page, on a first-come, first-served basis, until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event ends.If the event has not ended, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points, and users must confirm their claim on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, or it will be considered forfeited.

Binance will support SpaceX (SPCXB) airdrop plan for MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) holders, as well as Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQB) airdrop plan for Bullish holders. Effective holdings will be counted starting from September 2026, with the first distribution taking place in early October 2026. Users must complete identity verification (KYC) and be from eligible jurisdictions.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, as the price of HYPE declines, HYPE long positions are facing liquidation. Address 0x1add had 11,796 HYPE (worth 1.06 million USD) liquidated an hour ago and currently still holds 47,184 HYPE (worth 4.24 million USD) in long positions. The new liquidation price is 88.5 USD.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index futures fell by 0.4%, and the Nasdaq futures fell by 0.7%.

PPP market prediction tool monitoring shows that the probability of "ETH reaching $2800 during the remaining period of September" on Polymarket has dropped to 37%, a weekly decrease of 38%; the probability of "ETH reaching $2900 during the remaining period of September" has dropped to 12%, a weekly decrease of 8%.According to the settlement rules, if the highest price of any 1-minute candlestick of Binance ETH/USDT reaches or exceeds the specified price within the designated month, the market will settle as "Yes"; otherwise, it will settle as "No". This market settlement is based solely on Binance ETH/USDT price data, and prices from other exchanges or trading pairs are not counted.

According to the information released by the SEC, Robinhood (HOOD) CEO Tenev Vladimir sold 240,834 shares of the company's stock on September 22 at an average price of $125.33 per share, for a total value of approximately $30.1843 million. After the transaction, his direct holdings decreased to 6,907 shares.

Cryptocurrency trader Ansem stated that airdrops remain one of the strongest catalysts for driving users and trading activities back on-chain. In the last cycle, trading terminals saw a significant amount of trading volume, but many of those platforms have yet to offer rewards to users.Ansem believes that as competition among platforms for traders intensifies, rewarding early users will become an effective way to build user loyalty and retain liquidity. Past experiences show that timely airdrops can unleash a large amount of on-chain activity, and he expects this strategy to reappear in this cycle.