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Bonk Guy posted an analysis of the Robinhood chain ecosystem on X, urging Robinhood to strengthen its efforts on ecosystem tokens. He believes that the previous rise of the chain primarily relied on Robinhood's large retail user base and the narrative surrounding token listings, rather than technical advantages, thus creating a flywheel effect.Bonk Guy pointed out that the Robinhood chain has recently weakened, with reasons including the need for a correction after the previous large increase in ecosystem tokens, funds being diverted due to the recovery of Solana, and Robinhood's insufficient follow-up on ecosystem projects like PONS and AI.He stated that the absence of a collapse in the ecosystem after the HOOD Summit is a positive signal, and he remains optimistic about the user base and the flywheel effect of token listings in this ecosystem; if Robinhood increases listing catalysts and strengthens the distribution effect of token listings, on-chain activities will warm up in a bull market, and the next wave of increases will arrive soon.

Bitwise Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated that after the Senate did not advance the CLARITY Act, stablecoin platforms retain the space to offer balance rewards to customers, and exchanges like Coinbase continue to hold the advantages of existing state-level licenses and the integration of trading and brokerage services.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a five-year exemption for tokenized stock trading, allowing eligible platforms to test using licensed automated market makers and liquidity pools. Hougan listed Securitize, which will serve tokenized funds for BlackRock, Apollo, and KKR, as a beneficiary. SEC staff updated the token buyback guidelines, stating that for networks that are functional and do not have a centralized party, buyback announcements do not constitute a commitment relied upon by buyers for expected profits; this guideline does not have legal effect.

According to SEC filings, Coinbase submitted an 8-K form on October 2, disclosing that Chief Accounting Officer Jennifer Jones notified the company of her retirement decision on September 29.She will continue to serve until her successor takes over, while the company has initiated the search for a successor. This decision was not due to any disagreements with the company regarding operations, policies, or practices.

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.

According to the market information platform Liquid24/7.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0xefe4c0...194b has increased its BTC long position by 311.65 coins, with a nominal value of approximately 26,329,800 USD. After the increase, this address currently holds a BTC long position of 486.6 coins, with a total nominal value of approximately 41,110,800 USD.At the time of writing, the marked price of BTC is approximately 84,486 USD, and the average opening price of this long position is about 85,974 USD, currently resulting in an unrealized loss of approximately 724,100 USD.

Layer 2 network Blast announced that it will cease operations due to the ongoing maintenance costs of the network exceeding the revenue generated by L2. The team believes there is no credible path to achieve economic sustainability.Blast advises all users to withdraw on-chain assets and balances in the Blast PWA to the Ethereum mainnet and plans to shorten the withdrawal waiting time to 24 hours. However, the team will first process the withdrawal of Lido assets held by Blast, which is expected to take about a week, during which the withdrawal function will be temporarily unavailable.Users can complete withdrawals through the regular Blast interface before October 26. After that, assets can still be withdrawn, but it will require direct interaction with the Blast Bridge contract on Ethereum L1. The team will announce specific operational instructions before the deadline.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog Security, 23pds, stated that Alex Shevchenko, the General Manager of NEAR Intents, indicated that the exploiters of the NEAR Intents vulnerability transferred 1 BNB to the recovery wallet and left a message expressing willingness to cooperate and requested the other party to provide a Signal contact.This transfer came from the same address that previously moved approximately 3.8 million USD. About an hour ago, that address also transferred 0.295 ETH on the Ethereum network and sent the same message.

TRON DeFi Summer announces the latest arrangements for S3: the event will officially launch on October 4 at 08:00 (SGT) and will last for 60 days, 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.Users can enter JustLend DAO through Binance Wallet DeFi to participate in the Boosted APR incentives. Users who participated in S2 do not need to reapply; simply maintaining their holdings will automatically extend their eligibility for S3 rewards. New users can prepare their assets in advance to join as soon as it opens. More S3 gameplay will be announced soon.

The Ronin Waypoint wallet will soon cease operations, and users must complete asset transfers before the final migration deadline on October 16, or assets left in the Waypoint wallet may become inaccessible. This migration primarily involves users utilizing social logins, keyless wallets, or MPC wallets.Users can choose to migrate their assets to a Ronin Stash that supports email or social login, or they can transfer them to a Ronin Wallet protected by a mnemonic phrase. Users who only use mnemonic phrase wallets are not affected by this migration. Additionally, bAXS and Badges need to be handled separately through the official Axie migration page, and this operation can only be completed once.The official reminder for users is to confirm that the target wallet has received the assets after migration and to check if there are any missing assets in the Waypoint wallet.

German government bonds have become the primary safe-haven asset in the global bond sell-off due to concerns over overheating in the U.S. economy and the fiscal situation in other parts of Europe. This week, the yield on 10-year German bonds fell by 0.2 percentage points, while yields in countries like the United States and France rose by 0.05 and 0.22 percentage points, respectively.

According to Gate market data, some U.S. storage chip stocks fell before the market opened, with Seagate Technology down 11.4% and Western Digital down 7.1%.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov expressed disappointment on the X platform regarding the responses from the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) to the MiCA consultation. He stated that both institutions not only advocate for banning stablecoin payment yields but also propose restrictions on crypto asset service providers (CASP) offering users access to DeFi, including services involving non-MiCA authorized stablecoin yield protocols.Kulechov indicated that the relevant opinions also involve restricting DeFi services to specific user groups through "suitability tests" and potentially establishing a certification system for DeFi lending protocols. He believes that if regulators decide which protocols are suitable for European users, it could lead to more closed ecosystems, weakening the liquidity and network effects of open DeFi, and limiting opportunities for European users to participate in on-chain finance.

According to The Defiant, SMBC Nikko Securities announced on October 2 that it has signed a memorandum of cooperation to develop a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform called "DeFi Gateway" aimed at Japanese investors.Participants include blockchain development company Nethermind, Uniswap Labs, the general incorporated association Nyx Foundation, and Coinbase Technologies, which operates the Ethereum Layer 2 network Base. The project will develop a liquidity provision protocol and proprietary liquidity pool, complying with Japanese laws and regulations, with plans to complete development by mid-2027.The cooperation mainly focuses on three areas of development: first, creating a "proxy vault" with verifiable and reproducible AI and an intuitive user interface; second, utilizing Uniswap v4's Hooks feature to build a compliant liquidity pool public framework that incorporates anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) and investor protection mechanisms; third, developing asset management strategies covering digital assets such as stablecoins and real-world assets (RWA).The project is jointly led by SMBC Nikko Securities and Nethermind. SMBC Nikko Securities leads communication with regulatory agencies and provides compliance, risk modeling, and portfolio management expertise; Nethermind is responsible for technical design and development, including AI strategy and integration, smart contract security, as well as automated market making and Uniswap v4 Hooks strategies.

According to official news, TRON has officially released the GreatVoyage-v4.8.2.3 (Anaxagoras) version.The new version focuses on improving the smart contract storage access mechanism, enhancing the performance of BN128 pairing operations, and optimizing the parsing process of JSON data generated by nodes, further enhancing node operational efficiency and stability.This version is a mandatory upgrade, and TRON reminds node operators to complete the update as soon as possible to avoid affecting block synchronization. After the upgrade is completed, relevant nodes can promptly report their deployment status so that the community can continuously track the overall network upgrade progress.For specific version changes, GPG signature verification, and deployment methods, please refer to the official version release notes and upgrade deployment documentation.

On-chain data analysis firm Bitquery linked the approximately $459,000 asset theft incident involving Tradewiz to a wallet that completed 27 transactions through the trading bot previously. Investigation statistics show that the incident affected 20,933 wallets, with losses involving SOL, tokens, and deposits recovered after closing token accounts; the valuation is based on a SOL price of $120.Bitquery discovered that major fund transfers began 41 minutes after Tradewiz's trading activity stopped; about 73% of the SOL in this round of transfers was moved afterward. Tradewiz stated that the incident involved the private key leak of the SOL PVP export function and promised to compensate users for their losses; subsequent updates indicated that the first batch of refunds had been issued, and claims need to be verified. Tradewiz also suspended EVM services for security checks and stated that the police are assisting in tracking the assets and have contacted exchanges for identity and account verification information.Bitquery traced some of the early funds coming from MEXC withdrawals, later shifting to Kucoin deposit addresses; these connections do not indicate that the two exchanges participated in the theft.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale/institution recently liquidated its long-term investment in DeFi tokens, incurring a loss of 9.61 million dollars. Ten days ago, it liquidated 37.26 million CRV that it had held for 3 years, realizing a loss of 5.97 million dollars.Three hours ago, it transferred 4.01 million PENDLE that it had held for 1 year to OKX, with an unrealized loss of 3.64 million dollars.

Federal Reserve Governor Bowman stated that implementing a Federal Reserve capital plan linked to U.S. Treasury bonds has many benefits.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Jefferson stated that the interest rate hike in September will help stabilize inflation expectations.