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Gate will hold the "RACING THE FUTURE Vol 3" special event at the Singapore F1 circuit on October 8, inviting Laurent Mekies, CEO and Team Principal of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, along with over a dozen VIPs and high-end clients for exclusive discussions. The event will take place in the core area of the Singapore circuit, where Laurent Mekies will engage in face-to-face conversations with guests about the core strategies, event operations, and behind-the-scenes stories of the Red Bull Racing team, sharing the practices and experiences of a top racing team both on and off the track.This event will adopt a small-scale, targeted invitation format, placing the communication scene in the unique setting of the F1 circuit to provide VIP users with a deeper and more exclusive communication experience. As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate not only reaches a global sports audience through event collaborations but also further integrates top racing resources into user services and brand communication scenarios, offering VIP users exclusive opportunities to access international top sports resources and understand team operations and competitive decision-making.In addition, Gate will also host an F1 Red Bull driver meet-and-greet during TOKEN2049, inviting F1 World Champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen and teammate Isack Hadjar to appear at the Gate Lounge, where they will interact with fans through autographs, photos, and engagement. By covering diverse scenarios such as driver interactions, management discussions, and high-level dialogues, Gate will further deepen its cross-border collaboration with the F1 Red Bull Racing team and expand the connection between digital assets and global sports, technology, and mainstream culture.

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 Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $111,705.63 in a single buy for the "Federal Reserve October Decision" event, targeting "No Change." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this subject is 82%.

AI startup Tavus released a new model called Griffin on October 1, referring to it as the first "human interaction model" that can understand and generate face-to-face conversations, paying attention not only to wording but also to expressions and pauses. Tavus stated that in tests, after a one-minute video call with Griffin-Lite, 26 out of 54 participants (48%) believed the other party was a real person; its previous generation system only convinced 1 out of 41 participants.Participants were told they would have a one-minute video call with another person to discuss things they were looking forward to this year, and only at the end of the call were they asked if they suspected the other party was not a real person. Tavus noted that those who became suspicious typically noticed within 20 seconds. This result comes from Tavus's own research page, where participants were recruited through a channel they call an independent research platform. Community comments on X pointed out that these results have not been independently verified and do not meet standard protocols.In the NVIDIA VideoFDB benchmark, Tavus claimed Griffin-Lite ranked first, with a generation dimension score of 3.83, the next best system scoring 2.8, and human reference scoring 3.92; the perception dimension score was 3.73, with the strongest baseline at 3.44 and human reference at 4.2. Tavus stated that NVIDIA independently conducted this evaluation. Griffin supports full duplex, allowing it to listen, see, and speak simultaneously, with an average audio-video delay of 0.43 seconds on the NVIDIA H100 chip. Tavus completed a $40 million Series B funding round led by CRV in November 2025.

According to CoinDesk, informed sources revealed that the custody bank giant BNY is in talks with Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, for a broad collaboration covering digital assets and financial market infrastructure. The potential agreement may involve areas such as crypto products, custody, wealth management, trading, payments, and infrastructure, with related services provided through Payward Services, which targets banks, exchanges, and asset management institutions.One source indicated that part of the proposed collaboration may be similar to the infrastructure component of the recent agreement Payward reached with Nasdaq. Negotiations are still ongoing, and there is no guarantee that an agreement will be reached; both Payward and BNY declined to comment. BNY, formerly known as Bank of New York Mellon, provides custody, asset services, clearing, and wealth management services to institutional clients and has been developing tokenized deposits to support near real-time on-chain settlements among institutional market participants.Reaching an agreement with BNY would further promote Payward's efforts to connect digital asset businesses with traditional financial institutions. Last month, Nasdaq Ventures agreed to invest $100 million in Payward at a valuation of $21 billion, expanding the collaboration between the two parties in tokenized stocks. Under the agreement, both parties will continue to develop the operational and commercial infrastructure for Nasdaq stock tokens, and Payward will also adopt Nasdaq's market surveillance technology in its cryptocurrency, stock, tokenized stock, futures, and options trading venues, with both parties expecting to launch Nasdaq stock tokens in the second quarter of 2027.

According to Gate market data, the German DAX30 index closed up 301.79 points on October 2, an increase of 1.21%, at 25,241.14 points. The UK FTSE 100 index rose by 31.68 points, an increase of 0.3%, at 10,459.95 points. The French CAC40 index increased by 61.88 points, an increase of 0.79%, at 7,897.19 points.

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.

Chief Investment Officer Greg Taylor of PenderFund Capital Management stated that the September non-farm report is favorable for the market and essentially rules out the possibility of a Federal Reserve rate hike in October.There may still be expectations for a rate hike in December, but it has already been priced in by the market and will not have a significant impact on the market.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, trader 0xd9A2 went long on 2900 ETH with 20x leverage on Aster DEX, with a position value of approximately 7.97 million USD.Currently, the unrealized profit of this position has exceeded 1 million USD, with a return rate of 251.68%.

According to Gate market data, the altcoin sector has seen a widespread increase.SAND is currently priced at 0.06998 USD, with a 24-hour increase of 62.52%; ENJ is currently priced at 0.03729 USD, with an increase of 27.88%; GTC is currently priced at 0.12388 USD, with an increase of 22.10%; MANA is currently priced at 0.1054 USD, with an increase of 19.10%.SKY is currently priced at 0.09402 USD, with an increase of 18.94%; GALA is currently priced at 0.002655 USD, with an increase of 17.53%; MAGIC is currently priced at 0.0605 USD, with an increase of 15.02%; SUPER is currently priced at 0.2275 USD, with an increase of 14.96%.

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.

Market traders cut bets on the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike in October.

According to a report by Businesswire, BNB Plus Corp. (OTCQB: BNBX) announced a strategic transformation, shifting from a digital asset treasury company focused on the BNB Chain ecosystem to an operational company providing open network infrastructure such as blockchain and Agentic AI for financial institutions and enterprises.In the future, the company will still participate in ecosystems like BNB Chain, with a strategic focus shifting from passive holding of digital assets to infrastructure, integration, and deployment services. BNB Plus, formerly known as Applied DNA Sciences, previously transitioned from a biotechnology business to a BNB treasury strategy, holding approximately 18,830 BNB as of July 30.

QCP Capital released the latest market analysis stating that BTC has broken through the previous trading range of $82,500 to $85,700 that lasted for a week, reaching a high of $86,913 during the day, the highest since September 23. It is currently trading around $85,900, up 14.6% from the low of $74,968 on September 15. QCP pointed out that during this round of increase, the annualized funding rate for perpetual contracts was only 5.4%, indicating that the market was mainly driven by spot funds rather than leveraged trading. QCP believes that this round of BTC's rise diverges from traditional macro market signals. In September, the yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond rose to 5.62%, and the 10-year yield reached 5.29% at one point, while gold recorded its worst month of the year. Although rising real interest rates typically put pressure on gold and risk assets, BTC still rose.QCP believes that this market trend is more consistent with concentrated capital trading driven by institutional fund inflows, regulatory catalysts, and technical improvements, rather than purely a currency depreciation trading logic. Regarding institutional funds and regulatory factors, the U.S. Bitcoin spot ETF recorded net inflows of approximately $3.5 billion and $2.6 billion in August and September, respectively. QCP noted that the innovative exemption policy released by the U.S. SEC on September 17 provided a new regulatory catalyst for the market, but since the CLARITY Act failed to pass in the Senate earlier, market structure legislation may be delayed until 2027. Therefore, current regulatory support comes more from the administrative level, and long-term policy certainty remains limited.In the options market, yesterday's options trading nominal amount was approximately $2.5 billion, involving 54 transactions with a nominal amount exceeding $5 million each. Among them, one client sold in batches call options expiring on October 30 with a strike price of $90,000, totaling over 4,000 contracts with a nominal amount of $346 million; at the same time, they actively bought call options with the same strike price expiring on November 27. QCP believes that this operation reflects that some traders are rolling their positions from October to November to position for the U.S. midterm elections, quarterly Treasury refinancing, and market volatility around the December Federal Reserve meeting.On the macroeconomic front, the Federal Reserve will hold a monetary policy meeting from October 27 to 28. QCP stated that after Federal Reserve official Williams said there was no need to rush to adjust policies further, and with the August core PCE coming in below expectations, market expectations for maintaining interest rates in October have warmed. However, the market still expects an approximately 80% probability of a 25 basis point rate hike in December. The U.S. non-farm payroll report for September, to be released tonight, will be an important short-term test, with the market expecting an increase in non-farm payrolls of 84,000 to 93,000, an unemployment rate holding at 4.1%, and an average hourly wage year-on-year growth rate expected to be 3%.On the technical front, the support level of $82,500 has been tested three times in the past week, while $87,400 is the location of the September high and is a key resistance for BTC to further challenge $90,000. The implied volatility term structure in the options market is in a contango state, with a 7-day implied volatility of 30.3 and a 90-day implied volatility of 37.1; the 30-day risk reversal indicator is approximately -2.5 volatility points, indicating an increase in demand for short-term put protection. QCP believes that although BTC shows resilience in a macro environment of rising real interest rates, the market is still mainly driven by capital flows and position changes, and it cannot yet be considered that macro risks have been eliminated. U.S. employment data, Treasury supply, and the intensive policy events in the coming weeks may still trigger market volatility.

According to Decrypt, the European Union's law enforcement agency reported that Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old Romanian suspect in Alicante, suspected of being an administrator and main operator of the ransomware group KillSec.Two other suspects in their twenties were arrested in the UK and Romania, respectively; another developer who just turned 18 in August this year has been identified but has not been arrested due to some crimes occurring during their minor years.This operation, codenamed Operation KillSwitch, was led by the Hamburg State Criminal Police and the city's prosecution office, focusing on approximately 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide, with about 500 confirmed as successful intrusions.Law enforcement searched eight locations in Spain, Greece, Romania, and the UK, seized five central servers, and redirected related domain names to seizure announcement pages, while also confiscating at least 110 TB of stolen data.KillSec has been active since around 2024, exploiting software vulnerabilities and poorly secured cloud storage entry points to infiltrate corporate systems, copying internal data and naming victim organizations on dark web leak sites, threatening to publicly release documents to demand cryptocurrency ransoms, and if the target refuses to pay, they release the data for free.The Swiss Federal Police noted that the group also employed double extortion tactics, first encrypting servers and then applying pressure. U.S. prosecutors' charges indicate that a Dutch national residing in the UK, Fouad Eltibrizi (nicknamed Archduke), was indicted by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico on September 16, subsequently arrested, and awaiting extradition, facing up to 10 years in prison. The European Cybercrime Centre, under the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, is assisting in tracing cryptocurrency funds and conducting digital forensics.

The Core Lightning team, which develops the open-source Bitcoin Lightning Network node software, has issued an urgent alert stating that reports indicate attackers are targeting nodes that have not installed patches, urging operators still running old versions to upgrade immediately. The team stated: "Emergency security update: If you are using version 26.06.7 or earlier, please upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible."Prior to this, Core Lightning began investigating a potential issue that could affect its experimental features and, in turn, impact user funds on September 16, and approximately six days later, version 26.06.8 was released. This update not only fixed several defects but also provided patches for security vulnerabilities reported responsibly by multiple parties, thanking the Bitcoin Red Team and 12 other individuals and organizations in the release notes, while also acknowledging anonymous reporters.According to the changelog, this round of fixes covers a bug that could cause sender nodes to crash, requests that could exhaust REST interface memory, and a vulnerability that could result in user funds facing confiscation losses when closing payment channels. To provide operators with ample upgrade windows and prevent attackers from taking advantage of reverse engineering and exploitation, this version intentionally obscured some testing content. Additionally, in August of this year, the project initiated a collaborative fixing process after reviewing a large number of AI-generated general vulnerability disclosure reports, and two days later released version 26.06.7 to close confirmed vulnerabilities.

Slow Fog issued a security alert stating that the Aave V3 Loop Safe Module has a security vulnerability, allowing attackers to forge Safe authentication and execute arbitrary modules, stealing approximately 114.09 ETH from two Safe multi-signature wallets.Attackers bypassed authentication by forging a Safe that always returns true and executed module transactions using a router and calldata that could be arbitrarily controlled, transferring weETH and Aave collateral. After repaying approximately 1300 WETH in debt, the attackers unlocked the collateral.

NEAR Protocol posted on platform X that Sal Ternullo, CEO of NEAR Treasury Company SVRN, has introduced a new proposal on the NEAR governance forum to reduce the maximum annual token issuance rate from 2.5% to 1.6% for a duration of 24 months, and to lower the staking yield from the current approximately 5.4% to about 3.5%.The proposal is currently seeking feedback from validators, House of Stake delegators, and NEAR community members, with a complete plan expected to be announced next week for voting.In response to the recent NEAR Intents security incident, NEAR Protocol further clarified that the blockchain network is operating normally, and the related incident was not caused by vulnerabilities in NEAR Protocol or the native token NEAR. The NEAR Protocol network continues to produce blocks and process transactions without any downtime.