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ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood stated at a summit hosted by Robinhood in Houston that investors have traditionally "followed developers" to gauge technological trends, but now they may need to "follow agents." The AI agents she refers to are software that can perform tasks on behalf of humans, rather than just answering questions or generating text. This statement came towards the end of a discussion on AI, private markets, and technology investments.As AI agents shift from answering questions to executing operations and spending funds, the type of financial infrastructure they will use has become a focal point. SharpLink co-CEO and former BlackRock digital asset head Joseph Chalom believes that the financial system used by AI agents should not be controlled by a few banks or tech companies. He cited the example of authorized agents booking hotels, pointing out that users should be able to set spending limits, revoke authorizations at any time, and view the agents' transaction records. Additionally, users should be able to transfer the agents' identities, financial information, and permissions between different financial service providers, similar to mobile number portability.Chalom believes that open blockchains like Ethereum can provide a universal financial network for different agents, applications, and companies to use collectively, eliminating the need for each AI company to build its own closed payment system. A report from BlackRock in September also noted that AI agents could create new demands for machine-oriented payment systems, such as payment API calls, purchasing data, or renting computing power, with stablecoins and blockchain being one of the viable solutions. Coinbase's x402 is designed to enable machines to pay for online services like data or APIs.

The co-founder of the real-world asset perpetual contract protocol Ostium, Kaledora, published a statement explaining the financial and revenue model of the protocol. She stated that approximately $44.7 million in total revenue over two years on Dune comes from four on-chain fees: $20.39 million in opening fees, $16.5 million in spreads, $4.75 million in rollover fees, and $3.35 million in liquidation fees.Of the aforementioned revenue, $22.14 million (49.6%) flows to the OLP treasury, $19.55 million (43.8%) is for liquidity costs, including $16.05 million for hedging and $3.49 million in hedging interest, leaving a gross profit of $2.96 million (6.6%). She noted that the total on-chain revenue does not include off-chain hedging costs, and prior to the liquidity upgrade in April, the protocol did not have the capability to monetize traffic; a security incident occurred just months after the system was upgraded.In terms of financing, Ostium raised $300,000 in 2022, $3.6 million in 2023, $4.1 million in 2024, and $19.4 million in 2025. The team is expected to expand from about 12 people in 2025 to 35 people by the second quarter of 2026, investing in costs related to data authorization, marketing, cloud infrastructure, auditing, and AI. She mentioned that the company has not reserved a balance sheet sufficient to cope with such incidents and that the silence has been too long. The next step will allow the remaining 345 OLP holders to share in business growth, with plans to announce the second phase recovery plan in the coming week.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang held approximately 870 million shares of NVIDIA stock as of March 23, 2026, accounting for 3.58% of the company's total equity. Based on NVIDIA's stock price of $231.49 in early October, this portion of shares is valued at approximately $201 billion. According to Forbes, Jensen Huang currently has a net worth of about $200 billion, with his personal wealth primarily derived from his holdings in NVIDIA.Jensen Huang is known to be the largest individual shareholder of NVIDIA. Due to U.S. SEC regulations, individual investors holding less than 5% of shares are not required to disclose their holdings, so it is possible that there are undisclosed individual shareholders with holdings exceeding those of Jensen Huang. Major institutional shareholders currently holding more than 5% include BlackRock and Vanguard Group, with ownership percentages of 7.43% and 7.31%, respectively.Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993. Before NVIDIA's first stock split in 1999, he held approximately 2.9 million shares, accounting for 9.9% of the company. If he had retained those shares until now, adjusted for stock splits, it would be close to 2.8 billion shares, indicating that he has since reduced his holdings. In fiscal year 2025, NVIDIA paid him a total compensation of $35.5 million, which included a base salary of $1.5 million, a cash bonus of $3 million, and approximately $31 million in equity granted in the form of 936,800 performance stock units.

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.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $349 million, with long positions liquidated at $307 million and short positions liquidated at $42.698 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $71.2601 million, Bitcoin short positions at $5.2742 million, Ethereum long positions at $65.0079 million, and Ethereum short positions at $4.654 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 88,900 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - ZECUSDT worth $4.5079 million.

The privacy coin project Zcash officially stated that Zcash now has two independent full node implementations, both executing the same rules, namely Zebra and Zakura.Zcash also raised the question: Does the second client truly change the decentralization of the network, or is computing power still the only key factor? Zebra is the Rust full node implementation supported by the Zcash Foundation, while Zakura is another independent full node client.

On October 1, Nasdaq-listed company OpenWorld, Inc. (stock ticker: OPNW) announced in Las Vegas its intention to acquire Blocksight Holdings Co. The transaction is subject to final approval by the OpenWorld board and the signing of final documents, with both parties finalizing the relevant documents. The company stated that it does not guarantee that the documents will be signed or that the transaction will be completed.Blocksight builds an artificial intelligence agent platform for putting real-world assets on-chain and continuously providing investor reports. The agent covers trade construction, asset data verification, investor introduction, daily reports, and ongoing services, operating across multiple chains and directly connecting to distribution platforms, with key decisions requiring human approval. The proposed acquisition aims to support the still-in-development OpenWorld Enterprise, allowing institutions to access, verify, and hold tokenized real-world asset opportunities, with OpenWorld potentially acting as a co-principal and co-architect.If the transaction is completed, Blocksight co-founders Patrick Kim and Peter Hong are expected to join OpenWorld to assist with technology integration. OpenWorld co-founder and CEO Matthew Shaw stated that the proposed acquisition is an important step for the company as it begins its journey as a publicly listed company and may strengthen its institutional-facing tokenized real-world asset platform foundation. The announcement was made in conjunction with the company and VerifyMe, Inc.

According to the New York Times, the negotiations between the United States and Russia regarding the Ukraine issue involve a multi-billion dollar oil deal related to allies of Trump. This deal involves large oil fields, refineries, and gas stations owned globally by Lukoil.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the TRUMP token team has transferred a total of 81.87 million TRUMP tokens from the team wallet over the past 8 months, entering centralized exchanges such as Binance and OKX at an average price of $3.04, cashing out $249 million.The team was allocated 800 million TRUMP tokens, accounting for 80% of the total supply; they currently still hold 718 million TRUMP tokens, accounting for 71.8% of the total supply, valued at $1.49 billion.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two traders were liquidated for a total of 708 million PUMP, worth approximately 3.61 million USD.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, B3 (B3) will unlock approximately 146,908,000 tokens at 1 PM Beijing time on October 10, with a value of about 1.13 million USD.

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 Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was 582 million dollars, with long positions liquidated at 328 million dollars and short positions liquidated at 254 million dollars. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at 75.9237 million dollars, Bitcoin short positions at 130 million dollars, Ethereum long positions at 71.1099 million dollars, and Ethereum short positions at 57.6722 million dollars.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 110,846 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - BTCUSDT worth 11.7274 million dollars.

The Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins, issued a statement saying that the Commission proposed a plan this week to fill the regulatory gap regarding the custody of cryptocurrency assets by investment advisors and funds, providing a clear custody framework and compliance path for an asset class with increasing client demand.Atkins stated that the existing custody rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 were established before the advent of the internet, primarily targeting traditional assets and requiring the use of approved custodians. The custody capabilities for new cryptocurrency assets often lag behind the launch of the assets by several months. This proposal aims to address this issue while updating the custody rules for advisors and regulated funds that have not been revised for decades to align with current industry practices and feedback.The statement noted that this proposal is part of the SEC's regulatory framework for cryptocurrency assets. Related efforts include stopping the replacement of regulation with enforcement, issuing a no-action letter regarding the pilot program for the tokenization of securities by custodial trust companies by December 2025, publishing a classification description for tokenized securities in January 2026, and subsequent initiatives regarding the securities attributes of cryptocurrency assets, broker registration, Regulation Crypto Assets, and innovative exemptions for trading tokenized NMS stocks. Atkins indicated that more regulatory proposals will be forthcoming.

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.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 5.18% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 35.304 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 10.208 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 1.973 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 2.71 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 2.326 billion USD.

According to CoinDesk, Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has completed her term today. She served in the agency for over 8 years and voted against the committee's decisions to take enforcement actions instead of creating industry-compliant rules multiple times, and she was an early proponent of the token safe harbor proposal.Hester Peirce previously led the Crypto Task Force and stated that the SEC's duty to protect investors includes using regulatory authority to provide regulatory boundaries for the rapidly expanding digital asset industry.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was 357 million dollars, with long positions liquidated at 85.52 million dollars and short positions liquidated at 272 million dollars. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at 7.3933 million dollars, Bitcoin short positions at 145 million dollars, Ethereum long positions at 11.9738 million dollars, and Ethereum short positions at 61.4856 million dollars.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 77,865 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - BTCUSDT worth 11.7274 million dollars.

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.