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According to market news, Solana processed a record 14.2 billion non-voting transactions in the third quarter, an increase of 45% compared to the second quarter.

Renowned trader Killa stated that he expects Bitcoin's peak this year to reach $97,000, with most of the year remaining below this price level in a range-bound market. Killa indicated that the key short-term levels for Bitcoin are between $80K and $83K. If it falls below this range, the next potential area could be $74K to $77K. This could likely be the last capitulation bottom before a push towards $97K.However, if the strength continues, the pullback may be much shallower, possibly only down to the low of $80K, followed by the next wave of increase. Killa, as a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on the X platform. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

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 Bitcoin.com, Microsoft's official X account was hacked and used to promote a meme coin themed around its classic Clippy assistant character, CLIPPY. The related violating content has been removed, and Microsoft has confirmed to the media that the account was subject to unauthorized access and stated that it is continuing to investigate the incident.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju posted on the X platform that this round of the Bitcoin bull market will bring a 3-5 times increase, rather than another round of parabolic surge exceeding 10 times, followed by a milder bear market.Ki Young Ju pointed out that in this cycle, the MVRV has never fallen below 1. Even at the lows, BTC has remained above the average on-chain cost basis for holders. Some investors have incurred losses, but overall holders have never fallen into a loss.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale deposited 6,595.2 ETH into Coinbase 3 hours ago, worth approximately 17.57 million USD.Among them, 6,500 ETH were withdrawn from the exchange at an average price of 3,040.4 USD between June and August 2025, during which it once incurred a floating loss of over 9.557 million USD.The whale is suspected to have stopped loss and exited after holding ETH for about a year, expecting a loss of 2.443 million USD, with assets shrinking by 12.3%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Argentina vs Burkina Faso More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "First Half Total 4.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 47% an hour ago to the current 24.5% (a fluctuation of 22.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

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.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Pittsburgh vs. Virginia Tech," the "Over" option in the sub-market "2Q O/U 10.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 66.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 16.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

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%.

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.

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 Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Bitcoin Breakthrough on October 3" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "84,000" experienced severe fluctuations, plummeting from 92.05% an hour ago to the current 53.6% (a fluctuation of 38.45%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Dota 2: OG vs BetBoom Team - BLAST Slam Group C", the "OG" option in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 37.5% an hour ago to the current 20% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Bitcoin Price Prediction from September 28 to October 4" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Below $84,000" experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 39.5% an hour ago to the current 56.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

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.

Aave Labs has proposed a new plan regarding the ownership of brands and intellectual property, intending to gradually hand it over to a DAO for oversight and management. According to the schedule for the first phase, the team will first promote the establishment of a legal entity located in the Cayman Islands and appoint independent senior management for that entity.However, the transfer of ownership for the trademark rights related to the Aave brand, domain names, and code repositories is not included in the action scope of the first phase. Instead, it will be subject to approval through multiple rounds of governance voting that will be initiated later.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market event "Belgium vs. Türkiye - More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option of the sub-market "Türkiye O/U 4.5" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 35.95% an hour ago to the current 19.65% (a fluctuation of 16.3%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

The cryptocurrency trading platform OKX announced the launch of the QUANTUSDT global perpetual contract, and related trading is now open.OKX introduced that Quant Network builds a programmable currency infrastructure through Overledger and QuantNet to connect banks, blockchains, tokenized deposits, and traditional payment rails.