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According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale, after being silent for over a year, deposited 30 million ENA, worth 6.98 million USD, into Binance through BitGo.The whale still holds 157.55 million ENA, worth 36.74 million USD.

According to the market information platform Liquid24/7.xyz, the current price of ETH is approximately $2,676.65. Binance's perpetual near-end buy orders are about $64.7688 million, sell orders about $49.385 million, with a net buy of approximately $15.3838 million; Binance's spot buy orders are about $8.2804 million, sell orders about $6.6202 million, with a net buy of approximately $1.6602 million; Coinbase's spot buy orders are about $10.572 million, sell orders about $6.621 million, with a net buy of approximately $3.9511 million.OKX's perpetual buy orders are about $24.4708 million, sell orders about $21.4952 million, with a net buy of approximately $2.9756 million; Hyperliquid's perpetual buy orders are about $9.4229 million, sell orders about $10.1917 million, with a net sell of approximately $0.7689 million. Overall, Binance's perpetual buy order thickness is the most significant among all venues, while Hyperliquid's buy orders are relatively thin. If a large market order occurs, the slippage on the Hyperliquid side may be greater.

Renowned trader Killa posted that he expects Bitcoin's peak this year to reach $97,000, with most of the year remaining below that price level in a range-bound movement.Killa stated that in the short term, $80K-$83K is critical for Bitcoin. If it falls below that, the next possible range will be $74K-$77K. That could very well be the last capitulation bottom before pushing towards $97K.However, if the strength continues, the pullback could be much shallower, possibly only down to the low of $80K, followed by the next wave of increase.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 68, down 3 points from yesterday. The average for the past 7 days is 71, and the average for the past 30 days is 68.

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.

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.

NEAR co-founder @ilblackdragon revealed on the X platform that the recovery of stolen funds from NEAR Intents was mainly due to the AI security layer SHIELD on Intents, as well as some proactive investigative work.The Intents team identified the responsible party and established communication within less than 24 hours of the hack, successfully recovering the funds in full today at 14:30 UTC.@ilblackdragon also stated that NEAR will continuously strengthen its security systems and further adapt to the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. While AI may accelerate the exploitation of vulnerabilities, it can also help us defend against them. It is hoped that the entire industry will respond with vigilance and feel the same sense of urgency to collaborate together.

Cross-chain intent trading product NEAR Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko stated that the 3.8 million dollars stolen in the NEAR Intents vulnerability incident has been fully returned. He mentioned that the return of funds occurred just hours after he gave a 48-hour repayment deadline to the identified parties.Shevchenko wrote: "We are stopping the investigation. Please use the vulnerability bounty instead of interrupting the service." He indicated that the relevant investigation has now been halted.

NEAR Protocol officially stated that the newly launched Bitwise NEAR ETF has accumulated net inflows exceeding 50 million dollars, and indicated that institutional investors are choosing NEAR.Relevant data shows that the ETF began trading on September 29, and as of September 30, the accumulated net inflows have exceeded 50 million dollars.

The liquidity pledge protocol Lido announced an update to the EarnUSD fee model, which will reduce fixed fees and make fees more directly linked to the performance of the treasury. Previously, the EarnUSD fees were more platform-oriented, consisting of a 1% management fee plus a 10% performance fee.According to the announcement, the new model caps the management fee at 0.5% plus a 20% performance fee, with the initial rate set at a 0.2% management fee plus a 15% performance fee. Lido stated that after the management fee is reduced from 1% to 0.2%, the costs of holding EarnUSD will be lower when returns are low, and the higher performance fee will make the charges more aligned with actual returns. Relevant fees will be displayed on the EarnUSD treasury interface.

Synthra Finance posted on X that it has directly repurchased nearly 2 million POLL from the market and completed the destruction.Synthra Finance stated that after this operation, the total amount destroyed is close to 7% of the total supply of POLL, and mentioned that the related repurchase comes from protocol revenue, marking another round of repurchase and destruction.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Huang Licheng has won 10 PUMP trades continuously over the past 5 days, with a total profit of 1.34 million dollars.Currently holding 33,950 ETH long positions, valued at 92.56 million dollars; 409 BTC long positions, valued at 35.22 million dollars; 180,000 HYPE long positions, valued at 16.16 million dollars.

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.

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.

BitBT Ventures posted on platform X that it has provided $5 million in early financing to the social finance platform KIVO. KIVO is building a social finance ecosystem that connects social, trading, payment, digital assets, and emerging financial products through a single consumer-grade application.BitBT Ventures stated that it supports KIVO in building a social layer and a full-stack SocialFi infrastructure for the next generation of users. The related content was published by its social media account and mentioned KIVO account KivoSocialLayer.

After the non-farm payroll data was released, the yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond fell by 2.8 basis points to 5.575%. The 2-year yield dropped by 7.7 basis points to 4.71%. The 10-year yield ultimately decreased by 5.6 basis points to 5.18%.

LSEG data shows that the yield on France's 10-year government bonds has reached 4.989%, the highest level since 2002.

According to CoinDesk, Cboe is exploring the launch of perpetual futures linked to the VIX index, which is still in the early stages, with no contract specifications yet and no filing documents submitted. This news comes from Bloomberg.The VIX index measures the expected volatility over the next 30 days as reflected by the pricing of S&P 500 options. As investors buy options to hedge against sharp market declines, the demand for options during downturns surges, thereby raising the index, which is why it is regarded as Wall Street's "fear gauge." Perpetual futures were first proposed by economist Robert Shiller in 1993 and were subsequently commercialized by the cryptocurrency industry.A mature derivatives ecosystem has already formed around the VIX, covering futures, options, and exchange-traded products tracking the index. However, futures come with expiration dates, and when contracts terminate, traders must roll over their positions or shift their bets to the next available contract. This rolling operation is costly and erodes returns, which was a major criticism faced by Bitcoin futures ETFs when they debuted at the end of 2021.In contrast, perpetual swaps never settle and instead anchor contract prices to the spot index through a funding rate mechanism, theoretically providing investors with the closest investment channel to the actual VIX spot price. Martin Lee, Head of Market Insights at DWF Labs, told CoinDesk that traders do not need to worry about expiration and value decay, as they can focus solely on assessing the direction of the underlying asset. He expects a strong trend of "perpetualization" to emerge in the coming months.

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.