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CME Group Inc. decided to suspend its plan to launch a 24/7 crude oil futures contract after facing industry opposition.Market participants are concerned that insufficient liquidity over the weekend could distort WTI crude pricing, and continuous trading would increase pressure on weekend staffing, commercial hedging, and margin calls during non-business hours.CEO Terry Duffy stated in a statement on Friday that after extensive communication, it was found that core market participants generally have concerns, believing that hastily introducing around-the-clock energy trading without conducting sufficient due diligence could lead to unforeseen consequences and bring additional risks to the market.

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.

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.

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.

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 the official announcement, Gate has launched the POD perpetual contract (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage, and has simultaneously launched the POD trading bot and Order Tracking feature.POD (Dolphin) is a decentralized AI Inference / DePIN network, where users can utilize idle GPUs to provide inference computing power for Dolphin and other Open-weight AI Models.

Linea's official statement indicates that some validators supporting the Yield Boost treasury are withdrawing as a precaution due to the MetaMask staking incident. Linea emphasizes that the funds and control of the staking treasury itself have not been affected.The impact of this incident is that during the period when relevant validators withdraw and are replaced by new validators, the net staking rewards that provide funding sources for ecosystem incentives will temporarily decrease. Linea stated that it is closely monitoring the situation's progress.

The Bank of Montreal has lowered the target price for SpaceX (SPCX.O) from $280 to $250.

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.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has increased by 5.9% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 56.226 billion USD. Among them, the open interest for Binance is 11.788 billion USD, OKX is 3.189 billion USD, Bybit is 5.833 billion USD, and Gate is 4.713 billion USD.

Volmex has launched the Bitcoin Implied Volatility Index (BVIV) perpetual contract on Hyperliquid. This contract is based on options data from Deribit and OKX, reflecting traders' expectations of Bitcoin's volatility over the next 30 days, without reflecting the direction of the spot price.Recently, the BVIV readings have been in the mid-high range of over 30 points. Each index point of the contract corresponds to a settlement of 1 USDC, using a per-position margin model, supporting a maximum leverage of 5 times, and has an hourly funding rate and a cap on the number of open contracts during the initial launch phase.

HIVE Digital Technologies Executive Chairman Frank Holmes stated in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine that governments around the world will continue to print money, potentially reaching 100 trillion dollars, which makes him optimistic about Bitcoin and gold. He pointed out that Bitcoin miners already possess the electricity, land, and substations required for AI, and referred to Bitcoin mining as a "tier one data center."Holmes introduced that HIVE had previously used GPUs for mining Ethereum to enter the AI field, and he believes the next wave of AI factories will be built on mining infrastructure from Paraguay to Canada. He also discussed how ETFs can transform Bitcoin from "fear trading" to "love trading," as well as how players and the younger quantitative trading community are driving Bitcoin adoption.Additionally, he mentioned Binance's 19 billion dollar liquidation and 350 trillion dollars in money supply, 40 trillion dollars printed during the COVID-19 pandemic, global MMT risks, Bitcoin mining in China with 1.4 trillion dollars in loans, central banks purchasing gold, the Central Bank of Paraguay and Bitcoin mining exports, and computing power as a commodity, along with Canada's AI advancements and the electricity advantages of Bitcoin miners.

According to Fortune, Turing Award winner and founder of AMI Labs, Yann LeCun, stated in an interview that he believes recent incidents of AI agents going out of control are mainly due to insufficient human supervision and sandbox design, which can be prevented through engineering improvements.He also revealed that AMI Labs currently has about 60 employees and is developing world models for industrial applications based on the JEPA architecture, with the first product set to be launched "soon."

According to Law360, the cryptocurrency asset theft case involving Uranium Finance has begun trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.Prosecutors allege that Maryland cybersecurity consultant Jonathan Spalletta exploited a vulnerability in the protocol's smart contract to launch an attack in 2021, during which approximately $53.3 million was transferred from 26 liquidity pools in a second attack, leading to the protocol ceasing operations. The statements related to this are allegations by the prosecution and not a conclusion of guilt.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched U-based CT perpetual contracts, supporting up to 20x leverage, and the contract trading Bot will be opened simultaneously.

According to the official announcement, the Binance Futures platform will launch the CTUSDT perpetual contract on October 1 at 15:45, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times.Users can trade using a multi-asset mode, supporting BTC as collateral.

According to official news, the 149th Gate contract points airdrop will start on October 2 at 18:00 (UTC+8) and will last until 23:59 (UTC+8) on the same day.This period sets up two points redemption prize pools, both adopting a first-come, first-served mechanism. Among them, users with a contract points balance of 120--90 points (decreasing) can consume 15 Gate contract points to redeem 0.016 QQQG; users with a contract points balance of 40 points can consume 20 Gate contract points to redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher.

Binance contracts will automatically settle PROMPTUSDT, PUMPBTCUSDT, and 1000000BOBUSDT U-based perpetual contracts on October 5 at 16:30, and the trading pairs for the above contracts will be delisted thereafter.Users need to close their positions by 17:00 to avoid automatic settlement.

Base has completed the Cobalt upgrade, adding conditional trading and issuer control tools for tokenized assets. This upgrade expands the B20 token standard, allowing issuers to set multiple compliance checks for the same asset, including identity verification, accredited investor status, and sanctions list screening.Issuers can pre-set adjustments for corporate actions such as stock splits, updating the number of shares displayed in wallets and applications without issuing new tokens, burning tokens, or changing the underlying balance. Issuers can also authorize administrators to transfer tokens without the approval of holders and attach public explanations; Base cannot initiate such transfers.Cobalt introduces Validity Transactions, allowing users to set on-chain conditions before submitting transactions, for example, allowing exchanges only if the asset reaches a target price before a specified block deadline. Such transactions can remain private before being included in a block. Base enabled B20 as the native standard for stablecoins and homogenized tokens representing tokenized real-world assets on July 8; Coinbase issued B20 tokens representing stocks of Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet on Base on August 25.

DogeOS, the application layer of Dogecoin, launched its public testnet on Wednesday, introducing EVM-compatible smart contracts to the Dogecoin network as a zero-knowledge rollup, with DOGE as the native token for transaction fees. The project aims to support applications such as trading, lending, stablecoins, prediction markets, and gaming, while settling state back to the Dogecoin network.DogeOS currently uses a trusted execution environment, validators, and a permissioned sequencer to ensure network security. Future proposed upgrades to Dogecoin Core will allow Dogecoin miners to directly verify their execution proofs. DogeOS CEO Jordan Jefferson stated that Dogecoin does not currently verify ZK proofs on its own, and bridging state transitions requires valid proofs as well as signatures from a majority of validators and TEE signers. He mentioned that the team is currently focused on the public testnet, allowing developers time to build and test applications, with the mainnet timeline to be announced upon reaching the next development milestone.DogeOS comes from the MyDoge wallet team, which announced a $6.9 million funding round led by Polychain Capital in May 2025. Two months later, the DogeOS team submitted a proposal for a Dogecoin Core upgrade to add native ZK proof verification for Dogecoin, but this upgrade has not yet been implemented. Timothy Stebbing, a director of the Dogecoin Foundation, expressed hope that DogeOS will serve as a springboard for a new wave of practical engineering.