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EntropyLab has released the first candidate version of its self-contained Bitcoin key and wallet calculator v1.0rc1. The application runs as a single HTML file, requiring no internet connection and does not generate entropy on its own; users can provide their own entropy to calculate keys and wallets in a completely offline environment.The tool supports multi-signature, PSBT, BIP-85, Silent Payments, vanity addresses, watch-only wallet exports, and random number analysis. This version is reproducible and can be verified through the signatures of four independent signers; the team recommends that users download and verify the file before transferring it to an isolated network computer. The official version v1.0 will be released after the candidate version testing is completed.

The fitness and health application BRTFit's CEO Kevin Huang has released a new book titled "Exercise Covenant," subtitled "From Smart Wearable Devices to Open Health Protocols." The book discusses how technology can transform the willingness to exercise into sustained action, consisting of 25 chapters. The team discusses smart wearable devices, artificial intelligence, behavioral incentives, and Web3 in the book, and presents their vision for a healthier future.The same post also lists community activity arrangements. Daily faucets can receive 100 tBRT. The genesis airdrop is aimed at the first 10,000 eligible participants, with a total distribution of 1,000,000 BRT, weighted according to tBRT snapshots and valid referrals, each accounting for 50%.Participants holding at least 100 tBRT, submitting application reviews, and providing the required Binance Square participation proof can receive a feedback reward of 1 USDT. Users on Google Play must publish a BRTFit article on Binance Square and submit a screenshot via Discord for review. Feedback rewards are processed from Monday to Saturday, Beijing time, from 10:00 to 20:00, and are subject to activity rules and verification constraints. The official statement clarifies that tBRT is a test contribution token and does not guarantee a 1:1 correspondence with BRT. The application can be downloaded by searching for BRTFit on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

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%.

The seasonally adjusted non-farm payroll employment and unemployment rate, as well as the month-on-month and year-on-year average hourly earnings in the United States for September will be announced in ten minutes.

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.

As TOKEN2049 in Singapore approaches, Gate has released a promotional video for the event. In the video, Gate's founder and CEO Dr. Han shares his thoughts on continuous innovation and change, stating that the next one to two years will mark "a new starting point," and Gate will continue to advance its products, services, and market development.It is reported that Dr. Han will attend this TOKEN2049 in Singapore, delivering a keynote speech on the main stage and engaging in a fireside chat with four-time F1 World Champion Max Verstappen. During the event, Gate will set up a brand booth and exclusive lounge at the TOKEN2049 venue, providing participants with an opportunity to gain in-depth insights into Gate's products, business layout, and global ecological development.Additionally, Gate will host the Gate Gala awards dinner at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore on October 8, expecting nearly 300 global industry founders, institutional representatives, investors, content creators, and ecological partners to attend.Currently, Gate's global user base has surpassed 61 million, with the platform supporting over 5,300 cryptocurrencies and more than 12,800 stocks and ETFs, covering multiple areas including spot trading, contracts, stocks, wealth management, payments, and AI. As the business landscape continues to expand, Gate is building a global platform that encompasses diverse assets and financial services. During this TOKEN2049 trip to Singapore, Gate will focus on presenting the latest developments and future plans of the platform, opening the next phase with a more complete business map and broader global connections.

OpenAI released the resident Agent Dots at DevDay, but the domains dot.com and dots.com are currently not owned by OpenAI. Among them, dot.com currently belongs to xAI, and opening it will directly redirect to Grok Bot, while dots.com is also not owned by OpenAI.Public WHOIS shows that dot.com was transferred in July of this year, about two months before Dots was officially released. After the news broke, the community speculated that xAI acquired the domain in advance, but there is currently no evidence to prove that they knew beforehand that OpenAI would use this name.dots.com originally belonged to the American women's clothing chain Dots. When the company went bankrupt in 2014, the domain was sold for $335,000 to an undisclosed individual buyer, and the actual holder has not received public confirmation since then.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has released the 47th Proof of Reserves (PoR). The total reserve ratio reaches 131%, covering 19 types of assets. Among them, the reserve ratios for BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC are 142%, 110%, 107%, and 154%, respectively.Since December 2022, Bitget has been updating the Proof of Reserves monthly, and in September of this year, it expanded the coverage from 4 types of assets to 19, providing users with broader platform reserve visibility. Bitget's historical average reserve ratio has remained above 120%, exceeding the 100% coverage benchmark, fully covering insured user assets.

Phoenix Technology reported that on September 29, the DeepSeek Harness v0.2 preview version was officially released, providing installation packages for macOS and Windows desktop, and is now available on the DeepSeek official website. The new version comes pre-equipped with commonly used features for daily office work and development, and introduces a plugin installation and management page.This update optimizes file display, content preview, and code change display, improves the settings and management of automated tasks, and offers various ways to showcase work processes. Users can provide documents, spreadsheets, or PDFs for organizing materials, analyzing data, generating charts, or creating presentations, and can also modify projects and run code.The built-in automation task plugin can be activated as needed, supporting the scheduling of repetitive tasks and allowing users to view running records, adjust execution frequency, and task instructions. The plugin management page supports installing by entering the plugin package name, as well as disabling, uninstalling plugins, and viewing introductions and sources; in the experimental creative mode, users can describe their needs through dialogue, allowing it to write and modify plugins. The official statement indicates that the product is still in its early stages and will continue to improve the sandbox and security, agent teams, long-term memory, browser and other GUI software automation, remote and mobile usage, and explore session sharing and multi-user collaboration. According to the official model API user statistics, about 60% of users have used third-party plugins.

The privacy public chain Zano team stated that a hotfix has been deployed in response to the inflation vulnerability that occurred last Friday, and the network is currently running stably on the updated chain. The chain previously rolled back the block height to 3,833,000, erasing the confirmed transaction records from the past 30 days.The Zano team indicated that third-party wallets, exchanges, and payment service providers must first update their nodes to the updated chain in order to safely resume transfers of ZANO and Zano issued assets. Service providers will announce recovery progress through official channels, and the recovery process for affected users is being prepared. The native asset ZANO saw a price drop of 32% this week and a decline of 40.6% since 2026. The official Zano X account stated that users can update their iOS, Android, and desktop wallets, and the team will soon announce more details on the recovery process.

According to CoinDesk, Zcash developers are integrating part of the proposed scaling upgrade code, Tachyon, into the software already in use to prepare for a large number of privacy transactions in the future. This component is named Udon, originally developed as part of Project Tachyon.According to Sean Bowe, the head of Project Tachyon, Udon was released on Monday to Zakura Common, which is a cryptographic library shared by Zakura and other Zcash projects. Common is responsible for handling some of the heavy mathematical computations behind creating and verifying privacy transactions, with Zakura being jointly developed by Bowe's team and Dev Ojha's Valar Group.Zcash wallets need to prove the validity of a privacy payment without disclosing the payer, payee, or amount, and the computers running the network subsequently verify that proof. According to CoinDesk's report in August, previous improvements to Common have reduced the time to create a privacy transaction from over 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds in some tests.If privacy payments become more common, these computers will need to handle more data. Udon brings some of the computational requirements for the proposed scaling upgrade of Tachyon into Common, allowing developers to continue building on the already accelerated code. Udon has been released as software, but the upgrade has not yet been activated on Zcash.Bowe and Ojha's long-term goal is to exceed 50,000 payments per second. At this rate, they estimate that current cryptography will allow each Zcash node to receive over 500 MB of data per second.

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield returned to above 5.2% overnight, reaching a high not seen since 2007, putting pressure on global risk assets. Bitcoin has fallen back to around $83,000, with altcoins experiencing even larger declines. In this regard, Cloud, the chief analyst at Huobi HTX, believes that this drop is more akin to a normal pullback after a rebound and does not constitute the starting point of a trend reversal. The high U.S. Treasury yields mainly suppress valuations, with limited impact on the overall liquidity. The funding structure and holding costs of the crypto market itself have also not been disrupted. This round of decline seems more like a clearing of positions before key data is released.It is important to be cautious about the divergence between Bitcoin and altcoins. During a phase of marginal liquidity tightening, funds tend to concentrate on the most certain top assets; altcoins lack incremental funds to support them, and with heavier leverage, their pullbacks are therefore amplified. This divergence is likely to continue before the release of this week's PCE and non-farm data. If the data falls short of expectations, altcoins will have greater elasticity and thus higher risks; if the data exceeds expectations, Bitcoin's relative strength will be more pronounced. Whether Bitcoin can stabilize at key support levels will be the main signal to determine if this round of pullback has ended.Note: The content of this article does not constitute investment advice, nor does it constitute any offer, solicitation, or recommendation of investment products.

According to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, the Bitget BTC protection fund currently has 5,500 BTC, with 3,215.28 BTC having flowed out, valued at approximately 266 million USD, and there are still 2,284.71 BTC remaining on-chain. The most recent transfer from the Bitget hot wallet was 13 hours ago.

Manus officially launched version 2, which includes multiple updates in the underlying architecture, creative tools, and application layer.Upgrades to the underlying architecture and computing power: Equipped with the new generation self-developed Agent framework Cascade, tests show a 23.2% reduction in Token consumption, a 28.2% decrease in task duration, and a 32% reduction in costs; at the same time, the "cloud computer" was launched to provide a dedicated operating environment around the clock and supports automated workflows triggered by multiple software events.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 this Monday, as an upgraded version of Sonnet 5 launched in June this year. The official statement claims that this mid-range model operates over 30% faster than the previous generation, excelling in clearly defined daily tasks, fixing defects, and creating documents, slides, and spreadsheets, while also possessing sharp design capabilities. Its pricing remains at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, which is half of Opus 5.5, and the token consumption per task is nearly one-third less than Sonnet 5.In the Terminal-Bench 4 test, Sonnet 5.5 scored 70.6%, higher than Opus 5.5's 66.4%, and Sonnet 5's score was only 10.3%. Results from the independent testing organization Artificial Analysis also show its lead, recording 63.6% and 59.6%, while OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 59.1%. In the GDPval-AA assessment of real job performance across 44 occupational categories, Sonnet 5.5 received a score of 1844, which is roughly on par with Opus 5.5's score of 1846, while GPT-6 Sol scored 1487.

On Monday, the oracle network Chainlink released the cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP 2, making significant upgrades to its communication and cross-chain bridge infrastructure. The new version allows enterprises to add their own security verification checks on top of Chainlink's default network of 16 independent node operators. Enterprises can run their own validators or hire external service providers such as Infosys and Nethermind. Chainlink stated that users should not be forced to become "cross-chain security infrastructure experts."This upgrade comes about five months after the Kelp DAO was hacked in April of this year. The attackers are reportedly linked to the North Korean Lazarus group, stealing approximately $292 million in rsETH by deceiving the single validator relied upon by the Kelp cross-chain bridge, which operates on LayerZero. LayerZero blamed Kelp for using only a single validator, while Kelp stated that LayerZero employees had reviewed its setup and raised no objections. Kelp subsequently announced that it would migrate rsETH to Chainlink.The upgrade also adjusts the security mechanism that Chainlink had previously heavily promoted; its risk management network will no longer operate as an independent review node, with such independent checks now provided by optional validators. This means that users who have not added any validators currently rely on a single validation network, whereas previously they relied on two. Existing Chainlink users have been automatically migrated to the new version, but the company has not disclosed which institutions are using the new validators, only stating that Aave and Maple have begun adopting other features of the upgrade.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced today that the original novel "Snowmoon" has been completed, consisting of 32 chapters.The novel unfolds in a speculative science fiction setting, depicting a world that heavily relies on cryptography and decentralized governance. The story focuses on the ideological conflicts between societies such as Veridia and the Arctic Empire, involving elements like zero-knowledge proofs, second voting, privacy technologies, and content-oriented tax mechanisms, integrating themes of mechanism design and digital sovereignty that have long been of interest to Vitalik.The work is released under the GPL v3 license. Vitalik stated that adaptations into films, animations, and other derivative works are allowed, but requires the related production pipeline (including AI prompts, scripts, and other non-generic materials) to be open-sourced. He declared that all text was written by him, with AI assistance only used for spelling and grammar checks, consistency verification, and webpage formatting, and noted "Snowmoon was written with love."

Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin Strategy Company, has once again released information related to Bitcoin Tracker, with the caption "Even more orange."According to previous patterns, Strategy usually discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.