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Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng retweeted a post about "The New York Times reporter visiting his home in Abu Dhabi for an interview" and responded that reporter David admitted to having a skeptical attitude towards him, implying that the act of giving Binance merchandise for free was a "bribe." He stated that the merchandise was meant to make people "walking billboards," while still expressing gratitude for the report.The original tweet released by Ram stated, "There are Binance merchandise piled up at Zhao Changpeng's doorstep, and he insisted on letting the reporter choose a gift. The reporter said he could not accept items worth more than $20, to which Zhao Changpeng jokingly replied, 'It's probably worth $19.'"

According to a report by The New York Times, a knowledgeable source revealed that the Abu Dhabi investment group MGX agreed to invest $2 billion in Binance in early 2025, bringing Binance's valuation to $75 billion.MGX believes that Binance is the ideal bridge connecting cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence—a high-tech fund transfer service that may enable automated artificial intelligence "agents" to make payments on behalf of real users in the future.

According to GoPlus Security monitoring, a user lost approximately $305,000 DAI due to an "address poisoning" attack. The attacker generated fake addresses that matched the prefix and suffix of the victim's expected transfer address, sending small "dust" amounts to the victim to induce them to mistakenly copy the fake address from their transaction history during the transfer.GoPlus Security reminds users that such attacks have become fully automated, including target discovery, address forgery, and money laundering through mixers. Users should never copy addresses directly from their transaction history; they must verify the complete address and conduct a small test transfer before making large transactions.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale withdrew 3,283.56 ETH from OKX 4 hours ago, worth 8.85 million dollars, exceeding its last deposit of 1,099 ETH.This whale is suspected of selling ETH at 2,709 dollars in the past week, and then re-entering at 2,695 dollars.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet marked as associated with Andrew Tate transferred 20,950 HYPE to Binance on October 2, worth approximately 1.87 million USD.This wallet purchased 122,826.9 HYPE at an average price of 4.48 USD on November 29, 2024, investing about 550,000 USD; within two days, it sold 41,430 HYPE, with the majority of the remaining amount used for staking.Lookonchain estimates that the HYPE holdings of this address have accumulated profits of 7.24 million USD, with a return rate of 1317%. The address still holds 42,417 HYPE, valued at approximately 3.7 million USD based on the current price.

Bitget's head of the Chinese-speaking region, Xie Jiayin, posted on platform X stating that the latest reserve proof for 19 mainstream assets is 131%; the user protection fund has been replenished by Bitget's own funds to 3,705 BTC, currently valued at 316 million USD.

According to monitoring by Spot On Chain, a certain vault on the Base chain was attacked, with losses expanding to approximately 6 million dollars, involving about 1783 wstETH. The attacker added a new contract to the vault's whitelist, borrowed aBaswstETH from the vault, and transferred the related assets to a contract controlled by the attacker.

According to the market information platform Liquid24/7.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0xcd98da...c433 closed an ETH short position of 7,456.49 coins, with a nominal amount of approximately 20.1711 million USD and an average transaction price of about 2,705.17 USD.At the time of writing, ETH is quoted at 2,706.45 USD. This address currently holds an ETH short position of 3,155.41 coins, with a nominal amount of about 853.93 thousand USD, an opening average price of approximately 2,706.62 USD, and currently has an unrealized loss of about 1.2 thousand USD.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated that since the bullish position at $86,000, the market has repeatedly tempted buyers during the pullback, yet he insists on resting, not trying to earn speculative money, and not seizing every opportunity. Missing out is always better than making a mistake. He still holds the previous view that a pullback is expected here but not to short. If Bitcoin falls below $82,000, it may touch three support levels at $79,000, $75,000, and $71,000.There is also a possibility that Bitcoin ends the pullback with fluctuations instead. Regardless, Liquid Capital does not operate, neither going long nor short.

Bitget PoolX is about to launch a new ETH locking event, where users can lock ETH to share a 200,000 USDT airdrop, with a personal locking limit of 1,500 ETH. The locking period is from October 5th, 15:00 to October 9th, 15:00 (UTC+8).This PoolX event supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide a 1x additional bonus based on the user's minimum holding amount of the corresponding locked assets over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

According to on-chain data monitoring, wallets suspected to be related to the Ethena team have withdrawn a total of $68.26 million worth of ENA tokens from centralized exchanges (CEX), including approximately $13.1 million worth of ENA withdrawn from Bybit about 2 hours ago, and $55.16 million worth of ENA withdrawn from Coinbase.In addition, the Ethena project team released a series of transaction hashes on the X platform 8 hours ago, and the specific details have not yet been made public, sparking market speculation that significant information may be announced.

According to monitoring by the security company Blockaid, a certain vault on the Base chain is under attack. The attacker added a brand new contract to the vault's whitelist, then borrowed aBaswstETH from it and transferred it to the attacker's contract.The attack is still ongoing, and approximately 4 transactions have resulted in about 2.02 million dollars worth of assets being stolen.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX is a super-intelligent company, and they will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI.

GMGN data shows that the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem meme coin SI briefly surged past 50 million dollars, currently reported at 47.02 million dollars, with a 1-hour increase of 28.61%.Elon Musk just posted on the X platform: "No more AI, SI, It's better."Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and investors are advised to participate with caution.

According to Glassnode data, long-term holders of BTC have remained in profit throughout this cycle. This has never happened in previous bear markets since at least 2015.In each previous bear market, the long-term holder MVRV (LTH-MVRV) indicator would drop below 1 at the bottom of the cycle, causing this group to fall into a loss. However, this time, the indicator bottomed out above 1 and is currently rising again.

The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Iran has responded to the U.S. proposal. The U.S. proposal is similar to previous ones, focusing on nuclear issues, while Iran hopes to shift the focus to the Strait of Hormuz.

According to the market information platform Liquid24/7.xyz, the current price of BTC is approximately $85,140. The near-term sell orders on Binance are about $49.0816 million, and the buy orders are about $47.8814 million, with a net sell order surplus of about $1.2003 million; the spot buy orders on Binance are about $13.0787 million, and the sell orders are about $10.6611 million, with a net buy order surplus of about $2.4176 million; the spot buy orders on Coinbase are about $23.7652 million, and the sell orders are about $20.8471 million, with a net buy order surplus of about $2.9181 million.The perpetual sell orders on OKX are about $28.837 million, and the buy orders are about $13.9123 million, with a net sell order surplus of about $14.9247 million; the perpetual buy orders on Hyperliquid are only about $5.7107 million, and the sell orders are about $3.7363 million, with a net buy order surplus of about $1.9744 million. Overall, the perpetual sell orders on Binance are relatively heavier compared to the buy orders, while the buy orders on Hyperliquid are relatively thin. If a large market order occurs, the slippage on the Hyperliquid side may be greater.

According to Cointelegraph, the Russian Ministry of Finance stated on Friday that some employees have received their salaries for the first time in digital rubles. The payment of salaries in central bank digital currency is voluntary for Russian citizens and has been implemented since October 1 (Thursday). The ministry did not disclose the number of participants or the total amount of salary payments, nor did it specify the specific departments involved.According to the ministry's press release, approximately 16 million digital rubles (about $192,200) were disbursed in a pilot project for federal budget expenditures in 2025, and the Ministry of Finance has thus applied the verified channels to its own salary payment process. The integration of digital rubles into the budget process is being jointly promoted by the Central Bank of Russia and the Ministry of Finance.The development of digital rubles began in 2021. Cointelegraph reported on July 2 that Russia plans to launch this central bank digital currency on September 1, with major banks and retail businesses starting to support related transactions at that time. This currency is being introduced as a supplement to the fiat ruble, initially processed by financial and credit institutions. EU authorities announced restrictions on this currency in April.

According to the official announcement, the 150th Gate contract points airdrop will be open for collection from October 5th, 18:00 to 23:59 (UTC+8). This period has set up two points redemption prize pools, with limited rewards available on a first-come, first-served basis.Prize Pool One requires a Gate contract points balance of 120--90 points (decreasing). Users can consume 15 Gate contract points to redeem 0.016 QQQG; Prize Pool Two requires a points balance of no less than 40 points, and consuming 20 Gate contract points can redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher. Rewards are expected to be credited approximately 1 hour after successful collection.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a certain address withdrew 1,420 ETH from OKX in the past 3 hours, worth 3.823 million dollars, with a withdrawal price of 2,692.47 dollars, and has since been deposited into Lido staking.