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Michael Saylor posted on the X platform stating that under the assumptions of a 10% annual return on Bitcoin, a 40% volatility of Bitcoin, and a Bitcoin price of $81,200, the duration of the dollar is 3.8 years, and the Bitcoin credit spread of STRC is 53 basis points.

SparkLabs Group, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Qazaqstan Investment Corporation (QIC) from the National Fund of Kazakhstan, and IT Park Ventures from Uzbekistan have signed a term sheet to establish the SparkLabs Mirae Silk Road Fund I LP venture capital fund, managed by Mirae Asset Venture Investment and SparkLabs Group. The signing ceremony took place in Seoul during the state visit of the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to South Korea and the first Central Asia-Korea Summit.QIC and IT Park Ventures are both anchor investors. The new fund will invest in Series A and later-stage startups in the Central Asia region with validated business models that are ready to expand beyond the region, focusing on AI-native companies, although not limited to this industry. Portfolio companies will receive support from SparkLabs and Mirae Asset's global network, as well as assistance in expanding to South Korea, the United States, and the Middle East.

On September 18, Solana reduced the target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, marking the third acceleration since August. As the computation and data capacity per slot is proportionally reduced, the overall throughput of the network has not increased.This adjustment is the third phase of the SIMD-0525 four-phase plan, with slot time decreasing from 400 milliseconds at genesis to 350 milliseconds, then 300 milliseconds, and now to 250 milliseconds. The final step down to 200 milliseconds has not yet determined a mainnet activation date, provided that the validator block skipping rate remains stable.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, Huang Licheng reduced his long positions in ETH and BTC while increasing his long position in HYPE, bringing the total position down to 95.16 million USD. The current positions are as follows:ETH long position approximately 67.75 million USD, with an unrealized profit of approximately 1.81 million USD, opening price 2,526.46 USD;BTC long position approximately 15.02 million USD, with an unrealized loss of approximately 30,000 USD, opening price 80,923.4 USD;HYPE long position approximately 12.44 million USD, with an unrealized loss of approximately 160,000 USD, opening price 92.64 USD.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that the Bitcoin reserves held by known over-the-counter (OTC) platform addresses have dropped to a historical low, currently around 123,000 BTC, down from nearly 500,000 BTC in September 2021.The continuous decline in OTC reserves may have several reasons, including investors' preference for holding BTC long-term, a more decentralized structure of Bitcoin holdings, and participants like miners no longer primarily selling BTC through OTC channels. Additionally, some holders may prefer to sell directly on the open market. Regardless of the specific reasons, the significant reduction in OTC reserves means that there is increasingly less BTC available for sale outside the open market. If buyer demand shifts more towards purchasing directly from the open market, it may provide support for BTC prices.

According to Decrypt, Solana will shorten the target block time slot from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing the block generation frequency by nearly 17%. The computational resources and data available for each time slot will be correspondingly reduced, while the overall transaction processing capacity of the network remains unchanged.This adjustment is the third phase in the four planned stages of the SIMD-0525 proposal. The block production permission window for validators over four consecutive time slots has been reduced from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the expected duration of the epoch fixed at 432,000 time slots has been shortened from about 36 hours to about 30 hours. The next phase aims to further shorten the time slot to 200 milliseconds, but the mainnet launch time has not yet been determined, with the implementation condition being that the block skip rate remains stable.

Visa has informed participants in the payment industry that the "digital goods media" merchant category code used by Crossmint for processing Meme coin transactions is not applicable for Meme coin purchases. Visa has notified payment processors, including Checkout.com, to stop using this category code and has provided a transition period for relevant institutions, which is expected to end next week.Previously, Robinhood Wallet and Fomo users could purchase Meme coins using Visa and Mastercard credit cards through Apple Pay or Google Pay, with the transactions processed by Crossmint, but categorized as digital media transactions such as e-books and movies, thereby bypassing cryptocurrency transaction classification and earning regular credit card points or cash back.JPMorgan Chase had previously raised concerns with Visa regarding the classification of these transactions, and Visa subsequently determined that at least one transaction was misclassified and should not have received credit card rewards. In the future, purchases of Meme coins will need to be processed as cryptocurrency transactions and will be subject to Visa's corresponding rules and restrictions.

According to market news, the new address 0xa3b...38587 first established a position of 9.05 million USD in UNI (1 million tokens) five hours ago, with a proposed price of 9.05 USD.Affected by the Robinhood Meme market and the SEC's new regulations on compliant trading of US stocks on-chain, UNI has surged 145% in the past month.

Liquid Capital founder Jack Yi posted on the X platform, stating that once again, in line with expectations, after the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike, Bitcoin briefly dropped below $76,000 but continued to rise after fluctuations. He repeatedly reminded that during a bull market trend, one should not short, and various factors will influence the process; one must not easily exit until the end of the bull market.Next, in line with the bull market, asset explosions, especially trading infrastructure and on-chain finance, are essential. During this cycle, try not to chase narrative projects and follower projects.

On Friday, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates by 25 basis points as the market expected. After the announcement of the rate hike decision, the Japanese yen weakened against the US dollar and Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin, priced in US dollars, remained basically stable.

Market news reports that SpaceX is in discussions to purchase data for artificial intelligence models from a failed startup.

CoinDesk reported that Goldman Sachs predicts the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points in October, citing the central bank's own recent hawkish rate forecasts.

Former client manager Lin Junxian of China Construction Bank (Asia) Co., Ltd. admitted to conspiring with an employee of a fintech company and his accomplices to accept bribes, totaling over 470,000 US dollars in cryptocurrency "Tether," to illegally certify multiple false documents without bank authorization, serving as collateral for several insurance-related investment transactions.An internal investigation by China Construction Bank (Asia) uncovered the incident, which subsequently led to a corruption complaint to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and provided full assistance. Judge Lin Jin Hong postponed the sentencing of the case to September 18, during which the defendant remains in custody under the supervision of the Correctional Services Department.

According to CME's "FedWatch," after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected in September, the probability of maintaining the interest rate at 3.75%-4.00% in the October meeting is 59.5%, the probability of a 25 basis point increase is 40.1%, and the probability of a 50 basis point increase is 0.5%.The probability of the Federal Reserve maintaining the interest rate at 3.75%-4.00% until December is 16.7%, the probability of a cumulative increase of 25 basis points is 54.0%, the probability of a cumulative increase of 50 basis points is 28.9%, and the probability of a cumulative increase of 75 basis points is 0.3%.

The Federal Reserve's FOMC unanimously decided to raise interest rates by 25 basis points, adjusting the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75% - 4%, marking the first rate hike since July 2023. The latest dot plot shows that 16 officials expect at least one more rate hike by 2026, with the median rate expectations for 2027 and 2026 both at 4.1%.Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that recent data shows the U.S. economy is performing strongly, and the labor market remains resilient, but inflation is too high and has persisted for too long. The FOMC is currently not confident that inflation is moving toward the 2% target. He mentioned that the main issue for the current economy is not growth, but inflation. Waller also noted that the rise in U.S. Treasury yields is primarily driven by a strong U.S. economy, increased capital competition, and geopolitical factors.From the announcement of the decision to Waller's press conference, spot gold briefly fell by about $100, the U.S. dollar index rose by about 40 points and broke through the 100 mark, the 2-year U.S. Treasury yield rose by about 10 basis points, and the 10-year yield rose by about 5 basis points, with U.S. stocks turning lower across the board. Interest rate futures are currently pricing in an additional rate hike of about 33 basis points this year and expect a cumulative increase of about 75 basis points by June next year.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event of the "Federal Reserve's October Decision" on the Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "25 Basis Points Increase" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 30.5% an hour ago to the current 48% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to CoinDesk, the on-chain financial platform Theo announced the launch of a yield-bearing tokenized silver product thSLVR, supported by over $40 million in active leases, expanding its commodity financing business from gold to silver. This token allows holders to maintain exposure to silver prices while passing on the lease income paid by institutional borrowers to the holders.Theo stated that the silver supporting thSLVR will be leased to mature institutional counterparties under standard market terms, with credit exposure guaranteed by the parent company. The product is launched in a beta version, initially targeting institutions and whitelist investors, with plans to expand access later. Silver has experienced significant volatility this year, reaching a historical high of $121.79 per ounce in January, followed by a 41% drop over three days, and falling to a low of $54.74 in July, recently hovering around the mid-$60 range.Theo was founded by former traders from Optiver and IMC and has previously offered yield-bearing tokenized gold and U.S. Treasury products. The silver leasing will also expand the underlying assets of its yield-bearing stablecoin thUSD. According to RWA.xyz data, the market size for tokenized commodities is approximately $4.9 billion, covering 130 products. The London 1-month silver lease rate briefly rose to about 39% in October 2025, while the historical norm is below 1%; the market expects a supply gap in silver for the sixth consecutive year in 2026, with a gap of approximately 46.3 million ounces.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has become the richest person in Asia for the first time with a net worth of over $105 billion, surpassing Indian billionaire Gautam Adani.At 43 years old, Zhang Yiming's wealth has increased eightfold from $13 billion when Bloomberg began tracking in March 2019. He previously faced a regulatory battle that nearly led to TikTok being banned in the United States.