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During the IMF meeting in Bangkok, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh stated that he would not predict the outcomes of the remaining two interest rate meetings this year and was unwilling to disclose potential actions in advance. He said, "This is a new chapter for the Federal Reserve; we no longer do this." Regarding the recent signals from colleagues indicating "no urgency to raise interest rates this month," he neither explicitly supported nor refuted them. Walsh reiterated that the Federal Reserve will achieve price stability and noted that the global economy has largely aligned with central bank expectations since the interest rate hike in September, while describing the recent actions of various central banks as a synchronized tightening of monetary policy in most regions of the world.In September, the Federal Reserve unanimously raised interest rates by 25 basis points, increasing the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75% to 4%. At that time, most officials expected at least one more rate hike this year. Despite the core CPI rising by 0.33% month-on-month in September, marking a strong increase for the second consecutive month, and the latest producer price data also being robust, Walsh hardly mentioned this week's inflation report and did not significantly attempt to change market expectations for the October meeting. Reports indicated that during his speech, the dollar weakened, and market bets on an interest rate hike in October dropped from about 30% to around 17%.Additionally, Walsh believes that the U.S. is experiencing significant investment growth and holds an optimistic view on economic resilience and the productivity boost brought by AI, but he warned that the development path will be "very bumpy," and the short-term impact of AI on employment remains unclear. DBS Bank macro strategist Wei Liang Chang stated that Walsh reiterated that artificial intelligence will improve productivity in the medium term, which may help ease inflation expectations and alleviate concerns about the Federal Reserve's consecutive rate hikes. Saxo Markets Chief Investment Strategist Charu Chanana noted that Walsh's refusal to commit to another rate hike led to some bets on Federal Reserve rate hikes falling flat, and related comments did not help the dollar following the release of strong inflation data.

According to official news, NeoSoul expressed understanding of the difficulties in starting a business in the cryptocurrency industry and expressed support for the StandX team and community.NeoSoul will establish a special DNA airdrop quota to reward community contributors who have long participated in the construction of StandX. The specific eligibility rules and claim entry will be announced after the DNA TGE. At the same time, NeoSoul expressed willingness to communicate with the StandX team to jointly explore community support plans.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones up 0.46%, the S&P 500 down 0.4%, and the Nasdaq down 1.29%. The chip sector opened lower for four consecutive days this week, with SK Hynix (SKHY.O) and SanDisk (SNDK.O) dropping 6%, Micron Technology (MU.O) down 3.9%, Western Digital (WDC.O) down over 5%, and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) down over 3%.

U.S. Treasury yields collectively declined, with long-term yields leading the drop. Market data shows that the yield on the U.S. 20-year Treasury bond is 5.434%, down 14.6 basis points for the day; the 30-year Treasury bond yield is 5.385%, down 14.1 basis points for the day; the 10-year Treasury bond yield is 5.054%, down 13.6 basis points for the day. The U.S. 7-year Treasury bond yield fell 13.5 basis points for the day, and the 5-year Treasury bond yield dropped 11.5 basis points.

The perpetual contract platform StandX announced a one-time DUSD airdrop to the community, where users can claim the full amount with no lock-up. The distribution criteria include pre-deposits, Alpha, mainnet trading, market making, and referral activities. All amounts must pass anti-whale and volume manipulation checks, and amounts for abnormal accounts may be adjusted or canceled. StandX also stated that it has decided not to issue tokens, and the airdrop funds come from the project's remaining income and additional contributions from the team.StandX stated that after the mainnet goes live in November 2025, it has served over 237,000 users, with a peak TVL exceeding $200 million, and no security incidents have occurred during its operation. Airdrop inquiries will open on October 26 at 00:00 (UTC), with the claiming period from November 1 at 00:00 to December 31 at 08:00 (UTC). Claims not made within this period will be considered forfeited. Users must use the BNB Chain or Solana wallet address used on StandX to claim.StandX also announced that it will gradually cease operations after assessing business and market conditions. From October 15, all types of earnings will stop, and new deposits to the treasury will be closed. From October 20, perpetual contracts will enter a mode of only reducing positions. All remaining positions will be liquidated at the marked price on January 15, 2027, and January 31, 2027, will be the deadline for DUSD redemption and asset withdrawal. The official reminder is to claim the airdrop only through standx.com.

According to Gate Market, Hong Kong stock large model stocks fell, Zhipu (02513.HK) and MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) both dropped over 10%.

According to Gate Market, Bitcoin rapidly dropped in the last hour, briefly falling to 80,230 USD, and then rebounded.As a result, in the last hour, the total liquidation across the network reached 484 million USD, with long positions accounting for 464 million USD. Among them, there were 3 individual long positions liquidated, each exceeding 10 million USD, all occurring on Binance.

Bitget PoolX will launch a new ETH locking event, where users can lock ETH to share a 150,000 USDT airdrop. The event runs from October 15 at 15:00 to October 20 at 15:00 (UTC+8), with a personal locking limit of 1,500 ETH.This PoolX session supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide an additional 1x bonus on the effective locked amount based on the user's minimum holding of ETH in the past 15 days.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, "Brother Magi" Huang Licheng has been completely liquidated. Over the past 4 months, he turned $56,000 into $12.25 million through trading, but has now fallen back to $21,800.

According to Gate market data, the South Korean KOSPI index fell by 7%. SK Hynix dropped by 10%, and Samsung Electronics fell by nearly 8%.

According to a report by Daum, while global exchanges are expanding into perpetual contracts, options, and traditional stocks, South Korean local exchanges are still limited to spot trading due to regulatory restrictions. Data from CoinGecko shows that in the second quarter of 2026, the total spot trading volume of the five major Korean won exchanges—Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, DigitalX (formerly Korbit), and GOPAX—was approximately $14.67 billion, a decrease of 33.0% from $21.88 billion in the first quarter.Coinbase completed its integration with the derivatives exchange Deribit this month and plans to launch a unified platform covering spot, derivatives, and stocks; Binance is expanding into precious metals, stocks, and index-related perpetual contracts. Current regulations in South Korea prohibit local institutions from engaging in cryptocurrency derivatives business, and the upcoming virtual asset tax law only covers spot gains, with a lack of clear taxation mechanisms for overseas derivatives gains. The industry is concerned about the loss of competitiveness for local exchanges and tax inequities. South Korean financial regulatory authorities have yet to propose a specific timeline for the introduction of cryptocurrency derivatives trading.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bonk Guy (@theunipcs)'s portfolio value has dropped from a peak of 26 million dollars to 10.4 million dollars, shrinking by more than 15 million dollars.Meanwhile, PONS revenue has decreased from a peak of 11.42 million dollars to 103,600 dollars, with the token price falling by nearly 70%. Currently, Bonk Guy holds 10.9 million PONS, and the position value has decreased from a peak of about 10.3 million dollars to 3.47 million dollars.

According to a report by Vortexa, the U.S. maritime blockade has caused Iran's maritime crude oil exports to drop to zero since the second week of September, and they have not yet recovered as of October 5.Iran's liquefied petroleum gas exports decreased by 48% month-on-month, reaching the lowest level since 2023.Meanwhile, Russia's crude oil exports increased by 6% month-on-month in September to 3.79 million barrels per day, accounting for about 80% of the total high-risk crude oil exports from the three countries.

On-chain data company CryptoQuant researcher Rei Researcher pointed out in a report released on Monday that as the Bitcoin supply on exchanges continues to shrink, the price of Bitcoin may see an upward trend. The report shows that the Bitcoin held by exchanges has decreased from 2.8 million in February to 2.67 million. The recent price of Bitcoin is around $83,485, remaining stable over the past 24 hours but rising 8% over the past 30 days, following the best-performing quarter in years.The report states, "If buying demand continues to improve while exchange supply remains low, Bitcoin could benefit from a supply-demand imbalance, creating favorable conditions for a longer-term upward trend." The report adds, "More importantly, Bitcoin has rebounded from its lows in recent weeks, while exchange reserves continue to decline. This is a notable development, indicating that even as the market recovers, the supply available for trading is still decreasing." The report also notes that investors may be transferring Bitcoin out of exchanges and into cold wallets.In the first half of 2026, Bitcoin traded below $65,000 for most of the time. After reaching an all-time high of $126,080 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a bear market for most of this year. However, the situation changed in August when the U.S. Treasury doubled the scale of liquidity support repurchase operations, weakening the dollar while boosting non-yielding assets like Bitcoin. Analysts say that the so-called "devaluation trade" has heated up again, benefiting Bitcoin as it did in 2024 and 2025. Currently, the price of Bitcoin is still over 30% lower than its historical record.

According to the official announcement, the 154th Gate contract points airdrop will be open for collection from October 14, 18:00 to 23:59 (UTC+8). This period sets up two points redemption prize pools, with a limited number of 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 spend 15 Gate contract points to redeem 190 WLFI; Prize Pool Two requires a points balance of no less than 40 points, and spending 20 Gate contract points can redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher. Rewards are expected to be credited approximately 1 hour after successful collection.

Phoenix Technology cited a report from IDC seen by Reuters, stating that in the first half of 2026, NVIDIA's market share in China's data center AI chip market dropped to 34%. IDC data shows that from January to June this year, NVIDIA's AI accelerator shipments in the Chinese market were 678,000 units, a year-on-year decrease of 44%. The report attributed the change in market share to U.S. export control restrictions limiting product supply, as well as domestic competitors in China expanding their market share.Among the 11 Chinese chip manufacturers tracked by IDC, 9 experienced year-on-year growth in shipments. Huawei's AI accelerator shipments reached 572,000 units in the first half of the year, up from over 300,000 units in the same period last year, accounting for 28% of the overall market. Alibaba's chip design division, T-head, holds a market share of 7%, Cambricon has 5%, Baidu's Kunlun has 4%, and Haiguang Information has 3%.NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly criticized the U.S. government's export restrictions, stating that the policy forces NVIDIA to cede the $50 billion AI chip market in China to Huawei. IDC did not specify which products make up the 34% share, nor did it clarify whether it includes chips such as B200 and B300. As of the time of publication, NVIDIA had not responded to requests for comment.

On Tuesday, the global semiconductor sector faced a massive sell-off, with the decline intensifying. The trigger was Broadcom CEO Hock Tan stating that AI investments have a "casino-like" nature. He mentioned in Singapore on Monday that many investors do not even know what they are investing in and that investors have set extremely high expectations, only to find that it is just like being in a casino.The world's two largest memory chip manufacturers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, saw their stock prices plunge by 8.8% and 9.2% at one point during the morning session, dragging down South Korea's main stock index by 7%. The two companies account for about half of the weight in the Korea Composite Stock Price Index, and their stock prices have cumulatively dropped by about 15% over the past five days. The Taiwan Weighted Stock Index, dominated by chip stocks, fell by 2.5%, with TSMC down 2%; Micron Technology dropped nearly 4% overnight, and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index fell by 2.7%.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the meme coin BONER on the Robinhood Chain has dropped over 37% in 24 hours, currently reported at 26.2 million USD.According to on-chain transaction data, trader Him (@himgajria) sold approximately 286,700 USD worth of BONER today and currently still holds about 10.147 million BONER. The price of meme coins is highly volatile, please be aware of trading risks.

According to Gate quotes, the Hong Kong stock storage concept has declined, with Southern Double Long SK Hynix (07709.HK) dropping over 17%, and Southern Double Long Samsung Electronics (07747.HK) falling over 14%.

According to CoinDesk, data from Swiss Re shows that natural disasters caused $220 billion in economic losses last year, with insurance covering only $107 billion, while the rest was borne by households, businesses, and governments. Catastrophe bonds allow insurance companies to transfer the financial risks of hurricanes, wildfires, or earthquakes to capital market investors. According to an Artemis report, as of June this year, the outstanding size of the catastrophe bond market reached $65.6 billion, with new issuances in the second quarter amounting to $11.3 billion, setting a record high for a single quarter.Bermuda-based law firm Harneys, which focuses on global insurance business, plans to issue tokenized catastrophe bonds in early next year in collaboration with the tokenization platform dropRWA, with each token representing legal ownership of the catastrophe bonds. This scheme is built on the traditional market, where catastrophe bonds were primarily aimed at specialized funds and large institutions, with many products having a minimum investment amount of $250,000 or more. Both parties are considering structures that can accommodate smaller beneficiary interests, but they still need to comply with securities, insurance, and investor protection regulations.Henry Tucker from Harneys stated that the tokenized structure will not turn disaster coverage into arbitrary retail investments, and the funds will be entirely used to cover specific insurance risks. He pointed out that risks such as flooding and typhoon coverage in Southeast Asia are difficult to insure through traditional reinsurance companies, and specialized underwriters can use the tokenized structure to raise funds for single, specific risks. The World Bank arranged $200 million in hurricane coverage for Jamaica in May.