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According to CoinDesk, Solana plans to implement the Alpenglow upgrade on October 21. This upgrade aims to reduce the transaction finality time to about 150 milliseconds and replace the existing voting system of the network with a faster certificate-based consensus mechanism.

According to official news, the PancakeSwap core team (The Kitchen) has released a tokenomics proposal titled "The Flip." This proposal suggests increasing the trading fee sharing ratio for PancakeSwap v3 and Infinity liquidity providers (LP) to 88% across all 11 supported chains, with the remaining 12% allocated as protocol fees to the treasury, while v2 remains unchanged.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, early investors of HYPE, with a holding cost of only $3.87, have been continuously selling in batches. About 2 hours ago, this address recharged 100,276 HYPE (approximately $8.17 million) to Kraken.Since September 28, this address has transferred a total of 261,926.4 HYPE to the exchange, with a total value of $22.49 million, and an average recharge price of $85.87 (selling range from $93 to $81), expecting a profit of $21.48 million, with a return on investment exceeding 2119%.

According to The Defiant, the Solana development team Anza has scheduled the migration of Alpenglow's mainnet Beta for approximately 10:50 AM Eastern Time on October 21 (Wednesday), at which point the new consensus system will replace TowerBFT, aiming to reduce the final confirmation time for transactions to about 150 milliseconds. The Solana Foundation's upgrade guide indicates that the final confirmation time under TowerBFT is about 12.8 seconds. Final confirmation refers to the point in time when a transaction can no longer be rolled back, rather than the block interval.Alpenglow's Votor voting protocol no longer submits votes as on-chain transactions; instead, messages are sent directly between validators and aggregated into certificates, allowing blocks to be finally confirmed after one to two rounds of voting. The removal of voting transactions from blocks also frees up block space for users, while the execution and fees for user transactions remain unchanged. This upgrade had previously completed the migration of the testnet and development network in September, and the mainnet functionality switch has not yet been activated. According to Anza's activation policy, the new version of the software must be adopted by 95% of the staked amount for two epochs before it can be activated on the mainnet.The migration plan separates the activation of the functionality switch from the handover itself: the functionality switch is activated at the epoch boundary, and after 5,000 slots, blocks will pause carrying user transactions and will only contain votes. Validators will then establish the Alpenglow genesis certificate supported by 82% of the staked amount, roll back blocks containing only votes, and then restore user transactions with Votor. Anza expects the handover to take several hundred milliseconds.

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor stated that in light of recent supply chain security incidents, it has decided to reduce the number of distributors to more effectively review partners.Currently, there is no evidence that Trezor devices have been compromised. This adjustment is a precautionary measure taken out of caution.

The Falcon 9 rocket for SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply mission of the "Dragon" spacecraft has been vertically erected at Launch Complex 40 in Florida, with a planned launch on the 13th at local time, targeting a launch time of 6:33 AM Eastern Time (18:33 Beijing Time on the same day).

According to official news from Aptos, the Aptos mainnet has officially launched the Encrypted Mempool feature. Users can choose to encrypt pending transactions before block finalization, keeping the transaction call functions and input content encrypted before execution, while the sender's address and fee information remain visible to the outside.This feature is mainly aimed at institutions (to avoid exposing intentions of large orders in advance), traders (to reduce MEV arbitrage risks), and AI entities (to ensure transaction inputs remain private before execution).

On-chain analyst Murphy posted on platform X that long-term holders (LTH) of Bitcoin have cumulatively transferred approximately 32,000 BTC to exchanges, marking the second-largest single-day inflow since the significant drop on February 5 of this year. However, during the same period, U.S. government-related wallets transferred about 17,200 BTC to Coinbase Prime. Considering that this platform serves as the official custodian and trading service for the U.S. Marshals Service, these transfers do not necessarily indicate selling.Excluding this portion, the noteworthy potential selling pressure is approximately 14,800 BTC, primarily coming from long-term holdings aged 6 to 12 months and 3 to 5 years. Murphy pointed out that the average coin age of spent long-term holder coins reached 712 days, up from 651 days on July 14, indicating that earlier holdings are gradually participating in turnover. He believes that the distribution by long-term holders during the transition phase between bull and bear markets is not necessarily bearish; the release of periodic selling pressure can help in the redistribution of holdings, with the key being whether market demand can effectively absorb it. If new funds can digest the supply, sufficient turnover may actually reduce resistance for subsequent market movements.

The six-year vesting period for Filecoin is about to end, at which point approximately 68 million FIL tokens will be removed from annual releases. Based on the current mining rate, the annualized increase from vesting and block rewards will drop from about 89 million FIL to 21 million.After the vesting period ends, rewards for storage providers will continue to be distributed. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network, and FIL is its native token used to incentivize storage and retrieval services within the network.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, POAP founder @worthalter transferred 4,000 ETH to the exchange Gemini 6 hours ago, worth 10.02 million dollars.He has reduced his holdings by 8,000 ETH in 6 days, with an average price of 2,601 dollars, and currently still holds 51,468 ETH, worth 12.9 million dollars.

SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch the fourth batch of the first generation missions for the Space Development Agency on October 10, heading to low Earth orbit.

According to PRNewswire, the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark announced its unaudited operational data for September 2026, producing 529 Bitcoins that month, with an average daily output of 17.64 Bitcoins, bringing the total Bitcoin production for 2026 to 5,432 Bitcoins.As of September 30, CleanSpark's operational hash rate reached 50 EH/s, with an average operational hash rate of 36 EH/s.

According to Nikkei News, due to weak demand, Apple (AAPL.O) has reduced orders for the iPhone 18 Pro.

The blockchain network Solana plans to reduce the target block time from 250 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds when it enters Epoch 1053 on Friday, completing a series of reductions that began from 400 milliseconds in August.This upgrade will allow the network to produce 5 blocks per second while lowering the computational limit for each block to keep the overall processing capacity roughly unchanged. Faster block generation may reduce transaction delays and transaction arbitrage activities, but it will also increase the demand for validator voting, put pressure on network connections, and shorten the transaction validity window.

According to the information released by the SEC, Robinhood (HOOD) CEO Vladimir Tenev sold 375,000 shares of the company's stock on October 5 at an average price of $113.72 per share, for a total value of approximately $42.6435 million. After the transaction, his direct holdings decreased to 6,907 shares. On the same day, General Counsel Daniel Martin Jr sold 10,000 shares of the company's stock at an average price of $113.71 per share, for a total value of approximately $1.1371 million. After the transaction, his direct holdings decreased to 499,943 shares.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Majic has once again reduced its position by 10,000 ETH, with total losses from single coin trading reaching 4.107 million USD. The current substantial loss (i.e., the stop-loss portion) is 1.812 million USD, and the remaining long position of 14,500 ETH has an unrealized loss of 2.336 million USD. The latest liquidation price is 2,442.16 USD, leaving only 26.14 USD of space.

According to ai_9684xtpa monitoring, a certain smart money has accumulated a deposit of 131,421 HYPE to Kraken since September 28, with a deposit price of 89.56 USD. If sold, it would yield a profit of 11.26 million USD, with a cost as low as 3.87 USD.

IT Home cited a report from Money Today on October 8, stating that Samsung Electronics' Mobile Experience (MX) division plans to cut smartphone production, with a maximum reduction of 30% in the fourth quarter of 2026. Several IT industry insiders have indicated that Samsung's MX division has notified multiple partners to reduce product supply by 20% to 30%. IT Home noted that the original text did not specify whether this 30% is compared to the previous quarter, year-on-year, or against earlier expected production.In terms of production, Samsung Electronics originally planned to rely on new products like the Galaxy Z Fold8 to produce up to 270 million smartphones for the year. After the significant reduction in the fourth quarter, the final annual production is expected to drop to just over 200 million units, exceeding market expectations. IDC data shows that smartphone shipments in the first and second quarters of this year were 62.4 million and 62.7 million units, respectively, with previous forecasts predicting shipments of 59 million and 52 million units for the third and fourth quarters, indicating a decline of about 12% in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter.Money Today reported that the rise in memory prices is the core driving factor behind the production cuts. TrendForce data shows that the price of 12GB low-power DRAM (LPDDR5X) for smartphones was $145 to $146 in the second quarter of this year, an increase of 175% compared to the same period last year. The report also stated that demand for artificial intelligence has driven up memory prices, with smartphone DRAM prices expected to rise by about 20% in the third quarter, reaching as high as $180. IT industry insiders stated that Samsung's current smartphone sales are no longer profitable, and the production cuts are a strategy to maintain overall profitability.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, claiming it to be the company's cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model to date. This model is designed for high-volume tasks such as document summarization and database queries, as well as speed-sensitive scenarios like real-time customer service and browser automation. When developers integrate it into their own products, prompts of up to 100,000 tokens are charged at $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens, consistent with the pricing of OpenAI's competing small model GPT-6 Luna released on September 22.The corresponding prices for Haiku 4.5 are $1 and $5, with the new prices being 90% lower, and prompts exceeding 100,000 tokens receiving a 50% discount. Since about 90% of requests for the old model fall below this threshold, and Haiku 5.5 has a slightly higher token count, Anthropic estimates an average savings of about 75%. Benchmark tests show that Haiku 5.5 achieved a success rate of 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1, higher than GPT Luna's 48.9%; on Terminal-Bench 4, it scored 39.2%, surpassing Luna's 16.4% and Haiku 4.5's 0%, but lower than Sonnet 5.5's 70.6%.This is the first Haiku model with adjustable effort settings, allowing users to balance cost and answer quality.

The Federal Reserve's meeting minutes show that officials stated there has not been sufficient progress in reducing inflation over the past few months.