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According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the SOL ecosystem meme coin CLAUDIA briefly surpassed 9 million USD, now falling back to about 8 million USD, with a daily increase of over 580%. In terms of related narratives, CLAUDIA revolves around the AI character IP designed by AI creator Anabology, which has recently attracted the attention of a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen.Community opinions suggest that the core narrative of CLAUDIA lies in the AI character IP and its commercialization potential. The developers recently interacted with Elon Musk and plan to use transaction fees for AI movie production, with the possibility of launching related peripheral products in the future. Meme coin prices are highly volatile and easily influenced by market sentiment and hot events, so please be aware of trading risks.

Nasdaq-listed company AsiaStrategy (stock code: SORA) announced on October 1 that it has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the institutional asset open financial platform Plume to explore the establishment of a joint venture aimed at investors in Asia and other markets outside the United States, focusing on the structuring, issuance, and distribution of tokenized financial products.According to the memorandum, Plume will provide tokenized infrastructure, technical capabilities, and regulatory qualifications, including registrations and licenses in several jurisdictions; AsiaStrategy and the broader Sora Ventures network will provide project initiation, distribution, and capital market channels for the Asian market, covering Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates. The two parties plan to first advance products that combine mature asset classes with compliant on-chain distribution, with the product range, structure, and launch sequence still under discussion, and no products have yet been launched or offered to investors.Jason Fang, Chairman and Co-CEO of AsiaStrategy, stated that tokenization will become the default method for the issuance and holding of many financial assets, with Asia leading the way. The company is registered in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Hong Kong, with its business having expanded from luxury watch trading to Bitcoin vault management, digital asset collateralized lending, and related financing and tokenization initiatives. Plume's flagship protocol, Plume Vaults, opens assets from institutions such as Apollo, WisdomTree, and Hamilton Lane through compliant, non-custodial vaults, with investors including Apollo Global Management, Galaxy Digital, and Brevan Howard.

GMGN announces the launch of the global memecoin trading championship Season 1, featuring a 10-day live memecoin trading competition on GMGN, where 6 traders will be selected to participate in the finals in London. Registration for the competition is now open.The qualification rounds will take place from October 17 to 27 (UTC), and participants must use their own funds (up to $2000), create a Solana wallet and an EVM wallet to compete, with rankings based on realized profits and losses. A real-time leaderboard will be provided during the competition, and all trades will be recorded on-chain. Daily champions will receive a platinum GMGN nameplate, and the ultimate champion will win a limited edition Aston Martin Vantage. The organizers will cover the airfare, hotel, and visa costs for the London finals.

According to an announcement released on the White House website on Friday, U.S. President Trump announced the establishment of a special committee to investigate allegations against Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. According to the announcement dated October 7, Trump stated, "To assist me in fulfilling this duty, the committee will investigate the allegations against Board member Cook and report to me whether there is 'just cause' for her removal." This investigation will focus on assessing whether Cook meets the criteria for removal under the law, and it does not currently imply that she has been removed.

On-chain data analyst obchakevich_ stated that after analyzing the meme coin holdings on Robinhood Crypto, it was found that only a few wallets are in profit. The nine most popular meme coins cover 373,000 independent wallets and 540,000 positions, while there are another 160,000 positions for random tokens on four launchpads.Among the popular targets, only 41% of wallets show a positive balance, with none of the groups reaching half. Among random tokens, Noxa is at 36.7%, Doppler at 33.2%, and Pons V1 at 14.7%. Typical buyers of well-known memes have lost 1.7%, while typical buyers of random Pons V1 tokens have lost 67%. Among 355 random tokens held by at least 10 buyers, only 5 have made most buyers profitable, accounting for 1.4%.Tokens leaving the joint curve to enter the liquidity pool do not equate to becoming popular targets. 2% of the issuance on Pons V2 has reached this stage, with 36% of positions being positive. Positions that were bought and sold only once have about one-third in profit, while 59% of positions with 51 to 200 transactions are positive. Positions with no less than 11 transactions account for 14%, contributing to 89% of realized profits, which is $165 million out of $185 million. The statistics were compiled using Dune queries, covering the period from June 1, 2026, to October 8, 2026, with a starting position of $10, and identifying traders based on token flow.

Members of the European Parliament are calling on the European Commission to include corruption risks related to crypto assets, opaque ownership structures, and digital tools in the upcoming anti-corruption strategy. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday, outlining the policy focus of this strategy.Members also urged for enhanced tracking, freezing, confiscation, and recovery of criminal proceeds, as well as improvements to public procurement, conflict of interest, lobbying, and political financing rules, and stronger protections for whistleblowers and investigative journalists. The European Commission plans to adopt its first anti-corruption strategy by the end of 2026. This strategy will complement the EU anti-corruption directive that came into effect in May, which standardized the definitions of corruption crimes and minimum penalty standards among member states.

Samsung Electronics announced preliminary results for the third quarter, with operating profit soaring 783% year-on-year and increasing 20.01% quarter-on-quarter, slightly exceeding analysts' expectations. The surge in demand for artificial intelligence chips has driven profit growth in the memory business.Samsung expects Q3 operating profit to be 107.4 trillion won (approximately 80.17 billion USD), with revenue of 195 trillion won, a year-on-year increase of 127%.

Tether announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) and the Almaty City Administration (ACA), where the three parties will explore cooperation opportunities in areas such as stablecoin applications, asset tokenization, and decentralized finance.

Four-time F1 World Champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen participated in a roundtable discussion on the main stage of TOKEN2049 in Singapore. Following this, at the invitation of Gate, he joined platform founder and CEO Dr. Han and teammate Isack Hadjar for an exclusive handprint ceremony. Previously, Max Verstappen engaged with the guests on topics related to racing performance, on-the-spot adjustments, and competition. The subsequent handprint ceremony extended the stage interaction to the Gate on-site event, becoming a special memento left by the three during TOKEN2049. After the handprint ceremony, Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar also went to the Gate Lounge to participate in a driver meet-and-greet, where they signed autographs, took photos, and interacted with guests.As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate continues to bring top-tier racing culture into the Web3 industry through various forms such as stage discussions, handprint commemorations, booth interactions, and driver meet-and-greets. This handprint ceremony also became a special segment in the series of interactions between Gate and the F1 Red Bull Racing team during TOKEN2049. Gate will leverage this collaboration to further expand the connection between digital assets and global sports as well as mainstream culture.

Billionaires closely related to the artificial intelligence industry became the main force in the insider selling list for the third quarter. Nvidia director Mark Stevens topped the list, with Nvidia's stock valuation nearing its lowest in over a decade.Other AI-related billionaires in the top ten include Arista Networks CEO Jayshree Ullal and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The combined net worth of the three is approximately $302 billion.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, Samsung Electronics' next-generation high-bandwidth memory "12-layer HBM4E" product has passed quality verification by Nvidia and major hyperscale data center operators.

A 28-year-old core member of the globally renowned ransomware group Qilin has been arrested in Japan and was extradited to Germany on October 2. Reports indicate that the man is suspected of illegally infiltrating the systems of a logistics company in Germany in September 2024, encrypting data, and demanding a ransom of approximately $165,000 (about 26 million yen) in Bitcoin.Investigations show that he was responsible for building the attack systems within the Qilin criminal network and took a cut from the ransoms collected by various branch execution teams. Japanese police apprehended him while he was traveling to Osaka in late May this year, and he was subsequently handed over to German authorities after being deemed eligible by the Tokyo High Court. Qilin operates under a "ransomware as a service" (RaaS) model and previously claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Japan's Asahi Group in 2025.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain address spent 1.22 million dollars to purchase 30.65 million MEME in the past month, becoming the largest holder of MEME.Currently, this address has a loss of 708 thousand dollars, with a loss rate of 58%, and was still buying 10 hours ago.

The cryptocurrency industry's main political action committee Fairshake has announced a new list of endorsements, supporting 32 current members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November elections, including 13 Democrats and 19 Republicans. According to Fairshake spokesperson Geoff Vetter, six of them will each receive $1 million in support from Fairshake and its affiliated organizations. Vetter stated that Fairshake supports pro-crypto candidates from both parties who advocate for American innovation.The three Republicans receiving significant support are House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill, senior committee member Bill Huizenga, and Bryan Steil, who also serves as chairman of the Digital Assets Subcommittee. On the Democratic side, Nevada Representative Steven Horsford and California Representative Derek Tran received higher support, both earning an A rating in the digital asset issue assessment from Stand With Crypto, along with Oregon Representative Janelle Bynum. Bynum defeated Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer two years ago to win her seat, the latter having previously served as Labor Secretary under the Trump administration.These members largely come from the House fundraising committee and the key Financial Services Committee, which will handle cryptocurrency tax issues. Vetter noted that Fairshake has supported 53 winners in 57 primary campaigns, aiming to create the largest pro-crypto caucus in American history.

According to GMGN market data, Robinhood's meme stock BONER has risen against the trend, with its market value once surpassing 70 million dollars, approaching its historical high. As of the time of writing, BONER is reported at 66.4 million dollars, with a 24-hour increase of 17.8%.In terms of news, Bloomberg published a special report on Robinhood's meme stocks on October 2. Cryptocurrency KOL Eric, in an interview with Bloomberg, stated that meme stocks are "a characteristic of the times and also a future trend." Additionally, Eric, as a major holder of BONER, specifically introduced the BONER token to Bloomberg.Stock Meme is an emerging play that directly combines traditional meme coins with tokenized U.S. stocks: meme coins are no longer paired with USDT or ETH but are directly paired with on-chain U.S. stock tokens (such as NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, etc.). This retains the speculative attributes of meme coins, which are highly volatile and community-driven, while also leveraging the popularity and narrative of real stocks. Transaction fees often partially flow back into the community treasury to accumulate corresponding U.S. stock tokens, forming a dual-driven model of "sentiment speculation + real asset anchoring."

Greenfield Capital has submitted a complaint to the Swiss Federal Foundation regulatory authority ESA regarding governance issues at the Safe Ecosystem Foundation, accusing a director of the Safe Foundation of demanding a large amount of SAFE tokens from relevant personnel after Bybit was attacked.At the same time, the director threatened to sell approximately 10% of the total supply of SAFE held in Gnosis and cut ties with Safe.

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.

Energy developer Fusion Source Energy (FSE) and its partners have signed a memorandum of understanding with the on-chain physical asset platform Loaf to promote the issuance of over $500 million in Australian photovoltaic and battery projects on-chain, covering more than 1,000 hectares, led by the over 200 megawatt Project Amber. According to the memorandum, the funds raised are expected to accelerate project development and expand Amber's battery capacity.Amber is a utility-scale photovoltaic park that will deploy over 200 megawatts of photovoltaic and multi-hour battery storage on-site, with an expected annual power generation sufficient to meet the electricity needs of over 70,000 households, or equivalent to the electricity demand of a 50 megawatt data center. The project pipeline also includes battery storage assets below 5 megawatts and distributed energy resources, which are modular assets closer to the electricity end, capable of forming diversified energy revenue across multiple sites in Australia.FSE CEO Weiwei Shi stated that Amber is one of the largest hybrid on-site projects in the Southern Hemisphere, which have traditionally only been open to a few institutional investors. Loaf can expand the investor base without adding extra friction and provide continuous, transparent pricing for the assets.Loaf stated that Project Amber will become a key asset in its ecosystem. As the project matures and begins trading, users will be able to go long or short and use these assets within the on-chain financial ecosystem. Loaf will participate in the on-chain trading and issuance of physical assets, allowing users to access the economic upside and returns of related infrastructure assets.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel stated that central bank money must be on-chain; otherwise, the tokenized market will increasingly rely on private or foreign currency settlement assets.CoinDesk cited her viewpoint, stating that in the absence of on-chain central bank money, the settlement of the tokenized market will shift more towards privately issued assets or foreign currency-denominated assets. Schnabel believes that bringing central bank money on-chain helps maintain the settlement anchor role of public money in a tokenized environment.

According to Bitcoin.com, Microsoft's official X account was hacked and used to promote a meme coin themed around its classic Clippy assistant character, CLIPPY. The related violating content has been removed, and Microsoft has confirmed to the media that the account was subject to unauthorized access and stated that it is continuing to investigate the incident.