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DeepSeek API Platform has released a notification regarding service recovery and compensation, stating that between 8:11 and 13:04 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, its service system experienced a failure, resulting in the API service being unavailable during that period. The platform apologizes for this and has stated that a comprehensive investigation and rectification regarding service stability has been initiated, with efforts to streamline and eliminate single point dependencies to prevent similar issues from occurring again.As compensation, the platform will fully refund the consumption amount of user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to October 14) in the form of bonus credits, which will be automatically credited to the accounts. API billing deductions will first be taken from the bonus account.

According to GlobeNewswire, SkyAI (Nasdaq: SKYA) major shareholder Bastion Trading (holding approximately 9.99%) publicly questioned the company's cash tender offer plan.Bastion Trading pointed out that SkyAI quietly sold about 70% of its SOL treasury reserves (from over 2 million to about 600,000) in less than a month, without timely disclosure to shareholders, suspected of violating information disclosure regulations.Meanwhile, the company's board faced overwhelming opposition votes at the 2026 shareholder meeting, raising questions about its legitimacy. Bastion Trading demanded the company fully disclose the details of the SOL sell-off, restructure the board, and improve the acquisition terms (raising the acquisition price from $3 to at least $3.5), otherwise, it would not participate in this tender offer and reserves the right to take legal action.

According to The Block, research institution K33 believes that although Strategy's financing through preferred stock STRC has helped it acquire nearly 100,000 bitcoins in the first half of 2026, the ongoing dividend costs may offset the gains. K33 estimates that STRC increases Strategy's annual dividend obligations by approximately $725 million, which is equivalent to about 8,740 BTC at a price of $83,000 per bitcoin.If we exclude the approximately $7.5 billion raised through STRC in the first half of the year and redirect the dollar reserves, STRC buybacks, and most dividend expenditures towards purchasing bitcoins, Strategy's holdings would only be about 4,947 BTC more than this hypothetical scenario; based on the aforementioned annualized costs, it would take about seven months to offset this difference. K33 believes that the preferred stock financing model "is a mistake" and prefers that it raises funds through common stock ATM and other methods.

Vice President Joe Burnett of Strive posted on platform X that investors can now participate in the SATS perpetual preferred stock IPO through Fidelity.

Bitcoin Treasury Company Strive (ASST) announced the launch of a new class of perpetual preferred stock, SATS, with a fixed dividend rate of 15%. The company plans to issue 5 million shares at a price of $100 per share, raising a total of $500 million.The new shares will have a lower repayment priority than Strive's existing perpetual preferred stock, SATA, which has a floating dividend rate currently at 13%. Like SATA, SATS will pay dividends daily. After the issuance is completed, the company plans to set aside a dividend reserve equivalent to 18 months of SATS dividend payments. The proceeds will be used to purchase Bitcoin, acquire income-generating assets, or repurchase shares.Strive has been continuously increasing its Bitcoin holdings recently. The company purchased 3,311 Bitcoins last week, bringing its total holdings to 32,773 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $2.7 billion at current prices, compared to less than 20,000 Bitcoins three months ago. Unlike most Bitcoin treasury companies, including larger peers like Strategy, Strive has been able to significantly expand its Bitcoin holdings in recent weeks.

Jeonbuk Bank is reportedly the first commercial bank in South Korea to start issuing Korean won loans secured by Bitcoin, according to local media. The Bitcoin is held by a third-party custodian; the effective changes to the execution rules allow the bank to sell the collateral through a court ruling for recovery without actually receiving the Bitcoin.The loan scale, interest rate, and loan-to-value ratio have not been disclosed. A representative from Jeonbuk Bank told Chosun that one loan has already been issued.

According to the Financial Times, Mark Zuckerberg stated that Meta Platforms (META.O) has reached the "cutting edge" of artificial intelligence and rejected calls to slow down development.

Bitcoin Treasuries posted on platform X that billionaire Grant Cardone revealed to Peter Schiff that his company purchases more Bitcoin every month using cash flow from real estate and will buy an additional 500 Bitcoins through refinancing.The company is acquiring more Bitcoin using asset classes outside of real estate assets.

According to the Financial Times, informed sources revealed that Nvidia (NVDA.O) is negotiating to acquire the American open-weight model developer Reflection AI or to further increase its investment in the company.The negotiations are still in the early stages, and the deal could take various forms.

Strive's issued SATA preferred stock is expected to raise approximately 55 million dollars in the week ending October 5, which is enough to purchase about 638 bitcoins at a price of approximately 82,800 dollars per bitcoin. The total trading volume of SATA for that week is about 317 million dollars.The trading price of SATA was above the par value of 100 dollars for most of Monday and Tuesday, but fell below par value from Wednesday to Friday, leading to an expected pause in the issuance activity. The 8-K filing submitted by Strive and Strategy on Monday will confirm the actual number of bitcoins purchased with the related funds. As of October 2, Strive held 29,462 bitcoins, having purchased 2,000 between September 28 and October 2 at an average price of approximately 84,422 dollars. Strategy did not sell any STRC between September 28 and October 4, only acquiring 334 bitcoins through the sale of MSTR common stock.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi posted on platform X, referring to the "obfuscation mode" warning proposed by Ethereum researcher Justin Drake as "crypto doomsday theory." He stated that migrating tokens to a new address is not a real solution under the threat of artificial intelligence potentially cracking cryptographic signatures. The "obfuscation mode" can only provide protection if investors do not transfer tokens out of the new address, and once other tokens are hacked and sold off in large quantities, these tokens will also become worthless.Qureshi then called for blockchain networks to take proactive protective measures and proposed the "crypto recovery mode" plan: a hash-based backup signature mechanism that users can map to their own addresses. If cryptographic signatures are cracked, validators can force the recovery of assets based on this. According to Glassnode data, there are currently 6.26 million Bitcoins stored in at-risk addresses, accounting for over 31% of the total Bitcoin supply. Among them, approximately 4.33 million are exposed due to address reuse, and another 1.94 million are exposed due to address format; about 1.8 million exposed Bitcoins are stored on exchanges, accounting for 57% of the total balance on exchanges.Previously, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake warned that the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence could crack the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) protecting crypto wallets sooner than expected. He cited a report from OpenAI regarding AI's mathematical advancements, stating that in the worst-case scenario, ECDSA could be compromised in "months rather than years," and advised users to gradually migrate funds to new wallets where the public key is not exposed.

Cryptocurrency trader Bonk Guy posted that he recently suffered a loss of about $100,000 from trading a new token, mainly due to overtrading and continuously consuming capital while chasing new trading pairs and liquidity rotations. The scale of this position far exceeded his usual investment in similar trades.Bonk Guy reflected that the common point of several recent losses was relying on others' judgments rather than establishing his own investment beliefs. He stated that most of the profits in this cycle came from independent judgment and sticking to positions, but after achieving success, he gradually became complacent and started making unnecessary trades.Bonk Guy emphasized that sometimes the best trade is no trade at all, and he will focus more on opportunities that he truly believes in for investment, even if it means missing out on some market movements.

According to official news, the DeAgentAI token $AIA has been launched on the South Korean exchange Bithumb's Korean Won market, opening the AIA/KRW trading pair. Its principal-protected staking financial plan has also officially opened. Users can participate with USDC, and upon maturity, the platform will return the equivalent amount of USDC in full according to the product terms, while additionally earning rewards of up to 50% of the actual staked AIA amount.The plan features three staking pools: Ultra, Boost, and Fast, with total AIA rewards over a 12-month period being 50%, 40%, and 35% of the actual amount bought and staked, respectively. The first rewards from the three pools will be distributed uniformly after the fundraising period ends in the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st months, respectively, and will then be automatically distributed monthly. The amount of USDC returned at maturity does not fluctuate with the AIA coin price, and the originally bought and staked AIA will not be returned.The initial open quota is 500,000 USDC, with a minimum participation amount of 350 USDC per transaction, and it will close once full. Users can buy AIA using USDC on the BNB Chain through the official page and complete the staking in the same transaction. For participation methods and complete rules, please refer to the official staking page.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana Treasury company DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that it has approved an open-ended buyback plan to repurchase all outstanding shares of its CHAD preferred stock, including any shares that may be issued in the future.The plan gives the company flexibility to repurchase when the trading price of CHAD is below the $10 par value. The company stated that it does not intend to immediately buy back CHAD but hopes that the preferred stock will stabilize near the par value first.DeFi Development CEO Joseph Onorati stated that the company's primary goal is simple: to bring CHAD back to par value. He mentioned that this is not an announcement to buy CHAD today, but rather to set up the infrastructure, so that once CHAD stabilizes near par value, if it subsequently falls below par, the company will have an additional tool available. He also stated that the company views CHAD as a long-term financing platform rather than a one-time issuance.This open-ended authorization adds a potential funding allocation tool to DeFi Development's existing $300 million At-the-Market (ATM) issuance plan for CHAD, which the company previously stated would be used to raise funds for increasing its holdings of SOL. The company paid the first dividend on CHAD on October 1.Additionally, the company stated on Monday that preliminary estimates for the third quarter show that as its Solana Treasury increased to 2.56 million SOL over the past week, the net asset value per share has more than doubled compared to before. DFDV's stock price rose 3.3% during Tuesday's trading session.

Binance co-founder He Yi stated in a Chinese AMA at the Binance smart product launch that "the Binance AI Pro product is already able to smoothly complete tasks based on the conditions set by users. However, in the future, we hope that AI Pro can recommend corresponding structured investment strategies based on user preferences, such as whether they are a holder or a trader, or whether they prefer dollar-cost averaging or grid trading. Once the user confirms, it can be executed."

On the 5th local time, the American artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI, supported by NVIDIA, released its cutting-edge open-weight model "Beam." The company stated that the performance of this new model is comparable to mainstream open-weight models.

Grayscale's parent company DCG stated on the X platform that last week the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed reforms to the accredited investor system, allowing certain investors to qualify for participation in the private market through exams and other means. This initiative was suggested by DCG founder Barry Silbert as early as 15 years ago.It is reported that Barry Silbert raised the issue during the founding of SecondMarket around 2011, stating that the SEC's "accredited investor" system primarily relies on income and net asset standards, but wealth levels do not necessarily represent investment capability. Some high-net-worth individuals may not possess sufficient financial knowledge, while some ordinary investors should also have the opportunity to qualify for participation in the private market if they pass the financial literacy tests set by regulatory agencies.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that over the past decade, the volatility of Bitcoin prices around the "Power Law" trend line is gradually decreasing, and market cycle fluctuations are converging. The oscillation indicator peak has dropped from +169 in 2018 to +102 in 2025, with its daily standard deviation decreasing from 4.81 to 2.47, a decline of about 49%.Darkfost added that as of the current model's oscillation indicator at +34.5, the Bitcoin price is approximately $84,700. According to the model parameters for that day, an oscillation indicator of +100 corresponds to a Bitcoin price of about $157,800, which is approximately 86% higher than the current price. He also pointed out that $157,800 is not a fixed target price but rather a reference level calculated based on the current regression parameters. If the Power Law trend line continues to rise in the future, this reference price will also increase accordingly.

German government bonds have become the primary safe-haven asset in the global bond sell-off due to concerns over overheating in the U.S. economy and the fiscal situation in other parts of Europe. This week, the yield on 10-year German bonds fell by 0.2 percentage points, while yields in countries like the United States and France rose by 0.05 and 0.22 percentage points, respectively.