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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.

Mysten Labs reports that the Sui network has completed its first native post-quantum Devnet transaction. This Devnet implementation introduces the ML-DSA-65 account signature, allowing accounts to authorize transactions directly using this post-quantum signature scheme. ML-DSA-65 belongs to the ML-DSA series defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS 204 standard, and Sui uses it as the native protocol signature scheme for everyday accounts.Sui is also planning to introduce a hash-based SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s (FIPS 205) for high-value vaults in Move smart contracts. The two schemes are based on lattice-based and hash-based mathematical problems, respectively, so a weakness in one scheme will not affect the other. Since Sui keys are deterministically derived from seeds, users can migrate to post-quantum keys using existing mnemonic phrases; the already launched address aliases allow accounts to update authorization keys without transferring assets.Post-quantum accounts are being rolled out in an optional, incremental manner, following the online path of zkLogin and passkey. Sui states that the goal for the post-quantum vault is to go live on the mainnet within this year, with the native ML-DSA-65 accounts aiming to enter the testnet by the end of the year, and the mainnet native account authentication goal set for the first quarter of 2027, with the final timeline depending on independent audits and testnet feedback.

Strive CEO posted on the X platform that Strive purchased 3,311 bitcoins last week, increasing the total bitcoin holdings to 32,773. Warrants worth $208 million have been exercised, with approximately 15.3 million warrants remaining, set to expire at 5 PM Eastern Time.SATA's minimum issuance price of $100 has now become a binding restrictive clause in the governance documents, officially establishing the relevant protection mechanism.

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju posted that the Bitcoin bear market cycle has ended, and a bull market or sideways consolidation is expected in the next 12 to 24 months.Previously, on March 18, 2025, he predicted that the Bitcoin bull market cycle would end, leading to a bear market or sideways consolidation for 6 to 12 months, and now officially announces the end of that predicted cycle.

Bitget officially launched the rToken US stock transfer feature, currently supporting over 3,000 US stocks and ETFs. Users can transfer eligible stock assets from their traditional brokerage accounts to Bitget, and once the stocks are credited, they will be automatically converted into US stock spot rTokens based on the corresponding number of shares. Throughout the transfer process, Bitget does not charge any fees.The rTokens after the transfer can be directly integrated into the Bitget Universal Exchange (UEX) ecosystem, used for wealth management, lending, margin trading, and other yield-generating products, enhancing the capital efficiency and usage scenarios of stock assets. To coincide with the feature launch, Bitget is also launching a reward campaign with a total value of $1 million in SpaceX stock tokens (rSPCX). Users can receive corresponding SpaceX stock rewards based on the transfer amount, with rewards distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Users can select the stocks and quantities they wish to transfer on the US stock transfer page and use the reward calculator on the page to view the estimated transfer amount and corresponding activity rewards.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated, "This feature aims to help investors consolidate their stock assets scattered across different brokerages into a unified ecosystem without selling their existing positions, achieving flexible allocation across asset classes."

Multiple venture capital firms in Silicon Valley are competing to secure GPU computing power to provide exclusive resources for their AI startups. a16z established a computing power pool of about 20,000 GPUs as early as 2024 and is negotiating expansion with data center companies Switch and Volta. General Catalyst plans to build a data center for its portfolio companies and has brought in the former head of NVIDIA DGX Cloud in May this year to oversee AI infrastructure operations.Even if AI startups complete their financing, they may not be able to rent GPUs in a timely manner. In April this year, major cloud providers like Microsoft were reported to prioritize allocating computing power to internal teams and large clients, leaving some startups facing months of waiting. a16z previously disclosed that during times of computing power shortages, prices that could originally be secured with a six-month contract might require a three-year commitment. Model training requires a large amount of GPU usage in a short period, while inference demand is difficult to predict, making it easy to waste funds by locking in computing power for several years in advance.a16z is concentrating on purchasing and leasing computing power through the Oxygen project, redistributing it to its portfolio companies, allowing them to access prices and contract terms typically reserved for large clients. In August this year, a16z co-led a $300 million financing round for Volta, which is valued at $2.4 billion, with investments covering both AI startups and data center companies providing computing power. The small venture capital firm Crucible Capital has built a cluster with 576 NVIDIA B300 GPUs for its portfolio companies to test, while also selling some computing power to a cutting-edge AI laboratory. This model allows venture capital firms to take on investments that were previously mainly borne by cloud providers and data center operators.

The Hyperliquid Assistance Fund has accumulated over 48 million HYPE tokens, with a total expenditure of approximately 1.365 billion USD. Currently, the market value of these tokens has risen to about 3.953 billion USD.The Hyperliquid Assistance Fund primarily continues to repurchase HYPE from the open market through protocol trading fee income, serving as the core mechanism for returning value to token holders. Recently, Hyperliquid has also injected part of the USDC reserve earnings into the Assistance Fund through the AQAv2 framework to further expand the sources of repurchase funds, making the repurchase no longer completely reliant on trading fees.

On October 12, Alessandro Savarese, the product head of the collaboration platform Airtable, stated that he joined Bending Spoons after completing the acquisition in early September and is responsible for product development. The team has communicated with customers, builders, account administrators, and partners to identify priorities for the remainder of 2026 and most of 2027. The vision is to place teams, data, workflows, and agents on the same platform, with investment directions including continuous improvement of the core product, enabling AI to collaborate with humans, and strengthening centralized control at the account level.Organizationally, Airtable will part ways with a significant portion of the pre-acquisition team, with relevant personnel leaving by the end of that week and receiving severance compensation. The article states that this does not reflect the quality of their work. Bending Spoons has sent in experienced engineers, product managers, and designers. For customers, the packages, pricing, and service content remain unchanged, and the customer-facing organization is unaffected. Bending Spoons S.p.A. has the NASDAQ ticker BSP and has completed the previously announced acquisition, with Airtable being used by over 500,000 organizations.In terms of products, the Speedy Squad has released over 30 improvements in the past three weeks, including increasing automation limits, automating the addition and deletion of record actions, and more granular editing permissions on list pages; this group will be merged into the Core team led by long-time employee Akshar Patel.

According to Arkham monitoring, Tesla spent $1.5 billion to purchase Bitcoin in February 2021, and then sold about 4,670 Bitcoins from March to April 2021, making a profit of approximately $100.2 million.During the LUNA crash in May 2022, Tesla transferred about 30,690 Bitcoins to Coinbase, leading the market to believe that it had sold off most of its holdings. Since then, its Bitcoin holdings have undergone adjustments, and it currently still holds about 8,430 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $960 million. Tesla did not further reduce its Bitcoin holdings during the FTX crash in 2022.

According to a report from the official Coinbase blog, the Anti-Scam Centre (ASC) of the Singapore Police Force released a briefing on scams and cybercrime for the first half of 2026, showing that cryptocurrency scam losses in Singapore decreased by 43% year-on-year, from 114.9 million Singapore dollars to 65.5 million Singapore dollars.The ASC attributes this achievement in part to the actions taken by industry partners, including the shutdown of 47,500 mobile lines, 37,500 WhatsApp accounts, and 52,200 malicious websites, as well as investigations into over 2,900 money mules and scammers, resulting in approximately 470 prosecutions. The Coinbase Global Intelligence Team identified over 720 potential victims through four joint operations with the ASC, helping to intercept potential losses of over 18.9 million Singapore dollars.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was 814 million dollars, with long positions liquidated at 686 million dollars and short positions liquidated at 128 million dollars. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at 142 million dollars, Bitcoin short positions were liquidated at 50.351 million dollars, Ethereum long positions were liquidated at 143 million dollars, and Ethereum short positions were liquidated at 35.314 million dollars.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0xecb63c...2b00 currently holds a short position of 9,509.1 ETH, with a nominal value of 24.059 million USD.At the time of publication, ETH is quoted at 2,530.10 USD.

Cryptocurrency market analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that on-chain data shows the average cost basis for Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) is $48,600, with the current price approximately 72% higher than their cost. This group has remained profitable since January 2023, with the last close to the cost line occurring in March 2023.The average cost basis for LTH peaked at $49,500 on July 30 and has since decreased by 1.7%. Since August 1, there have been 60 negative weekly changes out of 74 days, with the largest single-week decline being 0.34% on August 25, and the current reading is -0.06%. The analyst pointed out that this decline is still moderate, and if it continues to drop, it would indicate an acceleration of selling, while a return to positive values would mean that long-term holders are starting to accumulate again.

According to an official post from Ledger, its security team Ledger Donjon is investigating Ledger signing devices sold by the Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis, which have been implanted with unauthorized hardware components. Ledger confirmed this matter on October 10 regarding a device belonging to an affected user. Donjon's analysis shows that the implant is located within the device's casing and can read the screen display content—decoding the 24-word recovery mnemonic during the initial setup and transmitting it externally via LTE through a built-in eSIM; this component does not alter the security chip, system, or transaction signature.Currently, all confirmed financial losses related to the incident disclosed on October 9 involve devices sold by CryptoBilis. CryptoBilis has stopped selling Ledger devices. The total number of affected users and the amount of losses have not yet been verified, and Ledger is investigating similar implant reports from other distributors and regions.

The unresolved ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine has led to a rebound in crude oil prices, and the market's bets on another interest rate hike before the end of the year are heating up, putting pressure on the gold and silver markets once again. According to CoinGlass data, gold (XAU) is currently priced at $4,183.22, with a 24-hour decline of 0.61%; silver (XAG) is currently priced at $60.25, with a 24-hour decline of 1.42%.During the market fluctuations, the trading volume of related contracts on Gate has continued to rise: the trading volume of Gate silver contracts reached $124 million in 24 hours, ranking second in the industry; the trading volume of Gate gold contracts reached $363 million in 24 hours, firmly holding third place in the industry; meanwhile, the open interest of Gate XAU gold contracts reached $411 million, ranking second in the industry.Gate has pioneered the trading sector for perpetual metal contracts and CFD contracts, covering mainstream metal trading targets such as gold, silver, and platinum, supporting 24/7 trading and USDT settlement. Relying on Gate's innovative unified account system, users can configure diverse assets such as stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities without cross-platform operations, helping users achieve a more flexible and efficient one-stop global asset strategy layout amid volatile markets.

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 The Block, KB Kookmin Card has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's SBI Holdings to test AI agent-based identity verification and explore cross-border cryptocurrency payments.The two parties will study ways for Japanese tourists to pay Korean merchants using cryptocurrency assets, including stablecoins. KB Kookmin Card is a credit card company under KB Financial Group, and SBI Holdings is a Japanese financial holding group.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale created 4 new wallets about 4 months ago and began trading on Hyperliquid. So far, it has completed 15 transactions, accumulating a profit of 29.75 million USD, with almost all transactions being profitable.This whale has opened another long position in ETH, with a holding size of 24,000 ETH, valued at approximately 60.7 million USD, and the current floating profit has reached 2.6 million USD.

According to CoinGlass data, in the past 24 hours, 10 exchanges have liquidated approximately $803 million in leveraged positions, with long positions accounting for $694 million, representing 86%, affecting a total of 172,100 traders. About $595 million, nearly three-quarters of the total for the day, was liquidated in the last 12 hours, as the South Korean KOSPI index fell by more than 6%, and Bitcoin briefly dropped below $81,000. The largest single liquidation was a $9.65 million Bitcoin long position on Binance, which was forcibly closed at around $81,773, with Binance accounting for half of the total liquidation volume.Bitcoin topped the list with $181 million in liquidations, followed closely by Ethereum with $178 million, despite its market capitalization being much smaller than Bitcoin's; SOL positions lost $60 million, ZEC $24 million, and NEAR $22 million. Stock-related contracts then made the list, with perpetual contracts tracking U.S. storage chip manufacturer SanDisk liquidating $19.09 million, slightly above HYPE's $19.04 million and XRP's $18.78 million. These perpetual contracts allow traders to bet on stock prices without an expiration date on cryptocurrency exchanges, with contracts for SK Hynix, Micron, and the triple-leveraged U.S. semiconductor ETF SOXL also appearing on the heatmap, with SOXL liquidating $7.21 million.The aforementioned losses coincided with a sell-off in the Seoul market, where Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell by about 8%, as the market worried about AI-related valuations and competition from Chinese storage chip manufacturers.

The cryptocurrency financial service institution BIT (formerly Matrixport) has increased its positions at addresses 0xbd1c...ff0e and 0x2371...0883 this morning, each buying 12,000 ETH, totaling 24,000 ETH, with average purchase prices of approximately $2,420 and $2,422 respectively.The ETH long positions held by the two addresses are all using 20x full leverage, with a position value of approximately $60.29 million and a total floating profit of about $2.19 million. The current price of ETH is reported at approximately $2,512, an increase of about 3.8% compared to the average purchase price of the two addresses.