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X-Agent released the latest technical article "From Agent Payments to an Onchain Personal Assistant," revealing the important product direction for the next phase: moving from Agent Payments to an Onchain Personal Assistant that can understand user intent, obtain authorization, execute on-chain operations, and continuously track results.Unlike simply allowing the AI Agent to "have a wallet," X-Agent aims to solve a more critical issue: how to enable the Agent to safely complete an on-chain task on behalf of the user. For example, when a renewal bill arrives, the AI assistant can understand the bill, verify the payee and amount, generate a payment plan, and complete the transaction after user authorization; even if there are timeouts or interruptions during the process, it should resume the original task and check the payment status, rather than blindly repeating the payment. After the payment is completed, the Agent also needs to continue confirming whether the service purchased by the user has truly been delivered.To achieve this goal, X-Agent plans to further connect the three major modules: Agent ID, Agentic Email, and Agentic Wallet, which will respectively handle identity and responsibility attribution, task and communication entry, and controlled on-chain fund execution. Through mechanisms such as payment pre-calculation, one-time authorization, budget control, recovery, and reconciliation, clear security boundaries will be established for the Agent's autonomous execution. Its core logic can be summarized as: user intent → clear authorization → on-chain execution → result verification.X-Agent believes that a true on-chain AI assistant is not just "initiating a transaction on behalf of the user," but is capable of continuously completing tasks and being accountable for the final results under controlled permissions. This also means that X-Agent is exploring a persistent on-chain AI assistant aimed at individual users, moving beyond the infrastructure of Agent payments.

Driven by safe-haven demand, the yield on the U.S. 5-year Treasury bond fell by 10 basis points.

Senior Crypto Research Strategist Matt Mena from cryptocurrency investment product issuer 21Shares stated that Bitcoin may regain $85,000 after macroeconomic uncertainties subside and further rise towards $90,000. If there is a pullback, the price could still drop to around $81,000. The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) will be released, and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting is scheduled for October 27 to 28.Mena believes that last week's drop of Bitcoin below $85,000 has reflected some downside risks brought by higher inflation data, and after subsequent macro data is released, it may test the $85,000 resistance level again. The core Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September rose 0.3% month-on-month and 2.6% year-on-year, higher than economists' expectations of a 0.2% month-on-month increase. Since 2023, Bitcoin has averaged a 1.21% increase within 7 days after the core CPI exceeded expectations; Mena expects ETH to consolidate around $2,500 in the short term, then attempt to rise to $2,800 to $3,000, with a potential target of $130 for SOL by the end of this quarter.

According to the official announcement, the Osmosis community forum has initiated a discussion on the proposal to "Terminate OSMO Inflation Issuance." The proposal aims to stop the mint module from daily issuing OSMO, with staking rewards coming entirely from protocol revenue; based on the current burn rate, approximately 2% of the OSMO supply is destroyed each year, and there will be no new issuance to hedge.The target date for the proposal to go on-chain is October 20, and the daily vesting release for developers will also be paused. There are approximately 51.9 million OSMO remaining in the vesting module account, and any future releases will require a separate governance decision.

According to CoinDesk, based on the report "Inside North America's $3 trillion crypto economy: Agentic commerce accelerates" released by Chainalysis, AI agents have completed over 138 million transactions through the x402 payment protocol incubated on the Base blockchain via Coinbase, using cryptocurrency to purchase data, computing power, and access to AI models.The report indicates that in geographically identifiable AI model inference payments, wallets associated with the United States account for 88.1%, while wallets associated with China only account for 0.1%. Eric Jardine, the research director at Chainalysis, stated that one possible explanation is that Chinese developers are more inclined to use open-weight models like DeepSeek and Qwen, thereby reducing the demand for pay-per-use inference services.Chinese-associated wallets exhibit different activity patterns, accounting for about 90% of geographically identifiable payments for security and code analysis services, with most of the flow directed towards the AI smart contract auditing platform AgentLisa.Jardine also cautioned that this gap should not be interpreted as open-source AI weakening the on-chain inference market in Asia. Currently, payment giants such as Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe have supported the x402 protocol, and Coinbase has also begun allowing enterprise clients to accept AI agent payments.

According to a report by Cointelegraph, a recent report from Chainalysis indicates that remittances from Canada to India, China, and the Philippines have surged by 141% year-on-year, reaching $2.36 billion, with digital asset payments continuing to expand in these three major remittance corridors.In the 12 months ending June 2026, there were a total of 3.56 million related transactions, with an average amount of $663 per transaction. Chainalysis noted that these three countries accounted for an increase in the proportion of Canada's cross-border stablecoin outflows from 10.9% the previous year to 19.4%.Eric Jardine, research director at Chainalysis, cited additional data provided to Cointelegraph, stating that crypto remittances from Canada to the Philippines alone reached $61.02 million, involving 73,564 transactions, representing year-on-year growth of 28% and 34.7%, respectively.The analysis counted Bitcoin and stablecoins that circulated between personal wallets with amounts exceeding $10,000. Chainalysis listed Canada as the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto economy among the G7 countries and believes that the large overseas-born population and the high costs of traditional remittance services are potential driving factors for its increasing adoption.Morva Rohani, executive director of the Canadian Web3 Council, stated in the report that about 23% of Canada's population is born overseas, the highest proportion among the G7, with frequent use of remittance corridors to India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.The report also found that in June, stablecoins accounted for 44% of the Canadian dollar-denominated order book trading volume, up from 30% a year ago.

GlobalFoundries plans to build two chip factories with up to $21 billion in funding support from the Japanese government. The U.S. government will acquire about 4% of the company's shares.The new factories will produce foundational chips, widely used in fields such as automotive, industrial equipment, and communication devices. This move aims to increase the production of foundational chips in the U.S. and reduce dependence on East Asian suppliers.

OPPO announced a collaboration with the AI Agent product Manus, integrating Manus's Agent capabilities directly into the mobile system assistant AI Mind Pilot. This marks Manus's first system-level collaboration with a mobile manufacturer.The related features will debut in ColorOS 17, which will be equipped on the Find X10 series. Users can handle multi-step tasks through the system assistant without needing to open Manus separately.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting a small-scale test of its personal investment analysis assistant "Rena Lan Cai," which has a PC version and a WeChat mini-program, supporting connection to WeChat. This product is positioned as an AI assistant for individual investors, helping users obtain and understand market and company information, and is currently in a small-scale testing phase.The web version breaks down the investment research workflow into visual modules, with core features including market quick reads, individual stock tracking, and AI Q&A. The market quick read summarizes global market dynamics, continuously updated in the morning, noon, closing, and evening, and associates market information with the user's watchlist; the left sidebar allows users to customize stocks of interest and displays real-time market data, while the right side features an intelligent Q&A panel linked to the day's quick read content, supporting follow-up questions about industry rankings, cash flow in financial reports, and more. In addition to the PC version, Rena Lan Cai is also launched as a WeChat mini-program, with basic functionality aligned across both platforms and conversation records shared. The product also appears in the WeChat chat list as a WeChat ClawBot intelligent entity, allowing users to directly access investment research capabilities in the chat window.The report states that Alibaba is also internally testing its AI investment research product Qovest, and Baidu's previously released Kuku AI is also focusing on investment research, as major companies collectively enter the personal investor AI investment research space. Rena Lan Cai essentially serves as an investment research assistance tool, not providing investment advice and avoiding direct trading compliance red lines.

Doubao Mobile Assistant stated that the 30-day public announcement period for its "Screen Automation Operation Declaration Agreement" (SAEP) ended on October 14, 2026, and it will gradually lift the screen automation operation permissions for third-party applications. Applications that have explicitly declared refusal of operation permissions will not be operated by the agent.After the public announcement period ends, developers can still declare refusal at any time, and Doubao Mobile Assistant will provide feedback within 3 working days. This agreement is aimed at cross-application operations of graphical interface agents, allowing developers to declare their interaction strategies with the agent.

According to CME's "FedWatch" data, the probability of the Federal Reserve maintaining interest rates in October is 76.2%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike is 23.8%.

According to Decrypt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9. The suspect, 35 years old and of Saudi nationality, has been employed at OpenAI since July 2025 and is accused of using or attempting to use devices to intercept oral communications. He made his first appearance in federal court this Tuesday. OpenAI stated that it has referred the matter to the FBI and thanked the relevant agents and prosecutors for their swift action, while the FBI's investigation is ongoing.OpenAI released a statement on X, stating that the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in the office and used its own model to analyze the device and its origin, ultimately identifying that an employee placed it there a few days prior. According to the criminal complaint, the device was discovered around September 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a television, wrapped in paper towels, with its contents encrypted, and was installed around September 28. Surveillance footage showed that Alfozan was seen near the conference room multiple times before the device was discovered, but he had neither the authority to enter that room nor to attend the related meetings, which typically involved confidential technical and strategic information.The complaint states that before the device was installed, Alfozan used internal productivity tools to inquire about OpenAI's office building address, conference rooms, room capacities, schedules, and locations of meetings between executives and external partners. A chatbot account associated with his spouse asked between September 24 and 30 how to create a continuous recording device, add Wi-Fi connectivity, enhance real-time listening capabilities, and encrypt the device's SD card.

Market news shows that Nvidia has invested in Doctolib, GenesisAI, and Pigment.

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.

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.

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.

AI Proem author Grace Shao stated on October 9 that China has long accumulated a large amount of data, but has yet to see large independent AI data companies similar to Surge AI, Scale AI, and Mercor in the United States. She wrote that the relevant background includes the formation of cutting-edge models and upstream data markets in the United States, while Chinese tech giants have long kept data within closed ecosystems, and the data of enterprises and traditional industries is scattered, with state-owned enterprises unwilling to easily hand over data to external suppliers.The article cites data from the National Bureau of Statistics, stating that by 2025, China will generate 52.26 ZB of data, with only 22.13% of the stored data classified as structured data. An interview with Lin Zhenya, CTO of Benyuan Zhishu, by Data Monkey mentions that there are about 2,000 to 3,000 labeling companies in China, with the top three accounting for about 20% to 30% of the market, while he estimates that the top three in the United States account for about 70% to 80%. The author notes that this is an industry estimate, not an independently calculated market share.The Information reported in September 2025 that Beijing-based company UniPat completed financing with a pre-investment valuation of $1 billion, while competitor Humanlaya's post-financing valuation is close to $1 billion. Both companies received investment from HSG and are reportedly serving Alibaba, ByteDance, The Dark Side of the Moon, and DeepSeek. A Hong Kong Stock Exchange announcement from Qian Baidu shows that the company will acquire approximately 90.91% equity in Benyuan Zhishu for 300 million yuan in June 2026. Haitan Ruisheng's 2025 annual report shows a year-on-year revenue increase of 59% to 377 million yuan.

Cryptocurrency market analyst Darkfost stated that despite Ethereum recently falling from $2775 to around $2500, a decline of nearly 10%, the nominal value of Binance's ETH futures open interest decreased by about $600 million during the same period. However, when measured by the number of ETH, the open interest size has still rebounded to the level at the end of September, approximately 2.46 million ETH.Between October 8 and 9, the market liquidated about $345 million in ETH long positions within 24 hours. However, Binance's share of open interest in ETH futures on major centralized trading platforms actually rose to nearly 49%, reaching a new high since 2023.Darkfost pointed out that this means that despite the pullback in ETH prices and some leveraged positions being liquidated, the amount of ETH that traders are putting into the Binance futures market has not significantly decreased, further increasing Binance's dominance in the ETH derivatives market.

According to CoinDesk, several blockchain analysis companies estimate that the assets stolen by attackers from hundreds of wallets associated with the authorized dealer CryptoBilis sold Ledger devices could be as high as $94.5 million. Ledger has not yet confirmed this total.Hardware wallet company Ledger discovered that unauthorized hardware was implanted in at least one affected device; stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen $10 million USDT related to the theft, and investigators are still tracking the flow of funds. Ledger advises CryptoBilis customers not to set up devices that have not yet been used; customers who are already using the related devices should transfer their assets to new devices and generate new recovery phrases.

According to the market report from QCP Group, BTC has shown relatively stable performance one year after the largest single-day liquidation event in October last year. Despite market concerns over the U.S. government's transfer of a large amount of BTC and the hacking of Ledger, the price remains in a range-bound fluctuation. BTC has repeatedly attempted to break through $87,000 without success, but the support at $80,000 below is relatively solid.In the options market, implied volatility remains high, with put option premiums narrowing, and the market overall leans towards waiting for a breakout rather than defensive positioning; if BTC effectively breaks through $87,000, the next target may point to $94,000. Notably, there is a large-scale long position in a 90,000/95,000/100,000 dollar call butterfly option expiring on October 30, which is the largest concentration of positions for the current month-end.This week, the macroeconomic environment will face a key test, with U.S. CPI and PPI data being released successively. Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh will speak at the IMF-World Bank annual meeting. The market is currently pricing in about a 17% probability of a rate hike in October, and the aforementioned data and policy signals may become important triggers for BTC's directional choice.