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Morgan Funds announced that Morgan Asset Management will invest $75 million (approximately 500 million RMB) of its own funds through related parties in the company's first actively managed ETF—Morgan Large Cap Growth Active Equity ETF. The related investment will commence after the fund is listed.

Aave officially announced that the active loan scale of Aave V4 deployed on Circle's Layer 1 blockchain Arc has exceeded 100 million USD.This data represents the outstanding loan scale on the Arc single network, not the total deposits or cumulative lending amount of Aave V4.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent is conducting internal testing of an AI interactive content product for children and teenagers called "Dongle Duck," which includes a web version and a WeChat mini-program. The product is currently open for limited testing to parent-child users and teachers, using interactive content "Wonder Cards" as the main medium, allowing parents, teachers, and knowledge creators to use AI to create draggable, simulated, and operable interactive works from knowledge, experience, and creativity.Dongle Duck comes with a content community, accumulating ready-made Wonder Card materials that cover knowledge in various fields such as common life knowledge, art, humanities, and natural sciences. The formats include 3D models, games, picture books, and dynamic courseware. Parent-child scenarios can choose interactive bedtime picture books, rocket launch processes, electronic piano strings, motorcycle structures, and more for simulation; classroom scenarios can visualize physical concepts like friction and levers, and include built-in word puzzles and mini-games; extracurricular content includes miniature courtyard light and shadow simulations of museums, hydrological observation station transitions between dry and wet seasons, previews of pottery shapes and glaze colors, as well as models of electric fields, pulley systems, and the Pythagorean theorem.Parents, teachers, and knowledge creators can input ideas and use the built-in Agent to create picture books, games, dynamic courseware, 3D content, and memory cards. The platform features an inspiration wall and also supports adaptations of existing community works. "Du Jia" states that after entering the command to generate a game of Gomoku in the chat box, the AI will generate a mini-game in the right sidebar, supporting downloads, publishing to the community, or sharing with WeChat and QQ friends; the product also supports uploading recordings and direct dialogue input, turning existing materials into interactive knowledge.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, two whale wallets that have been dormant for 12 to 13 years transferred a total of 416.6941 BTC (approximately 33.82 million USD) to the same address, including:The wallet dormant for 13 years transferred 167.8402 BTC, worth about 13.62 million USD;The wallet dormant for 12 years transferred 248.8539 BTC, worth about 20.20 million USD.These BTC were initially valued at approximately 105,400 USD and have currently appreciated by about 33.71 million USD.

Bitwise analyst Ishmael Asad posted on the X platform that Bitwise is currently collaborating with over 20 wealth management platforms, with a total asset management scale of approximately $24 trillion. Bitwise is also promoting the approval of cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs) by relevant platforms so that their investment advisors can provide clients with channels for cryptocurrency allocation.Currently, among the institutions collaborating with Bitwise, 17 have approved cryptocurrency concept stock ETPs, 11 have approved Bitcoin ETPs, 6 have approved Ethereum ETPs, 6 have approved ETPs for the top ten cryptocurrency portfolios, and 2 have approved Solana ETPs, with 1 each approving Bitcoin and gold combination and XRP ETPs. Asad stated that since the first batch of spot cryptocurrency ETFs was launched in January 2024, the cumulative net inflow into cryptocurrency ETPs has been approximately $77 billion. Currently, there are over 50 spot cryptocurrency ETPs in the U.S. market, and the number is still increasing, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, AVAX, LINK, XRP, ZEC, HYPE, cryptocurrency portfolios, and more. In addition, the interest of wealth management institutions in cryptocurrency assets is also continuously growing, and the related demand is extending from ETPs to cryptocurrency trading and custody, payment, and tokenization fields.

According to CryptoQuant analyst nocoffeenobrain's monitoring, Bitcoin holdings aged 1-3 years and over 3 years showed signs of activity as early as the end of September, when the BTC price rose from the mid-$70,000s to the mid-$80,000s.Recently, Ledger was hacked, prompting a large number of users to migrate their assets to new signers and change their mnemonic phrases. It is expected that the 7-day moving average will further rise in the coming days. Analysts pointed out that similar patterns have occurred before—during the period from January to February this year, when BTC fell from the mid-$90,000s to the mid-$60,000s, and during the period from July to August when BTC fluctuated in the mid-$60,000s, both of the aforementioned holding age segments showed synchronized activity.

German asset management company DWS stated that the recent rise in U.S. Treasury yields has enhanced their investment attractiveness. DWS portfolio manager Sabrina Lech expects that U.S. Treasury yields will decline slightly over the next 12 months, as slowing economic growth and easing inflation pressures may support Treasury prices.

According to a report by Business Wire, Interactive Brokers has launched a cryptocurrency staking service for eligible clients, with the staking service provided by Zerohash.In the initial phase, eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients can stake Ethereum through the staking panel in the client portal, submit staking or unstaking requests, and view pending statuses. Rewards will be distributed in the form of staking tokens and can accrue interest during the staking period.Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik stated that similar to its stock yield enhancement program, the staking service allows clients to earn additional income from their held crypto assets. Currently, Interactive Brokers supports trading of 20 digital assets and allows deposits using USDC, RLUSD, and PYUSD.

Catherine Chen, the head of VIP and institutional business at Binance, stated in an interview with The Block during Token2049 that traditional hedge funds, which previously took a wait-and-see approach, are now showing a stronger interest due to the emergence of arbitrage opportunities related to traditional financial instruments such as cash stocks and perpetual contracts on crypto platforms.She pointed out that the improvement in market depth, combined with 24/7 trading and weekend price discovery mechanisms, makes these opportunities more realistic. She also mentioned that when the same tools are offered on second- and third-tier platforms or in DeFi venues, liquidity often falls short of hedge funds' needs. However, she emphasized that this process is still in its early stages and does not expect a surge in capital inflows overnight, with the next 12 to 18 months being worth close attention.Similar changes are happening on the other side of the market. Chen indicated that their crypto-native clients are incorporating more tools linked to traditional financial products to build hybrid investment portfolios. The data she cited showed that the scale of Binance's cash stock assets has increased from about $800 million to $900 million to $1.4 billion, while the trading volume of traditional financial perpetual contracts has risen from about $20 billion to $30 billion per month when launched at the beginning of this year to about $400 billion every 30 days. She believes that tokenization and cross-asset trading are still in their early stages, and regulatory clarity will determine the ultimate integration of traditional and crypto trading more than the product offerings of a single platform.

10x Research published that Bitcoin option prices have fallen to a five-year low, with near-month implied volatility at 33.5%, more than 4 percentage points lower than actual volatility, indicating that option pricing is relatively cheap. In the past week, the skew of Bitcoin options has decreased by nearly 3 percentage points, with traders focusing on buying put options expiring in October with strike prices of $78,000 and $80,000, with single large trades reaching up to $204 million.10x Research believes this indicates that investors overall still hold long positions while hedging downside risks through options, rather than fully turning bearish. In contrast, the Ethereum options market shows different signals. Its largest corporate buyer has indicated that it will stop buying in the coming weeks, with options trading primarily dominated by sellers of call options, and implied volatility higher than actual volatility.

The leverage position protocol LongX announced the launch of Actively Managed Baskets. This product allows the community to hold relevant economic rights and packages any leveraged long and short positions into a one-click tradable spot ERC20 token. LongX stated that LongX Baskets are a new primitive that offers complete programmability not available in leveraged ETFs or spot indices.The first basket is AI Nexus, which goes long on leading artificial intelligence companies such as Nvidia, AI, and OpenAI, while shorting QQQ to hedge the overall tech sector. The AI Nexus pairing model has been launched on LONG. LongX plans to introduce community management features next week, allowing AI holders to decide on the composition of the basket and other matters. Based on pilot results, the project also plans to launch baskets for more leading trading pairs on LONG according to subsequently announced transparent standards, and a deep dive interpretation will be released soon, with a related simplified white paper attached to the tweet.

According to data from SolanaFloor and Blockworks, as of today, the number of independent active addresses on Solana has reached 1.88 million, setting a new high in 13 months. Data from Santiment shows that the growth metric for the Solana network has increased by 124% compared to early September, with an average of approximately 1.71 million new wallets added daily. In addition, the number of wallets holding a balance on Solana has increased by 38.5% month-over-month to 16.1 million.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood's Robinhood Crypto posted on X that it is exploring the launch of a stock token linked to an actively managed ETF on the Robinhood Chain, in partnership with T. Rowe Price Digital Assets.Robinhood Crypto stated that T. Rowe Price is one of the largest asset management companies in the world, managing $1.9 trillion in assets. If this exploration is successful, the related product will become the first stock token of its kind. The company also mentioned that institutions are entering, and its underlying channel is ready.

On October 8, the oracle network Pyth released its third-quarter update: As of the end of the third quarter, the active ARR was $11.49 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 86.5%, driven by exchanges, prediction markets, and AI; the net new ARR for the third quarter was $5.33 million. By the end of September, Pyth Pro had an operating ARR of $9.68 million, Pyth Indices had $1.81 million, covering 16 active clients, with a total of 276 paid accounts across all services, and terminal self-service contributed $500,000 in new ARR in September.In terms of exchanges, the trading volume of the real-world asset perpetual market in the third quarter was $2.09 trillion, with Pyth-supported venues accounting for 94.1%. Coinbase uses Pyth data to support the continuously priced thematic market, and the index calculated with Pyth data supports the listing of stock index futures on Coinbase Derivatives; Trade[XYZ], OKX, and Lighter also use Pyth's Pro and Indices data. In the prediction market sector, Kalshi uses Pyth prices to cover the stock and commodity markets and listed Pyth as the sole data source for gold and silver perpetuals on its CFTC-registered exchange in its September filing; Pyth also provides data for Polymarket's real-world asset market.

Bank of America Chief Strategist Savita Subramanian stated that bonds have become a competitive alternative asset to stocks for the first time. She pointed out that the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury has exceeded 5%, while the S&P 500 index's annualized return over the next 10 years may not reach this level.Subramanian believes that the bond allocation environment is more favorable, and U.S. Treasury yields are unlikely to sustain levels above 6% to 7%.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that Bitcoin dropped from $85,500 to $83,900, then slightly rebounded to $84,100. This decline was accompanied by a dominance of active sell orders and forced liquidations of long positions.Data shows that the Taker Order Pressure Oscillator once fell to -4.9, then rebounded to -3.1, indicating that the pressure from active selling has eased somewhat, but the bears still hold an advantage; at the same time, the Liquidation Pressure Oscillator dropped from -11 to -78, reflecting that forced liquidations of long positions are dominant. Analysis points out that if the Bitcoin price remains below $83,900 and both indicators maintain significantly negative values, there may be a risk of more persistent selling pressure.

According to The Defiant citing data from Beaconcha.in, the number of active Ethereum validators has decreased by 2.5% over the past 7 days, to approximately 863,000, while the total amount of staked ETH has slightly increased by 0.08%, reaching 43.74 million.The decline in the number of validators is mainly related to the validator merging mechanism after the Pectra upgrade. This upgrade raised the maximum effective balance of a single validator from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH, allowing operators to merge multiple validators without needing to exit staking, thereby reducing network communication and consensus overhead. Currently, approximately 507,000 ETH are in the merging queue, with an expected waiting time of about 5 days and 11 hours.

Rupert Harrison, a senior advisor at the global large bond investment institution Pinhao, stated that after a significant increase in U.S. Treasury yields recently, they are now at a level with high investment value. This week, the yields on 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasuries both reached a 24-year high, mainly due to market concerns about inflation and high fiscal deficits.

Yesterday, B.AI launched the Token2049 online interactive challenge, inviting users to pick their favorite AI assistant from popular models like GPT, Claude, and Grok. Participants need to follow @BAI_AGI and like, quote, and retweet the post, log in to B.AI to generate a personal invitation link, then write down their favorite AI model, a recommendation for friends, and the invitation link in the comments, tagging 3 friends and including #BAIinToken2049 to participate.The event runs from October 5 to October 11, with 4 awards for the best recommendation (B.AI Mid-Autumn Festival selection gift box) and 26 lucky draw prizes (B.AI random lucky merchandise), totaling 30 limited edition gifts. Who will you vote for? Come to the comments and reveal your pick, include #BAIinToken2049, and win great prizes with your AI partner------Token2049 will officially open tomorrow, with more surprises to be revealed on-site.