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User Momilio posted: On-chain options are currently the biggest blank space and opportunity in the cryptocurrency field. This content is excerpted from its upcoming on-chain options research report, currently just a summary of one chapter. Momilio stated: Mature financial markets will eventually expand to options, and cryptocurrency has reached a turning point; constraints are no longer regulatory or infrastructural, market-making liquidity has improved, and pricing systems can now support larger-scale transactions. It also noted: The trading volume of on-chain options is still only 6.9% of Deribit's options trading volume, and to reach critical scale, a large influx of retail order flow is necessary.Momilio stated: The annual trading contracts for U.S. options increased from 4.19 billion in 2017 to 15.2 billion in 2025, a growth of 263%, primarily due to retail investors. After Robinhood launched commission-free options in December 2017, the proportion of S&P 500 options on the same day rose from 5% to over 60% within ten years. By 2023, the proportion of contracts expiring within a week rose to 68%, with same-day options accounting for 43%; SSRN research shows that over 75% of retail-related trades are contracts expiring on the same day.In India, the premium for stock options is expected to reach 190.65 trillion rupees by the fiscal year 2026, which is 45.8 times that of the fiscal year 2016, with over 90% of retail derivatives traders only engaging in options. By the end of 2024, the Securities and Exchange Board of India will raise the minimum contract size from 500,000 rupees to 1.5 million rupees and restrict weekly expirations to only one benchmark index, with premiums still increasing by 7% in the fiscal year 2026. In the first half of 2026, the trading volume of options contracts on Indian exchanges reached 39.3 billion, which is 4.5 times that of the U.S. at 8.7 billion, while U.S. premiums of $6.3 trillion are nearly 5 times India's $1.3 trillion.

The Shanghai Financial Regulatory Bureau issued "Several Measures to Promote the High-Quality Development of Digital Finance in Shanghai's Banking and Insurance Industries," proposing to steadily expand supply chain financial services using technologies such as big data and blockchain.The measures propose to standardize the development of accounts receivable financing, supply chain bill financing, warehouse receipt pledge financing, order financing, and other products, while continuously deepening the insurance service layout for advanced manufacturing, enhancing comprehensive risk protection capabilities.

David Hoffman, the founder of Bankless, retweeted the compliance updates of the perpetual contract trading platform Lighter on X, stating, "Lighter's big market is back." During the Lighter third-quarter investor conference call the previous night, Hoffman, as an investor, asked whether, given that Lighter has had extensive prior communication with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the approval for the Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) licenses is expected to be granted earlier than the stipulated 180-day review period.Lighter's founder and CEO Vladimir Novakovski responded that extensive prior communication would make the process much smoother. He stated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission currently has a lot on its plate, so he could not provide a specific timeline, but internally there is a fast-acting team, and the approval process is expected to go relatively smoothly. Previously, Hoffman had liquidated his ETH holdings and shifted to tokens like LIT, ZEC, and NEAR, which have all significantly outperformed ETH since then.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: BIG vs PARIVISION (BO3) - 1win Private Club Playoffs", the sub-market "Map Handicap: PRV (-1.5) vs BIG (+1.5)" saw the winning probability of the "PARIVISION" option fluctuate dramatically, rising from 55.5% an hour ago to the current 89.5% (a fluctuation of 34%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The famous trader and chart analyst Peter Brandt, who successfully predicted the Bitcoin crash in 2018, released a technical chart for XMR (Monero), indicating that the current Monero pattern is very similar to the pattern of silver before it surged to $125, potentially brewing a similar large-scale upward trend.In the monthly chart of XMR he published, after a long period of consolidation, the price repeatedly tests/breaks through the key resistance (approximately in the 500--600 range), and the moving average structure is also starting to strengthen.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: TheMongolz vs BIG (BO3) - 1win Private Club Playoffs," the option "TheMongolz" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 52.5% an hour ago to the current 24.5% (a fluctuation of 28%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Beating reports, Lei Feng Network interviewed several headhunters and found that major domestic internet companies are tightening their recruitment quotas but are still willing to break salary limits for top AI talents. Headhunters revealed that this year, some outstanding fresh graduates in foundational model directions have annual packages reaching 2 million yuan; ByteDance Seed and Xiaohongshu's highest offers have reached 4 million to 5 million yuan, while Baidu is in the range of 2 million to 3 million yuan.The high salaries for talent are exacerbating internal salary discrepancies. An internet professional stated that some employees in foundational models have lower job levels but earn more than their higher-level colleagues. Similar situations emerged as early as 2017; an experienced engineer recalled that at that time, a returnee fresh graduate who joined a year later and was at a lower job level had a monthly salary 10,000 yuan higher than his own, leading to a monthly turnover of about 10% in a team of over thirty people.Headhunters noted that application-side positions are shrinking, while foundational model teams still lack individuals who can truly train large models. Coding Agents, model evaluation, pre-training data, and Agent infrastructure have become new focal points for talent acquisition; DeepSeek has recently been expanding its recruitment for backend developers and Agent Infra engineers, while the hiring enthusiasm in areas like AI search has decreased. Companies are not only looking at academic qualifications and papers but also place greater importance on whether candidates have actually trained large-scale models in leading teams; the salaries and responsibilities of scarce talents can be negotiated separately, while competition among ordinary AI job seekers is more intense.

The Bank of America Global Fund Manager Survey shows that the biggest tail risk facing the market is a disorderly rise in bond yields, followed by an artificial intelligence bubble.

On October 12, during the in-depth dialogue session at the opening ceremony of the 26th China International Industry Fair, Wang Xingxing, founder of the robotics company Yushu Technology, stated: His faith in AI is growing day by day. The biggest mistake he made in the past decade was not believing enough in AI, and even now, many people may not have fully utilized or embraced AI.Wang Xingxing mentioned that the recent release of GPT-6 has had a significant impact on the cognitive understanding of the embodied intelligence industry. The company team has already deployed it on robots for task testing, and the results have been quite good. He believes that the critical point for embodied intelligence will arrive relatively quickly, possibly within one or two years. However, to achieve large-scale application of robots, issues of generalization and efficiency still need to be resolved, but these problems are expected to be addressed in the coming years.

Binance co-founder He Yi stated in a Chinese AMA at the Binance Smart Product Launch that, "The Binance homepage is now completely customizable; useful things for users can be retained. With the further iteration of personalized AI, the homepage on mobile phones may eventually be completely different from others. The next step for Binance is to enable communication so that many tasks can be handled by it.The Binance skill actually has on-chain skills, but the current operating experience may not be very smooth. However, the next step for Binance will be to structure and framework it into AI Pro.Binance's biggest challenge is talent. Although not everyone will be hired, and some may not pass the interview, there is indeed a strong desire for talent."

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), Star stated that the cryptocurrency industry will enter a mainstream phase starting in 2025. He reviewed that the industry has gone through four stages: geek exploration, formation of financial markets, ICO and DeFi experiments, and compliance construction. Currently, OKX has obtained licenses or is under regulation in markets such as the United States, Europe, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, and Turkey.He added that Deloitte has become OKX's global auditing firm, and OKX may be one of the few international exchanges currently audited globally by one of the Big Four accounting firms.

ChainCatcher live report from the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), where Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech. He stated that AI is both the biggest opportunity and the biggest risk for the current industry development.He believes that the industry is moving beyond the narrative of "blockchain + programmable value," with new features such as "programmable data" realized through zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) emerging.Vitalik expects that privacy protocols on Ethereum will rapidly mature, and within the next two years, most people are likely to use these technologies in an "unperceived" manner.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket prediction market event "Counter-Strike: Astralis vs BIG," the sub-market "Match Winner" option "Astralis" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 76.5% an hour ago to the current 55.5% (a fluctuation of 21%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Finbold, the AI perpetual trading platform PERPTools developed by DEXTools has raised a total of 8 million dollars through two rounds of token financing, including 3 million dollars in the pre-seed round and 5 million dollars in the seed round. Investors include BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion, and Shima Capital.The platform plans to conduct its Token Generation Event (TGE) in the fourth quarter of 2026.

The "whale" stated in a post on platform X, "Bitcoin has surpassed $85,000 today. I have always said that when the Strategy is to continue buying, it is definitely an important signal."

The whale "First set 10 big goals" posted on social media, stating, "I mentioned at the beginning of the month that if BTC stabilizes at 80,000 USD, it will aim for 100,000 USD, the last opportunity to board."