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For the week ending October 10, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States was 199,000, expected to be 200,000, and the previous value was revised from 197,000 to 198,000.

Iran has stated that the Strait of Hormuz is currently closed, and passage must be coordinated.

On-chain data company CryptoQuant researcher Rei Researcher pointed out in a report released on Monday that as the Bitcoin supply on exchanges continues to shrink, the price of Bitcoin may see an upward trend. The report shows that the Bitcoin held by exchanges has decreased from 2.8 million in February to 2.67 million. The recent price of Bitcoin is around $83,485, remaining stable over the past 24 hours but rising 8% over the past 30 days, following the best-performing quarter in years.The report states, "If buying demand continues to improve while exchange supply remains low, Bitcoin could benefit from a supply-demand imbalance, creating favorable conditions for a longer-term upward trend." The report adds, "More importantly, Bitcoin has rebounded from its lows in recent weeks, while exchange reserves continue to decline. This is a notable development, indicating that even as the market recovers, the supply available for trading is still decreasing." The report also notes that investors may be transferring Bitcoin out of exchanges and into cold wallets.In the first half of 2026, Bitcoin traded below $65,000 for most of the time. After reaching an all-time high of $126,080 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a bear market for most of this year. However, the situation changed in August when the U.S. Treasury doubled the scale of liquidity support repurchase operations, weakening the dollar while boosting non-yielding assets like Bitcoin. Analysts say that the so-called "devaluation trade" has heated up again, benefiting Bitcoin as it did in 2024 and 2025. Currently, the price of Bitcoin is still over 30% lower than its historical record.

For the week ending October 3, the four-week average of initial claims for unemployment insurance in the United States was 198,000, revised from the previous value of 200,000 to 200,500.

For the week ending October 3, the number of initial unemployment claims in the United States was 197,000, lower than the expected 200,000, and the previous value was revised from 197,000 to 199,000.

ICBA accuses OCC of lacking regulatory safeguards in granting banking charters to cryptocurrency companies. The cryptocurrency lobbying group CCI supports OCC, stating that the lawsuit aims to stifle financial innovation.

Mr. Li Yi, a Douyin user, posted a video on social media stating that on June 10 of this year, he downloaded a fake wallet from the official Huawei store, which led to the exposure of his mnemonic phrase and the theft of 177,473 USDT.According to his description, the hacker changed the permissions of his wallet address to multi-signature, and then implemented a secondary scam under the pretext of unlocking it for spending money. After the victim transferred funds, all USDT in the address was transferred away.Mr. Li Yi claimed that after he released the video exposing the app, the download volume of the app in the official store plummeted. The hacker repeatedly gathered internet trolls to report his video, causing it to be forcibly taken down, and privately attempted to negotiate a conditional agreement to delete the video.He also stated that after conducting a private investigation, he learned that the scam app had five servers set up in Hong Kong, paying to have the app listed in the Huawei official store and to boost its ranking, causing a large number of victims to download it first in searches. Due to relevant bans in mainland China, related wallet apps cannot be normally launched in the store, so any app that cannot be launched but does exist in the store may be a counterfeit scam app.

Drift Foundation has explained the compensation plan following the hacking of the protocol: for every 1 USDT lost, users can receive 1 DFX token, and the redemption amount depends on the recovery pool balance, which currently only covers about 1% of the total claims;Tether has committed to providing up to 127.5 million USDT to support the protocol restart and user compensation, with the funds being linked to the net protocol revenue of Velocity and not disbursed in a lump sum; the claims deadline is January 1, 2028, and users can choose to hold DFX or trade on secondary markets like Raydium, with the only official link being dfx.drift.trade.

The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Iran has responded to the U.S. proposal. The U.S. proposal is similar to previous ones, focusing on nuclear issues, while Iran hopes to shift the focus to the Strait of Hormuz.

According to The Block, the Solana ecosystem perpetual contract exchange Velocity (formerly Drift) has opened compensation claims for the April theft incident. Users can receive 1 DFX token for every 1 USDT lost, with the current payout rate being approximately 0.0104 USDT per DFX, which is about 1% of the loss.The current compensation pool is approximately 3.11 million USDT, with a total supply of DFX being around 299.5 million tokens and no further issuance planned. The Drift Foundation stated that the compensation pool will continue to be funded with protocol revenue, and Tether has committed to providing up to 127.5 million USDT to support the restart and user compensation, with the claim deadline set for January 1, 2028. Previously, Drift suffered an attack in April, resulting in a loss of approximately 295.4 million USD.

AI startup Tavus released a new model called Griffin on October 1, referring to it as the first "human interaction model" that can understand and generate face-to-face conversations, paying attention not only to wording but also to expressions and pauses. Tavus stated that in tests, after a one-minute video call with Griffin-Lite, 26 out of 54 participants (48%) believed the other party was a real person; its previous generation system only convinced 1 out of 41 participants.Participants were told they would have a one-minute video call with another person to discuss things they were looking forward to this year, and only at the end of the call were they asked if they suspected the other party was not a real person. Tavus noted that those who became suspicious typically noticed within 20 seconds. This result comes from Tavus's own research page, where participants were recruited through a channel they call an independent research platform. Community comments on X pointed out that these results have not been independently verified and do not meet standard protocols.In the NVIDIA VideoFDB benchmark, Tavus claimed Griffin-Lite ranked first, with a generation dimension score of 3.83, the next best system scoring 2.8, and human reference scoring 3.92; the perception dimension score was 3.73, with the strongest baseline at 3.44 and human reference at 4.2. Tavus stated that NVIDIA independently conducted this evaluation. Griffin supports full duplex, allowing it to listen, see, and speak simultaneously, with an average audio-video delay of 0.43 seconds on the NVIDIA H100 chip. Tavus completed a $40 million Series B funding round led by CRV in November 2025.

According to Bitcoin.com, U.S. Federal Judge Jennifer L. Rochon dismissed the class action lawsuit against the organizers of the LIBRA project, Kelsier Ventures, the DeFi protocol Meteora, and related individuals, while also denying the plaintiffs' request to amend the complaint again.

According to Drift Foundation monitoring, DFX claims and redemptions are now online. Users who have verified losses from the April 1 incident can receive 1 DFX for every 1 USDT lost. Each DFX corresponds to a claim on the Recovery Pool, which currently contains approximately 3.11 million USDT. The funding sources include a portion of the daily net income from the Velocity protocol, up to 127.5 million USDT from Tether, up to 20 million USDT from strategic partners, and assets recovered subsequently.DFX can be redeemed for USDT based on the formula "Recovery Pool balance ÷ DFX outstanding supply." The redeemed DFX will be destroyed, and the transaction is irreversible. The claims window will close on January 1, 2028, at 00:00 UTC, at which point any unclaimed DFX will be destroyed. Yesterday, the Drift Foundation announced the progress of fund recovery from the April 1 security incident, revealing that approximately 295 million dollars of user assets were stolen. The foundation has engaged Mandiant, zeroShadow, and SEAL 911 to conduct investigations and fund tracking, with Mandiant identifying the attacker as the North Korean threat group UNC6862.

For the week ending September 26, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States was 197,000, lower than the expected 200,000, and the previous value was revised from 197,000 to 198,000.

The founder of Pons, MEADGod, posted on platform X indicating that a social trading feature is about to be launched.Community member byTheGentleman added that this feature will be comparable to FOMO, or include real-time on-chain buying and selling dynamics, wallet tracking and instant alerts, verified profit and loss records, and trader leaderboards, as well as extending to Solana through Pump.fun.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet stated that he disagrees with the view that "only about 30% of BTC faces quantum computing risks, while the remaining approximately 70% is secure due to public key hashing."Glassnode data shows that currently about 30.2% of BTC has exposed spending public keys on-chain, but Guillemet pointed out that this only reflects the static state on-chain; unexposed public keys may still exist in xpub, devices, PSBT, logs, or backups; and once a BTC transaction is initiated, the public key will be revealed before the transaction is confirmed.Guillemet cited research from Google Quantum AI stating that under currently non-existent high-speed quantum computer models, attacks on secp256k1 could be completed in about 9 minutes. Therefore, simply hiding public keys cannot solve the quantum risk, and Bitcoin will ultimately need to migrate to post-quantum cryptography.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated on Sunday local time that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz depends on whether the U.S. meets the conditions set by Iran, and he mentioned that resolving the current deadlock through negotiation is still feasible. Iran previously proposed conditions such as stopping U.S. aggression, ending maritime blockades and economic warfare, and releasing Iranian assets. U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Saturday that he had rejected Iran's latest conditional proposal, and the Wall Street Journal cited U.S. officials saying that Trump is expected to resume bombing Iran after the midterm elections in November.Meanwhile, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy claimed on Sunday that it captured a U.S. Remus 600 unmanned underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz and stated that it has handed it over to relevant personnel for data extraction. The U.S. Central Command has not immediately commented on this. Due to the conflict between Iran and the U.S., energy transportation in the Middle East has been severely restricted, with WTI crude oil closing this week at $92.41 per barrel, down 7.9% for the week; Brent crude oil closed at $104.32 per barrel, remaining basically flat for the week.

For the week ending September 19, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States was 197,000, lower than the expected 201,000, and the previous value was revised from 196,000 to 198,000.For the week ending September 12, the number of continuing jobless claims in the United States was 1.719 million, lower than the expected 1.745 million, and the previous value was revised from 1.73 million to 1.717 million.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Iran's BitBank, claiming that the exchange processed Bitcoin payments made by vessels under the Hormuz Security Insurance Program.The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control stated that as of June, these funds had been transferred to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Babak Zanjani's network had used the exchange to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Bitcoin payment channels are not exempt from regulation by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control.