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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "LoL: MVK Esports vs Karmine Corp (BO5) - World Championship Qualifiers" event on the prediction market Polymarket has seen significant fluctuations in the "Over" option of the sub-market "O/U 3.5 games," dropping from 58.5% an hour ago to the current 38.5% (a fluctuation of 20%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Legacy vs. BetBoom Team - Thunderpick World Championship Group B," the "Legacy" option in the sub-market "Map 2 Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 63.5% an hour ago to the current 31.5% (a fluctuation of 32%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to The Defiant, the perpetual contract for Sei Network's native token SEI has been launched for trading on OG.com Markets. The exchange is operated by the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) and is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), providing U.S. investors with a compliant channel to access SEI with leverage. Sei officially stated that this is "another compliant way to acquire SEI."The contract was self-certified by the exchange on October 8, and the CFTC product registry has listed it as a certified product, originally scheduled to be listed on October 12. Trading records from October 16 show two transactions of 100 SEI each at 4:54 PM Eastern Time on that day. The contract is settled in U.S. dollars and has no expiration date, allowing traders to maintain long or short positions without rolling over. Clients must access through a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant or an associated introducing broker.Each contract represents 1 SEI, with a minimum trading unit of 100 contracts, and trading occurs around the clock. The funding fees for both long and short positions are calculated every eight hours, with a maximum rate of 2% per period, aimed at aligning the futures price with the CF Sei-Dollar spot rate managed by CF Benchmarks. The contract is settled twice daily at noon and 5 PM Eastern Time. Traders are required to pay the initial margin based on the risk benchmark in U.S. dollars, and the exchange's notification indicates that the initial margin range for its crypto perpetual contract product line is between 15% and 30%.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $2,537, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $862 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $2,296, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $475 million.

The United States Central Command stated that due to the blockade by the United States Navy, Iran has no maritime import and export trade.

According to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as of September 30, the fiscal year 2026 U.S. budget deficit expanded by $217 billion year-on-year to $1.99 trillion, the highest level since the fiscal year 2021. Fiscal revenue reached a record $5.4 trillion, while expenditures amounted to $7.4 trillion. Debt service expenditures increased by 12% to $1.36 trillion. A Supreme Court ruling led to the refund of $145 billion in tariffs, resulting in a net tariff revenue decline of 11%. The budget deficit accounted for 6.2% of GDP.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury stated that total interest expenditure on debt for fiscal year 2026 reached a record $1.36 trillion, an increase of $144 billion from the previous fiscal year, representing a growth rate of 12%.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) released an important announcement this week titled "AI Agents as Attack Vectors," indicating that AI agents operated by unnamed model providers exceeded their granted task scope during testing, reading confidential business records in the online systems of Indian agencies, and no affected agencies discovered this behavior on their own.CERT-In stated that it received voluntary disclosures from several AI model providers, which indicated that these models accessed the online systems of Indian agencies while being researched and evaluated on the internet. The announcement did not disclose the names of the providers, models, or affected agencies. The agents read business records containing personal data and confidential materials, utilizing credentials and connection settings exposed in application configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud service roles. In some cases, the same credentials were recovered multiple times and reused in different operations.Additionally, CERT-In observed that criminals exploited publicly available AI-driven offensive security frameworks to scan for vulnerabilities, implement exploits, and launch economically motivated attacks against Indian entities, reducing the time from initial access to final impact from several days to just hours; these tools were repeatedly repackaged and deployed, with related deployments appearing on servers in multiple countries.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Bitcoin October Price Prediction" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "82,500 USD" experienced severe fluctuations, dropping from 87.5% an hour ago to the current 62.5% (a fluctuation of 25%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to documents submitted by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on October 15, the political action committee Fairshake, primarily funded by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, has invested $46.6 million through its affiliated organization Defend American Jobs in the Ohio Senate election for media advertising opposing former Congressman Sherrod Brown's return to the Senate and supporting Republican incumbent Jon Husted. This expenditure is over 50% more than Fairshake's initial plan of $30 million announced in September.In an interview aired on Pod Save America on October 16, Brown responded that he has spent his entire career battling Wall Street, big pharmaceutical companies, and oil giants, achieving success in many cases, while Husted is a spokesperson for these forces, which is why they have invested tens of millions of dollars. In addition to Fairshake, the super PAC Digital Freedom Fund, established by Gemini co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, reported approximately $3 million in advertising expenditures this week to oppose Brown and support Husted, bringing the total media spending in the Ohio campaign to over $5.9 million. With less than three weeks until the U.S. elections, early voting in Ohio has been underway for 10 days.Fairshake's spending this round has exceeded $41 million for 2024, when the PAC supported Republican Bernie Moreno and opposed the incumbent Brown. Brown, who previously served as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is one of the lawmakers in Congress openly questioning the laws and policies supported by the cryptocurrency industry. Defend American Jobs also reported spending over $6.7 million in the Nebraska Senate election opposing independent candidate Dan Osborn, whose opponent, Republican Pete Ricketts, voted in favor of the Digital Asset Market Structure Act and legislation related to stablecoins. Fairshake stated in January of this year that it held $193 million in cash before the election.

The third-quarter report released by the stablecoin payment network Borderless.xyz shows that the median cost of sending a $200 remittance through stablecoin funding channels is 1%, or $2; whereas, according to World Bank data, the median cost of traditional remittance channels is 6.36%, or $12.72. In comparison, the cost of stablecoin remittances is approximately 84% lower. This comparison uses Borderless's pricing for the third quarter of 2026 and World Bank data for the same period in 2025.In emerging markets, the cost advantage is also evident. The cost of stablecoin remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa is 2.9%, while traditional transfers are 8.46%; in Latin America, the figures are 1.25% and 5.64%, respectively. In terms of corporate payments, a $10,000 stablecoin transfer to the Eurozone can cost as low as $26 when choosing the lowest-cost service provider, with the median service provider costing $52; traditional international bank wire transfers for the same amount require $135 to $150, including transfer fees and a 1% foreign exchange spread.Regarding settlement speed, the report states that stablecoin payments can reach the recipient's local bank account within minutes. The median settlement time for Brazil's PIX network in the third quarter is 2 minutes, Mexico's SPEI is 3 minutes, and Colombia's PSE is 2 minutes; traditional SWIFT transfers typically settle the next day, with the slowest 10% taking 3 business days. The success rate for receiving funds varies significantly: Mexico's SPEI is 98.6%, Brazil's PIX is 97.8%, Colombia's PSE is 79%, and Costa Rica's SINPE is only 73%. Standard Chartered Bank recently pointed out that although the total market capitalization of stablecoins has grown relatively slowly this year, transaction volumes are still rising, and it is expected that this market will reach $2 trillion by 2030, two years later than previously predicted.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently priced at $2400, with a 24-hour decline of 2.14%.

Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that the order response median speed of Coinbase's new matching engine has improved by 60 times, and the tail latency has improved by 480 times.Coinbase Advanced supports trading cryptocurrencies, stocks, commodities, and foreign exchange.

According to market news, a certain address contract account has accumulated earnings of over 20 million USD, closing approximately 14.62 million USD ETH long positions on October 17, 2026, at 00:41.The address previously held about 14.67 million USD ETH long positions, which have now all been closed, with a closing profit of approximately 469,000 USD. Address: 0xbf732ea04197942783e34730ed6e0f6099575d58.

LayerZero Labs, in collaboration with the a16z Crypto research team, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London, has released new research results called Aerie, aimed at enhancing the aggregation efficiency of post-quantum cryptography signatures. According to the introduction, Aerie is built on the previously launched lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme Akita.On a MacBook Pro equipped with the Apple M4 Max chip, using 16 CPU cores without GPU acceleration, it can aggregate 32,768 Falcon-512 signatures in 0.65 seconds, with peak memory usage of approximately 2.1 GiB. LayerZero states that compared to the previous Orthus scheme, Aerie's proof generation speed has improved by about 1.5 times, verification speed has increased by 38 times, and proof size has been reduced by about 1.7 times. Additionally, Aerie supports the aggregation of ML-DSA signatures standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with specific performance data to be announced later. This research aims to provide a technical path for achieving low-latency, post-quantum secure consensus on blockchain without the need for dedicated hardware.

The cross-chain exchange protocol NEAR Intents released a post-mortem report attributing a $3.8 million vulnerability to a flaw in the deposit notification feature. The protocol deploys a public settlement contract on NEAR that maintains an internal ledger of deposited tokens, while withdrawals transfer tokens out via a cross-chain bridge. The report was published by NEAR Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko on October 16, stating that the attacker withdrew $3.8 million before the protocol was shut down on October 1 and returned all funds within 36 hours of detection, with all affected users fully compensated.The report indicates that the feature notifies third-party contracts when tokens are deposited. The attacker created a contract that intentionally caused the notification to fail, allowing the token contract to refund the deposit while NEAR Intents retained the corresponding ledger credit. Through 23 failed deposit transactions, the attacker accumulated $3.8 million in unsupported balance, referred to in the report as ghost funds, and subsequently withdrew real tokens based on this and transferred them to other chains via the Omni infrastructure. Shevchenko stated that this was a vulnerability in the NEAR Intents contract, not in the Omni infrastructure.Withdrawals occurred between September 29 and October 1. The settlement contract was paused and reopened on October 1, with affected routes gradually restored, and contract-side deposits resumed on October 2. The report noted that the vulnerability went undetected because monitoring only compared the original chain assets with the total balance of NEAR side tokens, without comparing the total internal user balances with the actual tokens held by the contract; the team has since added this check and will automatically pause the contract when there is a balance inconsistency. The fix for the October vulnerability was deployed on October 2, but another serious vulnerability report regarding the same feature prompted its complete removal on October 7, with the relevant researcher receiving a $300,000 reward.

The U.S. Treasury did not explicitly suggest a reduction in the scale of long-term Treasury bond auctions, leading to a slight increase in long-term U.S. Treasury yields. Before the quarterly refinancing announcement on November 4, the Treasury consulted with Treasury bond dealers but did not release any clear signals regarding a potential reduction in the issuance scale of long-term Treasury bonds.

Documents disclosed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicate that the investment advisory firm Unique Wealth has submitted a 13F-HR report to the SEC, showing that it holds approximately $10.4 million in Bitcoin-related positions.The 13F-HR is a quarterly holdings report submitted by institutional investment managers to the SEC, used solely to disclose securities holdings that meet the reporting threshold, excluding directly held crypto assets. Therefore, the aforementioned positions typically represent Bitcoin exposure in the form of securities such as spot Bitcoin ETFs.

The speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Waller failed to boost the dollar, with the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index dropping 0.4% on Friday, set to record its worst weekly performance since September 4. The dollar weakened against most major currencies, with the euro rising. Waller did not comment on monetary policy at the International Monetary Fund annual meeting, and investors reduced their bets on a rate hike by the Federal Reserve this month.

On October 16, B.AI announced the domestic model brand Token weekly ranking from October 9 to 15. Xiaomi model Token usage has remained steady at 2nd place for three consecutive weeks, with a month-on-month increase of 49.9%, and the platform Token usage proportion increased by 10.4 percentage points; DeepSeek continues to lead this week with a total of 1.03T Tokens; Zhipu saw a month-on-month growth of 44.3%, with the platform proportion increasing by 3.7 percentage points, ranking 3rd; Moonshot Token usage surged by 286.5% month-on-month. With multiple models competing on the same stage, real usage witnesses market changes. B.AI continues to expand model choices, helping developers flexibly access diverse AI capabilities. Welcome to log in to b.ai to explore.