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Nasdaq-listed company Alpha Modus announced that it acquired 3,170 Bitcoins through a share swap, valued at over $250 million, thereby expanding the company's Bitcoin holdings.The company exchanged 51.6 million shares of stock and corresponding warrants for the aforementioned Bitcoins. This transaction expanded Alpha Modus's asset base but simultaneously diluted the equity of existing shareholders.

The Zurich-based robotics startup Enact Intelligence announced the completion of a $30 million Pre-seed funding round, with investors including Redalpine, Notion Capital, and Firstminute Capital. This is the largest Pre-seed funding round in Switzerland's history. Yann LeCun and Mistral co-founder Arthur Mensch also participated in the support.The company was co-founded by former employees of 1X and Physical Intelligence, aiming to address one of the biggest bottlenecks in the robotics field.

Solana's largest network upgrade since 2020, Alpenglow, officially launched on Wednesday. This upgrade moves validator voting from on-chain to off-chain, packaging votes into certificates that can lock transactions within one to two rounds, aiming to reduce the final confirmation time for transactions from about 6 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds, speeding it up by about 40 times. If this goal is achieved on the mainnet, Solana's transaction settlement speed will be faster than the blink of an eye, bringing it closer to the trading and payment experience of centralized exchanges.Currently, a 6-second confirmation time means that prices may change before the transaction is locked, causing exchanges and payment applications to wait before considering deposits as complete. In comparison, Ethereum takes about 13 minutes to achieve full final confirmation. At the same time, validator costs are expected to decrease by about 60%: currently, validators spend about 2 SOL daily on voting fees, which doubled after Solana recently reduced block time to about 200 milliseconds; Alpenglow eliminates voting fees, replacing them with a fixed validator entry fee of 0.8 SOL per epoch (approximately 24 hours).The upgrade launch process was not smooth. The testnet has been cleared and restarted from scratch six times since its launch in early May, with one migration failing across the entire network and having to be rolled back. According to an article published by Galaxy Digital, one of about 100 validator operators on the testnet, a subsequent migration was successfully completed, clearing the way for Wednesday's launch. Since these events occurred on a network built specifically for testing, there was no risk to real funds. The upgrade was scheduled to switch at the start of epoch 1064 on Wednesday, with actual changes occurring at slot 459,653,000 after a transition of 5,000 slots.

On October 20, 2026, Jason Pagoulatos, a macro and market author at the cryptocurrency research institution Delphi Digital, released a report titled "The House Always Wins: Why Speculation is the Theme of This Decade." Pagoulatos stated that speculation has two long-term engines: constructive and lottery-like. Technological changes open the former, while fiscal and political pressures open the latter; historically, many famous bubbles have been driven by one or the other. Today, both are operating at high speed simultaneously, and the same batch of technologies is feeding both. He thus considers speculation itself as an investable theme, advocating for holding places for liquidation bets rather than holding the bets themselves.The data cited in the report includes that the U.S. federal deficit for fiscal year 2025 is $1.8 trillion, about 5.8% of GDP, with net interest around $1 trillion per year, exceeding defense spending. The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies states that the national median price for single-family homes in 2024 is 5.0 times the median household income; the National Association of Realtors reports that first-time homebuyers account for 21% of transactions, with a median age of 40. According to the American Gaming Association, legal sports betting amounts have risen from $6.6 billion in 2018 to $166.9 billion in 2025. Capital expenditures for Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta are approximately $416 billion for 2025, with guidance for 2026 totaling about $720 billion to $745 billion, plus Oracle.In terms of venues, Robinhood's event contract revenue for Q2 2026 is $156 million, higher than stock revenue of $129 million and crypto revenue of $100 million during the same period. Hyperliquid's expenses for 2025 are about $972 million, with transactions around $3 trillion. Kalshi reportedly raised funds at a valuation of about $40 billion, and Polymarket is set to relaunch in the U.S. by the end of 2025. The author also mentions that the most likely mistake is to hold inventory of the crowd and call it a casino. The report states that it is for educational and general informational purposes only and is not investment advice; the author may hold Bitcoin, HYPE, HOOD, and LIT, and affiliated party Delphi Ventures may invest in the assets or agreements discussed in the report.

According to Binance Alpha data, the opening price of the NeoSoul token DNA, which is dedicated to building an operating system for the Agent Economy, was approximately 0.04 USD. As of October 16 at 16:06 (SGT), it reported 0.1321 USD, an increase of about 230% from the opening price, with a peak reaching 0.1436 USD and a trading volume of approximately 4.09 million USD.The number of DNA holding addresses has reached 17,258, with a current FDV of approximately 132 million USD. NeoSoul's core product, NeoTrade, is a universal execution layer for trading agents.

Solana ecosystem R&D company Anza announced that the Alpenglow mainnet test version will be activated on October 21, 2026, at 14:50 (UTC). After the upgrade is completed, transaction finality is expected to shorten from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.Alpenglow will replace the existing TowerBFT voting mechanism with Votor, allowing validators to not write every vote to the chain but instead confirm consensus through direct communication and summarizing into smaller records. The network is expected to maintain the existing system for about 18 minutes, switching to Votor after staking SOL reaches 82% of the validator set. Another component of Alpenglow, Rotor, will adjust the distribution method of new blocks among validators, but the activation date has not yet been announced. This upgrade only includes Votor, and Solana will temporarily focus on the replacement of the consensus mechanism.

According to Gate market data, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is expected to evaporate more than 2 trillion USD in market value within seven trading days.

The AI Agent project NeoSoul token DNA will be launched on October 16 on Binance Alpha, OKX perpetual contracts, as well as exchanges like Bitget, Gate, MEXC, and KuCoin. The DNA airdrop query is now open.In addition, according to Binance Wallet news, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to launch DNA, and eligible users can use Binance Alpha points to receive the DNA airdrop.

According to CoinDesk, Solana plans to implement the Alpenglow upgrade on October 21. This upgrade aims to reduce the transaction finality time to about 150 milliseconds and replace the existing voting system of the network with a faster certificate-based consensus mechanism.

According to official news, the PancakeSwap core team (The Kitchen) has released a tokenomics proposal titled "The Flip." This proposal suggests increasing the trading fee sharing ratio for PancakeSwap v3 and Infinity liquidity providers (LP) to 88% across all 11 supported chains, with the remaining 12% allocated as protocol fees to the treasury, while v2 remains unchanged.

According to The Defiant, the Solana development team Anza has scheduled the migration of Alpenglow's mainnet Beta for approximately 10:50 AM Eastern Time on October 21 (Wednesday), at which point the new consensus system will replace TowerBFT, aiming to reduce the final confirmation time for transactions to about 150 milliseconds. The Solana Foundation's upgrade guide indicates that the final confirmation time under TowerBFT is about 12.8 seconds. Final confirmation refers to the point in time when a transaction can no longer be rolled back, rather than the block interval.Alpenglow's Votor voting protocol no longer submits votes as on-chain transactions; instead, messages are sent directly between validators and aggregated into certificates, allowing blocks to be finally confirmed after one to two rounds of voting. The removal of voting transactions from blocks also frees up block space for users, while the execution and fees for user transactions remain unchanged. This upgrade had previously completed the migration of the testnet and development network in September, and the mainnet functionality switch has not yet been activated. According to Anza's activation policy, the new version of the software must be adopted by 95% of the staked amount for two epochs before it can be activated on the mainnet.The migration plan separates the activation of the functionality switch from the handover itself: the functionality switch is activated at the epoch boundary, and after 5,000 slots, blocks will pause carrying user transactions and will only contain votes. Validators will then establish the Alpenglow genesis certificate supported by 82% of the staked amount, roll back blocks containing only votes, and then restore user transactions with Votor. Anza expects the handover to take several hundred milliseconds.

According to a report from the official Coinbase blog, the Anti-Scam Centre (ASC) of the Singapore Police Force released a briefing on scams and cybercrime for the first half of 2026, showing that cryptocurrency scam losses in Singapore decreased by 43% year-on-year, from 114.9 million Singapore dollars to 65.5 million Singapore dollars.The ASC attributes this achievement in part to the actions taken by industry partners, including the shutdown of 47,500 mobile lines, 37,500 WhatsApp accounts, and 52,200 malicious websites, as well as investigations into over 2,900 money mules and scammers, resulting in approximately 470 prosecutions. The Coinbase Global Intelligence Team identified over 720 potential victims through four joint operations with the ASC, helping to intercept potential losses of over 18.9 million Singapore dollars.

According to Bloomberg, stock, options, and cryptocurrency API broker Alpaca announced plans to launch a prime brokerage business in the first quarter of 2027. Prime brokers can provide financing, asset custody, and securities lending services to large investment institutions such as hedge funds.The plan aims to target the institutional financing needs arising from the integration of cryptocurrency and traditional securities markets.

Bybit announced the launch of stock trading, allowing users to directly trade U.S. stocks and ETFs on the platform. Bybit stated that it has over 80 million global users, and this service is supported by the brokerage infrastructure provider Alpaca.Eligible Bybit users can invest in over 1,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, with some eligible securities supporting fractional shares, and various trading strategies can be used in both traditional markets and digital asset markets. Trading covers U.S. pre-market, regular, and after-hours sessions, available 5 days a week, 24 hours a day.

According to a report by Reuters on October 9, the Philadelphia police stated in a statement that a model from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic submitted a false murder case tip through the Philadelphia police website. Anthropic notified the police earlier this week and stated that the submission was caused by an automated testing process.The police said the tip was submitted through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18, 2026, involving an unsolved murder case, claiming to possibly have information about the case. The submission was marked as spam and was never forwarded to the Real-Time Crime Center for investigation or distribution. The police also stated that no unauthorized access to the system was found, nor was any departmental data leaked.Anthropic informed the police that after discovering the situation, it had stopped the related testing process and added verification mechanisms for future tests. The company plans to release a report on the matter on Friday. Reuters reported that Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Binance Alpha will remove a total of 14 tokens on October 9 at 16:00: SUP (Superp), CUDIS (CUDIS), PYTHIA (PYTHIA), BLUM (Blum), KIN (Kindred Labs), DN (DeepNode), GAIA (Gaia), STRIKE (StrikeBit AI), CDL (Creditlink), KO (Kyuzo's Friends), VRA (Verasity), EPT (Balance), SLX (SLIMEX), CAI (CharacterX).After removal, users can still withdraw or sell the above tokens on Binance Alpha.

Mike Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated on the X platform that the United States will no longer sit idly by while cryptocurrency businesses flow overseas and standards are set by other countries. He mentioned that the cryptocurrency industry is returning to the United States, and clear regulatory rules will help the industry stay in the U.S. and be led by the U.S. in development.

According to the official announcement, the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has announced that it will add support for Bedrock (BR) and Dolphin (POD) Korean won trading markets.Specifically, Bedrock (BR) will open for trading on October 6 at 19:00, supported by the BNB Smart Chain. Deposits and withdrawals are expected to open within 2 hours after the announcement, with a benchmark price of 590 Korean won and a required number of deposit confirmations of 15.Dolphin (POD) will open for trading on October 6 at 20:00, supported by Base. Deposits and withdrawals are expected to open within 2 hours after the announcement, with a benchmark price of 1086 Korean won and a required number of deposit confirmations of 200.Bithumb reminds users that only designated network deposits are supported, and transfers from other networks will not be supported.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Products and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), the OKX AI team elaborated on its core philosophy, which is "AI and finance start with the user": AI needs to understand user intent, respect the boundaries set by users, and return to the user at decision points that require human judgment.Based on this philosophy, the team stated that they have built a complete set of capabilities to help AI entities scale from "intelligence" to "action": the Agent Trade Kit allows users' AI entities to connect directly to OKX exchange data and execute trades; the On-chain OS supports operating on-chain assets using natural language, the Agentic Wallet allows funding to be allocated to the AI within preset guardrails; the OKX AI entity marketplace supports subscribing to signals from professional trading entities and authorizing copy trading; developers can monetize their own models through the AI Builder program.