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Mike Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated in an interview with CNBC that there will be no "race to the bottom" on the leverage issue. The CFTC will apply the mature margin models and risk control measures that have long been used in the derivatives market to maintain market integrity in the cryptocurrency market.

Alon, co-founder of Pump.fun, stated that two months after the launch of the platform's $15 million Callout reward program, it was found that the initial mechanism inadvertently incentivized undesirable behavior, leading to a flood of low-quality content and weakening users' willingness to continuously create high-quality content.Pump.fun subsequently adjusted the reward algorithm to place greater emphasis on content quality rather than the quantity of posts. According to the new mechanism, the more Callouts a user posts each day, the lower the marginal returns from the new content. Alon mentioned that the reward mechanism is still undergoing iterations, but there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure that a large number of users can sustainably produce high-quality content over the long term.He also stated that the rewards currently cover both top accounts and accounts with fewer than 10 followers, with no favoritism or preferential treatment. Alon suggested that users focus on recommending quality tokens, building trader trust through content, and earning rewards based on the trading volume generated by their Callouts. He emphasized that simply flooding the platform with Callouts or dumping tokens to followers will not yield sustainable returns.

The leverage for cryptocurrency security warehouse, unified account model, and unified account professional version will add 7 types of bStocks tokens on September 30 at 20:00---PDD Holdings (PDDB), Forward Industries (FWDIB), SharonAI (SHAZB), Wendy's (WENB), Adobe (ADBEB), Hewlett Packard (HPEB), and Zoom (ZMB)---as eligible collateral assets. Eligible users can use these tokens as margin collateral.

According to a report by The Block, CryptoQuant's research director Julio Moreno pointed out that Bitcoin's closing price last week was above the 365-day moving average, confirming the start of a new bull market. However, Moreno stated that after Bitcoin reached an eight-month high of $87,400, several indicators show that upward momentum is weakening, and a market correction may follow.The report noted that the on-chain unrealized profit margin for short-term traders has risen to 33%, the highest level since December 2024. Historically, when profit margins are at similar levels, it often prompts traders to take profits. Data shows that on September 22, Bitcoin holders realized profits of 25,700 BTC in a single day, setting a record for the highest daily profit since 2026; the altcoin market also showed signs of selling pressure. The seven-day cumulative number of altcoin transactions rose to 76,000, the highest level since October 17, 2025. Meanwhile, spot demand continues to shrink, and the growth of futures demand has significantly slowed.After Bitcoin previously reached an eight-month high of around $87,400, the upward momentum has shown signs of fatigue. Julio Moreno indicated that if a correction occurs, the 365-day moving average (around $80,000) will serve as the primary support, followed by the 200-day moving average (around $71,000) and the on-chain realized price for traders (around $67,000). Provided that the support levels hold, this correction is more likely to be a healthy consolidation in a young bull market rather than a trend reversal.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the "Chiefs vs. Dolphins" event on the Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Exact Margin: Tie" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, soaring from 2% an hour ago to the current 25.9% (a fluctuation of 23.9%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to CNBC, the prediction market platform Kalshi has submitted an application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) through its clearing agency Kalshi Klear, seeking to introduce margin trading for certain event contracts, allowing eligible traders to use leverage.Currently, event contracts on U.S. regulated exchanges require full collateral, and while Kalshi has offered leverage in its perpetual futures business, it has not yet been authorized to apply this to the prediction market. Kalshi stated that this feature aims to attract more institutional liquidity and, if approved, will only be available to self-clearing members that meet capital requirements, excluding sports, cultural, and "mention-type" markets. The company also plans to increase margin requirements as contracts approach expiration.

Zhu Xiaohu, founding partner of Jinsha River Ventures, stated: The model API business is difficult to maintain high gross margins in the long term. Anthropic currently has a gross margin of about 60%, primarily due to the strong intelligence capabilities of the model, especially in coding scenarios where it had a significant advantage, but that advantage has begun to cross a critical point; when other models catch up, the price may only be one-tenth of its current level, making it hard to maintain a high premium. Even if it remains ahead in the next few years, if the intelligence is only 10% stronger but the price is 50% higher, users may not continue to pay. Intelligence will ultimately become more like electricity and water, and the long-term gross margin for model APIs may be between 10% and 20%. Once capabilities converge, price wars will be hard to avoid, and Anthropic's urgency to go public may also be related to the window period.Zhu Xiaohu mentioned that the AI office market is definitely much larger than AI coding. AI coding was the first to emerge because engineers have a high acceptance of AI, tasks are clear, and results are easy to verify, but it is only part of office work; the truly larger market is the white-collar market, namely AI office, which is essentially a general-purpose agent, similar to Microsoft Office. The competitiveness of AI office products lies in Model + Harness + Product + Context, and once harnesses converge, competition will shift to Context.Regarding Tencent AI, Zhu Xiaohu stated that Tencent is a latecomer, and the Hunyuan model has squeezed into the top tier domestically, with WorkBuddy becoming the leading office agent application in the domestic top tier. Jinsha River Ventures has purchased a WorkBuddy enterprise account because it uses WeChat for Work, and the organizational relationships, historical communications, as well as Tencent Meeting and Tencent Docs constitute a ready-made Context.

According to Nikkei Asia, Chinese chip manufacturer Changxin Storage (CXMT) has taken the lead in profit margins over global competitors, surpassing SK Hynix and Micron. The company has leveraged the tight supply of commodity-grade DRAM to gain an advantage in the second quarter.Changxin Storage's main products include DDR5 memory, which has seen price increases in recent months. Reports indicate that this situation has emerged in the storage chip industry dominated by suppliers from South Korea, the United States, and Japan.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on platform X, pointing out that the profit ratio of short-term Bitcoin holders (STH SOPR) has recently shown noteworthy changes. This indicator measures the profit realization of short-term holders who have held for less than 6 months, and it has now risen above 1, reaching approximately 1.01, marking the first time in over a year that it has entered the profit zone.Darkfost noted that during the last bear market, short-term Bitcoin holders remained in an average loss state for about a year, while the current level is significantly higher than the brief reaction in May of this year, indicating that the optimism among short-term holders is improving. A healthy market should not avoid profit-taking but rather needs to realize profits continuously and moderately, especially for short-term holders, who are the most active and sensitive group in the market. If the 30-day moving average of STH SOPR can maintain its position in the current area, it will be a very positive signal, as historically, every bull market has been accompanied by continuous profit realization from short-term holders.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on platform X, pointing out that the profit margin of short-term Bitcoin holders (STH SOPR) has recently shown noteworthy changes. This indicator is used to measure the profit realization of short-term holders who have held for less than 6 months, and it has now risen above 1, reaching approximately 1.01, marking the first time in over a year that it has entered the profit zone.Darkfost noted that during the last bear market, short-term Bitcoin holders remained in an average loss state for about a year, while the current level is significantly higher than the brief reaction in May of this year, indicating that the optimism among short-term holders is improving. A healthy market should not avoid profit-taking but rather needs to realize profits continuously and moderately, especially for short-term holders, who are the most active and sensitive group in the market. If the 30-day moving average of STH SOPR can maintain in the current area, it will be a very positive signal, as historically, every bull market has been accompanied by short-term holders continuously realizing profits.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a whale that went long on 45,000 ETH sold 1,500 ETH on-chain two hours ago, worth approximately 3.75 million USD, realizing a profit of about 618,000 USD, and deposited the proceeds in USDC as margin into Hyperliquid.Currently, the whale's long position of 107 million USD has further expanded its unrealized loss to 4.8 million USD, with the latest liquidation price at 2,173.36 USD, leaving approximately 207 USD of space before liquidation.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) Chief Financial Officer stated that the gross margin for fiscal year 2028 should stabilize between 72% and 73%.

NVIDIA will announce its second-quarter financial report after the U.S. stock market closes on Wednesday, with market focus mainly on five aspects: AI infrastructure financing, progress on Vera Rubin servers, open model layout, sales in China, and gross margin pressure. NVIDIA recently announced a large-scale AI infrastructure financing plan and is supporting a major data center project in southern Ohio. Investors are beginning to pay attention to the company's depth of participation in related transactions and how these financing arrangements will ultimately yield returns.In terms of products, NVIDIA stated that the next-generation Vera Rubin servers are expected to start shipping in the third or fourth quarter of this year. Previously, Blackwell was delayed for several months due to design flaws, so whether Vera Rubin can proceed as planned will be an important observation point. Meanwhile, NVIDIA is reportedly acquiring technology and engineering talent from the open-weight AI model startup Poolside through a $6 billion authorization agreement to accelerate its own Nemotron open model development.Additionally, the market will also focus on NVIDIA's sales performance in the Chinese market. Regarding gross margins, the company currently maintains a high level of about 75%, but as memory prices rise and competition for custom chips and new processors intensifies, NVIDIA may face increasing difficulty in passing costs onto customers.

According to The Information, DeepSeek is seeking a second round of financing with a valuation of 500 billion yuan, planning to raise 50 billion yuan. The company's revenue from January to July 2026 reached 475 million yuan, approximately 10 times the total revenue for 2025; during the same period, the net loss narrowed to 715 million yuan, compared to a net loss of 935 million yuan for the entire year of 2025. The gross margin is 44.6%, with the API business gross margin reaching 82.9%, mainly due to reduced inference costs from optimized computing infrastructure.Recently, DeepSeek raised its API pricing, with the V4-Pro peak output price increasing from $0.87 to $3.96, but still far below Kimi K3's $15 and Claude Opus 5's $25. The company's investment in computing infrastructure surged from 1.2 billion yuan in 2025 to 11 billion yuan from January to July 2026, primarily for server leasing and AI chip procurement. DeepSeek completed its first round of external financing of 50 billion yuan in June, and the company has hired investment banks to prepare for an IPO in Shanghai next year.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, the largest short position on the Hyperliquid platform for LIT urgently added $2.5 million in margin, with an unrealized loss of $5.605 million.This whale holds 2.528 million LIT (approximately $8.9 million), with an opening price of $1.3. After LIT was listed on Upbit, it briefly surged, and additional margin was added to reduce liquidation risk. Currently, the single-coin margin has reached $7.16 million, with a liquidation price of $5.78.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale opened a 4x leveraged long position of 20,000 ETH half an hour ago, with a position value of 38.71 million USD, an entry average price of 1,936 USD, using a margin of 9.67 million USD, and a margin utilization rate of 100.3%.

According to Entropy Advisors, Robinhood Chain has maintained a gross margin between 87% and 90% since its launch, and this data includes the 10% AEP authorization fee paid to Arbitrum. Analysis indicates that the reasons institutions choose Ethereum Layer 2 are diverse, but a lower operational security budget is an important consideration.

According to the official announcement from Bitget, the platform has officially launched Stock+ US stock margin trading services. Users only need to open a Bitget Stock+ account to use this feature. The first batch supports margin trading for over 3,800 underlying stocks and short selling for over 2,300 underlying stocks (currently only supporting short selling ETB), with a maximum leverage of 3 times. Among them, the annual interest rate for margin trading is 5%; during the promotional period for short selling, the annual interest rate is as low as 0%.The launch of this product further enriches the trading scenarios for US stocks in Stock+. Users can use margin trading to borrow funds to buy securities by using securities or assets in their accounts as collateral; they can also borrow securities to sell through short selling, and buy them back to return after the stock price drops, in order to meet the needs of both long and short trading and improve capital efficiency.

The Chief Financial Officer of SanDisk stated that it is expected to obtain a total contract amount of $93.9 billion from 8 customers during the contract period, with a Non-GAAP gross margin of approximately 80% for the fiscal years 2028 to 2030, and a Non-GAAP operating profit margin expected to reach about 75%. It is anticipated that the adjusted free cash flow profit margin will remain at 50% for the fiscal years 2028 to 2030. The company stated that in the future, after fulfilling strategic investment and business development needs, it will return 100% of excess cash to shareholders.SanDisk expects that as the storage industry cycle improves and the demand for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence infrastructure grows, the company's profitability will further enhance, and shareholder value will be increased through high-margin businesses and capital return strategies. This capital allocation plan shows that SanDisk will prioritize business expansion and strategic investments in the future while returning remaining cash to investors through stock buybacks, dividends, and other means.