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Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML is expected to announce its Q3 financial report on October 14. Driven by demand for AI chips, the market anticipates significant growth in revenue and profits compared to the same period in 2025. Wall Street analysts estimate Q3 revenue at 11.73 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 55%; earnings per share are projected to be 10.76 euros, nearly doubling from 5.49 euros in Q3 2025.ASML's Q2 revenue was 9.3 billion euros, higher than 7.7 billion euros in the same period of 2025, with net profit increasing from 2.3 billion euros to 2.9 billion euros. The company estimates Q3 revenue to be between 11 billion and 12 billion euros, with a gross margin of 55% to 57%, and has raised its full-year revenue outlook to between 43 billion and 45 billion euros.ASML is the only manufacturer in the world that commercializes extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment. Foundries such as TSMC, Intel, and Samsung rely on its equipment to manufacture advanced AI processors, and the company is also developing the next generation of High-NA EUV. Intel has processed over 1 million wafers using this equipment in research, testing, and manufacturing, while Samsung plans to introduce it into advanced DRAM mass production by 2028. The market expects ASML to increase the capacity of its existing EUV systems by about 30% by 2027.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that the Bitcoin long-term holder SOPR (Spent Output Profit Ratio) has re-established itself above the 1.1 annual average line and maintained that level, indicating that the average profit margin achieved by long-term holders over the past year is about 10%. Currently, the weekly average of BTC long-term holder SOPR is 1.25, and the monthly average is 1.16, both above the annual average, suggesting an improvement in market conditions and that long-term holders are starting to realize profits again.Darkfost pointed out that this change is worth comparing to the previous bear market: at that time, as the bear market approached its end, long-term holders also began to profit again. He believes that moderate profits in the market are a positive signal and may further boost investor expectations for the future market.

The Q3 earnings season for U.S. stocks kicks off this week. According to Zacks data, the year-on-year earnings growth for S&P 500 constituents is expected to reach 24.3%, marking the eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with the technology sector expected to grow by 43.3%, being a major contributor.The AI narrative has entered its fourth year, and investors are shifting their focus to evidence of stable profit growth. If companies fail to meet market expectations, stocks that previously rose due to AI prospects may face greater downward pressure. The earnings release dates for major tech companies include: SML on October 14, TSMC on October 15, Netflix on October 20, Tesla on October 21, Western Digital on October 22, SK Hynix on October 27, Alphabet and Microsoft on October 28, Intel, Amazon, and SanDisk on October 29, Kioxia on October 30. In November, Apple and Palantir on November 2, AMD and SpaceX on November 3, Meta and Arm on November 4, Cisco on November 11, Applied Materials on November 12, NVIDIA on November 18, Dell on November 24. On December 1, Marvell and CrowdStrike will release their earnings. The above dates are forecasts, and the actual disclosure times may be adjusted.

Crypto trader Ansem posted about one of the biggest lessons learned from years of trading cryptocurrencies.He stated that catching the right rotation in trading is just the first step; what truly determines whether you can keep the profits is whether you can take profits in a timely manner and compound them. In 2017, he made a lot of money trading altcoins, but much of it was through rotation trading, giving back profits and returning to square one.From 2020 to 2021, he showed significant improvement, being able to identify narratives earlier, rotating between SOL, LUNA, and AVAX, and compounding profits from different trades. Recognizing opportunities early and knowing when to take profits are equally important skills.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, smart money with a win rate of 100% and a cumulative profit of 9.26 million dollars has re-entered the market after the decline, going long on 12,000 ETH (approximately 29.88 million dollars) with 20x leverage. The current unrealized profit on the position is approximately 626,000 dollars.

New York startup Vest Labs announced the completion of a $13 million seed round financing, which closed in July this year, led by Portal Ventures, with participation from individual investors including Citadel Securities, BlackRock, and KKR executives.Vest was co-founded by University of Pennsylvania dropout Justin Ma, Rikuya Takatsu, and Maximilian Tsiang. The platform allows qualified traders to use company funds to trade perpetual futures contracts around the clock, with traders able to receive up to 80% of the profit share, differentiating itself from traditional proprietary trading firms that charge users for simulated account fees. The company plans to use the funding to develop a mobile application, expand its 22-person team, and broaden the range of tradable asset classes.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet marked as associated with Andrew Tate transferred 20,950 HYPE to Binance on October 2, worth approximately 1.87 million USD.This wallet purchased 122,826.9 HYPE at an average price of 4.48 USD on November 29, 2024, investing about 550,000 USD; within two days, it sold 41,430 HYPE, with the majority of the remaining amount used for staking.Lookonchain estimates that the HYPE holdings of this address have accumulated profits of 7.24 million USD, with a return rate of 1317%. The address still holds 42,417 HYPE, valued at approximately 3.7 million USD based on the current price.

According to foreign media reports, Goldman Sachs bankers earned huge commissions while handling SpaceX's IPO. As early as five years ago, when SpaceX was valued at only tens of billions of dollars, Goldman Sachs helped high-net-worth clients invest in the company.After SpaceX went public with a valuation of $1.77 trillion, clients who sold shares received substantial profits and paid Goldman Sachs hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool, Jiang Zhuoer, posted on the X platform stating that the number of ETH queued for withdrawal from staking has risen to 850,000, with the waiting time increasing to 14.77 days, both of which are the highest within 2026. This indicates that a group of coin holders believes the current coin price is relatively high and needs to sell coins to lock in profits.

According to Axel Adler Jr's monitoring, although the price of Bitcoin has further risen to around $87,000, the market's profit-taking pressure is weaker than in August. During the second round of price increases, profits realized were 19% lower than during the first round, and losses also decreased.At the peak of the first round of increases on August 26, the price of Bitcoin was about $78,600, with profits realized over the past 7 days reaching $9.1 billion; at the peak of the second round on September 24, the price of Bitcoin rose to $84,100, with profits realized over the past 7 days amounting to $7.3 billion, a 19% decrease from the previous round. During the same period, losses realized over the past 7 days dropped from $2.6 billion to $1.5 billion. As of today, Bitcoin's net realized profit over the past 7 days is $4.3 billion.The Short-Term Holder SOPR has remained above 1 since August 20, indicating that the overall Bitcoin transferred by short-term holders is still in profit, but the profit margin has narrowed. At the peak on August 26, the corresponding profit margin for short-term holder SOPR was 2.8%; it dropped to 1.6% at the peak on September 23; and as of today, it has further decreased to 1%. During the pullback of Bitcoin to $76,500 on September 17, the short-term holder SOPR fell to a low of 1.003, with the profit margin for short-term holders transferring Bitcoin narrowing to 0.3%, but it did not fall below 1.

According to Ember Monitoring, a whale/institution that has held ETH for 3 years continued to take profits 9 hours ago by transferring 30,825 ETH ($83.03 million). Over the course of a week, a total of 112,053 ETH ($300 million) was transferred to Bitfinex, realizing a profit of $72.83 million.This whale/institution withdrew 130,592 ETH ($264 million) from Bitfinex in 2023 at an average price of $2,026.

CryptoQuant's Research Director Julio Moreno stated that with the recent rise in Bitcoin, the unrealized profit rate has increased to 33%, reaching the highest level since December 2024.Meanwhile, the scale of Bitcoin profit-taking has risen to 25,700 BTC, marking the highest level since 2026. Moreno believes that the simultaneous rise in unrealized profit rate and profit-taking scale typically indicates that the momentum of this rally is weakening, and the market faces the risk of a correction.

Analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) currently have an realized profit level of about 72%. Although they are in a profitable state, there is still a significant gap compared to previous market peaks.In comparison, in December 2024, LTH realized profits once approached 350%. Darkfost believes that long-term holders are currently in a relatively moderate profit-taking phase, similar to the levels during the last bear market, so most LTH may prefer to continue holding rather than cashing out on a large scale at this stage.

According to Hyperbot data, Huang Licheng is continuously taking profits by reducing positions in ETH and BTC long positions, with a total position value of 10.66 million USD and a current floating profit of approximately 3.125 million USD.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a speech in the Senate lasting over 10 minutes, calling for a vote against the CLARITY Act. She stated that Trump and his family profited $1.4 billion from the crypto business in 2025 alone, exceeding the revenue of any publicly listed crypto company in the U.S. last year, and that buyers of his crypto projects lost billions of dollars, with meme coin buyers losing nearly $4 billion.The Senate failed to pass the procedural vote with a result of 49-50, falling short by 11 votes of the 60 needed to begin debate, with no Democrats voting to advance it. Warren claimed that the bill would exacerbate Trump's corruption and criticized the ethical terms negotiated by the Republicans with the White House as a "tiny fig leaf," stating that it would not prevent Trump from continuing to profit from crypto.Warren also stated that the bill would create a huge loophole in nearly a century of securities law, allowing non-crypto companies to put assets on-chain to evade investor protections, and enabling banks to use customer deposits for crypto lending, trading derivatives, operating nodes, and selling related software.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella stated that we need to accelerate AI development and expand the benefits brought by AI so that it can widely benefit different countries, communities, and businesses. This requires the establishment of a cutting-edge ecosystem that allows both closed-source and open-source models to thrive.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."