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Strive announced that its newly issued preferred stock SATS has raised $630 million through its initial public offering (IPO) and has been listed on Nasdaq. The raised funds will be used to purchase more Bitcoin and income-generating assets.The preferred stock has a fixed annual dividend rate of 15%, paid daily, with the first dividend scheduled to be distributed on November 9.

According to The Block, TD Cowen analysts have raised the target price for Bitcoin treasury company Strive from $44 to $56, maintaining a "Buy" rating. Analysts Lance Vitanza and Jonnathan Navarrete noted that the amount of Bitcoin purchased by Strive in the past two weeks has exceeded their previous expectations for the entire fourth quarter.The company's Bitcoin holdings increased from 28,000 coins at the end of September to 35,595 coins (worth approximately $2.9 billion), a net increase of nearly 7,600 coins, far exceeding TD Cowen's original estimate of 4,750 coins. Strive has now jumped to fourth place among publicly traded companies in terms of Bitcoin holdings, slightly surpassing MARA. Additionally, Strive plans to expand its preferred stock issuance to 7 million shares (at $90 per share), aiming to raise $630 million to continue increasing its Bitcoin holdings without diluting common stock. The issuance is expected to be completed on October 20.

The credit default swap (CDS) market shows that the CDS prices of technology companies such as Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, and Amazon have surged significantly since the fall of 2025, with some even doubling.This indicates that investors are questioning whether the artificial intelligence boom can generate sufficient returns to support large-scale debt investments. The market is concerned that technology companies may face excessive debt burdens, similar to the situation before the 2008 financial crisis.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana reserve company DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that it will raise the annual dividend yield of its CHAD preferred stock from 13% to 14%, effective November 2. Based on a par value of $10 per CHAD share, the annual dividend will increase from $1.3 per share to $1.4 per share, paid once every business day, contingent upon the company's board declaring the dividend. The company stated that future funds raised from CHAD issuance will be used to expand its Solana reserves, which generate income through staking and validating node operations.CEO Joseph Onorati stated that raising the dividend yield to 14% will help expand investor participation and grow the scale of CHAD. He noted that the appeal of CHAD lies in providing double-digit dividend income through Nasdaq-listed preferred securities, with daily payouts, while the issuer holds income-generating SOL reserves. The company aims to position CHAD as a leading digital credit tool, enhancing the ability to accumulate SOL, adding value for common stock shareholders, while maintaining prudent capital management.DeFi Development increased its holdings by approximately 22,070 SOL and equivalent assets last week, raising its total holdings to about 2.59 million SOL; the company stated that CHAD reached a new trading price high that week and recently approved a buyback plan to repurchase up to all issued CHAD shares.

Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML has raised its full-year sales forecast for the third consecutive quarter, expecting sales in 2026 to be between 44 billion and 45 billion euros. Net sales in the third quarter rose to 11.66 billion euros.ASML plans to increase the production capacity of its low numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment by 30% next year and stated that it will not be able to fully meet market demand in 2027 and 2028.

According to Bloomberg, European venture capital firm Sprints has completed the fundraising for its fifth fund, totaling 725 million euros (approximately 810 million dollars). Henrik Persson, co-founder and managing partner of the firm, stated that the fundraising took about a year, and more than half of the funds have already been deployed for investments in new companies and the existing portfolio, with investors including endowment funds, foundations, pension funds, and family offices.Sprints made early investments in Revolut and is the largest shareholder of the second-hand trading app Vinted, as well as investing in Flightradar24 and payment company Checkout.com. Its invested AI customer service company Fin was acquired by Salesforce this year for 3.6 billion dollars. Persson mentioned that the firm has not invested in any foundational AI companies, as most of these companies have not yet developed a business model.

SWI Group announced the raising of approximately 900 million dollars in funding to expand its AI and data center business. The company has taken control of the cryptocurrency mining company Genesis Digital Assets, which originally belonged to FTX, and will continue to advance its transformation.

According to Crowdfund Insider, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) analyst Craig Siegenthaler adjusted the target prices for three major retail trading and cryptocurrency platforms in early October 2026, as follows:Robinhood (HOOD): Target price raised from $140 to $156, maintaining a "Buy" rating.Coinbase (COIN): Target price raised from $174 to $203, maintaining a "Buy" rating.eToro (ETOR): Target price lowered from $46 to $39, maintaining a "Neutral" rating.

Goldman Sachs has upgraded its three-month outlook for global equities from neutral to overweight.

According to the Business Times citing supply chain sources, Intel has raised the prices of multi-generational PC processors since September, with the high-end Panther Lake seeing an increase of 15% to 20%. Qualcomm raised the prices of multi-chip platforms by about 10% on October 1, and AMD is reported to follow suit, with the increase, scope, and effective date still to be confirmed.The report states that Intel has raised prices three times since the end of last year. Starting from September 1, prices were adjusted differentially by product line, with the highest increase for high-end Panther Lake products, focusing on those equipped with high-end GPU tiles, rather than a simultaneous increase across the entire series; Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake saw increases of about 5% to 10%. Panther Lake adopts heterogeneous integration, with the CPU Compute tile produced by Intel 18A, and the high-end GPU tile outsourced to TSMC N3E. The largest increase this time is for high-end GPUs using TSMC's advanced process.The supply chain indicates that Qualcomm's Snapdragon X and X2 Elite platforms will increase by about 10% starting in October. AMD's Ryzen and EPYC heavily rely on TSMC's advanced processes, with the next generation of EPYC pushing towards 2 nanometers. Industry insiders say that process upgrades, product high-endization, and AI computing power demands are simultaneously driving up CPU prices, with AI, mobile, and high-end computing competing for TSMC's 3-nanometer capacity, while 2-nanometer is entering the ramp-up phase for mass production.

Federal Reserve's Musalem stated that interest rates should be raised in the next 6 to 9 months.

U.S. President Trump praised SpaceX for successfully bringing back the Crew-12 astronauts.

Vitalik Buterin retweeted Nethermind's development progress and stated that Nethermind is continuously improving the efficiency and operating speed of Ethereum.Nethermind core developer Ben Adams mentioned that its Beacon Chain plugin has completed synchronization and is ready to handle the Glamsterdam fork on Sepolia; running the Ethereum execution layer and consensus layer as a single application does not seem to incur significant additional memory overhead.The Ethereum Foundation previously confirmed that Glamsterdam will be activated on Sepolia on October 6, and Nethermind 2.1.0 has supported this upgrade.

Wells Fargo raised the target price for Meta Platforms (META.O) from $796 to $1,000.

The platform Umia, which helps cryptocurrency projects issue and govern tokens, completed a $6.11 million financing by auctioning its own UMIA tokens. Francesco Mosterts, co-founder and CEO of Umia, told The Block that the seven-day auction had a fully diluted valuation of $18 million, selling a total of 17.3 million tokens, which accounted for 34.6% of the total supply. All tokens sold in the auction were unlocked at issuance, with no lock-up period. According to CoinGecko data, the current trading price of UMIA is approximately $0.68, corresponding to a fully diluted valuation of about $34 million.About 45% of the funds came from institutional investors, with ten funds participating, including Galaxy Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Draper Associates, RenGen, Alpha EV, Maven 11, and Eon Capital, along with nearly 700 individual bidders. Umia stated that these funds had the same terms as other bidders, did not receive discounts, and no investors were granted board seats, observer roles, or advisory positions. The auction took place from August 26 to September 2 on Base, using Umia's version of Uniswap's continuous liquidation auction, with a minimum target of $2 million and a maximum token price of $0.36.Umia places the intellectual property, operational team, and treasury of each project under the same legal structure associated with the tokens, rather than being dispersed among companies, foundations, and DAOs.

Bank of America raised its price target for Coinbase from $174 to $203 and reiterated a "Buy" rating. The bank expects that after the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike in September, stablecoin revenue will further increase, thus raising its earnings per share forecast for Coinbase for 2027 to 2028.However, due to weakened cryptocurrency trading volumes, Bank of America has lowered its near-term performance expectations for Coinbase, despite Bitcoin and Ethereum rising 43% and 70% respectively in the third quarter.

Bitcoin Treasuries posted on platform X that Strive's SATA Bitcoin accumulation has been initiated, and sufficient funds have been raised to purchase over 1,270 Bitcoins this week. STRC is approaching a face value of 100 USD.

According to a report by Reuters, Citigroup has raised its price forecasts for Bitcoin and Ethereum over the next 12 months, citing reasons such as increased activity in the cryptocurrency market, a supportive macroeconomic environment, and the resumption of ETF fund inflows.Citigroup has raised its 12-month target price for Bitcoin from $82,000 to $113,000, and its target price for Ethereum from $2,240 to $3,028.In a report released on Wednesday, Citigroup stated that it expects inflows into the cryptocurrency market to resume, but at a slower and more stable pace than before, as advisory firms and brokerages gradually increase their Bitcoin allocations, which is likely to sustain the inflows.Citigroup anticipates that there will be $5 billion in inflows into the cryptocurrency market over the next 12 months. The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act last week. This bill aims to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets, and its blockage poses a certain setback for the entire cryptocurrency industry. Following the U.S. Treasury's recent repurchase of long-term government bonds, the dollar weakened, reigniting the upward momentum in the cryptocurrency market.

According to The Wall Street Journal, on September 30, Beijing time, U.S. President Trump had lunch with about 24 CEOs of technology companies and industry leaders, including Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic, with whom he had previously had a strained relationship. Trump praised Amodei as "outstanding" and called NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang "a handsome guy," and Google CEO Sundar Pichai "an impressive figure."The two sides had previously clashed over the military use of Anthropic's AI models. Trump reiterated his stance on relaxed regulation, while Amodei criticized this position and had previously warned that AI could pose serious risks to humanity, calling for a slowdown in development. The two met face-to-face for the first time last Sunday; on Tuesday, Amodei attended a White House lunch after meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the Capitol a day earlier.Thune and Senator Amy Klobuchar are pushing for a bill aimed at preventing catastrophic harm from AI. Amodei stated on Tuesday, "If we get this right, if we work with the president and everyone here, we can succeed while ensuring safety."

According to official data, the cross-chain aggregator raised nearly 16 million dollars in token sales on the Legion platform, exceeding the target by 8 times.This token sale opened last night at 9 PM and will close on October 2nd at 9 PM.