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According to Bitcoin Magazine, Richard Byworth previously worked at Syz Capital, focusing his career on hedge fund structure design. In an interview with Bitcoin Magazine, he stated that the next round of Bitcoin's rise is just a matter of time.He pointed out that, based on data from on-chain analysis platforms like Glassnode, the current level of seller exhaustion has reached a historical high. Although the market does not exhibit an extreme bearish atmosphere, multiple on-chain indicators show that Bitcoin is strongly building a bottom. He mentioned that Bitcoin has been trading in the range just above $80,000 in recent weeks, and he believed that $58,000 was a bottom.Byworth also discussed Bitcoin yield strategies. He warned that using a covered call strategy during a bullish market could lead to significant losses of Bitcoin for investors, and advocated for earning low-volatility, market-neutral returns through basis trading collateralized by Bitcoin. He noted that Strive had bought three times the weekly issuance of Bitcoin in a single transaction within a week, believing that the next round of rise is just a matter of time.Regarding Bitcoin treasury companies, Byworth stated that the digital credit products designed by Saylor are putting pressure on the traditional bond market, as the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries is around 5.1% to 5.2%, and investors will see their returns eroded by the faster pace of currency depreciation. He mentioned followers like Strive and Metaplanet, and believes that Bitcoin could break its historical high again before the end of the year, and reaching $350,000 in about a year is not entirely impossible.

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.

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.

According to Bank of America citing EPFR data, in the week ending Wednesday, emerging market stocks saw an inflow of $17.7 billion, the highest since July; among them, Brazil recorded an inflow of $4.7 billion.

Jefferies economist Mohit Kumar pointed out that in the next three years, the United States will invest 2.5% to 3% of its GDP in AI infrastructure, a scale that will exceed historical records.He warned that if the pace of construction slows down, it will have a significant impact on related companies and the U.S. economy.

In September, the U.S. PPI annual rate recorded 6.3%, the highest since May 2026, exceeding market expectations of 5.3%.In September, the U.S. PPI monthly rate recorded 1.3%, significantly higher than the market expectation of 0.5%. In September, U.S. retail sales monthly rate recorded 0.8%, above market expectations.

SpaceXAI released Grok Voice 3, achieving a record customer support resolution rate at a lower cost.

U.S. inflation data exceeded expectations, prompting traders to bet on interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, with the dollar rising to its highest level in over a year. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index surged significantly on Wednesday, rising as much as 0.4% during the session.For the four weeks ending October 9, the dollar has accumulated a nearly 3% increase, marking the longest consecutive rise since early 2025. The market expects the total interest rate hikes in the U.S. to exceed 90 basis points in the future.

According to Beating reports, Tencent announced a deep integration of WeChat Work and WorkBuddy. In the new version of WeChat Work 5.0.12, WorkBuddy enters the corporate address book, allowing employees to chat with it, assign tasks, or pull it into work groups just like they would with colleagues, for summarizing group chats, organizing meeting to-dos, drafting emails, and returning results directly upon completion.WorkBuddy 5.8.0 supports logging in with a WeChat Work account. Within the scope of corporate authorization, it can access 10 office capabilities including chat messages, documents, meetings, and WeChat Cloud. Employees do not need to repeatedly upload materials, as they can handle tasks by combining previous discussions and project files, with results saved to WeChat Cloud with one click. The WorkBuddy bot can also connect to WeChat Work's built-in AI assistant "DaYuan" to collaboratively handle more complex tasks.Administrators can assign WorkBuddy accounts, set data access permissions, and through the "Observability Center," which will begin public testing on October 13, view the points consumption of various departments, model usage, task duration, and track which specific execution steps encountered issues. The new interoperability features are open to certified WeChat Work enterprises and offer a limited free trial quota.

According to Decrypt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9. The suspect, 35 years old and of Saudi nationality, has been employed at OpenAI since July 2025 and is accused of using or attempting to use devices to intercept oral communications. He made his first appearance in federal court this Tuesday. OpenAI stated that it has referred the matter to the FBI and thanked the relevant agents and prosecutors for their swift action, while the FBI's investigation is ongoing.OpenAI released a statement on X, stating that the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in the office and used its own model to analyze the device and its origin, ultimately identifying that an employee placed it there a few days prior. According to the criminal complaint, the device was discovered around September 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a television, wrapped in paper towels, with its contents encrypted, and was installed around September 28. Surveillance footage showed that Alfozan was seen near the conference room multiple times before the device was discovered, but he had neither the authority to enter that room nor to attend the related meetings, which typically involved confidential technical and strategic information.The complaint states that before the device was installed, Alfozan used internal productivity tools to inquire about OpenAI's office building address, conference rooms, room capacities, schedules, and locations of meetings between executives and external partners. A chatbot account associated with his spouse asked between September 24 and 30 how to create a continuous recording device, add Wi-Fi connectivity, enhance real-time listening capabilities, and encrypt the device's SD card.

Driven by fluctuations in gold and silver prices and active trading by investors, global banks are expected to achieve approximately $5 billion in precious metals trading revenue in 2026, setting a new historical high.JPMorgan earned about $700 million from precious metals trading in the first half of the year, while Deutsche Bank's related revenue exceeded $200 million this year. Citigroup has become the first bank in ten years to join the London gold market vault and clearing services.

According to Gate market data, Oracle (ORCL.N) is expected to record its largest single-day decline in 12 weeks, recently down 6%.

Layer 1 blockchain Sui announced that its programmable off-chain channels processed over 40 million transactions per second during a real-time stress test aimed at high-frequency activities for AI agents, breaking the record set in July of this year. The test was conducted on Wednesday at the Sui Basecamp in Singapore, peaking at 40,614,180 TPS, surpassing the approximately 6.1 million TPS level of similar tests in July.During the test, transactions were processed through Sui's off-chain channels, which settle to the Sui mainnet when closed. Sui stated that over 10,000 channels were opened on the mainnet during the test, covering scenarios such as payments, gaming, and chat applications. These channels are designed to handle high-frequency activities, including interactions between AI agents, without requiring each transaction to be processed directly on-chain.Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Sui's original contributor Mysten Labs, stated that Sui is built for the moment when millions of AI agents transact daily, noting that no market in the world needs 6 million transactions per second, let alone 40 million; humans cannot move that fast, but agents can. Security company CertiK served as an independent auditor during the demonstration, reviewing the test data, with a report expected to be released in the coming days.

The New York Fed survey shows that American consumers' expectations for inflation over the next year rose to 3.9% in September, reaching a new high in over three years. The three-year inflation expectation increased from 3.2% to 3.3%, while the five-year expectation remained at 3%.Households' expectations for price increases in gasoline, food, and other items have risen, evaluations of financial conditions and credit difficulty have worsened, but expectations for the job market have improved.

The World Gold Council report indicates that in September, global gold ETFs attracted $10 billion in inflows, driving the total inflow for the third quarter to a record $31 billion. Despite the decline in gold prices, global gold holdings still increased by 67 tons, reaching 4,256 tons. Funds listed in the United States and the United Kingdom dominated the inflows.

According to Gate market data, the yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond rose to 5.7041%, increasing by more than 6 basis points during the day, reaching the highest level since 2002.

According to data from paymentscan.xyz (first shared by The Kobeissi Letter), the payment volume processed by crypto cards has surged to a record $12.5 billion, a 140% increase year-to-date, and 247% higher than the levels in October 2025.The Kobeissi Letter indicates that this growth is driven by the increased use of stablecoins as a payment channel and the push for cheaper and faster cross-border transactions. QR code payments are another highlight, with demand for QR code consumption driving a 55% month-over-month increase in the number of activated cards for Jupiter Spend, which is one of the largest on-chain card providers.Major players are also entering the crypto card space. Fold Holdings (NASDAQ: FLD) announced earlier this year that it has begun issuing the Fold Bitcoin Credit Card to select members of its waitlist. This card operates on the Visa network and is supported by Stripe Issuing, usable at 175 million merchants, offering 1.5% Bitcoin cashback, up to 4%. Aven has launched the Aven Bitcoin Visa Card, allowing cardholders to borrow up to $1 million against Bitcoin collateral, with interest rates starting at 7.99%.

Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of the Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), stated that driven by the rise in Bitcoin prices, the company recorded a book profit of $21 billion in digital assets for the third quarter, returning to profitability. As of October 4, the company holds 848,000 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $72.6 billion at current prices, along with $5.7 billion in dollar assets.Last week, the company spent $28.7 million to acquire an additional 334 Bitcoins and repurchased $176 million of STRC preferred stock. Bitcoin prices rose over 40% in the third quarter, marking the best quarterly performance in years, with recent quotes around $85,655, and a 30-day increase of over 8%. Following the announcement, Strategy's stock (MSTR) rose nearly 2% during New York trading hours.Previously, Strategy announced a plan that may periodically sell Bitcoin to raise up to $1.25 billion for dollar reserves, paying preferred stock dividends and interest expenses, or repurchases, after which its pace of Bitcoin purchases slowed. The company was forced to sell Bitcoin earlier this year, and CEO Phong Le told investors that the company has a "bulletproof balance sheet." In the quarterly financial report in July, Strategy recorded a loss of $8.22 billion.