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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Arsenal FC vs. Everton FC - More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "Everton FC O/U 3.5" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, soaring from 11.1% an hour ago to the current 29.25% (a fluctuation of 18.15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, payment company Block has launched its first Bitcoin advertising campaign aimed at the general consumer, titled "Bitcoin Does," targeting approximately 60 million American users who are curious about Bitcoin but have yet to take the first step. The campaign is led by Maria Pesce, Block's head of Bitcoin marketing, who is responsible for Bitcoin-related marketing across three business lines: Cash App, Square, and Proto.Maria Pesce stated that the advertisements intentionally skip over the science of mining and blockchain principles, directly showcasing how Bitcoin can be used in real-life scenarios. She mentioned that the related creative ideas came from customer research: one Square merchant referred to Bitcoin as "a more honest currency," while topics such as inflation, relief, and private equity formed the narrative backdrop of the advertisement films. Additionally, fixed supply, self-custody, and the choices of younger users are also key points of communication.Block also set up an interactive installation called "Lightning Lake" at the ComplexCon event, where participants could fish for Bitcoin and complete payments through the Lightning Network. Square currently charges a 0% processing fee for Bitcoin transactions, and Block hopes to make the experience of using Bitcoin as commonplace as sending an email.

The super political action committee Digital Freedom Fund, initiated by Gemini co-founders Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss in 2025, submitted documents to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, reporting for the first time advertising expenses exceeding $81,000 to support Republican candidate Ken Paxton's campaign for the Texas Senate seat, while opposing Democratic candidate James Talarico. Early voting in Texas began on October 19, with Election Day on November 3.As of September 30, the PAC has raised approximately $34 million, and its expenditures are not limited to Texas. Documents show its involvement in the Ohio Senate race between Republican candidate Jon Husted and Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, bringing its total support for Husted to about $7 million. Another crypto industry PAC, Fairshake, also reported over $13 million in direct mail advertising expenditures this week, with approximately $9 million supporting Husted and over $4 million opposing independent candidate Dan Osborn in the Nebraska Senate election.These expenditures indicate potential support for candidates who favor crypto policies and legislation. Prediction contracts from Kalshi and Polymarket suggest that Democrats are favored to regain majority control of the House and Senate by 2027, and the majority party in both chambers will influence the legislative process for bills like the Digital Asset Market Structure Act, which failed to pass procedural voting in the Senate last month. Paxton previously defeated incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the May Republican primary, receiving over $500,000 in advertising support from the Fellowship PAC, backed by Anchorage Digital and Cantor Fitzgerald, with the funds executed through the Nxum Group co-founded by Bo Hines.

Netflix's U.S. stock fell 6.1% in pre-market trading after its fourth-quarter profit forecast fell short of expectations, and the company lowered its full-year advertising revenue forecast.

According to "Du Jia," Alibaba Cloud merged its original IQS information query service with CleverSee in mid-September to create a brand new AI-native search service product called CleverSee (Chinese name "Kai Xi"), providing integrated search and Q&A services for enterprise clients.CleverSee is positioned as an AI-native retrieval tool specifically designed to provide understandable high-quality information sources for large models and intelligent agents. Its core includes three sub-products: networked inquiry, vertical domain inquiry, and enterprise internal search, covering public internet information, semi-public information in vertical fields, and private data within enterprises, respectively. The networked inquiry supports intent recognition, multi-turn thinking, and searching while thinking, and can return answers with source citations as well as structured cards for weather, stock prices, etc.; the enterprise internal search is currently in a targeted experience testing phase.Previously, Tencent Cloud opened "Yuanbao Search" to the public on October 20, and ByteDance's Volcano Engine also launched Viking AI Search, accelerating the deployment of AI search infrastructure among domestic cloud vendors for enterprise applications.

Google's advertising policy announcement indicates that starting from October 21, 2026, advertisers targeting cryptocurrency exchanges and software wallets in the UAE must obtain permission from one of the designated local regulatory authorities and be certified by Google.Acceptable licensing authorities include the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), and the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Advertisers must also comply with other local legal requirements, and this policy applies to all accounts globally that target the aforementioned advertisements in the UAE.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated in an interview that he has issued orders to the Israeli military, Mossad, and military intelligence to "overthrow the Iranian regime." Netanyahu mentioned U.S. President Donald Trump's public support for him, stating that Trump believes the current core mission is to eliminate the threat to Israel's existence posed by Iran.

According to PeckShieldAlert monitoring, the phishing attacker who stole $2 million worth of DAI from an address of Bofur Capital has exchanged the stolen funds for 825.5 ETH.

The founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting to overturn his fraud conviction and revoke the $11 billion forfeiture order. According to CNN, the petition was filed on September 10 local time, led by Alexandra A.E. Shapiro from the law firm Shapiro, Arato, Bach. SBF is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.The petition raises two core legal issues: first, when can the trial court admit evidence showing whether victims suffered losses, in cases where the prosecution uses a "fraudulent inducement" theory, meaning that it is irrelevant whether the victims suffered economic losses; second, does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allow for forfeiture or other criminal fines that destroy the defendant's future livelihood prospects? The defense argues that the trial court allowed the prosecution to imply that clients suffered massive losses while prohibiting the defense from presenting evidence that clients have been compensated, which constitutes an error.The defense claims that although FTX and Alameda faced liquidity issues at one point, they always held sufficient assets to ultimately pay back investors and clients, and clients have now been repaid with both principal and interest. In 2023, SBF was convicted of multiple counts of fraud and money laundering, and in 2024, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion. In June of this year, a panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the original ruling. The Supreme Court is expected to decide later this year whether to hear the case.

According to BBX data, yesterday global US and Japanese stock-listed companies announced their latest financial updates regarding the increase in digital asset treasury holdings, capital tool operations, and optimization of collateralized lending. The core updates are as follows:Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST) increased its holdings by 3,311 BTC last week, bringing the total holdings to 32,773 BTC: The US-listed company Strive disclosed its latest treasury updates, revealing that it made a significant purchase of 3,311 Bitcoins in the open market last week. As of now, Strive's cumulative Bitcoin holdings have officially reached 32,773 BTC. During the same period, warrants valued at $208 million have been exercised, with approximately 15.3 million warrants set to expire on October 14 at 05:00.Metaplanet (TSE: 3350) plans to issue 52 billion yen zero-coupon convertible bonds to enhance the flexibility of pledged BTC for increased holdings: According to Metaplanet's CEO Simon Gerovich, the company announced it will issue zero-coupon yen convertible bonds worth 52 billion yen (approximately $328 million) maturing in 2031, while simultaneously advancing its share buyback plan.

According to Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich, Metaplanet announced the issuance of 52 billion yen zero-coupon convertible bonds maturing in 2031, while simultaneously advancing a share buyback.Of the raised funds, up to 28.3 billion yen will be used for discounted repurchase of company shares; 23.6 billion yen will be used to repay loans and release Bitcoin previously locked as collateral, in order to eliminate interest costs and enhance financial flexibility for additional Bitcoin purchases. In addition, Simon Gerovich will lend up to 55 million shares of personal holdings at an annual interest rate of 0.75% to reduce the hedging borrowing costs for institutional investors and optimize the bond issuance conditions.

Nasdaq-listed company Cipher Digital plans to raise funds for its Barber Lake project and high-performance computing (HPC) data center business expansion by issuing $850 million in zero-coupon convertible bonds.Cipher Digital stated that the private placement could be expanded to a maximum of $1 billion if the initial purchasers exercise their option to purchase additional bonds, which would add $150 million in bonds.At the same time, the company plans to convert part of its 1.75% convertible bonds maturing in 2030 into common stock. The company has previously adjusted the planning of its Barber Lake data center project located in Colorado City, Texas, and signed an agreement with Fluidstack and an undisclosed AI laboratory to extend the project contract term from 10 years to 20 years, with expected contract revenue increasing from $3.8 billion to over $9 billion.

The Japanese-listed Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet announced plans to issue zero-coupon convertible bonds in European yen, totaling approximately $333 million (52 billion yen), maturing in 2031, marking the company's first issuance of such bonds. Merrill International will act as the exclusive bookrunner, with an issuance price of 102.5% of face value. The bonds will be listed on the Singapore Exchange, with net proceeds of approximately $333 million (51.9 billion yen).Of this amount, approximately $151 million (23.6 billion yen) will be used to repay credit financing secured by Bitcoin, and up to approximately $181 million (28.3 billion yen) will be used for stock repurchases. These funds will not be used to purchase Bitcoin. As of September 30, the company holds 44,000 Bitcoins, with a credit financing borrowing balance of approximately $650 million, accounting for about 17.7% of the net asset value of Bitcoin, exceeding the company's set target cap of 10%. The company plans to repurchase up to approximately $162 million (25.3 billion yen) in stock through ToSTNeT-3 on October 14, and establish a total repurchase limit of approximately $385 million (60 billion yen).

Cryptocurrency trader Bonk Guy posted that he recently suffered a loss of about $100,000 from trading a new token, mainly due to overtrading and continuously consuming capital while chasing new trading pairs and liquidity rotations. The scale of this position far exceeded his usual investment in similar trades.Bonk Guy reflected that the common point of several recent losses was relying on others' judgments rather than establishing his own investment beliefs. He stated that most of the profits in this cycle came from independent judgment and sticking to positions, but after achieving success, he gradually became complacent and started making unnecessary trades.Bonk Guy emphasized that sometimes the best trade is no trade at all, and he will focus more on opportunities that he truly believes in for investment, even if it means missing out on some market movements.

According to The Block, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a "no-action" exemption, allowing designated contract markets (DCM) to convert certain existing contracts that essentially possess the characteristics of perpetual contracts into "true" perpetual contracts with no expiration date.This exemption is effective until October 20. Exchanges must consult with holders of open positions before the conversion, provide advance notice, and offer them an opportunity to exit, while also providing risk disclosures.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Matador Technologies announced that it has issued a total principal amount of $10.5 million in senior secured convertible bonds and currently holds approximately 168 bitcoins. The company funds its bitcoin treasury through common stock and secured convertible bonds.This issuance is part of its $100 million secured convertible bond program, with a remaining $89.5 million available for withdrawal in batches upon meeting regulatory approvals and other conditions. The company's average monthly cash operating expenses are currently about CAD 125,000, and it plans to further reduce this to approximately CAD 100,000. The company's shareholders will vote on the establishment of a new class of preferred stock on October 14.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Jack Dorsey's payment company Block has announced the launch of its first Bitcoin consumer advertising campaign, aimed at encouraging people to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange and to make Bitcoin "everyday currency." The campaign slogan is "Some things don't make sense. Bitcoin does." The advertisements depict scenes of Americans complaining about rising living costs and Wall Street bankers receiving government bailouts.Miles Suter, head of Block's Bitcoin business, stated that the company focuses on creating financial products that make everyday life more convenient, and this advertising campaign is the first large-scale showcase of a centralized financial system for Bitcoin. The campaign will run from Thursday on YouTube, X, Meta, Instagram, and Fox Sports television channels until December 31, and will be aired before select screenings of "Avengers: Endgame" and "Dune Part 3."Dorsey left Twitter in 2021 to focus on payment business and Bitcoin adoption, and has expressed a desire for Bitcoin to become a global currency. Block's Cash App allows users to buy, sell, and send Bitcoin, while Square accepts Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network. The company also launched a modular Bitcoin mining machine last year to reduce costs for miners in maintenance and equipment replacement.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees," the sub-market "Overtime" option's probability of "Yes" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 12% an hour ago to the current 53.5% (a fluctuation of 41.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Former New York Governor and OKX Director Andrew Cuomo stated that if the Democratic Party wins Congress in the midterm elections, the current regulatory progress in the cryptocurrency industry may be overturned. He noted that the ad hoc rules set by regulators are much weaker than legislation and emphasized that "regulation is not legislation."Previously, on September 15, the Senate voted 49 in favor and 50 against to veto the CLARITY Act, which aimed to establish federal rules for the cryptocurrency market, failing to reach the 60-vote threshold; the SEC granted a five-year exemption for tokenized stock trading on September 17. Andrew Cuomo expects the new Congress to closely scrutinize such agency rules and hopes that the lame-duck Congress will pass relevant legislation before January 1 of next year.

According to on-chain data monitoring account Ember Monitoring, Bitget has opened withdrawals for the third day, and the peak of withdrawals has passed. Coupled with stablecoin fixed income activities and PoolX's ETH and BTC locked mining activities, the platform's funds have turned into net inflows.Since opening withdrawals yesterday afternoon, approximately 28,900 ETH has flowed in, while about 7,266 ETH has flowed out. The largest deposit address retrieved 20,000 ETH from Lido last night and transferred it to Bitget, valued at approximately 54.66 million USD, to participate in the ETH pool with an annualized return of 11.27%.Data shows that Bitget had a net inflow of approximately 9.47 million USD throughout the day yesterday, and from 0:00 to 8:00 today, the net inflow was approximately 31.73 million USD.