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Financial technology company Block, founded by Jack Dorsey, gifted a participant at the ComplexCon event in Los Angeles with 1 Bitcoin, which was valued at approximately $85,000 at the time. Block participated in this annual event organized by Complex Networks to introduce Bitcoin to new users through "culture, shopping, and entertainment."Block's Cash App set up a fishing game booth called "Lightning Lake" at the event, where participants could win small amounts of Bitcoin, and one player caught a whole Bitcoin. Maria Pesce, Block's Bitcoin marketing lead, stated that the goal is to make Bitcoin approachable, tangible, and fun, "so that people can go from never having used Bitcoin to making payments with it while walking around the lake." She mentioned that Block's aim is to make Bitcoin a daily currency.Block has long promoted Bitcoin adoption through its products: Cash App allows users to send, receive, and buy Bitcoin, while Square's point-of-sale systems accept Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network. The company, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, also launched an advertising campaign this month to encourage people to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. Dorsey left Twitter in 2021 to focus on payment and Bitcoin adoption and has repeatedly expressed his desire for Bitcoin to become a global currency and "everyday money." During the event, Kanye West's daughter North West was also spotted trying to fish for Bitcoin with rapper French Montana at Lightning Lake.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring data, as the price of Ethereum (ETH) retraced, address 0x6f4...52F67 withdrew 3583.2 ETH from Binance in the past 2 hours, with a total value of approximately 9.27 million dollars, and the average withdrawal price was 2587.32 dollars.

On Wednesday during the European trading session, U.S. stock index futures showed a lackluster performance, and U.S. Treasury yields rebounded, with the 10-year yield rising above 5.3% and the 30-year yield hovering around 5.69%. Concerns about inflation, an expanding fiscal deficit, and an increase in AI bond issuance have driven yields to high levels. The escalation of geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East has pushed up oil prices, intensifying inflationary pressures. CME FedWatch indicates that traders expect the probability of an interest rate hike in October to be only about 22%.

On October 6, GasFree will launch a lucky money-drawing interactive experience at Token2049 in Singapore on October 7. Attendees can shake and draw on-site for a chance to win lucky draws, limited merchandise, and surprise rewards.You are welcome to visit the GasFree booth to check in, shake the lucky money-drawing machine, try your luck, and take home exclusive good fortune, limited merchandise, and surprise rewards.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid24/7.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has approximately 70.96 sell orders at the price level of $85,902, with a nominal value of about $6.1 million, which is about 0.43% above the mid-price of approximately $85,537 at that time.The total buy orders at the near-end market amount to approximately $22.5864 million, while sell orders are about $26.7876 million, resulting in a net sell order surplus of approximately $4.2012 million, accounting for 8.51% of the total depth.

The Kraken status page shows that the exchange is investigating the issue causing delays in ETH and ERC20 token withdrawals.

CrowdStrike, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and NVIDIA expand their global cybersecurity startup accelerator, aiming to define the next generation of innovation in the era of intelligent agents.

According to Defimon Alerts monitoring, a new address funded by Tornado Cash withdrew 200 WETH from a dormant MakerDAO ETH-A liquidation bot on October 6, resulting in a loss of approximately $538,000.This upgradable proxy had won four ETH-A liquidation auctions in 2020 (numbers 1457 to 1460, each with 50 WETH), but did not call deal(), leaving the collateral in Flipper.The withdrawal function of the implementation contract was not protected by ds-auth, allowing any caller to trigger it: first calling deal() on the aforementioned old auctions, then transferring the collateral to the keeper via Vat.flux, and subsequently using GemJoin.exit to transfer 200 WETH to the address specified by the caller and unpacking it into ETH. The MakerDAO core contracts operated as designed, with the vulnerability lying in the unprivileged exit function of the third-party bot.

The 14-day public announcement period for the Sun Yuchen Award regarding question numbers 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001 has officially ended. The official confirmation states that there were no unresolved objections during the announcement period, and the qualifications of the relevant awardees have been finally confirmed, entering the written confirmation and prize distribution process for the first batch of awardees.According to the previous announcement information, the awardees for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, while the awardees for questions 866 and 1001 are problem solvers. Question 526 received rewards for both roles. Additionally, candidates for problem-solving for questions 239 and 327 have been under public announcement since September 30 and are still ongoing.The Sun Yuchen Award was established by Sun Yuchen, the founder of TRON, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million USD. The prize pool on-chain address has already deposited 10 million USD. The confirmation of this first batch of awardees also signifies that the Sun Yuchen Award has completed its first complete public announcement loop and initiated substantial prize redemption.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid24/7.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has approximately 71.39 sell orders at the price level of $86,005, with a nominal value of about $6.14 million, which is about 0.44% above the mid-price of approximately $85,626 at that time. The total sell orders at the near end are about $25.92 million, while the buy orders are about $24.22 million.Currently, Coinbase's spot sell orders have a net long position of about $1.70 million, accounting for 3.39% of the total depth. The sell order at the price level of $86,005 is the most prominent resistance at the near end.

According to CNBC, U.S. Democratic Congressman Don Davis proposed the "No Betting on Your Own Race Act," which aims to prohibit federal office candidates from trading prediction market contracts related to their own election results.Under the bill, violators will be fined at least $10,000 or three times the net profits from the related trades, whichever is higher. Before this proposal was introduced, Davis's Republican opponent in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District, Laurie Buckhout, was fined nearly $2,600 for trading Kalshi contracts related to her candidacy and was suspended from trading on Kalshi for three years.

The Ethereum staking withdrawal queue has retreated from last week's peak. After MetaMask began withdrawing validators, the withdrawal queue once climbed to about 851,000 ETH, and is currently down to about 767,000 ETH. Previously, on September 29, the queue was only about 166,000 ETH, growing more than five times in just a few days, reaching about 2% of the total staked ETH of approximately 43.6 million.On September 30, MetaMask disclosed a security incident affecting some of its infrastructure and took the affected validators offline as a precaution. Its update on October 1 stated that the investigation found no signs of impact on wallets or customer funds. In addition to its wallet services, MetaMask also operates validators for the staking service provider Lido. Ethereum security researcher Kaden estimates that this precautionary withdrawal involves about 17,000 validators and approximately 523,000 ETH, although MetaMask has not confirmed this data.Lido expects that as the affected validators withdraw and their balances are extracted, these ETH will gradually be restaked, a process that may take about 45 days. During the downtime, the affected validators will miss out on rewards, and Lido stated that stETH holders do not need to take any action. Meanwhile, the demand for entering the staking queue has cooled, with about 1.5 million ETH waiting to enter, and the estimated waiting time is about 25 days.

Mr. Li Yi, a Douyin user, posted a video on social media stating that on June 10 of this year, he downloaded a fake wallet from the official Huawei store, which led to the exposure of his mnemonic phrase and the theft of 177,473 USDT.According to his description, the hacker changed the permissions of his wallet address to multi-signature, and then implemented a secondary scam under the pretext of unlocking it for spending money. After the victim transferred funds, all USDT in the address was transferred away.Mr. Li Yi claimed that after he released the video exposing the app, the download volume of the app in the official store plummeted. The hacker repeatedly gathered internet trolls to report his video, causing it to be forcibly taken down, and privately attempted to negotiate a conditional agreement to delete the video.He also stated that after conducting a private investigation, he learned that the scam app had five servers set up in Hong Kong, paying to have the app listed in the Huawei official store and to boost its ranking, causing a large number of victims to download it first in searches. Due to relevant bans in mainland China, related wallet apps cannot be normally launched in the store, so any app that cannot be launched but does exist in the store may be a counterfeit scam app.

According to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa, yesterday's newly established ETH whales continued to increase their holdings today, withdrawing 1236 ETH from OKX one hour ago. The amount of ETH accumulated since yesterday has grown to 2656 ETH (approximately 7.18 million USD), with an average withdrawal price of 2703.3 USD, now showing a floating profit of 19,500 USD.

According to official data from Bitget, the second batch of rewards for its "Peer Program" has been completed. So far, the platform has distributed a total of 2,786,953 USDT rewards to 1,529,978 users.This event will last until October 26, and users can participate without registration. During this period, Bitget will continue to set up a user-exclusive prize pool with 30% of the platform's trading fee revenue, offering trading rewards, asset rewards, and VIP exclusive rights to different user groups.

Huawei announced that Huawei and Qualcomm have reached a multi-year, broad patent licensing agreement, which includes cross-licensing of patent portfolios in multiple fields such as 5G, computing, artificial intelligence, and networking, as well as Qualcomm's acquisition of some of Huawei's U.S. patents.The transaction will be completed upon obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals. The agreement reflects the two companies' shared commitment to intellectual property protection and adherence to licensing practices that are fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory.

According to the market information platform Liquid24/7.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has approximately 67.65 buy orders at the price level of $86,165, with a nominal value of about $5.829 million, retracting about 0.37% from the mid-price of approximately $86,488 at that time.The total near-term buy orders amount to approximately $20.0554 million, while sell orders are about $24.5673 million, resulting in a net sell excess of approximately $4.512 million, accounting for 10.11% of the total depth.

Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng retweeted a post about "The New York Times reporter visiting his home in Abu Dhabi for an interview" and responded that reporter David admitted to having a skeptical attitude towards him, implying that the act of giving Binance merchandise for free was a "bribe." He stated that the merchandise was meant to make people "walking billboards," while still expressing gratitude for the report.The original tweet released by Ram stated, "There are Binance merchandise piled up at Zhao Changpeng's doorstep, and he insisted on letting the reporter choose a gift. The reporter said he could not accept items worth more than $20, to which Zhao Changpeng jokingly replied, 'It's probably worth $19.'"