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The cryptocurrency research platform Glassnode pointed out in the latest issue of The Week Onchain report that within the 30 days ending on October 5, approximately $4.9 billion of "new funds" flowed into Bitcoin, covering corporate treasury purchases, stablecoin growth, and inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs. During the same period, Bitcoin achieved a market capitalization increase of $12.8 billion, more than double the size of the new funds.Glassnode stated that new funds only accounted for less than two-fifths of this increase, with the remainder coming from existing market funds being traded at higher prices. Data shows that since the launch of the spot ETF in January 2024, Bitcoin's upward trends have shown similar differentiation, but the scale of inflows accompanying the rises in 2024 and 2025 is far greater than the current situation. Glassnode noted that before inflows recover, the market will rely on existing holders to pay higher prices.Since September 21, Bitcoin has attempted to break through $87,000 four times without success, and as of the time of writing on Thursday, it was around $83,000, down 1% for the month. Glassnode pointed out that on the first week since January when Bitcoin closed above $85,000, about 86% of the tokens transferred to exchanges came from short-term holders who had held for less than 155 days and were in profit, marking the highest single-day proportion in the past year. CryptoQuant data shows that as of October 7, the overall cost basis for short-term holders is approximately $78,250, still in a net profit state.

On October 8, the IMF published a blog based on Chapter 3 of the Global Financial Stability Report for October 2026, indicating that the tokenized market is growing rapidly but remains very small and highly fragmented. The average daily trading volume of tokenized repurchase agreements is about $300 billion to $350 billion, while other tokenized assets amount to about $65 billion, compared to an average daily volume of about $13 trillion in the U.S. repurchase market, and a total global capital market asset size of $300 trillion.The report points out that investors have shown interest in certain tokenized features, with more than half of the trades occurring outside traditional market hours, and about 80% of tokenized stock trades being less than 1 share. However, the tokenized market has lower liquidity and higher volatility than traditional markets, and cross-platform fragmentation weakens network effects. The IMF believes that legal certainty, regulatory clarity, interoperability, and secure settlement assets are four mutually reinforcing constraints.The report also warns that scaling up could amplify traditional financial risks such as sell-offs, liquidity squeezes, and contagion. Policymakers should adopt a technology-neutral approach, clarify the legal rights of tokenized assets, ensure consistent regulation for similar activities, support interoperability between tokenized platforms and the traditional financial system, and continuously monitor interconnectedness, leverage, and liquidity risks.

Security company CertiK's analysis shows that a legacy MakerDAO auction keeper contract was exploited, with the attacker taking away 200 ETH, worth over $500,000. CertiK stated that the root cause was the lack of access control for the 0x8804d1de function in the keeper implementation contract.This contract was involved in the "Black Thursday" liquidation crisis in March 2020, when it won ETH with zero bids, with four transactions of 50 ETH each remaining unsettled. The attacker took this batch of funds and transferred them out in amounts of 10 ETH each via Tornado Cash. Although this contract is not currently a core part of the Sky ecosystem, old contracts with remaining funds may still become targets for attacks.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain address (t1hBootrMTnk9t2uYV3AWhMTswxphheEpEr) withdrew 1000 ZEC from Binance one hour ago, worth 1.33 million dollars.Shortly after, all 1000 ZEC were transferred into the Zcash privacy pool, making subsequent transfers private.

According to CNBC, U.S. President Trump will honor several tech executives at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit on Thursday. The White House confirmed that SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and AMD CEO Lisa Su will receive the National Medal of Science, while Dell founder Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Fox News was the first to report this. White House Assistant Press Secretary Liz Huston stated that the Trump administration appreciates the contributions of these science and technology leaders, and the awardees are helping to ensure that the U.S. continues to lead the world in innovation.The summit comes just over a week after Trump hosted a lunch at the White House focused on artificial intelligence, where he stated that he had signed a morally binding document with tech leaders. CNBC reported that the aforementioned awardees have financially supported Trump or the Republican Party: Musk contributed over $290 million during the 2024 election cycle and led efforts to reduce federal employees as a special government employee under the Trump administration; Brin attended the inauguration and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee in 2025; Huang donated to the fund for building the White House banquet hall, and NVIDIA donated $1 million to the inauguration; Dell and his wife Susan pledged $6.25 billion to provide seed funding for Trump Accounts, and AMD also contributed to Trump-related funds.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has approximately 71.7 buy orders at the price level of $82,928, nominally about $5.9463 million, which is a pullback of about 0.41% from the mid-price of approximately $83,273 at that time. The total buy orders at the near-end market are about $22.6663 million, while the sell orders are about $20.8999 million.This buy order is the most prominent support at the near-end of Coinbase's spot market, with a net buy of approximately $1.7664 million, accounting for 4.05% of the total depth.

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 Liquid247.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 Liquid247.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.