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According to Decrypt, Decrypt has announced that its self-custody Money Accounts are now live on Solana, providing readers with a single balance that can be used across all Decrypt products to support its financial and intelligence market, The Information Exchange. Decrypt co-founder Ilan Hazan stated that the goal is to achieve one account and one balance, allowing users to utilize various financial tools directly from where they obtain information, from prediction markets to perpetual contracts and swaps. Users can manage all positions in one place without worrying about wallets, cross-chain bridges, or public chains, with relevant partners to be announced in the coming weeks.Deposits and balances are denominated in USDT on Solana, and the same balance can support products such as Earn, Swaps, Predictions, and Perps. Gas and rent are sponsored through joint signatures by payers, so users do not need to hold SOL or consider network fees. The account operates in a self-custody mode, meaning Decrypt does not hold private keys and cannot perform operations on behalf of users, with a private key export feature coming soon. Cross-chain operations are completed at the underlying level; for example, the Myriad Predictions market settles on the BNB Chain, yet users can still trade using the same Solana USDT balance without needing to interact with a cross-chain bridge.Existing Myriad Wallet users can directly use Decrypt Money Accounts, with one account and one balance covering both Decrypt and Myriad without the need for migration.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, the address 0x129...72EbE has accumulated a position worth 8.09 million dollars in altcoins over the past 4 hours, mainly involving artificial intelligence (AI) and cross-chain infrastructure sectors.The specific holdings and withdrawal price details are as follows:ZRO: 2.55 million coins (approximately 5.3 million dollars), withdrawal price is 2.08 dollars;WLD: 4.41 million coins (approximately 2.29 million dollars), withdrawal price is 0.5189 dollars;CHIP: 10 million coins (approximately 492 thousand dollars), withdrawal price is 0.04928 dollars.

Bitget held an offline event today to celebrate its eighth anniversary. The head of the Greater China region, Xie Jiayin, reflected on the platform's eight-year development journey, stating that Bitget has gradually expanded from a single cryptocurrency trading platform to a panoramic exchange (UEX) covering diverse scenarios such as stocks, commodities, and AI trading. As of the second quarter, the trading volume of non-cryptocurrency assets accounted for 40%, with approximately 1 in every 4 new users starting their Bitget journey through rToken.Looking towards the next phase, Xie Jiayin stated that Bitget will continue to advance the UEX strategy, expand more diverse assets and trading scenarios, and improve institutional-grade custody and over-the-counter settlement infrastructure to meet the differentiated needs of various types of institutions through diversified custody and settlement models. Institutional services will also continue to be an important strategic direction for Bitget in the next phase.At the event, Bitget simultaneously disclosed the progress of the third batch of rewards for the "Peer Program": a total of $3,495,658 in rewards has been distributed, benefiting 2,277,318 participants. Xie Jiayin expressed that the platform hopes to implement "user first" into concrete actions through product development, service upgrades, and user feedback.

Analyst Darkfost stated that the recent demand for Bitcoin in the market has significantly improved, especially as spot demand continues to rise. Currently, the total demand for Bitcoin has returned to positive territory, exceeding 14,000 BTC, while futures demand remains relatively stable, averaging about 32,000 BTC recently.Spot demand is currently around negative 17,000 BTC. Although it is still in negative territory, it has improved significantly from negative 207,000 BTC on September 20. Darkfost believes that while the current Bitcoin price is declining, market demand is gradually recovering, which is a positive market signal.

The Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a circular on the audit of reserve assets, clarifying the minimum requirements for independent audits of Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP). VASP must maintain reserves of no less than 100% of customer liabilities throughout the review period and hold the same virtual assets in a 1:1 ratio, conducting daily reconciliations.The audit scope must cover hot wallets, warm wallets, cold wallets, third-party wallet infrastructure, and third-party custodial assets, and verify customer asset segregation, wallet control, and whether there is any re-staking, lending, or other usage scenarios.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), the OKX Pay team introduced that the stablecoin savings and payment application OKX Money is now available in over 30 countries, primarily targeting non-traders and non-crypto native users; the team demonstrated a transfer from Singapore to Venezuela that arrived in seconds.According to the introduction, the OKX Money account is built on self-custodied smart accounts and operates on the X Layer wallet network; the Pay Boost feature launched for European users supports continuous interest accrual, with spending directly deducted from the interest-earning balance, while the remaining funds continue to appreciate.The team also previewed that it will support AI agents (after user authorization) to create investment strategies and execute small transactions within OKX Money.

Changer+ announced the launch of its self-custodial wallet centered around stablecoins, aimed at making the holding, transferring, and using of stablecoins simpler.Changer+ currently supports mainstream stablecoins on the Ethereum, TRON, BNB Chain, and Solana networks, including USDT and USDC. As a self-custodial wallet, Changer+ allows users to always control their private keys while providing flexible Gas fee payment options, and integrates practical features such as security risk alerts, global eSIM data plans, and a lifestyle ticketing market, offering users a safer, more convenient, and enriched digital asset usage experience.To celebrate the launch, new users can receive three eligible free transactions per device on each supported chain (including Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain) from October 6, 2026, to November 6, 2026.Changer+ has also completed an independent security audit and VAPT conducted by Echo Pulse. It is reported that Echo Pulse is a CREST-certified, Singapore-licensed cybersecurity service provider.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that AI has demonstrated strong penetration and offensive and defensive capabilities, with cases emerging of breaking out of sandboxes, attacking websites, and discovering various software vulnerabilities and exploits. "Anything with vulnerabilities will eventually be discovered by AI; GPT-7, Claude 7, DeepSeek 7 will find it."At the same time, AI is also helping the Ethereum protocol discover bugs, implement complex cryptography, and perform formal verification at both the protocol and application layers. Vitalik believes that higher security levels will shift from "optional" to "mandatory," and the industry is in a fascinating yet challenging transitional period.

"On-Chain Detective" ZachXBT stated that he once disguised himself as a client to infiltrate a criminal gang suspected of laundering money for the North Korean-backed hacker organization Lazarus Group, and assisted in freezing funds related to the 2025 Bybit attack incident.ZachXBT indicated that after Bybit was attacked for $1.5 billion in February 2025, he discovered over 15 accounts seeking help with transactions related to the stolen funds in public Telegram and Discord groups. He then contacted a Telegram user using the alias "Jimmy Green" and built trust through multiple transactions.According to his disclosure, on March 6, 2025, he transferred $3.497 million USDC to an Ethereum address for exchanging USDC with TRON chain USDT. The Gas funds for that address trace back to the Bybit attack funds and have been publicly marked as a Bybit attack blacklist address.ZachXBT stated that in subsequent communications, the other party revealed that their team had participated in handling the stolen funds from Bybit and disclosed in advance that the funds would be transferred on chains such as Solana. By matching transaction times, amounts, and on-chain data, he discovered a wallet cluster involving over $12 million of Bybit attack funds, with funding paths including BTC→ETH→SOL→TRON and others, among which approximately 442,000 USDT had been frozen by Tether. The gang also attempted to launder money through Uniswap liquidity pools and low liquidity tokens.In addition, the other party revealed that they had helped other clients handle approximately $3 million in scam proceeds, and ZachXBT tracked the related funds flowing to sanctioned Huione Guarantee-related wallets.ZachXBT disclosed that during this investigation, he initially invested $3.497 million and bore about 5% loss risk for each transaction. The intelligence obtained was promptly provided to relevant investigative agencies and law enforcement. Since 2022, he has assisted in freezing over $75 million related to North Korea-related incidents.

Drift Foundation has explained the compensation plan following the hacking of the protocol: for every 1 USDT lost, users can receive 1 DFX token, and the redemption amount depends on the recovery pool balance, which currently only covers about 1% of the total claims;Tether has committed to providing up to 127.5 million USDT to support the protocol restart and user compensation, with the funds being linked to the net protocol revenue of Velocity and not disbursed in a lump sum; the claims deadline is January 1, 2028, and users can choose to hold DFX or trade on secondary markets like Raydium, with the only official link being dfx.drift.trade.

The developer of the decentralized lending protocol Aave, Aave Labs, has published an ARFC on the governance forum, proposing the establishment of the Aave Foundation. This entity will be a memberless foundation company in the Cayman Islands, which will hold the Aave trademark and related intellectual property for the Aave Protocol.The proposal only covers Phase 1, which includes entity registration and the appointment of initial independent directors and supervisors. The transfer of trademarks, domain names, and intellectual property of the codebase, as well as the scope of operations, will be addressed in subsequent phases and must be submitted for governance separately. Phase 1 only applies for registration, legal work, and reasonable expenses for the appointment of directors, supervisors, and secretaries, with no recurring budget; future funding must be proposed separately.The foundation is established under the Foundation Companies Act, with its charter goals limited to holding, protecting, and licensing intellectual property for the Aave Protocol. Aave Labs, DAO service providers, and their affiliates have no right to appoint directors or supervisors and cannot hold such positions. After the initial appointments, the removal and appointment of directors can only be done through an AIP. If this ARFC reaches community consensus, it will enter Snapshot, and then the related expenses will be authorized through an AIP, followed by registration in the Cayman Islands and completion of the appointments.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, stated that recently the activity of developers within the ecosystem has increased and the development threshold has further lowered, focusing on what kind of applications to build and how to establish distribution channels.In this regard, he proposed a series of potential construction directions, covering AI electronic pets that combine NEAR AI on-chain verifiable reasoning with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a universal checkout component that supports full-chain intent payments, a decentralized encyclopedia that combines prediction markets with AI-generated content, a privacy off-chain trading (OTC) market based on NEAR Intents and management of anti-liquidation lending and perpetual contracts, a cross-chain activity registration custody tool in the form of a staking deposit, privacy code review agents, enterprise equity structure management tools, Delta neutral strategy management, privacy tracking single transactions based on view keys, end-to-end encrypted medical auxiliary diagnostic systems, privacy voice transcription desktop applications, and AI benchmarking based on private test sets.Regarding product distribution, he suggested combining NEARLegion with community channels like X, achieving multi-chain wallet compatibility through Aurora Intent Connect to lower cross-chain thresholds, and actively expanding across communities and platforms like Product Hunt.

NEAR co-founder @ilblackdragon revealed on the X platform that the recovery of stolen funds from NEAR Intents was mainly due to the AI security layer SHIELD on Intents, as well as some proactive investigative work.The Intents team identified the responsible party and established communication within less than 24 hours of the hack, successfully recovering the funds in full today at 14:30 UTC.@ilblackdragon also stated that NEAR will continuously strengthen its security systems and further adapt to the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. While AI may accelerate the exploitation of vulnerabilities, it can also help us defend against them. It is hoped that the entire industry will respond with vigilance and feel the same sense of urgency to collaborate together.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog Security, 23pds, stated that Alex Shevchenko, the General Manager of NEAR Intents, indicated that the exploiters of the NEAR Intents vulnerability transferred 1 BNB to the recovery wallet and left a message expressing willingness to cooperate and requested the other party to provide a Signal contact.This transfer came from the same address that previously moved approximately 3.8 million USD. About an hour ago, that address also transferred 0.295 ETH on the Ethereum network and sent the same message.

According to official data from Bitget, the Bitget Peer-to-Peer program has distributed its first batch of rewards, granting a total of 1,907,455 USDT to 763,543 users within 3 days.It is reported that this event will last until October 26. During this period, Bitget will continue to establish 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.

Variant Fund investment partner Alana Levin stated in her market thoughts for Q4 2026 that the bottom of the crypto market likely occurred at some point in July. She wrote in early July that the bottom seemed close, with Bitcoin at $59,000, Ethereum at $1,600, and ZEC at $420. She mentioned that the question has shifted to whether the bull market is genuinely starting or if it's a false rally, and which projects will benefit the most in the early bull market, assuming the market is in the early stages of a new crypto bull market.Levin indicated that the increasingly formed consensus is that marginal funds are most likely to flow into value storage protocols as currency and protocols that can generate income. She believes Bitcoin is the dominant asset for digital value storage currently, while other competing assets may be valued based on their market capitalization relative to Bitcoin's market cap and its changes. For income-generating protocols, she expects investors to examine whether the income comes from crypto-native activities (like Pump) or traditional financial activities (like Hyperliquid), whether it persists during market downturns, and profit margins; projects with exposure to real-world assets and stablecoin growth, which are expected to attract institutional users and are still led by founders after surviving a bear market, are more likely to achieve higher multiples.She also categorized on-chain projects that can benchmark against non-crypto businesses as a third category, believing that most belong to narrative trading rather than long-term investment. Themes include routing, reasoning, computing power, data collection, and interface-related directions in artificial intelligence, and she is skeptical about whether most scenarios require blockchain; if such projects significantly outperform, she would view it as a signal of nearing the top.

Zcash founder Zooko posted that Zcash has issued over 8 million dollars in retroactive grants this round, with millions of dollars awarded to those who contributed to protecting all users during this year's AI vulnerability crisis.The more significant meaning of this funding is that Zcash once again proves that its self-funding and self-governance system is sustainable, resistant to capture, and capable of continuous evolution. Zcash will conduct multiple rounds of similar funding every year in the future while continuously improving the mechanism.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase is building financial accounts for superintelligence, covering services such as trading, payments, and lending.These accounts can help users accumulate wealth and manage personal finances, and can also provide independent accounts for AI Agent teams, allowing them to handle more tasks on behalf of users.

According to official news, the Gate event contract "Winning Streak Challenge" will officially start on October 1 at 08:00 (UTC+8) and will last until October 11 at 08:00 (UTC+8).This challenge covers 5-minute cycle events for BTC and all stock event contracts. Users can participate after completing the activity registration. The event sets a total reward of 20,000 USDT, covering multiple gameplay options such as winning streak ladder, win rate leaderboard, trading volume sprint, and new user first order gift.Among them, users who achieve a maximum winning streak of 15 can receive 100 USDT, with a total winning streak prize pool of 6,000 USDT; the win rate leaderboard has a prize pool of 3,500 USDT, and users who meet the criteria of cumulative valid matches ≥ 100, single net purchase ≥ 20 USDT, and win rate ≥ 40% can participate in the ranking, with the first place receiving 1,200 USDT.Users whose cumulative event contract trading volume reaches 20,000 USDT can also share a prize pool of 5,000 USDT based on their trading volume proportion, with a maximum of 500 USDT per user. In addition, during the event, the first 1,000 new users who complete their first transaction in the event contract and have a first net purchase value ≥ 20 USDT can receive a 5.5 USDT event contract experience voucher.Currently, the Gate event contract has covered two major sectors: cryptocurrency assets and stocks. Users can participate in price direction predictions around different assets and time windows, looking for trading opportunities that suit their own judgment in the short-cycle market changes.

According to official news, WasabiCard has launched various AI subscription cards, catering to the global AI tool subscription and payment needs of enterprises and teams, supporting subscription payment scenarios for mainstream AI applications such as OpenAI and Claude. Through card-based payment solutions, companies can handle the procurement and expense management of AI services for different teams, projects, or business lines more flexibly.In addition to AI subscription payments, WasabiCard also supports bulk card issuance for enterprises, fund budget management, and multi-currency account setup, as well as various scenarios such as advertising, business travel, payroll, and e-commerce subscriptions. It helps companies configure payment permissions and budget limits by department, employee, or specific purpose, enhancing the management efficiency of AI-related expenditures and the transparency of fund usage.As AI tools gradually enter daily workflows in research and development, content production, customer service, and operations, cross-border subscription payments and expense management are becoming important infrastructure for global operations of enterprises. It is important to note that currently, WasabiCard-related products are not open for application to enterprises and individual users in mainland China.