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Elon Musk stated that the usage of the X platform is at an all-time high.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $399,071.55 in a single bet on the event "Nottingham Forest FC vs. Arsenal FC" for "Arsenal FC". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this bet is 65%.

According to Reuters, earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a deferred prosecution agreement with "Bitcoin Jesus" Roger Ver, under which his fraud and tax evasion charges will be dismissed in exchange for a payment of up to $49.9 million in fines.Roger Ver, one of the earliest Bitcoin evangelists, bought a large amount of Bitcoin in 2011 for less than $3 million. In February 2014, to avoid high tax burdens, he acquired citizenship in the Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and renounced his U.S. citizenship the following month. At that time, he and his companies held at least 131,000 Bitcoins, valued at over $70 million based on the price at that time. He believed that by changing his nationality, he could put an end to the high tax burden in the U.S.However, the U.S.'s stringent "exit tax" completely thwarted his plans. According to U.S. tax law, eligible expatriates must treat their global assets as if they were "sold the day before expatriation" and pay capital gains tax. Although Ver reported and paid $1.03 million in taxes, he not only failed to report his personal holdings of Bitcoin but also severely undervalued his company's assets. Ten years later, the IRS confirmed his fraudulent tax evasion (which is not subject to the statute of limitations), ultimately forcing him to pay back up to $49.9 million in taxes, fines, and interest, which is 48 times the amount he reported paying in taxes that year.

According to Cointelegraph, a recent poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos shows that a majority of American respondents oppose betting on U.S. elections and other government actions through prediction markets. The survey indicates that 69% of Democratic respondents and 61% of Republican respondents oppose using prediction markets to bet on election outcomes. The survey was conducted from September 30 to October 5, covering 4,506 adults nationwide.Aside from elections, even regarding betting on professional sports events, 43% of respondents expressed opposition, while only 29% indicated support. The prediction market industry is currently dominated by platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, which allow users to bet on U.S. elections, government policy trends, and sports events, and has sparked multiple lawsuits regarding regulatory authority.The Trump administration is pushing for federal regulation of the industry through the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), while several states have expressed opposition to this. Previously, on October 8, Cointelegraph reported that 39 states and the District of Columbia submitted an amicus brief, indicating that the conflict between the CFTC and state authorities over prediction market issues has created a "national turf war" that cannot be resolved without a Supreme Court ruling.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor has once again released information related to the Bitcoin Tracker. He stated, "We found room for more orange."According to previous patterns, the orange dots represent Strategy's Bitcoin purchase records, which may suggest that the company will increase its BTC holdings. Strategy typically discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.

DeepSeek has announced that the DeepSeek API now supports web search and crawling, charging based on the number of requests, with a unit price of 5 yuan for every 1000 successful requests.The announcement states that current users accessing the Search/Fetch interface through the Server-side tools in DeepSeek Harness/Claude Code/Codex will not be charged for these Search/Fetch interface calls at this time, and fees will start to be charged per call from 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.

Strive CEO Matt Cole released the company's Bitcoin holdings data chart on the X platform, with the caption "Now stack sats with double the horsepower," suggesting that BTC accumulation data may be disclosed next week. This move may follow the example of Strategy founder Michael Saylor.

According to Arkham monitoring, the trader "KIMCHOWOO" on OpenSea spent $676,500 about 5 months ago to buy approximately 1.662 million ONDO and nearly 30,000 LINK, with the value at one point increasing to $1.084 million during the holding period.About two hours ago, the trader transferred all holdings to Binance, and if sold, would profit over $400,000.

The Iranian Foreign Minister stated that the "reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 7 days" plan is still valid. If the United States complies with Iran's conditions, the Strait of Hormuz can be reopened in 6 days, with negotiations resuming on the 7th day.

Cryptocurrency trader Ansem shared his recent investment views, stating that the crypto market is gradually shifting towards a phase that places greater emphasis on the fundamentals of individual projects, capital inflows, and actual business performance. Therefore, identifying mispriced assets and determining which teams are truly driving project development will become increasingly important, rather than relying entirely on the trends of mainstream assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum.Ansem believes that the investment approach for altcoins in this cycle is different from previous ones. Assets like HYPE and ZEC have shown independent trends from Bitcoin and Ethereum even during periods of overall market weakness.

The trading execution platform Tread.fi CEO DYJ published an analysis of the flash crash of AI concept stocks' perpetual contracts in the US stock market early in the morning, stating that the sell-off began at Binance. A trader liquidated approximately 2 million dollars of SanDisk long positions, triggering a sharp decline in other markets due to the thin depth of the order book.According to the transaction timeline listed, a large amount of active selling first appeared on SNDK at Binance, with a transaction amount of about 407,000 dollars in the first second, followed by about 1,030,000 dollars in the next second, and MU also began to see selling in the same second. Hyperliquid then saw sweeping orders, with about 10 addresses submitting IOC sell orders concentrated on SNDK, SOXL, DRAM, SKHX, SKHY, and MU within 1.8 seconds, followed by a second round of synchronized selling. These orders were all used to open new short positions, rather than just reducing positions.In the minute of the first concentrated selling, the transaction amounts for SNDK and MU on Binance were approximately 21.9 million dollars and 5.1 million dollars, respectively, while the corresponding transaction amounts on Trade.xyz were about 3.1 million dollars and 300,000 dollars. The transaction amount for MU on Hyperliquid subsequently expanded to 10.8 million dollars and 9.5 million dollars within the next two minutes, which DYJ attributed to chain liquidation.

Michael Saylor, the founder of Bitcoin Strategy Company, responded to Bloomberg's interview regarding the possibility of MSCI's new index rules excluding MSTR. He stated that this move is not very important for Strategy, as the scale of funds they control is relatively small, but he is disappointed with MSCI's stance so far. Oil, natural gas, land, and machinery are all considered capital, while Bitcoin is not. This is a value judgment and actually reflects a bias against digital assets. They are like unregistered financial advisors, setting a "bad precedent" for the entire industry, and he hopes they will reconsider. Digital assets represent the future; MSCI may not want to participate in this future, but investors will not agree, and neither will the United States. If MSCI abandons the proposal to exclude MSTR, it would benefit the entire industry.Regarding the core controversy of whether Strategy belongs to companies with actual operating businesses, Michael Saylor compared it to banks and insurance companies. He believes these financial institutions sell credit and policies, while Strategy supports digital credit products with Bitcoin. Therefore, Strategy is an operating enterprise and should be viewed like other financial companies.

On October 16, VerityAI, an AI trust and reputation network, received investment from AURUMX Capital. AURUMX Capital possesses compliance resources in traditional finance and digital assets, holding Hong Kong SFC license number 4/9 and MSB qualification. The project has previously received investments from Titan Foundation USA and BlockX.VerityAI is dedicated to transforming market research and predictive signals into on-chain verifiable reputation assets, building a credibility assessment system for contributors in the digital market. AURUMX Capital will leverage its institutional resources to promote the application of VerityAI's verifiable reputation infrastructure in institutional scenarios. Its core product, Signal Explorer, now supports Morph Mainnet and BNB Chain, having generated nearly 20,000+ on-chain signals as of October 16, 2026.

According to CoinDesk, during the market closure on Saturday, leveraged bets linked to chip stocks and semiconductor funds were liquidated for nearly $52 million within 10 minutes. According to CoinGlass data, approximately $51.6 million in chip stocks and semiconductor fund-related positions were forcibly closed between 21:22 and 21:32 UTC, of which about $38 million came from bullish bets on rising prices. The sell-off began at Binance and quickly spread to Hyperliquid within seconds.The SOXL contract, which is three times long on chip stocks, suffered the largest loss, approximately $12.7 million; contracts for SanDisk and SK Hynix each lost about $10.8 million. According to David Jeong, CEO of trading firm Tread.fi, he placed the first large sell orders for SanDisk and Micron on Binance at 21:21:59 UTC, and less than a second later, the orders impacted Hyperliquid—this platform, launched by Trade XYZ, tracks contracts for stocks, with about 10 addresses establishing short positions on 6 chip-related contracts within 1.8 seconds. In the first minute, Binance processed approximately $21.9 million in SanDisk trades, while Trade XYZ accounted for $3.1 million.Storage chip stocks had already experienced a tumultuous week due to new competition from Chinese chip manufacturer CXMT. With the stock market closed, these contracts had no real stock prices for reference, and traders could only compete against each other; the rules of Trade XYZ allow the platform to set reference prices independently before external stock quotes resume, with relevant quotes returning when U.S. stocks open on Monday.

Coinglass data shows that in the past 7 days, the net inflow to CEX platforms was 8,237.43 BTC, with Binance platform inflowing 6,463.61 BTC, Coinbase Pro platform outflowing 1,399.39 BTC, and OKX platform inflowing 2,089.15 BTC.

Elon Musk stated that the Optimus humanoid robot and Cybercab autonomous taxi will account for the majority of Tesla's value. He believes that, in terms of economies of scale, superintelligence, robotics, solar energy, and large-scale space transportation are the areas for achieving astonishing scale expansion.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the current price of BTC is $81,801. The thickest order book is on Coinbase spot: sell orders amount to $25.2818 million, buy orders amount to $16.654 million, with sell orders exceeding buy orders by $8.6279 million.Binance perpetual sell orders are also thicker than buy orders, but the scale is smaller than that of Coinbase spot. If a large buy or sell order suddenly appears, exchanges with thinner order books will be affected first, and price fluctuations will be more pronounced.