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According to Decrypt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan on October 9. The suspect, 35 years old and of Saudi nationality, has been employed at OpenAI since July 2025 and is accused of using or attempting to use devices to intercept oral communications. He made his first appearance in federal court this Tuesday. OpenAI stated that it has referred the matter to the FBI and thanked the relevant agents and prosecutors for their swift action, while the FBI's investigation is ongoing.OpenAI released a statement on X, stating that the company discovered a sophisticated recording device hidden in the office and used its own model to analyze the device and its origin, ultimately identifying that an employee placed it there a few days prior. According to the criminal complaint, the device was discovered around September 30, plugged into a USB port on the back of a television, wrapped in paper towels, with its contents encrypted, and was installed around September 28. Surveillance footage showed that Alfozan was seen near the conference room multiple times before the device was discovered, but he had neither the authority to enter that room nor to attend the related meetings, which typically involved confidential technical and strategic information.The complaint states that before the device was installed, Alfozan used internal productivity tools to inquire about OpenAI's office building address, conference rooms, room capacities, schedules, and locations of meetings between executives and external partners. A chatbot account associated with his spouse asked between September 24 and 30 how to create a continuous recording device, add Wi-Fi connectivity, enhance real-time listening capabilities, and encrypt the device's SD card.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Tuesday with the Dow Jones down 0.35%, the S&P 500 index down 0.02%, and the Nasdaq down 0.15%. SK Hynix and Micron Technology both fell over 3%, Meta Platforms rose over 2%, SpaceX fell 4%, Oracle rose 4%, and Citigroup fell over 5%.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up 0.14%, and Li Auto rose 3%.

Trader Maji (Huang Licheng) posted on X to comment on the perpetual contract protocol Papertrade. He stated that Papertrade is profitable, there are no useless points, users can immediately receive PAPER tokens, and by staking, they can earn fees. There is currently no reason to use any other perpetual contract protocol.

According to an official post from Ledger, its security team Ledger Donjon is investigating Ledger signing devices sold by the Southeast Asian distributor CryptoBilis, which have been implanted with unauthorized hardware components. Ledger confirmed this matter on October 10 regarding a device belonging to an affected user. Donjon's analysis shows that the implant is located within the device's casing and can read the screen display content—decoding the 24-word recovery mnemonic during the initial setup and transmitting it externally via LTE through a built-in eSIM; this component does not alter the security chip, system, or transaction signature.Currently, all confirmed financial losses related to the incident disclosed on October 9 involve devices sold by CryptoBilis. CryptoBilis has stopped selling Ledger devices. The total number of affected users and the amount of losses have not yet been verified, and Ledger is investigating similar implant reports from other distributors and regions.

Sushi CEO Alex McCurry retweeted the tweet "Blur will deprecate the frontend on November 12" and stated, "Should we acquire Blur? If anyone on the team wants to reach out, I would be happy to discuss."

Recently, there have been reports that Ant Group's AI product "Lingguang" has launched a new version for a small-scale internal test, which is comparable to Meta Muse. In response, Ant Group stated: Lingguang has recently undergone a functional upgrade and is currently still in a very limited internal testing phase.

On-chain analyst Murphy posted on platform X that long-term holders (LTH) of Bitcoin have cumulatively transferred approximately 32,000 BTC to exchanges, marking the second-largest single-day inflow since the significant drop on February 5 of this year. However, during the same period, U.S. government-related wallets transferred about 17,200 BTC to Coinbase Prime. Considering that this platform serves as the official custodian and trading service for the U.S. Marshals Service, these transfers do not necessarily indicate selling.Excluding this portion, the noteworthy potential selling pressure is approximately 14,800 BTC, primarily coming from long-term holdings aged 6 to 12 months and 3 to 5 years. Murphy pointed out that the average coin age of spent long-term holder coins reached 712 days, up from 651 days on July 14, indicating that earlier holdings are gradually participating in turnover. He believes that the distribution by long-term holders during the transition phase between bull and bear markets is not necessarily bearish; the release of periodic selling pressure can help in the redistribution of holdings, with the key being whether market demand can effectively absorb it. If new funds can digest the supply, sufficient turnover may actually reduce resistance for subsequent market movements.

In 2025, there were approximately 20 financing rounds in the domestic tactile sensor sector, with a total disclosed amount nearing 1.8 billion yuan. According to data from the Financial Association, in the first seven months of 2026, there were 15 financing rounds completed in the humanoid robot sensor field, totaling 3.1 billion yuan, with July alone accounting for 1.56 billion yuan. Related estimates indicate that the global tactile sensor market size will be around 6 billion yuan in 2026 and approximately 29 billion yuan in 2030.The tactile sensor company, PaxiNi, was founded by Xu Jincheng and Nie Xiangru in June 2021 in Shenzhen, with the Hall array sensor PX-6AX GEN3 starting at a price of 199 yuan. The company completed over 1 billion yuan in Series B financing in March, with a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, followed by 1 billion yuan in strategic financing in August and several hundred million yuan in B++ financing in September, accumulating over 4 billion yuan in total financing, with BYD as the largest external shareholder. On September 20, PaxiNi completed its counseling filing with the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau, with Guotai Junan as the counseling institution.The tactile perception chip company, Tashan Technology, was founded by Ma Yang, Sun Tengchen, and Yang Wuqiang in December 2017, with revenue exceeding 100 million yuan in 2024, and was listed by NVIDIA as the world's first tactile simulation partner for Isaac Sim. Qianjue Robotics was founded by Ma Daolin in May 2024, with Hillhouse Capital having led the angel round, and in September of this year, it completed two rounds of strategic financing totaling several hundred million yuan. Companies such as Daimeng, Weitai, Xiangmuguo, Yimu Technology, and Lingxin Qiaoshou also secured new financing or advanced higher valuation financing in 2026.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, LUMIA has recently risen by 100%. Six wallets have longed a total of 11.7 million LUMIA on Aster_DEX with 3x leverage, valued at 1.9 million USD, with a total floating profit of approximately 949,000 USD, among which the highest return rate exceeds 160%.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost pointed out that Bitcoin has entered a phase where selling pressure has significantly increased. Recently, the rebound pushed Bitcoin's price above $85,000, and the Seller Exhaustion indicator has signaled that potential selling pressure is rising.This indicator combines profit supply and volatility to identify risk and calm phases, making it highly valuable for short-term reference. This rise has been quite sudden, especially reflected in short-term holders. The current level of the indicator is approaching the threshold seen at multiple local tops in this cycle. Analysts indicate that it is necessary to observe whether demand can improve and whether volatility converges to suppress potential pullbacks and allow the indicator to return to normal.

According to South Korean media Dailian, the Digital Asset Exchange Alliance (DAXA) has released the "2026 Digital Asset Policy Compilation." Professor Zhao Zaiyu from Hanyang University pointed out that since the ICO ban in 2017, domestic cryptocurrency projects in South Korea have continuously moved their issuance entities and business foundations overseas due to regulatory gaps. The token issuance of Klaytn is handled by a Singaporean entity, and Wemade's WEMIX is also issued by a Singaporean entity. Subsequently, Metabora moved to Dubai, and NeoFin relocated its foundation to Abu Dhabi, with the trend of industry outflow continuing to intensify.Experts indicate that the core obstacles are the regulatory gaps between domestic and foreign issuers and the difficulties in opening corporate bank accounts. They emphasize that "what Korea needs is not looser regulations, but clearer rules," calling for the Digital Asset Basic Law to clarify the licensing standards for issuance, custody, verification, and other business activities, and to establish special procedures for the return of core functions from overseas to the domestic market.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the current price of BTC is $82,840. The thickest order book is on Binance spot: buy orders amount to $11.6122 million, sell orders amount to $7.6554 million, with buy orders exceeding sell orders by $3.9568 million.Coinbase's spot buy orders are also thicker than sell orders, but the scale is smaller than that of Binance 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.

Russian President Putin stated that Russia is willing to supply oil and petroleum products to the United States and global markets, which will have a positive impact on the global economy. Both sides confirmed that the two presidents will continue to maintain direct contact.Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak stated that Russia is willing to increase diesel supply to the U.S. market in October and may increase diesel exports in November and December.

Zhao Changpeng issued a reminder for Ledger hardware wallet users to remain vigilant, especially those who have purchased devices recently. According to the information currently available, this incident appears to be limited to the supply chain, involving a supplier, and a few users may have purchased counterfeit or tampered Ledger devices.Zhao Changpeng stated that Ledger is a well-established and relatively secure hardware wallet brand in the industry, but such incidents can still occur. He anticipates and calls for the BNB ecosystem and the entire cryptocurrency industry to assist in tracking the stolen funds and promoting recovery.Previously, Ledger confirmed that it is investigating an asset theft incident involving Southeast Asian users, who had purchased devices through the distributor CryptoBilis. Ledger has requested CryptoBilis to suspend sales and shipments and advised users who purchased devices through this distributor in the past 90 days not to initialize their devices; if they have already completed the setup, they should create a new Ledger signing device using a new mnemonic phrase and transfer their assets to the new wallet.On-chain investigator Specter estimates that this incident has led to the theft of hundreds of wallets on the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and TRON networks, with losses exceeding 86 million dollars. Security researcher tanuki42 previously estimated the losses to be over 72 million dollars and stated that the amount is still increasing. Currently, the specific cause of the incident and whether the involved devices have security vulnerabilities are still under investigation.

Analyst Axel Adler posted on platform X that short-term holders (STH) of Bitcoin are still selling profitable Bitcoin through exchanges. In the past 7 days, the number of relevant Bitcoins transferred to exchanges by short-term holders was approximately 11,000, a decrease of about 66% from the previous peak of 32,000, indicating that selling pressure has eased.

The term premium has surged to levels not seen in over a decade in the past few weeks, driving a new round of selling in U.S. Treasuries and pushing yields to their highest in 24 years. Frank Rybinski, the head of macro strategy at Aegon Asset Management, stated that the rise in term premium indicates that market trends are persistent. Barclays noted that factors such as macroeconomic uncertainty and increased bond supply have collectively driven the recent rise.

CryptoQuant posted on platform X that Bitcoin miners have recently stopped large-scale selling. Since Bitcoin hit a low of $76,000 on August 21, the miner status has shifted from "extremely undervalued compensation" to "reasonable compensation," and there has been no further extreme outflow of miner funds.CryptoQuant stated that miner selling pressure was an important source of supply that continuously affected Bitcoin prices during the bear market of 2026. The current disappearance of this stable selling pressure may help alleviate market supply pressure.