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The Starknet Foundation announced the launch of the Bramble wallet, which integrates STRK20 shielding features, allowing users to hold private balances. Currently, Bramble only offers a Chrome browser extension version, with plans to support a broader ecosystem in the future.

The Starknet Foundation announced the launch of the Bramble wallet, which integrates the STRK20 shielding feature, allowing users to hold privacy balances.Bramble is a wallet that only supports the Chrome browser, integrating privacy balances, Ledger hardware signing, and multi-signature account features, and provides recovery mnemonic phrases for backup.

According to Cointelegraph, Protect Progress, an affiliated organization of the Fairshake super PAC closely related to the cryptocurrency industry, has submitted documents to the Federal Election Commission revealing that it has spent $362,000 on advertising to support Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Aisha Wahab in California's 14th congressional district, whose opponent is fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez.Notably, Wahab defeated Hernandez with over 53% of the vote in the special election on August 18, aimed at filling the vacancy left by Eric Swalwell's resignation, which ends in January 2027. Swalwell resigned in April this year due to sexual assault allegations. Both Wahab and Hernandez were previously rated as "strongly supportive of crypto" in a questionnaire from the digital asset organization Stand With Crypto.Fairshake was established in 2023, primarily funded by Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Since the 2024 U.S. elections, the super PAC has invested tens of millions of dollars to support candidates it identifies as "pro-crypto." Its affiliated organization, Defend American Jobs, has also spent over $6.7 million opposing independent candidate Dan Osborn in the Nebraska Senate election and invested $8 million supporting incumbent Republican Jon Husted in Ohio, with total spending in that election exceeding $46 million.

Co-founder Chris Burniske stated that long-term investors should not repeatedly struggle with entering or exiting the market, but should systematically accumulate tokens over time, and not confuse long-term investing with short-term trading. He suggested using his most successful investment targets as a reference, calculating target holdings based on the total supply of network tokens.He gave an example that the total supply of ETH is about 120 million tokens. If one previously held 10 ETH, based on the network holding ratio, the total supply of SOL is about 636 million tokens, corresponding to about 53 tokens; the total supply of TIA is about 1.16 billion tokens, corresponding to about 97 tokens. If one wishes for the TIA network share to reach 10 times the original ETH holding share, approximately 970 TIA would be needed. For ZEC, since its supply is similar to BTC, the ideal BTC holding quantity can be used as a reference for accumulation targets.Regarding the current market, he noted that many crypto assets have fallen 20% to over 40% from their highs, while BTC has dropped less than 10%. He is more inclined to believe that BTC's previous relative resilience has led to significant adjustments in assets with lower risk appetite, making the current situation more like an opportunity in the early stages of a bull market rather than a warning signal of a bull market trap. He also reminded that one should consider the possibility of further price declines, suggesting to invest remaining cash in batches and determine the investment ratio based on the probability of local bottoms at different price levels; even if some preset price levels are not reached and cash remains, it can still be acceptable.

On Friday, the French National Assembly passed Amendment I-3898 with 38 votes in favor, 37 against, and 25 abstentions, proposing to tax certain cryptocurrency exchanges for stablecoin transactions. If the relevant provisions are approved, they are expected to take effect from 2027. This measure will change the way capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies is calculated, meaning that when investors exchange Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies for stablecoins, the related gains may trigger taxation even if they have not been converted into fiat currency.The French National Assembly is scheduled to vote on the first part of the "2027 Finance Bill" on Tuesday. A proposal to carry forward realized cryptocurrency losses for 10 years was rejected by the assembly on Friday with 18 votes in favor, 75 against, and 3 abstentions. French lawmakers are also reviewing two cryptocurrency tax proposals: I-CF1822 aims to expand the exit tax to unrealized gains, applicable to taxpayers whose total cryptocurrency portfolio value exceeds 800,000 euros and who move their residence out of France; I-2701 proposes to require the declaration of holdings from self-custody wallets, with a threshold of total value exceeding 100,000 euros for the relevant tax year. Both proposals are still under review as of Monday.

According to The Defiant, the French National Assembly passed an amendment during the review of the 2027 budget proposal with 38 votes in favor and 37 votes against, aiming to eliminate the tax deferral treatment enjoyed when converting certain crypto assets into a single fiat-pegged stablecoin starting from January 1, 2027.A total of 100 members participated in the voting, with 75 votes counted as valid.

On October 13, 2026, dating app Bumble Inc. (NASDAQ: BMBL) announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by Ithaca Holdings, a holding company with a long-term investment in technology businesses, in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.3 billion. Common stockholders will receive $6.05 in cash for each share of Class A common stock, representing a premium of approximately 138% over the unaffected closing price on October 9, 2026, and a premium of approximately 119% over the volume-weighted average price as of that date.The special committee, with the assistance of independent legal and financial advisors, determined that the transaction is in the best interests of common stockholders and recommended that the board approve it. The board unanimously approved the transaction, with founder Whitney Wolfe Herd recusing herself from the deliberation and vote. A Blackstone affiliate and Wolfe Herd subsequently provided written consent to approve the transaction, constituting the required shareholder approval; shareholders will receive an information statement in accordance with Delaware law and federal securities laws.Upon completion, Ithaca co-CEOs Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman will serve as co-CEOs of Bumble and will work alongside Wolfe Herd. Bumble will be privatized, with offices in London, Austin, and New York City, and is expected to remain based in Austin. The company plans to file its third quarter Form 10-Q with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by November 9, 2026, and will not issue an earnings press release or hold a conference call due to the transaction.

According to Bloomberg, Hock Tan, CEO of chip company Broadcom, stated at an event in Singapore on Monday that the artificial intelligence craze has attracted a group of investors with strategies similar to gamblers, some of whom have little understanding of what they are betting on. He mentioned that many investors "don't even know what they are investing in," setting extremely high expectations, resulting in a situation that is "almost like being in a casino," and specifically pointed to the investment frenzy driven by a lack of understanding of cutting-edge large language models.As the head of a company that designs key components for global data centers, Tan also questioned whether companies are wasting money on AI projects and the long-term economics of AI labs that are continuously losing money. He noted that ChatGPT developer OpenAI's annualized revenue reached $50 billion in September, indicating a viable model, but it does not guarantee long-term profitability; it is still losing money due to high training costs, and currently only suggests that cutting-edge generative models have significant potential revenue growth.Tan also warned that a lack of capital could become the next constraint on industry growth. The Australia-based data center company Firmus Grid, supported by Nvidia, withdrew its planned $5.5 billion IPO last week. Before Tan's remarks, DBS Group CEO Tan Su Shan stated that after a large amount of investment, the market is re-pricing the risks associated with AI financing.

According to Decrypt, the French National Assembly's Finance Committee passed two cryptocurrency tax amendments this week: starting from January 1, 2027, exchanges of stablecoins regulated by MiCA will be considered taxable sales; and a departure tax will be imposed on tax households relocating overseas with a total value of cryptocurrency assets exceeding 800,000 euros.The committee rejected the budget revenue portion with a vote of 31 to 3, and the full National Assembly will review the original text from the government. The aforementioned amendments will not be automatically included; supporters must reintroduce them during the debate starting on October 13, with a formal vote scheduled for October 20.The related measures have not yet become law. The stablecoin amendment was proposed by left-wing GDR party member Nicolas Sansu and 16 co-signers, applicable to electronic money tokens as defined by MiCA. The amendment does not set a new tax rate but aims to include the related revenue under France's existing unified tax system of 31.4%.The committee also passed an amendment proposed by Daniel Labaronne, allowing investors to carry forward cryptocurrency asset losses for 10 years to offset future gains. The proposed departure tax applies to taxpayers who have been French tax residents for at least 6 of the past 10 years and whose cryptocurrency assets, including custodial assets, have a total value exceeding 800,000 euros.

According to Bloomberg, the New York State government has filed a lawsuit accusing the prediction market platform Polymarket of operating an illegal gambling business. Specific allegations in the lawsuit and the remedies sought by New York State have not yet disclosed further details.

London-based AI precision machining software startup CloudNC announced the completion of a €17.2 million (approximately $20 million) funding round, led by the American venture capital firm Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and Lockheed Martin's venture capital fund LM Ventures.

Google's Senior Director of Supply Chain Infrastructure, Nikhil Cherian, revealed that to overcome memory bottlenecks, Google is developing software and hardware solutions and dismantling retired servers to recycle DDR4 components to establish an internal recycling supply chain. Google has designed special hardware adapters to connect the previous generation DDR4 to the new generation of AI servers while importing retired servers to remove their DDR4 modules for recycling.Cherian stated that the AI industry has rapidly shifted from being compute-constrained to memory-constrained, with high-performance memory accounting for about 75% of the bill of materials cost for a given AI server. A Goldman Sachs report indicated that memory prices will continue to rise in the third quarter, with personal computer DRAM prices expected to increase by 18% to 23% and server DRAM prices expected to rise by 13% to 18%. Trendforce data shows that in August, the spot market prices for DDR4 8GB and DDR5 8GB rose to $142 and $133, respectively.The two TPU ASICs launched by Google this year have been optimized for memory design, claiming to reduce memory demand to one-sixth of the original. The TPU8i chip features a dedicated layered memory design that relies on a high-speed DDR5 memory architecture to perform host-level tasks, with each chip equipped with 288GB of HBM3e high-bandwidth memory.

Crypto analyst Ali Charts posted on platform X that Bitcoin's current trend is highly similar to the bottoming pattern in 2023. In 2023, Bitcoin broke the downward trend and tested the previous high in August, then retraced to around $20,000 before starting to rise.It seems that a similar structure is forming now, with a key observation level near $83,000 around the high in May 2026.