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During a conversation with Cointelegraph's multimedia director Ciaran Lyons at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Kevin Lee, Chief Strategy Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange BingX, stated that wealthy "old money" investors have a longer holding period for Bitcoin compared to many crypto-native traders. He mentioned that he has encountered a large number of "old money" clients seeking alternative investments, saying, "Their diamond hands are stronger than any of ours." Lee pointed out that Bitcoin has grown large enough that wealthy investors are increasingly viewing it as a tool for diversifying their portfolios rather than expecting it to "increase tenfold in two weeks."Lee sees wealthy investors as an underdeveloped source of crypto capital, believing that their buy-and-hold strategy could make Bitcoin a diversification tool for more investors. He cited examples where investors allocate 5% to gold and another 5% to Bitcoin, rather than chasing short-term quick returns. A survey released by CoinShares on Monday, targeting 2,230 investors with investable assets of at least $500,000, showed that long-term appreciation and diversification are the primary reasons for investing in crypto assets, while short-term speculation ranked last. Among the surveyed digital asset investors, 80% hold Bitcoin.However, crypto assets are still far from becoming a standard allocation for wealthy families. A survey conducted by JPMorgan in February, based on 333 single-family offices across 30 countries, revealed that 89% of family offices have no exposure to crypto assets, with an average allocation to crypto and digital assets of only 0.4%. Only 17% of respondents consider crypto and digital assets as key investment themes.

On October 7, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the "Wall Street Tycoon × Monopoly" event. Users can sign up to receive dice, complete tasks such as trading real-time U.S. stocks, contract trading, consuming stock tokens, and inviting friends to earn more dice; rolling the dice to move on the board will unlock random rewards such as BTC / ETH / USDT / WXT / stock tokens / bonuses / deductions / position airdrops / points / dice, and users can also participate in U.S. stock prediction contests daily to win more points and share a prize pool of one million USDT. Event duration: October 7, 00:00 to November 3, 23:59 (UTC+8).Among them, from October 7 to 11 is the TOKEN2049 themed phase. Users who sign up to participate in the event on-site at TOKEN2049 Singapore can receive a limited VIP experience card. In addition, participants can also visit the WEEX Alpha Suite to join roundtable forums, AMAs, AI trading experiences, and Mini Trading House interactions, receiving exquisite merchandise and custom souvenirs.

According to Bloomberg, the office of a South Korean lawmaker cited data from the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea, indicating that retail investors in South Korea are expected to lose approximately 2.3 trillion won (about 1.7 billion USD) from May 27 to August 14 by tracking single-stock leveraged ETFs and note products related to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.Since July, South Korean regulators have implemented measures such as temporarily banning the listing of new leveraged single-stock products, raising minimum cash margin requirements, and strengthening investor education to mitigate the risks associated with these products.

Santiment released data this morning indicating that on Monday, the net outflow of Bitcoin from CEX reached 24,073 coins, the largest single-day outflow since March 1. The supply on CEX has dropped to about 6.5% of the total BTC supply.Santiment believes that large outflows are typically a bullish signal, as coins leaving CEX become less readily available for immediate sale. If demand remains strong while the liquid supply decreases, buyers will have fewer available coins to absorb, and then prices will need to move upward.

The on-chain asset economic relationship management platform Solomon announced that Colosseum, Theia, DBA, and Anagram have supported the project by holding SOLO. These institutions became holders at different stages of Solomon's development, with some participating in its public offering and others acquiring SOLO through market purchases or over-the-counter transactions, and many institutions subsequently increased their holdings.Solomon stated that the project is built around public ownership, with institutional supporters and individual holders using the same ownership and governance tokens, and jointly focusing on the long-term development of the business. As more financial assets are brought on-chain, companies need to systematically manage related revenues, incentives, and obligations, including qualification verification, payment calculations, and policies applicable across products, customers, and jurisdictions.According to reports, issuers and applications can configure revenues, rewards, dividends, and other distributions on the Solomon platform while retaining control over qualifications, distributions, approvals, and business relationships. USDv is an early implementation of this scheme, allowing qualified holders to receive rewards without the need to stake, wrap, or lock up their assets. Solomon's next step will be to serve more issuers and enterprises and expand the use of USDv in trading pairs, vaults, and applications.

Federal Reserve official Daly publicly stated that further tightening measures may be needed in the current economic environment. This statement reinforced the market's expectations for maintaining a high interest rate environment.

Aptos Labs announced the launch of MonoMove, which is the largest proposed upgrade in the history of the Aptos blockchain execution engine. Aptos Labs stated that internal testing shows that MonoMove can run smart contracts up to 55 times faster than existing systems.On its fully incubated on-chain trading platform Decibel, the speed of collateral withdrawal is increased by up to 55 times, and the order placement speed is increased by up to 22 times.

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral claims that its model ranks among the best open-weight models in the world, trained using approximately 4,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California stated that a 26-year-old man, Adam Iza, who calls himself the "Godfather," has been sentenced to 78 months in prison and must pay $23.4 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty in January 2025 to charges of conspiracy to violate rights, wire fraud, and tax evasion, and has been in custody since September 2024. This sentence will run concurrently with the 15-year sentence he received last month for an attempted Bitcoin robbery, which will not increase his actual time served.From August 2021 to April 2022, Iza hired off-duty Los Angeles County police officers as private security and admitted to conspiring with them to obtain law enforcement confidential records and personal data of individuals he had disputes with, obtaining court-authorized search warrants to track these individuals, and having the officers intimidate and threaten them. The Department of Justice stated that five former officers have been convicted for working for him, including 42-year-old Eric Chase Saavedra, who set up a security company providing these officers, and was sentenced to 21 months; 45-year-old Michael David Coberg, who assisted in extorting rivals and arranged false drug arrests, is serving a 63-month sentence. The prosecution wrote in the sentencing memorandum that wealthy individuals cannot buy "search warrants, arrests, badges, or guns" for private disputes.In another fraud case, since December 2020, Iza gained access to a Meta Business Manager account and its associated credit line, reselling it to advertising companies, with Meta clients being charged for ads they never purchased. After discovering this, Meta refunded the clients and absorbed the losses.

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.

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.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain address spent 1.22 million dollars to purchase 30.65 million MEME in the past month, becoming the largest holder of MEME.Currently, this address has a loss of 708 thousand dollars, with a loss rate of 58%, and was still buying 10 hours ago.

According to Arkham monitoring, the whale 0x355 invested nearly 4.9 million USD in BNB, ETH, LINK, PENDLE, MORPHO, and ENA tokens on Binance four months ago.Currently, the value of this portfolio has increased by nearly 800,000 USD compared to the initial investment, mainly benefiting from the recent price increases of ETH and BNB. The other altcoins held by this whale have seen relatively small price changes due to the later buying time.

According to Cointelegraph, the cryptocurrency exchange OKX has launched the stablecoin savings and payment application OKX Money in parts of Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. The application allows users to deposit into their accounts using over 50 supported currencies, with deposits converted into a dollar-backed stablecoin.Users can hold USDG, USDC, or USDT for transfers and spend using a virtual card or physical card. Eligible customers can earn up to 10% annual percentage yield (APY) on qualifying USDG balances without the need for staking or locking.An OKX spokesperson stated that the product is rolled out market by market to comply with local requirements, and the relevant legal entities and regulatory frameworks vary by jurisdiction. OKX did not disclose specific initial markets. Users can achieve higher tiers by meeting a 30-day average deposit threshold, spending over 30 days, or reaching a higher exchange VIP level. The spokesperson mentioned that rates and eligibility vary by region and customer, and declined to comment on the source of the yields.OKX joined Paxos' Global Dollar Network in July 2025, allowing its users to transact and transfer using USDG. According to Chainalysis data, cross-border flows of stablecoins grew by 77.5% to $22.03 billion in the 12 months ending June 2026, with trade, remittances, and savings being the main use cases. The U.S. GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoin issuers from paying interest or yields, while the EU MiCA prohibits issuers and crypto service providers from offering interest on single currency stablecoins.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), Star stated that AI is no longer a pilot project for OKX, but a core infrastructure. Currently, about 95% of OKX's engineering code merge requests are primarily completed through AI workflows, with engineers still responsible for review and approval.He revealed that OKX paid up to 10 million dollars to large model companies for AI last month.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain wallet has once again purchased and withdrawn 54,020 HYPE through Coinbase Prime, worth approximately 5.13 million dollars. In the past month, this wallet has accumulated an increase of 158,780 HYPE, worth approximately 13.08 million dollars.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, smart money betting on UNI in September seems to have taken profits, earning $1.27 million in one month. An address two hours ago transferred all 654,288 UNI to Coinbase, worth $5.96 million.This address withdrew this portion of tokens at an average price of $7.16 from September 3 to October 1, and if sold, the return rate would exceed 27.23%.

NVIDIA's stock price reached a new high for the first time in four months, closing at $237.58 on Monday, with a market capitalization of approximately $5.76 trillion.Wedbush analyst Matt Bryson stated that the market finds it hard to ignore the disconnect between its growth prospects and valuation. Societe Generale analyst Karl Ackerman raised the target price to $345 per share, indicating a 45% upside potential.