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On October 8, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic updated its usage policy, adding prohibitions against election interference, weapon software, and surveillance. TechCrunch reported that the most notable change is the explicit prohibition against users subjecting the model to prolonged verbal abuse.Since the update in August, Claude has been trained to end conversations during ongoing harmful or abusive user interactions, and the new policy explicitly prohibits users from continuing such conversations. The policy states that this update applies only to extreme cases where users repeatedly treat the model cruelly without identifiable purpose, and does not apply to common user dissatisfaction, rebuttals, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.The usage policy also prohibits widespread deceptive activities, such as operating fake accounts or fabricating news organizations with Claude, and in the "Do Not Undermine Democratic Processes" section, it prohibits deceiving voters or disrupting elections. Reports indicate that this change occurred after Anthropic sought collaboration with well-known religious scholars, as the company attempted to persuade them that Claude might be conscious or have a soul in certain cases.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase spot BTC has approximately 67.53 sell orders at the price level of $82,289, with a nominal value of about $5.56 million, which is an increase of about 0.43% from the mid-price of approximately $81,933 at that time. The total sell orders at the near end amount to about $21.49 million, while the buy orders are about $19.41 million.The net sell orders at this venue exceed by about $2.08 million, accounting for 5.08% of the total depth. The Coinbase spot sell orders are slightly heavier compared to the buy orders, and the sell orders near $82,289 represent the most prominent resistance at the near end.

On-chain data analyst obchakevich_ stated that after analyzing the meme coin holdings on Robinhood Crypto, it was found that only a few wallets are in profit. The nine most popular meme coins cover 373,000 independent wallets and 540,000 positions, while there are another 160,000 positions for random tokens on four launchpads.Among the popular targets, only 41% of wallets show a positive balance, with none of the groups reaching half. Among random tokens, Noxa is at 36.7%, Doppler at 33.2%, and Pons V1 at 14.7%. Typical buyers of well-known memes have lost 1.7%, while typical buyers of random Pons V1 tokens have lost 67%. Among 355 random tokens held by at least 10 buyers, only 5 have made most buyers profitable, accounting for 1.4%.Tokens leaving the joint curve to enter the liquidity pool do not equate to becoming popular targets. 2% of the issuance on Pons V2 has reached this stage, with 36% of positions being positive. Positions that were bought and sold only once have about one-third in profit, while 59% of positions with 51 to 200 transactions are positive. Positions with no less than 11 transactions account for 14%, contributing to 89% of realized profits, which is $165 million out of $185 million. The statistics were compiled using Dune queries, covering the period from June 1, 2026, to October 8, 2026, with a starting position of $10, and identifying traders based on token flow.

User obchakevich_ published 23 months of on-chain data for MoonPay Commerce, a subsidiary of the payment company MoonPay, covering the period from November 2024 to September 2026. MoonPay announced the acquisition of the payment service Helio on January 13, 2025, which was later renamed MoonPay Commerce, with products still operating under the pre-acquisition smart contracts; the parties did not disclose the price, but Fox Business reported it to be $175 million, while Fintech Futures referred to it as an all-equity transaction. Helio was founded in London in 2022 and claimed to have over 6,000 merchants and cumulative transactions exceeding $1.5 billion at the time of acquisition, integrating with Discord, Shopify, and WooCommerce.The on-chain transaction volume three months before the acquisition was $100.3 million, with fees of $1.08 million, resulting in an annualized fee of about $4.3 million, with the reported price being approximately 40 times that annualized fee. The total transaction volume for the entire year of 2025 was $141.9 million, with fees of $1.59 million; the transaction volume over the past 12 months was $90.7 million, with fees of about $930,000, making the reported price approximately 190 times the latter. Monthly transaction volume decreased from $39.8 million in January 2025 to $9.6 million in March, and $7.3 million in September 2026, with an effective fee rate maintained between 1.05% and 1.20% over the 23 months.

The next phase upgrade of Ethereum, Glamsterdam, was activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, completing block finality during the switch without any critical failures. This upgrade consists of the consensus layer Gloas and the execution layer Amsterdam, incorporating a total of 18 EIPs, designed with a gas limit of approximately 200 million, which is about 3.3 times the current mainnet limit of 60 million. The upgrade will not automatically raise the limit but will allow for larger blocks to be produced safely, with validators deciding whether to increase it.Key changes include EIP-7732, which embeds the separation of proposers and builders in the protocol, extending the time for most validators to check transactions from about 4 seconds to about 9 seconds; EIP-7928 requires blocks to include the touched state and updated values, facilitating client data prefetching and parallel validation; EIP-7954 raises the contract code limit from 24 KiB to 64 KiB; EIP-8037 increases the cost of creating new storage slots from 20,000 gas to 97,920 gas, while regular ETH transfers remain at 21,000 gas.The gas limit for the first relevant block on Sepolia was 60 million, reaching 200 million about 11 hours later and maintaining that level. Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter stated that the speed at which various clients handle gas units has improved compared to before the upgrade, with Geth's execution time for a 40 million gas block reduced from about 115 milliseconds to about 30 milliseconds. The Hoodi testnet is tentatively scheduled for deployment on October 27, with the mainnet target set for the fourth quarter of 2026;

According to cryptocurrency KOL Bando, the meme coin issuance platform Pump.fun has seen the top 25 token deployers issue approximately 770,000 types of tokens, generating about $128 million in revenue from the market.The statistics also show that among these tokens, only 6 have ever surpassed a market capitalization of $20 million.

The co-founder of the dark web market Empire Market, Raheim Hamilton, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison and fined $5 million on October 5 in Chicago. His plea agreement covers approximately 1,230 bitcoins, 24.4 ethers, and three properties in Virginia.Empire Market operated from 2018 to 2020, facilitating over 4 million transactions between buyers and sellers, with a transaction volume exceeding $430 million. Investigators seized digital assets, cash, and precious metals worth $75 million in the case. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that the platform required buyers and sellers to conduct transactions exclusively in cryptocurrency and encouraged the use of mixing services and encrypted communication. Buyers could also rate the effectiveness of sellers in hiding drug packages, with drug sales involved amounting to nearly $375 million.

On October 8, blockchain software company Consensys and post-trade infrastructure company ClearToken announced a collaboration aimed at enabling banks to transfer tokenized assets and cash through 24/7 infrastructure. The two parties plan to connect Consensys's blockchain system with ClearToken's regulated post-trade entities for the settlement of eligible securities using fiat currency, tokenized bank deposits, or stablecoins.The announcement did not put a new public blockchain or settlement venue into production but outlined how the two parties plan to connect tokenization, wallets, distribution, cash flow, and the legal finality of securities settlement. Consensys will provide cryptographic finality, which is the technical certainty that on-chain transactions are immutable; ClearToken is responsible for settlement finality, which is the legal certainty that the transfer of funds or securities is final and irrevocable. ClearToken's securities custody has passed Gate 2 of the Bank of England's Digital Securities Sandbox, and its independent clearing entity still requires authorization from the Bank of England.ClearToken CSD Limited plans to convert eligible securities held by different banks into interchangeable tokenized instruments, using the same ISIN as the corresponding traditional securities. At launch, the custody plan will support FTSE 350 stocks, GBP government bonds, GBP corporate bonds, and non-GBP corporate bonds. The sandbox custody limits are set at £600 million for government bonds, £900 million for GBP corporate bonds, and £1.8 billion for non-GBP corporate bonds. The announcement did not name participating banks, networks, wallet products, or the date of the first transaction.

SpaceX has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 15,000 Starlink second-generation satellites for global 2GHz spectrum.

Bitcoin software company Breez stated that since AI coding agents have become mainstream, the demand for its developer tools has surged significantly, with consulting requests increasing by approximately 14 times. Developers and the AI agents they deploy are seeking to integrate Bitcoin payments into their applications. Breez directly attributes this growth to Anthropic's Claude Code, which was launched as a research preview in February 2025 and officially opened three months later.Breez noted that before 2025, potential partners mainly fell into three categories: staunch Bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech companies that view Bitcoin as an asset class. Since the launch of Claude Code, many developers with little to no Bitcoin experience have begun to inquire, with demand coming from fitness applications, messaging apps that want users to transfer money to each other, eSIM services for travelers, and a team developing a mushroom identification app. Breez stated that these developers often choose Bitcoin for its speed, as traditional payment processing involves bank accounts and cross-border transfers, which can take weeks or even months, while its SDK can be operational in just a few minutes.Breez mentioned that an increasing number of inquiries are coming from software rather than humans, as coding agents often represent the companies deploying them in making requests. The company believes that agents prefer Bitcoin because it is permissionless; agents can build applications and set up payments for global users without needing to open bank accounts, go through approvals, or sign documents. Breez stated that its latest SDK, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, has successfully handled the increased traffic.

In a report released on Wednesday, JPMorgan analysts estimated that approximately $50 billion has flowed into digital assets this year, with an annualized rate of about $66 billion, up from the annualized level of $52 billion in May, but still about half of last year's pace. The report is led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou. Analysts estimated the inflow by aggregating data from cryptocurrency fund flows, CME futures implied flows, cryptocurrency venture capital fundraising, and purchases by listed mining companies and corporate treasuries, this time including private company treasuries, private mining companies, and government-related entities in the statistics.Analysts pointed out that the inflow in the first half of the year mainly came from Bitcoin purchases by Strategy and cryptocurrency venture capital financing, while ETF fund flows were a drag at that time, with significant outflows in May and June; since August, ETF fund flows have improved, turning positive for the year, but if calculated from the market correction starting October 10, 2025, the cumulative ETF fund flow is still negative. Institutional positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum futures at CME have increased over the past two months, with Bitcoin positions surpassing previous peaks and Ethereum positions nearing the October 2025 high. Offshore exchange perpetual contract leverage has fallen from the peak after the correction but remains above historical averages, and trend-following traders, including commodity trading advisors, have begun to rebuild long positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum.Analysts also stated that Bitcoin mining companies have been net sellers this year, with net sales of about $1.8 billion, mainly from listed mining companies, which have shifted from hoarding coins to selling newly mined tokens, partially reducing their existing holdings to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure expenditures.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that U.S. federal prosecutors informed Judge Katherine Polk Failla that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the conviction of Bitcoin Fog founder Roman Sterlingov on September 25, supporting the trial of Tornado Cash defendant Roman Storm in New York.The appellate court determined that the District of Columbia had jurisdiction to prosecute, reasoning that law enforcement had deposited approximately $250 worth of Bitcoin into Bitcoin Fog from the District of Columbia. Prosecutors stated that user Shakeeb Ahmed accessed Tornado Cash from his apartment in Manhattan, thus the same logic applies. Roman Storm released this letter and noted that FinCEN withdrew the mixer report request made in 2023 on the same day, citing that the proposal could hinder legitimate activities.

Cryptocurrency trader Bonk Guy posted that he recently suffered a loss of about $100,000 from trading a new token, mainly due to overtrading and continuously consuming capital while chasing new trading pairs and liquidity rotations. The scale of this position far exceeded his usual investment in similar trades.Bonk Guy reflected that the common point of several recent losses was relying on others' judgments rather than establishing his own investment beliefs. He stated that most of the profits in this cycle came from independent judgment and sticking to positions, but after achieving success, he gradually became complacent and started making unnecessary trades.Bonk Guy emphasized that sometimes the best trade is no trade at all, and he will focus more on opportunities that he truly believes in for investment, even if it means missing out on some market movements.

On-chain options protocol Derive announced that Derive V3 has been launched, the migration has been successfully completed, and trading has resumed. The team stated that this rebuild aims to continue the growth of its on-chain options business, with custody located on Ethereum, margin and settlement using zero-knowledge proofs, and order matching latency below 1 millisecond.According to the announcement, V3 supports the launch of no-code vaults and charges fees, and funds can also be released through ETH and BTC risk offset. Related features also cover yields and lending for ETH, WBTC, HYPE, and USDC, and accelerate the onboarding of crypto assets with real-world assets. Developers can build applications on Derive with less configuration and earn fees.Derive stated that new markets, vaults, and partner integrations will be launched on this basis in the coming weeks. The project indicated that its on-chain options business has been operating for over 5 years.

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on Cryptomus, Heleket, and TokenSpot in actions targeting Russian entities suspected of evading sanctions. TokenSpot transferred over $950 million in funds to the sanctioned exchanges Grinex, Garantex, and the Kremlin-backed A7 network.

According to CoinDesk, Project Eleven, which focuses on defending against future quantum computing attacks, and the privacy-oriented proof-of-work blockchain Quantus plan to complete integration in the first quarter of 2027. This will connect Quantus to Project Eleven's institutional custody platform Strongpoint, allowing institutions to manage Quantus keys and approve transactions through hardware security modules, internal policies, and audit systems.The significance of this integration goes beyond a single chain. Networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum are unlikely to adopt the same post-quantum signature schemes or migration paths. Banks holding multiple assets may need to adapt to various new cryptographic forms simultaneously, without weakening control over transaction approval, signing, and auditing. Alex Pruden, co-founder and CEO of Project Eleven, stated that this transition could become a barrier for institutions adopting cryptocurrencies, as they have already prepared for post-quantum transitions outside of blockchain.Christopher Smith, co-founder and CEO of Quantus, believes that AI is accelerating everything, including quantum hardware and quantum software. The tail risk of sudden quantum attacks must be incorporated into all portfolio decisions, as it falls under fiduciary duty. The design of Strongpoint decouples the institutional control layer from the signature schemes used by the underlying blockchain. Even if different cryptography is adopted on-chain, custodians can still retain approval processes, hardware key storage, and audit trails. Quantus uses the post-quantum signature standard ML-DSA selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for key generation and transaction signing.

NVIDIA has pledged to invest $1 billion over the next five years to promote scientific development in the United States.

According to an official announcement, the decentralized autonomous organization Pyth DAO has passed the OP-PIP-136 proposal, deciding to use all (100%) funds obtained from its products to purchase PYTH on the open market and deposit it into the reserve. Previously, this proportion was one-third of the non-PYTH treasury balance. This proposal replaces the original monthly proposal voting process with a long-term authorization and also applies to the existing non-PYTH assets in the treasury. The execution rules remain unchanged, including a 5% slippage limit, a single transaction limit of $25,000, and on-chain public reporting.Data shows that Pyth's overall annual recurring revenue (ARR) has reached $11.5 million, with a quarter-over-quarter growth of 86%. In the past three months, over 94% of the trading volume of real-world asset (RWA) perpetual contracts used Pyth data. As of now, the PYTH reserve holdings have reached 42 million tokens.

According to NADA NEWS, the Japanese Ministry of Finance held the first meeting of the "National Debt Blockchain Research Committee" today and released explanatory materials, categorizing national debt on the blockchain into three types. Type 1 involves circulating the beneficial rights of funds (MMF) investing in national debt on the blockchain; Type 2 involves placing the transfer ledger on the blockchain under the current transfer settlement system, divided into three forms: single account management institutions, multi-institution collaboration, and interfacing with the Bank of Japan's ledger; Type 3 involves issuing a new form of national debt on the blockchain outside the current system.The Ministry of Finance believes that blockchain can enhance the efficiency of collateral and liquidity management and expand the investor base, particularly benefiting overseas investors. However, it also pointed out issues such as market fragmentation, transmission of severe price volatility, and system transformation costs. All three types are provisional categorizations, and the Ministry of Finance plans to compile a report before January 2027.