rac

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.

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.

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.

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.

According to the official announcement, the 156th Gate contract points airdrop will be open for collection from October 19, 18:00 to 23:59 (UTC+8). This period sets up two points redemption reward pools, with limited rewards available on a first-come, first-served basis.Reward Pool One requires a Gate contract points balance of 120--90 points (decreasing). Users can spend 15 Gate contract points to redeem 0.015 QQQG; Reward Pool Two requires a points balance of no less than 40 points, and spending 20 Gate contract points can redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher. Rewards are expected to be credited approximately 1 hour after successful collection.

HIP-3 market deployer Paragon spent 570.98 HYPE (approximately $45,000) to acquire the code PAPER, or the upcoming Papertrade (PAPER) perpetual contract.Papertrade is an on-chain synthetic perpetual contract trading platform deployed on HyperEVM, offering up to 1000x leverage. Its token PAPER is minted through users' realized trading losses, with no pre-mining, team, or venture capital allocation.

Bloomberg senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone stated yesterday that if the U.S. stock market retracts by 20%, Bitcoin may head towards the support level of $10,000. McGlone pointed out that since 2009, the first cryptocurrency, BTC, has led the rise of risk assets, but Bitcoin breaking through the peak of $100,000 in 2025, gold rising above $5,000 in the first quarter, and most central banks shifting to a cautious stance alongside soaring government bond yields may signal the endgame.In response, crypto analyst Darkfost countered that even if the U.S. stock market experiences a 20% level retraction, there has historically been no situation that corresponds to BTC dropping about 92% from its peak; therefore, he believes this price target is "highly unlikely."

Anthropic's AI model Claude cracked a 25-year-old puzzle in the field of cryptography in less than 30 minutes, tracing a set of numbers provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) to the U.S. government in the late 1990s back to a common random number generator that used timestamps from 1997 and 1998. These numbers have long been suspected of hiding a backdoor.In 2000, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) adopted a set of elliptic curves provided by the NSA, but the NSA never explained where the partial numbers (seeds) used to generate these curves came from. After Edward Snowden disclosed that the NSA had attempted to undermine cryptographic standards, suspicions about its hidden backdoors intensified. Cryptographers Neal Koblitz and Alfred Menezes discussed this controversy in a 2015 paper, and security researcher Steve Weis spent years searching for answers. In 2023, Filippo Valsorda and others even set up a bounty for this.Claude traced the five NIST curve seeds back to the random number generator lrand48 in an old C software library and reproduced the widely used P-256 curve sequence, finding an exact match with the published seeds among the 1842 candidates. Anthropic stated that this significantly reduces the possibility of hidden weaknesses, and users of NIST curves do not need to make any changes. Bitcoin is unaffected, as its wallets use the simpler secp256k1 curve, which has almost no room for secretly implanted weaknesses. The bounty of $36,864 will be donated to the nonprofit organization Internet Security Research Group behind Let's Encrypt.

The decentralized perpetual contract exchange Deepsigma has launched a real-time simulation trading platform, covering 77 traditional financial markets, including U.S. stocks, stock indices, commodities, and U.S. Treasury yield rates. The platform is developed based on the Cypherium blockchain, driven by a team of alumni from Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google, and Uber, supporting long and short exposure trading of related assets.Deepsigma's perpetual contracts do not tokenize, custody, or physically deliver the underlying assets but instead track prices through external market data sources. The platform currently supports the S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite Index, Russell 2000 Index, Cboe Volatility Index, as well as contracts for crude oil, gold, silver, natural gas, and copper. The platform's risk engine employs multiple external price sources, mark prices, circuit breaker mechanisms, partial liquidation, and insurance funds, and uses a central limit order book and clearing layer to handle margin, collateral, and settlement.Deepsigma is also developing a decentralized identity framework based on zero-knowledge proofs and configuring off-chain AI analysis tools with no fund execution permissions; the underlying Cypherium utilizes a hybrid PoW and HotStuff Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus mechanism, holding 4 U.S. patents.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reported that as of the week ending October 13, stock fund speculators reduced their net short positions in CME S&P 500 index futures by 5,804 contracts, to 390,896 contracts.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reported that as of the week ending October 13, stock fund managers increased their net long positions in CME S&P 500 futures by 8,186 contracts, reaching a total of 912,542 contracts.

According to The Defiant, the perpetual contract for Sei Network's native token SEI has been launched for trading on OG.com Markets. The exchange is operated by the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) and is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), providing U.S. investors with a compliant channel to access SEI with leverage. Sei officially stated that this is "another compliant way to acquire SEI."The contract was self-certified by the exchange on October 8, and the CFTC product registry has listed it as a certified product, originally scheduled to be listed on October 12. Trading records from October 16 show two transactions of 100 SEI each at 4:54 PM Eastern Time on that day. The contract is settled in U.S. dollars and has no expiration date, allowing traders to maintain long or short positions without rolling over. Clients must access through a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant or an associated introducing broker.Each contract represents 1 SEI, with a minimum trading unit of 100 contracts, and trading occurs around the clock. The funding fees for both long and short positions are calculated every eight hours, with a maximum rate of 2% per period, aimed at aligning the futures price with the CF Sei-Dollar spot rate managed by CF Benchmarks. The contract is settled twice daily at noon and 5 PM Eastern Time. Traders are required to pay the initial margin based on the risk benchmark in U.S. dollars, and the exchange's notification indicates that the initial margin range for its crypto perpetual contract product line is between 15% and 30%.

The decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Lighter announced that its EVM development network (devnet) has officially launched. This development network is an EVM-equivalent rollup built in collaboration with Axiom and powered by OpenVM. It operates in sync with Lighter Core, both designed to settle jointly to Ethereum through a single ZK proof.Developers can deploy using Foundry, Hardhat, Viem, and Ethers, and can read accounts, balances, positions, orders, and market data from Lighter Core; they can also place, modify, and cancel orders through smart contracts, and transfer assets between the development network L1, Lighter Core, and Lighter EVM.Lighter stated that the team can be contacted via email at evm@lighter.xyz to request access. Currently, it is onboarding developers in batches to ensure a quick response to issues and will expand access to all developers in the coming weeks.

According to an official announcement from the gaming public chain Ronin, the migration of Ronin Waypoint has entered the final grace period, lasting until October 31, 2026, at 23:00 Beijing time. After the grace period ends, Ronin Waypoint will be completely shut down, and the migration will be completed.Previously, Ronin requested users to migrate assets from their Waypoint wallets to Ronin Stash or mnemonic wallets by October 16, and untransferred assets may become inaccessible.

According to CoinGlass data, Bitget Tesla (TSLA) contracts currently have a position value of approximately 18.7596 million USD, with a 24-hour growth of 58.31%.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Financial Services Commission of South Korea and the Financial Supervisory Service are strengthening monitoring of "perpetual contracts" linked to Korean stocks and stock indices traded through global virtual asset platforms.If illegal business activities targeting Korean residents, such as soliciting account openings or trading, are found on overseas platforms, the regulatory authorities will refer the matter to investigative agencies and take strict countermeasures.

According to data from the CoinGlass platform, Gate's stock perpetual contracts rank second across the network, with several popular stock derivatives, such as SPCX, SKHYNIX, SNDK, and SOXL, having positions that also rank second across the network, only behind Binance.Real-time data from the platform shows that Gate SPCX has a position of 144 million USD, accounting for 14.65% of the total market share; SKHYNIX has a position of 137 million USD, accounting for 15.38%; SNDK has a position of 150 million USD, accounting for 18.62%; and SOXL has a position of 143 million USD, accounting for 23.92%.

According to CoinGlass data, BTC is priced at approximately $81,804.8, with a 24-hour increase of 1.21%; ETH is priced at approximately $2,426.43, with a 24-hour increase of 2.91%.In the futures market, the 24-hour trading volume for BTC futures is approximately $68.649 billion, a decrease of 7.69%; the 24-hour trading volume for ETH futures is approximately $45.335 billion, a decrease of 19.73%. Among them, Gate BTC futures have a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $7.47 billion, and ETH futures have a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $6.58 billion, with both major cryptocurrencies' futures trading volumes ranking in the top three globally.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow in the past 24 hours are as follows:FTR (DFMt....ump): Net inflow of $10,000, with a 24-hour increase of 5703.3%, currently priced at $0.0054.PUMP (pump....Dfn): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour decrease of -0.9%, currently priced at $0.0046.Normie (DzMw....ump): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour increase of 16.5%, currently priced at $0.0009.RL (BEFJ....A7L): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1221%, currently priced at $0.0001.ASSBOY (Eq9G....i6i): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 159.4%, currently priced at $0.0001.

On-chain analyst Willy Woo stated that while the stock market continues to hit new highs, Bitcoin has retraced by 50%. Therefore, it should have strong resilience against potential pullbacks in the stock market.He further pointed out that the last time a similar pattern occurred was after the 2014 Mt. Gox incident crash, when the U.S. stock market continued to rise, while Bitcoin gradually moved upwards slowly, and the stock market fell into a bear market. It wasn't until later that the stock market returned to a bull market, and Bitcoin welcomed the major bull market of 2017.