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The political action committee (PAC) Defend American Jobs, allied with the cryptocurrency industry and primarily funded by the industry, disclosed in documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that it has spent $11.4 million on media advertising to support Republican Jon Husted and oppose Democrat Sherrod Brown in the campaign for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat.This PAC is affiliated with Fairshake, which is supported by Coinbase and Ripple Labs. This advertising expenditure is part of Fairshake's commitment to initially invest $30 million to prevent Brown from returning to the Senate. Brown, a former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is one of the critical voices in Congress regarding cryptocurrency legislation and policy.In the 2024 Ohio Senate election, the showdown between Brown and Republican Bernie Moreno attracted over $300 million in spending from external groups like Fairshake, with cryptocurrency-related PACs and their affiliates spending about $41 million opposing Brown and supporting Moreno, who ultimately won with 50.2% of the vote. Husted's seat was appointed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, succeeding JD Vance, who was elected as the Vice President of the United States in 2024.

A federal jury in San Diego, USA, ruled on Friday that Apple must pay over $5.7 billion in damages for using patented technology from the haptic patent company Taction Technology, according to Caixin. This is the highest patent compensation amount in U.S. history. Taction sued Apple in 2021, claiming that its sales of devices infringing on touch technology improperly utilized related innovations; the case was dismissed in 2023 but was later reinstated by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.Apple issued a statement strongly opposing the verdict and the amount of damages, stating that the ruling lacks factual basis. Apple stated that its haptic engine is fundamentally different from Taction's technology, and tests conducted during the trial confirmed this, asserting that it did not use Taction's technology and would appeal. Taction's chief attorney, Lance Yang, thanked the jury and mentioned that the company waited five and a half years for the case to go to trial.The core of the lawsuit revolves around two vibration-based haptic sensor technologies designed to allow users to perceive the device's response to input. Taction claims that Apple’s haptic engine in the Apple Watch and iPhone used its inventions without authorization. Apple's haptic engine was launched in 2014 with the Apple Watch and was used in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus the following year, replacing the older vibration motors. Since Apple insists on appealing, the amount of damages will need to be determined first by the presiding judge before entering the appeals process for final confirmation.

The Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia, Ivan Chebeskov, stated that at least 20 million Russians have invested in cryptocurrency products, holding a total of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, equivalent to about 44 billion dollars. These assets are mainly used for foreign trade settlements, mining, and trading on overseas exchanges and savings.Russia is allowing qualified and non-qualified investors to hold and trade cryptocurrency assets on regulated domestic exchanges through a regulatory framework, while still prohibiting the use of cryptocurrency assets for everyday payments, and promoting the digital ruble as a payment tool directly regulated by the state.

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company MARA announced that it has paid a $100 million power deposit for its data center project in Matagorda County, Texas, and has adjusted the payment and exit terms of its deal with sustainable fuel developer HIF USA.The project is located southwest of Houston, covering over 1,200 acres, with a planned power capacity of up to 2 gigawatts. MARA plans to use it to build a facility supporting high-performance computing and Bitcoin mining. According to the revised agreement, some payments originally tied to regulatory approval will be adjusted to be paid in two installments, and if all milestones are met, the total acquisition price for the project will still be capped at $600 million.

Crypto analyst Ali posted on platform X, stating that Dogecoin has currently reached an important resistance area of about 0.098 USD, with approximately 28 billion DOGE traded around this price level. Meanwhile, the whales continue to accumulate.In the past 96 hours, large holders have cumulatively bought over 1.14 billion DOGE, worth about 112 million USD. Ali added that the whales seem to be positioning themselves for a breakout of DOGE above the current resistance level.

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently priced at $85000, with a 24-hour increase of 1.04%.

According to CoinDesk, Kraken's parent company Payward has invested billions of dollars over the past two years, expanding into futures and derivatives, tokenized stocks, and banking through acquisitions and self-built businesses, aiming to integrate trading, payments, asset management, and institutional services into a unified financial infrastructure.Payward's co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that the company is not a holding company, but "a set of platforms, a balance sheet, a regulatory framework," with the core being to facilitate the flow of funds and assets between different businesses through "a single ledger."Payward has currently enhanced the U.S. futures and derivatives infrastructure through acquisitions such as NinjaTrader and Bitnomial, and plans to acquire a bank in Europe; its B2B infrastructure division Payward Services currently has at least 25 companies using its API, including Hyperliquid. In the second quarter of 2026, Payward's adjusted revenue was $508 million, a year-on-year increase of 17%.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, BIO Protocol (BIO) will unlock approximately 30.8 million tokens at 10:00 AM Beijing time on October 3rd, worth about 1 million USD.

Market news reports that Nvidia has committed to invest 1 billion dollars in NScale, with the funds expected to be in place by mid-November.

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently priced at $85007, with a 24-hour increase of 1.71%.

According to Gate market data, SOL/USDT is currently priced at $120.04, with a 24-hour increase of 5.8%.

Aerodrome's Slipstream V3 has been launched, introducing protocol-level internal MEV auctions in concentrated liquidity AMMs, distributing the value captured by sandwich bots and arbitrageurs to active liquidity providers and sAERO token holders. The protocol expects related revenue to reach tens of millions of dollars.This version also introduces dynamic fees, automatically increasing fees during market volatility, and continues the concentrated liquidity design of Uniswap V3, achieving capital efficiency up to 4000 times that of traditional AMMs.Aero plans to integrate Aerodrome on Base with Velodrome on Optimism into a single AERO token, set to launch on the Ethereum mainnet in the second quarter of 2026; Aero Lite has launched the Slipstream pool on Circle's Arc, and Dromos Labs is developing pool-level fee rebates and KYC options for institutional clients.

Goldman Sachs' AI hedge fund "Situation Awareness" has generated over $200 million in fee income this year. The fund once became an important client of Goldman Sachs' trading department, with assets expanding from several hundred million dollars to over $20 billion.Despite losses caused by the volatility of AI-related stocks, "Situation Awareness" continues to collaborate with Goldman Sachs and has established a trading relationship with technology stock broker Clear Street.

Since its founding by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000, Blue Origin has invested approximately $30 billion. Blue Origin is undergoing its first external financing, having raised about $10 billion, with the company valued at $140 billion. The company plans to achieve growth through rocket launches, satellite communications, and artificial intelligence satellite services.

Writer and author of "The Price of Tomorrow," Jeff Booth, stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that the price target of $1 million for Bitcoin is "thinking too small." He believes that pricing Bitcoin in a constantly depreciating fiat currency is equivalent to valuing it within a system manipulated by currency devaluation, making such a target invalid. In his view, Bitcoin is not just a token or an asset, but the beginning of a decentralized, secure, and privacy-focused protocol stack, which will ultimately resemble the internet, and it is also the first true free market in human history.In the interview, Booth also discussed AI valuation and technological deflation. He believes that a free market will drive the prices of AI services toward zero, and this deflationary force brought by AI will conflict with a monetary system built on debt. He mentioned the United States' debt of up to $40 trillion, bond yields, and a financial system that is approximately $350 trillion in size and essentially insolvent, linking AI singularity theory, market fear, and monopolistic regulation.In the longer-term section, Booth talked about the adoption timeline of Bitcoin and emphasized that Bitcoin is not just an asset. He also discussed the global expansion of Bitcoin payments and the circular economy, as well as ideas such as private equity supported by Bitcoin and permanently held enterprises, outlining a deflationary future priced in Bitcoin.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently priced at $2701.54, with a 24-hour increase of 1.66%.

According to CoinGlass data, the total liquidation amount in the cryptocurrency market in the past 24 hours reached 400 million USD, with long positions liquidated at 298 million USD and short positions liquidated at 102 million USD, affecting a total of 92,268 people.The largest single liquidation in the past 24 hours occurred on Binance's ETHUSDT trading pair, valued at 11.4879 million USD.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that trillions of dollars in advisory wealth are currently on the sidelines, and a slight increase in allocation could bring substantial new demand for Bitcoin ETFs. He mentioned that the daily inflow of funds into Bitcoin ETFs once approached $1 billion.James Seyffart pointed out that strict rules from large brokerages like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are still limiting financial advisors from purchasing Bitcoin ETFs for their clients, with the target allocation being too low as the main constraint. Many advisors have previously chosen to wait for the bear market to end before entering the market. He emphasized that approximately $30 trillion to $40 trillion in advisory wealth is a long-overlooked data point.He also discussed the cost benchmarks for Bitcoin ETFs, whether ETF fund flows can truly drive Bitcoin prices, who is selling between spot holders and ETF investors, the closing of hedge fund Bitcoin basis trades, and whether Bitcoin ETFs are expected to surpass gold ETFs. He believes the impact of the four-year cycle is diminishing, and Bitcoin is increasingly viewed as a risk asset.

Recently, BNB Chain and the leading AI project in the 0G ecosystem, NeoSoul, announced the latest business data. As of now, the number of Agents on BNB Chain has exceeded 120,000, with over 3.5 million interactions completed; the subscription revenue for the first month of the NeoTrade product has surpassed $300,000.NeoSoul stated that in the future, it will continue to expand its product line around the real economic activities of Agents, enabling Agents to autonomously participate in the market economy and continuously iterate through verifiable results.

Gold prices hover around $4,300 per ounce, as the market anticipates that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates further, putting pressure on gold.New York futures gold is flat at $4,316.3, suppressed by a stronger dollar and U.S. Treasury yields rising to multi-year highs. Federal Reserve officials maintain a hawkish stance, with Governor Barr stating that further tightening of policy may be necessary.