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The Polygon Foundation announced that the staking rewards for Polygon Chain are expected to increase to 7.7% on October 1. According to PIP-92, the accumulated 27.3 million POL priority fees in the network will be used to enhance staker rewards in the next two months.

Sei Network posted on platform X that REX Shares and Osprey Funds have updated their SEI staking ETF application documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), setting October 23 as the effective date.The document states that this revision is solely to designate a new effective date for previously submitted post-effective amendments. The funds involved include REX-Osprey SEI + Staking ETF, SUI + Staking ETF, HYPE + Staking ETF, NEAR + Staking ETF, AAVE ETF, ADA + Staking ETF, ATOM + Staking ETF, AVAX + Staking ETF.

Strategy announced that the special shareholders' meeting is scheduled to be held online on October 28 at 10:00 AM (Eastern Time), with the record date for stock ownership set for September 25, where common stock shareholders will vote.Previously, Strategy indicated that it plans to change the dividends for STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD to be accrued daily, and related matters will be voted on at this shareholders' meeting.

BIT announces that the Hong Kong stock trading feature will enter internal testing starting today, with a targeted public beta launch on October 5 and trading opening on October 12. Users can directly participate in trading using stablecoins.The first phase supports full trading of all stocks on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board and the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), IPO subscriptions, and financing trading. Hong Kong stocks and U.S. stocks share the same account system, allowing users with a BIT U.S. stock account to directly enable Hong Kong stock trading. During the public beta period, priority experience slots will be granted to invited users; from the start of the public beta until the first month after the official launch (ending November 11), all users can enjoy zero-commission trading, zero interest and zero subscription fees for financing new shares, a HK$100 Hong Kong stock platform fee deduction card, and a Hong Kong stock L2 market data card. Specific qualifications and rules are subject to BIT's official announcement.Elio Cui, head of BIT's brokerage business, stated: "The launch of BIT's Hong Kong stock trading provides customers with a more comprehensive cross-market investment tool. As a key hub connecting domestic and foreign liquidity, the Hong Kong capital market concentrates scarce high-growth and high-dividend quality targets, making it a core channel for investors to conduct cross-regional asset allocation and share regional growth dividends. Relying on the BIT account system, investors can flexibly allocate global mainstream quality assets such as U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and digital assets, truly achieving 'one account, global allocation' investment efficiency."

The trading platform Pear announced that the token PEAR will open the migration portal on October 12, allowing users to exchange PEAR on Arbitrum for new tokens on HyperEVM at a 1:1 ratio within the Pear app. The migration is a one-way operation; once completed, the old tokens will be locked and cannot be transferred back to Arbitrum. Users need to prepare a small amount of ETH on Arbitrum to pay for Gas and cross-chain fees. After migration, the tokens can be transferred between HyperEVM and Hyperliquid spot, with liquidity subsequently launched in both locations.Pear stated that users holding stPEAR do not need to take any action, as staking will be automatically rebuilt on HyperEVM; holders still in the vesting period can claim and migrate their tokens after they are unlocked. The portal will remain open until September 28, 2027, with a buffer period. Currently, the PEAR listed on Hyperliquid spot is unrelated to the official platform; users can only migrate through the official Pear website and should only trust the contract addresses published through official channels.PEAR will begin trading on September 27, 2024. Pear claims that the platform has expanded from a paired trading terminal to institutional trading desks, AI trading agents, and vaults, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $2 billion and cumulative fees of $1.3 million. In January of this year, token holders passed PIP-3 with over 99% support, stipulating that 70% of Pear's total revenue will be used for repurchasing and burning PEAR and supporting liquidity, while 30% will go to the team.

Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), announced she will resign on October 2. She published her resignation letter on social media platform X on Friday, revealing this date. Peirce is known in the industry as "Crypto Mom," having long advocated for clear rules for the crypto industry. During the tenures of Jay Clayton and Gary Gensler as chairmen, the SEC took a tough enforcement stance on crypto, while she continued to push for industry regulation. During the Trump administration, she was involved in rule-making and was appointed last year to lead the newly established SEC crypto working group.Her work in crypto encompasses policy statements and guidance on areas such as mining, staking, and meme coins, with the most important aspect being the classification and definition of various crypto assets to clarify regulatory jurisdiction. Recently, the SEC began proposing formal rules, the first being "Regulation Crypto Assets," which establishes a framework for issuing crypto assets that does not trigger strict securities regulation. The SEC also opened a path for tokenization of securities, known as "innovation exemptions," to initiate the era of securities tokenization with a five-year limited period.Peirce will become an associate professor at Regent University School of Law. After her departure, the SEC will have only two commissioners left, Atkins and Mark Uyeda, and the rules allow the two to constitute a quorum. On the same day, the SEC released a frequently asked questions document on crypto assets, addressing how to avoid triggering the "necessary managerial efforts" determination when marketing tokens, and discussing issues such as when staking receipt tokens and secondary markets are considered "promoters" of investment contracts.

Magic Eden announced that the vulnerability occurred in the NFT trading protocol Payment Processor V2 maintained by Limit Break. Magic Eden adopted this protocol for EVM network transaction settlements in 2024 but stopped using V2 in October 2024 and will completely shut down the EVM market in the first quarter of 2026. Therefore, NFTs currently listed on Magic Eden are not affected by this vulnerability.NFTs listed through its EVM market between February and October 2024 may be affected, while listings after October 2024 are generally not impacted. The platform is contacting the protocol owner and maintainer Limit Break to explore other risk mitigation measures, including pausing protocol transfers, and will continue to investigate the actual scope of the impact.Magic Eden reminds users who have listed or traded NFTs on its EVM market to revoke relevant contract authorizations on the Ethereum, Polygon, and Base networks. Users can filter the address through revoke.cash and revoke all authorizations marked as "approved for all" for NFTs. Magic Eden emphasizes that revoking authorization cannot recover assets that have already been transferred.Yuga Labs' Vice President of Blockchain Quit stated today that at 9 AM Eastern Time, attackers exploited the Payment Processor V2 vulnerability to steal a large number of NFTs. After contacting the LimitBreak team, the latter quickly paused the similarly affected Payment Processor V3. However, V2 could not be paused, and V3 on ApeChain is also temporarily unable to be paused. Therefore, the team implemented a white-hat operation, successfully transferring and protecting 23,155 NFTs valued at over 5.7 million dollars.

The Central Bank of Russia has established market access procedures for digital custodians, cryptocurrency trading platforms, and digital rights information system operators, requiring relevant participants to be included in the corresponding registries.The regulations specify the qualification requirements for members of relevant regulatory bodies and specific officials, the list of application documents, and the registration procedures, while providing simplified access rules for existing market participants. The relevant regulations have been registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia and will come into effect on October 5, 2026.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "The United States Announces the End of the Iran Blockade," the sub-market "October 15" for the "Yes" option has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 18.5% (a fluctuation of 31%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to a report by The Information cited by Dongcha, two individuals with direct knowledge stated that the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has an annual revenue of approximately $1 billion, up from less than $500 million a few months ago. The revenue primarily comes from model APIs, and the free chat application currently has no advertising or subscription revenue.The report indicated that part of the revenue growth is due to price increases, with some API prices raised by about 2.3 to 4.5 times. Liang Wenfeng recently told investors that the number of customers did not decline after the price increase, and demand remains strong. Previously disclosed financial data showed that the gross margin for the API business in the first seven months of this year was 82.9%.DeepSeek's second round of financing plans to raise approximately 50 billion yuan, with a valuation of about 500 billion. The company hopes to complete this by the end of October and is also preparing for an IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Sci-Tech Innovation Board. Liang Wenfeng stated that over 70% of the computing power is used for training new models, leaving less than 30% for inference; the company is trying to run more small models directly on gaming graphics cards, reserving high-end chips for training.

The derivatives exchange CME Group announced that after regulatory approval, it will launch Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap futures on October 19. The standard contract for BCH corresponds to 250 BCH, while the micro contract corresponds to 25 BCH.After the news was released, BCH surged by 30%, breaking through $340 and briefly touching $358, with a weekly increase exceeding 50% at one point. Bitcoin SV (BSV) also rose by about 20%, nearing its yearly high of $21; Bitcoin fell back to around $84,000 on Wednesday. Digital asset management company Grayscale has applied to convert its Bitcoin Cash Trust into a spot ETF listed on NYSE Arca.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event of "Federal Reserve October Decision" on the prediction market Polymarket, the sub-market "No Change" option's probability of "Yes" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, plummeting from 45.5% an hour ago to the current 30.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting Thursday, October 1, at 11:10 AM Eastern Time (11:10 PM Beijing Time) as the earliest launch window for the Crew-13 mission.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $53,963.34 in a single buy for the "Federal Reserve October Decision" event, targeting "no change." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 46.63%.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Bitcoin Core 32 is currently undergoing candidate version testing, with the developers aiming to release it on October 10.This version can speed up block validation by reading database data in parallel, but it will not change the block generation speed. Four wallet commands will default to the updated partially signed transaction format, while the old format will still be available as needed. Security patches can prevent custom wallet names from executing commands on non-Windows nodes, and in one test, the memory growth caused by unauthenticated HTTP was reduced from about 3.2 GB to about 3 MB.

Micron and the Taiwan Micron Memory Union held their first mediation meeting on September 18. Micron stated that both parties engaged in constructive discussions that helped advance communication and agreed to hold a second mediation meeting on October 22.Micron pointed out that representatives from both sides discussed several topics during the meeting, including the overall compensation and bonus system framework, No Free Rider, and Non-Retaliation issues. Regarding Non-Retaliation, Micron reiterated the company's commitment that according to the Micron Global Team Member Handbook, team members have the right to peacefully assemble, freely associate, form and join unions or labor organizations of their choice, and seek collective bargaining or other forms of representation without fear of retaliation.Micron expressed gratitude to the Central Science Park Administration and the mediation committee for their assistance and support during this mediation process. Moving forward, both parties will continue to uphold a spirit of mutual respect, support employees, serve customers, and jointly promote the company's ongoing success through positive and pragmatic communication.

StablecoinX announced on X that it has submitted Form 8-K, reporting the waiver signed with Ethena OpCo and Ethena Foundation. Starting from October 5, 2026, all locked ENA held by StablecoinX will be permanently released, which is the same date previously announced by the foundation for the release to other ENA holders.StablecoinX stated that ENA will still be held as treasury assets, and any sale must obtain prior written consent from the foundation. Ethena is a stablecoin protocol, and its governance token is ENA.

According to CoinDesk, the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade has continued to confirm blocks after adopting new block construction rules this week, passing key tests and paving the way for its planned launch on the Sepolia public testnet on October 6. The Nethermind client subsequently completed performance tests involving one of the biggest changes in Glamsterdam, with all 2,302 tests passing, processing 57.07 billion gas in 3 minutes and 15 seconds, averaging about 2.9 billion gas per second.The benchmark measures the speed of the Nethermind execution software rather than the entire network, testing block-level access lists. This mechanism informs Ethereum nodes in advance about which accounts and storage data will be used in the block, allowing nodes to fetch data and check unrelated transactions simultaneously, whereas the current Ethereum mostly processes related work sequentially, limiting the amount of activity each block can accommodate. About an hour after the testnet launch, Glamsterdam raised the block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million, freeing up space for more payments, token swaps, and other activities per block.The 200 million gas limit allows Ethereum to absorb more activity before users start bidding for block space, thereby alleviating fee spikes during transaction surges or when popular tokens are launched. Larger blocks are also harder to verify, which may make it difficult for small-scale operators to keep up. Glamsterdam aims to gain additional capacity without excessively increasing chain operating costs. This upgrade also extends the block data propagation time from about 2 seconds to 9 seconds and plans to incorporate the handover and payment of block construction and verification into Ethereum's own rules, reducing reliance on external relay services.

CoinDesk reported that Goldman Sachs predicts the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points in October, citing the central bank's own recent hawkish rate forecasts.