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A U.S. judge has suspended the CFTC's civil case against Army Sergeant Van Dyke. The sergeant is accused of using non-public information to profit over $400,000 on Polymarket regarding the fate of Maduro.

Citrini analyst Jukan shared content on platform X stating that industry insiders reported that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis had previously planned to leave simultaneously with another co-founder, David Silver. However, Google management was concerned that this news could trigger a significant drop in stock prices, so they hoped to delay his departure. Reports indicate that after Google announced related adjustments, the company's stock did indeed decline. Ultimately, Hassabis was persuaded to take on the role of chairman of DeepMind to help facilitate a smooth transition and create space for a more appropriate departure from Google in the future.It is reported that as David Silver shifts to founding Ineffable Intelligence and John Jumper joins Anthropic, the core AI research and development force at DeepMind is undergoing changes. Some insiders believe that the center of gravity for AI model development at Google has now shifted more towards the Bay Area, leading to a decline in the importance of DeepMind. Internally, Google is focusing on the large language model Gemini to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic. Hassabis's adjustment reflects a long-standing strategic contradiction within Google: researchers are more focused on long-term scientific breakthroughs, while the commercial team is more concerned with AI products that can be quickly commercialized to drive revenue and stock price growth. Market predictions suggest that Hassabis may leave Google within a year and could potentially start a new venture.

"1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin released a weekly analysis stating that he previously suggested gradually positioning in storage chips and buying on dips, but the market did not experience the expected pullback. He has sold half of the previously rebounded positions during the surge, not because the investment logic has changed, but because he noticed the funding structure driving the rise, stating, "This is more like a short squeeze rather than a final confirmation of the market fundamentals." Rapid capital replenishment of short positions can create short-term increases in stocks like SK Hynix, but cannot solely support a sustained trend. The risks of Korean leveraged ETFs have not been fully released, but the decline in asset scale mainly comes from net value shrinkage rather than investor exit. Currently, the cumulative net subscription of related financial products remains at historical highs and has not turned negative.Garrett Jin emphasized that the decline in the scale of Korean leveraged ETFs does not indicate a bearish outlook on storage demand. SK Hynix's 2026 capacity is already sold out, and Micron's orders are covered until 2028, with strong demand expected to continue until the second half of 2027. However, the storage industry is essentially a cyclical industry, and stock prices have already risen by hundreds of percentage points in advance. Cyclical stocks are usually difficult to sustain long-term growth through valuation expansion. The current market is entering a new phase of the AI capital expenditure cycle, shifting from "rewarding investment" to "evaluating investment returns." Regarding Bitcoin, Garrett Jin stated that it continues to meet the bottoming conditions since the low in July and maintains the position view established around $60,000.

According to CoinDesk citing informed sources, the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX spent two years discussing potential sales with multiple buyers, including competitor exchanges and payment platform Exodus, before announcing its shutdown, but ultimately failed to reach a deal. Informed sources indicated that potential acquirers were deterred mainly by the holding structure led by the company's founder, the ongoing shrinking of the business, and lingering reputation issues.Reports state that the company had hired investment bank Broadhaven to manage the sale process in early 2025. Informed sources said that although co-founders Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed had already exited the business after facing U.S. criminal charges in 2020, the three still controlled the vast majority of the company's equity, which made some buyers uneasy and complicated negotiations, as buyers typically hope to secure management's retention post-transaction through partial acquisition consideration.Additionally, during the sale process, BitMEX continued to lose market share as trading activity flowed to larger centralized exchanges and decentralized perpetual contract platforms, making potential acquirers reluctant to pay the revenue multiples typically offered to growth companies.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a suspected insider address for LAB became active again after three weeks, depositing 5.8 million LAB (approximately $834,000) to KuCoin 9 hours ago, with an average deposit price of $0.1439.In the next hour and a half, the coin price continued to decline, briefly dropping to $0.1273, a decrease of 11.5%. This address had a similar operation record previously—on July 12, it transferred $9.15 million worth of LAB tokens to Aster, after which the coin price plummeted by 42.5%.Currently, this entity still holds 74.7 million LAB, valued at approximately $10.11 million.

According to X user Rohan Paul, when the OpenAI model breached Hugging Face, Anthropic's Claude 5 refused to assist in the investigation, and Hugging Face ultimately turned to Nvidia's quantized version of GLM 5.2 for emergency response.The user commented that banning open-source models would weaken the defense's capabilities, and this incident confirms the practical value of open-source models in security response.

According to Be In Crypto, Grayscale CEO Peter Mintzberg submitted Form 144 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), intending to sell 2,611 shares of Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (GXRP), with a total value of approximately $53,400, equivalent to $20.45 per share.Previously, founder Barry Silbert and Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm submitted a similar application in January of this year, when the price per share was approximately $37, making Mintzberg's selling price about 45% lower.It is noteworthy that the number of GXRP shares outstanding has plummeted from 5.79 million shares to 2.84 million shares in the past six months, a decrease of about 51%, reflecting that redemption pressure continues to exceed subscription. Currently, the total net assets of the U.S. spot XRP ETF are approximately $971.6 million, with GXRP accounting for about 6%.

According to Bloomberg, as prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi expand, the issue of betting using non-public information or informational advantages is receiving more scrutiny. Bloomberg Businessweek analyzed approximately 34,000 potential insider trading cases flagged by Polysights between August 2025 and June 2026; these related trades exhibited characteristics such as newly created accounts, low probability entries, large bets, or high trading concentration, but it cannot be determined that traders violated rules based on this.Data shows that from January 1 to June 30 of this year, the amount of suspicious trades flagged on Polymarket was approximately $200 million, with geopolitical and war-related markets driving a significant increase in abnormal trading volume. The profits from potential insider trading are highly concentrated, with the top 1% of accounts in profit wallets earning more than half of the gains, and 57% of related wallets created less than 24 hours before the trades. Some traders are reducing the likelihood of being discovered by using multiple associated wallets and splitting orders. For example, 38 associated addresses placed bets in 90 geopolitical markets related to Iran and Venezuela, achieving a win rate of 98%, with total profits of $1.6 million, and withdrew funds using the same Coinbase deposit address.Polymarket stated that it will monitor insider trading and other illegal activities, and has so far referred nearly 100 wallets to law enforcement agencies. Kalshi has also strengthened identity and employment information checks, and restricted participation in related markets by political candidates, athletes, and others who may influence outcomes.

In response to the recent market controversy regarding the reduction of Stabledrop shares, Cap founder Benjamin issued a statement of apology and provided a detailed response. He stated that the team prematurely committed to an airdrop scale of 11 million before the funding was fully secured, but subsequent changes in the market environment led to a fundraising amount that fell short of expectations, resulting in the actual airdrop pool shrinking to 4.2 million.To avoid substantial principal losses for early YT (Yield Token) holders, the team temporarily adjusted the originally planned linear distribution scheme to a "capital protection but no profit" restructuring model, ensuring that no one incurs losses. This rule applies equally to all wallets. Meanwhile, in response to community concerns about a related whale address allegedly engaging in "internal score manipulation," Benjamin clarified that the wallet belongs to a former colleague and is not operated by the team, and that project treasury funds have not been utilized. Additionally, he emphasized that the Cap protocol is still operating healthily, and the decline in TVL that occurred over the weekend was mainly due to the surge in USDM lending rates on Aave for MegaETH, causing arbitrageurs to exit, which is unrelated to this airdrop incident. All redemptions have been processed smoothly.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a suspected insider address has transferred 10.5 million LAB to Aster again, valued at approximately 9.15 million dollars based on the transfer price of 0.872 dollars. This is the second time this address has transferred LAB in the same manner after about 22 hours.In the past 24 hours, this address has cumulatively transferred LAB worth approximately 18.69 million dollars to Aster. Previously, after completing the coin transfer last night, the LAB price experienced a significant drop.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a suspected LAB insider address transferred 7.99 million tokens to three new addresses on the Aster platform 11 hours ago. Just an hour and a half after the transfer, the LAB price plummeted from $1.21 to $0.8152, a drop of 34%.Previously, this address had transferred the same batch of tokens to three new addresses three hours ago, valued at approximately $9.24 million at that time, while three days ago this batch of tokens was worth as much as $141 million.Since July 6, LAB has crashed from $17.68 to $1.05, a cumulative drop of 94% over three days, with the coin price falling back to levels seen before the suspected manipulation started two months ago, leading the market to suspect that the speculators have entered a direct selling phase.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, LAB has dropped from $17.68 to $1.05, with the coin price returning to the level it was at when the intense manipulation began two months ago.Three hours ago, a suspected insider address transferred 7.99 million LAB to three new addresses, approximately $9.24 million. This portion of tokens was worth $141 million three days ago.

According to CNBC, as concerns about insider trading arise from prediction markets, Goldman Sachs has prohibited employees from trading contracts related to the bank's own events, elections, financial markets, macroeconomic data, and geopolitical issues. Financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America are formulating or updating relevant policies, with Bank of America explicitly prohibiting certain behaviors related to prediction market trading for its employees.Previously, the CFTC and the Department of Justice charged a Google employee with profiting approximately $1.2 million by trading "annual search" related contracts on Polymarket using non-public information. Legal experts stated that the CFTC is "still a blank slate" in terms of insider trading enforcement, but the variety of contract types on the platform makes comprehensive regulation difficult. Kalshi and Polymarket have respectively launched employment verification tools and collaborated with Chainalysis and Palantir to monitor suspicious activities. Lawyers recommend that companies update their insider trading policies to cover event contracts, establish monitoring agreements, and even prohibit access to prediction markets on company devices.

Sources familiar with the work indicate that lawmakers may release a new version of the cryptocurrency Clarity Act as early as next week. The new version will integrate the work of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and the Agriculture Committee, but there are still unresolved issues, including one of the key demands from Senate Democrats regarding ethical concerns.Democrats still need to approve the new draft, which requires 60 votes to advance in the Senate.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a suspected insider address built a position when the market cap of the Meme coin CZ was only about $150,000 and has now started to sell.According to on-chain data monitoring, the address 0xf34...fddee spent only $756.8 yesterday to buy 5.108 million CZ, with a purchase cost of about $0.0001481. Ten minutes ago, this address sold 25% of its holdings at a price of $0.06853, making a profit of about $87,000.Currently, this address has accumulated a profit of about $374,000, including unrealized gains, with a return rate as high as 49,421.1%.

According to informed sources, U.S. regulators are investigating allegations made by Susquehanna International Group. The allegations claim that unknown insider traders profited $100 million through options bets before recent regulatory crackdowns on cross-border brokers Futu and Tiger Brokers in China. Susquehanna publicly disclosed these allegations in a lawsuit filed on June 29 in Manhattan federal court. Sources indicate that the U.S. SEC is reviewing the trades described in the market maker's complaint.Susquehanna claims in the lawsuit that it lost over $70 million as the counterparty to most of the alleged insider trading. The lawsuit states that traders purchased U.S. exchange-traded options from Chinese securities firms, which subsequently became targets of the regulatory crackdown on May 22. The scope and stage of the SEC investigation remain unclear. A U.S. judge approved Susquehanna's request to freeze related accounts on June 29. The Chinese government stated that Futu and Tiger Brokers provided unlicensed trading services to mainland residents. Following the announcement on May 22, the stock prices of both companies fell. Futu was fined 1.85 billion yuan in regulatory penalties, and founder Leaf Li's wealth decreased by $1.7 billion in a single day.

Data shows that on October 11, insider whale Garrett Jin still holds a 5x leveraged long position of 1,270 BTC. This position was opened in May this year at a price of $76,117 and has been held for nearly 2 months. Currently, this trade has an unrealized loss of over $18.55 million, with a margin size of $15.6 million, and the liquidation price is temporarily reported at $16,964.

According to Yu Jin monitoring, "1011 Insider Whale" (Garrett Jin Whale Entity) has closed a small proportion of ZEC and UNI long positions. Among them, 50,000 ZEC long positions (approximately $22.38 million) were closed with a profit of about $420,000; 580,000 UNI long positions (approximately $1.76 million) were closed with a loss of about $310,000. However, this whale still holds a long position of 1,270 BTC opened at a price of $76,117 in May of this year, with a position value of approximately $80,000,000, and the current unrealized loss has expanded to about $16.65 million.

Insider whale Garret Jin today lost 5.08 million USD, with a total position value of 102.4 million USD, all in long positions. Among them, the Bitcoin long position is about 79.34 million USD, accounting for nearly 80% of the total position; additionally, he holds about 22.86 million USD in ZEC long and about 257,000 USD in UNI long. Currently, the BTC position has an unrealized loss of about 17.2 million USD, the ZEC position has an unrealized gain of about 893,000 USD, and the UNI position has an unrealized loss of about 47,300 USD. In the past 24 hours, this account's perpetual contracts lost about 5.0897 million USD, with total account assets of about 66.4465 million USD.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Kalshi plans to require some participants in the prediction market to disclose their employer identities. It is reported that users will need to submit an online form disclosing their workplace when placing bets in markets involving undisclosed significant information, and this change will be rolled out in the coming weeks. Sensitive betting markets involving company performance, national security, and other areas are expected to require the disclosure of employment information.The audit committee report reveals for the first time that Kalshi has submitted over 20 referral cases to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice in the first quarter of 2026. This year, individuals referred to federal authorities include former New York Congressman George Santos and accounts related to military spouses.