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Bitcoin News posted on platform X that Fidelity Digital Assets research analyst Zack Wainwright stated that as of October 12, Bitcoin has risen nearly 50% from its bear market low of about $58,000 in June, with a trend similar to its recovery path in 2022.He warned that the return rate of Bitcoin in each cycle is narrowing, and past performance does not guarantee future results, but a significant increase in dollar terms is still possible; it took nearly 16 years for Bitcoin to break $100,000 for the first time, while rising from $100,000 to $200,000 could be much quicker.

Elon Musk stated that GrokBot is the fastest-growing product he has ever seen.

Binance announced that the Assets Under Management (AUM) for its tokenized stock product bStocks has surpassed 1 billion USD, making it the fastest tokenized stock product in the world to reach this scale. Since its launch on June 11, 2026, bStocks achieved this milestone in just about four months. As of now, the cumulative trading volume of bStocks has exceeded 40 billion USD, with an average daily trading volume of over 300 million USD, and nearly 100 assets launched.Since its launch, the 1:1 conversion scale between directly held stocks and bStocks has reached 6 billion USD. Binance stated that bStocks can be used as collateral in eligible scenarios and supports round-the-clock trading, on-chain settlement, and wallet-to-wallet transfers. As the scale of assets, trading volume, and application scenarios continue to expand, bStocks is driving the evolution of tokenized stocks from a single trading asset to collateral and broader crypto-financial applications, further exploring the integration of traditional equity assets with on-chain financial infrastructure.

Bitget has launched the FASTRETAILING stock perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 356 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Willem Middelkoop, founder of the Commodity Discovery Fund and author of The Big Reset, stated in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine that central banks are purchasing gold at a record pace but are unwilling to hold Bitcoin. The reason is that central banks prefer to hold assets that they can control, while the price, supply, and market of Bitcoin are beyond their control.Middelkoop pointed out that institutional investors are entering this market through Bitcoin ETFs, and the fund he manages has also allocated Bitcoin. He mentioned that currency devaluation trades are driving Bitcoin, gold, and commodities into a bull market, and discussed topics such as BRICS nations, de-dollarization, and declining demand for U.S. Treasury bonds.He proposed a 25% investment portfolio model that includes real estate, gold, stocks, and Bitcoin, and provided a target price of $1 million for Bitcoin by 2030. The interview also covered topics such as oil prices, the situation in Iran and the Gulf, as well as the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference and "Mad Max"-style Bitcoin scenarios.

According to official news, NEAR Financial Company SVRN has acquired the NEAR infrastructure platform FastNEAR. FastNEAR will join SVRN as a wholly-owned subsidiary, and its co-founders Evgeny (Eugene) Kuzyakov and Mike Purvis will also join the SVRN team.The announcement states that FastNEAR is a high-performance RPC infrastructure provider behind NEAR applications, and it also supports most of the data layer for NEAR, including server clusters that handle network read and write operations, archival infrastructure that stores complete transaction history, and the data source NEARDATA for developers to process this history.

Swiss cryptocurrency exchange WhiteBIT announced that it has integrated the Lightning Network, allowing users to deposit and withdraw Bitcoin through this network. This feature is technically supported by Bitcoin infrastructure provider Voltage, with a deposit fee rate of 0.25% and a withdrawal fee rate of 0.15%. Users can complete transactions using QR codes or payment information.WhiteBIT founder and CEO Volodymyr Nosov stated that WhiteBIT's mission is to make blockchain technology more accessible and widely adopted, achieving this goal by providing practical and user-friendly digital asset solutions. The addition of Lightning Network support makes Bitcoin faster and more useful, facilitating users to deposit accounts, send and receive funds, and use Bitcoin in more real-world scenarios.WhiteBIT is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, and according to CoinGecko data, its trading volume ranks 17th among global exchanges. The exchange stated that this launch supports faster Bitcoin channels, with application scenarios covering remittances, exchange fund transfers, merchant QR code payments, and interoperability with wallets and applications that support the Lightning Network. The Lightning Network was launched in 2018, and this year its trading volume has significantly increased, mainly due to exchanges utilizing the network to transfer funds at low cost and high efficiency.

Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, stated that Starknet, as an L2 relying on Ethereum's underlying security, is considering various options, including transitioning to L1, in order to independently control the network security migration process and address the cryptographic risks posed by quantum computing and AI.Starknet is built on ZK-STARK, possesses cryptographic agility, and has developed a post-quantum security migration roadmap. Ethereum plans to achieve full resistance to quantum attacks at L1 by the end of 2029, while Bitcoin has not made a similar commitment. Starknet expects to implement related upgrades as early as 2027.

Microsoft executives stated that the RTX Spark device equipped with NVIDIA chips is faster than Apple's fastest chips in generating images.

ChainCatcher live report, at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, World Liberty Financial co-founder Eric Trump stated that over the past year, funds have rotated from the cryptocurrency market to the AI sector, suppressing Bitcoin prices, but "this is the greatest thing that could happen"------the faster AI grows, the faster digital assets will grow. He provided a practical example: in the future, people will let AI agents book hotels and arrange travel, and these transactions "will not use fiat currency, will not use cash," but will be completed directly by agents through cryptocurrency wallets.Eric Trump pointed out that funds have now flowed back into the cryptocurrency market, and prices are rising, "the faster our peers in AI sprint towards their goals, the better it will be for our industry," and the industry should embrace AI with open arms.

In September, the growth rate of U.S. business activity reached its highest level in over five years, driven by increased demand and improved business confidence, prompting companies to expand output at the fastest pace in over five years. The U.S. economic growth rate for the third quarter is expected to reach around 4%, with further acceleration in economic growth in September. The inflation rate of business input costs has risen to its highest level in nearly four years, with rising fuel prices increasing cost pressures, and the rate of increase in business selling prices has also accelerated further.

The founder of the venture capital firm Theory Ventures, Tomasz Tunguz, stated that the fastest-growing market globally is not AI, but the crypto market formed by real-world assets (RWA) on the blockchain. He noted that RWA enables stocks and commodities like oil and copper to be traded on-chain, taking on almost all public price discovery during commodity exchange closures.Tunguz mentioned that RWA, through perpetual contracts for stocks, provides pre-IPO pricing for Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Cerebras, and brings international access channels. He cited data indicating that the perpetual price of Cerebras before its IPO differed from the Nasdaq opening price by less than 1.3%, with SpaceX having a perpetual open interest of approximately $215 million and a cumulative trading volume of about $2.2 billion before its IPO. A report from Pantera Capital in September 2026 showed that the trading volume of perpetual contracts for stocks on Hyperliquid and Lighter reached $67.8 billion in June, which is 16 times that of tokenized stock spot trading.He also stated that stablecoins have become one of the top ten buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, surpassing China, Norway, and Switzerland, and are used to settle transactions of the aforementioned tokenized assets. Institutions such as JPMorgan, HSBC, BlackRock, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Franklin Templeton, Robinhood, and Stripe are advancing RWA.

Ethlabs stated that with the Ethereum rapid confirmation rules, the Chainlink cross-chain protocol CCIP 2 can reduce Ethereum transaction confirmation times to 12 to 24 seconds.This acceleration is an optional setting that needs to be actively enabled, and its security guarantees differ from the default path; the Ethereum full finality guarantee and the CCIP default waiting time remain unchanged.

FastBiz officially stated that the project has entered the continuous operation and ecological construction phase. As of now, FastBiz has accumulated a total construction amount of 15.9436 million USD, with over 37,000 participating users. Users can participate in ecological construction using USDT and UNI according to the agreement rules. As the scale of participation continues to expand, FastBiz is accelerating community building, ecological applications, and global market layout, promoting more users and business resources to enter its Web3 business ecology.It is reported that FastBiz is positioned as a new type of business infrastructure connecting real-world commerce and the Web3 value network, committed to creating the next generation of decentralized business networks that connect global goods, supply chains, payments, communities, and digital assets. The project connects real-world business scenarios with the Web3 digital asset system, exploring the integration of diverse scenarios such as goods circulation, supply chain collaboration, digital payments, community participation, and digital assets, further constructing an open value network aimed at global users and business entities.

FastLane co-founder Alex Watts announced that the team is building Moose, a product that serves as an on-chain aggregator, which is currently in public testing on Monad. Moose is described as the first on-chain aggregator and is currently the only router aimed at addressing the malicious quote manipulation issues from prop AMM and v4 hooks in TradFi and DeFi.Its tech stack is inverted, with quotes being instant and private, not passing through servers, TEE, RFQ, or simulation in the hot path, and routing decisions made using on-chain real-time status after the trade is included. Moose provides improvements in execution, speed, spot margin safety, and privacy by co-locating with various DEXs within the same transaction. Gas on Monad is higher but below one cent, and the upcoming threshold encrypted memory pool will offer end-to-end privacy.