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Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has joined the nonprofit organization Manifund. Manifund co-founder Austin Chen stated that Ellison will be responsible for developing the organization’s donation platform and enhancing its charitable work. Ellison has been on a trial basis at the organization since July, transitioned to full-time in August, and has been posting work updates under the alias "Carol."Ellison pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of the FTX exchange in 2022, which resulted in billions of dollars in customer losses. She cooperated with prosecutors and testified against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Ellison is set to begin serving a two-year sentence in November 2024 and will be released early in January 2026 for cooperating with the investigation.Chen stated in a post, "I believe in redemption. Caroline has acknowledged her mistakes, is working to repay creditors, and has served time in prison. I hope the world can recognize that too." Ellison expressed excitement about her new position, apologized for her past actions, and thanked Austin for giving her a second chance, stating that he judges her based on her current work performance rather than her past. According to its website, Manifund focuses on artificial intelligence safety and effective altruism projects.

Goldman Sachs continues to predict that gold prices will reach $4,900 per ounce by the end of 2026, and believes there are net upside risks. Goldman Sachs pointed out that if demand from central banks remains strong and ETF investor inflows recover, gold prices could far exceed the forecast. Additionally, if expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate hikes increase, it could lead to a sharp correction in gold prices.

Zach Pandl, the research director at Grayscale, pointed out that Zcash, as a Bitcoin-like digital currency with privacy features, currently has lucrative mining profits. Although Bitcoin network miners earn about $35 million daily, far exceeding Zcash's approximately $2 million, the daily revenue per mining machine for Zcash is about twice that of Bitcoin, with revenue per megawatt-hour approximately four times that of Bitcoin, even surpassing some AI/high-performance computing cloud services.Driven by the strong performance of token prices, Zcash's overall mining activity has increased more than 2.5 times this year, forming a virtuous cycle of "price increase --- mining increase --- network security enhancement --- supporting price." Pandl believes that at the current valuation, Zcash mining remains attractive and continues to strengthen its network security.

According to Gate market data, Hong Kong stocks opened lower today and continued to decline, with the Hang Seng Index closing down 0.85% in the morning session, and the Tech Index down 0.79%. The total market turnover was 118.83 billion Hong Kong dollars. Non-ferrous metals and storage concept stocks saw significant corrections, while oil and gas, as well as optical communication stocks, led the gains. In terms of individual stocks, Orient Overseas International rose by 2.4%, while Zhidatech fell by over 28.5%.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow from KOL in the past 24 hours are as follows:BTC (E4Ap....jHx): Net inflow of $20,000, with a 24-hour increase of 154.1%, currently priced at $0.0227.MONEROCHAN (39Hq....Jvy): Net inflow of $20,000, with a 24-hour increase of 30.3%, currently priced at $0.0034.STONK (6GmA....Ngx): Net inflow of $20,000, with a 24-hour increase of 36.5%, currently priced at $0.2568.wXMR (WXMR....eJp): Net inflow of $10,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1.3%, currently priced at $512.4987.AAPLx (XsbE....zJp): Net inflow of $10,000, with a 24-hour increase of 2.5%, currently priced at $326.9054.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), Jiang Zhuoer, stated that Bitcoin has just dropped, and the Coinbase Bitcoin premium remains negative, continuing to incur significant losses. It is expected that tomorrow's spot ETF (i.e., the US stock market trading day) will see capital outflows.ETF data is lagging; trading based on ETF data is akin to driving while looking in the rearview mirror. Although it is inconvenient, the inflow and outflow of ETF funds are very important, so we can only keep an eye on it.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the supply ratio of long-term Bitcoin holders has significantly increased during this pullback, with many traders buying and holding for over 6 months during the dip.This is a common global behavior during bear markets or significant pullbacks, where long-term holders have much lower Bitcoin liquidity, helping to form a solid bottom support. This is a positive signal on a long-term level, slowly accumulating.

Cryptocurrency analyst Willy Woo stated that Bitcoin is significantly decoupling from the U.S. stock market, with the last occurrence of such a degree of decoupling happening in 2015, which was the prelude to the Bitcoin bull market in 2017.In 2014, the stock market was still in a bull market, while BTC experienced a bear market unrelated to stock market trends. From 2015 to 2016, the stock market fluctuated weakly for two consecutive years, while BTC entered a bull market; then in 2017, when the stock market also turned bullish, BTC further surged. Willy Woo believes that the current market pattern is similar to that time: BTC liquidity continues to strengthen, while the stock market is beginning to show signs of weakness.

According to Darkfost monitoring, the activity of the OG group holding Bitcoin for over 5 years has significantly increased recently, with the 90-day moving average of their spent UTXOs rising to 1500 BTC, doubling from the levels in May. The consolidation period seems to have raised concerns among almost all types of investors, including the most experienced OG group. However, these transfers may not necessarily indicate selling; some could be due to reasons such as the Coldcard incident, transferring Bitcoin to safer storage methods.

According to the Dune data panel, the trading volume on the Robinhood chain DEX has reached a new high, totaling $1.89 billion in the past 24 hours. In terms of token issuance platforms, Pons continues to hold the top position with an absolute advantage, issuing 24,010 tokens yesterday, while long.xyz issued 2,740 tokens, ranking second.In addition, the Pons platform generated fee revenue of $5.95 million in the past 24 hours, ranking fourth across the network, while Uniswap also benefited from the surge in trading on the Robinhood chain, with protocol revenue increasing to $10.33 million in a single day, ranking second.

The U.S. primary election season is nearing its end, and the cryptocurrency industry's super political action committee (PAC) has achieved victories in several key districts. Supported by major contributors such as Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z, Fairshake has helped approximately 50 candidates win nominations, including Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss, as well as Republican Senate candidates Barry Moore from Alabama, Andy Barr from Kentucky, Kevin Hern from Oklahoma, and Harriet Hageman from Wyoming. Prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi indicate that these candidates have a winning probability of over 94% in the general election.Fairshake spokesperson Geoff Vetter stated that the organization has reserved $122 million for the fall elections. However, Fairshake also faced its biggest setback in Illinois, spending over $10 million in an attempt to prevent Democrat Juliana Stratton from securing the nomination but was unsuccessful. Additionally, the Fellowship PAC, supported by Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital, has actually spent about $11 million, far less than the previously claimed $100 million; the Digital Freedom Fund, funded by the Winklevoss brothers with $21 million, has yet to engage in support for specific candidates.

The research institution Sigmaintell has released a storage price indicator showing that in the third quarter of 2026, the overall supply and demand in the global storage market remains tight. Prices for all categories of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and NAND Flash (flash memory) continue to rise month-on-month, but the rate of increase has significantly slowed compared to the second quarter, with the month-on-month increase for some storage chips narrowing to within 10%.

The DeFi lending protocol Venus Protocol has launched the Liquidity Hub, aimed at establishing a unified capital allocation layer for the Venus ecosystem. Users only need to deposit one type of asset to receive the corresponding Hub Token. The Liquidity Hub will automatically seek better APY combinations based on different market yield opportunities and allocate funds to products such as Core, Flux, and Fixed-Rate Vaults, without requiring users to manually manage positions across multiple products.The Liquidity Hub is not a new lending market but a unified liquidity entry built on top of Venus's existing products. Capital allocation, rebalancing, and the flow of underlying assets are all recorded on-chain, maintaining openness, transparency, and verifiability. Currently, Liquidity Hub v1 has been deployed on the BNB Chain, and in the future, it will connect to more lending markets, institutional yield products, and new sources of yield.

According to Gate market data, since Federal Reserve Chairman Waller's speech, spot gold and silver have significantly retreated in the short term. Gold rebounded slightly after falling about 100 dollars from its high, reaching a low of 4530 dollars/ounce and currently reported at 4560 dollars/ounce; silver plummeted over 1 dollar during the day, hitting a low of 68.1 dollars/ounce and currently reported at 69.0 dollars/ounce.

Fox Business crypto reporters posted on the X platform that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are advancing the finalization of a rule to define "unsafe or unsound practices" in bank regulation. This term has not been clearly defined for years, primarily relying on the broad discretion of bank examiners.Under this rule, when regulators determine that a practice is "unsafe or unsound," they must link it to actual illegal conduct or significant financial risk, thereby reducing the likelihood of pressuring banks serving legitimate clients, including crypto companies, based on vague reputational or procedural issues. This rule marks another important step towards further dismantling "Operation Chokepoint 2."

The CFO of Nvidia stated that the growth of non-hyperscale cloud service provider customers is expected to account for about half of the data center business.

At the 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Conference, Zhao Changpeng stated that Trump mentioned Hyperliquid and that Mike Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will seek a path for the platform to enter the U.S. market.Zhao Changpeng believes that if this progress can be realized, it will be a significant boon for the entire cryptocurrency industry. Zhao stated that the outside world tends to view him as a supporter of centralized trading platforms due to his holdings in Binance, but the fundamental reason he entered the cryptocurrency industry is his belief in decentralization.He pointed out that some users choose Hyperliquid because the platform can be used through wallets without the need for traditional accounts and KYC processes; if Hyperliquid can operate in the U.S. in a compliant manner, it will open up space for perpetual contracts and more decentralized services to enter the U.S. market.He believes this is not only related to Hyperliquid itself. "Hyperliquid is just the tip of the iceberg; once this tip enters, other projects can follow suit." Related developments will benefit more decentralized products and their portfolio companies, and will also bring more liquidity to international centralized trading platforms, allowing U.S. users to obtain more competitive prices when buying and selling crypto assets.Zhao Changpeng stated that the current cryptocurrency market is far from saturated, so competition between platforms is not the main issue. Hyperliquid's entry into the U.S. will not only benefit itself but will also expand the market size of the entire industry, "what is beneficial for them will also be beneficial for us."