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Michael Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated at the CFTC's inaugural Frontier Forum in Washington that imagining a refrigerator autonomously purchasing groceries with funds from staked ETH, or even issuing its own Memecoin, "is no longer science fiction." He believes that when AI agents can hold assets and execute trades autonomously, regulators must make adjustments.Selig pointed out that the CFTC's regulatory framework is built around executing specific financial functions concerning "identifiable market participants," but autonomous software is raising questions about how these rules apply. He proposed that if AI agents identify trading opportunities and execute trades for users, their developers may need to register, who is responsible when the agent goes out of control, how regulators know for whom the agent is trading, and whether a new type of "Know Your Agent" rule, referred to as KYA, is necessary.Selig also mentioned that AI could provide smaller traders and businesses with risk management capabilities that were previously only available to large institutions, but greater autonomy also brings new risks: agents may react unexpectedly to market conditions, agents using similar models may exhibit correlated trading behaviors, and the speed of autonomous trading could complicate market regulation and risk management. Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu recently expressed similar concerns to Cointelegraph; Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets in February, and Binance introduced AI Agent Skills in March, allowing agents to trade within user-defined parameters or provide spot order tools.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "Manchester City FC vs Brighton & Hove Albion FC," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Manchester City FC" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 63.5% an hour ago to the current 48.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that against the backdrop of global turmoil, inflation expectations have developed in the right direction.

Glassnode's latest report indicates that Bitcoin has fallen back below the range of $84,000 to $85,000, a range that has blocked price increases four times this year. The inflow of funds into the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has significantly cooled, with a net inflow of only about $67 million in the past two weeks; the major buy orders on Binance's spot order book have also shifted down to the range of $78,000 to $79,000, with a scale of about $42 million.Meanwhile, Bitcoin's one-month realized volatility has dropped to about 25%, returning to the levels seen in the summer of 2023; since August, the realized losses triggered by each round of decline have continued to narrow, indicating that selling pressure has eased.Glassnode believes that Bitcoin is currently in a range-bound state with weak demand and limited selling pressure, as the market is focusing on the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. If the daily close re-establishes above $85,000, it may serve as an initial signal for further rebounds; if it falls below the average cost of active investors around $77,900, attention should be paid to the cost support for short-term holders near $75,800.

According to Bitcoin.com News, shareholders of the Bitcoin holding company Strategy will vote on October 28 to decide whether to adjust the terms of STRC, STRF, STRK, and STRD, allowing for the daily setting of dividend record dates. The proposal requires majority support from all issued common stock voting rights, with abstentions and broker non-votes counted as opposition; preferred shareholders do not have voting rights.Michael Saylor currently holds 32.9% of the total voting rights, and the proposal needs approximately 17 percentage points of support from other shareholders. If approved, STRC holders can receive daily dividends from November 1 to 30, totaling $1 per share, with an annualized rate of 12%; if not approved, daily dividends will not be implemented.Strategy will announce its third-quarter performance on October 29. As of October 25, the company holds 848,517 bitcoins and $5.1 billion in assets.

According to Bloomberg, the Dutch cryptocurrency industry organization has warned that if cryptocurrencies are excluded from the proposed new capital gains tax system, investors may sell off their crypto assets.Under the current proposal from Dutch regulators, financial assets such as stocks, bonds, and options are planned to transition to a capital gains tax upon sale starting in 2028, while cryptocurrencies, gold, and foreign exchange may still be required to pay annual taxes on unrealized gains at least until 2030.

Rumors of the discontinuation of certain models of NVIDIA consumer graphics cards have stirred the Huaqiangbei market, with graphics card prices changing daily. The official initial retail price of the RTX 5090 is approximately 15,000 to 16,000 yuan, while current channel prices have soared to 55,000 to 60,000 yuan.The initial price of the RTX 5080 was about 8,000 yuan, and it has now risen to 17,000 yuan.

a16z Frontier founding partner Chris Dixon stated that early Web2 platforms were built on fragile tacit agreements: independent creators, bloggers, news media, and community volunteers contributed high-quality content for free, while platforms provided traffic distribution, audience accumulation, and commercial revenue opportunities.He pointed out that after forming a monopoly through network effects, platforms continuously tightened algorithms, forcing creators to pay for traffic. With the advent of the generative AI era, large model companies collect long-accumulated content from the entire internet through crawlers and directly provide answers in search and Q&A interfaces, no longer diverting traffic to the original websites, thus severing the economic cycle of independent creators.Dixon believes that if this trend continues, high-quality original content may be depleted, and the internet could be flooded with low-quality machine-generated content. He proposed that verifiable data ownership could be established through blockchain protocols, allowing data calls, reasoning, and training to be traceable and automatically receive economic returns. Reshaping this contract is one of the important missions of the Frontier fund.

The National Development and Reform Commission has released a new version of the "Regulations on Foreign Investment Management," which better ensures the development and security of foreign investment from an institutional perspective. The regulations consist of 76 articles, divided into six chapters: General Principles, Guidance and Services for Foreign Investment, Supervision of Foreign Investment, Protection of Foreign Investment, Legal Responsibilities, and Supplementary Provisions.The regulations will take effect on December 1, 2026, at which point the "Regulations on Overseas Investment Management" issued in 2017 will be simultaneously abolished. The state supports investors in conducting foreign investment activities based on market principles and actively participating in international cooperation and competition. Investors enjoy the autonomy of foreign investment according to the law, making independent decisions, bearing risks independently, and being responsible for their own profits and losses.

According to Caixin, just four days after the High Court of England ruled that the property rights dispute over more than 60,000 bitcoins in the Qian Zhimin case is subject to Chinese law, approximately 16,000 Chinese victims participating in the UK recovery have been given the opportunity to continue challenging this ruling.The High Court of England has held another hearing, and the judge has approved the Chinese victims to appeal the legal applicability ruling made on October 12. Lawyers from both sides also discussed issues related to the litigation costs of the previous legal applicability dispute, whether the approximately 16,000 individual applicants would continue to pursue recovery, and how to withdraw, among other matters.

Glassnode published that the key price level for Bitcoin in the fourth quarter is still being held. The institution previously pointed out in the "Charting Crypto" report with Colin Basco and the Coinbase Institutional team that BTC faces resistance in the range of $87,000 to $87,800. Since then, the Bitcoin price has been blocked in that range and continues to oscillate and consolidate below.Glassnode believes that if Bitcoin breaks through the current consolidation range, the market may experience significant volatility, but there is still a large area of selling pressure around $90,000 above.

Hunter Biden, son of Biden, stated that over 12% of the total supply of LAPTOP tokens has been permanently destroyed. Among them, 30% of LAPTOP tokens are linked to real-world prediction results: if the relevant predictions come true, the corresponding tokens will be destroyed; if the predictions are not realized, the tokens will be donated to charity.This destruction was triggered by predictions related to the Nobel Peace Prize and also includes all unclaimed airdrop tokens.

Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute today updated its market report, stating that multiple events such as the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, the U.S. midterm elections, and third-quarter earnings reports are approaching, and the current narrow trading range of Bitcoin may soon be broken. If Bitcoin breaks above $87,000, it may confirm an upward breakout; if it effectively falls below $82,500, the price could further dip to just above $70,000.On the macro front, the overall CPI in the U.S. rose from 3.4% in August to 3.7%, with core CPI increasing by 0.3% month-on-month, higher than the market expectation of 0.2%, intensifying concerns about energy prices transmitting to core inflation. Wintermute pointed out that the recent rise in U.S. Treasury yields reflects more of a withdrawal of funds from crowded AI growth stock trades rather than an improvement in inflation expectations. The market currently expects the Federal Reserve to maintain interest rates at its meeting on October 28, but if hawkish signals are released, it may strengthen expectations for a rate hike in December, pushing up U.S. Treasury yields and suppressing risk assets.Internally, the cryptocurrency market shows a trend of funds concentrating on mainstream coins. The report indicates that Bitcoin's weekly decline was 1.99%, the Nasdaq index fell by 5.52%, and altcoins overall dropped by 5.69%. Funds continue to flow into BTC and ETH while withdrawing from most altcoins, with high beta and small-cap tokens facing more significant pressure. Wintermute believes that the current risk-reward ratio for mainstream coins is relatively more attractive, and a broad rally in altcoins may need to wait for Bitcoin to strengthen further.Wintermute also noted that the current implied volatility is relatively low, and with the Federal Reserve's decision and midterm elections approaching, the market may be underestimating the risk of subsequent volatility. The Federal Reserve's decision on October 28 will be a key catalyst in the near term, and the performance of AI-related companies' earnings reports will also influence the market's judgment on computing power investments, financing costs, and business models.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, hosted a regular press conference. A reporter from AFP asked whether the U.S. government has requested federal agencies to stop using Chinese artificial intelligence products like DeepSeek, citing concerns about the potential transfer of sensitive data, and inquired about China's comments.Mao Ning stated that China has always opposed the generalization of the concept of national security and the politicization of technological and economic issues, and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. Previously, the U.S. government prohibited civilian agencies from using DeepSeek products.

According to Bloomberg, AI cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave is facing a sell-off in its stock price due to its large debt load and ongoing search for new capital, which has left some investors feeling uneasy.JPMorgan stated that although CoreWeave faces debt concerns, its business fundamentals remain strong.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $298,112.35 in the "Brighton vs. Crystal Palace" event, specifically targeting "Brighton." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 69%.

Recently, there has been a viewpoint in the community that a 20% correction in the US stock market would trigger Bitcoin to plummet to $10,000. Crypto analyst Darkfost published an analysis indicating that if Bitcoin falls to $10,000, it would represent a decline of about 87% from the current price and a retracement of about 92% from its historical peak. Historically, Bitcoin has only experienced a maximum retracement of over 92% in 2011; the maximum retracements in 2015, 2019, 2022, and 2026 were 82.5%, 82.6%, 74.4%, and 54.2%, respectively.Darkfost further pointed out that during a correction of about 19.53% in the S&P 500 index, Bitcoin fell by about 80% in 2018. However, in April 2025, when the S&P 500 index also corrected by over 19%, Bitcoin only dropped by about 22%. Therefore, directly linking a 20% correction in the US stock market to Bitcoin falling to $10,000 lacks sufficient historical data support.

Blue Origin aims to increase the launch frequency of the New Glenn heavy rocket to multiple times a week by 2030, challenging SpaceX's market position. The company has invested over $3 billion in Florida and plans to add another $330 million to expand its facilities.

The cross-chain exchange protocol NEAR Intents released a post-mortem report attributing a $3.8 million vulnerability to a flaw in the deposit notification feature. The protocol deploys a public settlement contract on NEAR that maintains an internal ledger of deposited tokens, while withdrawals transfer tokens out via a cross-chain bridge. The report was published by NEAR Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko on October 16, stating that the attacker withdrew $3.8 million before the protocol was shut down on October 1 and returned all funds within 36 hours of detection, with all affected users fully compensated.The report indicates that the feature notifies third-party contracts when tokens are deposited. The attacker created a contract that intentionally caused the notification to fail, allowing the token contract to refund the deposit while NEAR Intents retained the corresponding ledger credit. Through 23 failed deposit transactions, the attacker accumulated $3.8 million in unsupported balance, referred to in the report as ghost funds, and subsequently withdrew real tokens based on this and transferred them to other chains via the Omni infrastructure. Shevchenko stated that this was a vulnerability in the NEAR Intents contract, not in the Omni infrastructure.Withdrawals occurred between September 29 and October 1. The settlement contract was paused and reopened on October 1, with affected routes gradually restored, and contract-side deposits resumed on October 2. The report noted that the vulnerability went undetected because monitoring only compared the original chain assets with the total balance of NEAR side tokens, without comparing the total internal user balances with the actual tokens held by the contract; the team has since added this check and will automatically pause the contract when there is a balance inconsistency. The fix for the October vulnerability was deployed on October 2, but another serious vulnerability report regarding the same feature prompted its complete removal on October 7, with the relevant researcher receiving a $300,000 reward.