Analyst Murphy tweeted that BTC has consecutively formed doji candles on the daily chart, with rare upper and lower wicks. Data shows that on August 1, two notable volume bars appeared in the range of $62,000 to $63,000, totaling approximately 1.68 million BTC, with a concentration of 12.9%; on October 3, two prominent volume bars also appeared in the range of $83,000 to $84,000, totaling approximately 1.52 million BTC, and the concentration has risen to 12%, with the upper warning zone close at hand.After this set of data combinations appeared on August 1, BTC rose from $60,000 to $80,000 in just 17 days. Murphy believes that the accumulation of chips and rising concentration do not indicate a definite direction, but the probability of "amplified volatility" is increasing. It is expected that significant events may occur in the market within a short period of 1 month to a longer period of 2 months.
According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 9.297 billion USD, with long positions at 4.344 billion USD, accounting for 46.73%, and short positions at 4.953 billion USD, accounting for 53.27%. The profit and loss for long positions is 523 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -572 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a full margin at a price of 2304.06 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -40.7953 million USD.
Odaily News: Trader Doctor Profit posted that he shorted Bitcoin at $86,200 and is placing additional short orders in the $86,500 to $89,500 range to build a swing short position. The current target remains $79,000; upon reaching that level, he will decide whether to take profit and close or continue holding the short based on Bitcoin's price reaction.
He stated that the deepest pullback range he is considering is $69,000 to $71,000, and he does not expect the price to fall to lower levels. Although the short entered at $86,200 has already worked, he will evaluate the market level by level rather than directly betting on a deep pullback.
His next step will be to first observe the support performance near $79,000, and based on that, judge whether the decline will continue or reverse and resume the bull market, setting a new local high.
Odaily News: Aptos Labs co-founder and CEO Avery Ching posted on X that claims Aptos will shut down its blockchain in the next 6 months are "stupid rumors."
Public governance records currently show that Aptos still has network upgrade proposals and executed mainnet feature updates, with no official plans found to shut down the mainnet.
Odaily News: According to Lookonchain monitoring, well-known whale Corus (0x807...aca1) purchased $200,000 worth of EDEL, bringing total holdings to 7.14 million tokens. This trader has profited $34.95 million on Hyperliquid and still holds 137,100 HYPE, valued at $12.27 million. EDEL has risen 750% over the past two months.
Odaily News: The Philippines' Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) has obtained a court freeze order to freeze more than 100 financial accounts and other assets linked to a lawmaker and multiple individuals and entities, involving corruption, plunder, and irregularities in flood control projects. The freeze covers 86 bank accounts, 4 investment accounts, 1 insurance policy, and 25 virtual asset wallets. The council said the funds flowed through multiple virtual asset service providers and numerous virtual asset wallets, making tracing more difficult. The identities of the lawmaker and other parties involved were not disclosed.
Odaily News: Vitalik posted on X that he is conducting a self-experiment, planning to use personal health and travel data to obtain personalized diet and exercise advice through frontier models, while avoiding leaking private information to remote models. He uses the Qwen 3.8 Flash Next local model for coordination and calls powerful remote models as tools; the privacy scheme includes having the local model write queries on his behalf, isolating payment identity through zkAPI, and isolating network and IP information through Tor.
Vitalik said the scheme is already running and returning advice, but Tor is not suitable for per-request unlinkability, and latency may be 10 to 100 times higher than ideal; the request construction strategy is still not ideal, and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next currently runs at about 20 to 30 TPS, and would only become noticeably faster above 100 TPS. He also said that the more cautious the data provided to remote models, the less help remote models can provide.
According to Lookonchain monitoring, the well-known whale Corus (0x807...aca1) spent $200,000 to accumulate 7.14 million EDEL.The trader made a profit of $34.95 million on Hyperliquid and still holds 137,100 HYPE, worth $12.27 million. EDEL has risen 750% in the past two months.
According to The Philippine Star, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) of the Philippines has obtained a court freeze order to freeze over 100 financial accounts and other assets related to a congressman and several individuals and entities. These assets are suspected to be linked to corruption, plunder, and irregularities in flood control projects.The freeze includes 86 bank accounts, 4 investment accounts, 1 insurance policy, and 25 virtual asset wallets. The AMLC stated that the funds circulated through multiple virtual asset service providers and various virtual asset wallets, complicating tracking efforts. The council did not disclose the identities of the relevant congressman and other parties involved.
Doctor Profit stated that it has shorted BTC at $86,200 and plans to add short positions in the range of $86,500 to $89,500, with the current target price still at $79,000.
According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $50.6508 million, with long positions liquidated at $23.5322 million and short positions liquidated at $27.1186 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $1.6567 million, Bitcoin short positions at $1.5092 million, Ethereum long positions at $0.8897 million, and Ethereum short positions at $1.7562 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 40,713 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring in Hyperliquid - PARA:10Y-USD worth $523,000.
Alon, co-founder of Pump.fun, stated that two months after the launch of the platform's $15 million Callout reward program, it was found that the initial mechanism inadvertently incentivized undesirable behavior, leading to a flood of low-quality content and weakening users' willingness to continuously create high-quality content.Pump.fun subsequently adjusted the reward algorithm to place greater emphasis on content quality rather than the quantity of posts. According to the new mechanism, the more Callouts a user posts each day, the lower the marginal returns from the new content. Alon mentioned that the reward mechanism is still undergoing iterations, but there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure that a large number of users can sustainably produce high-quality content over the long term.He also stated that the rewards currently cover both top accounts and accounts with fewer than 10 followers, with no favoritism or preferential treatment. Alon suggested that users focus on recommending quality tokens, building trader trust through content, and earning rewards based on the trading volume generated by their Callouts. He emphasized that simply flooding the platform with Callouts or dumping tokens to followers will not yield sustainable returns.
Zach Pandl, the Director of Research at Grayscale, stated that the AI crypto sector rose by 54% in September, significantly outperforming the overall crypto market, which increased by 24%. Despite this recent surge, the sector's market capitalization is still only about $15 billion, making it the smallest category among the six crypto sectors defined by Grayscale.Among the representative tokens in the sector, NEAR rose by 183% in September, Venice (VVV) increased by 70%, World (WLD) went up by 47%, and Bittensor (TAO) climbed by 37%. These projects involve agent commerce, privacy AI applications, human verification, and an open AI network encompassing reasoning, agents, data, and computation.Grayscale believes that public blockchains can provide an open infrastructure for agent payments, identity, privacy computing, and verifiable records, complementing the current AI development ecosystem that is concentrated among a few companies. The AI crypto sector may see one or more major winners in the next five years, and recent performance indicates that investors are beginning to price in the role of blockchain as infrastructure in the emerging agent economy.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and others for their warnings about AI existential risks in an interview with Axios, stating that merely sounding alarm bells without providing solutions is not leadership. She urged lab leaders to take safety responsibilities and to accelerate development safely.
Vitalik.eth posted on Farcaster revealing that he is conducting a personal experiment to generate personalized diet and exercise recommendations using personal health and travel data by combining local models with remote cutting-edge models while protecting privacy.The system employs a three-layer privacy protection architecture:Identity Layer: A local model (Qwen 3.8B) replaces the user to construct query requests, avoiding the exposure of writing style that could reveal identity.Payment Layer: Uses zkAPI to hide payment information.Network Layer: Hides IP addresses through Tor.The system is currently operational, but Vitalik pointed out three major shortcomings: Tor is inefficient and has high latency in unlinking requests; the local model runs at only 20-30 TPS, and a smooth experience requires over 100 TPS; the stricter the data protection, the more limited the assistance that the remote model can provide. The relevant code has been submitted to the Ethereum zkAPI repository.
Energy developer Fusion Source Energy (FSE) and its partners have signed a memorandum of understanding with the on-chain physical asset platform Loaf, aiming to promote the issuance of over $500 million in photovoltaic and battery projects in Australia on-chain, covering more than 1,000 hectares, led by over 200 megawatts of Project Amber. According to the memorandum, the funds raised are expected to be used to accelerate project development and expand Amber's battery capacity.Amber is a utility-scale photovoltaic park that will deploy over 200 megawatts of photovoltaic and multi-hour battery storage on-site, with an expected annual electricity generation sufficient to power over 70,000 households, or equivalent to the electricity demand of a 50-megawatt data center. The project pipeline also includes battery storage assets below 5 megawatts and distributed energy resources, which are modular assets closer to the consumption end, capable of forming diversified energy revenue across multiple sites in Australia. FSE CEO Weiwei Shi stated that Amber is one of the largest hybrid on-site projects in the Southern Hemisphere, which have traditionally been open only to a few institutional investors. Loaf can expand the investor base without adding extra friction and provide continuous, transparent pricing for the assets.Loaf stated that Project Amber will become a key asset in its ecosystem. As the project matures and begins trading, users will be able to go long or short and utilize these assets within the on-chain financial ecosystem. Loaf will participate in the on-chain trading and issuance of physical assets, enabling users to access the economic upside and returns of related infrastructure assets.
According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Giants win by 1-6 points" for the event "Cardinals vs. Giants" on the prediction market Polymarket has experienced significant fluctuations, rising from 14% an hour ago to the current 46.5% (a fluctuation of 32.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.
According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the probability of the "Over" option in the sub-market "O/U 8.5" for the event "Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers" on the prediction market Polymarket has experienced significant fluctuations, dropping sharply from 36.5% an hour ago to the current 21.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.
Odaily News: Porsche announced on October 1 that it is ending its Web3 project and PIONEERS CIRCLE. The PORSCHE 911 NFTs will remain in holders' wallets and on-chain, the PIONEERS Discord server will become a read-only archive, and the @eth_porsche account will stop posting updates.
The collection was originally planned to issue 7,500 NFTs, with minting opening in January 2023 at 0.911 ETH each; ultimately, 2,363 were minted. Porsche has not announced any token burn, buyback, migration, or redemption plan, and holders can still hold, transfer, or list their NFTs for sale.
The PORSCHE 911 NFTs have generated nearly $20 million in cumulative trading volume, with about $38,000 in the past year and about $2,900 in the past month. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Arkham stated that it has now tracked approximately 78% of the 847,700 bitcoins held by Strategy. The on-chain assets in the labeled wallets are valued at $40.28 billion, with another $15.5 billion in assets marked as held by Fidelity Custody; in that snapshot, Strategy's bitcoin reserve was valued at $71.4 billion. Saylor previously said he would not disclose these addresses. Arkham first tagged most of these holdings in May 2025, and the remaining holdings have not yet been identified.
