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Odaily News: The Ethereum Foundation has announced that zkAPI, jointly developed with the Open Anonymity Project, is now running on the Ethereum mainnet. The solution separates payment from identity through zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to deposit ETH, USDC, and other assets into a vault contract in a single transaction and authorize AI API usage quotas without revealing their identity.Service providers can view request content but cannot know the payer's identity, while the payment service provider can only see the amount spent and cannot associate it with specific requests or users. zkAPI is initially aimed at AI inference scenarios and can also be used for pay-as-you-go scenarios such as blockchain RPC, image and video generation.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that Volmex has launched the Bitcoin Implied Volatility Index (BVIV) perpetual contract on Hyperliquid. The contract is based on options data from Deribit and OKX, reflecting traders' expectations for Bitcoin's volatility range over the next 30 days, rather than the direction of spot prices; the recent BVIV reading is in the mid-to-high range of the 30s.The contract settles at 1 USDC per index point, uses an isolated margin model, supports up to 5x leverage, and features an hourly funding rate as well as an open interest cap during the initial launch period.
The Middle East conflict continues to escalate, with the Saudi-led coalition intercepting Houthi drones and missiles, and oil tankers attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. US-Iran nuclear talks have stalled as Trump pressures Iran, while the US military deploys a third aircraft carrier and 10,000 troops to the Middle East.
The SEC has proposed a new rule establishing a compliance pathway for crypto asset custody for investment advisers and funds, allowing self-custody under specific conditions and opening a 60-day public comment period.
The Pentagon is deploying a third carrier strike group and approximately 9,000 to 10,000 troops to the Middle East, expected to arrive by the end of November. This will be the first time since April that the U.S. military deploys three carrier strike groups in the region simultaneously.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that the U.S. Congressional Research Service noted in a new report that since 2017, as presidential administrations have changed, federal regulators have repeatedly shifted their positions on whether banks can engage in crypto business.The report states that Congress could clarify through legislation which specific activities are permitted or restricted, in order to reduce the repeated shifts in regulatory positions. The report mentions the CLARITY Act: the version passed by the House would allow banks to use digital assets or blockchain for activities already permitted under existing law; the version reported by the Senate committee would explicitly permit 11 categories of crypto activities, including allowing banks to underwrite and trade digital assets more broadly.
Odaily News — According to monitoring by Drift Foundation, DFX claims and redemption are now live. Users with verified losses from the April 1 incident can claim 1 DFX per 1 USDT lost. Each DFX corresponds to a claim on the Recovery Pool, which currently holds approximately 3.11 million USDT. The funding sources include a portion of Velocity's daily protocol net revenue, up to 127.5 million USDT in matching funds from Tether, up to 20 million USDT from strategic partners, and assets recovered subsequently.DFX can be redeemed for USDT at a redemption amount calculated as "Recovery Pool balance ÷ DFX outstanding supply." Redeemed DFX will be burned, and transactions are irreversible. The claims window will close on January 1, 2028, at 00:00 UTC, at which point unclaimed DFX will be burned.Yesterday, Drift Foundation released an update on fund recovery efforts related to the April 1 security incident, in which approximately $295 million in user assets were stolen. The Foundation has engaged Mandiant, zeroShadow, and SEAL 911 to conduct investigations and trace funds, with Mandiant identifying the attacker as North Korean threat group UNC6862.
On October 2, 2026, key U.S. data including nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate, and wage growth will be released, alongside the initial September CPI reading for the euro area and Japan's August unemployment rate. Multiple senior Federal Reserve officials will deliver speeches in quick succession that day, and markets must closely monitor shifts in liquidity expectations.
Illia Polosukhin stated that the attack involving approximately $3.8 million only affected USDT on BSC. NEAR Intents and near.com are now back online, and affected users will receive full compensation.
Reddit will discontinue RSS support on November 13 and plans to shut down its public API in March 2027, pushing developers to migrate to the Developer Platform.
Odaily News: Monad has released a video hinting at the launch of a privacy service on October 6. Its token rose over 17% today and is currently trading at $0.032671.
In Q3 2026, the number of new coin listings on CEXs ended a three-quarter consecutive decline, rising to 517 and posting a 47% quarter-on-quarter increase.
Odaily News: Robinhood Wallet has integrated the Arcus API, expanding tradeable stock tokens to over 190. Arcus has become one of the routing providers for Robinhood Wallet's stock token spot trading, and eligible users located in supported regions can access Arcus's liquidity and execution infrastructure through the wallet.
Odaily News: Bitget PoolX has launched a new round of lock-up events, where users can lock XAUT, SOL, or XRP to participate in sharing a 100,000 BGB airdrop. The lock-up channel will be open from October 2 at 14:00 to October 9 at 14:00 (UTC+8).Among them, the XAUT lock-up pool has a total airdrop of 45,000 BGB, with an individual lock-up cap of 300 XAUT; the SOL lock-up pool has a total airdrop of 35,000 BGB, with an individual lock-up cap of 10,000 SOL; the XRP lock-up pool has a total airdrop of 20,000 BGB, with an individual lock-up cap of 400,000 XRP.This round's XAUT lock-up pool supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will provide an additional bonus on the locked amount based on the user's minimum XAUT holdings over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the USDS-margined CT perpetual contract with up to 20x leverage, and the futures trading bot will also go live simultaneously.
According to official announcements, Odaily reports that Gate has now listed CTUSDT perpetual contract trading (USDT-settled), supporting up to 20x leverage.Concrete is a full-stack institutional-grade operating system for onchain finance, providing infrastructure from crypto assets to real-world assets (RWA), covering vaults, strategies, custody, accounting, risk management, and distribution.
Bybit today launched the Concrete (CTUSDT) perpetual contract, offering up to 20x leverage.
EIP-8363 co-proposer Jérôme de Tychey announced the withdrawal of the application to include the proposal in the Hegotá hard fork, with related discussions on issuance policy shifting to a standalone topic.
According to Tech.eu, venture capital giant DIG Ventures has announced that its third fund has raised $120 million. Backed by Horsley Bridge, Sofina, Granite, and an endowment fund from a top U.S. university among other institutions, the fund will invest in AI-native enterprise software and cloud infrastructure startups at the Pre-seed and seed stages. Its investment focus covers infrastructure areas supporting AI-native enterprise software development, such as data, identity authentication, compliance, and orchestration. The fund plans to lead most investment rounds and has already begun deploying capital.
OKX will launch the QUANT/USDT perpetual contract on October 1 at 16:00 (UTC+8) on the web, app, and API.