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Products of the AI Hype
a16z Exposes the Truth Behind the AI Boom: The Top 1% Are Carrying the Entire AI Narrative
a16z report exposes the truth behind the AI boom: token demand growth is almost entirely driven by the top 1% of users, frontier enterprise usage is 8.3 times that of typical users, household-level payment rates are even lower, and the layered truth reveals the cold reality beneath the frenzy.
Can You Write a Trading Strategy in One Sentence? Hands-On Test of Binance's New AI Pro
Hands-on test of Binance AI Pro: describe a trading idea in one sentence to generate an automated Workflow, supporting natural language strategy generation and paper trading tests. The official process is summarized as Prompt, Test, Trade.
Vitalik's Singapore Speech: AI Will Become the New UI, Bots May Dominate On-Chain Interaction
Vitalik's speech: AI will become the new UI, counterparties may become Bots, and applications may disappear. Within two years, Ethereum transactions will be cheaper and more private, and security principles will extend to the hardware layer.
Macro Insights
Bank of America Warns: Is the U.S. Stock Market Repeating the 2000 "Dot-Com Bubble"?
BofA's Hartnett warns that the market structure is highly consistent with the 2000 dot-com bubble: tech alone rises while other sectors broadly fall, AI is called the biggest bubble since railways, and at the same time he calls for "buying shame" and recommends increasing Treasury bond holdings.
After the National Day holiday, U.S. Treasuries Are Still "Lying in the ICU": How Does Wall Street See It Now?
Global bond markets plunged after the holiday, with the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield surging to 5.36%, a 22-year high. French government bonds became the new storm center, and Wall Street's views on the year-end trend are increasingly divided.
How Fast Is It from Launch to Collapse for Meme Coins?
Meme coin market lifecycle data reveals: the median time to peak for tokens is only 17 days, and more than half of tokens have retraced 95% from their all-time highs. The speculative frenzy on public chains such as Solana and Base cannot hide long-term negative returns, with only 19% of tokens avoiding a crash. One article to understand the boom-and-bust cycle of Meme coins.
TOKEN2049 Observation: Without RWA, Is DeFi Dead?
RWA is the only way for DeFi to escape "scale following coin prices." But the real dividing line is not issuance scale, but whether these assets can settle into on-chain collateral, enter real lending and trading, and be put to use.
The Sixth Kondratiev Wave Is Coming. How Should Ordinary People Position Themselves for the Next Decade?
October 2026 stands at a crucial historical turning point. We are standing at the end of the depression phase of the fifth Kondratiev wave (the information technology era), about to enter the recovery phase of the sixth Kondratiev wave (with the energy revolution and artificial intelligence as its core).
Institutions and Celebrities' Wild Ideas
The New York Times: Inside CZ's Life in Abu Dhabi
The New York Times reveals CZ's life in Abu Dhabi: a net worth of $114 billion, and after prison, shuttling between the Trump family and Emirati elites. The article examines the boundaries of power in the process of crypto mainstreaming from the perspective of "jurisdictional arbitrage."
Shao Ailun in Conversation with Justin Sun: How Can Young People Seize Opportunities in the AI Era?
Fully AI-custodied health data flows, zero-cost breakthrough paths, a 37% reference-frame arbitrage model, redefining the ultimate essence of Crypto and the Small Ego version update philosophy.
Dragonfly Partner Haseeb: Agent Payments Are a False Proposition? Crypto's Real Value Lies in Protecting Individuals
Dragonfly partner deeply analyzes the real intersection of AI Agents and crypto: Agents may not need crypto, but you do. From payments, privacy, to government services, interpreting the truth beyond the narrative.
ArkStream Capital: When Binance Becomes "Stockbinance," Crypto Is Undergoing an Unprecedented Transformation
Fed rate hikes and U.S.-Iran conflict pushed oil prices higher, while Bitcoin rose 42% against the trend in Q3, moving in sync with the Nasdaq and decoupling from gold. RWA perpetual contracts became the largest trading increment in the crypto industry, broad altcoin rallies are no more, and protocol revenue and buybacks have become new screening criteria.
Seizing Opportunities
Tiger Research: Five Key Changes in Crypto VC in Q3 2026
Q3 crypto market sentiment turned greedy, but corporate financing did not recover. M&A shifted from buying sectors to supplementing licenses, established VCs lost pricing power, and capital concentrated in infrastructure connecting with traditional finance.
How to Stably Generate 1000U Cash Flow per Day Through DeFi?
How to build your passive income system through Perps, Loop, and LP Deal?
Why Did Most DeFi Protocols from 2021 Die?
Pendle became the only surviving protocol in the DeFi fixed-rate track. Tokenized U.S. Treasuries are bringing real yield on-chain, completely changing the underlying logic of lending and trading.
Well-Known Trader Kyle: In This Cycle, Which 6 Sectors' Tokens Are Truly Worth Holding Long-Term?
The 2026 crypto market ushers in a turning point, with fundamental tokens rising. Projects such as Hyperliquid and Ethena solve the "lemons market" problem, while opportunities in sectors such as AI inference and RWA become prominent. Choose good assets, extend the cycle, and persist in holding amid the noise.
Web3 Matters
STRK Surges Over 40% Against the Trend, Starknet Seeks to Transition to L1, Is Quantum-Resistant Security the Reason for "Going Solo"?
Starknet plans to transition from an Ethereum L2 to an independent L1, with the token price surging in a single day, but it still faces ecosystem difficulties. At the same time, Starknet's "going solo" plan is not only accused of stabbing Ethereum in the back, but also triggers multiple community doubts about its post-transition security costs, ecosystem liquidity, and quantum narrative hype.
$730 Million Evaporated! September Crypto Security Report: Hackers Are Targeting "Infrastructure"
September crypto security losses totaled about $730 million, with two incidents, Bitget ($387.5 million) and Liquid Network ($319 million), accounting for more than 90%. The focus of attacks shifted from smart contract vulnerabilities to exchange backend manipulation, verification software flaws, governance and oracle manipulation, and other infrastructure layers. Private keys are no longer the only breakthrough point. Project teams need to strengthen backend permission verification and supply chain security, and the industry should promote the construction of infrastructure security standards.
National Day Holiday DeFi News Review: Hyperliquid Plans to Expand into Options, Uniswap Pilots Compliant Liquidity Architecture
DeFi infrastructure iteration is accelerating: the merger of Orca and Loopscale drove ORCA up 60%, Hyperliquid is expanding into on-chain options, Injective released a new whitepaper positioning itself as institutional-grade RWA infrastructure, and Founders Fund bet on Anvil tokens. The Ethereum and Solana ecosystems are migrating from native crypto loops to the real financial system, with on-chain credit and compliance frameworks becoming the focus.
A Quantum-Resistant Version of Zcash? New Public Chain Quantus Secures Investment from Balaji and Others, High Pre-Mine Ratio Draws Criticism
Just one month after mainnet launch, Quantus quickly gained popularity with its quantum-resistant and privacy narrative. Support from Zcash-circle investors such as Balaji further boosted attention, but the high genesis allocation also sparked controversy.
Abstract Comes to an End: With a Top Brand and Massive Users, an L2's 18-Month Money-Burning Experiment
Pudgy Penguins parent company Igloo announced that its Ethereum L2 network Abstract will shut down on December 15. With 400,000 users and 4 million wallets, it still could not support itself, and tens of millions of dollars in losses proved fatal.
Key News
Spot gold breaks through the $4,200 mark
U.S. government deposits over 17,000 BTC worth $1.48 billion into Coinbase Prime within three days
Bitcoin life insurance company Meanwhile completes $37 million financing, led by Bain Capital Crypto
TD Cowen: Raises year-end Bitcoin forecast to about $109,000
QCP: Expects Bitcoin to fluctuate between $80,000 and $90,000 in Q4
Arthur Hayes: In the early stage of a bull market, many worries must be overcome, and the "money printing wave" will drive asset prices to surge
HTX DeepThink: U.S.-Japan tightening may form resonance, stocks and crypto face synchronized deleveraging risk
Trump: Will not attack Iran before the midterm elections, blockade will continue
Fed Chair Warsh will speak at the IMF Bangkok annual meeting on October 16
U.S. senator investigates Cantor's relationship with Tether, demands explanation of sanctions compliance measures
CFTC Chair: The crypto industry is flowing back to the U.S., and regulatory clarity will help retain the industry
The French National Assembly committee is reviewing 10 crypto amendments, among which stablecoin exchange transactions have already passedStarknet considers transitioning to an L1 network to address quantum threats, targeting 2027
Cardano Foundation spins off digital identity project Veridian and tokenizes its equity on-chain
Japan's Ministry of Finance proposes a "three-type" framework for government bond tokenization
Trump: The White House will treat those who use the term "artificial intelligence" instead of "superintelligence" as enemies
Trump completed over 500 securities transactions in August: bought up to $25 million in Meta stock, and also purchased SpaceX debt products
Anthropic will open Claude to more than 15 U.S. federal agencies