Suspected Sonic Labs-Related Address Transfers 11.78 Million S Tokens to Binance, Valued at Approximately $5.55 Million

Beating AI News Flash: On October 19, GitHub announced it will temporarily add authentication to HTTPS download requests for some public repositories. Once the system detects abnormal traffic, code that previously could be cloned or fetched without logging in may suddenly require a token. CI builds and automatic installation scripts relying on anonymous downloads may also be disrupted. A similar issue emerged in September. On September 2, a developer reported in the GitHub Community that their CI server repeatedly received 401 errors when fetching the MariaDB public repository, and even submodule updates could not be completed. The developer of AMP, a game server management tool, also noted that a large number of users' installation processes were affected, forcing the team to consider urgent program modifications. At that time, GitHub explained that the platform was facing growing bot traffic, which could lead to misclassification of legitimate development requests. The latest announcement further clarifies the scope of the temporary authentication measure. GitHub advises developers to configure authentication for automated tasks and avoid relying on anonymous HTTPS fetching. Authenticated HTTPS and SSH operations are not subject to this restriction.

Decentralized exchange Lighter tweeted that its Lighter Core has launched binary options products, with plans to roll out a full options trading service next.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, a whale liquidated its long positions in Tesla, the DRAM Index, and the 3x semiconductor bull ETF SOXL last night, totaling roughly $46.317 million. The same account then established a long position in Google (GOOGL) worth approximately $44.393 million, marking a clear shift in holdings toward Google. The average entry price for this Google position is about $345.865, with an unrealized loss of around $188,000 and a liquidation price of $331.03; it also holds a long position in Amazon worth roughly $1.223 million.

OKX announced that it will launch U.S. dollar-denominated (U) U.S. TradFi perpetual contracts today, with underlying assets covering RUM, CRML, CVNA, MP, and TWST. The launch times (UTC+8) are 17:00, 17:15, 17:30, 17:45, and 18:00 respectively. The corresponding U.S. stock underlyings for these contracts are Rumble, Critical Metals, Carvana, MP Materials, and Twist Bioscience.

A $ZEC whale is buying $MASK (Nullmask)! This whale holds over $15M in assets, including 10,241 $ZEC ($11.69M). Over the past 3 days, he has been accumulating $MASK, buying a total of 3.69M $MASK ($151K).

JPMorgan Asset Management released its "2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions" report on October 19, including Bitcoin in its long-term return forecast for the first time. The report projects Bitcoin’s compound annual return over the next 10 to 15 years will reach 10%, outperforming 7.5% for U.S. large-cap stocks, 5.5% for gold, and 8.2% for U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs). It also estimates Bitcoin’s arithmetic average annual return at 20.9% and annualized volatility at 55%. Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise, noted that JPMorgan has ranked Bitcoin as the top-performing asset expected over the next decade, a move that signals a shift in traditional financial institutions’ attitude toward crypto assets.