Polymarket has hired former Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Mantil as Head of Institutional Growth to drive its institutional business growth.

Beating AI Express (Insight) – BlackRock’s latest report titled *The Machine-Native Economy* states that AI and digital assets are accelerating their integration: AI represents “machine-native intelligence”, while digital assets stand for “machine-native currency”. As AI agents begin to autonomously purchase services and initiate financial transactions, blockchain can provide machine-readable assets and programmable settlement infrastructure. BlackRock believes stablecoins may first become the primary transaction tool for agent commercial activities. Compared with traditional payment networks, blockchain is more suited for all-weather, high-frequency, small-value machine-to-machine payments. Data shows that as of September 2026, stablecoins’ circulating market capitalization exceeded $300 billion; adjusted trading volume in 2025 topped $11 trillion, with a compound annual growth rate of 80% from 2020 to 2025. Additionally, computing power may emerge as a large new market for digital assets. Analysts project that combined revenue from AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud could reach around $1.1 trillion by 2030. Going forward, computing power usage rights can be standardized and tokenized, used for transfer, collateralization and programmable settlement, while computing power futures may also support price discovery and risk hedging. BlackRock also notes that the liquidity of agent payments and computing power markets remains in the early stages, but as AI applications expand, digital assets may gradually become a critical infrastructure for the AI economy.

Multichain decentralized exchange (DEX) Jumper has raised roughly $16 million in its token sale on the Legion platform, with the offering oversubscribed by nearly 8 times. The token sale opened at 9 PM yesterday and will close at 9 PM on October 2. Jumper is positioned as an on-chain financial super app that integrates real-world asset (RWA) transactions—including swaps, cross-chain transfers, wealth management, perpetual contracts, and tokenized stocks—into a single interface. According to official figures, the platform has accumulated over $410 billion in total trading volume, boasts more than 100,000 monthly active users, and ranks among the leading cross-chain aggregated trading platforms.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, whale address 0x9a80 purchased 30 million ENA (worth approximately $8.3 million) three days ago, and bought an additional 7.96 million ENA (valued at around $1.99 million) today.

Whale 0x9a80, who bought 30M $ENA($8.3M) 3 days ago, bought another 7.96M $ENA($1.99M) today.

The U.S. August Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index will be released at 20:30 tonight. Markets expect August PCE inflation to remain elevated, with the data unlikely to provide sufficient grounds for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to pause further policy tightening. Headline PCE is forecast to rise 0.4% month-on-month and 3.7% year-on-year, both roughly unchanged from July; core PCE, which excludes food and energy, is projected to climb 0.3% month-on-month and 3.3% year-on-year, still above the Fed’s 2% inflation target. A rebound in energy prices and resilient consumer spending may complicate the Fed’s policy judgment. If the data meets expectations, markets will likely continue to focus on whether the Fed will raise interest rates again this year. At its September meeting, the Fed lifted its policy rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, and its latest projections signaled there is still room for further adjustments before the end of the year. There are internal divisions within the Fed over its future policy path. Fed Governor Michael Barr believes that tariffs and the Iran conflict have pushed inflation off track toward the 2% target, and further rate hikes may still be needed; New York Fed President John Williams, by contrast, said there is no need for urgent action, but expects one more rate hike could be delivered this year. If PCE comes in higher than expected, market pricing for additional rate hikes may strengthen.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Arrington Capital transferred 40,000 HYPE tokens to FalconX just minutes ago, valued at approximately $3.44 million, and the move is suspected to be for sale.