Smart money that bet on UNI in September appears to have taken profits, reaping $1.27 million in just one month.

According to CNBC, U.S. Democratic Representative Don Davis of North Carolina introduced the "Ban on Betting on Your Own Election Act" on Monday, which proposes to ban federal public office candidates from trading contracts related to their own elections on prediction markets. Violators will face a fine of $10,000 or three times the net profit from the trade, whichever is higher. The proposal stems from Davis' Republican election opponent Laurie Buckhout, who was previously penalized by prediction market platform Kalshi. Buckhout reached a settlement with the platform in August for trading contracts related to her own candidacy, paying a fine of just under $2,600 and being suspended from Kalshi for three years. She said at the time: "I bet on myself, that's exactly what I did. That was a stupid mistake." Prediction market platforms had previously already imposed self-restrictions on candidates trading contracts related to their own elections to guard against insider trading. Davis hopes to formalize these relevant restrictions into law. However, both the House of Representatives and the Senate are scheduled to resume sessions only after the midterm elections, so the bill is almost impossible to implement during this election cycle. The Senate passed a resolution in April banning senators and their staff from participating in prediction market trading, but it did not cover non-incumbent senatorial candidates.

According to a Bloomberg report, OpenAI is in discussions with multiple UAE investment funds to secure a core investor for a funding round worth at least $300 billion. The funds include Abu Dhabi-based MGX, with several UAE funds planning to form an investment consortium that could contribute up to $100 billion in total. BlackRock is also in talks to join the consortium for this round. OpenAI has also approached existing investors including the University of California Endowment, Thrive Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz about participating. The fundraising is still ongoing, and the final investors and specific terms may change. OpenAI plans to raise funds at a pre-money valuation of approximately $1.4 trillion, offering this valuation as a fixed price to investors even though a lead investor has not yet been finalized. In March this year, OpenAI completed a $122 billion funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion. The company has delayed its IPO plans until at least next year, citing a focus on AI safety work as the reason.

Fairshake, the crypto political action committee (PAC) backed by institutions including Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and A16z, announced it will support 32 incumbent U.S. House members in the 2026 midterm elections, comprising 19 Republican lawmakers and 13 Democrats. Fairshake plans to initially deploy $6 million, providing $1 million each in campaign support to 3 Republican and 3 Democratic candidates. Spokesperson Geoff Vetter stated: “We support pro-crypto candidates from both parties who back U.S. innovation.” All 32 candidates voted in 2025 to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), though the bill failed to pass a key Senate vote and remains uncertain. Fairshake expects to invest over $100 million this year on ads supporting House and Senate candidates, with at least $30 million allocated to Ohio’s Senate race, backing Republican candidate Jon Husted against Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown. Vetter previously noted that as of August, Fairshake held $122 million in cash, with the goal of building the largest pro-crypto congressional coalition in U.S. history.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has released advance notices of proposed rulemaking for the Crypto Asset Trading Regulation (Regulation CTX) and Crypto Asset Market Regulation (Regulation CAM), seeking public input on establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for retail crypto asset trading. Key focus areas of the consultation include: how to implement a unified national regulatory system to prevent abuses in crypto markets and related transactions; how to clarify compliance requirements and industry best practices for crypto assets; and how to create a dedicated subcategory of registered designated contract markets (DCMs) specifically for crypto asset trading, dubbed "crypto asset markets". CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig stated that this action will leverage existing statutory authority to advance a federal crypto market regulatory framework, with the goal of preventing fraud like the FTX collapse rather than only pursuing accountability after the fact. The CFTC will consider subsequent rulemaking and other actions based on public feedback. Comments must be submitted in writing within 60 days of the notice’s publication in the Federal Register.

Polymarket has launched Polymarket Protocol V2, its next-generation prediction market smart contract system that fully overhauls the underlying architecture of its existing protocol. The current protocol is built on the 2019 Gnosis Conditional Tokens Framework, requiring additional adapters, trading contracts, and authorization processes to be deployed for every new market type. V2, by contrast, standardizes on a single ERC1155 position token contract, uses pUSD as collateral, and integrates a trading platform contract and router. V2 features a modular architecture, with initial support for binary, atomic zero-risk, incremental zero-risk, and composite markets. It connects UMA, Chainlink, and future oracles via the new OracleAggregator, and natively supports cross-chain functionality for positions, collateral, and settlement outcomes—laying the foundation for future multi-chain deployments. All contracts are upgradeable via a secure governance process. Polymarket Protocol V2 has undergone audits by Cantina, Certora, Quantstamp, SigmaPrime, Zellic, and Pashov, with formal verification completed by Certora, and offers a critical bug bounty of up to $5 million. Polymarket will run a small number of gray-scale production markets from October 5 to 30, with plans to switch new markets to V2 starting November 2. The platform is also launching Data API V2, built on Rust and an in-house on-chain indexer.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, U.S. stocks closed on Monday: the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rose 0.18%, the S&P 500 gained 0.67%, and the Nasdaq climbed 1.05% to hit a new high. Large tech stocks continued to underpin index performance: SpaceX jumped nearly 8%, Tesla, Nvidia, and Broadcom all rose more than 2%, Meta added 1.9%; TSMC's ADR climbed 2.75%, with its market cap briefly topping $2.5 trillion during the session to hit an all-time high. However, most semiconductor stocks fell: Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, ASML, and AMD all closed lower, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rose less than 0.3%. Alongside the index gains, market breadth continued to deteriorate. Monday marked the 15th consecutive trading day where the number of U.S. stocks hitting new lows exceeded those hitting new highs. Fundstrat data shows that only around 20% of Russell 3000 constituents are trading above their 50-day moving average, while the proportion above the 200-day moving average dropped to just over 40%—the lowest level so far this year. Goldman Sachs noted that some fundamental long-short funds are reducing risk exposure, with overall net positioning at roughly the 2nd percentile of the past five years. In the bond market, yields on 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasuries rose to 5.34% and 5.70% respectively during the session, both hitting new highs since 2002. The U.S. September ISM Services PMI fell to 54.9, but the services price index rose from 72.6 to 74.0—its highest level in four years—amplifying market concerns about persistent inflationary pressure and prolonged high interest rates.