Swiss FINMA approves the country's first spot Bitcoin ETF for retail investors.

On-chain investigator ZachXBT published a report stating that a centralized money laundering service called FreedomXMR (FXMR) emerged on Hyperliquid Core in August 2026, with over 87% of its inflow volume directly linked to illegal activities. ZachXBT manually reviewed FXMR’s historical inflow transactions exceeding $10,000 each, tracing more than $20 million in funds directly to ransomware, exploit attacks, malware, and social engineering incidents. These include attacks targeting DCENT Wallet, Fetch.ai, and Axelar in September 2026, unnamed ransomware payments, and the Gamdom attack in October 2026. ZachXBT also noted that FXMR operators source Monero (XMR) liquidity via KuCoin, with associated addresses making over 3,000 cumulative deposits to the exchange, and its operating model may mirror that of Wagyu’s mixing service. The FXMR token contract was acquired via a Hyperliquid auction on July 27, 2026, for 518.28 HYPE tokens, valued at roughly $28,000 at the time. ZachXBT added that Hyperliquid Core has previously hosted other centralized money laundering services like b1exch, which leverage the blockchain’s permissionless mechanisms to operate, and confirmed he has shared a spreadsheet containing relevant data with the Hyperliquid team. The fund tracing and illegal association ratios referenced are conclusions from ZachXBT’s investigation.

Xie Jiayin, Head of Bitget’s Greater China region, published a statement disclosing that hackers breached and accessed data from TiDB Cloud, a cloud database product under PingCAP. Bitget and Baidu were among companies that had partnerships with the data service provider. Bitget previously only stored partial public transaction log data on TiDB Cloud, and ceased using the service over two months ago. The incident did not involve user data, nor did any sensitive information such as passwords leak, so users need not worry. He also clarified that the so-called public transaction data refers to information accessible to all users on the transaction channel.

US ADP employment change for the week ending October 3 came in at 18,500, versus the prior reading of 24,750. (Jinshi)

Micron Technology announced it will fund Indium Corporation’s expansion project in Rome, New York, to restore the critical mineral processing capacity required for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. The two sides will sign a long-term supply agreement to ensure stable supply of high-purity mineral raw materials and reduce reliance on globally concentrated mineral refining capacity. This collaboration is part of Micron’s U.S. semiconductor supply chain investment plan unveiled in July this year, which is set to invest up to $3 billion. Micron also plans to inject over $250 billion into U.S.-based wafer manufacturing and related technologies by 2035, with the latest project providing supply chain support for its domestic manufacturing layout.

OKX will officially launch AXISUSDT perpetual contracts on its web platform, mobile app and API at 22:00 (UTC+8) on October 21, 2026. The detailed rules are as follows: 1. Opening time: The AXIS USDT contract will open for trading at 22:00 (UTC+8) on October 21, 2026 2. Contract overview: Axis Robotics builds a self-evolving data engine for embodied intelligence.

Dongcha Beating AI Flash News: Anthropic is preparing to launch a new model better at understanding users' real intentions. The Information cited a pre-tester as saying the new model outperforms the currently available Claude in reasoning and meeting user needs. For example, when a user only asks to fix a single bug, it may further identify common issues causing such bugs and ask if they want to fix them together. The new model is also said to be better at proposing unconventional solutions: if a user consults about stock investment, it may design its own prediction algorithm instead of just repeating common analysis methods like price-earnings ratios. However, these evaluations only come from one tester so far, with no public test data available. The community speculates the new model may be Claude Fable 5.5. On October 13, LiteLLM synced `claude-fable-5-5` from the Azure model directory, but deleted the entry the next day after audit. Meanwhile, Google is internally testing Gemini 4 Carbon. Business Insider previously reported that some employees believe its programming ability is close to Claude Opus 5.5. OpenAI is also preparing a new version of Terra, with reports suggesting it may launch in the coming weeks, with further improved capabilities and an expected price lower than GPT-6.1 Sol.