BitMine has once again increased its holdings by 13,412 ETH, worth $40.61 million.

Beating AI Express (Dongcha) reports: Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, two text-to-speech models now available on Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Flash TTS focuses on audio quality, character performance, and long-text stability, while Flash-Lite TTS is tailored for high throughput, low latency, and low cost. Both models allow users to design new voice lines directly from text, or replicate personal or authorized voices using a roughly 30-second reference audio clip. Users can control emotion, rhythm, and accent on a sentence-by-sentence basis, and insert sounds such as laughter, sighs, or coughs. They can also generate two-person dialogues directly from a single script. Flash TTS supports 130 languages, while Flash-Lite TTS supports 101. Pricing is lower than the previous generation: through December 31, 2026, Flash TTS audio output costs $9 per million tokens, and Flash-Lite TTS costs $6; the prior Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview was priced at $20 per million tokens. Starting January 1, 2027, the standard prices for the two models will rise to $18 and $12 per million tokens respectively.

Japan’s 10-year government bond yield rose by 8 basis points to 3.055%, hitting its highest level since September 1996.

CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures on October 19. The standard BCH contract will have a size of 250 BCH, with its micro contract set at 25 BCH. For Uniswap, the standard contract size is 10,000 UNI, and the micro contract is 1,000 UNI.

Following Bitcoin’s pullback yesterday, altcoins across the crypto market plunged sharply. According to HTX market data, on the CEX’s decline leaderboard, MUBARAK led with a 32.14% drop, while ONE fell over 24% to take second place. Previously strong tokens such as UNI saw a 11.75% decline today, retreating to above its prior support level, now trading at $9.254. ZEC dropped 6.16% to $1,516.99. LIT, which hit an all-time high yesterday, remained relatively resilient with no notable correction, currently priced at $5.3438, up 4.75% over 24 hours.

Per monitoring by YuEmber, an OTC whale/institution that added 15,000 ETH to its positions only yesterday took partial profits and cut most of its ETH holdings after the early morning price drop today: it transferred 42,000 ETH (worth $112 million) to Galaxy Digital seven hours ago, locking in $21.12 million in profits. The address accumulated 52,000 ETH over the past two months at an average price of $2,161, and reduced its 42,000 ETH position at $2,664 in the early hours of today.

All Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee have sent a letter to Chairman Tim Scott, requesting a public hearing on prediction markets, noting the committee’s oversight responsibilities for such markets. On the same day, Scott and the committee’s Republican members held a private meeting with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss securities-linked prediction market products, investor protection, and regulatory issues. Democratic lawmakers contend that some prediction market products tied to corporate performance metrics may fall under SEC jurisdiction, so the committee should conduct a transparent, bipartisan review. Currently, the CFTC is the primary regulator of prediction markets, but U.S. states remain in disputes with it over regulatory authority for sports event contracts. (The Block)