A wallet linked to Quant’s founder, which had lain dormant for seven years, has transferred QNT worth $6.97 million, while still holding QNT valued at $160.39 million.

ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood announced in a post that the firm has integrated private prediction market platform Kalshi into its ETF strategy. Wood noted that Kalshi’s management team is outstanding and is proactively positioning for the future development of prediction markets. She did not disclose details including the specific ETFs involved, allocation size, or concrete trading arrangements.

Grayscale Research Head Zach Pandl published a note stating that ZEC’s price has risen from roughly $60 to around $1,500 over the past year, though Grayscale believes the asset has not yet hit its valuation ceiling. This rally reflects Zcash’s previously low valuation base and its large potential market size. Data shows ZEC’s market cap was less than 0.1% of Bitcoin’s (BTC) one year ago, and has now climbed to approximately 1.5%. Grayscale notes this change is notable but not extreme within the cryptocurrency space. Currently, XRP’s market cap is about 6% of BTC’s; during the 2017–2018 crypto cycle, the market caps of XRP, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), and Dash (DASH) all reached at least 3% of BTC’s. Grayscale expects demand for privacy-preserving technology will continue to grow. If Zcash can consistently offer superior privacy features compared to other cryptocurrencies, it still has room to further expand its market share.

According to Bloomberg, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor is looking to adjust the dividend structure of the company’s preferred stock, proposing to shift dividend payments for billions of dollars in preferred securities from semi-monthly or quarterly to daily. These securities carry an annualized yield of up to 12%. Saylor said the move would help boost liquidity and market efficiency. Previously, Strategy raised funds primarily by selling common stock to buy Bitcoin, but as the premium of common shares relative to its Bitcoin holdings vanished, the company turned to issuing perpetual preferred shares that do not dilute common shareholders’ equity. Such securities have no fixed repayment date, offering Strategy a new financing source. Strategy currently has over $14 billion in preferred shares outstanding. Though the firm has repurchased more than $1 billion in floating-rate preferred shares (STRC), it has not been able to issue new STRC since May. Analysts note that increasing dividend frequency mainly reduces dividend-related volatility, but cannot eliminate credit and Bitcoin price risks, nor will it necessarily improve market liquidity. The shareholder vote on the proposal will conclude on October 28. Given Saylor’s status as Strategy’s major shareholder, the proposal is expected to pass.

According to an official announcement, Binance is scheduled to suspend Ronin (RONIN) network token deposits and withdrawals at 23:00 UTC+8 (East Eight Time) on October 7, 2026, to support the network upgrade and hard fork. The network upgrade and hard fork are expected to take place at 00:00 UTC+8 on October 8, 2026.

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.