Trader 0xdd6a opened 20x shorts on $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $XRP, and $DOGE on @Aster_DEX, all currently in profit.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI index closed down 159.63 points on Thursday, October 8, with a 2.35% decline to 6644.27 points. SK Hynix fell 2.4% and Samsung Electronics dropped 1.4%.

Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson criticized the current tokenized fund market at the TOKEN2049 conference. She pointed out that many of her peers’ tokenized funds are merely “digital copies” or “digital twins” of traditional financial products, failing to truly leverage blockchain’s potential in efficiency and settlement. Johnson drew a distinction between “native” and “replicated” when comparing Franklin Templeton’s tokenized products to others in the market. She explained that Franklin Templeton’s BENJI fund adopts a native on-chain recording model, where fund ownership records are directly based on public blockchains—with the blockchain itself acting as the single source of truth, rather than a mapping of traditional ledgers. According to Johnson, this design brings two practical advantages: first, BENJI supports second-by-second return accrual, enabling real-time yield calculation; second, it significantly cuts costs. She provided data showing that BENJI’s per-transaction cost is approximately $1.13, compared to roughly $150 per transaction under traditional methods.

Beating AI News Flash: Unity and Google have jointly unveiled Unity Spark, a new AI-powered game development tool, with a closed beta test planned for later this year. Built on the Unity game engine, Spark allows users to create and edit 3D games directly in web browsers, eliminating the need to install traditional development software. It supports natural language commands while retaining manual editing capabilities. Spark enables multiple users to collaborate on the same game project simultaneously, and multiple AI agents can work in parallel. Users can instruct agents to build scenes, adjust lighting, or modify game content. The tool is also integrated with the Unity Asset Store, which recommends assets created by professional creators based on user requests. For example, if a user asks to add a cape to a character, the AI will source suitable assets from the store. Spark leverages multiple generative AI models and does not rely solely on Google technology. Unity CEO Matt Bromberg emphasized that the team does not want users to generate full games with a single command; instead, it aims to let creators iterate and refine their works repeatedly. Users can use AI to speed up development while still utilizing professional art assets and traditional editing tools. However, Spark has notable limitations at launch: the editor only supports desktop web browsers, finished games can run on desktop and mobile browsers and be published to Google Playground, but projects cannot currently be downloaded, exported to the full Unity editor, or sold. The platform plans to charge users via credits based on AI usage, with specific pricing yet to be announced.

According to Bitget's market data, WTI crude oil rose to touch $90 per barrel, up 1.89% on the day.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, a crypto whale opened concentrated short positions in PUMP, SOL, and XRP at noon today. As of press time, the total position value is approximately $21.8654 million, with an unrealized loss of around $12,900. For PUMP, the whale reversed to open short positions after liquidating long positions: it cleared a total of 1 billion PUMP long positions, incurring a loss of about $265,500, then established 1.5 billion PUMP short positions. The three current short positions are: PUMP (5x leverage): 1.5 billion shorted, valued at ~$9.015 million, average price $0.00602, unrealized profit of ~$16,300; SOL (20x leverage): 75,000 shorted, valued at ~$8.6408 million, average price $115.07, unrealized loss of ~$10,700; XRP (20x leverage): 3 million shorted, valued at ~$4.2096 million, average price $1.397, unrealized loss of ~$18,600. On the same day, the whale also reduced its 11,000 HYPE long positions, realizing a profit of ~$140,700. It currently holds 189,000 HYPE long positions and 4.9 million LIT long positions, with a total value of ~$33.9673 million and unrealized profit of ~$6.921 million. Its long position size remains larger than the above short positions. The whale’s current account equity is ~$7.758 million, total long-short exposure is ~$55.8326 million, with an overall leverage of ~7.2x. Prior development: LIT has rallied 141% since its launch on the Robinhood chain, generating $15.4 million in gains for three low-cost addresses.

According to the latest statistics released by venture capital firm Social Capital based on data from the OpenRouter platform, during the last week of September this year, the number of tokens processed by models from Chinese AI firm DeepSeek on OpenRouter surged to 36.8 trillion (36.8T) in a single week. This figure has officially surpassed the combined token processing volume of models from the four major U.S. AI firms in the same period: OpenAI (19.5T), Google (6.8T), Anthropic (6.1T), and xAI (0.6T), which totaled 33.0T. The data shows that domestic open-source/open-weight models represented by DeepSeek are achieving a historic breakthrough in their access and usage rates among international developers and aggregation platforms.