South Korea's ruling party intends to propose delaying virtual asset taxation, with most opinions pointing to a timeline of around two years.

Beating AI News (from Dongcha) reports that QuestMobile’s latest ranking shows Qianwen App’s monthly active users (MAU) hit 158 million in September 2026, surging 5077% year-over-year to rank first in growth rate among all apps with over 100 million MAU. Among China’s native AI app rankings, Qianwen takes second place, surpassing DeepSeek’s 123 million MAU, though it still lags far behind top-ranked Doubao’s 419 million MAU. This growth is fueled by Alibaba’s large-scale promotion efforts. Last November, Tongyi App was renamed Qianwen. During this year’s Spring Festival, Alibaba launched a 3 billion RMB free-order campaign allowing users to order milk tea and takeout directly via AI; the campaign link went viral on WeChat groups, and the system experienced lags due to surging traffic. QuestMobile data shows Qianwen’s daily active users (DAU) jumped from around 7.06 million to 58.48 million on the campaign’s first day. However, the 5077% growth rate is distorted by last year’s low base: reversing the year-over-year data, Qianwen’s MAU in September 2025 was only around 3.05 million. This year, Qianwen’s MAU reached 166 million in March, rose to 167 million in June, but fell to 158 million in September, a 5.4% drop from June.

Bitget has launched two stock perpetual contracts: LNG (Cheniere Energy) and MO (Altria Group). The contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20x leverage, and offer 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 394 stock contract underlyings.

According to data from TRM Labs, FBI notifications, and exchange announcements, between 2022 and 2026, there were 12 crypto theft cases involving North Korean-linked hackers or suspected ties, with a total combined value of approximately $9.74 billion. Binance suffered the largest loss at around $6.3 billion, accounting for 65% of the total value of the listed cases. Other major cases include: Bybit lost $1.5 billion, Ronin/Axie Infinity lost $620 million, Bitget lost $388 million, DMM Bitcoin lost $308 million, and WazirX lost $235 million. Additionally, Harmony Horizon and Atomic Wallet each lost $100 million. In terms of attribution, the Binance, Bybit, and DMM Bitcoin cases were directly identified by the U.S. government as linked to the TraderTraitor group, while the remaining 8 cases are mostly attributed to the Lazarus network. The above amounts are calculated based on valuations at the time of the incidents, and only cover major cases, not a full tally of all related losses.

U.S.-Iran talks signal de-escalation, rising market expectations for conflict cooling, leading to a sharp overnight drop in international oil prices. Brent crude futures fell 7.63% to close at $104.77, while WTI crude dropped 7.36% to $96.46. According to Reuters, Iran’s president said the Supreme Leader has granted the government partial authority to advance peace talks. Amid the steep oil price decline, a Hyperliquid whale chose to buy the dip against the trend. The account accumulated Brent crude long positions worth about $51.78 million in the early hours of today. Its Brent holdings rose from 377,000 contracts to 868,800 contracts, an increase of around 130.5%, with a weighted average entry price of about $104.05. As of press time, the whale holds two fully leveraged long positions with 10x leverage: - Brent crude: Position value of roughly $91.176 million, average entry price of $105.03, unrealized loss of about $78,700, liquidation price of approximately $86.85. - WTI crude: Position value of around $56.1922 million, average entry price of $98.23, unrealized loss of about $876,200, liquidation price of roughly $69.67. The combined nominal value of the two crude long positions is about $147 million, with current unrealized losses of approximately $954,900. Today’s position increase is mainly concentrated in Brent, while WTI positions decreased by around $600,000 during the same period.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, among AAPL contract positions on Hyperliquid, there are 6 large single-address long positions each worth no less than $1 million. Five of these are in unrealized loss, while only one remains profitable. The total value of the six long positions is around $26.9858 million, with a weighted average entry price of approximately $342.98. The total unrealized loss is about $1.1526 million, and the current price is roughly 4.27% lower than the overall position cost. Among them, the largest single-address long position is valued at around $9.33 million, with an average entry price of $345.75, currently incurring an unrealized loss of approximately $477,300 (0x7fda). The only large long position still in profit has an average entry price of about $312.05, with an unrealized gain of roughly $59,700 (0x7dac). The original large long positions have not yet generally broken even, and new buying has entered after the earnings report release. In the past 5 hours, at least 4 accounts have opened or added AAPL long positions, with a total net purchase of around $1.7784 million during this period (0x6990, 0x4c3d, 0xc6cd, 0xaa53).

According to monitoring by crypto analytics account Ai Yi, during this morning’s market slump, on-chain address 0x3d1…f66bC redeemed assets from Compound, then sold 1,470 ETH (valued at ~$3.31 million), plus 63.46 WBTC and cbBTC (totaling ~$4.868 million), for a total cash-out of roughly $8.18 million. The address had no on-chain activity for 22 consecutive days before this, and the concentrated sale occurred amid the recent BTC and ETH price drops.