Odaily News: Crypto.com has launched its prediction market platform Predict Pro for U.S. users on its exchange. The platform connects to OG.com Markets, an exchange and clearinghouse registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), offering real-time order book depth, probability charts, and multiple order types, and supports combining 2 to 20 event predictions from different markets into a single trade. (The Block)

Odaily reports that predict.fun posted on X platform stating that during the Predict the Worlds event, users have the opportunity to obtain special blind boxes. Unlike regular blind boxes, special blind boxes will provide fixed amounts of USDT rewards based on the items they represent.

Odaily: OpenAI posted on X that it will donate $5 million to a new initiative by the Simons Foundation to support mathematicians in studying, understanding, and further leveraging AI-generated results, including its recently published findings. The funds will be managed and distributed by the Simons Foundation to support workshops, conferences, and special projects; OpenAI will also provide models and computing resources to researchers supported by the Simons Foundation.

According to Odaily monitoring, a certain address's contract account has accumulated losses of approximately $26.23 million. Between 21:39 and 22:33 on October 15, this address flipped from holding approximately $710,000 in long positions on ETH to short positions, closing approximately $880,000 in long positions and opening approximately $7.64 million in short positions. The current short position value is approximately $3.44 million.

Address: 0x7b7f72a28fe109fa703eeed7984f2a8a68fedee2

Odaily News: CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju posted on X that CryptoQuant has launched Analyst Consensus, aggregating over 1.3 million opinions from 878 analysts across platforms including X, Substack, and Seeking Alpha, among which 140,000 are Bitcoin opinions. AI reads each opinion, labels it as bullish or bearish and assigns a score, ultimately generating a single line that shows the overall view of the current analyst community. The feature also covers major altcoins and some stocks, is free and has no paywall, and more assets and analysts will be added in the future.

Odaily News: The Bank of Russia stated in updated regulatory guidelines that arrangements allowing individuals to directly conduct peer-to-peer crypto asset transactions will continue until July 1, 2027, after which such transactions must be completed through authorized intermediaries.

The Bank of Russia also made clear that individuals may not transfer crypto assets from digital accounts to self-custodial wallets. Russia is expanding its regulated crypto market, and Sberbank, the country's largest bank, has been approved to provide crypto asset trading services, having previously been approved as a digital asset custodian.

Russia's new crypto asset regulatory rules took effect on September 1, bringing trading operators and custodians under the supervision of the Bank of Russia; the country still prohibits the use of cryptocurrencies for payment of goods and services. Jan3 CEO Samson Mow said that P2P transactions are more resistant to regulatory crackdowns than centralized platforms. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports that Polygon Labs has announced the official release of Bor v2.10.3, which fixes two medium-severity denial-of-service vulnerabilities in BlockSTM V2 parallel block execution. Both issues were reported through the Immunefi bug bounty program.

In addition, the new version includes multiple security and stability improvements, such as transaction filtering, RPC execution concurrency limits, and pending transaction cleanup. The team stated that the affected versions are Bor v2.10.1 and v2.10.2, where BlockSTM V2 is enabled by default, and that no exploitation of these vulnerabilities has been detected on the mainnet or the Amoy testnet. This upgrade does not involve a hard fork, and nodes can upgrade gradually as needed.

Odaily reports, according to Coinglass data, that over the past hour, $91.65 million was liquidated across the network, with BTC liquidations at $40.45 million, ETH liquidations at $13.39 million. Additionally, long positions saw $72.7 million in liquidations, while short positions saw $18.94 million in liquidations.

Odaily reports: Nasdaq plans to introduce new rules under which listed companies whose market capitalization falls below $5 million for 30 consecutive days would face immediate suspension and delisting proceedings, aimed at cracking down on manipulation tactics such as "pump-and-dump" schemes in the overseas small-cap stock market. The proposal has drawn opposition from small U.S. domestic businesses, with affected companies concerned that the new rules could inadvertently target normally operating companies with significant stock price volatility, impacting their fundraising and business development. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suspended progress on the proposal last month and decided to seek further public comment. Currently, more than 190 Nasdaq-listed companies have a market capitalization of no more than $5 million, nearly half of which are headquartered in the United States. (Bloomberg)

According to MSX.COM data, the US memory storage sector extended its losses, with Kioxia ADR falling 10%, SanDisk and Seagate Technology dropping over 8%, Western Digital down more than 7%, SK Hynix falling over 6%, and Micron Technology declining more than 5%.

Odaily: A spokesperson for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the Trump AI Task Force will hold a meeting on Thursday.

Odaily: Canaan has released its unaudited Bitcoin mining update for the period ended August 31, 2026. The company mined 44 BTC in September, with total Bitcoin holdings reaching 1,875 by the end of September. Month-end installed hashrate stood at 4.87 EH/s, with operating hashrate at 4.18 EH/s.

Odaily reports: The U.S. September Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 6.3% year-over-year and 1.3% month-over-month, with the year-over-year growth rate reaching its highest since December 2022 and the month-over-month increase being the largest since March 2022. Energy costs accelerated, with gasoline producer prices rising 20.3% month-over-month.

According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, final demand goods prices rose 2.6% month-over-month, with final demand energy prices up 10.8%; final demand services prices rose 0.8%, with transportation and warehousing costs up 3.4%. During the same period, U.S. September retail sales grew 0.8% month-over-month, below August's 1.3%.

Polymarket data shows that traders estimate a 72% probability that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged at its October meeting, and a 28% probability of a 25 basis point rate hike, with related market trading volume approaching $41.5 million. In September, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%.

After the report was released, Bitcoin's price briefly fell below $81,000 and touched an intraday low of $80,154 on Bitstamp; it fell 3.4% on the day and 4% over the past two weeks. (Bitcoin.com News)

According to Lookonchain monitoring, today U.S. Bitcoin ETFs saw a net outflow of 3,209 BTC, with a 7-day net outflow of 5,250 BTC; Ethereum ETFs saw a net outflow of 38,915 ETH, with a 7-day net outflow of 133,537 ETH.