Odaily News: AI security platform Hadrian has announced the completion of a $40 million funding round, co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors including HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures.

Following this funding round, Hadrian's cumulative funding has reached $65 million. The funds will be used to expand into European and American markets, grow its engineering and research teams, and further develop its AI-driven cybersecurity platform.

Hadrian states that with the rapid advancement of AI technology, cyberattack methods are evolving — attackers are beginning to use AI agents to automate attack processes, while many enterprise security teams still rely on manual penetration testing. The company cites data showing that 87% of organizations still use manual penetration testing, and more than 70% of security teams struggle to determine whether vulnerabilities are truly exploitable.

Hadrian combines Continuous Exposure Management with AI agent penetration testing to simulate an attacker's perspective for enterprises, helping them discover external attack surfaces, verify real risks, and optimize remediation priorities. (businesswire)

Odaily reports that a whale, through 2 linked wallets, spent $991,000 to buy 0.28% of the Artificial Inu supply between September 3 and 17. Artificial Inu reached an all-time high market cap of $450 million on September 17, then fell 70%. As of now, the whale's position remains unchanged and it has lost $600,000.

At the OKX NOW Summit in Singapore, the OKX Web3 team showcased the latest developments across products including OKX Wallet, DEX trading terminal, and DeFi. According to the team, X Layer, as the underlying network of the OKX Web3 ecosystem, continues to grow, with DeFi TVL expanding roughly 11x this year and hitting an all-time high in September.

Among these, ExchangeOS has encapsulated capabilities such as matching, risk control, margin, and settlement into modular components. In the future, through XIP-Exchange OS, an X Layer improvement proposal, developers will be supported in gradually accessing shared trading infrastructure and liquidity to create onchain markets more quickly. Onchain spot and perpetual markets built on ExchangeOS are about to enter public beta.

Odaily News - Crypto analyst Axel Adler posted that Bitcoin long-term holders (LTHs) have reduced their holdings for the 7th consecutive week, but this has not yet hindered BTC price appreciation, as the market is still absorbing the supply released by long-term holders.

Data shows that the long-term holder position change indicator remained positive from February to early August this year, with long-term holders accumulating approximately 1.2 million BTC in May. The indicator turned negative on August 17 and has been in a state of reduction for 7 consecutive weeks. As of September 28, the long-term holder position change showed a decrease of 73,400 BTC, expanding from a decrease of 1,100 BTC a week earlier.

Axel Adler noted that compared to the approximately 1.07 million BTC reduced by long-term holders in November 2025, the current scale of reduction remains relatively limited. If long-term holders' reductions reach hundreds of thousands of BTC again in the future while BTC price stops rising, it may signal that the market's capacity to absorb supply is declining.

Additionally, the long-term holder SOPR indicator has now been above 1 for the second consecutive week, indicating that long-term holders are taking profits. On September 21, the indicator rose to 1.24, the highest level since January this year; as of September 28, LTH SOPR stood at 1.18, meaning that BTC being moved has realized approximately 18% in realized profit relative to its cost basis. Current data shows that long-term holders are gradually exiting with profits as BTC price rises, while new demand is still able to absorb the supply released by the market.

Odaily: Arc, the L1 network under Circle, has open-sourced a USDC lending example application built on Borrow Kit. The example covers market discovery, loan sizing, depositing cirBTC as collateral, borrowing USDC, health monitoring, repayment, and liquidation. According to the official announcement, developers do not need to write custom smart contracts or maintain direct integrations with lending protocols.

According to Gate data, international oil prices fell rapidly, with Brent crude oil futures dropping below $100/barrel, now down 0.6%. WTI crude oil futures fell 0.7%, now at $88.81/barrel.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, an investor withdrew 8,088 AAVE (worth $1.46 million) from Coinbase and deposited them into FalconX, and may sell them.

Odaily News: Ondo Finance has announced the launch of the Ondo Private Markets platform, aimed at bringing the economic returns of industry-leading private companies onchain through tokenized notes.

Ondo Private Markets provides investment exposure through tokenized notes, with each token's returns tied to the per-share value of the underlying company's common stock in a qualifying liquidity event (such as an IPO or other exit event). The tokens are freely transferable and can be composable with the onchain DeFi ecosystem.

Ondo Finance stated that a large number of high-growth companies in the United States remain private, leaving ordinary investors unable to participate in these companies' early-stage value growth for a long time. Data shows that approximately 87% of U.S. companies with revenue exceeding $100 million are still privately held, while traditional private market investment opportunities are mainly concentrated among institutional investors and venture capital firms. (prnewswire)

Odaily reports: Eduardo Antuña, a core contributor to Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ), posted on X that the Ethereum mainnet has successfully executed its first atomic cross-chain transaction from L1 to L2, marking the official deployment of atomic synchronous composability on the mainnet, no longer remaining at the theoretical stage. Eduardo Antuña noted that this is only the starting point for EEZ's efforts to promote synchronous cross-layer interaction and liquidity unification on Ethereum.

Odaily reports that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Amber Group received 4.669 million ENA from Ethena, valued at $1.14 million.

Odaily News: Nonprofit financial reform advocacy group Better Markets stated that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)'s plan to bring certain cryptocurrency trading and exchanges under its regulatory purview could give retail investors weaker protections than those under the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The CFTC has solicited public comments on a framework for margin, leverage, or financing in retail crypto trading.

Benjamin Schiffrin, Director of Securities Policy at Better Markets, noted that the CFTC lacks an investor protection mandate, and its statutory authority was originally designed to address fraud in leveraged precious metals trading, which does not justify making it the primary regulator of retail crypto trading. He also said the proposed framework could allow the kind of interrelated market participants that were seen as contributing to FTX's collapse.

After the CLARITY Act stalled in Congress, the CFTC and SEC have continued to advance crypto policy under existing law. The CFTC plans to establish a new federal category to bring qualifying crypto trading platforms directly under regulation; the SEC, meanwhile, has proposed relaxing certain investment adviser custody rules, allowing limited tokenized trading of U.S. equities, and issuing new guidance on how securities laws apply to crypto assets. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News: According to people familiar with the matter, SoftBank-backed DayOne Data Centers plans to raise up to $5 billion in a US initial public offering (IPO), and DayOne plans to list American Depositary Shares (ADS) on Nasdaq by the end of this year at the latest. The company submitted its IPO prospectus to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday. According to the filing submitted to the SEC, DayOne is headquartered in Singapore, and its revenue in the first half of this year more than tripled year-over-year to $512 million; its net loss widened from $13.5 million to $81.9 million over the same period.

According to Odaily, Onchain Lens posted on X platform that a Polymarket trader bet on Sweden to win on October 5, choosing "Yes," and made a profit of $1.16 million, with an ROI of 84%. The account was created only 1 day ago, with a trading volume of $5.2 million and a win rate of 100% (1/1).

Odaily reports that Pons stated on X platform that the PONS token burn mechanism continues to advance, with 32% of the total PONS supply now burned. According to Pons, 80% of its platform revenue will be used to accumulate PONS tokens to support the token value capture mechanism.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address spent $1.22 million to buy 30.65 million MEME over the past month, becoming the largest MEME holder. Currently, this address is down $708,000, a loss of 58%, and was still buying 10 hours ago.