Odaily News: Spanish police have arrested a 16-year-old Romanian national in Alicante on suspicion of being the administrator and primary operator of the KillSec ransomware group. Europol stated that law enforcement agencies have seized control of the group's servers and leak site, and preserved at least 110 TB of stolen data.
The operation involved searches at 8 residences across Spain, Greece, Romania, and the United Kingdom, investigating approximately 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide, of which about 500 have been confirmed successful. Two other suspects in their 20s were arrested in the UK and Romania respectively, while a Dutch national residing in the UK was indicted and arrested in Puerto Rico, awaiting extradition.
KillSec has been active since around 2024, often demanding ransoms in cryptocurrency and carrying out double extortion through encrypted servers and threats to publish stolen data. Investigators are tracing the group's proceeds, including cryptocurrency; Europol's European Cybercrime Centre provided cryptocurrency tracing and digital forensics support. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports that Forward Industries added nearly 949,000 SOL last quarter, bringing its total holdings to 8.5 million SOL, approximately 1.4% of SOL's circulating supply. The company stated that the average cost of its SOL purchases during the quarter was $83.
According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitoring, an address suspected to belong to an Aave team member (0x0c94...8297b) has sold 50,000 AAVE over the past week for $8 million, at an average price of $160. Between October 2020 and October 2021, this address received 108,000 AAVE vested from the Aave Team wallet; after selling, it still holds 30,000 AAVE, worth $5.5 million.
Odaily News: According to Odaily Meme Express monitoring, the market cap of SGT on Robinhood has surpassed $4 million.
It is reported that Sight is building an on-chain prediction market on Robinhood Chain, covering markets such as crypto assets and real-world events, and plans to support multiple chains. In the coming week, prediction markets for stock tokens, new meme tokens, NFT collections, and real-world events may be launched.
"Meme Express" is curated by Odaily's exclusive AI model to screen potential community-hyped targets. The content is compiled from public information and does not constitute investment advice. Please conduct your own due diligence and be aware of the high volatility risks of meme coins.
Odaily Report: USDT is expected to return to the Bitcoin network this month through infrastructure developed by Utexo, a project backed by Tether. Utexo plans to support private USDT transfers, direct swaps between native Bitcoin and USDT, and loans collateralized by native Bitcoin. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Trump's support among voters aged 18 to 29 dropped from 43% to 19%. Some young cryptocurrency investors have described his crypto projects as profit-seeking ventures, and criticized the TRUMP Meme coin for exploiting supporters who are familiar with crypto.
Morten Christensen, an investor who holds a large amount of TRUMP tokens, said Trump's reputation is no longer what it was when he was campaigning for president. He noted that when attending the second Meme coin event held at Mar-a-Lago this year, he noticed that the online reaction was noticeably different from the first event in May 2025.
Trump's financial records show that he earned at least $500 million through World Liberty Financial token sales. The project issues the US dollar-pegged stablecoin USD1, whose market capitalization exceeds $4 billion. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily reports that on October 2, SMBC Nikko Securities announced it has signed memoranda of cooperation with Nethermind, Uniswap Labs, Nyx Foundation, and Coinbase Technologies to develop "DeFi Gateway," a DeFi platform for Japanese investors that complies with Japanese laws and regulations. The project will develop a liquidity provision protocol and proprietary liquidity pools, with the parties planning to complete development by mid-2027.
Odaily: Bitcoin Treasuries posted on X that Strategy's market cap has surpassed that of Saudi National Bank, which is held by the Saudi government, making it the 385th largest public company in the world.
Odaily News: HL HUB (Community) posted on X that Hyperliquid is expected to receive its first AQAv2 reserve yield distribution tomorrow (October 3). Approximately $14.5 million in passive yield generated from USDC reserves will flow into the Assistance Fund for HYPE buybacks.
It is reported that under AQAv2's revenue-sharing mechanism, Hyperliquid stablecoin deployers are required to allocate 90% of stablecoin reserve yield to the Hyperliquid protocol, and 100% of these proceeds will be used for buying back and burning HYPE tokens. Stablecoin reserve yield sharing is accumulated and settled on a 30-day cycle, with proceeds automatically transferred to the Assistance Fund on the 8th day after the cycle ends. Formal yield accrual began on August 26, so the first yield payment will be made on October 3.
Odaily: The European Central Bank has proposed three models for bringing central bank money on-chain, including direct issuance, establishing a bridging mechanism, and implementation through private intermediaries. These models could enable central bank money to provide settlement support for transactions involving tokenized securities, bank deposits, and stablecoins on distributed ledger technology networks.
Odaily reports that HSBC has named its Hong Kong stablecoin HSBC RedCoin. In the first phase, it will focus on person-to-person (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) payments, with plans to later expand to commercial banking and corporate levels. Maggie Ng, Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Hong Kong and General Manager of Retail Banking and Wealth Management, stated that launching a stablecoin is a starting point for supporting Hong Kong's financial innovation. (HK01 NFT)
Odaily News — Ahead of the release of the U.S. jobs report, Bitcoin briefly broke above $86,000. The market expects a gain of 90,000 in new jobs, with the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.1%. The U.S. dollar rose to an 18-month high, global bond yields climbed sharply, and France's borrowing premium relative to Germany widened to its highest level in 14 years. (CoinDesk)
According to Gate data, Brent crude oil (XBRUSD) has fallen to $104/barrel, now trading at $103.98/barrel, with a 24-hour decline of 0.4%.
Odaily reports that crypto analyst @AxelAdlerJr stated that the Bitcoin futures market buying pressure indicator has risen to 4.9, the highest since August 19; contract open interest increased by nearly 9,000 BTC within 24 hours. This indicator reading means that the accumulated buying pressure over the past 12 hours is nearly five standard deviations above the average level of the past week. @AxelAdlerJr stated that if Bitcoin's price remains above $85,000 when upward momentum weakens, the rally is likely to continue; if the price falls below $83,000, the closing of newly established long positions could accelerate the decline.
According to Gate data, the USD/JPY (USDJPY) fell to 157.5, currently at 157.491, a 24-hour decline of 0.6%.
Odaily reports that Cloudflare has announced the closed beta launch of its Monetization Gateway. Websites can charge AI Agents via HTTP 402 on a per-request, per-query, or per-token basis, with fees settled in the USD-pegged stablecoin USDC on the Base blockchain. Current use cases include AI inference, web search, market signals, and PDF generation services.
