Odaily News: ETF Store President Nate Geraci stated that while using AI Agents to trade stocks and options may negatively impact retail investors' performance, the rapid adoption of AI trading bots could have an even greater impact on active fund managers.

Geraci believes that AI is further improving the efficiency of financial markets and rapidly narrowing the information gap between retail investors and professional institutions. Against the backdrop of financial and market information gradually becoming commoditized, even if fund managers also use AI, their traditional information advantage may further diminish.

Odaily: DePIN project Grass has announced an investment from Multicoin Capital's hedge fund and venture fund. The amount and round were not disclosed. The project uses crypto incentives to encourage users to share idle network bandwidth, providing AI labs with public internet data querying, parsing, and real-time retrieval services.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Machi (@machibigbrother, 0x020...5872) closed a PUMP long position 9 hours ago, earning a profit of $827,000; subsequently opened a 10x leveraged long position on 900 million PUMP, worth $5.26 million.

Odaily reports: David Sacks stated that heads of major U.S. chip, data center, and frontier model companies have held a meeting on the development of "superintelligence," and frontier AI lab leaders have signed the White House Superintelligence Agreement. The agreement is voluntary in nature and aims to strengthen AI safety governance through industry self-regulation.

Sacks stated that signatories will assume responsibility for safe product development and implement new internal controls and independent external audit mechanisms. He believes that compared to waiting for international-level regulatory agreements, this model can establish AI safety constraints more quickly while maintaining U.S. development in related technology fields. The above assessment of policy effectiveness represents Sacks' personal views.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Grayscale Chainlink ETF bought and received 159,500 LINK from Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, worth $2.36 million; the ETF has purchased at least 629,100 LINK this month, worth $8.37 million.

Odaily News: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit on September 28, seeking the forfeiture of 110,300 USDT seized from a Binance account. The case involves phishing text messages impersonating Coinbase, which led to the theft of 33.7 bitcoins, worth approximately $900,000 at the time, from a beneficiary and their family trust held in the same Coinbase account.

Investigators said that between June 5 and June 15, 2023, 11.2 of the stolen bitcoins were traced to the Binance account and were quickly converted into Monero. When the FBI requested the account be frozen, it held approximately 758.55 Monero; Binance transferred 110,300 USDT to a government-controlled wallet on August 3, 2026. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily reports, according to Gate data, the Nikkei 225 index opened up 600.53 points, or 0.92%, at 66,081.80 on September 30 (Wednesday). The South Korean KOSPI index opened up 79.51 points, or 1.16%, at 6,950.32 on September 30 (Wednesday).

Odaily reports: U.S. President Trump stated that he and executives from multiple tech companies have signed a document regarding artificial intelligence development, which he described as "a sort of constitution" that is "morally binding." Trump also said the government is considering establishing a committee of approximately 10 people to oversee the development of the relevant industry.

Trump previously also announced that U.S. government documents will refer to "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) as "Superintelligence" (SI), and expressed opposition to controlling AI development through a global regulatory framework.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, LIT dropped over 14% within minutes, triggering a massive liquidation cascade; Robinhood is offering perpetual futures trading in the U.S. through its integration with Bitstamp.

According to Odaily Meme Express monitoring, VRAX community discussion is trending on Robinhood, with a current market cap of $3.82 million.

A source says that Vlad just launched Commander Vrax. A source says that Commander Vrax is now a cat.

Someone on X says that Cashcat has a new cat friend named VRAX.

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Odaily reports that Robinhood will offer weekend trading for select U.S. stocks and ETFs, filling in the trading hours not yet covered since it launched 24-hour markets in 2023.

Robinhood also introduced Robinhood Agents, allowing users to conduct market research and execute trades through OpenAI or Anthropic models, with the ability to set long-term instructions for automated strategies in the future.

The brokerage will offer Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures to eligible U.S. customers, with leverage of up to 10x. (CoinDesk)

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale acquired Bitcoin at approximately $3 to $4, and after holding for 15.4 years, transferred 20.43 BTC, worth approximately $1.7 million, with an estimated profit of approximately $1.72 million, representing a gain of over 2,000,000%. The wallet was created 15 years ago and has historically interacted with Mt. Gox and Silk Road.

Odaily Report: Sui posted on X platform stating that traders may still incur losses even if their judgment is correct, due to overly large position sizes. CME Group's micro SUI futures contracts are one-tenth the size of standard contracts.

Odaily News: Prediction market operator Kalshi is in negotiations for a $1 billion funding round at a target valuation of $40 billion. Existing investors Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management are in discussions to lead the round, with Tiger Global and Dragoneer Investment Group also participating in talks.

The funding round has not yet been finalized, and the final list of investors and closing date have not been disclosed. Kalshi raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation in October 2025, and completed a $1 billion funding round at a $22 billion valuation in May 2026.

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Kalshi on September 25 in lawsuits involving Ohio and Tennessee, allowing the two states to regulate its sports contracts under gambling laws. Kalshi argues that its products are regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that BTCNow has launched a Bitcoin installment purchase model, allowing users to lock in Bitcoin at the price of the purchase day and complete payment in 60 fixed monthly installments over 5 years.

Unlike dollar-cost averaging, the Bitcoin price in this model does not change with monthly payments; the Bitcoin will be held in trust until fully paid, with BitGo providing custody services. This model has no margin calls and will not force liquidation due to Bitcoin price declines. BTCNow plans to roll it out nationwide across the United States in the coming months.

Odaily Report: Token holders of DeFi protocol Balancer have voted to approve a protocol liquidation plan and rejected a proposal to launch an official fork chain. Under the plan, pausable pools will transition to withdrawal-only mode starting October 30; BAL holders will need to wait until the end of May 2027, at which point they can redeem their tokens for protocol treasury assets.