Odaily reported that Strive CEO posted on X platform that from last Wednesday to Friday, Strive purchased 1,223 BTC at an average cost of $81,734 per BTC, bringing its holdings to 36,818 BTC. The funds raised from the SATS IPO will settle this Tuesday, and Strive plans to maintain its current 18-month dividend reserve, with traditional warrants having expired.

Odaily: Strategy purchased 267 BTC over the past week and spent $193 million to repurchase STRC stock.

Odaily reports that SlowMist has released an analysis report on the DarkSword trojan's backend and iOS attack chain. According to the report, after the relevant exploit code was publicly disclosed in March 2026, DarkSword-PROV2 appeared on GitHub in July, and its attack infrastructure was observed coming online in late September. SlowMist traced the related online infrastructure, linked its management panel to a public GitHub repository, and analyzed the exploit code, delivery chain, and post-compromise exploitation capabilities. The report shows that the attack framework integrates exploit, device and data collection, data exfiltration, and crypto wallet fund consolidation functions. It can target keychains, files, messages, and crypto wallet data, and has the ability to decrypt wallet data and consolidate funds. Although the toolkit claims support for iOS 13 and later, code analysis shows that its actually effective exploitation window is concentrated in iOS 18.6 to 18.7.2 and iOS 26.0 to 26.1. The public exploit components have been integrated into a deployable attack framework. SlowMist advises users to update their iOS systems promptly and avoid clicking untrusted links; opening malicious pages in the Safari browser may also trigger the exploit. If a device has visited a suspicious landing page, users should treat their mnemonic phrase and private key as compromised, use a clean device that has never visited the page to create a new wallet and transfer assets, and check for abnormal transactions and token approvals across chains, revoking unnecessary approvals.

Odaily: ENS DAO has initiated an on-chain vote on the proposal to activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet. The vote will end on October 25 at 13:32. As of now, 6 wallets have cast 531,300 ENS, with approximately 100% in favor, but the quorum has not yet been reached. The proposal contains 15 actions, which will be executed all at once by an execution contract controlled by the DAO; if any single action fails, none of the actions will take effect. The previously approved pricing scheme will take effect after the proposal is executed, and the same applies to renewals of domains that have not been migrated. Some voters oppose raising the annual fee for domains of 5 characters or more from $5 to $8.

Odaily reports: Digital asset trading platform KuCoin has announced the launch of KuCoin 5.0, deploying AI Assistant 5.x and an internal AI system called KIA. The system serves over 45 million users globally and can pause AI analysis, recommendations, and task execution that rely on unreliable data during extreme market conditions or large-scale liquidations.

Logan Xie, Head of KuCoin AI Lab, stated that KIA classifies inputs by source credibility and implements source verification, context isolation and sanitization, and context lifecycle management. AI decision support and backend execution logic are isolated from each other, with the trading system responsible for authorization, verification, and execution to prevent unauthorized operations.

KuCoin 5.0 also introduces a unified trading account for VIP1 and above users, using KCUSD as collateral and integrating spot, margin, and futures trading; it also supports sub-accounts directly using Earn without manual transfers, and upgrades the personal center, sub-account controls, cross-device K-line charts, and color vision accessibility mode. (Bitcoin.com News)

1. Bank of America: Valuations of US memory stocks have shown cyclical bottom characteristics, and market concerns are overblown;

2. "White Hair Stock God" Serenity: Microsoft's exit from the Nscale partnership may benefit computing power suppliers such as Nebius and IREN;

3. Analyst: PAPER mining rewards have shrunk by nearly 90%, and a sell-off may follow once the token enters circulation;

4. Analysis: Bitcoin's supply-demand dynamics have shifted, with spot demand turning negative and whale accumulation not yet fully underway;

5. Worth $19.78 million, a certain address was liquidated of 8,163 ETH within 10 hours;

6. Lee Jae-myung: Necessary measures will be taken to normalize the stock market;

7. Analyst: Since Bitcoin's peak, cumulative selling pressure on Binance meme coins has exceeded $1.4 billion;

8. "When will SpaceX merge with Tesla" has become one of the most anticipated questions in SpaceX's Q3 earnings Q&A.

Odaily Report: Bitcoin News posted on X that Bitcoin rose about 2.4%, hitting a five-day high near $82,830 and rebounding from a low near $80,600 caused by weekend selling. Market expectations for another Fed rate hike have declined significantly, with traders now pricing in about a 12% probability that the Fed will raise rates at its October 28 meeting. Higher-than-expected U.S. inflation data last week had briefly sparked concerns about further monetary tightening; meanwhile, falling oil prices and U.S. Treasury yields improved investor sentiment.

According to market data, CSOPSAMSUNG2LUSDT rose 10.0% in 24 hours and is now trading at 6.31600 USDT.

Odaily Report: According to the official announcement, the Binance Alpha airdrop claim and trading event will open today at 21:00 (UTC+8). Users holding at least 255 Binance Alpha points can claim tokens on a "first come, first served" basis until the airdrop pool is fully distributed or the event ends.

Odaily reports: The Economic Crime Investigation Bureau of the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau has issued a warning about new types of scams packaged as "RWA real estate tokenization" and "blockchain evidence storage." The Economic Crime Investigation Unit pointed out that technical terminology does not equal trust endorsement, and technical verifiability does not mean a project is compliant and legal. Wrongdoers may infiltrate technical communities, posing as industry veterans and leveraging community trust to lower others' guard. Contract addresses and company registration numbers only prove that code exists and that an entity has been registered—they do not mean the underlying assets actually exist, nor do they mean the project has financial business qualifications.

Odaily Report: White-Haired Stock Oracle Serenity posted on X platform that the market may have misinterpreted the impact of Microsoft (MSFT) exiting its partnership with Nscale. In his view, this event may actually constitute a positive catalyst for Neocloud (new cloud computing) companies such as Nebius (NBIS) and IREN (IREN) that possess powered data center capacity and compute delivery capabilities.

Serenity noted that Microsoft's exit from the partnership does not mean it no longer needs AI compute, but rather that Nscale may have been unable to deliver on schedule. Microsoft still needs to find other suppliers to meet its compute demands, and therefore companies with readily available power resources and rapid delivery capabilities may gain new order opportunities. This event should not be simply interpreted as bearish for the entire Neocloud industry.

Previously reported, Microsoft (MSFT.O) has withdrawn from a data center partnership project with UK emerging cloud service provider Nscale in Lawford, Essex, UK. Microsoft did not disclose the specific reasons for terminating the partnership, but the project had been facing a series of delays. Local authorities have informed Nscale that power is not expected to be supplied to the facility until the 2030s.

According to MSX.COM data, MVLLUSDT rose 10.1% in 24 hours and is now trading at 28.05000 USDT.

Odaily Report: Three men in Bristol, UK, broke into a man's home in the early hours of May 15, assaulted the victim, and demanded he hand over a large amount of cryptocurrency. The victim sustained head injuries and was hospitalized for treatment; the three men were unsuccessful in their attempt.

Terroll Paul, Mohamed Samagassi, and Pierre Madzou all pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on October 15. Paul was sentenced to 6 years, Madzou to 5 and a half years, and Samagassi to 5 years; the victim's underage sister called the police, and the three were subsequently arrested at the scene.

Police did not disclose the amount of cryptocurrency the three demanded. The case is a "wrench attack," in which criminals use violence or threats to force cryptocurrency holders to hand over digital assets; data from blockchain security firm CertiK shows that in the first six months of 2026, such attacks worldwide caused $124 million in losses, a 12-fold year-on-year increase. (Decrypt)

Odaily: Hyperliquid trader address 0x30af closed a 1,355.6 BTC long position at an average price of approximately $80,945 on October 18, ending a position previously worth about $98 million with 40x leverage. On-chain data platform Lookonchain estimates the loss at $3.26 million.

Subsequently, the address opened a Tesla long position worth $34.6 million on Hyperliquid's HIP-3 market, using 20x isolated leverage with an entry price of $360.23 and a liquidation price of approximately $350.74. Tesla is set to report its third-quarter earnings on October 21.

The address also holds a $7.6 million Roundhill Memory ETF long position and a $3.9 million Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Fund long position, with leverage of 20x and 10x respectively. Hyperdash data shows the address lost $9.53 million over the past week and $6.52 million over the past month. (Bitcoin.com News)

According to MSX.COM data, SOXLUSDT rose 10.7% in 24 hours and is now trading at 102.86000 USDT.