Odaily News: Arthur Hayes announced on the X platform that Technocore.chat is now live.

Odaily News, Arthur Hayes posted on the X platform, stating, "Please continue to have your agents create their unique DID keys on Technocore.chat. Next week, we will announce more ways for agents to collaborate and qualify for additional FLOP airdrop allocations, with the goal of connecting meaningful participation in @flop_labs with economic rewards."

Odaily News: Arthur Hayes posted on the X platform that FLOP airdrop eligibility will depend on users' testnet activity. The testnet token faucet will be launched on Technocore.chat, and users will need to access it via the DID keys of AI agents. Previously, Hayes revealed that FLOP is planned to conduct a large-scale airdrop in Q4 2026, with an expected 20% of the total token supply allocated to testnet participants, distributed over 10 years. This figure may be adjusted later, and the announcement aims to gather user feedback. The FLOP token is expected to become one of the top two tokens in the cryptocurrency market.

Odaily News - Flop Labs announced on platform X that it is keeping an eye on AI Agents participating in the Technocore ecosystem. Agents can create unique DID keys and earn FLOP token airdrop rewards by engaging with the ecosystem and promoting Technocore.Arthur Hayes subsequently reposted the message on X, stating: "Now, utility-focused AI Agents have more ways to participate in airdrops and earn FLOP tokens."

Odaily reported that Strike CEO Jack Mallers stated on the What Bitcoin Did podcast that Wall Street's increasing involvement in Bitcoin does not pose a threat or conflict to Bitcoin itself. He pointed out that if Wall Street's involvement could destroy Bitcoin, then Bitcoin would not have been able to succeed in the first place.Bitcoin's vision is to become the currency for all of humanity, meaning its user base encompasses everyone. Currently, Bitcoin is competing for global capital. As Bitcoin monetizes, assets such as real estate, art, and government debt will face demonetization. Additionally, traditional financial institutions are accelerating their efforts to capture customers from crypto platforms. Morgan Stanley has launched a cryptocurrency trading pilot on the E*Trade platform, charging retail fees lower than those of mainstream platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood.

Odaily reported that the Ethereum Foundation has released its list of grants and ecosystem support for the first quarter of 2026, focusing on cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs (ZK), protocol security, and core infrastructure development, further strengthening the Ethereum core tech stack and long-term scalability.This quarter's grants cover several key areas. At the protocol and client level, support includes optimizations for Geth and Erigon clients, upgrades to the Lighthouse client, and post-Pectra upgrade network monitoring tool development, with a focus on enhancing network performance and attack resistance. Simultaneously, projects such as HSM key management, the validator security tool Vero, and the DISC-NG node discovery mechanism have also received support to improve node-level reliability and institutional-grade compliance capabilities.In the cryptography and ZK domain, the foundation continues to increase investment in projects such as Poseidon hash function analysis, Gröbner basis attack research, hybrid encryption exploring quantum resistance and homomorphism, and formal verification of RISC-V zkVM, further strengthening the security boundaries of zero-knowledge proofs and cryptographic infrastructure.On the developer ecosystem front, toolchains like the BuidlGuidl education system upgrade, ERC standard community building, the WalletConnect clear signing library, and Open Creator Rails are advancing steadily, aiming to lower development barriers and enhance user interaction security. Meanwhile, L2BEAT continues to provide Layer 2 transparency analysis, bolstering the scaling ecosystem's data infrastructure.Additionally, the foundation is supporting privacy technologies (such as Tor integration and the Privacy Pool SDK), decentralized identity (did:ethr standard upgrades), DAO governance research, and public goods experimental projects, covering the complete ecological structure from the protocol layer to the application layer.Overall, this round of grants continues Ethereum's long-term commitment to the three core directions of "cryptography + ZK + protocol engineering," emphasizing the support of future multi-layer scaling and institutional-grade application deployment through infrastructure and standardization development.

According to a report by Cointelegraph, macroeconomist Lyn Alden stated that she believes Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market are unlikely to experience a significant crash at this stage. "We haven't reached frenzied levels in this cycle yet; therefore, there are fewer reasons to expect that kind of massive capitulation sell-off," Lyn Alden said on the "What Bitcoin Did" podcast. She believes that the market cycle may last longer than people expect because it is no longer driven by the "halving" event, but by the broader macro environment and interest in the assets themselves, thus denying that the four-year cycle theory is still valid. However, not everyone agrees with her view. Vineet Budki, CEO of Sigma Capital, recently told Cointelegraph that he expects Bitcoin to retrace 65% to 70% over the next two years. Lyn Alden stated that market outcomes are usually not as good or as bad as investors imagine. Bitcoin has been on a downtrend since hitting an all-time high of $125,100 on October 5, falling as low as $80,700 on Thursday before recovering slightly to $85,710 at the time of this report. Bitcoin has fallen 22.46% in the past 30 days. Lyn Alden stated that investors need to stop taking bull markets for granted, adding, "Nobody takes bull markets for granted." She predicts Bitcoin will reclaim the $100,000 level in 2026 and reach a new all-time high in the same year or 2027.

Odaily reports that A16z crypto has sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, urging the Treasury Department to clarify key definitions in the implementation rules for stablecoin regulation and suggesting that decentralized stablecoins be excluded from the scope of the GENIUS Act to promote innovation. The bill, passed earlier this year, establishes a regulatory framework for "payment stablecoins" that aims to balance consumer protection, financial stability, and prevention of illicit financial flows. In its letter, a16z pointed out that decentralized stablecoins such as LUSD, which is backed by Ethereum collateral, are issued through autonomous smart contracts and are not controlled by a centralized entity. Therefore, they "should not be regarded as being issued by any 'individual'" and should not be subject to the restrictions of Article 3(a) regarding licensed issuers. a16z suggests that the Ministry of Finance refer to the decentralized determination framework based on "control" in the 2025 Digital Asset Markets Clarity Act to exclude activities such as node operation, transaction verification, and the development of non-custodial wallets from intermediary regulation. In addition, a16z called for a level playing field and the modernization of anti-money laundering (AML) and KYC rules to prevent risks while avoiding stifling innovation. Michele Korver, head of regulation at a16z, added that decentralized digital identity (DID), combining zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation, can strengthen national security while protecting privacy, helping to combat fraud and illicit transactions. (The Block)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that ShareX recently announced a strategic partnership with YoPoint, an Asian provider of vending machine solutions, to jointly create the world's first on-chain solution for unmanned retail in a real-world commercial scenario based on the Deshare 2.0 protocol, marking a new milestone in the "native on-chain" integration of real-world devices. YoPoint currently deploys over 75,000 smart vending machines in more than 120 countries worldwide, with its AI visual recognition system supporting multiple product categories and dynamic checkout. Through deep integration with ShareX, these vending machines have achieved a complete closed loop for the first time, from Device Identity (DID) registration and local event signing to on-chain verification and revenue settlement. This solution utilizes Deshare 2.0's on-chain mechanism, allowing devices to complete encrypted signing and data verification locally, ensuring data authenticity, immutability, and privacy from the source. This not only makes each device a trusted on-chain node but also provides a replicable Web3 access template for the global unmanned retail industry. The two parties will continue their collaboration to launch Deshare Suite for unmanned retail and smart locker scenarios, achieving a full-stack trusted infrastructure from device on-chaining and payment trust to computational self-verification. In the future, every sales data, advertising revenue, and revenue sharing record can be verified and assetized on-chain, opening up new real-world application possibilities for DePIN and RWA.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the SBF account today posted an image of an article titled "FTX: Where Did The Money Go?", authored by SBF himself and his team, and last updated on September 30, 2025. The article outlines FTX's payouts in recent years and emphasizes that FTX's crisis in November 2022 was essentially a liquidity crisis, i.e., a temporary shortage of funds. The problem was originally expected to be resolved by the end of the month—until FTX's outside lawyers took over the company. FTX never truly went bankrupt, not even when its lawyers pushed it into bankruptcy proceedings.