A whale deposited 4.35 million USDC into HyperLiquid, shorting LIT with 1x leverage.

According to a New York Times report, government officials revealed that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ramping up efforts to conduct a comprehensive investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI, and other superintelligent AI models, to probe potential risks these technologies may pose to consumers. The agency plans to issue legally binding formal demands (similar to subpoenas) to these tech giants, ordering them to submit relevant information. FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson launched the investigation prior to the "Hugging Face incident". The probe focuses on alleged violations of the FTC Act related to "unfair or deceptive acts or practices", and will require these AI companies (referred to as "SI" by former President Trump) to submit relevant documents.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, US stocks opened with semiconductor stocks mixed: Intel (INTC) rose 2.50%, NVIDIA (NVDA) gained 1.72%, Qualcomm (QCOM) increased 1.49%, Lam Research (LRCX) advanced 0.52%; Arm (ARM) dropped 1.68%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell 1.36%. Storage stocks saw minor divergence: Micron Technology (MU) climbed 0.82%, SanDisk (SNDK) added 0.35%; Western Digital (WDC) declined 0.87%, SK Hynix (SKHY) edged down 0.09%. Most optical communication concept stocks fell: Corning (GLW) decreased 2.97%, Coherent (COHR) dropped 1.61%, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) fell 1.33%, Ciena (CIEN) declined 0.98%. Neocloud stocks generally retreated: Hut 8 (HUT) plunged 5.86%, Cipher Digital (CIFR) dropped 2.82%, Applied Digital (APLD) fell 2.56%, TeraWulf (WULF) decreased 2.49%.

Sept 30 Update: #Bitcoin ETFs: 1D NetFlow: +628 $BTC(+$53.48M)?? 7D NetFlow: +8,716 $BTC(+$742.56M)?? #Ethereum ETFs: 1D NetFlow: -5,621 $ETH(-$15.31M)?? 7D NetFlow: +95,515 $ETH(+$260.19M)??

US-listed company Lion Group Holding announced a strategic adjustment to part of its digital asset treasury. On September 29, the company sold its entire SOL holdings and a portion of its BTC holdings, using the proceeds to add approximately 38,102 HYPE tokens. Following the adjustment, Lion Group holds a total of around 232,900 HYPE tokens, with a holding value of approximately $20.1 million. The company stated that no existing HYPE was sold in this transaction, and the adjustment further increased HYPE’s concentration in its digital asset treasury, reflecting its continued confidence in Hyperliquid’s fundamentals and long-term potential. Lion Group also noted that Hyperliquid recently launched a manual lending feature allowing users to collateralize HYPE or BTC to borrow stablecoins; the platform’s open interest hit a new high at the end of September, HYPE has been listed on Binance’s spot market, and has received staking support from Gemini for eligible US clients. However, the company clarified that it does not make any judgments on the future performance of Hyperliquid or HYPE.

According to Bitget data, Brent crude oil’s intraday gain has widened to 3%, now trading at $98.31 per barrel. WTI crude oil is currently up 2.6%.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), US stocks opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.2%, the S&P 500 gaining 0.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.4%. Robinhood (HOOD) climbed 5.4% after the brokerage launched a 24-hour weekend US stock trading service. Moderna (MRNA) fell 7.1% following Citigroup’s downgrade of its rating from "neutral" to "sell".