ORBIO's market capitalization exceeds $100 million, surging over 40% in 24 hours.

Addressing community rumors that Aptos will shut down its blockchain within the next six months, Aptos Labs co-founder and CEO Avery Ching publicly dismissed the claim as "a foolish rumor". The X account that originally shared the unsubstantiated claim did not provide official Aptos announcements, governance proposals, or other supporting documents. When pressed for evidence, the account stated the content was merely "hearsay" and urged caution in taking it seriously. Aptos’ current public governance records still show network upgrade proposals and executed mainnet feature updates, with no official plans to shut down the mainnet identified so far.

Known whale "Corus" has spent $200K accumulating 7.14M $EDEL. The trader has made an incredible profit of $34.95M on #Hyperliquid and still holds 137,096 $HYPE ($12.27M). And $EDEL has surged 750% over the past 2 months.

Known whale "Corus" has spent $200K accumulating 7.14M $EDEL. The trader has made an incredible profit of $34.95M on #Hyperliquid and still holds 137,096 $HYPE ($12.27M). And $EDEL has surged 750% over the past 2 months.

Renowned trader Doctor Profit posted that he has shorted Bitcoin at $86,200 and is adding short positions in the $86,500–$89,500 range to build a swing short position. His current target remains $79,000; once that level is hit, he will decide to either take profits or hold the short based on Bitcoin’s price reaction. He noted the deepest correction range he is considering is $69,000–$71,000, and does not expect prices to drop lower. While the short entered at $86,200 is working so far, he will assess the market at each price level rather than betting on a deep correction outright. His next step is to first monitor support performance near $79,000 to determine whether Bitcoin will continue falling, reverse to extend the bull market, or hit a new local high.

Pump.fun co-founder Alon addressed the platform’s $15 million Callout rewards program in a post, noting that the initiative launched two months ago, but its initial mechanism inadvertently incentivized improper behavior—spurring low-quality spam and discouraging users from creating high-quality content. Pump.fun has since adjusted its reward algorithm to prioritize quality over quantity: the more Callouts a user posts daily, the lower their marginal returns. The mechanism is evolving in the right direction through iterations, but significant work remains to sustain consistent high-quality content creation among a large user base. The rewards have been distributed to both top accounts and those with fewer than 10 followers, with no favoritism or preferential treatment. Alon advised users to focus on recommending high-quality tokens, building trust with traders via their content, and earning rewards based on trading volume attributed to their Callouts. He emphasized that spamming Callouts or dumping tokens on followers will not work.

Grayscale Research Head Zach Pandl wrote that the AI crypto sector rose 54% in September, significantly outperforming the overall crypto market’s 24% gain. Even after this rally, the sector’s market capitalization remains only around $15 billion, making it the smallest among the six crypto segments categorized by Grayscale. Among the sector’s representative tokens: NEAR surged 183% in September, Venice (VVV) rose 70%, World (WLD) gained 47%, and Bittensor (TAO) increased 37%. These projects respectively cover agent-based commerce, privacy AI applications, human identity verification, and an open AI network spanning inference, agents, data, and computing. Grayscale believes public blockchains can provide open infrastructure for agent payments, identity, privacy computing, and verifiable records, complementing the current AI development ecosystem concentrated in a handful of companies. The AI crypto sector may see one or more major winners emerge over the next five years, and recent performance indicates investors are starting to price in blockchain’s infrastructure role in the emerging agent economy.