New York Fed: U.S. one-year inflation expectations rise to 3.9%, hitting a new high in over three years.

U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill stated that while the SEC and CFTC have taken steps to advance crypto regulation, these actions still fall short of the long-term stability congressional legislation can deliver. After the Senate failed to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act last month, the two regulators unveiled related rulemaking plans, but Hill argues permanent legislative changes are still needed to ensure the U.S. retains its leadership in digital assets and blockchain technology. In an interview with Fox Business, Hill said he remains hopeful Congress will pass the CLARITY Act during the post-midterm election lame-duck session. Between the November election and the swearing-in of the new 2027 Congress, the Senate will only have 22 legislative days. Election results could sway lawmakers’ voting stances on the bill. The two regulators currently have a combined seven vacant commissioner seats: after Hester Peirce announced her resignation last week, the SEC is left with only Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda, while CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is the agency’s sole serving commissioner.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, the 3.75 million HYPE tokens (valued at $332 million) that HyperLabs, the development team behind Hyperliquid, applied to unstake seven days ago have been successfully redeemed just two minutes ago.

Against the backdrop of rising oil prices and further escalating tensions in the Middle East, investors flocked to safe-haven assets, leading to a notable strengthening of the U.S. dollar on Wednesday. Following an increase in Iranian attacks targeting vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) rose as much as 0.5%, moving in lockstep with oil prices and now approaching its year-to-date high. Among G10 currencies, nearly all have fallen against the U.S. dollar, with the euro posting the weakest performance, underperforming other major currencies. Catherine Brooks, head of research at XTB, said in a report: "The U.S. dollar is acting as a counter-cyclical asset, attracting safe-haven inflows as other asset classes are sold off." (Jinshi)

Coinbase will launch spot trading for Pons (PONS) on October 7. Should liquidity conditions be met and trading be supported in relevant regions, the PONS-USD trading pair will open today.

Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, published a post revealing independent investigation findings into the LAPTOP token launch, stating he has hired forensics firm Groom Lake to review all transactions on the token’s launch day. He denied his team engaged in insider selling, noting founder tokens remain in the same wallet and have not moved since launch; his personal tokens are locked for six months, then will vest over two years. Citing the investigation, he said Market Maker 1 held $500,000 in startup capital but only deployed roughly $5,200 and fewer than 30,000 tokens to the liquidity pool—just 0.003% of total supply. The extremely low liquidity pushed the token’s price from $0.05 to around $317 in under two minutes, before plunging 98% within an hour. 84 seconds after the price peaked, Market Maker 1 withdrew its funds during the sell-off, draining on-chain liquidity available to absorb sales at near-current prices from $16,157 to zero. He claimed Market Maker 1 earned roughly $686,000 from its DEX position, while Market Maker 2 netted over $2.1 million from related DEX trades, and argued the market makers responsible for the launch issues should repurchase and burn the tokens. He said he takes full ultimate responsibility, will not exit the project, and plans to burn most unclaimed tokens from the initial airdrop next week—this airdrop made up 10% of the total token supply.

According to TradingBeats’ monitoring, Boomer (Twitter handle @solanadoomer1) holds approximately 2.684 billion long positions in PUMP via Hyperliquid address 0xbf73. The position is valued at around $17.32 million, with 10x leverage, an average entry price of roughly $0.00564, current unrealized profit of about $2.19 million, and a position return of approximately 145%. The address opened the current PUMP long position roughly 8 days ago and has held it continuously since. PUMP’s current price is up around 14.5% from its average entry price. As of press time, the PUMP perpetual contract price on Hyperliquid stands at $0.00645, up roughly 1.3% over the past 24 hours.