Strive has made large-scale purchases of 11,417 Bitcoin over the past two months, at an average price of $82,281.

According to on-chain data analytics provider Yu Jin Monitoring, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik transferred three tokens worth a total of $1.41 million to Coinbase one hour ago. The transferred assets include 382 ETH (valued at $957,000), 1 million LDO ($423,000), and 14 YFI ($33,000).

Beating AI Express News: AI infrastructure firm Prime Intellect, valued at $1 billion, announced the acquisition of open-source vision model company Moondream. The latter has a team of fewer than 10 people, previously raised $4.5 million in funding, with the acquisition amount undisclosed. Both founders will join Prime Intellect to lead inference acceleration and multimodal model research. Moondream’s models can identify warehouse bins, locate products on shelves, and analyze live video. The latest Moondream 3.1 has 9 billion total parameters, with only 2 billion activated per run; the entire model family sees over 5 million downloads monthly. However, the more critical asset in this acquisition is the Photon inference engine, which consolidates large volumes of scattered GPU compute operations to reduce hardware latency. Prime Intellect stated that on a single H100 GPU, Photon can run over 60 Moondream inferences per second, sufficient to support live video analysis. Prime Intellect previously focused on providing infrastructure for AI agent training, reinforcement learning, and other use cases, and launched its Prime Inference platform earlier this October. Following the acquisition, Moondream 3.1 has been integrated into the platform, and Photon has begun providing inference acceleration for Clef and Clef Flash. The company plans to further apply this technology to video, voice, and computer operation AI agents, enabling enterprises to complete multimodal model training, optimization, and deployment on a single platform. The Moondream brand will be retained.

According to official news, OKX Flash Earn Lite will launch the KAT (Katana) "Stake to Earn" activity from 15:00 (UTC+8) on October 19, 2026 to 15:00 (UTC+8) on October 24, 2026. During the event, users who subscribe by locking BTC or KAT will share 30,000,000 KAT in airdrop rewards. Users can pre-subscribe starting today, with rewards calculated from the official start of the event. Additionally, users can directly use assets from their flexible Simple Earn balance to subscribe to Flash Earn’s Stake to Earn. To participate, users can either access via the event link or select "Flash Earn" at the top of the OKX App’s Explore page.

According to official announcements, Bitunix has officially launched PC Ultra, a new web-based trading interface centered on charts. The tool integrates market analysis and core trading tools into a single workspace, enabling users to conduct analysis and place orders without frequent page switching. Key features include: live trading panels displayed side-by-side with charts, the Super Filter for cross-market rapid screening of trading opportunities, simultaneous on-screen viewing of pending orders and position risk information, and one-click switching of trading pairs via a watchlist. This launch represents another major expansion of Bitunix’s Ultra Products matrix, further advancing the platform’s core commitment to delivering an efficient, professional, and integrated trading experience for global traders.

Crypto market analyst Axel Adler Jr stated in a social media post that Bitcoin has seen limited price volatility recently. The index tracking market activity— which integrates price volatility, exchange inflow/outflow ratios, and active buy-sell ratios— remains below its one-year average, indicating trading activity has not yet clearly recovered. The index’s 30-day moving average (MA) crossed below its one-year MA on September 12, hitting a low on October 6. It currently stands at 1768 points, lower than the one-year average of 1828 points. The analyst notes that given significant daily fluctuations, the 30-day MA is more meaningful for reference. As long as this indicator stays below its one-year MA, the market will remain in a low-activity state, aligning with Bitcoin’s recent narrow-range consolidation. If the index climbs back above its one-year MA, it could signal a resumption of trading activity; whether Bitcoin’s price breaks out of the Bollinger Bands will confirm the subsequent trend. Between October 6 and 13, the Bollinger Band width narrowed from 11.6% of the average price to 4.9%. Over the same period, Bitcoin fell from $85,800 to $83,200, with little movement in recent days. The current upper Bollinger Band is at $86,000, while the lower band is approximately $81,900. The analyst argues that a sustained price hold above $86,000 will send an upward signal, while a break below and sustained stay under $81,900 could confirm a downward trend.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, trader Boomer (X handle: solanadoomer1) closed 5,000 ETH short positions via his Hyperliquid address 0xbf73 in the early hours of today, with the closing trade totaling around $12.6 million. He then opened a ZEC long position at an average entry price of approximately $1,222. As of now, the address holds 8,000 ZEC long positions, employs 10x full leverage, has a position value of roughly $10.01 million, an unrealized profit of about $235,000, and a position return rate of around 24%.