HTX DAO partners with charity ambassadors and community volunteers to visit Kunming Children's Hospital and carry out public welfare activities for the Start of Winter.

Jacob Creech, technical vice president of the Solana Foundation, has responded to the controversy sparked by recent adjustments to the Solana Foundation Delegation Program (SFDP). The changes include setting a 12-month participation term for validators in the SFDP, automatic graduation once staking reaches 300,000 SOL, capping the number of validators at 100, and requiring participants to operate their own validator nodes. Creech noted that the SFDP originally had three core missions: helping new validators launch, building a healthy testnet, and enabling select validators to test network updates in advance. As the Solana ecosystem has expanded and its validator community matured, the original SFDP mechanisms can no longer fully adapt to the network’s evolving needs. The foundation thus aims to shift to a more proactive, flexible delegation model focused on supporting network health and ecosystem contributors. The SFDP will continue to back new validators, while the foundation will also reward validators making significant contributions to network health via delegation outside the SFDP. Previously, the foundation has allocated staking to ecosystem contributors such as Blueshift and supported validators that were among the first to test Frankendancer. In response to community concerns that the adjustments could reduce the number of validators, Creech emphasized that cutting validator counts is not the goal of the changes, though a decline could be an unintended outcome if enough high-quality contributors cannot be secured. He also revealed that over 100 validators have already submitted applications to retain support.

Beating AI Express News: OpenAI has upgraded its resident AI agent "dot", which now enables a single "dot" to connect to multiple local computers, with users able to assign specific devices for each task. For example, if you develop an iOS app on your laptop, "dot" can run tests on another Mac using Xcode and send back the screenshots. When encountering compatibility issues, users can also instruct it to run tests separately in both old and new SDK environments to compare results. Previously, "dot" could operate on cloud computers and authorized local devices, but was limited to connecting to only one local device at a time. This update removes that restriction, and users can now remotely command "dot" via mobile phones to complete tasks across different computers.

Whales are accumulating $BTC! A newly created wallet, "bc1qga," withdrew 1,489 $BTC ($111.34M) from #BitGo just 40 minutes ago. 3 newly created wallets withdrew 1,002.86 $BTC ($75M) from #Binance over the past 24 hours.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 1,489 BTC from BitGo roughly 40 minutes ago, valued at approximately $111.34 million. Separately, over the past 24 hours, three other newly established wallets have collectively withdrawn 1,002.86 BTC from Binance, worth around $75 million. In total, these wallets have pulled out approximately 2,491.86 BTC, with a combined value of roughly $186.34 million.

According to monitoring by OnchainLens, a user named "Ma Ji" sold BAYC #7256 for 7 ETH, equivalent to approximately $14,850. The NFT was purchased three years ago at a cost of 34.2 ETH (around $62,710), resulting in a loss of roughly $47,870 from the sale.

Santiment noted in a post that the number of non-empty Bitcoin wallets reached 59.99 million on October 16, and has since fallen by around 108,700. BTC’s price has now dropped below $75,000, a sign that some small-scale holders may be losing patience. Santiment emphasized that the decline in wallet count does not necessarily mean Bitcoin’s actual usage is shrinking. During extended market downturns, small traders often merge wallets or liquidate positions out of panic; this retail capitulation has historically been a hallmark preceding major crypto market rallies. If wallet numbers keep declining while BTC’s price stabilizes, this signal will turn more bullish.