OpenAI is disbanding its "AGI Readiness" team and its members will be reassigned to other teams within OpenAI. The team was previously responsible for evaluating OpenAI's ability to handle increasingly powerful AI technologies and assessing the world's readiness for such technologies. Miles Brundage, the chief advisor of the AGI Readiness team, announced his resignation in a Substack post, citing the high opportunity cost and his belief that his external research could have a greater impact. He also hoped to reduce bias and believed that he had already achieved his goals at OpenAI.

Coinbase International announced on the X platform that Coinbase International and Coinbase Advanced will add support for ApeCoin perpetual futures contracts, and the APE-PERP market is expected to open on or after 17:30 on October 31, 2024 Beijing time.

According to Cryptoquant data, gold finance reported that currently Bitcoin whales hold about 670,000 Bitcoins, the highest value ever. Undoubtedly, this is an optimistic long-term signal. As shown in the chart, when the whale holding volume is at a high level, Bitcoin tends to show a sideways or mild downward trend. This accumulation stage can be described as calm before the storm in the medium to long term. The real growth trend of Bitcoin began when the whale gradually reduced its holding volume until the percentage change value of the holding volume became negative. Finally, if the historical high point of Bitcoin is not updated between the US presidential election and November 28th (+/- 21 days), it will indicate that there are serious problems in the current bull market cycle, and things will become very bad.

 Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill to provide regulatory clarity for digital assets. This move comes amid increasing uncertainty at the federal level regarding cryptocurrency regulation. It continues a trend of legislative bodies and governors across the country attempting to establish some rules for the US crypto industry. The bill passed with a majority of 176 votes to 26, including support from 76 Democrats and all 100 Republicans.

1. Cryptocurrency market STOKR raised $7.98 million in financing;

According to Farside Investors monitoring data, the following is the fund data for US spot Bitcoin ETF and spot Ethereum ETF as of yesterday (October 24th):

23 scholars who have won the Nobel Prize in Economics jointly supported the Democratic presidential candidate Harris in a letter published on October 23 in the United States, and criticized her Republican opponent Trump's economic plan, especially his proposal to increase tariffs. However, it should be pointed out that since October, Trump's approval rating has been on the rise.

DigiFT has partnered with Chainlink to promote the tokenization of institutional-grade real-world assets (RWA). DigiFT uses the CCIP protocol to support the currency market fund tokens on its platform and uses Proof of Reserve to verify reserves and ensure safe minting.

blockchain detective ZachXBT tweeted that the Meme token SHAR on Solana is involved in a conspiracy group and KOL manipulation. The token was launched last night and its market value soared to over $50 million before plummeting to $3 million, a drop of 95%. According to leaked information from a promotion platform, the project claimed to have "50 first-tier KOLs joining."

Opti Games, the developer of the online sports fighting game Sparkball based on the blockchain platform Monad, announced that it has completed a $2 million financing round. L1D led the investment, with participation from CMS Holdings, Impossible Finance, blockchain gaming guild YYield Guild Games (YGG), Monad, and others. The game is closely collaborating with blockchain gaming communities such as Wolves DAO, YGG, and XBorg to develop the game and gain support. The new funds will be used to support Sparkball's Season Zero launch for growth.

Lookonchain monitored that a trader who earned 18,539 SOL (3.7 million USD) on BOME spent 2,952 SOL to buy 27 million SHAR, sold for 471 SOL, resulting in a loss of 2,481 SOL (429,000 USD).

On October 24th, Aztec, a privacy and scaling solution based on ZK Rollup, announced the opening of applications for its Sequencer and Prover testnet. The testnet aims to address issues related to Sequencer selection protocol, Sequencer and Prover coordination mechanisms, and governance (upgrade) mechanisms.

Base announced that it will introduce fault proofs to its mainnet on October 30, marking an important step towards decentralization. After the introduction of this mechanism, anyone can monitor and challenge invalid withdrawal transactions without permission, eliminating the need for trust in third parties. The Base team stated that they have been working closely with Optimism to ensure the smooth launch and secure upgrade of fault proofs. During the upgrade period, all pending withdrawal transactions will need to be re-verified.

According to blockchain data analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, ApeCoin Treasury associated address transferred 5 million APE coins (approximately $5.8 million) to Wintermute address 3 hours ago, of which 2 million coins (approximately $2.32 million) entered Binance half an hour ago. It is reported that ApeCoin Treasury associated wallet has transferred 13.289 million APE coins (approximately $18.51 million) to Wintermute in the past two days.

Trader T data showed that the net inflow of the US Ethereum ETF was $1.26 million yesterday.

the Ethereum L2 network, announced that users of the internal testnet, Voyage NFT holders, and users who participated in ZeroLend and Niel's "Last Rush" event can receive LXP airdrops in early 2023. The Voyage NFT snapshot of the testnet was taken yesterday at 20:40 (block height 11113454). Users' wallets must have valid proof of humanity (PoH) before 17:59 on October 30th to be eligible for the airdrop.

According to PeckShield's monitoring, Radiant Capital attacker's tagged address has transferred almost all stolen funds from Arbitrum and BNBChain to Ethereum, totaling about 20,500 ETH (valued at about $52 million).

According to data monitored by Arkham about eight hours ago, 3435 BTC flowed out of the ARK Invest Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund ARKB 21Shares Bitcoin ETF, with a value of 226.17 million US dollars.

Trader T monitored that the net inflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was $190.68 million yesterday.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a insider trader sold 5 billion SAR (50% of the total supply) at a price of 19,620 SOL (3.38 million US dollars), causing SAR prices to plummet by 96%! The insider trader used 5710 SOL (948,000 US dollars) in 16 wallets to buy 6.656 billion SHAR (66.56% of the total supply), and distributed it to over 100 wallets. Four hours ago, he collected 5 billion SHAR from 104 wallets and sold them all at once, earning 13,910 SOL (2.4 million US dollars).