The price of XRP broke through $3.00, reaching $3.03, driven by institutional buying and a certain company's expansion of lending services, with a short-term support level at $2.99. The volume reached twice the daily average, and the ETF application review is expected to influence market sentiment.

Replit has secured $250 million in funding after undergoing layoffs, raising its valuation to $3 billion, with an annual revenue of over $150 million. The CEO has shifted the target customers to non-technical users and launched the AI-based Replit Agent. Despite facing competition, the company has resolved security issues and plans to expand.

On October 3rd, according to market news: Nomura's subsidiary plans to expand the Crypto Assets trading market in Japan.

[Coin World] LOOK ( $LOOK) soared to a market capitalization of 92 million dollars a few weeks after being launched on Solana in September 2025, setting a new historical record, and is traded on certain DEX and trading platforms with a daily volume exceeding 1 million dollars. The token has no presale, and its price is set by the community, positioning it as a "Blue-Chip Stocks Attention Token," leveraging its popularity to enhance value and increase brand engagement, with a circulating supply of 922 million tokens and over 3,700 holders.

This year, the average daily trading volume of the derivatives market reached the second highest in history, totaling 25.3 million contracts, with an average daily trading volume of 26.1 million contracts in September. In particular, the average daily trading volume of Crypto Assets contracts in the third quarter and September was 340,000 and 309,000 contracts respectively, with a significant rise in the trading volume of micro Ethereum and Bitcoin futures contracts.

WisdomTree completes the acquisition of Ceres Partners, expanding into the ETP, custody, and tokenization markets, with a transaction amount of $275 million in cash plus up to $225 million in profit consideration.

[Block Rhythm] On October 3rd, according to data platform statistics, the total liquidation across the network in the past 24 hours was 395 million USD, with a total of 144,951 people getting liquidated globally. Among them, long orders were liquidated for 119 million USD, short orders for 276 million USD, and the largest single liquidation occurred in a certain platform's ETH trading pair, worth 11.6155 million USD.

[Coin World] Ripple has pledged to establish a digital asset center at the University of California, Berkeley's College of Engineering with $1.3 million in RLUSD stablecoin, expanding its existing partnership under the university's blockchain research program. The center will focus on advancing NFT technology, creating digital twins of physical assets, and developing practical blockchain applications such as improved inventory management, with Ripple engineers directly involved in research collaboration.

Google has launched Jules Tools, a command-line interface and public API designed to support its AI coding assistant Jules, helping developers reduce context switching. Jules can perform tasks independently, with memory retention and improved mobile access, offering both free and paid plans.

On October 3, Senate Republican Leader Thune stated that the likelihood of a Senate vote over the weekend is low.

[Chain News] On October 2, it was reported that Sharps Technology (STSS), a Nasdaq-listed company that has transformed into a Solana digital asset treasury (DAT), announced on Thursday plans to repurchase up to $100 million of its common stock. Stock repurchases are typically used by management to convey the signal that they believe the company's stock price is undervalued. The company currently holds 2 million SOL, currently valued at approximately $448 million. At the time of the announcement, the company's stock price was $6.52, significantly down from the high of $16 at the end of August.

On October 2, the Spot gold plummeted over 20 dollars in the short-term, falling below 3850 dollars/ounce, with a daily decline of 0.41%.
In addition, the New York silver futures fell 3.00% intraday, currently reported at 46.23 USD/ounce.

[Coin World] In September 2025, the number of global Crypto Assets venture capital transactions significantly decreased, but the financing amount reached a record of $5.122 billion, with a month-on-month rise of 5.2% and a year-on-year rise of 739.7%. The DeFi sector accounted for 25.8% of the disclosed financing rounds, maintaining a leading position. Major transactions included a $1.65 billion private sale by Forward Industries for Solana's funding strategy, a $787 million IPO by Figure Technology, and a $530 million pre-merger financing by StablecoinX/TLGY, highlighting institutional focus on Blockchain infrastructure and tokenization assets.

[Chain News] PANews reported on October 2 that a certain Bitcoin staking project officially announced its V3 version on social media, rebranding to "Big Bank". The core of this upgrade is the native integration of a Perptual Futures DEX and its liquidity pool into the protocol core, along with the introduction of a new yield-bearing Token (BB-token) standard.
The new BB Tokens (such as BBTC, BBETH, etc.) are interest-bearing tokens that automatically undergo rebasing. The token balance in users' wallets will automatically increase as earnings accumulate. Users can deposit directly on the original chains like BTC and ETH, and the V3 system will automatically mint the corresponding BB Tokens on the project's chain without the need for manual cross-chain.
The newly integrated perpetual DEX will introduce liquidity provider tokens BLP, where holders will earn fees as counter-parties. The fees generated by the platform will empower the native token BB through a buyback mechanism.

[Coin World] Amber International Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: AMBR), operating under the name Amber Premium, has been included in the S&P Global LargeCap Index as of September 22, 2025. This inclusion is attributed to its strong operational performance, including $21 million in revenue for the second quarter of 2025, a client asset size reaching $1.54 billion as of June 30, 2025, and a completed private sale of $25.5 million. President Wang Weiwei stated that this move enhances the visibility of institutional investors and solidifies its position as a digital asset portal for high-net-worth clients.

[Chain News] On October 2, it was announced that the NFT project Moonbirds is set to launch a new token called "$birb", which will be issued on the Solana blockchain. The Moonbirds team also emphasized that the contract address (CA) for this token has not yet been disclosed, and no claiming activities have been opened. The team reminds users to be cautious and not to click on any unofficially released links, stating that they will provide ample time and more details before the official release of the token.

According to reports, the three major U.S. stock index futures are rising before the market opens, with Dow futures up 0.04%, S&P 500 futures up 0.29%, and Nasdaq futures up 0.59%.

[Coin World] FG Nexus has partnered with Securitize to tokenize its common stock (FGNX) and perpetual preferred stock (FGNXP) on Ethereum, allowing shareholders to convert their shares into blockchain-based tokens while enjoying the same legal rights and dividend payments. The tokenized stocks will be settled instantaneously through Securitize's registered broker-dealer with the SEC (SEC) in the United States, marking the first dividend stock to fully transition to a crypto infrastructure while maintaining regulatory compliance on a U.S. exchange.

During the Token2049 summit, HashKey Group Chairman Xiao Feng and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin jointly launched the "Ethereum Application Alliance", aimed at bringing together Ethereum ecosystem developers to build an open and transparent collaboration mechanism, promote application development and implementation, and move towards a new stage driven by applications. This initiative explores a global collaboration network and encourages developers to solve real-world problems.

The Bitcoin Mining Difficulty rose by 5% on October 2, reaching 150.84 T, setting a new historical high, indicating that the network's Computing Power continues to rise, currently exceeding 1 ZH/s. This has raised the profitability threshold for Mining, with the hash price falling below 50 dollars per second per P of Computing Power.