Iran2026-10-04 06:53:43Iranian foreign minister says Strait of Hormuz could reopen within seven days if U.S. accepts “7-day plan”ChainCatcher, citing Iran’s Mehr News Agency, reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi commented on a “7-day plan” and said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen within seven days if the United States accepts it. The news was published as a brief 7x24 update. No additional details about the plan, the conditions for acceptance, or the reopening process were provided in the source text.141
Coinglass2026-10-04 04:30:45Coinglass crypto fear and greed index falls to 64Coinglass data shows the crypto Fear and Greed Index currently stands at 64, down 4 points from the previous day. The 7-day average is 71, while the 30-day average is 67. The latest reading points to a lower level than both the recent weekly average and the monthly average. The update was cited by ChainCatcher in a 7x24 market brief published on Oct. 4, 2026.110
Pump.fun2026-10-04 02:31:26Pump.fun founder says reward model was adjusted after backlash over Callout RewardsPump.fun founder alon said on X that the platform has changed its Callout Rewards system after criticism over how the program worked in its first version. He said the initiative was launched two months ago with the goal of making Pump.fun the "most rewarding trading platform," but the original Callout Rewards V1 model unintentionally encouraged the wrong behavior. According to alon, that design led to a rise in low-quality spam content and weakened users' incentive to produce higher-quality posts. He said the team later updated the reward algorithm to favor quality over volume. Under the revised design, the marginal payout declines as a user posts more callouts in a single day. Alon also said rewards have already been distributed to accounts of different sizes, including large accounts and accounts with fewer than 10 followers, and argued there has been no special treatment. Looking ahead, he said the incentive logic will center on discovering quality tokens, building trader trust, and rewarding users based on trading volume, while adding that simply spamming callouts or using followers to dump tokens for arbitrage will not generate long-term returns.110
Pons2026-10-04 02:31:10Pons says personal profile page will go live this weekPons, a token issuance platform on Robinhood Chain, said it will launch a personal profile page this week. According to the platform’s post on X, the new page will let users check their holdings, view profit and loss, and manage tokens. The update was disclosed directly by Pons, with no additional rollout details included in the post. The announcement centers on a user-facing account page and the functions it will provide once released.100
Allora2026-10-04 03:00:05RootData says Allora will unlock about 17.25 million ALLO on Oct. 11ChainCatcher reported, citing token unlock data from Web3 asset data platform RootData, that Allora (ALLO) is scheduled to unlock about 17.25 million tokens at 00:00 Beijing time on Oct. 11. The unlocked tranche is valued at about $4.63 million based on the cited data. No additional details were provided in the brief update. The report identifies RootData as the source of the token unlock figures and timing.100
Ethena2026-10-04 02:10:40Ethena posts commitment hash, hinting at a possible major disclosureEthena posted a 64-character hexadecimal hash on Oct. 4 from its official account, without any explanation: 「dbb9a9d565a0e3aec59e775c498afbf8a58dff33b860f977ebe73c59ff868cdc」. According to Foresight News, crypto projects often use this method as a commitment scheme. They first publish the hash of content that will be revealed later, then disclose the original text afterward. Anyone can then hash the disclosed text again and compare the result with the earlier post to verify that the content had already been fixed in advance. The post has led to speculation that Ethena may be preparing to announce something significant, though no further details were included in the original message.90
Vitalik2026-10-04 00:12:33Vitalik says he is testing local AI, zkAPI and Tor to get personalized health adviceEthereum co-founder Vitalik said in a post on X that he is running a self-experiment aimed at getting personalized diet and exercise recommendations from advanced AI models without exposing private information to remote systems. The setup uses a local Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model as the coordinator, while more powerful remote models are called as tools. To reduce privacy leakage, the design relies on the local model to draft queries, zkAPI to separate payment identity, and Tor to isolate network and IP information. Vitalik said the system is already working and has returned recommendations, but he also outlined several trade-offs. According to his post, Tor is not well suited for unlinking requests one by one, and latency can run 10x to 100x above the ideal level. He added that the current request-construction strategy is still not good enough. Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is currently running at about 20 to 30 TPS, while speeds above 100 TPS would make the setup feel meaningfully faster. He also noted a basic constraint of the approach: the more carefully users limit what remote models can see, the less help those remote models can provide.100
Pump.fun2026-10-04 01:24:29Pump.fun revises $15 million Callout rewards program after quality issuesPump.fun co-founder Alon said the platform changed its $15 million Callout rewards program two months after launch, after finding that the first version unintentionally encouraged the wrong kind of behavior. According to Alon, the original setup led to a flood of low-quality posts and weakened users’ incentive to keep producing strong content over time. The platform has since updated the reward algorithm to put more weight on content quality instead of posting volume. Under the revised system, the more Callouts a user publishes in a single day, the lower the marginal reward from each additional post. Alon said the mechanism is still being refined, and that there is still a lot of work ahead if Pump.fun wants large numbers of users to consistently create high-quality content over the long term. He also said the rewards program already covers both top accounts and accounts with fewer than 10 followers, adding that there is no favoritism or special treatment. Alon urged users to focus on recommending quality tokens, build trader trust through content, and earn rewards based on the trading volume generated by their Callouts. He added that spamming Callouts or dumping tokens on followers will not produce lasting returns.80
