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According to on-chain analysis platform Arkham, a Bitcoin whale acquired Bitcoin in 2013 at a cost of approximately $54,000, when the BTC price was around $130.The address has remained inactive for 13 years, and the holding is now worth over $30 million, having recently transferred assets to a new wallet for the first time.

Liu Xing, the head of public relations at ByteDance, publicly questioned the claim that "over half of China's AI computing power is used for creating light-hearted dramas," stating that the related data is "somewhat unreliable." He revealed that only about 10% of ByteDance's total computing power is used for training and inference of video generation models, and this percentage also includes model development, not all of it is used for producing short dramas.The controversy originated from an investor communication record disclosed by Chinese Online in June this year. The company stated that 55% of domestic AI Token consumption comes from short dramas and video generation, 24% is used for e-commerce marketing, and software development accounts for only 15%. After this set of data was circulated, it evolved into the claim that "half of China's computing power is used for creating light-hearted dramas," leading to discussions such as "the U.S. creates the future, while China creates light-hearted dramas."

Clearpool announced the 2026 v4 protocol whitepaper and stated that its institutional credit market has been operating on multiple EVM-compatible networks and is further expanding to the XRP Ledger. The whitepaper reveals that the institutional credit protocol will collaborate with Ripple and Cicada Partners to expand to the XRP Ledger for the settlement of the regulated stablecoin RLUSD, and will migrate the token from CPOOL to the new token CLEAR at a 1:1 ratio.The total supply of CLEAR is 1.429 billion tokens, with 1.125 billion tokens in circulation at the time of migration, accounting for 78.75%; this migration and the XRPL expansion have been approved through Snapshot voting, with a support rate of 97.16%. Since its operation began in 2021, the protocol has issued loans totaling approximately $965 million, with borrowers including Jane Street, Flow Traders, and Wintermute, and currently supports six EVM chains. 50% of the protocol fees will be used for open market repurchases and permanent destruction of CLEAR. XRPL products are preparing for testing on Devnet.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance's perpetual ETH has approximately 2,106.5 sell orders at a price of $2,425.00, with a nominal value of about $5.1083 million, which is an increase of about 0.17% from the mid-price of approximately $2,420.86 at that time.The total buy orders on the near-end market are approximately $57.1804 million, while the sell orders are about $63.193 million, resulting in a net sell order surplus of approximately $6.0126 million, accounting for 4.99% of the total depth.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain address has received a total of 246,800 LINK from Binance over 4 days, worth 3.01 million USD.In the past 24 hours, it received 182,160 LINK, worth 2.18 million USD; the latest receipt was 67,560 LINK, worth 808,400 USD.

The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox announced that, given the necessity to complete repayments to creditors within a reasonable and feasible timeframe, the bankruptcy administrator, with court permission, has decided to extend the repayment deadline from October 31, 2026, to October 31, 2027.

According to the Gate Launchpool page, there are currently four projects underway: DNA, BLKHION, CT, and GT, offering various asset staking options.Among them, DNA is the first project, with a total reward of 2,800,000 DNA. The APR for the ETH, BTC, and DNA pools is 7.25%, 6.24%, and 218.90%, respectively. The total reward for the BLKHION project is 30,400 BLKHION, with the APR for the USDT, BLKGRWON, and MAG7XON pools being 5.15%, 147.62%, and 97.56%, respectively.Meanwhile, the total reward for the CT project is 1,000,000 CT, with the APR for the USDT, CT, and GT pools being 5.10%, 65.82%, and 2.48%, respectively. The total reward for the GT project is 18,400 GT, with the APR for the ETH and BTC pools being 6.83% and 4.51%, respectively.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed company OpenWorld (stock ticker: OPNW) has signed a merger agreement to acquire the AI agency Blocksight.Blocksight's AI agency is expected to serve as the operational layer for OpenWorld's recently announced tokenized financing plan, responsible for transaction structure design, asset verification, and daily reporting, with the total financing plan amount exceeding 1.1 billion dollars.

According to market news, a certain address contract account has accumulated earnings of over 126 million USD. The address first closed a short position of approximately 18.51 million USD in BTC, then opened a new short position of approximately 24.09 million USD in BTC, resulting in a net increase of approximately 5.61 million USD, with the value of the short position rising from approximately 14.62 million USD to approximately 20.29 million USD. The loss from this closing was approximately 46,000 USD.Address: 0x7fdafde5cfb5465924316eced2d3715494c517d1.

According to Gate market data, spot gold surged more than 10 dollars in a short time, reaching 4,183.3 dollars/ounce; spot silver rose nearly 0.3 dollars in a short time, with an intraday increase of over 1%.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the current price of ETH is $2,423.48. The largest order book is on Coinbase spot: buy orders amount to $12,179,200, and sell orders amount to $9,242,700, with buy orders exceeding sell orders by $2,936,500.The Binance spot buy orders are also thicker than sell orders, but the scale is smaller than that of Coinbase spot. If the price falls, the buy orders on Coinbase spot are relatively thicker.

According to The Block, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit announced its trading data for the week ending October 18, with the platform's weekly trading volume dropping to 83.5 trillion Korean won, approximately 6.28 billion USD, a decrease of 15.5% compared to the previous period.During the same statistical period, the cryptocurrency with the highest trading volume on Upbit was XRP, followed by Bitcoin and USDT.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the address 0xF4B...496eb withdrew 1,417.77 ETH (approximately 3.78 million USD) from Binance between September 19 and 23, with an average holding price of about 2,667.77 USD.8 hours ago, the address deposited all ETH back to the exchange, with a deposit price of 2,364.18 USD. If sold at this price, the assets would shrink by about 11.38%, with an expected loss of approximately 430,000 USD.

According to EmberCN monitoring, a certain whale's previously opened $110 million BTC long position market stop-loss at $80,500 failed to trigger, and after closing the BTC long position at 5 AM today, it shifted to open a long position in US stocks.At 4 AM today, BTC dropped to a low of $80,684, just $184 away from its $80,500 market stop-loss, but it did not continue to drop to trigger that sell order. The whale closed the long position at $80,949, ultimately incurring a loss of $3.26 million, and then opened long contracts in US stocks worth $45.8 million, including TSLA, DRAM, SOXL.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, Nscale, an AI data center developer supported by Nvidia, initially sought an IPO valuation of about $30 billion, but some investors recently advocated for a valuation between $16 billion and $19 billion to attract buyers.Nscale is addressing comments from the U.S. SEC regarding its listing application documents and plans to initiate a roadshow after resolving these issues. Relevant discussions are still ongoing, and no final decision has been made. Previously, Microsoft withdrew from its collaboration with Nscale on a data center project in the UK due to project delays caused by limited power supply.

Market research firms Counterpoint Research and TrendForce stated on the 18th that China's DRAM manufacturer Changxin Storage's monthly wafer production capacity is expected to expand from the current approximately 320,000 wafers to 420,000 wafers by 2027, adding about 100,000 wafers in just over a year, an increase of 31.3%.The industry expects that Changxin Storage's monthly DRAM wafer production capacity will reach 500,000 to 600,000 wafers by the end of 2028. If calculated at the upper limit of 600,000 wafers, this would be an increase of 280,000 wafers compared to the current level, an increase of approximately 87.5%.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has about 65.36 buy orders at the price level of $81,677, with a nominal value of approximately $5.3383 million, retracting about 0.40% from the mid-price of about $82,003 at that time. The total buy orders on the near-end market are approximately $23.7394 million, while the sell orders are about $22.4236 million.Coinbase's spot buy orders have a net long position of about $1.3159 million, accounting for 2.85% of the total depth. This buy order is the most prominent support at the near-end, and if a large market order appears, it may provide short-term support for the current price.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Cowboys vs. Packers," the "Cowboys" option in the sub-market "2H Spread -2.5" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 65.5% (a fluctuation of 15.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.