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GlobalFoundries plans to build two chip factories with up to $21 billion in funding support from the Japanese government. The U.S. government will acquire about 4% of the company's shares.The new factories will produce foundational chips, widely used in fields such as automotive, industrial equipment, and communication devices. This move aims to increase the production of foundational chips in the U.S. and reduce dependence on East Asian suppliers.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale sold $92,674.12 in a single transaction regarding the "Federal Reserve's October Decision" event, targeting "no change." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 78%.

The Blockchain Association, the Crypto Innovation Committee, in conjunction with the Illinois state government, the Digital Chamber of Commerce, and the Illinois Blockchain Association, submitted a joint motion to the Sangamon County Circuit Court, requesting the court to expedite the hearing of two lawsuits against the state's Digital Asset Tax Act. The state government has agreed to issue an injunction to suspend the effectiveness and enforcement of the Digital Asset Tax Act until July 1, 2027.In order to make a ruling on the legality of the tax law as soon as possible, the parties have proposed a timeline for expedited summary judgment submissions: the first round of motions is scheduled to be submitted on November 4, 2026, and all relevant submissions will be completed by January 22, 2027. The parties request the court to hold a hearing between February 8 and February 19, 2027, and request the court to make a ruling by March 1, 2027, to which the state government has no objection. This timeline is subject to court approval.

Bitget has now launched the JIO (Jio Platforms) IPO pre-market perpetual contract, providing global users with a channel to participate in potential earnings before the company's listing and to capture early market opportunities. The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7.Jio Platforms is a digital technology and telecommunications platform under Reliance Industries in India, established in 2019 in Mumbai, India. It operates India's largest telecommunications network through its subsidiary Reliance Jio Infocomm, offering digital services such as 5G, broadband, cloud computing, and AI. As of March 2026, it has over 524 million users. The company plans to dual-list on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE).

According to CryptoQuant analyst nocoffeenobrain's monitoring, Bitcoin holdings aged 1-3 years and over 3 years showed signs of activity as early as the end of September, when the BTC price rose from the mid-$70,000s to the mid-$80,000s.Recently, Ledger was hacked, prompting a large number of users to migrate their assets to new signers and change their mnemonic phrases. It is expected that the 7-day moving average will further rise in the coming days. Analysts pointed out that similar patterns have occurred before—during the period from January to February this year, when BTC fell from the mid-$90,000s to the mid-$60,000s, and during the period from July to August when BTC fluctuated in the mid-$60,000s, both of the aforementioned holding age segments showed synchronized activity.

According to CoinDesk, Solana plans to implement the Alpenglow upgrade on October 21. This upgrade aims to reduce the transaction finality time to about 150 milliseconds and replace the existing voting system of the network with a faster certificate-based consensus mechanism.

According to official news, the PancakeSwap core team (The Kitchen) has released a tokenomics proposal titled "The Flip." This proposal suggests increasing the trading fee sharing ratio for PancakeSwap v3 and Infinity liquidity providers (LP) to 88% across all 11 supported chains, with the remaining 12% allocated as protocol fees to the treasury, while v2 remains unchanged.

Affected by geopolitical and supply risk premiums, international oil prices have recently maintained a relatively high level of fluctuation. According to market data from the Gate platform, WTI crude oil (CLUSDT) is currently priced at $93.67, with a 24-hour increase of 2.09%. According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour contract open interest on the Gate platform for CLUSDT is $131 million, ranking among the top three in the industry; the 24-hour contract trading volume reached $79.01 million, also ranking high in trading activity within the industry.

German asset management company DWS stated that the recent rise in U.S. Treasury yields has enhanced their investment attractiveness. DWS portfolio manager Sabrina Lech expects that U.S. Treasury yields will decline slightly over the next 12 months, as slowing economic growth and easing inflation pressures may support Treasury prices.

According to Hongxing News, Hong Kong actor and singer Anthony Wong recently revealed his investment losses. He stated that he lost a lot of money from buying NFTs. "I dare not tell my family about the money I've lost. My wife asks me every day how much I've lost, how many digits. I haven't said anything; I've lost more than I did when I was trading stocks." He also warned everyone not to follow his example in stock trading, as he was always thinking about getting rich overnight, which led to such significant losses.Anthony Wong was born on February 26, 1980, in Hong Kong, China. He was originally a swimmer and entered the entertainment industry in 2001.

Ripple announced the integration of the wallet technology from Privy, a subsidiary of Stripe, into the XRP Ledger, allowing financial applications and AI agents to create accounts, hold cryptocurrency assets, and complete payments without users needing to manage wallet software themselves. Developers can create wallets within their own products and authorize transfers involving XRP, the US dollar stablecoin RLUSD issued by Ripple, and other network assets. Privy is responsible for the wallet infrastructure, reducing the workload for application developers while supporting the export of private keys or mnemonic phrases for wallet migration to other platforms.This integration also allows AI agents or automated bots to hold funds and automatically pay for online data and service fees. Privy documentation states that wallets running on enterprise servers can allow software to hold and spend funds, including purchasing data access services through the x402 payment standard. J. Ayo Akinyele, head of engineering at RippleX, stated that the network has processed over 13 million agent payments via x402, accounting for about 25% of ledger activity. Data from the XRPL AI Hub operated by payment infrastructure developer t54 shows that as of Wednesday, cumulative transactions exceeded 14.3 million, covering 169 registered merchants.However, the cumulative transfer amount is much smaller than the scale suggested by the number of transactions, with the dashboard recording cumulative payments of approximately 6,991 XRP and 12,752 RLUSD, most transaction amounts being very small. Ripple began providing related tools to developers in June and expanded support for payment standards developed by Stripe and payment blockchain Tempo in September.

According to South Korean media Sedaily, South Korea plans to start taxing cryptocurrency in January next year, but there are still several loopholes in the tax infrastructure. The head of the National Tax Service, Lim Kwang-hyun, stated during a parliamentary audit that preparations are being made for the smooth implementation of the tax, but activities such as transfers between private wallets and trading on overseas platforms are still difficult to track comprehensively.Even with the introduction of the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), it is challenging to cover all transactions. It is reported that the Bank of Korea also exposed related regulatory blind spots during a previous parliamentary audit.

According to SolanaFloor, a TOKEN2049 attendee has filed a report with the Singapore police regarding a crypto security side event called Don't Get Played that took place during TOKEN2049.The event was promoted by self-proclaimed organizers Apex Accelerator and Stone Venture. It is alleged that the organizers pressured and induced attendees on-site to install malware that would allow the organizers to remotely take full control of their computers.

According to two informed sources, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the Philippines, Coins.ph, is facing punitive actions from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The alleged violations reportedly involve providing services to offshore betting companies, with a severity that could lead to the revocation of the operating license for this 12-year-old company. One source stated that this would trigger an "earthquake" in the Philippine crypto ecosystem.Coins.ph has over 18 million customers and a 24-hour spot trading volume of approximately $50 million, controlling about 75%-80% of the liquidity of pesos and stablecoins in the Philippines. Earlier this month, the BSP reportedly imposed restrictions on deposits made through Coins.ph's main wallet company, DCPay Philippines. Previously, several compliance executives from the exchange left, including Chief Compliance Officer Lexi Herrera, Head of Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring Chris Beaño, and Money Laundering Reporting Officer Irish Calagui.A year ago, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas restricted the use of e-wallet applications for gambling, requiring regulated entities to cut off access to gambling websites within the apps. Subsequently, several betting entities migrated to Coins.ph. This restriction is not a temporary measure and no reasons have been provided. Coins.ph is one of the earliest crypto wallets and exchanges in the Philippines, acquired by Indonesian tech company Gojek for $95 million in 2019, and later sold to former Binance CFO Wei Zhou. Neither Coins.ph nor the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas responded to requests for comment.

Financial Associated Press reported on October 12, citing market research firm Counterpoint Research, that the ongoing construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure continues to squeeze the supply of storage chips, putting pressure on costs and supply in consumer electronics. Preliminary data shows that global smartphone shipments in the third quarter of 2026 are expected to decline by 20% year-on-year, reaching the lowest level for the same period since 2012. The storage chip crisis has impacted the smartphone market for the second consecutive quarter, with rising chip costs increasing the overall bill of materials, leading manufacturers to raise retail prices. Since 2026, global smartphone retail prices have cumulatively increased by about 20%.Samsung remains the global leader, with its market share rising to 23% in the third quarter, although shipments declined by 3% year-on-year, marking the largest share increase among major manufacturers. Apple's share rose to 22%, marking its first time surpassing 20% in the third quarter, but shipments declined year-on-year. The absence of the base model iPhone 18 this year resulted in a lower channel distribution scale in the first month of new product launches compared to the previous year's iPhone 17 series. The iPhone 18 Pro series performed better than its predecessor in China and India.Xiaomi's shipments in the third quarter declined by over 30% year-on-year, with its market share dropping to 10%. Both OPPO and vivo saw their shipments decline by over 20% year-on-year, with shares falling to 9% and 8%, respectively. Counterpoint senior analyst Shilpi Jain stated that consumers are holding onto their existing devices for longer and are considering more refurbished devices. Counterpoint indicated that global smartphone shipments are unlikely to see a significant recovery before improvements in storage chip costs and supply.

According to an official press release from Bank of New York Mellon (BNY), BNY has completed a tri-party repurchase transaction process using tokenized U.S. Treasury securities with Citadel Securities, marking the first use of tokenized assets on a major tri-party repo platform.Citadel Securities purchased a 2-year U.S. Treasury bond through BNY on the Tradeweb platform, with the tokenized representation recorded on BNY's private digital ledger, and settlement completed in minutes instead of the standard T+1 settlement cycle; subsequently, Citadel Securities used it as collateral for overnight tri-party repo financing, with cash provided by BNY.BNY stated that it plans to launch more digital cash and tokenized deposit features to support on-chain settlement and financing, and expects to extend the operating hours of traditional settlement platforms to European and Asian trading sessions next year.

The total value of tokenized stocks has approached $3.3 billion, growing 15% over the past 30 days. Tokenized stock trading on major blockchains such as Solana and BNB Chain mostly occurs outside of regular trading hours in the U.S. Over 70% of tokenized stock trading volume on BNB Chain takes place outside of 9:30 AM to 4 PM Eastern Time, while this ratio for Solana and Base is 63% and nearly 60%, respectively.The trading volume of tokenized assets on the Solana trading platform Jupiter has increased by 50% month-over-month. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched an "innovation exemption" last month, allowing eligible trading venues to trade tokenized U.S. stocks on public chains. SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda stated that relevant platforms must disclose trading prices, volumes, timestamps, and daily trading volumes in U.S. dollars, as well as publicly disclose liquidity pool addresses and balances.

According to official news, Starknet announced the launch of shadow accounts, allowing users to participate in public DeFi activities through an independent address controlled by themselves, while keeping the association between this address and the main wallet confidential.Shadow accounts are independent pseudonymous addresses on Starknet, with funds sourced from the user's protected STRK20 balance. The first integration will go live tomorrow. The balance, transaction records, and holdings in various applications of the shadow account will still be publicly visible on-chain, but STRK20 can protect the association information between the shadow account and the user's main wallet. This means that users do not need to hide their DeFi activities themselves, while also reducing the likelihood of external observers tracing related activities back to their main wallet.

According to a report by Business Wire, Interactive Brokers has launched a cryptocurrency staking service for eligible clients, with the staking service provided by Zerohash.In the initial phase, eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients can stake Ethereum through the staking panel in the client portal, submit staking or unstaking requests, and view pending statuses. Rewards will be distributed in the form of staking tokens and can accrue interest during the staking period.Interactive Brokers CEO Milan Galik stated that similar to its stock yield enhancement program, the staking service allows clients to earn additional income from their held crypto assets. Currently, Interactive Brokers supports trading of 20 digital assets and allows deposits using USDC, RLUSD, and PYUSD.

According to the official announcement, the 154th Gate contract points airdrop will be open for collection from October 14, 18:00 to 23:59 (UTC+8). This period sets up two points redemption prize pools, with a limited number of rewards available on a first-come, first-served basis.Prize Pool One requires a Gate contract points balance of 120--90 points (decreasing). Users can spend 15 Gate contract points to redeem 190 WLFI; Prize Pool Two requires a points balance of no less than 40 points, and spending 20 Gate contract points can redeem a 100 USDT position experience voucher. Rewards are expected to be credited approximately 1 hour after successful collection.