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SWI Group has raised 800 million euros (approximately 895 million dollars) from institutional investors to expand its artificial intelligence data center and computing power infrastructure layout in the United States and Europe.The company also plans to transform eligible old Bitcoin mining sites into artificial intelligence infrastructure and is actively seeking to reach cooperation agreements with hyperscale cloud service providers.

According to official news, Gate will launch Incentiv (CENT) for the first time. The CENT/USDT spot trading will officially start on October 12 at 17:00 (UTC+8), and the flash exchange trading is expected to open at 18:00 on the same day.At the same time, Gate's 343rd HODLer Airdrop has opened the Incentiv (CENT) airdrop, which will end on October 12 at 16:00 (UTC+8). A total of 34,482,759 CENT airdrop rewards will be provided, and the rewards will be fully unlocked. Users who complete identity verification and hold no less than 1 GT can participate, and rewards will be distributed based on the proportion of GT holdings snapshot. No user participation funds will be deducted after the event ends.Incentiv is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that uses a proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism and integrates advanced account abstraction, flexible network fee payment methods, and incentive mechanisms aimed at ecological contributions. Its ecosystem covers Portal, developer tools, cross-chain bridges, and a native DEX, further expanding into AI Agent economic scenarios. CENT is its network's native asset, used for gas settlement and ecological incentives.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Bitcoin mining company Genesis Digital Assets will transition to an AI data center. SWI Group invested $500 million to acquire a significant stake in the company in June this year, subsequently becoming the controlling shareholder, and announced on October 12 that it has secured €800 million (approximately $900 million) for data center upgrades and expansions.SWI plans to utilize Genesis Digital's data centers in Texas, North and South Carolina, and Sweden to provide computing power for large cloud service providers and sell off the remaining assets of its Kazakhstan mining operations.

According to "Du Jia," Tencent Yuanbao is developing a Personal Agent product called "Yuanbao Assistant," and plans to launch a standalone app to support long-term tasks, personal long-term memory, and other capabilities. As of the time of publication, Tencent has not responded to verification requests. The report states that multiple business departments within Tencent, including social media, are also developing related products or features.Recent developments listed in the report include: on September 30, Doubao is rumored to launch a personal assistant app called "Xiao Dou"; on October 10, Ant Group's Lingguang app is rumored to be testing "My Life"; Tencent Cloud launched LightVela; at the 2026 Yunqi Conference, Qianwen announced the Personal Agent plan. The report also mentions that several teams started research and development months before the overseas Muse release. Currently, cross-app calls are limited, long-term tasks are prone to interruption, and privacy boundaries are difficult to manage, with most products still in a gray area or internal testing.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that currently, above the price level of approximately $83,000, 53% of the invested capital is concentrated. This means that if Bitcoin is purchased at this level, the holding cost will be better than that of more than half of the investors.The range of $84,000 to $85,000 is the largest chip distribution cluster, and many investors react at this critical level, so this range is clearly the core resistance that Bitcoin must break through. Looking below, the range of $79,000 to $77,000 may become a support level. If the price cannot effectively break through $84,000-$85,000, the market may first retest this support area; however, once it stabilizes above the densely concentrated chip area, it means that the cost pressure for most holders has been digested, and the subsequent upward resistance will be significantly reduced.

Cointelegraph reported that the Central Bank of Argentina stated that if President Javier Milei is re-elected, banks may be able to offer cryptocurrency-related services to customers during his second term. This statement comes four years after the Central Bank of Argentina prohibited banks from providing cryptocurrency services.The report mentioned that the Central Bank of Argentina had previously restricted banks from engaging in cryptocurrency business. This statement connects the possibility of banks reopening cryptocurrency services to the policy environment after Milei's re-election, but no specific timeline, entry conditions, or range of products to be offered have been announced.

CITIC Securities released a research report indicating that as the performance of U.S. stocks during the domestic long holiday becomes desensitized to interest rates, investors' focus will shift to the upcoming third-quarter earnings reports of U.S. stocks starting next week.LSEG's consensus expectations show that the S&P 500's revenue and earnings growth rates for Q3 2026 are expected to reach 1.2% and 45.0% year-on-year, respectively, with a slight decline quarter-on-quarter. At the industry level, the year-on-year earnings growth rates for energy, information technology, materials, and healthcare all exceed 50%. The high growth in U.S. stock earnings may no longer be concentrated solely in leading technology companies, as the earnings contribution from non-tech sectors is significantly increasing.For Hong Kong stocks, although the overseas interest rate hike cycle combined with the restart of AI momentum trading continues to pressure liquidity, the fundamental expectations have bottomed out, and the earnings growth expectations for major broad-based indices have begun to be revised upward. The adjustment of industry earnings expectations is significantly differentiated, with some sub-sectors seeing upward revisions, while the earnings expectations for domestic demand-related industries still face downward pressure. The upcoming third-quarter performance will be an important basis for assessing the progress of recovery. We advise investors to remain patient with Hong Kong stocks, as short-term dividend strategies are expected to continue to outperform.

According to Bitcoin.com News, Juan Curutchet, the head of financial and foreign exchange institution regulation at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), recently stated that in the short term, cryptocurrency assets will not be allowed to integrate into the banking and payment service systems, and the regulations prohibiting financial institutions from providing cryptocurrency services established in 2022 will continue to be maintained.Juan Curutchet pointed out that Argentina's current economic vulnerability is insufficient to support the advancement of related measures, and whether the ban will be lifted in the future depends on the economic situation. Related topics may be discussed during the second term of Milei.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, LUMIA has recently risen by 100%. Six wallets have longed a total of 11.7 million LUMIA on Aster_DEX with 3x leverage, valued at 1.9 million USD, with a total floating profit of approximately 949,000 USD, among which the highest return rate exceeds 160%.

According to Xinhua News Agency, on October 10, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council recently issued opinions on developing new quality productivity. The opinions propose promoting the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy, building a national integrated computing power network and a national blockchain network, improving the system for determining data property rights, market transactions, rights distribution, and interest protection, implementing pilot demonstrations for data elements, and optimizing the layout and operation of national data infrastructure.The opinions also propose improving an open, shared, and secure data element market, exploring mechanisms for efficient cross-border data flow, enhancing the policy system for digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, creating internationally competitive digital industry clusters, and establishing mechanisms for future industry investment growth and risk sharing, thereby strengthening long-term capital investment in cutting-edge hard technology.

Australian AI data center operator Firmus, supported by NVIDIA, stated via email to CNBC that the company has withdrawn its planned large IPO due to market volatility and conditions. The board believes that the proposed issuance terms do not adequately reflect the business's strength and long-term growth prospects, and continuing with the issuance is not in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. The company stated it will turn to private market financing and consider other public and private market options.Reportedly, Firmus originally planned to raise $5 billion through the IPO, pricing shares at AUD 11. If successful, it would have become the second-largest IPO in Australian history, with a valuation of approximately $30.6 billion. In August 2026, the company announced the completion of $2 billion in financing, with investors including NVIDIA, Coatue Management, Blackstone, and Jane Street; the previous year, it raised over $3 billion in equity financing, with a valuation exceeding $10.5 billion. Last month, Firmus announced an agreement with Meta to provide GPU computing power for AI research, model development, and training based on NVIDIA's DSX platform in Southeast Asia.

Decentralized exchange THORChain announced that native Zcash swaps are now live, allowing users to exchange ZEC with assets on other supported blockchains without relying on wrapped tokens or centralized exchanges. This launch follows the protocol's 3.20 update, which introduced support for Zcash and Monero. At that time, the liquidity in the Zcash pool exceeded $50,000, and the network has begun processing real ZEC swaps.The pool is currently in a soft launch phase, with performance being monitored. If vulnerabilities or other issues arise, trading may be temporarily paused. The current pool size can easily support five-figure trades, while larger trades will experience higher slippage and slower settlement until liquidity increases. When the fee-to-depth ratio is sufficiently high, the protocol's own liquidity will automatically join the Zcash pool. This mechanism was introduced with the 3.20 upgrade, allowing the protocol to deploy a portion of liquidity fees (initially set at 20%) to supported liquidity pools.After integration, ZEC holders can swap their native assets with supported assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins without needing to deposit Zcash with a centralized custodian or convert it into wrapped assets on other networks. Zcash brings the total number of native blockchains in THORChain's cross-chain liquidity network to 14, with swaps settled in native assets on their respective chains, rather than transferring assets through cross-chain bridges or requiring users to relinquish custody.

The European Central Bank plans to launch the digital euro in the second half of 2029, with the first applications covering all online stores in the eurozone, some physical retail stores, and personal transfers. The document shows that the digital euro will support both online and offline transactions to accelerate the establishment of a comprehensive digital payment system.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces," proposing to promote the deep integration of the real economy and the digital economy. The opinions emphasize improving the systems for determining data property rights, market transactions, rights distribution, and interest protection, implementing pilot demonstration projects related to data elements, optimizing the layout of national data infrastructure, promoting the digital transformation of manufacturing, and building a national integrated computing network and national blockchain network.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces," supporting high-quality technology enterprises to go public for financing, optimizing systems for mergers and acquisitions, equity incentives, and more for technology enterprises. The opinions also mentioned increasing the supply of financial innovation products, encouraging the development of angel investment, venture capital, and private equity investment, and improving long-term capital support policies.

Decentralised.co published a discussion on the path of stock tokenization, stating that the exposure to on-chain stocks held by traders and investors through tokenization and synthetic perpetual contracts has exceeded 6 billion dollars. The total market size of on-chain stock tokens is 3.21 billion dollars, with a 10% increase over the past 30 days; the open interest of perpetual contracts for stocks, indices, and ETFs on trade.xyz is 3.01 billion dollars, accounting for 94% of the total stock token market size.The process of stock tokenization is divided into four stages: initially, it is mostly offshore packaged certificates, followed by becoming collateral, then brokers tokenizing the shares that users already hold, and finally, the company registering the shares themselves on-chain. Most stock tokens are debt certificates that do not include voting rights or ownership of shares. Taking Robinhood as an example, after the related entity purchases shares and they are held by a custodian, it issues debt securities corresponding to one share to users, with dividends reinvested and stock splits adjusting the number of shares represented; if the issuer fails to perform, the securities agent will sell the shares and pay the holders, while the issuer can only maintain the price through arbitrage within a limited time frame.The market size of the top 100 tokenized stocks increased from 2.09 billion dollars to 3.03 billion dollars within 90 days, and the number of holding addresses grew from 417,000 to 4.21 million, with Binance and Robinhood contributing 86% of the new addresses. About 97.5% of the addresses hold less than 100 dollars, with exchanges and large wallets holding most of the value. The borrowing rates for collateralized loans against related stock tokens on Kamino, Jupiter Lend, and Ether.fi are approximately 4% to 5.75%.

According to Bloomberg, sources revealed that Tencent Holdings is considering issuing offshore bonds to raise $5 billion to meet the funding needs arising from the expansion of its artificial intelligence business.The sources stated that the bond issuance may be denominated in US dollars and offshore renminbi, and could take place as early as this month. As the discussions are not yet public, the sources requested anonymity.

The semiconductor research organization SemiAnalysis released a survey on Chinese data centers, tracking over 1,000 facilities from more than 60 operators. The report estimates that by the end of 2026, China's data center capacity will exceed 24GW, second only to the United States' 56GW. ByteDance accounts for nearly one-fifth of this, making it the largest data center tenant in the country.ByteDance has leased over 4GW of data center capacity, with suppliers including Qinhuai Data, China United Network Communications, and Century Internet. The report states that by early 2026, ByteDance will still contribute about 90% of Qinhuai Data's revenue. ByteDance has also begun to accelerate its self-built data centers, constructing large facilities in Shanxi, Anhui, and Inner Mongolia to reduce reliance on external suppliers.The report also mentions that while Chinese data centers have long been considered to have a high vacancy rate, AI server rooms are still in short supply. This is due to many old server rooms lacking sufficient power supply and cooling capabilities, making it difficult to directly deploy high-power AI servers, while newly built large AI data centers are quickly being rented out. For example, a 100MW data center, excluding IT equipment such as servers, has a construction cost of about $300 million in China and about $1.5 billion in the United States, with Chinese facilities of the same scale typically delivered in about 12 months. Compared to the power supply and approval issues faced by the United States, the more prominent bottleneck for expanding AI data centers in China is the supply of advanced chips.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool, Jiang Zhuoer, stated that he has repurchased 75% of his BTC position at the price of $82,789 (previously sold at $86,789 and $84,460). He anticipates a rebound in the near term, reasoning that the market "cannot keep falling, and there are many buyers."At the same time, he mentioned that he has not used leverage in recent months, accumulating a coin-based profit of 35.1% and a USD-based profit of 98.6%.