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On Tuesday, the global semiconductor sector faced a massive sell-off, with the decline intensifying. The trigger was Broadcom CEO Hock Tan stating that AI investments have a "casino-like" nature. He mentioned in Singapore on Monday that many investors do not even know what they are investing in and that investors have set extremely high expectations, only to find that it is just like being in a casino.The world's two largest memory chip manufacturers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, saw their stock prices plunge by 8.8% and 9.2% at one point during the morning session, dragging down South Korea's main stock index by 7%. The two companies account for about half of the weight in the Korea Composite Stock Price Index, and their stock prices have cumulatively dropped by about 15% over the past five days. The Taiwan Weighted Stock Index, dominated by chip stocks, fell by 2.5%, with TSMC down 2%; Micron Technology dropped nearly 4% overnight, and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index fell by 2.7%.

According to cryptocurrency investor @rrealist's post on X, his residence in the UK was broken into, he was bound, and threatened with a knife to be killed, with approximately $800,000 in assets stolen. Among them, $40,000 came from his main wallet, $720,000 from one of the hardware wallets, Ledger, and a Rolex watch was also stolen, while his phone was smashed on the spot.The poster claims he was not seriously injured, only suffering minor bruises, and the police have intervened, with the residence listed as a crime scene. The Solana wallet address involved (B3pMs3...arCR) has a balance of approximately 346.12 SOL.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 3 Pump.fun teams or early investor wallets (96HiV4...NKVWM9, ERRGqu...dukdNYa, 85WTuj...RqMD4ERS) transferred 1.458 billion PUMP to Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, worth 7.58 million dollars.These 3 wallets have a total allocation of 70 billion PUMP, which have been unlocking since July. The 1.458 billion PUMP transferred to Coinbase Prime is the amount unlocked this month.

According to Bloomberg, Tencent Holdings has begun marketing dollar and offshore renminbi bonds, with an issuance scale of approximately 5 billion dollars, and the funds will be used to support its artificial intelligence investments.According to informed sources, the preliminary price guidance for the proposed 10-year and 20-year dollar bonds is approximately 115 basis points and 140 basis points above comparable U.S. Treasury yields, respectively. The guidance for the concurrently marketed 10-year and 30-year offshore renminbi notes is approximately 2.9% and 3.5%, respectively.

The scenarios envisioned in the IMF World Economic Outlook report indicate that global GDP will decrease by 1.1% by 2028 due to the withdrawal of investments in artificial intelligence and a sharp decline in asset prices.

The media and conference organization NEXTPredict announced that it has executed the first trade in the flight cancellation market through Kalshi to hedge investments for its October summit, locking in $3 million in guarantees. The company paid a premium of $12,000, and if the cancellation rate of flights arriving at New York's Kennedy International Airport on October 21 exceeds 50%, the contract will automatically pay out, covering the summit costs, as October 21 is the main travel day for attendees. Susquehanna acted as the market maker for this transaction.Kalshi launched the flight cancellation market after self-certifying the contract with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on July 14, allowing participants to trade on whether the cancellation volume at specific airports exceeds preset thresholds. This market does not target individual flights and has clear anti-manipulation clauses. NEXTPredict is a media and event platform focused on the global prediction market industry, launched by the NEXT.io team. Its flagship event, the "Global Prediction Market Summit," will be held from October 22 to 23, 2026, at Convene Hudson Yards in New York, bringing together founders, executives, investors, and policymakers.NEXTPredict and Kalshi position this trade as institutional hedging, similar to how airlines hedge against fuel costs or farmers hedge against crop yields, rather than betting on the fate of the summit.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Lorenzo Valente, the Director of Digital Asset Research at Ark Invest, stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that despite Bitcoin's lackluster performance and even decline this year, Ark Invest has not changed its long-term view, still considering Bitcoin over a five-year cycle and believing its development is still in the early stages. He also introduced Ark's Big Ideas report and discussed Bitcoin's role as digital gold and a permissionless currency.Valente pointed out that the rise of stablecoins has changed Ark's judgment on the emerging market Bitcoin narrative. He also talked about the rise of tokenized stocks and real-world assets, as well as the functionalities that tokenized stocks can achieve that traditional brokerage accounts cannot.Additionally, he mentioned the impact of rising interest rates, inflation, and AI on Bitcoin's macro outlook, and explored which tokenized business models will ultimately prevail, as well as the possibility of tokenizing U.S. assets for offshore markets.Regarding the market outlook, Valente provided Ark's perspective on Bitcoin's future over the next 12 to 18 months and discussed the four-year cycle and key points to watch moving forward. Ark's Big Ideas report set a Bitcoin price target for 2030, and the reasons why institutional funds are still on the sidelines were also among the topics he discussed.

According to Cointelegraph, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has proposed to expand the regulatory scope of Contracts for Difference (CFD) to include derivatives settled using digital assets.ASIC aims to add contracts settled through the transfer of digital assets to its definition of CFDs, rather than being limited to contracts settled in cash or offset transactions, provided that these contracts meet other identification criteria for CFDs. If the proposal is approved, Australian traders using crypto-settled CFDs will receive the same protections as cash-settled CFD traders.ASIC has made it clear that certain cryptocurrency futures and options with fixed expiration dates will remain outside this framework. CFDs allow traders to speculate on price fluctuations without holding the underlying asset. The current framework implemented in Australia since 2021 includes safeguards such as leverage limits, mandatory margin calls, and negative balance protection, which limits customer losses to the funds within their CFD trading accounts.ASIC is seeking feedback from the industry and stakeholders on the proposed expansion and revisions, with a deadline of November 9. This move comes as Australia strengthens its broader regulatory framework for digital assets.In April of this year, Australia legislated to include cryptocurrency exchanges and tokenized custody platforms within its financial services licensing framework, with the new system set to take effect on April 9, 2027. ASIC has also required crypto companies relying on temporary enforcement exemptions under existing financial services laws to apply for licenses or seek changes to existing licenses by September 30.

According to Bloomberg, Hock Tan, CEO of chip company Broadcom, stated at an event in Singapore on Monday that the artificial intelligence craze has attracted a group of investors with strategies similar to gamblers, some of whom have little understanding of what they are betting on. He mentioned that many investors "don't even know what they are investing in," setting extremely high expectations, resulting in a situation that is "almost like being in a casino," and specifically pointed to the investment frenzy driven by a lack of understanding of cutting-edge large language models.As the head of a company that designs key components for global data centers, Tan also questioned whether companies are wasting money on AI projects and the long-term economics of AI labs that are continuously losing money. He noted that ChatGPT developer OpenAI's annualized revenue reached $50 billion in September, indicating a viable model, but it does not guarantee long-term profitability; it is still losing money due to high training costs, and currently only suggests that cutting-edge generative models have significant potential revenue growth.Tan also warned that a lack of capital could become the next constraint on industry growth. The Australia-based data center company Firmus Grid, supported by Nvidia, withdrew its planned $5.5 billion IPO last week. Before Tan's remarks, DBS Group CEO Tan Su Shan stated that after a large amount of investment, the market is re-pricing the risks associated with AI financing.

10x Research published that Bitcoin option prices have fallen to a five-year low, with near-month implied volatility at 33.5%, more than 4 percentage points lower than actual volatility, indicating that option pricing is relatively cheap. In the past week, the skew of Bitcoin options has decreased by nearly 3 percentage points, with traders focusing on buying put options expiring in October with strike prices of $78,000 and $80,000, with single large trades reaching up to $204 million.10x Research believes this indicates that investors overall still hold long positions while hedging downside risks through options, rather than fully turning bearish. In contrast, the Ethereum options market shows different signals. Its largest corporate buyer has indicated that it will stop buying in the coming weeks, with options trading primarily dominated by sellers of call options, and implied volatility higher than actual volatility.

According to the 21st Century Business Herald, the Chaoyang Branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau reported that it has recently filed a case for investigation into the suspected illegal activities of related companies of Yixin. Currently, several criminal suspects, including the actual controllers Tang and Zhao, have been subjected to criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law.Yixin Group had previously fully suspended the redemption of quasi-fixed income products on May 22 and issued an apology letter to relevant investors on October 11. Yixin stated that the group has incurred significant losses in multiple businesses, and the market value of asset disposal is relatively low. Preliminary findings indicate that the group may be insolvent and has a significant debt repayment gap.

The Sui Foundation invested 30 million USD in the AI training data protocol DATA Network (formerly Story Protocol) as part of a strategic cooperation between the two parties. The DATA Foundation told The Block that the Sui Foundation will become the largest institutional holder of the network, with existing stakeholders including PIP Labs and the DATA Foundation.According to the statement, the DATA Network will upgrade to a protocol natively running on Sui, and its independent chain will be retired, with existing DATA tokens migrating to Sui at a 1:1 ratio. The existing network will continue to operate until the transition is complete, and the foundation stated that a detailed timeline will be announced before the upgrade. The on-chain data storage platform Walrus will become the default storage layer for applications operated by the DATA Foundation and will integrate with the Sui tech stack.In June, the DATA Foundation shifted its focus from general intellectual property infrastructure to AI training data. Its application Trace launched in the same month to track the sources and usage rights of AI training data and to settle payments to contributors. The statement noted that the Trace registry has recorded over 250 million contributions since its launch, currently processing more than 3 million receipts daily.

According to the official website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), on October 9, 2026, the SEC officially sued Linqto's former executives William Sarris and Joseph Endoso, accusing them of committing fraud by selling equity in pre-IPO unicorn companies to retail investors through their online platform.Between 2021 and 2024, Linqto's subsidiary sold over $430 million in special purpose vehicles (SPV) to retail investors. The SEC accused the two of: falsely reporting prices below market value (with almost all being above fair value), falsely claiming that stocks were "sold out," pretending that prices were dynamically set by algorithms (when they were actually manually priced), and publicly claiming compliance while knowing they were violating regulations. Additionally, they were accused of illegally operating an unregistered investment company and selling unregistered securities to non-accredited investors.The SEC seeks to impose an injunction against the two, recover illegal gains and interest, impose civil penalties, and prohibit them from serving as executives or directors of public companies in the future. The case is being investigated by the SEC's San Francisco Regional Office, with assistance from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the FBI.

According to the Financial Times, informed sources revealed that Nvidia (NVDA.O) is negotiating to acquire the American open-weight model developer Reflection AI or to further increase its investment in the company.The negotiations are still in the early stages, and the deal could take various forms.

Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani announced on platform X that his largest personal angel investment has been made into Backpack.On September 2, Backpack announced that Multicoin Capital co-founder and early Solana investor Kyle Samani has joined the Backpack US Board of Directors. Samani has long focused on the development of DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, and global capital markets. Backpack stated that this appointment reflects a shared judgment between both parties that the future of global finance will combine institutional-level risk control with the efficiency and transparency of on-chain markets.

According to CoinDesk, it has been one year since the "1011 crash" that triggered approximately $19 billion in leveraged liquidations in the crypto market. Analysts warn that the potential structural risks that caused this flash crash still exist.In October 2025, Bitcoin experienced a sudden flash crash just days after reaching a historic high of over $126,000, plummeting from around $122,000 to $105,000 in a short period, leading to a concentrated liquidation of large leveraged long positions.Mark Connors, an analyst at Risk Dimensions, pointed out that recent short-term price movements are still highly driven by derivatives such as perpetual contracts rather than on-chain data. The exchanges' inclination towards high-leverage products has also failed to eliminate the risks of flash crashes; moreover, the traditional four-year halving cycle has changed, with macroeconomic and political forces playing a more critical role.Chris Sullivan, co-founder of Hyperion Decimus, suggested that traders should avoid excessive leverage, closely monitor open interest, funding rates, and market sentiment indicators, while long-term investors should consider moving their assets off trading platforms to self-custody.

Hardware wallet dealer CryptoBilis announced that, due to Ledger investigating a case involving fund losses for Southeast Asian users, the company has suspended all sales and shipments of Ledger devices and is cooperating with Ledger's investigation. Ledger previously stated that it is investigating reports of fund losses from Southeast Asian users who purchased products from this dealer, and as a precaution, has requested CryptoBilis to suspend the sales and shipments of related devices, advising users who purchased devices in the past 90 days not to set them up if they have not completed initialization.CryptoBilis reminds users who have completed setup to follow Ledger's advice and transfer their assets to a new Ledger signing device generated with a new mnemonic phrase. It emphasizes that the mnemonic phrase must be generated by the device during initialization and handwritten by the user; if the device comes with a pre-printed or written mnemonic card or paper, or if the mnemonic has been seen by others, the wallet should be considered unsafe, and users should not disclose their mnemonic phrase or PIN to anyone. The notice also warns to be cautious of third parties claiming to assist in recovering lost funds, as such proposals are often scams.For users who have already experienced fund losses, CryptoBilis recommends contacting their official customer service channels and providing the order number, purchase time and location, device serial number, affected wallet address, and transaction ID, while keeping the device and packaging, not resetting or discarding them, and suggests reporting to the police. The company stated that it will not send users links requesting them to connect wallets, input mnemonic phrases, or install software.