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According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones down 0.13%, the S&P 500 index down 0.88%, and the Nasdaq down 1.5%. SpaceX fell 4%, Tesla fell 2.87%, Meta Platforms fell 4%, IBM fell 2.5%, Nvidia fell 2.1%, SK Hynix fell 4.5%, SanDisk fell 4.8%, and Micron Technology fell 3.8%.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market and mainstream financial institutions disclosed the latest developments in the disposal of crypto asset treasury, corporate governance accountability, and Layer 2 security tokenization cooperation. The core information is as follows:Shareholder Bastion Trading, holding approximately 9.99% of SkyAI shares, issued a statement pressuring for accountability regarding the liquidation of SOL and demanding a board restructuring: Major shareholder Bastion Trading, which holds approximately 9.99% of the NASDAQ-listed company SkyAI (NASDAQ: $SKYA), officially released a statement requesting that SkyAI's Executive Chairman Paul K. Danner III and three directors Soren Bo Christiansen, Timothy J. Ruemler, and Jason L. Monroe publicly explain their specific roles in evaluating, approving the takeover offer, and overseeing the complete liquidation of SOL, including who authorized and supervised the liquidation, reviewed the timing of the transaction, execution methods, counterparties, and transaction costs.Meritz Securities of South Korea signs MOU with Optimism Foundation to explore tokenized financial asset clearing based on OP Stack: South Korea's mainstream financial institution Meritz Securities announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Optimism Foundation. The two parties will jointly study the issuance, clearing, and distribution framework of tokenized financial assets based on OP Mainnet and other OP Stack networks, deeply exploring the commercial viability of using Ethereum public Layer 2 as a financial-grade distribution and clearing infrastructure. Meritz Securities stated that it will focus on exploring tokenized financial products based on high-quality local assets within the legal and licensing compliance framework, and will promote implementation in conjunction with the progress of South Korea's security token offering (STO) regulations. Previously, KB Securities and DB Securities in South Korea have also successively accessed the OP Stack ecosystem to explore related tokenization businesses.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 360.98 points on October 21 (Wednesday), an increase of 0.69%, at 52,856.86 points; the S&P 500 index rose by 44.67 points, an increase of 0.58%, at 7,757.24 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index rose by 278.04 points, an increase of 1.05%, at 26,702.86 points.

According to GlobeNewswire, SkyAI's major shareholder Bastion Trading stated that it and its affiliates collectively hold about 9.99% of the company's common stock and require SkyAI's executive chairman and several directors to publicly explain the decision-making process for approving the liquidation of all SOL treasury and the cash tender offer.Bastion pointed out that SkyAI initiated the tender offer on October 16 and disclosed in subsequent documents that it had emptied all SOL treasury. A month ago, the company still stated that it would continue to adhere to the Solana DAT strategy and held over 2 million SOL. Bastion believes that the current tender offer price of $3 per share or for eligible warrants is too low and demands that it be raised to at least $3.50, and that the maximum acquisition ratio for pre-financing warrants be increased from 95% to 100%.Bastion also requested that the Strategic Advisor Warrants be excluded from the offer and that the securities and potential earnings held by directors, management, and affiliates be disclosed. It stated that if the relevant directors cannot prove they have fulfilled their independent oversight and fiduciary duties, they should voluntarily resign; otherwise, a special shareholders' meeting should be convened to allow shareholders to decide the future composition of the board.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones up 0.3%, the S&P 500 index up 0.3%, and the Nasdaq up 0.7%. SK Hynix (SKHY.O) and SanDisk (SNDK.O) rose by 4%, Micron Technology (MU.O) rose by 3%, SpaceX (SPCX.O) rose by 8%, and NVIDIA (NVDA.O) rose by 2%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones up 0.3%, the S&P 500 index up 0.3%, and the Nasdaq up 0.7%. SK Hynix and SanDisk rose by 4%, Micron Technology rose by 3%, SpaceX rose by 8%, and NVIDIA rose by 2%.

Aethir today announced a significant adjustment to the ATH token economic mechanism. Starting from November 2026, the platform will extract a portion of the network fees daily to burn ATH, with the tokens permanently sent to a public burn address (0x000...dEaD), and the scale of the burn will fluctuate based on the actual network computing power usage.At the same time, the fixed platform fee will be replaced by a floating network fee, with the rate being read in real-time through TWAP based on market conditions; in a bear market, the rate will decrease, and the proportion of the burn will increase. The Cloud Host emission schedule will not be affected, and the fees will have a cap that will never exceed the value of the Host rewards. The burn Dashboard will launch simultaneously with the first burn, and this mechanism has been audited by CertiK.

On October 20, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the "WXT Rights Festival," where users can experience four major rights of WXT to accumulate energy, which will ultimately be divided based on energy proportion from a prize pool of 1,000,000 WXT. Event duration: October 20, 18:00 - October 30, 17:59 (UTC+8).Specifically, it includes: 1. Launching "WXT Discount on Spot Trading Fees," and completing at least 1 transaction fee deduction to earn 1 point of energy; 2. New WXT Staking Wealth Management, and holding for at least 3 days to unlock 1~5 points of energy + 3%~6% interest rate coupon; 3. Effectively participating in at least 1 session of the WE-Launch event to earn 1 point of energy; 4. Using the WEEX Instant Exchange feature to successfully convert small cryptocurrencies into WXT to earn 1 point of energy.

According to Gate market data, European stocks opened lower, with the Italy FTSE MIB Index, Germany DAX Index, UK FTSE 100 Index, and France CAC40 Index all dropping over 1%, and the Europe STOXX 50 Index falling by 0.96%.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, AI cloud computing company Nscale, supported by Nvidia, is in talks with Anthropic to sell computing power, with a deal value potentially around 45 billion dollars.According to the plan, Nscale will build a second facility at its Monarch data center campus located in West Virginia, USA, providing 460 megawatts of computing power, using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. Anthropic also holds a priority purchase right for a third facility. Informed sources said the deal could be finalized in the coming days, but details may still change. According to Nscale's IPO application documents, Anthropic had previously signed an infrastructure agreement worth approximately 44.6 billion dollars with them.

According to Gate market data, on October 19, the German DAX30 index closed down 302.43 points, a decrease of 1.18%, at 25,320.18 points; the UK FTSE 100 index fell 118 points, a decrease of 1.08%, at 10,763.9 points; the French CAC40 index dropped 88.65 points, a decrease of 1.11%, at 7,868.05 points; the Euro Stoxx 50 index fell 57.38 points, a decrease of 0.92%, at 6,146.85 points; the Spanish IBEX35 index decreased by 290.38 points, a decrease of 1.5%, at 19,035.92 points; the Italian FTSE MIB index dropped 763.68 points, a decrease of 1.53%, at 49,093.5 points.

According to PR Newswire, Cboe Global Markets, the parent company of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), announced that Cboe has expanded the trading hours for certain U.S. stock individual stocks and exchange-traded fund (ETF) options.The newly added pre-market and after-hours trading periods for the relevant options are from 7:30 to 9:25 AM ET Monday to Friday for pre-market trading, and from 4:00 to 4:15 PM for after-hours trading. This covers popular individual stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Robinhood, Intel, as well as major ETFs like SPY, QQQ, and GLD, currently involving a total of 29 underlying assets.

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 a report by the Korean News Agency, the South Korean government will convene representatives from the five major virtual asset exchanges—Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Digital X, and GOPAX—along with DAXA executives on October 20 to gather industry opinions regarding the virtual asset tax originally scheduled to be implemented in January 2027.The current proposal aims to impose a 22% income tax and local income tax on virtual asset transfers and lending income after deducting a basic tax exemption of 2.5 million Korean won. This tax policy has been postponed three times since it was proposed in 2020, and the government is still advancing preparations according to the original schedule. The National Tax Service of Korea is expected to release a related announcement in November.In addition, South Korea's financial regulatory authorities are accelerating the advancement of the government draft for the "Basic Law on Digital Assets," which is expected to be completed by the end of this month and initiate related consultation procedures.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 2.455 million ONDO from Binance 12 hours ago, worth 1.144 million USD. Currently, this address still holds three major altcoins worth 9.218 million USD: UNI 1.014 million, worth 8.91 million USD, with an average withdrawal price of 8.79 USD, currently at a floating loss of 1.551 million USD; ONDO 2.455 million, with an average withdrawal price of 0.4662 USD; LTC 12,400, worth 841,000 USD, with an average withdrawal price of 67.86 USD, currently at a floating loss of 101,000 USD. This address is suspected to have cleared out BNB 6 days ago, with an expected loss of 73,000 USD.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Friday with the Nasdaq down 2.14%, the S&P 500 index down 1.09%, and the Dow Jones initially down 0.34%. Coreweave fell 11.91%, SK Hynix fell 6.58%, Arm fell 6.94%, SanDisk fell 6.85%, Oracle fell 4.64%, and Tesla fell 2.13%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell 1.3%, Baidu fell 2.93%, and Alibaba fell 1.83%.

According to CoinGlass data, BTC is priced at approximately $81,804.8, with a 24-hour increase of 1.21%; ETH is priced at approximately $2,426.43, with a 24-hour increase of 2.91%.In the futures market, the 24-hour trading volume for BTC futures is approximately $68.649 billion, a decrease of 7.69%; the 24-hour trading volume for ETH futures is approximately $45.335 billion, a decrease of 19.73%. Among them, Gate BTC futures have a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $7.47 billion, and ETH futures have a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $6.58 billion, with both major cryptocurrencies' futures trading volumes ranking in the top three globally.

According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock indices showed mixed trends, with the Dow Jones rising over 1% and the Nasdaq currently down 0.28%.