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Tether released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026, with a net operating profit of 1.5 billion USD, remaining basically flat compared to the previous quarter. The cumulative net operating profit for the first three quarters was 4.5 billion USD, with the main sources of income still being U.S. Treasury bills and reverse repurchase agreements.As of September 30, Tether's excess reserves increased to approximately 7.95 billion USD, nearly doubling from 4.1 billion USD at the end of the second quarter, an increase of about 3.8 billion USD. The total reserve assets at the end of the quarter were approximately 191.5 billion USD, with a total of 132.4 billion USD held directly and indirectly in U.S. Treasury bills, most of the reserves allocated to highly liquid, short-term instruments.Tether stated that the issuance scale of USDT remained relatively stable at 184 billion USD in the first three quarters of 2026. CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that the company's reserve strategy aims to ensure liquidity to meet redemption demands even when the market and financial system are under pressure, and to enhance financial strength through excess reserves.

Bonk Guy posted that BTC has fallen from about $79,000 to about $77,000, with most altcoins following with slight declines, but overall performance is stronger than BTC.He believes that Binance seems to have repurchased most of the stolen tokens from the theft incident, with the involved funds amounting to about $6.3 billion, of which about half (approximately $3 billion) has been frozen and is expected to be returned to Binance, while the remaining portion is also expected to recover most of it within a reasonable timeframe.Bonk Guy assesses that BTC may dip slightly again to form a local low, after which the market may turn positive in the coming weeks to months, and most of the downward pressure on altcoins may have been released, leaning towards going long on altcoins and gradually dollar-cost averaging during pullbacks.

Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng stated that Binance has reserved over $6.34 billion in company funds to compensate for the stolen assets, of which $5 billion is held in affected tokens, including USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, and BNB. The remaining portion is being purchased through market and over-the-counter channels. He reiterated that the affected wallets are Binance's own hot wallets, and customer funds have not been used; the vast majority of user assets are stored in cold wallets.Regarding the details of the attack, Teng mentioned that this attack was not the work of a single individual and that the methods used were complex. Preliminary investigations pointed to an infected laptop, and subsequent investigations uncovered other points of breach. The attackers employed a self-destruct mechanism, destroying tools and traces while attacking, which increased the difficulty of tracking. The attackers also exploited the known EIP-7702 protocol to gain on-chain execution authorization for the hot wallet, which had not gone through Binance's normal approval controls. As a result, Binance suspended withdrawal services to investigate, rebuild, and retest the entire infrastructure.In terms of follow-up arrangements, Binance is rebuilding the withdrawal service and will only re-enable it after strict testing, aiming to restore withdrawals before the Sunday deadline in approximately 40 hours. Binance is also conducting a comprehensive security review of terminals, cloud platforms, key management, and signatures. Binance plans to release a complete proof of reserves (PoR) report by Monday at the latest and hopes to provide preliminary results before that. Additionally, Binance is collaborating with law enforcement, blockchain intelligence companies, token issuers, and other exchanges to track, freeze, and recover the stolen funds.

The United States has completed the awarding of contracts for the release of nearly 41 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, marking the final batch of awards for the 172 million barrel emergency release plan. Companies such as Trafigura and ExxonMobil have received contracts. This release is the second largest in U.S. history and is part of a larger plan by the International Energy Agency.

The Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) released a commissioned research report on overseas financial regulatory systems, totaling 609 pages, authored by the Japanese law firm Atsumi & Sakai. The report covers eight countries and regions, including the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, China, and Hong Kong, aiming to provide references for Japan's financial system planning and legislation.The report focuses on outlining the regulatory systems for cryptocurrency exchanges, stablecoins, and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) in various regions, including the U.S. "GENIUS Act," the EU MiCA regulations, the UK's stablecoin regulatory framework, and China's regulations on virtual currencies and RWAs to be released in February 2026.The report points out that, according to current Chinese regulations, the issuance, trading, and related services of RWA tokenization within the country are generally prohibited, except for businesses that have obtained approval from the competent authorities and rely on specific financial infrastructures. Additionally, the report discusses Hong Kong's expansion of the scope of tokenized securities trading and related market regulatory arrangements.

On October 30, Musk admitted that the development of Grok 4.8 took longer than expected but assured that the new model would not disappoint. He stated that the team does not optimize for benchmark testing and he himself does not care about scores, focusing more on the practical applications of the model. On September 14, Musk revealed that Grok 4.8 has 2.5 trillion parameters and uses a brand new C++ training system, expecting to complete pre-training by the end of that week, followed by reinforcement learning.Now, more than six weeks have passed, and the new model has still not been officially released. The independent evaluation agency Artificial Analysis found that under the same xhigh inference setting, Grok 4.7's comprehensive intelligence index only increased by 2 points compared to Grok 4.6, rising from 44 to 46 points, while the average output tokens per question increased from about 38,000 to 81,000. Users in the Cursor community have also complained that Grok 4.7 consumes resources faster, but the actual improvement is not significant.In an interview with CCTV in September, Musk admitted that Grok 4.7 is not as good as Claude Opus 5.5, predicting that it would not catch up to the top tier until 2027. In October, he proposed allowing Grok Bot to call external models, including Claude, based on tasks, and plans to have Grok 4.8's high-speed version handle a large number of simple requests.

The blockchain infrastructure company Gattaca announced the launch of the open-source Ethereum consensus client Silver. The company operates the Ethereum block builder Titan Builder and the relay Titan Relay. Gattaca stated that Silver was built from scratch, aiming to support shorter time slots and post-quantum security while maintaining decentralization, censorship resistance, privacy, and security. Currently, Silver is in the alpha stage, with audits and final testing yet to be completed.Gattaca claims that Silver's state transition function has a p99 latency of less than 10 milliseconds, approximately 10 times faster than other clients. During the mainnet window from October 17 to 20, 2026, Silver, Prysm, Lighthouse, and Grandine processed the same 20,300 canonical blocks. The median block processing latency for Silver was 6.5 milliseconds, with a p99 of 9.5 milliseconds, and the slowest block in the sample was 17.8 milliseconds; the second-lowest median was 33.5 milliseconds, and the second-lowest p99 was 91 milliseconds. All four clients operated as supernodes, subscribing to all 64 proof subnets and hosting all 128 data columns, with the executing client being ethrex v29.0.1.The above comparison used consensus processing metrics available for each client, excluding execution client processing time. Silver is based on Gattaca's Flux framework, using six threads bound to CPU cores for parallel processing, and comes with a low-latency peer-to-peer network, state hash library, formally verified BLS and KZG cryptographic libraries, and a node cluster for penalty protection. In another comparison, supernodes needed to verify about 32 times the proofs and about 16 times the KZG unit proofs relative to the default configuration, with block processing latency and resident memory still within a similar range.

Sky Frontier Foundation released the Sky Ecosystem Q3 report. This quarter's net income reached 37.19 million USD, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 11.8%, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of positive growth, with the profit margin rising from 31.0% to 37.5%.Total revenue from the protocol was 99.29 million USD, a year-on-year increase of 14.2%, but a decrease of 7.4% compared to the second quarter. Total expenses decreased by 16.0% to 62.10 million USD. The protocol's collateral size was 11.41 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 25.3%, but a decrease of 7.3% compared to the second quarter. The supply of sUSDS was 4.52 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 118%, but lower than the 5.52 billion USD in the second quarter. This quarter, 28.47 million USD was transferred to the Sky reserve, with the ending balance of the reserves reaching 85.08 million USD.

The initial jobless claims data from the United States last week, the preliminary quarter-on-quarter real personal consumption expenditures for the third quarter, the preliminary quarter-on-quarter real GDP and core PCE price index annualized quarter-on-quarter, the month-on-month personal spending for September, and the month-on-month and year-on-year core PCE price index will be announced in ten minutes.

The cryptographic security vulnerability of the Indian certificate authority eMudhra affects the Ethereum clients Teku and Besu. Researchers found that the private keys of 8 intermediate certificate authorities under eMudhra could potentially be deduced due to insufficient randomness, allowing attackers to forge certificates and trick unpatched software into trusting malicious services.Teku has released version 26.1.3, and Besu has released version 26.1.2, both of which have removed trust in the relevant certificates from their Docker images. If an attacker performs a man-in-the-middle attack, they could trick some validators into sending block fee rewards to the attacker's address; the risk may be higher under specific configurations using external signers. The Teku team stated that the default configuration of the Ethereum mainnet Teku node is not affected, and no action is required, with no reports of the vulnerability being exploited so far.For operators running Teku or Besu directly on the host without using Docker, simply updating the client may not be sufficient; they also need to manually update Java and its trusted certificate list. Operators still using the no longer maintained Java 26 will need to migrate to Java 25.

Tencent officially launched Buddy One, integrating WorkBuddy, Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Cloud Drive, and ima into a unified AI office system. After linking accounts, users can directly let WorkBuddy search for information and consolidate data across applications without needing to repeatedly authorize or copy and paste. For example, it can generate new plans by combining meeting minutes from Tencent Meeting, old proposals from Tencent Docs, and the ima knowledge base, along with sources of information.The points system has been unified, and WorkBuddy points can be used interchangeably in Tencent Docs, ima, and Tencent Cloud Drive. Points purchased separately in each application will not be merged. The Buddy One VIP official website currently lists a price of 700 yuan/month, which includes 50,000 universal points per month, 1TB of shared space across products, as well as benefits such as the flagship version of WorkBuddy, the professional version of Tencent Meeting, and the super member Plus of Tencent Docs.At the same time, Tencent Cloud Drive is responsible for providing unified storage. Currently, it mainly implements account linking, cross-application retrieval, and point sharing, while cross-application memory sharing has not yet been launched. WorkBuddy PC version must be upgraded to 5.9.0 or above to use it; account linking is free, but unbinding is not currently supported.

According to a report by Blue Whale News, at the Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Conference, Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industry Group, Tang Daosheng, mentioned in his speech that they will release the new model Hy4 and Hy4 flash.Compared to the released Hy4 preview, Hy4 enhances the capabilities for various long-range and real productivity tasks, improves the efficiency of the thinking chain, and introduces visual understanding for the first time. Hy4 flash is positioned as a practical model that offers cost-effectiveness.

Y Combinator, a startup incubator, released a report on the direction of cryptocurrency startups, focusing on stablecoins, asset tokenization, and AI Agents. The report states that over the past year, cryptocurrency applications have been led by institutions rather than consumers for the first time, with the main driving force shifting from speculation to actual financial needs such as hedging oil price risks and cross-border capital transfers for businesses.The report predicts that stablecoins, as well as assets like stocks, debts, commodities, and property rights, will be further tokenized. New types of assets, such as equity in startups and small securities valued under $10,000, will also be issued via blockchain, promoting financial services like trading, lending, and derivatives. AI Agents will become one of the main participants in financial activities.In the next six months, the report focuses on using blockchain to finance the AI industry, new types of dollar stablecoins and non-dollar stablecoins targeting niche markets, new banks based on stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets, new trading platforms and trading interfaces, as well as AI Agent trading and related API infrastructure. The text mentions that blockchain technology and stablecoins may pose a threat to traditional stock exchanges and banking systems.

Apple (AAPL.O) has released a new MacBook Pro equipped with a touchscreen.

Bitget, in collaboration with Reality and Keyring, has released a research report exploring the synergy mechanisms of tokenized stocks, perpetual contracts, and decentralized lending, and evaluating the potential returns and risks of related strategies through simulation calculations. The report points out that the application of tokenized stocks is extending from traditional stock trading to more scenarios such as collateralized lending, asset management, and systematic investment strategies.The research is based on Reality's rToken, combined with stock perpetual contract hedging and on-chain lending mechanisms, to explore stock basis yield strategies. Historical simulation data shows that from December 15, 2025, to October 19, 2026, the annualized net return of the strategy index is approximately 7% and 4% for in-sample and out-of-sample, respectively, with a gross funding cost rate premium of about 11% to 14%. The report also notes that financing costs, transaction execution fees, market liquidity, and risk management are key factors affecting the actual returns of the strategy.It is reported that Bitget and Keyring plan to jointly develop a stock basis index and build an on-chain lending market based on Reality's rToken. Among them, Reality provides exposure to tokenized stock assets, while Keyring is responsible for developing the index methodology and constructing the related lending market. The index aims to capture funding rate and basis yield opportunities by combining rToken holdings with corresponding stock perpetual contract hedging positions, providing new strategic pathways for the application of tokenized stocks in on-chain financial scenarios.

Ant Group released Lingguang 2.0, which connects data and services within the Alipay ecosystem and supports the use of tools such as MCP and CLI in an open environment, expanding cross-platform collaboration capabilities.Currently, Lingguang has integrated capabilities for Alipay bills, memberships, travel, as well as services like DingTalk, Feishu, email, and Mijia. The management scope is extending from personal information and online affairs to cross-platform workflows and smart home device control. The Lingguang App is a fully modal general AI assistant launched by Ant Group, officially going live on November 18, 2025.

Apple announced the launch of the new 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with M6 on October 27 in Cupertino, aimed at students, business users, and creators. The M6 features a 12-core CPU, a 12-core GPU with Neural Accelerators per core, and a dual 16-core Neural Engine, along with faster unified memory. The standard unified memory is 16GB, upgradeable to 32GB, with a memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s.Apple stated that compared to M5, graphics performance is improved by about 30%, and edge AI workloads are enhanced by about 25%; compared to M1, graphics performance is up to 11 times better, and AI performance is up to 13 times better. Battery life is up to 24 hours, and with a higher power USB-C power adapter (such as 96W), it can charge to 50% in about 30 minutes. The new model supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, can connect to up to two external displays, and includes ports such as HDMI, MagSafe 3, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, an SDXC card slot, and a headphone jack.The display is a Liquid Retina XDR, with a peak HDR brightness of up to 1600 nits, a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, and optional nano-texture glass, with a casing made of 100% recycled aluminum. The new model comes pre-installed with macOS 27 (Golden Gate) and supports Siri AI and Apple Intelligence. In the United States, it starts at $1999, with educational discounts starting at $1899; pre-orders will be open from October 28 in 35 countries and regions, including the United States, with availability and sales starting on November 6. Vice President of Hardware Engineering Shelly Goldberg stated: M6 enhances CPU, graphics, and edge AI performance.

According to news from Zhiyuan AGIBOT, Zhiyuan has officially launched the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, allowing robots to "unlock new skills while on the job."Genie Master enables robots to achieve autonomous improvement after deployment, continuously enhancing their capabilities in real operations, thereby laying the foundation for cross-scenario replication and scalable applications.