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According to BBX data, yesterday the traditional European banking system and global digital asset giants disclosed the latest developments in retail crypto financial channels and cutting-edge computing power investments, with the core information as follows:The German Savings Bank officially opens crypto trading to retail customers, initially supporting BTC, ETH, SOL, and other cryptocurrencies: The German Savings Bank Association (DSGV) announced that starting from October 19, the first batch of participating customers from the German Savings Banks (Sparkassen) can directly buy and sell cryptocurrencies through the existing bank mobile application. Each savings bank will independently decide the specific launch time, and it is expected that 30 to 40 new savings banks will be added each month thereafter, aiming for comprehensive coverage of most interested banks in Germany by the first half of 2027.Supported cryptocurrencies and fees: The initially supported cryptocurrencies include BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, and POL. Each transaction order incurs a fixed fee of approximately $1.11 (0.99 euros);Underlying technology and compliance framework: This service is provided by DekaBank, a professional securities service provider under the savings bank group, with the underlying crypto assets being jointly compliant custodied by DekaBank and Boerse Stuttgart;Prudent business principles: DSGV clearly states that this service is only available to customers who have the willingness to make independent decisions, and the savings banks themselves do not provide any investment advice, nor will they conduct extensive active promotion across the network, and will prominently indicate the high volatility and potential total loss risks of crypto assets at the product level.Tether Capital invests in AI chip unicorn Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion Series E financing: Tether Capital, the investment arm of the global stablecoin giant, officially announced its investment in the well-known AI chip and computing architecture company Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion Series E financing. This oversubscribed financing has significantly boosted Tenstorrent's post-investment valuation to $6.2 billion. Tether's official statement indicated that this strategic investment deeply aligns with Tether's overall landscape in artificial intelligence software, robotics, and decentralized payment fields, and is highly compatible with its QVAC platform, which focuses on local AI operation on terminal devices, effectively extending its investment reach into underlying processors and cutting-edge computing hardware systems.

According to a confirmation from the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) to the media, the German Savings Banks (Sparkassen) officially entered the cryptocurrency trading sector this Monday. Institutional clients participating in the first batch can now directly buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin through their existing official app.The trading service launched is supported by the securities service provider of the savings banks, Dekabank, and is jointly responsible for the custody of crypto assets with the Stuttgart Stock Exchange. The initial supported trading currencies include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Solana, and Polygon. In terms of fees, the service sets a low transaction fee of only 0.99 euros per order, and users are not required to bind a traditional securities account, which is clearly aimed at competing directly on pricing with emerging mobile banks like N26 and Trade Republic.In terms of the promotion schedule, the service does not have a unified national launch date but allows each savings bank to decide its own launch time based on its circumstances. Joachim Schmalzl, a member of the DSGV management, stated that there is strong interest in this business within the group, and it is expected that 30 to 40 institutions will follow suit each month, with the goal of covering most interested savings banks by the first half of 2027. He emphasized that the product is mainly aimed at clients who wish to independently buy, sell, and custody crypto assets, and the savings banks do not provide investment advice nor plan to conduct extensive proactive marketing in the initial phase.For a long time, due to the extreme volatility of cryptocurrencies, the German Savings Banks have maintained a cautious attitude towards them. Schmalzl pointed out that the decision to enter the market was the result of careful consideration, with the decisive factors being strong customer demand and the fact that Europe currently has a reliable regulatory framework, aimed at allowing clients with clear intentions to trade in a regulated compliance environment.However, DSGV still maintains a cautious tone in its statement, reiterating that cryptocurrencies are "highly speculative assets," and clients will be clearly warned of the risks of extreme price fluctuations and total loss when operating. The bank also emphasizes that for the long-term wealth accumulation of the public, traditional securities investments, savings plans, and financial consulting remain its core business.

The German Savings Bank Group Sparkassen has opened Bitcoin trading through DekaBank's banking application. DekaBank currently lists five savings banks participating in this service, and over 230 savings banks have expressed their intention to participate.According to information disclosed by DekaBank, each Bitcoin transaction incurs a fee of €0.99 plus a spread, and withdrawals are limited to custodians approved by them. DekaBank is a securities service and asset management institution under the German Savings Bank Financial Group, and this time it directly connects Bitcoin trading to the existing banking applications of the savings banks.

Meta Platforms (META.O) announced that Muse Spark Open officially launched today, bringing leading intelligent agent capabilities to the Mac Studio desktop computer powered by the Apple M5 Ultra chip for the first time.

According to The Block, publicly listed Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark and BitFuFu saw a month-on-month decline in Bitcoin production in September, while Canaan's production remained the same as in August. CleanSpark mined 529 BTC in September, a decrease of nearly 11% from 593 BTC in August; BitFuFu produced 167 BTC, down 4% from 174 BTC in August; Canaan mined 44 BTC, the same as in August.As of the end of September, CleanSpark held 13,530 BTC, down from 13,703 BTC at the end of August. The company stated that it sold 2 BTC on the spot market and exercised call options to sell 700 BTC at an average price of $72,928 each. CleanSpark also announced that it would stop releasing monthly mining updates and switch to quarterly reports to focus more on its continuously expanding data center business. Last week, the company completed a $2.276 billion issuance of senior secured notes to fund the construction of its data center campus in Sandersville, Georgia, which is expected to generate approximately $6.6 billion in revenue. CleanSpark's stock CLSK closed at $8.76 on Thursday, down over 24% year-to-date.BitFuFu's self-mining output in September increased from 88 BTC in August to 98 BTC, an increase of over 11%, but its cloud mining output decreased from 86 BTC to 69 BTC, a decline of nearly 20%. Its Bitcoin holdings slightly increased to 1,388 BTC.

According to PRNewswire, the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark announced its unaudited operational data for September 2026, producing 529 Bitcoins that month, with an average daily output of 17.64 Bitcoins, bringing the total Bitcoin production for 2026 to 5,432 Bitcoins.As of September 30, CleanSpark's operational hash rate reached 50 EH/s, with an average operational hash rate of 36 EH/s.

Bitcoin software company Breez stated that since AI coding agents have become mainstream, the demand for its developer tools has surged significantly, with consulting requests increasing by approximately 14 times. Developers and the AI agents they deploy are seeking to integrate Bitcoin payments into their applications. Breez directly attributes this growth to Anthropic's Claude Code, which was launched as a research preview in February 2025 and officially opened three months later.Breez noted that before 2025, potential partners mainly fell into three categories: staunch Bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech companies that view Bitcoin as an asset class. Since the launch of Claude Code, many developers with little to no Bitcoin experience have begun to inquire, with demand coming from fitness applications, messaging apps that want users to transfer money to each other, eSIM services for travelers, and a team developing a mushroom identification app. Breez stated that these developers often choose Bitcoin for its speed, as traditional payment processing involves bank accounts and cross-border transfers, which can take weeks or even months, while its SDK can be operational in just a few minutes.Breez mentioned that an increasing number of inquiries are coming from software rather than humans, as coding agents often represent the companies deploying them in making requests. The company believes that agents prefer Bitcoin because it is permissionless; agents can build applications and set up payments for global users without needing to open bank accounts, go through approvals, or sign documents. Breez stated that its latest SDK, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, has successfully handled the increased traffic.

According to The Defiant, a wallet address transferred 150 million USDT from the lending protocol Aave to Spark Savings.This fund transfer occurred as Aave's borrowing rates rose to double-digit levels. Affected by withdrawals, on October 8, Aave's USDT reserves available liquidity on Ethereum amounted to 169.54 million dollars.

Cailian Press, October 8, 2026, reported that the RTX Spark, equipped with NVIDIA chips, officially opened for pre-sale on the same day. Also unveiled was the NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows preview version, the first desktop AI supercomputer designed specifically for Windows enterprise desktops.At the Microsoft launch event in San Francisco on Wednesday, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced a collaboration plan to optimize the native operation of AI intelligences on the Windows PC platform through hardware and software synergy. Jensen Huang stated that NVIDIA's establishment relied on the Windows ecosystem, and now the era of AI intelligences has officially landed on the Windows platform.

Dell (DELL.N) launched the XPS 16 Creator Edition laptop equipped with NVIDIA (NVDA.O) RTX SPARK.

Microsoft executives stated that the RTX Spark devices equipped with NVIDIA chips will start shipping next week.

Microsoft executives stated that the RTX Spark device equipped with NVIDIA chips is faster than Apple's fastest chips in generating images.

According to official news, the P2P AI inference network Antseed has officially been released, while also disclosing that the nonprofit foundation Antseed Foundation has completed a $2.4 million token round of financing. Spark Capital led the investment, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Relay Capital, and Venice.ai.Antseed aims to apply BitTorrent's peer-to-peer model to the AI inference field, allowing different providers to sell models and Agent services directly. After running Antseed's local router on their computers, users can connect tools like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc., to the same address. Each call is selected by the router based on price, speed, reputation, and privacy conditions, with fees settled directly in USDC on Base. Providers can run their own local models, fine-tune models, or offer other AI services and set their own prices.The biggest difference between Antseed and OpenRouter is that there is no unified platform responsible for forwarding in between. Buyers connect directly to providers, while Antseed is responsible for discovery, routing, reputation, and payment protocols. Ordinary providers can still see the requests they handle; users can also choose providers verified through TEE, allowing requests to run in a trusted execution environment.Antseed is also continuing to improve verification mechanisms such as model fingerprints, signature responses, and audits to prevent providers from misrepresenting cheaper models as more expensive ones. The code has been open-sourced, and the network is operational, although GitHub is currently addressing compatibility issues with Codex, Claude Desktop, and others.

NVIDIA launched the DGX SPARK 64GB configuration this month with major partners, supporting the operation of models with up to 100 billion parameters on the device.

The lending agreement indicates that Spark has allocated $210 million in loans to institutions collateralized by Bitcoin, with the related Bitcoin held by the digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital. Institutions can borrow USDC while the pledged assets remain with a qualified custodian.Spark provides the loan funds, and Anchorage Digital manages the collateral through the Atlas platform. Atlas is its automated network that offers round-the-clock margin monitoring, settlement, and third-party services within a regulated custody framework.

Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark announced the completion of a $2.276 billion debt financing for its data center project located in Sandersville, Georgia, USA.The bond has an interest rate of 7.875%, and the raised funds will be used for project construction and to repay previously invested equity funds. The Sandersville project comes with a 20-year lease.

SparkLabs Group, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Qazaqstan Investment Corporation (QIC) from the National Fund of Kazakhstan, and IT Park Ventures from Uzbekistan have signed a term sheet to establish the SparkLabs Mirae Silk Road Fund I LP venture capital fund, managed by Mirae Asset Venture Investment and SparkLabs Group. The signing ceremony took place in Seoul during the state visit of the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to South Korea and the first Central Asia-Korea Summit.QIC and IT Park Ventures are both anchor investors. The new fund will invest in Series A and later-stage startups in the Central Asia region with validated business models that are ready to expand beyond the region, focusing on AI-native companies, although not limited to this industry. Portfolio companies will receive support from SparkLabs and Mirae Asset's global network, as well as assistance in expanding to South Korea, the United States, and the Middle East.

CleanSpark, a Bitcoin mining company and data center developer listed on NASDAQ, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary CSDC Finance I plans to privately issue senior secured notes due in 2031 to raise $2.227 billion.The funds will primarily be used to complete the construction of the Sandersville data center in Texas, to compensate the company for some equity funds previously invested in the facility, and to establish a debt repayment reserve.However, this issuance is still subject to market and other conditions, and it cannot be guaranteed whether the final completion or issuance terms will be achieved.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched 480 stock spot rTokens including rBULL (Webull), rCLSK (CleanSpark), rPATH (UiPath), and rBND (Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF), covering multiple sectors such as finance, healthcare, and utilities. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 1,666 rTokens.The rTokens, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, rNVDA for Nvidia), are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and are directly connected to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and NYSE through collaboration with compliant broker Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets held by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form at a 1:1 ratio, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations) with synchronous mapping, and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

According to Fortune, Robinhood has recently tokenized stocks like AMC, which has led to public criticism from AMC's CEO. However, this model can reduce the cost and threshold for global investors to trade U.S. stocks. Blockchain-driven stock tokenization is reshaping the U.S. brokerage industry, and its impact may be similar to that of Napster on the music industry 25 years ago.Analysis points out that tokenized stocks still face issues such as voting rights, underlying stock custody, and whether token assets are fully backed. However, regulators have begun to promote the construction of relevant frameworks. Recently, Nasdaq also invested $100 million in blockchain financial company Payward, and the trend of stock on-chain is accelerating, making it difficult for threats or lawsuits to long-term hinder the development of this technology.