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Apple announced that it will hold a new product launch event in Los Angeles on October 28 at 1 PM Eastern Time.According to technology journalist Gurman, Apple is expected to launch its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, a new Mac equipped with the M6 chip, and an iPad mini with an OLED screen.

According to informed sources, Anthropic is preparing to release a new model that surpasses the reasoning and intuition capabilities of currently available models. This model excels at discerning users' deeper intentions and goals, even with limited information, and can think outside conventional frameworks.

MiniMax announced that M3.1 Flash has officially been released, and the earlier version, Space Bunny, which topped global rankings and processed over 200T tokens, is its predecessor.M3.1 Flash achieved scores of 62% on Automation-Bench, 30% on ALE, 74% on DeepSWE, and 91% on BabyVision in tasks such as Cowork, Coding, and Visual Reasoning.

On October 19, the decentralized stablecoin USDD released its treasury report for the third quarter of 2026. The report shows that the total treasury income for USDD during the quarter was $9.7 million, a month-on-month increase of 26.7%; expenses were $7,601; net profit was approximately $9.7 million; and the treasury balance reached $31.24 million, surpassing $30 million for the first time, setting a new historical high.The report pointed out that the performance of the USDD treasury experienced strong growth in Q3, driven by a significant increase in income during the quarter; Smart Allocator's asset allocation yield reached $9.11 million; quarterly expenses decreased by 69.4% month-on-month, further enhancing treasury operational efficiency. This quarter's performance demonstrates USDD's ongoing progress in sustainable revenue growth and efficient treasury management.According to data from the official website, the current supply of USDD is $1.78 billion, with a TVL of $2.48 billion, and Smart Allocator has generated and distributed a total yield of $32.16 million.

On the afternoon of October 19, the official account of the artificial intelligence company MiniMax released a short video with the caption "Welcome back, Space Bunny." First Financial reported that this move is seen as an official acknowledgment of the anonymous model Space Bunny.Since its launch in late September, the model has topped the daily token usage charts on OpenRouter and OpenCode within three days, alongside DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, occupying the top three positions. It is reported that Space Bunny is an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and the model is about to be officially released.

The website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission shows that CITIC Securities released the "Report on the Progress of the Guidance Work for the Initial Public Offering and Listing of MiniMax Group Inc. (Phase II)" on October 15. This phase of guidance started on July 10, 2026, and lasted for more than three months. CITIC Securities, together with Tongshang Law Firm and Ernst & Young, continuously monitors the company's operational performance and compliance in accordance with regulatory requirements and the guidance agreement, and conducts guidance through on-site training and communication on specific issues.The report states that the guidance target has established an internal governance structure and relevant company management systems, but there is still room for optimization in execution. CITIC Securities will collaborate with intermediary institutions, combine due diligence, continuously refine and improve corporate governance and standardized operations, propose rectification suggestions, and supervise the implementation of internal controls. In the next phase, work will continue with Tongshang Law Firm and Ernst & Young, focusing on enhancing standardized operational levels and preparing for guidance acceptance.On May 29, 2026, CITIC Securities signed a guidance agreement with MiniMax and submitted a guidance filing application to the Shanghai Regulatory Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on the same day, which was accepted, marking MiniMax's official entry into the guidance period. The large model company MiniMax (00100.HK) was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 9, 2026, approximately four years from establishment to listing, and has focused on the research and development of full-modal models since its inception.

According to the Binance Research weekly report, the U.S. CPI rose to 3.7% in September, with energy contributing more than one-third, and the PPI increased year-on-year to 6.3%. Based on the EIA oil price path, the overall CPI may peak at around 3.9% in October and fall back to about 2.6% by March 2027.In terms of AI, Anthropic's revenue grew by 45% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, significantly lower than the previous growth rate of more than double; its Binance Pre-IPO contracts fell by 8.8% over two trading days, while the yield on CoreWeave bonds maturing in 2032 rose to about 16%. Binance Research believes that the cooling demand for AI and rising financing costs are simultaneously affecting AI infrastructure transactions.

Zakura has announced an experimental network layer P2Pv2 for Zcash nodes, intended to replace the old protocol inherited from Bitcoin. This layer combines high-throughput networking, resource control, and a consensus engine tested for properties, allowing developers to add services without permission. Zakura states that approximately 50,000 transactions per second require each full node to continuously receive about 100MB/s of block data, while the 25-second block of NU7 can carry a maximum of 2MB, with existing network throughput differing by more than a thousand times from this rate. Tachyon can reduce the proof after entering the block, but the network still needs to propagate a large number of individual transactions.P2Pv2 replaces the protocol stack from about a decade ago with protocols that can be optimized for latency, throughput, or robustness, allowing a secure connection to carry multiple independent services. The transport layer uses its own zakura-quic, based on quinn-proto, utilizing QUIC and TLS 1.3, and authenticating peers with Ed25519 node identity. Related changes remove the dependency on Iroh, allowing nodes to configure socket buffers, flow control windows, timers, and connection admission before the TLS handshake. The new transport directly connects to peer addresses without using relays, external address lookups, automatic port mapping, or QUIC NAT traversal. Nodes sign identities, addresses, protocol scopes, and service IDs, allowing clients to find peers based on specific services.The independent component zakura-header-chain verifies block headers and retains competing branches in a directed acyclic graph, selecting the best qualified chain. Block synchronization schedules requests based on the delivery rates measured by each peer, and a verified commitment tree is used to skip the reconstruction of Sapling, Orchard, and Ironwood trees for each block. Currently, the Mainnet still defaults to the old P2P stack, while the Testnet and Regtest run dual stacks by default, with the native protocol version being p2p-v2/3. Zakura notes that P2Pv2 still has known denial-of-service risks and has not yet become a hardened trust boundary; production hardening, resource control, and block relay protocols are still in progress.

Bitget has launched 8 popular Taiwanese stock perpetual contracts including TWTSM (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), TWDELTA (Delta Electronics), TWASX (ASE Technology Holding), and TWUMC (United Microelectronics Corporation). The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20 times leverage, and are available for trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 364 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Clearpool announced the 2026 v4 protocol whitepaper and stated that its institutional credit market has been operating on multiple EVM-compatible networks and is further expanding to the XRP Ledger. The whitepaper reveals that the institutional credit protocol will collaborate with Ripple and Cicada Partners to expand to the XRP Ledger for the settlement of the regulated stablecoin RLUSD, and will migrate the token from CPOOL to the new token CLEAR at a 1:1 ratio.The total supply of CLEAR is 1.429 billion tokens, with 1.125 billion tokens in circulation at the time of migration, accounting for 78.75%; this migration and the XRPL expansion have been approved through Snapshot voting, with a support rate of 97.16%. Since its operation began in 2021, the protocol has issued loans totaling approximately $965 million, with borrowers including Jane Street, Flow Traders, and Wintermute, and currently supports six EVM chains. 50% of the protocol fees will be used for open market repurchases and permanent destruction of CLEAR. XRPL products are preparing for testing on Devnet.

According to The Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos joint polling, President Trump's approval rating has dropped to 33%, with a disapproval rating of 66%, among which 52% of respondents expressed strong disapproval of his performance. This approval rating is an 8 percentage point decrease compared to the same period last year and is lower than at any time during his first term.With two weeks to go until the U.S. midterm election voting day, the Republican Party is facing a severe political situation. Polls show that as inflation pressures mount and voter dissatisfaction rises, the Democratic Party's support in the struggle for congressional control is increasing; for the first time in over a decade, the Democratic Party has gained higher voter trust than the Republican Party on economic governance issues.Overall results indicate that American voters have lost confidence in the president, are deeply concerned about Trump's decision to wage war on Iran, and are experiencing the economic impacts of war, particularly the impact of rising gasoline prices on household finances.

According to MacRumors, Apple may intensively release new products over four consecutive Fridays. Citing Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, the MacBook Pro with an OLED screen, the 14-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the M6 chip, the iMac, and the iPad mini 8 featuring an OLED screen are expected to be released on November 6, with related devices possibly announced on October 27 or 28.The four release dates are: October 23 for iPhone Duo, October 30 for HomePod mini 2, November 6 for the aforementioned Mac and iPad mini, and November 13 for HomeView smart home hub and the fourth generation Apple TV 4K.

According to Jinshi news, the Ministry of Commerce and 8 other departments have released opinions on accelerating the promotion of technology-driven commerce. The opinions propose to promote the iterative upgrading of commodity supply, deeply implement the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" special action, accelerate the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology with product research and development, design, manufacturing, and marketing, enrich the supply of smart products such as smartphones, computers, home appliances, wearable devices, and robots, and encourage the research and application of smart products based on secure and reliable open-source operating systems.The opinions also propose to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of historical classic industries, develop classic high-quality products, build a lineup of Chinese consumer brands, and explore consumer brands that are independently innovative and of high quality. Vigorously develop technology-driven agriculture, promote the quality and efficiency of high-quality specialty agricultural products, encourage time-honored brands to innovate while maintaining their essence, and support time-honored enterprises in using modern production technologies for product innovation.

Binance founder CZ posted that the Japanese version of his autobiography "Freedom of Money" is on sale today, with more language versions coming soon, and all proceeds will be donated to charity.

According to Cointelegraph, a recent poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos shows that a majority of American respondents oppose betting on U.S. elections and other government actions through prediction markets. The survey indicates that 69% of Democratic respondents and 61% of Republican respondents oppose using prediction markets to bet on election outcomes. The survey was conducted from September 30 to October 5, covering 4,506 adults nationwide.Aside from elections, even regarding betting on professional sports events, 43% of respondents expressed opposition, while only 29% indicated support. The prediction market industry is currently dominated by platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, which allow users to bet on U.S. elections, government policy trends, and sports events, and has sparked multiple lawsuits regarding regulatory authority.The Trump administration is pushing for federal regulation of the industry through the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), while several states have expressed opposition to this. Previously, on October 8, Cointelegraph reported that 39 states and the District of Columbia submitted an amicus brief, indicating that the conflict between the CFTC and state authorities over prediction market issues has created a "national turf war" that cannot be resolved without a Supreme Court ruling.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor has once again released information related to the Bitcoin Tracker. He stated, "We found room for more orange."According to previous patterns, the orange dots represent Strategy's Bitcoin purchase records, which may suggest that the company will increase its BTC holdings. Strategy typically discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.

Strive CEO Matt Cole released the company's Bitcoin holdings data chart on the X platform, with the caption "Now stack sats with double the horsepower," suggesting that BTC accumulation data may be disclosed next week. This move may follow the example of Strategy founder Michael Saylor.

Cryptocurrency analyst Michaël van de Poppe stated that the price fluctuation range of Bitcoin is gradually narrowing, and volatility is decreasing, indicating that a significant market change may be coming. However, before that, there may be a "false move." He pointed out that this "false move" could bring the Bitcoin price down to below $80,000, into the "blue box" area marked on his chart.This area has been touched once before, and if it is retested, he would not be surprised and believes it would be an ideal entry point. Regarding the conditions for an upward movement, he stated that if Bitcoin breaks through the key resistance level of $82,000, the upward momentum will begin to accelerate and is likely to move towards $90,000.

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier responded to former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès' warning about the security risks of hardware implants, questioning his stance and stating that Ledger has always done its utmost to protect users.Pascal Gauthier stated that the relevant security work is extremely challenging, acknowledged Karpelès' concerns on the matter, but urged him to speak based on known facts and avoid speculation, while also sarcastically saying, "Come on, you're not some white knight, be realistic."Previously, Mark Karpelès accused Ledger of potentially avoiding over $90 million in losses if they had disclosed related issues more timely and effectively, rather than just publishing a discreet article on Ledger Academy. He also questioned why Ledger had not maintained sufficient vigilance regarding the mass production of advanced implant devices.