light

Preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows that the U.S. Consumer Confidence Index has slightly increased by about 6%. Although consumer confidence among low-wealth and middle-wealth individuals has improved, confidence among high-wealth consumers has decreased by 5%. High prices are eroding living standards, with 57% of respondents mentioning cost of living issues.Inflation expectations for the coming year have dropped to 4.3%, while long-term inflation expectations have decreased to 3.4%.

The Bitcoin Lightning Network client Core Lightning released version 26.06.10, which fixes risks related to channel balances and vulnerabilities that could lead to remote crashes of nodes. The official team urges node operators to complete the upgrade as soon as possible.The maintenance team stated that to provide a window for node operators to upgrade, the test cases related to the above fixes have not been made public, and relevant details will be disclosed after the nodes complete the update.

Andrew Canobi, the Head of Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton Australia, stated that the initial financial market reaction triggered by the U.S. midterm elections can be summarized as a slight shift of funds from stocks to bonds, reflecting a certain risk-averse tendency.He added that if the Democrats control Congress, the market may view this as a constraint on U.S. President Trump's growth agenda, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence and resources. Additionally, as traders believe that the Reserve Bank of Australia may be close to ending interest rate hikes, the yield on Australian three-year government bonds has fallen by 15 basis points since the beginning of this week.

The two-year U.S. Treasury yield fell by 6 basis points to 4.573%, while federal funds rate futures rose slightly.

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.

Due to the sell-off of technology stocks triggering a demand for safe-haven assets, U.S. Treasury yields accelerated their rise during the Asian trading session on Friday, with yields on all maturities falling by at least 3 basis points. Bonds from Australia, Japan, and New Zealand followed suit, with the 10-year government bond yield dropping by more than 5 basis points.In October, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has fallen by nearly 40 basis points.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng responded to DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi's analysis regarding Binance's asset losses, stating that the losses may be slightly over 1 billion dollars, but Binance will bear the related losses.Previously, 0xngmi posted that Binance's managed asset scale is approximately 144 billion dollars. After USDT and USDC were frozen, the expected final loss is about 1 billion dollars, which only accounts for 0.69% of its total managed assets. Binance can cover this portion of the loss through its balance sheet.

Microsoft expects its Azure cloud business revenue to grow by 49% to 50% in the second fiscal quarter, with total revenue reaching between 96 billion and 97.1 billion dollars.Revenue from the Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure segment is expected to be between 80.1 billion and 80.7 billion dollars, while revenue from the Devices and Consumer segment is projected to be between 15.9 billion and 16.4 billion dollars. Microsoft also anticipates that capital expenditures in the second fiscal quarter will exceed 50 billion dollars.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Wednesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising by 0.19%, the S&P 500 index up by 0.28%, and the Nasdaq up by 0.27%. SK Hynix rose by 13%, Micron Technology increased by nearly 6%, and Oracle rose by 10.5%. Apple and Nvidia fell by around 1%, and the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed down by 1.83%, with New Oriental dropping by 12.7%.

At the same time, the company signed a basic cooperation agreement for lightning network routing business with ALC, using the BTC held by ALC as the liquidity for the channels operated by the company, jointly building local routing infrastructure in Japan. The raised funds will be used to pay for infrastructure development, talent recruitment, routing business, and research and development, with a focus on promoting the lightning payment service "aurora" that can be accessed through the existing payment systems of merchants via API.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Lightning Labs has opened Wavelength to all users. The AI agent can autonomously send and receive payments on the Bitcoin mainnet via the Lightning Network and L402 without requiring manual approval for each transaction.The AI agent can use its payment API to call fees, purchase data, and trade with other agents, with single transaction fees as low as less than 1 cent; developers can integrate payment functionality into their applications without running a Lightning Network node, managing channels, or raising liquidity. This self-hosted toolkit supports independent on-chain exits, with an initial limit of 300,000 satoshis per wallet, and the Lightning Network payments incur a service fee of 0.25%. Wavelength is currently still in the Alpha stage and plans to support stablecoins.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "UFC 333: Grant Dawson vs Nurullo Aliev (Lightweight, Preliminary)" has seen significant fluctuations in the sub-market "Match Goes the Distance," with the "Yes" option's winning probability plummeting from 99.85% an hour ago to the current 50.55% (a fluctuation of 49.3%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The decentralized perpetual contract protocol Lighter announced the inclusion of weETH as collateral for perpetual contract trading on the platform. The platform calculates the trading margin based on 70% of the weETH index value, which sets a 30% discount on the collateral asset.At the same time, Lighter has set the maximum supply limit of weETH collateral across the platform to 1000 units. After the adjustment, users can use weETH as margin to open perpetual contract positions on Lighter.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed up 11.59 points on October 22, with an increase of 0.02%, reporting at 52,867.68 points; the S&P 500 Index fell by 93.82 points, with a decrease of 1.21%, reporting at 7,663.35 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index fell by 694 points, with a decrease of 2.6%, reporting at 26,008.86 points.

David Hoffman, the founder of Bankless, retweeted the compliance updates of the perpetual contract trading platform Lighter on X, stating, "Lighter's big market is back." During the Lighter third-quarter investor conference call the previous night, Hoffman, as an investor, asked whether, given that Lighter has had extensive prior communication with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the approval for the Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) licenses is expected to be granted earlier than the stipulated 180-day review period.Lighter's founder and CEO Vladimir Novakovski responded that extensive prior communication would make the process much smoother. He stated that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission currently has a lot on its plate, so he could not provide a specific timeline, but internally there is a fast-acting team, and the approval process is expected to go relatively smoothly. Previously, Hoffman had liquidated his ETH holdings and shifted to tokens like LIT, ZEC, and NEAR, which have all significantly outperformed ETH since then.

According to monitoring by Olaoluwa Osuntokun, the Chief Technology Officer of Lightning Labs stated that due to the CVE-2026-111943 vulnerability, it is strongly recommended that all lnd, btcd, tapd, and litd users update their binaries or rebuild using Go 1.27.3.The vulnerability involves the compromise of a certificate authority, which may affect the security of the related software.

Tesla (TSLA.O) reported third-quarter revenue of $28 billion for 2026, compared to $28.1 billion in the same period last year, with market expectations at $27.883 billion.