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An alliance composed of core banking and instant payment software company Matera, embedded payment company Payfinia, and Solana Foundation conducted the first public live demonstration of the American National Standard ANSI X9.150 at Money20/20 USA in Las Vegas. The demonstration showed that a single QR code on an invoice allows customers to pay via FedNow, RTP network, or with USDC on Solana, with the business invoice records automatically updated afterward.The report states that X9.150 was approved by the American National Standards Institute's standards committee X9 in July 2026, providing a unified QR code payment format for banks, payment networks, and software providers, covering account-to-account payments such as FedNow, RTP, ACH credit transfers, Zelle, and stablecoins. In the live process, small businesses send invoices with X9.150 QR codes, and customers can scan them using their credit union banking app or pay and confirm with USDC using the Squads Altitude wallet, with funds arriving within seconds, and the ERP marking the invoice as paid.Carlos Netto, Co-founder and CEO of Matera North America: The company has open-sourced the X9.150 reference software because a standard built by only one company is not a true standard. Jamal Raees, General Manager of Payments at Solana Foundation: X9.150 provides American businesses with a single QR code that can be used across payment rails, allowing customers to scan and pay with USDC, marking the invoice as paid within seconds. Payfinia provides embedded payment support for nearly 30 community financial institutions and stated that testing has been completed using the Star One Credit Union mobile app. The report clarifies that this demonstration is not a product launch. Participants in the X9.150 QR code alliance include Matera, Payfinia, Zelle under Early Warning, and Solana Foundation.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 774.7736 BTC (approximately 63.36 million USD) from Robinhood and transferred it to a wallet that had previously received two small test transfers.

According to NetEase's report on "DeepTech," the open-source AI programming tool OpenCode has officially confirmed it was breached, affecting approximately 1.4% of OpenCode Console users, with some API keys for models stored on the platform potentially leaked. Multiple developers reported unusual charges on accounts used to call models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, with some claiming losses of hundreds of dollars and others stating amounts exceeding $1,700. The officials stated that the incident is related to a large-scale distillation attack and are currently working with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to address the issue.OpenCode was developed by members of the Anomaly team, with one of the main creators being Dax Raad. The team has previously worked on projects like SST and OpenNext. In addition to local programs, its cloud service Console can centralize API keys from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in a workspace and call them on behalf of users; the incident occurred on this cloud service. A notification email stated that the attacker gained unauthorized access to a set of decommissioned old systems, and some third-party model API keys in the Console workspaces may have been exposed. Developer Colin Parsons reported unusual charges of about $281 on his OpenAI account and about $168 on his Anthropic account, while Preston Zeller reported losses of around $1,700. Other users reported unusual charges of about $400 on Anthropic and account restrictions triggered by unusual usage on Google services.OpenCode has notified affected users to revoke and replace their keys and check recent call records. Lydia Hallie, a member of the Anthropic Claude Code team, stated that Anthropic has collaborated with OpenCode and revoked the Claude API keys believed to be affected. Tibo, a member of the OpenAI team, stated that they are working with OpenCode to help affected API users restore access and refund the amounts that were unusually consumed during the attack. Dax Raad clarified that the affected service is OpenCode Console, not the locally running OpenCode, and that keys configured directly in the local tool will not be sent to OpenCode servers. On October 18, he stated on social media that the attacker had been continuously attempting to breach the system for the past 48 hours, and the team is strengthening defenses.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance's perpetual ETH has approximately 2,484.3 buy orders at $2,406.87, with a nominal value of about $5,979,400, which is a pullback of about 0.05% from the mid-price of approximately $2,408.00 at that time.The total near-end market buy orders amount to approximately $61,345,900, while sell orders are about $49,616,700, resulting in a net buy of approximately $11,729,200, accounting for 10.57% of the total depth.

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 Arkham monitoring, Bitwise has just purchased 127,241 LINK through its Chainlink ETF, worth approximately 1.54 million dollars. As of now, Bitwise holds a total of 5.018 million LINK tokens, with a total value of about 60.21 million dollars, and an average purchase price of approximately 10.6 dollars.In comparison, Grayscale's LINK holdings are valued at nearly 126 million dollars.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Richard Byworth previously worked at Syz Capital, focusing his career on hedge fund structure design. In an interview with Bitcoin Magazine, he stated that the next round of Bitcoin's rise is just a matter of time.He pointed out that, based on data from on-chain analysis platforms like Glassnode, the current level of seller exhaustion has reached a historical high. Although the market does not exhibit an extreme bearish atmosphere, multiple on-chain indicators show that Bitcoin is strongly building a bottom. He mentioned that Bitcoin has been trading in the range just above $80,000 in recent weeks, and he believed that $58,000 was a bottom.Byworth also discussed Bitcoin yield strategies. He warned that using a covered call strategy during a bullish market could lead to significant losses of Bitcoin for investors, and advocated for earning low-volatility, market-neutral returns through basis trading collateralized by Bitcoin. He noted that Strive had bought three times the weekly issuance of Bitcoin in a single transaction within a week, believing that the next round of rise is just a matter of time.Regarding Bitcoin treasury companies, Byworth stated that the digital credit products designed by Saylor are putting pressure on the traditional bond market, as the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries is around 5.1% to 5.2%, and investors will see their returns eroded by the faster pace of currency depreciation. He mentioned followers like Strive and Metaplanet, and believes that Bitcoin could break its historical high again before the end of the year, and reaching $350,000 in about a year is not entirely impossible.

According to PR Newswire, BitMine increased its holdings by 12,535 Ethereum last week. As of October 18, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 6,041,481, accounting for approximately 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply.Currently, the total value of cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $15.1 billion, which includes $582 million in cash and securities, 215 Bitcoin, $180 million in equity assets from Beast Industries, and a $74 million investment in Eightco Holdings (ORBS). Additionally, the number of Ethereum staked remains at 5,067,309 (84% of total holdings), valued at approximately $12 billion, with a current annualized staking yield of about $309 million.Tom Lee, Chairman of BitMine, stated in the company's weekly report that in recent weeks, investor risk appetite has contracted due to concerns over AI financing and AI model security issues, the escalation of the US-Iran conflict, anxiety over the US midterm elections, and a general rise in global bond yields. This has led to a sell-off of AI stocks (including semiconductor and memory chip stocks), further resulting in deleveraging in the Korean and Taiwanese markets, which are dominated by semiconductor and memory chip stocks.He pointed out that crypto assets are widely held in the US, South Korea, and Taiwan, and as investors in these regions reduce their risk exposure, it naturally creates spillover pressure on the crypto market. However, historically, when fundamentals remain robust while prices decline, it often presents an attractive risk-reward opportunity. Given that crypto assets benefit from the modernization of global financial infrastructure and AI intelligence, he believes this time is no exception.

Co-founder Chris Burniske stated that long-term investors should not repeatedly struggle with entering or exiting the market, but should systematically accumulate tokens over time, and not confuse long-term investing with short-term trading. He suggested using his most successful investment targets as a reference, calculating target holdings based on the total supply of network tokens.He gave an example that the total supply of ETH is about 120 million tokens. If one previously held 10 ETH, based on the network holding ratio, the total supply of SOL is about 636 million tokens, corresponding to about 53 tokens; the total supply of TIA is about 1.16 billion tokens, corresponding to about 97 tokens. If one wishes for the TIA network share to reach 10 times the original ETH holding share, approximately 970 TIA would be needed. For ZEC, since its supply is similar to BTC, the ideal BTC holding quantity can be used as a reference for accumulation targets.Regarding the current market, he noted that many crypto assets have fallen 20% to over 40% from their highs, while BTC has dropped less than 10%. He is more inclined to believe that BTC's previous relative resilience has led to significant adjustments in assets with lower risk appetite, making the current situation more like an opportunity in the early stages of a bull market rather than a warning signal of a bull market trap. He also reminded that one should consider the possibility of further price declines, suggesting to invest remaining cash in batches and determine the investment ratio based on the probability of local bottoms at different price levels; even if some preset price levels are not reached and cash remains, it can still be acceptable.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market event "Counter-Strike: Alliance vs TheMongolz (BO3) - 1win Private Club #2 Playoffs" on Polymarket has seen a drastic fluctuation in the sub-market "O/U 2.5 matches," with the "Over" option's win rate plummeting from 48% an hour ago to the current 23% (a fluctuation of 25%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, AltLayer (ALT) will unlock approximately 24.659 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on October 26, with a value of about 2.13 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), three addresses that may belong to the same entity/whale redeemed 18.085 million ENA from Ethena within the last hour and deposited all of it into Binance, worth approximately 3.64 million dollars, with an average deposit price of 0.2013 dollars.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Binance's perpetual ETH has approximately 2,106.5 sell orders at a price of $2,425.00, with a nominal value of about $5.1083 million, which is an increase of about 0.17% from the mid-price of approximately $2,420.86 at that time.The total buy orders on the near-end market are approximately $57.1804 million, while the sell orders are about $63.193 million, resulting in a net sell order surplus of approximately $6.0126 million, accounting for 4.99% of the total depth.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale has newly staked 399,994 HYPE (approximately 30.92 million USD), bringing its total staked amount over the past day to about 500,000 HYPE (approximately 38.92 million USD). This batch of HYPE was unstaked by this address two months ago.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, Nscale, an AI data center developer supported by Nvidia, initially sought an IPO valuation of about $30 billion, but some investors recently advocated for a valuation between $16 billion and $19 billion to attract buyers.Nscale is addressing comments from the U.S. SEC regarding its listing application documents and plans to initiate a roadshow after resolving these issues. Relevant discussions are still ongoing, and no final decision has been made. Previously, Microsoft withdrew from its collaboration with Nscale on a data center project in the UK due to project delays caused by limited power supply.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has about 65.36 buy orders at the price level of $81,677, with a nominal value of approximately $5.3383 million, retracting about 0.40% from the mid-price of about $82,003 at that time. The total buy orders on the near-end market are approximately $23.7394 million, while the sell orders are about $22.4236 million.Coinbase's spot buy orders have a net long position of about $1.3159 million, accounting for 2.85% of the total depth. This buy order is the most prominent support at the near-end, and if a large market order appears, it may provide short-term support for the current price.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: FURIA vs BetBoom Team - Thunderpick World Championship Playoffs" shows that the "FURIA" option in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 71.5% an hour ago to the current 44.5% (a fluctuation of 27%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to CoinGlass data, a total of 103,612 people were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with a total liquidation amount of approximately 359 million USD. Among them, long positions accounted for about 281 million USD, and short positions accounted for approximately 78.1151 million USD, with long positions making up 78.3%.The largest single liquidation occurred in Binance's SOXSUSDT, valued at approximately 7.2713 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, Sun Yuchen's address 0x176...0a132 received 72 trillion PEPE from the Poloniex multi-signature address 22 hours ago, worth approximately 28.44 million USD. This is the first on-chain operation of PEPE from this address since June 2024.