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According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a live broadcast today at 19:00 on the theme "Last 48 Hours of Earnings Week, Can BTC Hold at 80,000?"At that time, crypto KOLs such as Grace, Dr. Dinosaur, Mo City, Dog Treasure, and Zhu Erdan will gather in the live broadcast room to discuss the earnings reports of U.S. tech giants, changes in macro liquidity, and trends in the crypto market. The focus will be on analyzing the impact of earnings season on market risk appetite, the long and short game around the key level of 80,000 USD for BTC, as well as the risks and potential opportunities that the short-term market may face.

According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

According to Pendle monitoring, the scale of STRCx on Pendle has surpassed 50 million dollars and set a historical record.Pendle currently holds about 30% of the total supply of STRCx, which is the largest tokenized equity asset in DeFi.

Hacker News discussion thread shows that the number of new questions on the programming Q&A site Stack Overflow has fallen below 1,000 per month. The post was submitted by user babelfish and points to a public query chart from Stack Exchange Data Explorer, which has about 247 points and 223 comments.In the comments, some users indicated that the decline in the number of questions began before ChatGPT was publicly launched in November 2022, and that AI tools have accelerated the decline. Other users mentioned that the threshold for asking questions is high, the review process is strict, the community is not friendly enough to questioners, and that existing Q&A has already covered a large number of common issues.Some comments referenced logarithmic scale statistics across Stack Exchange sites, suggesting that the decline has become more pronounced since the launch of ChatGPT, and provided corresponding queries and charts as evidence.

According to The Block citing local media reports, South Korea's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Korea, will meet on Friday with representatives from the country's five major cryptocurrency exchanges: Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax, to discuss whether to postpone the cryptocurrency tax originally scheduled to take effect in January 2027.The party has proposed a bill to delay the implementation until 2029, citing insufficient infrastructure and difficulties in obtaining transaction data.

BNB Chain announced on platform X that the Jenner hard fork upgrade has been launched on the BSC testnet. The upgrade includes Payment Lane, which reserves 5% of the block gas for eligible payments by default; provides millisecond-level block timestamps for smart contracts; and introduces a new compliance asset standard CAS20.Payment Lane and CAS20 will only be fully enabled after governance, with more details to be announced later.

On October 28, the payment network Visa released its performance for fiscal year 2026 and the fourth fiscal quarter. The fiscal year 2026 spans from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026, and the fourth fiscal quarter spans from July 1, 2026, to September 30, 2026.In fiscal year 2026, Visa's total operating revenue was $45.903 billion, a year-on-year increase of 15%; operating profit was $28.11 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17.15%; the operating profit margin was 61.24%, an increase of 1.25 percentage points year-on-year. The net profit attributable to the parent company was $23.504 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17%; operating cash flow was $23.728 billion. Basic earnings per share were $12.34, diluted earnings per share were $12.32, a year-on-year increase of 21%; the debt-to-equity ratio was 61.73%.In the fourth fiscal quarter, Visa's total operating revenue was $12.139 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13% and a quarter-on-quarter increase of 4.35%; operating profit was $7.262 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18.12%; the operating profit margin was 59.83%, an increase of 2.5 percentage points year-on-year. The net profit attributable to the parent company was $6.002 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18% and a quarter-on-quarter increase of 6.65%; both basic and diluted earnings per share were $3.19, a year-on-year increase of 22%; the debt-to-equity ratio was 61.73%.

Allium CEO and Co-founder Ethan Chan stated that Allium discovered a security incident on October 25, involving unauthorized access to some of its systems. Allium immediately took measures to limit access and protect the systems, has directly notified affected customers, and continues to provide updates and support.Allium has engaged an independent cybersecurity firm to assist with the response and investigation, focusing on strengthening security controls such as authentication and monitoring. After the investigation is completed, it plans to share a summary of the findings and response measures. Allium stated that its core platform, including Allium App, Explorer, and Explorer APIs, has been restored, although some features remain temporarily unavailable during the recovery period, with the latest availability and updates published on the status page. Ethan Chan expressed apologies for the disruption caused by the incident and stated that maintaining customer trust requires clear communication and ongoing follow-up.

According to informed sources, in response to market skepticism, Josh Payne, founder and CEO of Nscale, an AI data center developer transformed from a Bitcoin mining company, stated that the company will continue to advance its IPO as planned, with a target valuation of $30 billion. In a recent internal memo to employees, he mentioned that Nscale has an "insatiable" market demand and a "robust capital structure," and stated that "data speaks louder than words."Reports indicate that the AI infrastructure industry is under pressure as Nscale approaches its IPO. The company claims to have signed contracts worth $103 billion, but as of August 2026, it has only delivered 55 megawatts of computing power, while potential contract demand corresponds to a capacity of 10 gigawatts. Its data center projects are also facing delays, safety violations, and operational challenges, with Microsoft recently withdrawing from one of its data center projects in the UK.

According to Bloomberg, during the intense fluctuations in international oil prices in early March, a trader allegedly influenced prices on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid through two accounts, using oil-related crypto derivatives.According to an analysis provided to Bloomberg by blockchain monitoring company Solidus Labs, the trader placed over $170 million in abnormal orders, and Solidus believes their behavior is suspected to be a form of spoofing price manipulation.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will hold a public roundtable on December 15 to discuss transitioning the derivatives market to 24/7 trading, with topics including overnight trading and tokenization. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig stated that the agency "will not take a one-size-fits-all approach."

Oracle expects its free cash flow for the fiscal year ending May 2029 to reach $30 billion, far exceeding market expectations.The company also anticipates that the total capacity of data centers will exceed 10 gigawatts by the end of fiscal year 2028, and it will gradually reduce capital expenditures starting in fiscal year 2029.Oracle's stock price rose more than 13% during intraday trading.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated at a press conference that the FOMC will still hold 8 meetings in 2027, including 1 specifically to discuss monetary policy strategy. It is expected that there will be no vote on the federal funds rate and no policy statement will be released, while the remaining 7 will be regular policy decision meetings.Related adjustments will begin in the fall of next year. He anticipates that there will be 2 strategic discussion meetings and 6 policy decision meetings in 2028.

Bitcoin Core has discovered 3 new vulnerabilities, one of which allows attackers to remotely crash nodes. This vulnerability can affect nodes running Windows, macOS, or BSD by exhausting memory, while Linux nodes are not affected by this attack.Another vulnerability can gradually deplete node memory, and the third may corrupt blockchain rollback data.

According to Kevin Gordon, the Chief Macro Research and Strategy Officer at Charles Schwab, the current economic backdrop remains relatively favorable for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Even as we enter multiple rate hike cycles, the U.S. economy is likely to remain robust.He pointed out that rate hike cycles are often accompanied by significant market volatility. According to historical data he cited, within 12 months of the Federal Reserve initiating a rate hike cycle, the average maximum decline of the S&P 500 index exceeds 10%.Analysis also indicates that interest rate policy is just one of the factors affecting stock prices. Currently, investments in the AI sector and inflation driven by rising oil prices seem to be the main factors driving the stock market.

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

Bitwise released the report "Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions for Bitcoin in 2027," predicting the return rate, volatility, and correlation with stocks for Bitcoin over the next 10 years.Bitwise stated that under the baseline scenario, Bitcoin is expected to rise to $1.6 million by 2036.