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According to Gate market data, the Nikkei 225 index closed down 3318.34 points on October 15, with a decline of 4.90%, reporting at 64425.95 points. The South Korean KOSPI index also closed down 454.54 points on the same day, with a decline of 7.56%, reporting at 5554.27 points.During the trading session, the South Korean stock market once fell more than 9%, triggering the circuit breaker mechanism for the tenth time this year. The South Korean financial regulatory agency held an emergency meeting in the afternoon regarding the stock market, and subsequently, the market's decline narrowed. SK Hynix initially closed down 11.06%, while Samsung Electronics fell 9.48%.

According to Crypto Briefing, Marc Vanlerberghe, the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of the public blockchain Algorand Foundation, resigned on October 14. He joined the foundation as Chief Marketing Officer in March 2024 and held the title of Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the time of his departure, serving for about two and a half years.Previously, the foundation's Chief Technology Officer Bruno Martins left around October 9. Former CEO Staci Warden stepped down in August this year, and William Herkelrath took over on August 31, with the foundation officially announcing this on September 9.Reports indicate that the new CEO is re-evaluating the foundation's projects and partnerships, aiming to promote institutional adoption and financial sustainability. The foundation previously disclosed that it had reduced its team size by about 25% in the first quarter of 2026.

On October 14, the OpenAI Economic Research Team released a report stating that EU companies are expanding the use of AI with agent tools, no longer just asking questions to AI, but using agents to complete tasks from planning to execution. The report examines the growth of agent usage among large and small enterprises, differences in usage intensity, and the types of work people are accomplishing with ChatGPT.In a sample of EU clients using ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex and ChatGPT work currently contribute over half of the output tokens. Since May 2026, the number of weekly active users of Codex and ChatGPT work among EU small and medium-sized enterprises has increased to more than 8.1 times the original, with growth in all member states. The article defines small and medium-sized enterprises as those with no more than 200 associated users.The proportion of relevant output tokens in the sample is lowest in Slovenia at 22% and highest in Lithuania at 85%. Leading enterprises are defined as those ranking in the top 10% for output tokens per active user, with the sample including only ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Business accounts. In September, this metric for leading enterprises in the EU exceeded that of general EU enterprises by four times, while leading enterprises outside the EU still surpassed leading enterprises in the EU by more than twice, with companies headquartered in the EU accounting for only 10% of the world's leading enterprises.

According to The Block, there has been another personnel change at the White House regarding digital asset regulation, as Patrick Witt has concluded his term as the White House Chief Crypto Advisor. A White House official stated in an email to The Block on Wednesday that Witt's "detail has expired" and expressed gratitude for his work during the Trump administration, wishing him success in the future. Previously, Crypto In America reporter Eleanor Terrett reported that Witt was an employee of the Department of Defense and held a temporary position on the White House Crypto Council.Witt, in his role as Executive Director of the President's Advisory Council on Digital Assets, led the Washington effort to push for the broad crypto legislation known as the Clarity Act. The House version of the bill was passed over a year ago, after which he was responsible for coordinating negotiations in the Senate. However, the Senate version faces multiple obstacles, including disagreements between the banking sector and the crypto industry on the treatment of stablecoin rewards, as well as how to address the conflicts of interest arising from President Trump's substantial crypto assets. The latter became a major reason why the bill failed to pass its first procedural vote last month, as Democrats were concerned that the relevant provisions would not be enforceable, since decisions on whether to take enforcement action against the president would be made by the Department of Justice rather than the states.Witt is the third high-level crypto official to leave the White House. David Sacks, who was in charge of crypto and artificial intelligence affairs, departed in March, stating that his 130-day term as a special government employee had ended; Witt's deputy director, Harry Jung, also left in July.

According to The Defiant, the European Banking Authority has recognized the US dollar stablecoin USDC as the EU's first "significant" electronic money token. Under the arrangement, the financial regulatory responsibilities for USDC will be transferred to the European Banking Authority on November 12.Meanwhile, the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority will continue to be responsible for the governance and other corporate affairs of USDC.

According to The Information, NVIDIA and ChipAgents have launched an artificial intelligence chip design evaluation project.

According to news from the Anthropic official website, Anthropic announced the opening of its fifth office in the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore. Both parties will collaborate in areas such as AI safety, model evaluation, and responsible AI adoption.Singapore is one of the most active markets for Claude globally, with over a thousand government agencies and enterprises, including GovTech Singapore, DBS, Grab, and GIC, already deploying Claude. Among them, over 1,500 engineers at GovTech Singapore have adopted Claude Code to advance the modernization of government systems, while Grab saves approximately 40,000 hours of manpower each quarter with the help of a Claude-driven sales assistant.

On October 12, the Pan-African commercial bank Ecobank signed a memorandum of understanding with the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System Co., Ltd. (CIPS) to strengthen the connectivity of RMB payments between China and Africa. The signing ceremony was held under the witness of the Minister of Finance and Budget of the Republic of Togo, coinciding with the official visit of the President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, to China.Ecobank Group CEO Jeremy Awori stated that the cooperation will enhance the connectivity between the Chinese RMB payment ecosystem and Ecobank's African network, aiming to facilitate Chinese companies' access to the African market and help African companies participate more effectively in the Chinese market. China is Africa's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade expected to reach approximately $348 billion by 2025. The cooperation is anticipated to make RMB payments smoother, reduce settlement complexity, and improve the accessibility of cross-border payment channels.Ecobank has had a presence in China since 2012 and has officially opened a new office in Beijing, with Chinese business teams in West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa, providing services such as trade financing, payments, cash management, and cross-border investments. The group's operations cover 34 countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as France, the UK, the UAE, and China, employing over 14,000 people and serving more than 32 million customers. Recently, it has also collaborated with institutions such as Bank of China (Mauritius), XTransfer, YiBao Payment, and Wanlihui.

Renowned trader Killa posted that Bitcoin has seen significant buying in the $81,000 range, triggering two instances of a rebound. Therefore, after a thorough adjustment, Bitcoin still has the potential to surge again to $87,000 this month.Killa, as a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

According to The Block, KB Kookmin Card has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's SBI Holdings to test AI agent-based identity verification and explore cross-border cryptocurrency payments.The two parties will study ways for Japanese tourists to pay Korean merchants using cryptocurrency assets, including stablecoins. KB Kookmin Card is a credit card company under KB Financial Group, and SBI Holdings is a Japanese financial holding group.

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer’s subsidiary Bitdeer AI has signed an 8-year agreement in Malaysia to build a 60 MW A103 AI cloud data center, expected to be powered on in the first quarter of 2028.The facility will join the existing A101 and A102 data centers to form the Cyberjaya campus, increasing the total capacity to approximately 71.5 MW. Bitdeer AI has secured 333.5 MW of its global capacity target of 350 MW, completing about 95%, with its AI cloud business projects exceeding $10 billion in scale.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that the Bitcoin long-term holder SOPR (Spent Output Profit Ratio) has re-established itself above the 1.1 annual average line and maintained that level, indicating that the average profit margin achieved by long-term holders over the past year is about 10%. Currently, the weekly average of BTC long-term holder SOPR is 1.25, and the monthly average is 1.16, both above the annual average, suggesting an improvement in market conditions and that long-term holders are starting to realize profits again.Darkfost pointed out that this change is worth comparing to the previous bear market: at that time, as the bear market approached its end, long-term holders also began to profit again. He believes that moderate profits in the market are a positive signal and may further boost investor expectations for the future market.

Trader Killa stated on platform X that the supply of short-term holders (STH) of Bitcoin has recently reached "overheated" levels, a situation similar to the market's behavior after breaking away from the macro bottom in 2023, which could be another signal of a market bottom forming.Killa pointed out that after the supply of Bitcoin short-term holders reached similar highs in 2023, the BTC price continued to rise and maintained an upward trend in higher time frame (HTF) trends. The current market structure is quite similar to previous cycles, and investors should not overly rely on the fear and greed index to judge market direction. Killa indicated that market sentiment may remain irrational in the long term, and short-term sentiment indicators do not necessarily reflect long-term trends.

Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that Ukraine is ready to sign a ceasefire guarantee agreement.

The meme coin issuance platform Pump.fun will adjust its call reward mechanism, linking rewards to the actual earnings of followers. Co-founder Alon stated that starting from the settlement on October 10, recommending low market cap tokens will receive less reward.Pump.fun is a meme coin issuance platform running on the Solana network, where users can create and trade tokens.

According to Nikkei Asia, chip design software leader Synopsys is seeking to collaborate with Chinese large language model developers, planning to use the AI version of its tools to help Chinese companies develop chips faster, and stated that it will carry out related work within the scope of tightening artificial intelligence and semiconductor export controls in Washington.The report states that Synopsys expects a revenue of $11.15 billion for the fiscal year 2027, with collaborations with OpenAI and Amazon driving its artificial intelligence business. Synopsys is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is a global leader in chip design software.

The XRP Ledger recently fixed a payment system vulnerability that could be traced back to 2015. This vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass the system's calculation limits on token exchange amounts through a specially designed payment transaction, generating and spending large amounts of XRP out of thin air, undermining the mechanism that caps the total supply of XRP at 10 billion.It was disclosed that attackers could create hundreds of accounts, allowing these accounts to post offers to exchange a small amount of tokens for a large amount of XRP, and then execute a transaction simultaneously. Due to a flaw in the software's calculation of the total transaction amount, the seller's account could receive the full XRP, while the buyer's account would need to pay almost nothing. Researchers Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported the vulnerability on September 22, and RippleX subsequently reproduced the attack and confirmed that the generated XRP could be used in subsequent transactions. RippleX stated that there is currently no evidence that this vulnerability has been exploited on any public network. The development team released version 3.4.1 of xrpld on September 25 to fix the vulnerability.

On October 9, reports indicated that the significant increase in storage chip costs has forced Apple to raise prices and suppress demand. Apple has requested some suppliers to reduce the production of recently released iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max components. A journalist verified with an Apple supply chain company, where a representative stated that after Apple provided new shipping guidance, orders for the iPhone 18 Pro decreased, while orders for the iPhone 18 Pro Max increased, resulting in little overall change in order volume.Another supply chain representative mentioned that the rumors are clearly one-sided. Due to strong demand for the iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple adjusted some iPhone 18 Pro orders to the iPhone 18 Pro Max, with the total not decreasing, which benefits the high-end supply chain for the Pro Max. In September, Apple released the iPhone 18 Pro series, and due to product planning adjustments, the basic model of the iPhone 18 has not yet been launched. The starting prices for the two models released this time are 9,999 yuan and 10,999 yuan, which is an increase compared to the iPhone 17 Pro series.During the initial sales in mid-September, a journalist observed outside the official Apple retail store in Shenzhen that the buyback market for the iPhone 18 Pro was relatively weak, with some scalpers not purchasing, and even the buyback price was lower than the official starting price. Currently, the supply of the iPhone 18 Pro is relatively sufficient, with staff indicating that only the black version of the 512GB model is in stock, while other memory versions have ample supply. The iPhone 18 Pro Max has not yet been made available for purchase offline.