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ZDNet Korea reported on November 12 that storage companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have decided to allocate additional supplies of enterprise-level solid-state drives (eSSD) that are currently being discussed with Chinese customers to U.S. customers. Major Chinese artificial intelligence companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent have decided to reduce the scale of eSSD orders to below expectations, and storage companies are aware of this situation. The report states that after the U.S. strengthened export controls on artificial intelligence to China, the supply of high-performance artificial intelligence semiconductors such as graphics processors and high-bandwidth memory has become difficult, leading to a decrease in the demand for accompanying storage.eSSD is a NAND-based storage module primarily used for data centers, serving as an auxiliary storage device for data preservation. Insiders indicate that the main reason for the order reduction among Chinese companies is the difficulty in supplying artificial intelligence semiconductors. The U.S. government has effectively prohibited companies like NVIDIA and AMD from exporting high-performance artificial intelligence semiconductors to China, and the accompanying high-bandwidth memory is also subject to controls. Previously, Chinese companies had circumvented these controls through overseas entities and product disassembly, but these alternative routes have gradually faced obstacles, causing delays in investment plans.Another insider stated that the adjustment of eSSD supply plans for China by storage companies is true, and the related supply volume plans are being shifted to U.S. cloud service providers. This person noted that the storage demand from U.S. data centers remains robust, and the supply shortage may continue into next year and the year after. Industry insiders say that the tight supply of NAND in global markets such as the U.S. is still ongoing, and the reduced demand in China will be taken up by U.S. data center companies; this adjustment will not have a significant impact on the overall demand for NAND and SSD.

Multiple storage industry insiders have revealed that some leading companies have verbally informed channel partners of their intention to raise prices for enterprise-grade chips. The official price increase notice has not yet been formally issued, but prices on the channel side have already begun to move, with several agents confirming the aforementioned price increase signals. One agent from SK Hynix stated that prices are increasing daily and observed that the second-hand recovery prices are continuously rising, driving overall quotes upward; the price adjustment path involves provincial agents adjusting prices weekly, with the prices of agency products being passed down further.One agent from Samsung indicated that this round of price increases is not a universal rise across all categories, but is mainly concentrated on the DRAM contract side and enterprise-grade SSDs at both the manufacturer and channel levels, rather than a comprehensive increase in consumer-grade NAND. This agent noted that the major demand still comes from data centers, while feedback from the grassroots level indicates that demand is generally average. Since the price increases are initially focused on the DRAM contract side and enterprise-grade SSD segment, when prices are transmitted from manufacturers outward, they first reach manufacturing companies and module manufacturers, rather than end consumers.

Bank Negara Malaysia announced the launch of a new generation of paperless securities depository system SSDS+, based on distributed ledger technology, supporting the issuance, custody, and safekeeping of tokenized debt securities, including Islamic bonds (sukuk). The platform can track the ownership and transfer of tokenized securities and connects to the real-time electronic funds and securities transfer system RENTAS+, completing the corresponding bond payment settlements with central bank currency.Bank Negara Malaysia stated that while SSDS+ is primarily designed for wholesale issuance, it also has the capability to support tokenized government bonds and corporate retail bonds. The announcement did not disclose the specific securities issued through the platform, nor did it publish relevant trading volume data.The launch of the platform is a follow-up initiative to the three-year asset tokenization roadmap announced in November 2025, which outlined pilot projects involving Islamic finance, supply chain financing, and programmable payments. In February of this year, Bank Negara Malaysia also tested the ringgit stablecoin and tokenized bank deposits through its Digital Asset Innovation Center, with participating institutions including Standard Chartered Bank, CIMB Group, Bank of Malaysia, and investment holding company Capital A.

Feixiaohao partners with MOS/SSD to advance the Feixiaohao × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum. MOS/SSD will participate as a co-organizer in this forum, which will be held on September 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on topics such as stock tokenization, Web3, and AI.MOS/SSD (Sea Star) will participate in this forum as a co-organizer. MOS (Sea Star Community) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) deeply engaged in Web3, established on February 19, 2022. The community's vision is to build a trustworthy metaverse DAO and collaborate with SPF META to promote blockchain gaming and the metaverse ecosystem.The GWDC Korea event is expected to attract 5,000 participants, with guests and institutions such as Sun Yuchen, Animoca Brands, Bithumb, and Microsoft also in attendance. The entry of the Sea Star community into this scene will help bring the DAO, blockchain gaming, and metaverse community ecosystem into a more open exchange environment.

According to the Industrial and Commercial Times, due to the soaring prices of key components such as memory and SSDs, the cost pressure for configuring high-capacity storage in mainstream laptops has greatly increased. Cost-effective mainland Chinese memory and storage components are gradually penetrating the PC supply chain, with brands such as Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Acer, and even the American brand Apple accelerating the certification, introduction, or platform tuning of related products.The report pointed out that Lenovo has expanded its use of mainland components this year, and recently flagship laptop models equipped with Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) SSDs have appeared on North American cross-border e-commerce platforms. The American brand Apple is also reported to be negotiating with the U.S. government to procure Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) memory to cope with the rising prices. In terms of Taiwanese board manufacturers, MSI recently announced that it is the first to complete the verification and tuning of Changxin Memory DDR5 chips on the AMD platform at DDR5-8000+, while Gigabyte has also adopted Changxin Memory chips in some motherboard models. ASUS and Acer have introduced memory modules from mainland manufacturers such as BIWIN through their own brand memory certification or OEM models.Industry analysts believe that although the short-term imbalance in supply and demand for storage has prompted non-mainland brands to accelerate related certifications, due to the limited production capacity of mainland manufacturers, brand Taiwanese manufacturers still emphasize that Korean original manufacturers with long-term contracts remain the main supply partners at present.

Sonic Labs has launched the native stablecoin US Sonic Dollar (USSD), positioned as the core stable liquidity layer of the Sonic DeFi ecosystem. USSD is built on the infrastructure of Frax's frxUSD, backed by institutional endorsements from BlackRock, Superstate, and WisdomTree, and is pegged to the US dollar at a 1:1 ratio. It supports gas-free minting across more than 10 chains using assets like USDC and USDT, and is currently live on a total of 12 chains including Sonic, Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.Background of the launch: Sonic's TVL has plummeted 97% from its peak of $1.1 billion in May 2025 to $34 million, and the native token S has also dropped about 96% from its historical high of $1.03 in January 2025, with a market cap of only $150 million remaining.Sonic stated that USSD yields will flow back into the ecosystem for buybacks and incentives, aiming to build a self-reinforcing liquidity cycle and reduce reliance on external market makers.

ChainCatcher news, Metis has launched a dual-chain strategy, introducing MetisSDK and announcing the upcoming high-performance chain Hyperion designed for AI-native applications based on MetisSDK.Metis has made further strategic announcements regarding its dual-chain strategy. Metis aims to provide scalable high-performance solutions for the entire blockchain ecosystem based on MetisSDK. Through the integration of the AI-specific layer Hyperion (HYPE) and the foundational layer Andromeda, a complementary Layer2 ecosystem will be built.Andromeda, as the first step for Metis to build a scalable decentralized infrastructure, has achieved a complete decentralized sequencer node architecture, utilizing Optimistic Rollup technology, focusing on general scenarios (such as DeFi and enterprise applications), ensuring security and decentralization. Hyperion, based on MetisSDK, consists of components such as MetisVM and MetisDB. The Metis SDK provides cross-chain development tools to achieve seamless interaction between the two chains; the METIS token will serve as the native Gas Token for the dual chain.It is reported that the Hyperion testnet is scheduled to launch by the end of April 2025, with the mainnet starting in August. Andromeda will achieve Stage 0 upgrade soon and plans to reach Stage 1 goals by the end of the year.

ChainCatcher news, according to DeepSeek's announcement, on the fifth day of Open Source Week, its Fire-Flyer file system (3FS) has officially been open-sourced. As a high-performance parallel file system, 3FS can fully utilize modern SSDs and RDMA networks to achieve high-speed data access, enhancing the efficiency of AI model training and inference.Key performance indicators of 3FS:Achieved a total read throughput of 6.6 TiB/s in a 180-node clusterReached a throughput of 3.66 TiB/min in a 25-node GraySort benchmark testSingle-node KVCache query peak throughput exceeds 40+ GiB/s3FS adopts a separated architecture, supporting data preprocessing, dataset loading, checkpoint storage/recovery, embedded vector search, and inference KVCache queries, with strong consistency semantics. DeepSeek also launched the Smallpond data processing framework to further optimize 3FS's data management capabilities.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinGecko market information, FreeRossDAO (FREE) has broken through $0.002, currently quoted at $0.002101, with a 24-hour increase expanding to 1816.9%.Previously, former U.S. President Donald Trump promised to grant a pardon to "Silk Road" founder Ross Ulbricht if elected at the Libertarian National Convention held in Washington, D.C.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinGecko market information, FreeRossDAO (FREE) market capitalization has surpassed 11 million dollars.Previously, former U.S. President Donald Trump promised at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. that he would grant a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, if elected.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinGecko market information, FreeRossDAO (FREE) has broken through $0.001, currently quoted at $0.001026, with a 24-hour increase of 839.2%.Previously, former U.S. President Donald Trump promised at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. that he would grant a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, if elected.

According to ChainCatcher news, as per CoinGecko market information, influenced by Donald Trump's commitment to pardon the "Silk Road" founder, FreeRossDAO (FREE) surged over 200% in a short time, now priced at $0.0003698.Previous report stated that former U.S. President Donald Trump promised at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. that if he is re-elected, he will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of "Silk Road," on the first day. Ulbricht was sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in 2015 for creating and operating the "Silk Road" darknet marketplace, effectively a life sentence without the possibility of parole. "Silk Road" operated from 2011 to 2013 and was primarily used for the anonymous sale of drugs, widely regarded as the first real use case for Bitcoin. Trump stated that Ulbricht has served 11 years, saying, "We want to bring him home." Many in the audience held up "Free Ross" signs, cheering enthusiastically at Trump's promise.

ChainCatcher news, Bankless co-founder Ryan Sean Adams posted on the X platform that people are uneasy about BanklessDAO's proposal to request ARB funding from Arbitrum and are confusing BanklessDAO with Bankless. However, BanklessDAO is a completely independent entity from Bankless, and neither it nor another co-founder, David Hoffman, has received any economic benefits from the DAO, has never sold BANK tokens, nor intends to sell them, and has not participated in the governance voting of the DAO.Adams and David allow the DAO and those who identify with Bankless values to freely use the brand, but Adams also recognizes that this could cause confusion, and adjustments may be needed in future practices.

ChainCatcher news, Gitcoin announced the final allocation results of the Citizen Round #1 donation fund pool, with Karma, Biteye community, and BanklessDAO ranking in the top three. This Citizen Round had a total of 33 projects shortlisted for the final evaluation, with a total donation amount of $102,698.02, including a matching fund of $20,000 DAI from Gitcoin, and community donations of $82,968, achieving a 400% amplification of the matching pool funds.