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S&P Global Ratings released a report on Thursday, granting the UK digital bank Revolut a BBB+ investment grade rating for the first time, and expects the company to issue senior unsecured bonds in 2027 to establish a debt buffer capable of absorbing potential losses and meeting regulatory requirements.The report noted that Revolut's balance sheet has exceeded £40 billion (approximately $53.5 billion); if the bank were to collapse, the Bank of England could push for a restructuring, with investors bearing the corresponding losses. S&P expects that as Revolut expands its unsecured retail lending business and launches mortgage products, its loan portfolio size will double by 2027 and double again by 2028.S&P believes that Revolut has a strong consumer brand, a scalable technology platform, and an increasingly diversified product range, but its main banking customer relationships still account for a lower proportion compared to traditional banks, and rapid global expansion may exacerbate operational complexity and compliance risks. BBB+ is considered a lower tier within S&P's investment grade ratings.

According to Bloomberg's report on October 22, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has secured a loan of 15 billion yuan (approximately 2.25 billion USD), amid a significant increase in chip spending for artificial intelligence-related projects. A knowledgeable source stated that this seven-year offshore yuan loan was provided by six Chinese lending institutions, including Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the funds will be used for general corporate purposes. The source requested anonymity as the discussion pertains to non-public matters.According to Moneycontrol, which reprinted the content attributed to Bloomberg, this transaction illustrates the role of domestic lending institutions in Huawei's offshore financing since the United States imposed restrictions on Huawei in 2019. Before finalizing, Huawei had exploratory contacts with international banks. Huawei, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The report states that Huawei's research and development expenditure increased to 121 billion yuan in the first half of this year, while stockpiling due to soaring memory costs led to a negative cash flow of 39.9 billion yuan, eroding current profits. According to compiled data from Bloomberg, this is Huawei's first offshore syndicated loan since raising 11.8 billion Hong Kong dollars (approximately 1.5 billion USD) in 2020.

HUMAIN Both parties plan to collaborate on the deployment of up to 84 megawatts of AI computing infrastructure, approximately equivalent to 27,000 NVIDIA GPUs. The deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra chips is set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026, with plans to deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin series chips in 2027.

Coldcard hardware wallet manufacturer Coinkite and its co-founders Rodolfo Novak and Peter D. Gray are facing a class-action lawsuit in Ontario, Canada. The lawsuit alleges that the standard firmware used by the Coldcard hardware wallet since around March 2021 has fundamental flaws, as it does not utilize a true random number generator but instead relies on a predictable software pseudo-random number generator, which could lead to the mnemonic phrases being reproduced and the Bitcoin held by users being at risk of unauthorized access.The lawsuit seeks class certification and claims that Coinkite violated the Consumer Protection Act and the Sale of Goods Act, while also involving allegations of negligence, breach of contract, and seeks damages.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, three addresses have cumulatively withdrawn 24,454 ETH from Kraken and Binance, worth 60.68 million USD.Among them, a certain whale withdrew 10,954 ETH from Kraken and staked it after being inactive for 4 months; a certain whale withdrew 9,000 ETH from Binance and deposited it into Aave; a certain whale withdrew 4,500 ETH from Binance 10 hours ago.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has about 64.62 buy orders at the price level of $82,975, with a nominal value of approximately $5.362 million, retracting about 0.38% from the mid-price of about $83,289 at that time. The total buy orders near the front end amount to approximately $26.9975 million, while the sell orders are about $21.0445 million.The net buy orders at this venue are approximately $5.953 million, accounting for 12.39% of the total depth. The buy orders around $82,975 are the most prominent support level at the front end.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that his office has reached a $500,000 settlement agreement with Fidelity Digital Assets, National Association (the successor entity of Fidelity Digital Asset Services), regarding the company's previous practice of restricting California retail customers from transferring cryptocurrency to external wallets.Regulators believe that this practice may violate the California Commodity Act of 1990; this law restricts certain speculative commodity contracts unless the buyer obtains physical delivery within a specified time, and the California government views the ability to withdraw cryptocurrency as a functional equivalent of delivery. From November 2022 to April 2025, California customers could buy and sell cryptocurrency on the Fidelity platform but were unable to send assets directly to external wallets. Fidelity stated that this restriction stemmed from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) not approving the relevant functionality at that time; the license was approved in April 2025, and the transfer feature will be extended to all California retail customers in June 2025.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "Dota 2: Dawn Bulls vs. Zero Tenacity (BO3) - EPL Masters Group B", the sub-market "Day End" option "Yes" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 91% (a fluctuation of 41%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

On-chain data analysis account Lookonchain posted on X that on October 21, Bitcoin ETF had a net outflow of 403 BTC in a single day, approximately 33.88 million dollars; over the past 7 days, there was a net inflow of 2,528 BTC, approximately 212 million dollars.During the same period, Ethereum ETF had a net outflow of 12,700 ETH in a single day, approximately 31.42 million dollars; over the past 7 days, there was a net outflow of 155,100 ETH, approximately 384 million dollars.

The lending protocol Lido Lend proposed by contributors will launch a withdrawal mechanism called Fallback Exits. When the market lacks sufficient liquidity of loan assets, lenders can utilize the collateral of borrowers to supplement withdrawal requests, and the corresponding debt of the relevant borrowers will be reduced. The protocol was launched on October 7 as a modified fork of Morpho Blue, built around isolated markets.According to the proposal, the collateral of borrowers will be passively utilized in order of the highest position risk, meaning positions closest to the liquidation loan-to-value ratio (LLTV) will be prioritized, while borrowers with very healthy positions are less likely to be affected. Taking the ETH/wstETH market as an example, lenders provide ETH, and borrowers stake wstETH to borrow ETH; if exiting through collateral, lenders will first be exposed to the staked tokens before receiving ETH. The proposal does not specify the qualification thresholds for healthy loans or the path for lenders to obtain ETH.Contributor Izzy stated in a post on October 16 that technical specifications and market parameters will be announced in the next two weeks, and the governance process and public audit must be completed before the mainnet launch. Details such as settlement valuation, debt offset formulas, fees, and limits have yet to be determined.

According to The Block, Bitcoin's 28-day volatility has dropped to 1.2%, close to the lowest level since 2026, reflecting that current market trading activity remains sluggish.K33 analysts expect that as the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision next week and the U.S. midterm elections on November 3 approach, Bitcoin market volatility may rise.

According to Bloomberg Law, Arkansas and its Oil and Gas Commission requested the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday to overturn a lower court order. The order prohibits the enforcement of the state's law that restricts foreign entities from holding digital asset mining operations. The lower court previously determined that the law may have been rendered ineffective by federal regulations taking precedence.Joseph Nelson from the Arkansas Attorney General's Office rebutted this determination. He stated that the law falls within the core area of state police power, and the restricted entities are consistent with countries that the federal government has identified as threats to national security. The law was passed in 2024 and prohibits citizens or businesses from countries subject to U.S. Department of State weapon export controls from holding interests in digital asset mining equipment in the state.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has about 63.51 buy orders at $82,610, with a nominal value of approximately $5.2466 million, retracting about 0.37% from the mid-price of around $82,916 at that time.The total buy orders at the near-end market amount to approximately $25.2942 million, while the sell orders are about $25.3568 million, with the net sell orders exceeding approximately $62,600, accounting for 0.12% of the total depth.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX is "quite confident" about achieving 10 gigawatts of computing power online by 2027; the possibility of exceeding 20 gigawatts of computing power online by 2027 is not zero.

According to a report by Reuters, a U.S. judge dismissed a civil lawsuit for sexual abuse against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which was filed by his sister.

DeepSeek announced the full open-source of its internal inference framework DeepInfer, and simultaneously open-sourced the production-level token encoding and decoding component deepseek-recipe. DeepInfer integrates high-performance operators and a deeply optimized inference engine, supporting distributed inference, speculative decoding, SWA Bounded Replay, and structured output, compatible with NVIDIA and Huawei Ascend platforms.DeepSeek stated that it has implemented high throughput and low latency large-scale inference services for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash based on DeepInfer, and future inference code and optimizations for new models will continue to be updated here. deepseek-recipe is fully aligned with the processing logic of the DeepSeek official API, aiming to ensure that the community receives an experience consistent with the official deployment. The open-source repository and technical report have been released simultaneously.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase's spot BTC has approximately 68.44 sell orders at $81,654, with a nominal value of about $5.5886 million, which is about 0.38% above the mid-price of approximately $81,344 at that time.The total near-end sell orders amount to about $30.2732 million, while the buy orders are approximately $23.2494 million, resulting in a net sell order surplus of about $7.0238 million, accounting for 13.12% of the total depth.

According to The Information, DeepSeek is collaborating closely with Huawei to jointly design the next generation of AI chips, aiming to build models that do not rely on NVIDIA's computing power. Insiders revealed that Huawei engineers have entered DeepSeek's office to understand its model architecture and algorithm requirements, and to test how the chips handle data transmission and compression, with the first compatible chip targeting Ascend 950DT.The report pointed out that this move comes as China pushes to reduce its dependence on American chips. Limited by TSMC's foundry services and U.S. export controls, Huawei's Ascend 950DT is planned for release in 2027, but mass production may be delayed until 2028. To address the chip shortage, DeepSeek is using the TileLang programming language to bypass CUDA restrictions, while still attempting to acquire the banned NVIDIA Blackwell chips through third-party data centers. In addition, DeepSeek is forming a chip team and has begun testing clusters with over 1,000 processors.

According to the official announcement, Gate Doge (Trenches) will hold the 67th Hot Coin Competition from October 19, 16:00 to October 22, 16:00 (UTC+8). After registering, users can trade all Robinhood chain tokens in the Doge area to earn chances for a blind box lottery based on their cumulative trading volume, sharing a total airdrop reward of 30,000 USDT.Users who did not register with an invitation code can earn 1 regular blind box lottery chance for every cumulative trade of 200 USDT, while users who registered with an invitation code can earn 1 premium blind box lottery chance for every cumulative trade of 500 USDT. Both types of users can earn a maximum of 12 lottery chances during the event, with a winning rate of 100%.At the same time, the Gate Doge SOL chain peak trading competition will be held from October 19, 18:00 to November 2, 16:00 (UTC+8). Users who register and trade SOL chain tokens in the Doge area can unlock an airdrop prize pool worth up to 50,000 USDT. Once the effective cumulative trading volume of all registered users reaches a certain threshold, the corresponding tier prize pool will be unlocked, based on the highest tier reached at the end of the event.In addition, users with an effective cumulative trading volume of 40,000 USDT can participate in the trading ranking, with the top 100 qualifying users receiving rewards, and the champion can win an airdrop worth up to 10,000 USDT.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated in its latest court filing that CME only claims increased competition without reasonably explaining the existence of imminent financial harm, which is insufficient to qualify for a lawsuit challenging its perpetual contract policy. The CFTC pointed out that after the policy adjustment, CME's cryptocurrency futures trading volume has actually increased.In May of this year, the CFTC approved Kalshi's first Bitcoin perpetual contract and stated that it would regulate such products on a case-by-case basis under futures regulations. CME, on the other hand, believes that perpetual contracts do not have an expiration date and should be classified as swaps rather than futures, subject to a different regulatory framework. Last month, the CFTC requested a federal judge to dismiss the case, and this filing further elaborated on its rebuttal to CME's standing in the lawsuit.The CFTC also noted that CME had previously informed investors that it had not heard customer demand for perpetual contracts, and that such products could not replace its existing futures, and that it should not take different positions in court and during earnings calls. TD Cowen policy analyst Jaret Seiberg believes that CME may still have the upper hand regarding its standing in the lawsuit and the argument that the products should be classified as swaps. However, he is concerned that if the perpetual contract market continues to grow during the litigation, it may become more complicated to dismantle this market if CME wins.