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According to The Wall Street Journal, Broadcom (AVGO.O) is customizing AI chips for OpenAI and is seeking over $50 billion in financing.

The International Monetary Fund has completed the second and third reviews of the $1.4 billion financing mechanism for El Salvador, disbursing $139 million and granting exemptions after the country violated Bitcoin holding limits.The International Monetary Fund currently expects that, aside from documented donations, the El Salvador government will not purchase more Bitcoin and will increase the transparency of public Bitcoin holdings.

Microsoft (MSFT.O) has launched an artificial intelligence coding model that can run on personal laptops.

According to official news from Uniswap, the stock tokens for the United States and South Korea issued by Stove Finance have been launched on Arbitrum and are now available for trading on Uniswap Apps, supported by UniswapX.

Renowned trader Killa stated that Bitcoin has once again failed to break through $87,000, and the 10x leveraged long position he previously established has been stopped out at breakeven. This position was part of an aggressive trend continuation trade, originally expecting BTC to break through during the second test of the high, but after the failure to break, the price returned to the entry point.Killa mentioned that he will focus on the $80,000 to $82,000 range next, looking for opportunities to re-establish the 10x leveraged long position. Currently, he still holds long positions established at $62,600 and $76,400, and there is no reason to rush into adding new long positions. He emphasized that risk management is crucial, and his existing BTC holdings are sufficient. Regarding future trends, Killa maintains a bullish outlook, expecting prices to continue rising. He believes that the current market is in a short-term oscillation, while he primarily trades based on longer cycles.

According to The Information, the former head of Tesla (TSLA.O) Optimus is starting a robotics startup that may raise about 100 million dollars.

A former core infrastructure engineer, Daniel Rhyne, from an industrial company in New Jersey, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for attacking his employer's computer network and demanding a ransom in Bitcoin. The 59-year-old Rhyne, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, was sentenced on September 28 by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton. He pleaded guilty in April this year to charges including extortion by threatening to damage a protected computer and intentionally damaging a protected computer. The prosecution did not disclose the name of the company, which is headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, serving clients in industries ranging from biopharmaceuticals to oil and gas.According to the FBI's criminal complaint, around 4 PM on November 25, 2023, the company's network administrator began receiving hundreds of password reset notifications for accounts, and subsequently discovered that all other domain administrator accounts had been deleted. Forty-four minutes later, employees received an email titled "Your Network Has Been Penetrated," claiming that the company's IT administrator had been locked out, backups had been deleted, and warning that unless 20 Bitcoins (approximately $750,000 at the time) were paid by December 2, an additional 40 servers would be shut down daily for 10 days. The ransom was set at 700,000 euros, to be paid in Bitcoin.Investigators traced the attack back to an unauthorized virtual machine created on the company network on November 9, 2023, with the password "TheFr0zenCrew!", which was subsequently set for the administrator account, 301 user accounts, and the email used to send the ransom note.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol, stated in a live interview at the Digital Asset Summit 2026 held in Singapore that as near.com continues to expand its on-chain services, users no longer need centralized exchanges for "a large amount" of crypto activities. He mentioned that near.com is "almost ready" and has a "large roadmap for continuously adding features," including bank withdrawals, transaction records for tax purposes, and selective disclosure for confidential transactions. He also shared his experience using centralized exchanges, stating that despite knowing the company's CEO, one of his accounts was still deleted.near.com integrates cross-chain spot trading, tokenized stocks, wealth management products, and perpetual contracts into a single interface. Polosukhin indicated that most of the infrastructure for NEAR Intents has been migrated to confidential sharding, keeping transaction activities private, and users can disclose individual transactions when needed. He mentioned that near.com has a lot of fiat-related features coming soon and referenced the collaboration between NEAR and Monerium, allowing users to convert euros in their bank accounts to EURe via IBAN. The ultimate goal of NEAR Intents is to handle "any asset to any asset," such as USD to EUR, SGD to HKD.Regarding tokenized stocks, near.com completed integration with Ondo Finance in September, allowing users to convert euros into tokenized NVIDIA stocks, with NEAR planning to add more stocks from global markets.

Coreweave (CRWV.O) announced its entry into the Indian market, planning to expand its artificial intelligence cloud platform.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched four stock perpetual contracts: USDESTOCK (StablecoinX), VKTX (Viking Therapeutics), PCVX (Vaxcyte), and XP (XP).The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20 times leverage, and allow trading 24/7. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 337 stock underlying assets.

On Wednesday, the European Union law enforcement agency Europol released two reports urging the industry and policymakers to proactively address the threats posed by quantum computing. One report, titled "Quantum Computing and Cryptocurrency," written by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, points out that cryptocurrency wallets are "the main exposure point for quantum threats." Wallets rely on private keys for authorized transactions and public keys for verification; a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could derive the private key from an exposed public key, allowing attackers to access funds without authorization, a moment often referred to as Q-Day. The report states that the hash functions used to link blocks and support mining are fundamentally resistant to quantum attacks.The report believes that cryptocurrency will not collapse due to quantum computing but recommends adopting "proactive defenses," including a phased transition to quantum-resistant cryptography and improving wallet security and key management. Wallets with public keys exposed on-chain cannot be remedied afterward, and the report states that the only solution is to migrate in advance. Glassnode estimated in May this year that 6.04 million BTC (30.2% of the issued supply) have exposed public keys. Upgrading Bitcoin also comes with costs: NIST standardized post-quantum signatures are 10 to 120 times larger than the ECDSA signatures currently used in Bitcoin, which could lead to block space overload and increased transaction fees. The report cites a 2024 study estimating that migrating all unspent transaction outputs would require at least 76 days of cumulative downtime.The second report, "Collect First, Decrypt Later," was completed in collaboration with Carlos III University of Madrid in Spain. It studies the behavior of attackers who collect encrypted data today and decrypt it in the future, finding risks in protocols such as TLS, SSH, and OpenPGP.

Yorkville Ives initiated coverage on NVIDIA (NVDA.O), giving it an outperform rating with a target price of $300.

The co-founder and CEO of the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid, Jeff Yan, stated during a fireside chat at the Token2049 conference in Singapore that traditional wealth creation opportunities on Wall Street, such as company stocks, are essentially inaccessible to the investing public before they are listed on exchanges, causing retail investors to miss out on the most significant price increases prior to listing. He noted that certain assets are tradable by only a few people during most of their growth phases, and by the time the public can trade them, the growth has already been captured by a privileged few, making this wealth creation model unsustainable.Yan stated that Hyperliquid's main mission is to expand the accessibility of wealth creation opportunities and encourage more people to participate in the financial system, with income being merely a byproduct. He mentioned that Hyperliquid's success partly stems from its perpetual contracts having no expiration date, which reduces the number of decisions traders need to make and prevents liquidity fragmentation. According to data from DefiLlama, Hyperliquid generated $72 million in revenue over the past 30 days, ranking third among protocols in terms of revenue.Blockchain asset management company Pantera stated in July that perpetual contracts, due to their structural advantages, could become one of the dominant trading tools in the global financial sector, and Hyperliquid has demonstrated the potential of blockchain infrastructure to challenge traditional markets. Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, called on regulators to create a fair competitive environment for the launch of 24/7 on-chain perpetual contracts. In March of this year, the New York Stock Exchange partnered with the tokenization platform Securitize to advance blockchain-based stock trading infrastructure.

A report from the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) identifies stablecoins, particularly USDT, as a key liquidity channel supporting Iran's shadow banking system. Licensed virtual asset service providers (VASP) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region face heightened sanctions compliance pressure and need to enhance wallet ownership identification and counterparty assessment.Soham Jethani, a partner at the law firm Septten, stated that merchants settling crypto assets into local fiat currency do not necessarily avoid sanctions risks. Liability may involve designated entities, the provision of funds or economic resources, and asset handling within the transaction chain, potentially arising before the final settlement by banks. Jethani pointed out that the name of the stablecoin or the currency in which it is priced does not determine legal ownership; specific rights depend on contractual arrangements and actual payment processes.Globally circulating stablecoins may also pose secondary sanctions risks, as indirect or historical wallet associations do not automatically constitute violations and must be assessed in conjunction with applicable regulations, transaction participants, and specific facts. In regulated markets like the UAE, licensed exchange wallets are continuously monitored, and related funds can be frozen before consumption settlements, with merchants also required to complete KYC. Regulated VASPs handling deposits and withdrawals bear the responsibility for counterparty and sanctions risk assessment and corresponding controls.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that after excluding Bitcoin that has not moved for over 10 years, the proportion of BTC supply in profit has remained around 60% since August.The analysis pointed out that from a mid to long-term perspective, most of the current BTC in the market has returned to a profitable state and has not yet reached overheating levels, making continued consolidation around this level a reasonable phenomenon. The analysis believes that tokens that have not moved for over 10 years are deeply profitable and are considered to lack liquidity, with a significant portion likely lost. Excluding these can more accurately reflect the current market situation. The current proportion in profit prompts investors to reassess whether to continue holding or to take profits on positions held for nearly a year or exit with limited losses, with supply and demand dynamics determining the subsequent trend.

ChainCatcher live report, at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, World Liberty Financial co-founder Eric Trump stated that over the past year, funds have rotated from the cryptocurrency market to the AI sector, suppressing Bitcoin prices, but "this is the greatest thing that could happen"------the faster AI grows, the faster digital assets will grow. He provided a practical example: in the future, people will let AI agents book hotels and arrange travel, and these transactions "will not use fiat currency, will not use cash," but will be completed directly by agents through cryptocurrency wallets.Eric Trump pointed out that funds have now flowed back into the cryptocurrency market, and prices are rising, "the faster our peers in AI sprint towards their goals, the better it will be for our industry," and the industry should embrace AI with open arms.