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BlackRock, the world's largest investment management firm, submitted an application to the SEC on Monday to launch the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protect ETF. According to the filing, the fund aims to provide investors with upside returns from the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) and similar Bitcoin exposure while seeking to offer a certain degree of downside protection.The iShares Bitcoin Trust, managed by BlackRock, currently has assets under management exceeding $65 billion, making it the largest Bitcoin ETF in its category. BlackRock launched IBIT in January 2024 and introduced the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF in June of this year, which aims to provide investors with Bitcoin exposure while generating monthly options premium income.Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart noted on the X platform that this is BlackRock's third Bitcoin ETF application, and its product line currently only covers Bitcoin and Ethereum, without venturing into other crypto assets. In recent years, other companies have launched ETFs tracking assets such as XRP, SOL, and DOGE.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt holds about 1% of shares in Anthropic, stemming from his investment of several tens of millions of dollars in the Series A funding, which will make him one of the individuals benefiting the most from Anthropic's upcoming IPO. It is currently unclear whether he has sold any shares, and both Schmidt and Anthropic declined to comment.According to Pitchbook data, when Schmidt first invested in 2021, Anthropic was valued at $461 million. Investors stated last week that Anthropic's reasonable valuation is between $1.8 trillion and $2 trillion; if calculated at the upper limit, Schmidt's net worth would increase to nearly $80 billion.

According to Cointelegraph, Protect Progress, an affiliated organization of the Fairshake super PAC closely related to the cryptocurrency industry, has submitted documents to the Federal Election Commission revealing that it has spent $362,000 on advertising to support Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Aisha Wahab in California's 14th congressional district, whose opponent is fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez.Notably, Wahab defeated Hernandez with over 53% of the vote in the special election on August 18, aimed at filling the vacancy left by Eric Swalwell's resignation, which ends in January 2027. Swalwell resigned in April this year due to sexual assault allegations. Both Wahab and Hernandez were previously rated as "strongly supportive of crypto" in a questionnaire from the digital asset organization Stand With Crypto.Fairshake was established in 2023, primarily funded by Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and Andreessen Horowitz. Since the 2024 U.S. elections, the super PAC has invested tens of millions of dollars to support candidates it identifies as "pro-crypto." Its affiliated organization, Defend American Jobs, has also spent over $6.7 million opposing independent candidate Dan Osborn in the Nebraska Senate election and invested $8 million supporting incumbent Republican Jon Husted in Ohio, with total spending in that election exceeding $46 million.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, AI cloud computing company Nscale, supported by Nvidia, is in talks with Anthropic to sell computing power, with a deal value potentially around 45 billion dollars.According to the plan, Nscale will build a second facility at its Monarch data center campus located in West Virginia, USA, providing 460 megawatts of computing power, using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. Anthropic also holds a priority purchase right for a third facility. Informed sources said the deal could be finalized in the coming days, but details may still change. According to Nscale's IPO application documents, Anthropic had previously signed an infrastructure agreement worth approximately 44.6 billion dollars with them.

According to The Block, payment company Mastercard has launched the Stablecoin Security tool to screen for fraud and sanction risks in stablecoin payments.This tool is aimed at stablecoin payment scenarios, helping relevant institutions identify fraudulent activities and sanction compliance risks during transaction processing. Mastercard did not disclose more product parameters and launch scope in the summary of the report.

According to Hyperliquid News, entropyIO purchased the MOONSHOT ticker for 574.98 HYPE (approximately 46,068 USD). This is a new HIP-3 ticker added by Hyperliquid.

According to PR Newswire, Cboe Global Markets, the parent company of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), announced that Cboe has expanded the trading hours for certain U.S. stock individual stocks and exchange-traded fund (ETF) options.The newly added pre-market and after-hours trading periods for the relevant options are from 7:30 to 9:25 AM ET Monday to Friday for pre-market trading, and from 4:00 to 4:15 PM for after-hours trading. This covers popular individual stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Robinhood, Intel, as well as major ETFs like SPY, QQQ, and GLD, currently involving a total of 29 underlying assets.

According to Cointelegraph, Section 502 of the Digital Asset Tax Clarification Act (H.R. 10357) currently advancing in the U.S. Congress stipulates that the Secretary of the Treasury must establish a voluntary disclosure program for digital assets within 12 months after the act takes effect.Eligible taxpayers can correct past digital asset tax violations by submitting amended returns and paying back taxes, interest, and penalties under the program. The act was passed by the House Ways and Means Committee on September 16 with a vote of 38 to 5, but it has not yet officially become law and still needs to be passed by the House, the Senate, and signed by the President.Andrew Gordon, Executive Director of the Digital Asset Taxation Action Organization, stated that this is a significant change that will help many ordinary taxpayers, yet it has received little attention. He pointed out that U.S. investors are facing the first filing season under the new 1099-DA broker reporting rules, which give the IRS greater visibility into crypto transactions but do not address the years prior to the rules taking effect. Sharon Yip, founder of Crypto Tax Advisors, also noted that filing errors among ordinary crypto investors are very common, and the existing procedures lack standardized processes, making it impossible to provide predictable penalty treatment for unintentional violators.According to Section 502, taxpayers generally must submit amended returns within 24 months after the program is established, and the act sets two penalty standards. Taxpayers who provide proof that their violations are neither fraudulent nor intentional can apply a 0% penalty on the portion of back taxes up to $25,000 if they file within the first 12 months after the program starts, while amounts exceeding that will incur a 5% penalty.Those who do not provide such proof will face penalties of 25% and 40%, and the tax rates will increase if the initial window is missed. The act also provides specific civil penalty waivers, allowing unproven taxpayers to be exempt from criminal referral within the scope of the disclosed information. A report by CoinTracker in 2026 showed that only 49% of crypto users correctly understand that selling crypto assets is a taxable event.

The New York Stock Exchange has launched extended trading hours for U.S. stock options.

Snapshot posted on platform X, stating that ENS is voting to activate ENSv2 on the Ethereum mainnet through an on-chain proposal that includes 15 calls. This proposal is executed in one go by the execution contract controlled by the ENS DAO, which, if passed, will freeze new registrations of version 1 while allowing un-migrated domain names to continue renewing.After the upgrade, ENSv2 will allow owners to customize the subdomain registry and grant resolution rights individually without transferring domain ownership. In addition, ENS Labs will synchronize eligible domain names, open v2 registrations and migrations, and transfer the remaining management rights to the ENS DAO.

The website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission shows that CITIC Securities released the "Report on the Progress of the Guidance Work for the Initial Public Offering and Listing of MiniMax Group Inc. (Phase II)" on October 15. This phase of guidance started on July 10, 2026, and lasted for more than three months. CITIC Securities, together with Tongshang Law Firm and Ernst & Young, continuously monitors the company's operational performance and compliance in accordance with regulatory requirements and the guidance agreement, and conducts guidance through on-site training and communication on specific issues.The report states that the guidance target has established an internal governance structure and relevant company management systems, but there is still room for optimization in execution. CITIC Securities will collaborate with intermediary institutions, combine due diligence, continuously refine and improve corporate governance and standardized operations, propose rectification suggestions, and supervise the implementation of internal controls. In the next phase, work will continue with Tongshang Law Firm and Ernst & Young, focusing on enhancing standardized operational levels and preparing for guidance acceptance.On May 29, 2026, CITIC Securities signed a guidance agreement with MiniMax and submitted a guidance filing application to the Shanghai Regulatory Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission on the same day, which was accepted, marking MiniMax's official entry into the guidance period. The large model company MiniMax (00100.HK) was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 9, 2026, approximately four years from establishment to listing, and has focused on the research and development of full-modal models since its inception.

During the opening ceremony of the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference, the Governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, stated that the rapid development of artificial intelligence globally has a profound impact on productivity, investment, employment, income distribution, and financial stability.Pan Gongsheng mentioned that from the perspective of the People's Bank, they will closely monitor and assess the macroeconomic impacts of artificial intelligence development, ensure financial support for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and steadily promote the application of artificial intelligence in the financial sector.

Fortune Protocol officially announces a collaboration with the AI Agent platform X-Agent. The two parties will jointly explore the combination of prediction markets and proactive Personal Agents, promoting the extension of prediction markets from information inquiry tools to personalized, proactive information service scenarios.In this collaboration, Fortune Protocol will provide prediction market scenarios and related market data capabilities, while X-Agent will leverage its advantages in Personal Agent technology and application design to jointly explore how AI Agents can continuously track events of interest to users, identify changes in market probabilities, provide contextual interpretations, and take further actions with user authorization.The two parties will first advance the design of application scenarios and the development of conceptual prototypes, exploring the application potential of prediction markets in the next generation of personal AI Agents and the Agent Economy.

The Governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, stated at the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Meeting that it will pilot further facilitation for foreign financial institutions to conduct RMB purchase and sale operations in the domestic foreign exchange market.The People's Bank plans to allow 8 domestic and foreign RMB offshore clearing banks to conduct proprietary trading in the domestic interbank foreign exchange market, promoting the integrated development of onshore and offshore markets.

According to the market information platform Liquid247.xyz, the current price of BTC is $82,546. The thickest order book is on Coinbase spot: sell orders at $24,771,400, buy orders at $22,870,300, with sell orders exceeding buy orders by $1,901,100.Binance spot, OKX perpetual, and Hyperliquid perpetual sell orders are also thicker than buy orders, but the scale varies. If a large buy or sell order suddenly appears, exchanges with thinner order books will be affected first, and price fluctuations will be more pronounced.

According to Gate market data, the storage sector in the U.S. stock market saw a general rise before the market opened, with Micron Technology up 2.4%, SanDisk up 3.64%, SK Hynix up 3.6%, and Western Digital and Seagate Technology both up over 2%.

According to Coinglass data, the current holdings of whales on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 8.136 billion USD, with long positions totaling 3.815 billion USD, accounting for 46.9% of the holdings, and short positions totaling 4.32 billion USD, accounting for 53.1%. The profit and loss for long positions is 220 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -191 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a full margin of 5 times at a price of 2322.65 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -11.7675 million USD.

According to official news from IoTeX, the Zanzibar hard fork has been activated on the IoTeX mainnet (block height 53,533,081). According to IIP-59, voter rewards will be calculated and distributed on-chain during each reward cycle, eliminating off-chain services and intermediaries, allowing anyone to directly verify each payment on-chain. The first on-chain distribution will take place the following day.This upgrade also strengthens consensus by checking the proof of holding representative keys, preparing for subsequent BLS signature aggregation. Node operators need to upgrade to iotex-core v2.5.1 without the need to modify configurations or resynchronize.