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According to Bloomberg, Tencent Holdings has begun marketing dollar and offshore renminbi bonds, with an issuance scale of approximately 5 billion dollars, and the funds will be used to support its artificial intelligence investments.According to informed sources, the preliminary price guidance for the proposed 10-year and 20-year dollar bonds is approximately 115 basis points and 140 basis points above comparable U.S. Treasury yields, respectively. The guidance for the concurrently marketed 10-year and 30-year offshore renminbi notes is approximately 2.9% and 3.5%, respectively.

The A-share banking sector rose against the trend today, with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Bank of China collectively setting new historical records for their stock prices. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China reached a peak of 8.51 yuan during trading, with its market value briefly surpassing 3 trillion yuan, while China Construction Bank and Bank of China also hit new highs since their listings.So far, 21 A-share listed banks have disclosed their mid-term dividend plans for 2026, with a total proposed dividend exceeding 260 billion yuan. The six major banks have unified their dividend payout ratio, increasing from last year's 30% to 31%, with a total proposed dividend of approximately 221 billion yuan. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China leads with 53.853 billion yuan, followed by China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, and Bank of China with proposed dividends of 52.582 billion yuan, 45.393 billion yuan, and 38.343 billion yuan, respectively. Fifteen banks have increased their dividend ratios compared to last year, with Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank leading at 34.07%. Currently, seven banks, including Ruifeng Bank, Minsheng Bank, and Chengdu Bank, have completed their dividend payouts, totaling approximately 18.9 billion yuan.Market analysis suggests that high dividends and expectations for mid-term dividends are important driving forces behind this round of increases. Based on the latest stock prices, among the 42 A-share banks, 27 have dividend yields above 3%, with Bank of Communications and Postal Savings Bank at 4.32% and 4.22%, respectively, significantly higher than current deposit rates and the average annualized returns of wealth management products.

According to Bitcoin News, the Bitcoin Lightning Network development kit LDK has fixed multiple security vulnerabilities, including a channel reconnection vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious counterparties, leading to the theft of funds. The LDK official released versions 0.1.13, 0.2.7, and 0.3-rc3 on October 3, recommending operators interacting with untrusted channel counterparties in production environments to upgrade. Currently, the related disclosures have not confirmed any actual losses caused by these vulnerabilities.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has upgraded its CFD products, further optimizing the tiered leverage and margin mechanism for gold (XAUUSD). When the exposure of XAUUSD and its related contracts (XAUUSD.p, XAUUSD.s, XAUUSD.pro) is below $100,000, the maximum leverage has been upgraded from 800 times to 2,000 times, with the corresponding margin requirement reduced to 0.05%. For positions exceeding this range, the platform will continue to adopt a tiered margin calculation mechanism, and the margin rate will be dynamically adjusted as the nominal value of the position increases.This upgrade enhances the efficiency of capital use and strategy flexibility in CFD trading through a more flexible leverage and margin tiering mechanism, providing professional traders with more options for strategy allocation in different market environments.

The Internet of Things public chain IoTeX announced the launch of IOTX supply integration and the IOTX Redemption Portal. Users can exchange the ERC-20 IOTX issued on Ethereum in 2018 at a 1:1 ratio with zero fees for the native IOTX on the IoTeX mainnet. After completing the connection, sending, and signing, the native tokens will be sent to the same address.IoTeX stated that IOTX was issued in 2018 in the form of Ethereum ERC-20. A year later, the IoTeX mainnet went live, and the native IOTX is used to pay for Gas, secure network safety through staking, and complete settlements on IoTeX L1. Since the 2018 contract is still in circulation, IOTX has coexisted in two forms for a long time, and this integration aims to unify the supply.IoTeX also mentioned that the European fintech company Revolut has supported native IOTX, with over 70 million global customers; the licensed exchange in Thailand, Bitkub, has also supported it. Both have joined platforms that already support native IOTX, such as Binance, Upbit, Bithumb, and Kraken.

The world's largest asset management company BlackRock, under the BlackRock Investment Institute, has adjusted its asset allocation in the United States, ending nearly six years of an underweight position on U.S. Treasury bonds. The institution has upgraded the rating of short-term U.S. Treasury bonds to overweight, while the rating for long-term U.S. Treasury bonds has been raised from underweight to neutral. Additionally, the ratings for U.S. stocks and U.S. agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) have been downgraded from overweight to neutral.BlackRock strategists stated that current U.S. Treasury yields have risen to attractive levels, and the interest rate swap market's expectation of the Federal Reserve raising rates at least three times in the next 12 months, with each increase of 25 basis points, may be excessive. The downgrade of the U.S. stock rating is mainly to address potential market volatility brought about by the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure and the recent risk of rising financing costs. However, the institution remains constructive on the long-term investment prospects in AI-related fields. Furthermore, BlackRock has also reduced its underweight position in Japanese government bonds.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market and leading investment institutions disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocation, equity tokenization, and mixed financial innovations in real estate. The core information is as follows:Strategy (NASDAQ: $MSTR) increased its holdings by 250 BTC last week, raising its dollar reserves to $5.5 billion: The world's largest corporate Bitcoin treasury publicly listed company, Strategy, disclosed its latest ledger. Last week, the company increased its holdings by another 250 Bitcoins in the secondary market, while spending $192 million to repurchase its STRC preferred shares. As of October 11, 2026, the total amount of Bitcoin held by Strategy has risen to 848,250 BTC, and the balance of dollar reserves in the balance sheet has increased to $5.5 billion.Zhibao Technology (NASDAQ: $ZBAO) plans to explore stock tokenization and evaluate re-staking 2,380 BTC for liquidity: Nasdaq-listed insurtech company Zhibao Technology announced the signing of a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the liquidity re-staking protocol Bedrock. Both parties will establish a joint working group to explore the tokenization of its Class A common stock registered with the U.S. SEC at the transfer agent level (retaining full voting and dividend rights) and explore integration with compliant DeFi applications; at the same time, Zhibao Technology is evaluating the possibility of putting part of its treasury holdings of 2,380 Bitcoins into Bedrock's uniBTC infrastructure. This agreement is currently non-binding and still needs to go through due diligence, compliance review between China and the U.S., and complete restructuring if necessary, with a formal agreement expected to be signed within the next 12 months.BitMine (NASDAQ: $BMNR) increased its holdings by over 12,000 ETH last week, raising its total holdings to 6.028 million: Nasdaq-listed mining company BitMine disclosed that it increased its holdings by another 12,532 Ethereum last week. As of October 11, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 6,028,946 ETH (approximately 4.9% of the total supply on the network). Currently, BitMine's total asset value is approximately $16.2 billion (including $612 million in cash and securities, 214 Bitcoins, $180 million in Beast Industries equity, and $85 million in Eightco investments). Of these, the staked Ethereum remains at 5,067,309 (accounting for 84% of total holdings), valued at approximately $12.9 billion, with current annualized staking income of about $336 million.DeFi Development (NASDAQ: $DFDV) increased its holdings by over 22,000 SOL last week, bringing total holdings close to 2.59 million: Solana treasury company DeFi Development announced that in the past week, its holdings of SOL and SOL equivalents increased by 22,070. The cumulative holdings on the balance sheet have reached approximately 2,586,282 SOL, continuously promoting on-chain staking and validator node operations.Cardone Capital disclosed a $1 billion mixed real estate and Bitcoin platform, planning to refinance to increase holdings by 500 BTC: Real estate investment firm Cardone Capital's founder Grant Cardone revealed that its mixed investment model in real estate and Bitcoin has attracted about 3,000 investors over the past 18 months, with a cumulative transaction scale of $1 billion. Its first project cost $72 million to acquire property and allocated $17 million in Bitcoin, with the property currently generating about $360,000 in monthly rental cash flow, all of which is used for continuous Bitcoin purchases. The project is planning to refinance the underlying property to use the loan to buy back 500 Bitcoins, which will increase the project's holdings to about 700 Bitcoins. Cardone also revealed that Bitcoin currently accounts for about 20% of his personal investment portfolio.

According to Gate quotes, the Hong Kong stock storage concept has declined, with Southern Double Long SK Hynix (07709.HK) dropping over 17%, and Southern Double Long Samsung Electronics (07747.HK) falling over 14%.

According to South Korean media etoday, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Financial Services Commission of South Korea stated that the Korea Communications Commission has decided to implement domestic access blocking or termination measures against 27 virtual asset operators' websites, including KuCoin, MEXC, BingX, Phemex, XT.com, Bitrue, CoinW, Poloniex, BTCC, and BitMart, which have not reported in accordance with the law.This initiative expands the scope of restrictions on unreported operators from mobile application markets to internet web pages.

According to Lookonchain data, the trader AguilaTrades, who had previously accumulated losses of 38 million dollars, established a short position in BTC worth 10.14 million dollars (a total of 124.24 BTC) with 40x leverage 4 hours ago. Currently, the unrealized profit of this position is 165,000 dollars.The liquidation price of the position is 83,432.22 dollars.

According to Gate quotes, the South Korean KOSPI index has widened its decline to 5%. SK Hynix fell over 7%, and Samsung Electronics dropped nearly 6%.

Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML is expected to announce its Q3 financial report on October 14. Driven by demand for AI chips, the market anticipates significant growth in revenue and profits compared to the same period in 2025. Wall Street analysts estimate Q3 revenue at 11.73 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 55%; earnings per share are projected to be 10.76 euros, nearly doubling from 5.49 euros in Q3 2025.ASML's Q2 revenue was 9.3 billion euros, higher than 7.7 billion euros in the same period of 2025, with net profit increasing from 2.3 billion euros to 2.9 billion euros. The company estimates Q3 revenue to be between 11 billion and 12 billion euros, with a gross margin of 55% to 57%, and has raised its full-year revenue outlook to between 43 billion and 45 billion euros.ASML is the only manufacturer in the world that commercializes extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment. Foundries such as TSMC, Intel, and Samsung rely on its equipment to manufacture advanced AI processors, and the company is also developing the next generation of High-NA EUV. Intel has processed over 1 million wafers using this equipment in research, testing, and manufacturing, while Samsung plans to introduce it into advanced DRAM mass production by 2028. The market expects ASML to increase the capacity of its existing EUV systems by about 30% by 2027.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase spot BTC has approximately 64.53 sell orders at the price level of $82,071, with a nominal value of about $5.3 million, which is about 0.40% above the mid-price of approximately $81,741 at that time. The total near-term sell orders amount to about $25.1354 million, while the buy orders are approximately $18.7532 million.Currently, the net sell orders on Coinbase spot are about $6.3822 million, accounting for 14.54% of the total depth. This sell order level is the most prominent resistance in the near term.

xAI launched the X subscription plan, integrating Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium benefits globally, with subscription fees ranging from 8 to 200 USD per month.

On-chain derivatives protocol Derive has released a new proposal in its governance forum, aiming to expand its business into the regulated derivatives market in the United States. Community members can review the proposal and participate in the discussion.Derive is an on-chain derivatives protocol aimed at professional traders, offering trading products such as options and perpetual contracts, and employs an off-chain matching and on-chain settlement architecture. The proposal is currently in the community discussion phase, and the specific regulatory path, partners, and timeline will be based on the content of the forum proposal.

SWI Group announced the raising of approximately 900 million dollars in funding to expand its AI and data center business. The company has taken control of the cryptocurrency mining company Genesis Digital Assets, which originally belonged to FTX, and will continue to advance its transformation.

With only 22 days left until the U.S. midterm elections, Fairshake, aligned with the stance of the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, and its affiliated Political Action Committee (PAC) have ramped up advertising to support their identified "crypto-friendly" candidates. According to documents disclosed by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Saturday, the PACs Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress have collectively spent $2.7 million on media and direct mail production to support Democratic and Republican candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. Fairshake's funding primarily comes from donations from investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, and Ripple Labs.Specific expenditures include: over $76,000 for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, $73,000 for House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson, $512,000 for California Congressman Pete Aguilar, and $500,000 for New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer. A few days earlier, Fairshake announced it would additionally support 32 House candidates in 2026, with 6 of them each receiving $1 million in media support.

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced the official launch of the personalized trading interface Binance AI for global English users. This free tool is based on generative UI and can customize market information, portfolio tracking, and trading functions according to users' interests and trading experience levels, with more language versions being rolled out gradually. A Binance spokesperson revealed to The Block that since testing began on September 7, approximately 150,000 users have participated in the trial.The features of Binance AI include AI-generated portfolio performance summaries, analysis of popular volatile assets, voice alerts, and on-demand text or audio market briefings. The product was demonstrated in a live broadcast last week, alongside the upcoming Binance AI Pro. Binance's Vice President of Product, Jeff Li, stated that the market is becoming increasingly complex, but tools for understanding the market should be easier to use. This interface aims to make market information more accessible to users, whether they are novice traders or managing more complex positions.Binance Co-CEO Richard Teng described the product in an announcement on October 5 as part of the company's efforts to make financial information more accessible. He stated that finance has always been built for those who already understand it, blockchain allows everyone to enter the market, and AI empowers everyone with the knowledge to navigate the market. In April of this year, Teng discussed the company's super app strategy with The Block, which includes plans on how to utilize artificial intelligence.