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According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX has launched perpetual contracts for LULU/USDT, DNA/USDT, and Q/USDT on October 19, supporting 1-20 times long and short operations.At the same time, from now until October 22 at 15:00 (UTC+8), Huobi HTX is launching a new contract trading competition. Users who complete registration, participate in the trading of the event tokens, and meet the specified thresholds will have the opportunity to share a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX.

Elon Musk stated that next year he will give a share of SpaceX to every child in the United States, which is just the first step in a series of actions for the future.

Phoenix Technology reported that on October 19, ByteDance's cloud and AI service platform Volcano Engine launched the Seedance Premium AI Drama Incentive Program, providing financial incentives for premium AI short dramas produced using Seedance and launched on the Hongguo Short Drama App. This program excludes live-action dramas and is only open to AI comics, AI simulated dramas, and other AI-generated forms. The video content of the submitted works must be entirely produced using Seedance, with the usage of Seedance 2.5 accounting for more than 50%, and the generation format through API or tool platforms is not limited.Works must rank within the top 50 AI dramas of the month based on Hongguo's popularity index and pass the review. The applicant can be a company or an individual and must ensure that the information is true and complete. The incentives are divided into three tiers based on monthly rankings: for TOP 1 to TOP 10, 200,000 yuan per work; for TOP 11 to TOP 20, 100,000 yuan per work; for TOP 21 to TOP 50, 50,000 yuan per work. The distribution method is 50% cash plus 50% equivalent vouchers. The vouchers can be chosen by the applicant at the time of registration from three options, including an equivalent Volcano Ark API Token, equivalent "Drama Creation" usage rights, or equivalent "Comic Creation Tool" usage rights. Selected works must cooperate to complete the verification of the work and generation records, and if necessary, submit original generation materials. Those who do not pass the verification or have false declarations will be disqualified from receiving incentives. The deadline for the first phase of the activity is January 31, 2027.

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.

Semiconductor analyst Jukan shares a commentary translated into English by him, authored by a salesperson from a local Chinese sell-side institution. The individual states: In mid to late September, hardware quickly transitioned into a downward wave, with China and South Korea adjusting first, experiencing deeper declines and longer durations, followed by Japan, Taiwan, and the semiconductor ETF SOXX weakening subsequently; there is significant divergence in the market regarding whether AI is entering a mid-cycle collapse, but there is less controversy about the industry still advancing.The individual summarizes the views of interviewed investors: High long-term interest rates in the U.S., capital expenditures beginning to rely on external financing and competing for funds in the market, multi-layered leverage accumulation, and tight funding are the main reasons for this round of decline, with companies like CoreWeave experiencing a noticeable deterioration in financing structure and cost burden. Model invocation prices are decreasing, but capital expenditures and supply chain costs are difficult to reduce quickly, making short-term investment returns hard to realize. ASML and TSMC's guidance this season is strong, but near-term pressures cannot be ruled out; the bullwhip effect and differences in value chain levels may cause volatility to be greater than expected.The individual also mentions that use cases beyond coding are emerging in scenarios such as SaaS and AI drug development, which may gradually alleviate investment return concerns and expand demand. His personal judgment: Before more evidence emerges, the current situation resembles a high-volatility phase rather than a collapse that has already begun; the decline may not yet be over, and hardware leadership may give way to applications. Even if control of both houses changes in the midterm elections, the impact may mainly be limited to constraints on certain data center projects, and the U.S. earnings season needs to verify the performance of large technology companies.

JPMorgan Chase is expanding its JPM Coin dollar deposit token to the Ethereum mainnet, offering it to institutional clients. The token was previously launched in 2025 on Base, representing actual bank deposits and can be used for near-instantaneous peer-to-peer transfers and settlements around the clock.Currently, it is only available to JPMorgan Chase's institutional clients through Kinexys, not supported for public trading, and not open to retail clients. JPM Coin is a permissioned and regulatory-compliant bank currency, not a decentralized stablecoin.

Aster officially announced that from October 5, 2026, 00:00 to October 19, 2026, 00:00 (UTC), 99% of the daily transaction fees on the platform will be used for buybacks, totaling 2,721,732.41 ASTER repurchased for stakers; at the same time, an equivalent amount of ASTER tokens allocated by the team has also been burned.Since adopting the upgraded token economic model on June 17, 2026, the total amount of ASTER burned has reached 32,307,874.94 tokens; the project's historical total burn amount has reached 210,088,876.51 tokens. As of now, Aster expects the annualized staking yield to be: 4.53% for a 26-week lock-up and 24.8% for a 208-week lock-up. Actual yields may vary.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), three addresses that may belong to the same entity/whale redeemed 18.085 million ENA from Ethena within the last hour and deposited all of it into Binance, worth approximately 3.64 million dollars, with an average deposit price of 0.2013 dollars.

SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon 9 rocket on October 20 (Tuesday) local time, sending the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission payload into orbit.

Analyst Darkfost stated that since Bitcoin reached its peak last October, its maximum drawdown has reached 54%, and the current price has dropped about 35% from the peak.During the same period, the cumulative selling pressure in the Meme coin sector on the Binance platform has exceeded 1.4 billion USD, making it one of the most severely impacted sectors in this bear market. Darkfost pointed out that Meme coins lack fundamental support, with prices primarily driven by market sentiment and cultural trends. Currently, the market capitalization of Meme coins accounts for less than 3% of the total market capitalization of altcoins, reflecting a continuous loss of liquidity in this sector. He believes that Meme coins often face greater downward pressure during market adjustments, and investors should be wary of the associated risks.

Zakura has announced an experimental network layer P2Pv2 for Zcash nodes, intended to replace the old protocol inherited from Bitcoin. This layer combines high-throughput networking, resource control, and a consensus engine tested for properties, allowing developers to add services without permission. Zakura states that approximately 50,000 transactions per second require each full node to continuously receive about 100MB/s of block data, while the 25-second block of NU7 can carry a maximum of 2MB, with existing network throughput differing by more than a thousand times from this rate. Tachyon can reduce the proof after entering the block, but the network still needs to propagate a large number of individual transactions.P2Pv2 replaces the protocol stack from about a decade ago with protocols that can be optimized for latency, throughput, or robustness, allowing a secure connection to carry multiple independent services. The transport layer uses its own zakura-quic, based on quinn-proto, utilizing QUIC and TLS 1.3, and authenticating peers with Ed25519 node identity. Related changes remove the dependency on Iroh, allowing nodes to configure socket buffers, flow control windows, timers, and connection admission before the TLS handshake. The new transport directly connects to peer addresses without using relays, external address lookups, automatic port mapping, or QUIC NAT traversal. Nodes sign identities, addresses, protocol scopes, and service IDs, allowing clients to find peers based on specific services.The independent component zakura-header-chain verifies block headers and retains competing branches in a directed acyclic graph, selecting the best qualified chain. Block synchronization schedules requests based on the delivery rates measured by each peer, and a verified commitment tree is used to skip the reconstruction of Sapling, Orchard, and Ironwood trees for each block. Currently, the Mainnet still defaults to the old P2P stack, while the Testnet and Regtest run dual stacks by default, with the native protocol version being p2p-v2/3. Zakura notes that P2Pv2 still has known denial-of-service risks and has not yet become a hardened trust boundary; production hardening, resource control, and block relay protocols are still in progress.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, Microsoft has withdrawn from a large artificial intelligence data center project developed by the UK data center company Nscale in Essex, with reports indicating that the withdrawal is related to concerns over power supply. Officials from the UK National Grid had informed Nscale that the power supply for the data center is not expected to be in place until the 2030s. Nscale is exploring whether it can generate power on-site and whether it can expedite the grid connection process.The project was previously referred to by the UK government as the largest data center in the UK, originally scheduled to open next year. As of the report, the site still appears to be just a scaffolding yard. Microsoft had originally planned to fund the construction of a supercomputer, but the collaboration has now been terminated. Following the termination of the related computing power transaction, Nscale lost its only publicly announced client for the data center in Essex. Nscale stated that its relationship with Microsoft remains strong and long-lasting, and the two parties will continue to collaborate on other overseas projects, with Microsoft still participating in another project in Norway.The Starmer government highlighted this project when announcing the UK's 2025 artificial intelligence strategy, calling it the largest autonomous artificial intelligence data center in the UK. Nscale has received support from several tech companies, including Nvidia, and plans to go public in the US this year, with a valuation potentially reaching $35 billion.

At the 2026 RISC-V China Summit, Chief Scientist Meng Jianyi of Alibaba Damo Academy stated: So far, the Xuantie chips have steadily shipped over 6 billion units. Xuantie is a series of RISC-V processors launched by Alibaba Damo Academy.At the conference, Alibaba Damo Academy also released the first automotive-grade enhanced E908A chip. Meng Jianyi cited a prediction from Omida, stating that by 2030, the annual shipment volume of global RISC-V processors will grow by nearly 30% each year, and by 2030, the global market share of processor shipments will reach approximately 25%.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0x7fdafd...17d1 currently holds a short position of 16,880.69 ETH, with a nominal value of 41.0251 million USD; at the same time, it holds a short position of 281.793 BTC, with a nominal value of 23.3088 million USD.At the time of publication, ETH is quoted at 2,430.30 USD, and BTC is quoted at 82,716 USD.

According to Gate market data, on October 19, Jinshi Data reported that U.S. stocks are expected to open higher, with Nasdaq 100 index futures up 1.3% and S&P 500 index futures up 0.8%.Previously, U.S. stocks experienced the largest weekly decline since April of last year. Analysts pointed out that easing market sentiment supported Asian markets, with the South Korean KOSPI index rising 0.5%.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou recently stated in an interview with Wu Shuo that Bybit has covered the losses caused by previous attacks from North Korean hackers through operational income such as transaction fees by the end of last year. He believes that there will still be trading platforms that encounter hacker attacks in the future, and the security system should be designed with the premise of "assuming it will definitely be hacked."Regarding competition, Ben Zhou believes that the golden period for the expansion of global trading platforms has passed, and the industry will further consolidate. Regional trading platforms with licenses and local operational capabilities still have opportunities. He revealed that Bybit's profits have declined year-on-year this year, and traditional asset trading businesses such as stocks are currently not enough to offset the impact brought by the cryptocurrency business.In terms of the U.S. market, he stated that Bybit is still waiting for the right opportunity to enter and is more inclined to cooperate with local institutions that have a retail user base. The core strategy for the next year will focus on regional development and deep localization. He also discussed the differences between the Bitget security incident and the Bybit theft incident, as well as the data security challenges brought by the large-scale application of AI within the platform.

The Zakura team, which operates the Zcash network, released a technical article stating that they plan to allocate a unique viewing key for each ZEC exchange completed through NEAR Intents, in order to block future quantum computers from exploiting public refund addresses to piece together user payment histories. NEAR Intents supports cross-chain token exchanges, and when users exchange the privacy coin ZEC for USDC, the service will publish a Zcash address for the user on the NEAR public blockchain, which will be used to return any unused ZEC.The Zcash address contains a public key generated by the wallet's viewing key, which cannot be reverse-engineered by ordinary computers, but large quantum computers running Shor's algorithm could theoretically deduce the key from the address. Zcash wallets can generate multiple seemingly unrelated addresses, but they typically share the same viewing key. Once an attacker cracks it, they can associate all payments received by the account and read the amounts and notes. Zakura's solution allocates a unique viewing key for each exchange, while the spending key remains in the user's main account. Even if the future refund address is compromised, the attacker would only be able to see payments related to that specific exchange.This design also addresses a practical issue: wallets conducting hundreds of exchanges would generate hundreds of keys, requiring each key to scan the entire Zcash chain during backup recovery. Zakura's solution is a privately queryable database that uses private information retrieval technology, so when the wallet inquires about the refund destination, the database will not know the address being queried. Zakura claims that wallets built on its open-source library (including Vizor) will be able to add this feature in the coming weeks, and hardware wallets will follow after firmware support, ahead of the January quantum-resistant payment target set by Zcash developers this month.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings is suspected of selling BTC.In the past 5 days, wallets associated with MARA have transferred a total of 1000 BTC to Binance and Gate, worth approximately 82.8 million dollars.