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Android Authority reported on October 27 that it discovered a developing Overseas QR payments setting in Google Wallet version 26.42.1003171897. The "Learn more" link within this setting points to the Google Wallet support page, where this feature is referred to as Traveler QR.Google explains on the support page that relevant options will automatically appear when the phone detects that the user is in a covered area. Currently, the only explicitly named destination on the page is Singapore, corresponding to the Alipay+ partner network. Android Authority notes that Alipay is primarily used in China, while Alipay+ connects various payment systems across Southeast Asia. This discovery comes from the disassembly of the application installation package, and the features that appear in the disassembly may not necessarily make it into the public version. There has also been no official announcement regarding the release of Traveler QR yet.

Analyst Darkfost pointed out that the price of Bitcoin has risen above the cost line of Strategy 2026, but the buying operations since 2025 are still at a loss. Strategy currently holds 848,517 Bitcoins, with an overall average cost of about $75,446. Bitcoin today has reached the cost line of Strategy 2026 at $78,900.If all purchases since 2025 are considered, along with the sales near this summer's low point, the comprehensive cost is still about $90,600, and the current price is still in a state of unrealized loss. After a pause of several weeks, Strategy has resumed buying, with no new additions last week. The company's 1-year return rate is about 27.6%, and the 10-year return rate is about 60.3%.

The self-custody wallet Kraken Wallet under the cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken announced on X that the Kraken Wallet browser extension is now live. The official source then provided the download link to the Chrome Web Store, allowing users to install and use it in their browsers.Washington Sanchez, the product lead for Kraken Wallet, introduced that the extension supports multiple networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Ink, Base, and Robinhood Chain. Users can create and import wallets using mnemonic phrases or private keys, with private key support including BIP39. Users can also utilize a watch-only wallet or log in using email, Google, Apple, and passkeys. The extension supports single-chain and cross-chain exchanges as well as cross-chain bridging, with a fee of 10 basis points.

Xiaohongshu fully acquired the AI travel tool Circumference Travel's affiliated company. The latest business information shows that Xiaohongshu Technology Co., Ltd. has become the sole shareholder of Chaochao Shishi Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., with former shareholder Zheng Yifan exiting. Circumference Travel provides a "one-click homework copying" feature, allowing users to paste links of notes from Xiaohongshu and public account travel guides, after which the AI can extract attractions and restaurants, generate a map route, estimate transportation time, and support collaborative itinerary modifications with friends. QuestMobile data shows that in February this year, its monthly active users reached approximately 2.49 million, a year-on-year increase of 384.7%, ranking among the top ten travel service apps, with users aged 25 to 35 accounting for 72.1%.By the end of 2025, the Circumference Travel team had stated that they would not engage in flight and hotel bookings. In September of this year, the app added features for AI querying flight, hotel, and ticket prices, allowing users to directly jump to partner platforms for booking after reviewing their itinerary, and check order status within the app. Last year, Xiaohongshu also acquired the development entity of its AI search product Diandian. Diandian is used to help users find destinations and filter activities, while Circumference Travel can organize promotional notes into executable itineraries and guide users to make bookings.

Renowned trader Ansem stated in the podcast "Market Bubble" that he has recently shifted from a bullish to a bearish stance, reducing his positions and taking profits over the past few days, while also shorting a portion.Regarding stocks, Ansem believes that mainstream targets have seen significant increases, accumulating a large amount of unrealized profits, and have hardly experienced any proper corrections. Now, significant de-risking and profit-taking are starting to occur. He thinks that the U.S. stock market may be at the tail end of the macro cycle, with funds withdrawing.For the cryptocurrency market, Ansem believes that crypto performed strongly in Q3, but it may just be a counter-trend rebound rather than the beginning of a new bull market. Crypto had previously outpaced the weakness in stocks, rebounding after being oversold; if stocks continue to weaken, they may drag crypto down with them, and Bitcoin could fall back to around $70,000. He also expressed continued optimism about tokenized stocks, viewing them as a key pathway to bring more traditional capital onto the blockchain, as well as a catalyst for the next wave of real users and capital inflow, and reiterated his positive outlook on ZEC, emphasizing its privacy Bitcoin attributes.

According to market news, a certain address had a win rate of 98% in 42 rounds of BTC transactions from September 18, 2026, to October 29, 2026. It opened long positions worth approximately 6.4 million dollars between 04:01 and 08:55 and closed long positions worth approximately 15.87 million dollars; during the same period, it reduced its holdings by 116.48847 BTC and currently holds 106.17649 BTC, with a position value of approximately 8.51 million dollars.The weighted average closing price for this BTC long position was approximately 81,273 dollars, and the weighted average opening price was approximately 81,204 dollars. Address: 0xf517639a8872e756ac98d3c65507d2ebc25cc032.

On October 29, KR1 plc, a company listed on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, announced the launch of its technical infrastructure operations on the decentralized artificial intelligence network Bittensor. The company stated that it has recently acquired 5,000 network-native assets TAO and has initiated staking as part of its technical infrastructure strategy. Based on the reward rate observed on October 28, the company estimates that the annualized infrastructure income is approximately equivalent to 6.6% of the current value of the deployed TAO holdings.The announcement stated that Bittensor is a layer blockchain that supports subnets, covering services such as AI inference, computing power, training, and prediction, where independent suppliers compete for network rewards based on performance. KR1 supports the assessment of service provider performance through staking and receives a portion of the network rewards. There is no mandatory unbonding period for TAO unstaking, allowing the company to retrieve its holdings immediately after unstaking. Rewards can be retained to expand the scale of productive assets or can be liquidated for subsequent investments and operational costs. The company will also disclose its TAO holdings and related infrastructure income in monthly unaudited updates.Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, stated: "As artificial intelligence enables more complex tasks to be performed by software, the demand for infrastructure related to supply-side intelligence is expected to grow significantly. Bittensor introduces open competition for the supply of AI services, and the company is focused on how its incentives are forming services that lead to continuous customer payments, as well as how to deploy TAO holdings to enhance the value and income potential of productive digital assets per share." KR1 claims to be the only publicly listed company on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, holding and operating productive digital assets on the relevant network.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a mysterious whale has sold a total of 694,310 HYPE over the past 5 days, worth approximately 53.27 million dollars at the time of sale.

The storage chip and microcontroller manufacturer Zhaoyi Innovation (603986.SH) announced that the revenue for the first three quarters was 20.297 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 197.11%; net profit was 11.066 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 921.55%.In the third quarter, revenue was 8.732 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 225.65%; net profit was 4.209 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 728.93%. The company's net profit in the second quarter was 5.396 billion yuan, and the net profit in the third quarter decreased by 21% compared to the previous quarter.The company stated that during the reporting period, the supply of the storage chip industry was tight, with both volume and price of storage chip products rising, and the storage business continued to improve; multiple product lines such as MCU continued to make efforts, achieving good growth in product shipment scale, and overall operating performance increased significantly.

Lazaro Campos, the former CEO of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), has joined the London-based stablecoin yield platform OpenTrade as Chairman.OpenTrade stated that the platform processed over $1 billion in transactions in the past year, with a current total value locked of $300 million, up from over $200 million in May. OpenTrade was established in 2023, aiming to help businesses provide yields denominated in USD and EUR, backed by real-world assets, and has raised a total of $32 million to date.

According to Beating report, GitHub officially launched the multi-model scheduling system Copilot Fusion at the Universe 2026 conference. Simple tasks will be handled by the appropriate model; complex tasks can first be attempted by a lower-cost model, and if the results are insufficient, it can switch to a stronger model or allow different models to check each other.Independent evaluation agency Artificial Analysis's tests show that Fusion Max's overall programming score is 60, close to Claude Code paired with Opus 5.5 Max's score of 62. Fusion Max's average API cost per question is $5.59, taking about 36 minutes; Claude Code paired with Opus 5.5 Max costs $11.42, taking about 60 minutes, reducing costs by about 51% and shortening time by about 40%.In the evaluation, Fusion's cache hit rate was 97%, while Claude Code's was 95%. The original text also noted that frequent model switching may cause cache loss, and the above results only represent specific benchmark tests, not implying that all tasks in actual use can save half the cost.

Doubao Work announced the opening of third-party large model services to enterprise clients, with the first batch including models such as Kimi K3.1 Pro from Moon's Dark Side, Zhipu GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Enterprise users can directly switch models in the Doubao Work dialogue interface, no longer limited to Doubao's own models.Previously, Doubao Work supported users to access third-party models independently, and custom access required users to settle fees separately with the model vendors. The tool invocation and product costs of Doubao Work are still consumed separately. This time, third-party models are directly included in the product's model selection menu, lowering the switching and usage threshold.

According to Binance spot market data, the market is showing a divergence between bulls and bears. SYRUP increased by 5.06%, and Niulai increased by 5.25%, while also showing a rebound from the bottom.On the other hand, DJTB hit a new low for today, with a decrease of 7.65%, and 0G also hit a new low for today, with a decrease of 10.48%. RDDTB reached a new low for this week, with a decrease of 11.63%.Among the other tokens, INIT increased by 3.14%, while also showing a small increase over 5 minutes. AVA, STX, and BLUR also showed a rebound from the bottom, with increases of 5.92%, 6.01%, and 6.21%, respectively.

According to The Defiant, the USDT market of the MakerDAO ecosystem lending protocol SparkLend currently has a borrowable liquidity of 11.95 million dollars, with a utilization rate maintained at around 96%. Earlier this week, the liquidity in this market tightened.In terms of interest rates, the current annualized yield for USDT depositors is approximately 6.9%, while borrowers are subject to an annualized borrowing rate of about 7.7%.

Bithumb stated that its internal mobile collaboration system DaouOffice was accessed without authorization by external parties, resulting in the theft of some personal information of customers and employees. This incident involves 6,444 customers, of which the data of 5,600 people is in an encrypted state and cannot be read, while 844 customers have confirmed that their personal information has been leaked. Additionally, the information of 715 employees and partners has also been affected.

Coinbase announced that it will hold the first global trading competition, the Coinbase Champions Cup, from November 4 to 25, with a total prize pool of up to 2 million USD, and registration is now open.Participants also have the chance to win a trader seat at Coinbase's next offline event. This competition is provided by Coinbase Bermuda Ltd. and is only open to eligible users within designated jurisdictions, with a minimum trading volume requirement of 100 USDC.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin responded to Ruxandra Teslo on X, stating that he believes AI is extremely knowledgeable and can excellently identify quotes in almost any content, but it is not wise, and therefore can only make the most superficial judgments about the viewpoints a piece of writing attempts to express.Vitalik Buterin noted that this situation is particularly evident when AI analyzes text it reads for the first time, as opposed to analyzing text that already exists in the training data, which comes with a lot of analyses from others. He also mentioned that the knowledge of AI is more easily seen than its limited wisdom, as wisdom may be something that is difficult to verify easily, which is different from intelligence.This reply was directed at Ruxandra Teslo's post. Ruxandra Teslo expressed that the related post made her feel pessimistic about humanity and believed that the discussions of large language models regarding her article are still low-quality content; she was responding to Sichu Lu's statement that AI is better suited than humans to discuss classics at that time.