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According to BBX data, the global capital markets revealed the latest developments in direct investment in Bitcoin and the performance of brokerage digital asset businesses yesterday. The core information is as follows:Japan Bitcoin Industry has completed a capital increase of 840 million yen, fully paid in physical Bitcoin: The Web3 infrastructure developer Japan Bitcoin Industry announced the implementation of a third-party share allocation capital increase, successfully issuing shares to two institutions, Fulgur LLC and ANAP Lightning Capital (ALC), raising a total of 840 million yen (approximately 5.07 million USD). Notably, this capital increase will be fully funded in physical Bitcoin, with on-chain delivery expected to be completed on November 2. At the same time, the company signed a basic agreement for cooperation in Lightning Network routing business with ALC, which will use the Bitcoin held by ALC as the underlying liquidity for the company's operational channels. The raised funds will be specifically used for the research and development of the infrastructure "aurora" (supporting enterprises to access Lightning payments via API), talent recruitment, and local routing network infrastructure.Robinhood (NASDAQ: $HOOD) Q3 crypto revenue plummets 55%, causing overall profits to fall short of expectations: American internet brokerage giant Robinhood released its third-quarter financial report. The data shows that due to a slowdown in cryptocurrency trading activity and increased operating expenses, overshadowing its strong performance in options and prediction markets, the quarterly profits fell below Wall Street expectations. In the third quarter, its cryptocurrency trading revenue decreased significantly by 55% year-on-year to 120 million USD. Although options trading revenue grew by 31% and event contract revenue surged more than sixfold, driving overall trading revenue up 19% year-on-year to 867 million USD, total operating expenses also increased by 16% year-on-year to 739 million USD. The company's earnings per share for the quarter were 0.51 USD, falling short of analysts' expectations of 0.55 USD, leading to a drop of over 7% in its stock price in after-hours trading.

Samsung Electronics announced its official financial report for the third quarter of 2026. The company's revenue for the quarter reached 195.3 trillion Korean won, slightly higher than the previously announced preliminary data, with an operating profit of 107.4 trillion Korean won for the third quarter. The net profit for the quarter was 75.2 trillion Korean won, falling short of market expectations of 83.6 trillion Korean won. Following the release of the financial report, Samsung Electronics' stock price briefly fell, then slightly rebounded, currently up 0.2%.The semiconductor business remains the main source of performance. The operating profit of the chip division for the third quarter was 106.5 trillion Korean won, with significant growth in the foundry business revenue. The company expects double-digit growth in this business's revenue in the fourth quarter. The display business recorded an operating profit of 1.1 trillion Korean won, while the mobile division reported an operating loss of 600 billion Korean won in the third quarter.Samsung Electronics announced that it will distribute a dividend of 4,601 Korean won per share for the third quarter, with a total dividend payout of 30 trillion Korean won. Management expects demand for memory chips to continue to expand in the fourth quarter and stated that the chip supply shortage situation will further worsen next year.

Advanced packaging company Shenghe Jingwei released its financial report for the third quarter of 2026. The operating revenue for the first three quarters was 5.12 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.45%; the net profit attributable to the parent company was 636 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 18.48%. The operating revenue for the third quarter was 1.71 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 8.33%; the net profit attributable to the parent company was 186 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 45.96%, a decrease of 27% compared to the 258 million yuan in the second quarter.The company stated that the changes in profit were mainly due to tight supply of core materials, a year-on-year decrease in revenue, and ongoing capacity expansion, along with an increase in depreciation costs year-on-year. The announcement on the same day showed that for the first three quarters of 2026, a total of 265 million yuan was provisioned for credit impairment losses and asset impairment losses. The net cash flow from operating activities for the first three quarters was 2.08 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 30.60%. The company stated that this was mainly due to a year-on-year decrease in government subsidies, the return of customer credit deposits during the period, and increases in material procurement and employee compensation.As of the end of September 2026, the balance of monetary funds was 8.558 billion yuan, total assets were 28.144 billion yuan, an increase of 24.51% compared to the end of the previous year; the equity attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 19.294 billion yuan, an increase of 33.73% compared to the end of the previous year. At the end of the period, fixed assets were 12.172 billion yuan, an increase of over 20% compared to the end of the previous year, and construction in progress was 1.558 billion yuan. In the company's 2.5D business, SmartPoser-Si has been mass-produced, and SmartPoser-BD has completed full-process verification.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced its third-quarter financial report for 2026 in the early hours of October 29, Beijing time. The quarterly revenue was $127.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 25%, achieving double-digit growth for the 13th consecutive quarter, with an annualized revenue run rate of $500 billion. Revenue slightly missed Wall Street expectations, and net profit declined year-on-year, overall falling short of market expectations.Google Cloud revenue grew 103% year-on-year to $30.7 billion, a record increase, mainly driven by demand for enterprise AI infrastructure, AI solutions, and TPU-related needs. Google Services revenue increased by 11% to $96.3 billion, with search and other advertising revenue growing by 12% year-on-year, and YouTube advertising revenue increasing by about 9% to $11.2 billion. The company stated that the year-on-year growth rate of search queries was the highest in nearly five years, with AI-related features contributing to increased usage.Net profit attributable to common shareholders was $26.2 billion, a year-on-year decrease of about 25%, with earnings per share of $2.12. The profit decline was mainly affected by losses from equity securities investments, with related losses for the quarter amounting to about $8.7 billion, whereas this item had contributed significantly to profits in the same period last year. Operating profit increased by 30% year-on-year to $40.6 billion, with an operating margin rising to 31.8%. The free cash flow for the quarter was negative, and the full-year capital expenditure guidance remained at $195 billion to $205 billion. After the financial report was released, Alphabet's stock price fell by 9.84% in after-hours trading.

Alphabet's revenue for the third quarter of 2026 was $127.58 billion, compared to $102.346 billion in the same period last year, with market expectations of $128.175 billion.

According to Crunchbase data, global venture capital investment in robotics startups reached $9.9 billion in the third quarter of 2026, more than doubling from $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2025, with a year-on-year growth of approximately 185%. In the first three quarters of 2026, financing in the robotics sector grew by about 185% year-on-year, with several consecutive quarters approaching or exceeding $10 billion.This year's robotics financing is largely concentrated in China and the United States, with China receiving $13.2 billion and the United States $12.1 billion, while Germany ranks third with $1.7 billion. The largest financing in China includes $900 million for Guangzhou Xiaopeng Robotics and $736 million in Series C funding for Shenzhen AI² Robotics. In the United States, Travis Kalanick's Atoms and Pittsburgh's Skild AI both completed billion-dollar financing, with Skild AI raising $1.4 billion for its robotics foundation model Skild Brain. Germany's Neura Robotics raised $1.4 billion for cognitive robotics.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, will announce its earnings report after the market closes on October 28. The revenue forecast for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 is $127.833 billion, expected to grow by 24.9% year-over-year; the net profit forecast is $37.334 billion, expected to grow by 6.73% year-over-year. Key points of interest include the growth rate of the cloud business, the volume of TPU external supply, the capital expenditure guidance for 2027, and the negative pressure on free cash flow.JPMorgan has raised its year-over-year growth forecast for cloud business revenue from 88% to 100%. Deutsche Bank believes that the growth of search revenue in the third quarter will be relatively healthy. HSBC Research predicts an operating profit margin of 44.5%, higher than market expectations, with GAAP EBITDA expected to grow by 35% year-over-year.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn stated that the 13F holdings report for Bitcoin ETFs is still in the early stages, and most large asset management companies and registered investment advisors (RIA) typically submit their filings just before the November 16 deadline.However, some long-term funds have already increased their holdings in Bitcoin ETFs in the third quarter. Wealth management advisory firm SIGFIG Wealth Management submitted its related filing for the first time, indicating that its clients increased their investments in Bitcoin ETFs by approximately $73 million in the third quarter. A significant portion of the assets managed by the firm comes from retail client accounts at banks such as Wells Fargo, Citizens, Santander, and UBS.

The American bank operator SoFi announced its third-quarter cryptocurrency business data, with cryptocurrency revenue at $161.6 million and a net amount of $1.6 million.Its net cryptocurrency trading revenue increased by 38% compared to the second quarter, but it only accounted for 0.3% of its financial services department's revenue.

Galaxy Digital released its Q3 2026 financial report, with a net profit of $323 million, turning around from a loss of $85 million in the previous quarter. Adjusted EBITDA reached $455 million, total assets increased by 51% quarter-on-quarter to $16.4 billion, and cash, stablecoins, and U.S. Treasury bonds totaled $4.9 billion, nearly doubling quarter-on-quarter.In terms of digital asset business, trading volume increased by 12% quarter-on-quarter, outperforming the overall spot market. The combined scale of asset management and staking grew by 46% quarter-on-quarter to $10.4 billion, and a multi-year cooperation was established with BNY Mellon to provide staking support for its digital asset custody platform.The data center business saw adjusted EBITDA increase nearly fivefold quarter-on-quarter to $69 million, mainly from the first full operational quarter after the delivery of 133 MW computing power from Helios Phase 1 to CoreWeave. Phase 2 has been fully financed and commenced, with the company completing a $3.5 billion senior secured bond issuance, expanding the overall power pipeline to over 5.7 GW, and the data center is expected to start delivering in Q2 2027.In terms of capital operations, the $200 million repurchase plan initiated by the company in February was completed on October 15, with approximately 9.8 million shares repurchased. The board approved a new $200 million repurchase limit on October 26.

JUST released an open letter to JST holders and launched the JST 2026 Q3 and October key progress report. The letter pointed out that a total of 1,881,973,007 JST has been repurchased and destroyed over five rounds, accounting for 19.01% of the initial maximum supply, with approximately 118.15 million USD invested in repurchase and destruction. JUST DAO upgraded the JST repurchase and destruction mechanism in October, which will shift to being based on sustainable ecological income, and plans to invest approximately 20.34 million USD of excess funds into repurchase in four phases starting from Q4 2026, while retaining at least 50 million USD as a treasury safety reserve.The report also showed that JustLend's quarter-end TVL remained above 7 billion USD, with approximately 21.24 million transactions in GasFree Q3. As the repurchase funds shift from historical income reserves to sustainable ecological income, the deflationary path of JST and ecological growth are gradually forming a closer linkage.

According to the "Q3 2026 Report" released by Gate, the platform's institutional business continues to grow, with cross-market trading, asset custody, and professional fund services further expanding.Among them, CrossEx has seen significant improvements in several core indicators, with quarterly trading volume increasing by 63% month-on-month, asset custody increasing by 902% month-on-month, the number of trading users growing by approximately 315% compared to Q2, and the number of fund users increasing by 95%.In terms of products and infrastructure, CrossEx has added mainstream exchanges, Lighter contracts, real stocks, and ETF trading scenarios, and launched features such as RPI Orders and arbitrage opportunity displays. CrossEx Colo services have officially launched, with order placement concurrency and multiple transaction reporting delays optimized by about 50%, and the highest fees for certain trading scenarios reduced by 50%. During the same period, Gate's institutional cumulative borrowing volume increased by 412.02% month-on-month.In addition, the Gate SuperLink ecosystem has added two banking partners, ABN AMRO and Pave Bank, and deepened cooperation with custodians such as Copper and BitGo. OES clients can now access CrossEx, participating in trading across multiple exchanges through a unified margin pool under an isolated custody model, further expanding institutional clients' cross-market asset allocation and trading options.

The official announcement from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reported that the business data for the third quarter of 2026 showed revenue reaching 1.737 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of approximately 13%, setting a new record for the third quarter; net profit was about 1 billion USD.During the same period, the average daily trading volume of all CME products reached 29.4 million contracts, with the average daily trading volume of cryptocurrency derivatives at approximately 196,000 contracts, and the nominal trading volume for the quarter was about 469.5 billion USD. Among them, the nominal trading volume for Bitcoin and Ethereum derivatives was 326.7 billion USD and 118.8 billion USD, respectively.

AI chip company Cambrian (688256.SH) announced that its operating revenue for the third quarter was 3.531 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 104.47%; the net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 1.404 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 147.74%.The announcement showed that the company's operating revenue for the first three quarters was 9.526 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 106.76%; the net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company was 3.715 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 131.49%. The performance change was mainly due to the company's continuous market expansion and active support for the implementation of artificial intelligence applications. The Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily noted that the company's net profit for the second quarter was 1.298 billion yuan, based on which the net profit for the third quarter increased by 8% quarter-on-quarter.

According to a report by Bloomberg citing on-chain data analysis platform Dune, the on-chain trading volume of tokenized stocks and ETFs in the third quarter exceeded $37 billion, with monthly trading volume increasing nearly 18 times compared to January, covering over 200 trading venues and 12 blockchains.During the same period, the on-chain trading volume of perpetual contracts linked to stocks, ETFs, and stock indices on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid reached $201 billion. Dune stated that currently about 25% of cryptocurrency spot trading is conducted on-chain.

IBM's revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 was 17.1 billion dollars, a year-on-year increase of about 5%. The adjusted earnings per share were 2.95 dollars, both exceeding analysts' expectations. The company raised its full-year software revenue growth guidance to about 7%–8% and increased its full-year free cash flow growth guidance to over 1 billion dollars.Previously delayed software and mainframe deals, due to customer spending shifting towards data center infrastructure, have started to sign contracts. Free cash flow for the first nine months totaled 8 billion dollars, setting a historical record for the same period. IBM's stock price fell 4.95% in after-hours trading, closing at 239.02 dollars.