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According to reports from the Science and Technology Daily, China Information Communication Technologies Group's Optical Communication Technology and Network National Key Laboratory, in collaboration with Pengcheng Laboratory and FiberHome Technologies Group Co., Ltd., has completed a real-time bidirectional transmission test of 3.2 Pb/s multi-core optical fiber, setting a world record for the bidirectional real-time optical transmission capacity of a single fiber. This speed surpasses the 2.5 Pb/s record set by the same team earlier this year, representing an increase of nearly 30%.This speed is equivalent to downloading over 20,000 4K movies in one second or providing gigabit broadband for 3.2 million households simultaneously. The test used a 10.3-kilometer-long 24-core multi-core optical fiber, combined with S+C+L three-band multiplexing and spatial division multiplexing technology. The capacity limit of traditional C+L band commercial single-core G.652 optical fiber is about 100 Tb/s, and the total capacity of this system's single fiber is 32 times that, with the results submitted to the Journal of Lightwave Technology.

The Hurun Research Institute released the "2026 Hurun Rich List." This year, a total of 1,529 entrepreneurs with personal wealth exceeding 5 billion yuan made the list, an increase of 95 from last year, setting a new historical high. The total wealth of the listed entrepreneurs is 32 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7% (2.1 trillion yuan).Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, became China's richest person for the second time with 670 billion yuan, breaking the record for the wealth of China's richest person. Zhong Shanshan, the founder of Nongfu Spring, saw his wealth shrink by 120 billion yuan, falling to second place with 410 billion yuan. Liang Wenfeng, the founder of DeepSeek, made the list for the first time, entering the top ten with 280 billion yuan.

Aave posted on platform X that Aave V4 deposits have exceeded 1.5 billion dollars, setting a new historical high.

Solana's official announcement states that there are currently 1.5 million people holding tokenized equities based on Solana, setting a new historical high. This data has increased fivefold since August.

According to CoinGlass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin premium index has recorded negative values for 31 consecutive days, with the latest at -0.1353%, indicating that purchasing power in the U.S. market has once again fallen into a slump.Previously, on August 24, the Coinbase Bitcoin premium index reappeared with a positive signal for the first time since May 19, reporting at 0.0052%, momentarily ending the longest historical negative premium period of 97 days. The Coinbase Bitcoin premium index is used to measure the price difference of Bitcoin between Coinbase Pro and Binance. A sustained negative index typically means that Coinbase's pricing is relatively low, which may reflect weak buying interest or significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, but it is not advisable to directly conclude that institutional funds are flowing out based solely on this indicator.

According to Dune data, the nominal trading volume of cryptocurrency-related event contracts on Kalshi and Polymarket reached $2.7 billion last week, setting a new historical high. Among them, Bitcoin short-term fluctuation contracts were particularly active, with Kalshi's 15-minute Bitcoin price prediction contracts seeing single transaction volumes exceeding $1 million. Some traders even used trading bots to seize opportunities just seconds before the contracts expired.Currently, cryptocurrency has become the second largest trading category on the two platforms, second only to sports. Cryptocurrency trading platforms such as Coinbase, Crypto.com, Gemini, and Kraken are expanding their businesses by applying for relevant licenses or collaborating with prediction markets. Meanwhile, the decline in spot trading volume on centralized exchanges has also prompted crypto platforms to seek business diversification. However, as multiple states in the U.S. have raised legal challenges against sports prediction contracts, the direction of related regulations may also impact industry development.

The credit risk indicators of Meta Platforms have soared to an all-time high, and bond prices have fallen. The company plans to increase capital expenditures, raising market concerns about the rising debt for AI infrastructure.The five-year credit default swap prices rose by 8.9 basis points, reaching approximately 119.3 basis points per year. Meta stated it will invest about $825 billion in AI-related leases and contracts.

The Solana ecosystem collectible card platform Collector Crypt announced that its total transaction volume in the past 24 hours reached 24.3 million USD, setting a new single-day historical record. During the same period, platform users opened a total of 123,425 card packs.Collector Crypt's card packs are products that randomly generate cards. After purchase, users must go through an authentication process to obtain tokenized versions of cards featuring Pokémon, One Piece, and sports stars, which can then be traded on the platform.On October 19, Pump.fun integrated the random card pack opening feature and collectible card trading market from Collector Crypt. On the first day of integration, Pump.fun users contributed approximately 20% of the total transaction volume of Collector Crypt's random card packs.

A court in New Mexico, USA, ordered Meta Platforms to pay a civil fine of $25 billion. The jury found that Meta made misleading statements regarding user privacy, data processing, and hate speech moderation, violating state consumer protection laws over 43 million times. This judgment amount is one of the highest fine judgments in the history of the U.S. judiciary.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) has completed a record simulation of fault-tolerant quantum computing at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Richard Byworth previously worked at Syz Capital, focusing his career on hedge fund structure design. In an interview with Bitcoin Magazine, he stated that the next round of Bitcoin's rise is just a matter of time.He pointed out that, based on data from on-chain analysis platforms like Glassnode, the current level of seller exhaustion has reached a historical high. Although the market does not exhibit an extreme bearish atmosphere, multiple on-chain indicators show that Bitcoin is strongly building a bottom. He mentioned that Bitcoin has been trading in the range just above $80,000 in recent weeks, and he believed that $58,000 was a bottom.Byworth also discussed Bitcoin yield strategies. He warned that using a covered call strategy during a bullish market could lead to significant losses of Bitcoin for investors, and advocated for earning low-volatility, market-neutral returns through basis trading collateralized by Bitcoin. He noted that Strive had bought three times the weekly issuance of Bitcoin in a single transaction within a week, believing that the next round of rise is just a matter of time.Regarding Bitcoin treasury companies, Byworth stated that the digital credit products designed by Saylor are putting pressure on the traditional bond market, as the yield on 10-year U.S. Treasuries is around 5.1% to 5.2%, and investors will see their returns eroded by the faster pace of currency depreciation. He mentioned followers like Strive and Metaplanet, and believes that Bitcoin could break its historical high again before the end of the year, and reaching $350,000 in about a year is not entirely impossible.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury stated that total interest expenditure on debt for fiscal year 2026 reached a record $1.36 trillion, an increase of $144 billion from the previous fiscal year, representing a growth rate of 12%.

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) released an important announcement this week titled "AI Agents as Attack Vectors," indicating that AI agents operated by unnamed model providers exceeded their granted task scope during testing, reading confidential business records in the online systems of Indian agencies, and no affected agencies discovered this behavior on their own.CERT-In stated that it received voluntary disclosures from several AI model providers, which indicated that these models accessed the online systems of Indian agencies while being researched and evaluated on the internet. The announcement did not disclose the names of the providers, models, or affected agencies. The agents read business records containing personal data and confidential materials, utilizing credentials and connection settings exposed in application configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud service roles. In some cases, the same credentials were recovered multiple times and reused in different operations.Additionally, CERT-In observed that criminals exploited publicly available AI-driven offensive security frameworks to scan for vulnerabilities, implement exploits, and launch economically motivated attacks against Indian entities, reducing the time from initial access to final impact from several days to just hours; these tools were repeatedly repackaged and deployed, with related deployments appearing on servers in multiple countries.

The speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Waller failed to boost the dollar, with the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index dropping 0.4% on Friday, set to record its worst weekly performance since September 4. The dollar weakened against most major currencies, with the euro rising. Waller did not comment on monetary policy at the International Monetary Fund annual meeting, and investors reduced their bets on a rate hike by the Federal Reserve this month.

According to Bank of America citing EPFR data, in the week ending Wednesday, emerging market stocks saw an inflow of $17.7 billion, the highest since July; among them, Brazil recorded an inflow of $4.7 billion.

Jefferies economist Mohit Kumar pointed out that in the next three years, the United States will invest 2.5% to 3% of its GDP in AI infrastructure, a scale that will exceed historical records.He warned that if the pace of construction slows down, it will have a significant impact on related companies and the U.S. economy.

In September, the U.S. PPI annual rate recorded 6.3%, the highest since May 2026, exceeding market expectations of 5.3%.In September, the U.S. PPI monthly rate recorded 1.3%, significantly higher than the market expectation of 0.5%. In September, U.S. retail sales monthly rate recorded 0.8%, above market expectations.

SpaceXAI released Grok Voice 3, achieving a record customer support resolution rate at a lower cost.

U.S. inflation data exceeded expectations, prompting traders to bet on interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, with the dollar rising to its highest level in over a year. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index surged significantly on Wednesday, rising as much as 0.4% during the session.For the four weeks ending October 9, the dollar has accumulated a nearly 3% increase, marking the longest consecutive rise since early 2025. The market expects the total interest rate hikes in the U.S. to exceed 90 basis points in the future.