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On the morning of October 29, the banking sector continued to rise during the trading session, with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, and China Construction Bank all increasing by over 1%. The total market capitalization of the four major banks' A+H shares has historically surpassed 10 trillion yuan for the first time.Among them, the total market capitalization of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is 2.94 trillion yuan, Agricultural Bank of China is 2.58 trillion yuan, China Construction Bank is 2.35 trillion yuan, and Bank of China is 2.15 trillion yuan.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "Dota 2: Team Spirit vs. OG - PARI Universe Playoffs," the sub-market "Ends During the Day" saw a drastic fluctuation in the "Yes" option's win rate, plummeting from 51% an hour ago to the current 10.5% (a fluctuation of 40.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Kevin Gordon, the Chief Macro Research and Strategy Officer at Charles Schwab, the current economic backdrop remains relatively favorable for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Even as we enter multiple rate hike cycles, the U.S. economy is likely to remain robust.He pointed out that rate hike cycles are often accompanied by significant market volatility. According to historical data he cited, within 12 months of the Federal Reserve initiating a rate hike cycle, the average maximum decline of the S&P 500 index exceeds 10%.Analysis also indicates that interest rate policy is just one of the factors affecting stock prices. Currently, investments in the AI sector and inflation driven by rising oil prices seem to be the main factors driving the stock market.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain address was created 9 days ago, deposited 1.25 million USDC, and then began shorting ETH.Since then, the address has been liquidated 13 times, with a total of 18,080 ETH, valued at 43.9 million dollars, being liquidated, resulting in a loss of 1.14 million dollars.

According to BBX data, the global capital markets disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocations and equity investments in crypto companies yesterday. The core information is as follows:Asset management giant Vanguard's ETF has made its first purchase of Metaplanet stock: The small-cap ETF (VSS) under the global leading asset management company Vanguard has shown in its latest disclosed holdings that it has made its first purchase of a total of 4.5 million shares of the Japanese Bitcoin treasury listed company Metaplanet (TSE: 3350), with a total holding value of approximately 7.5 million USD. This development indicates that traditional broad-based index funds are passively increasing their risk exposure to digital assets by holding stocks of companies with Bitcoin reserve strategies.Ark Invest spent approximately 5.23 million USD to increase its holdings in Circle stock: Led by Cathie Wood, Ark Invest continued to increase its investment in fiat-compliant digital infrastructure in the secondary market yesterday, adding 65,615 shares of the stablecoin USDC issuer Circle. Based on the valuation during the trading period, this increase cost approximately 5.23 million USD.DeFi Development increased its holdings by 5,346 SOL, total holdings approaching 2.6 million: Solana treasury company DeFi Development disclosed its latest balance sheet changes, revealing that the company has recently increased its holdings by 5,346 SOL in the open market. After this increase, its total holdings of SOL have steadily grown to approximately 2.595 million, continuously consolidating its treasury size and node layout within the Solana ecosystem.

On the evening of October 27, Li Liang, Vice President of Douyin Group, responded on Weibo to media person and financial observer Qin Shuo's statement about "the Byte Time of China's Internet," calling it "extremely unrigorous and purely nonsense." Li Liang stated that no company can become the "xx time of China's Internet"; instant messaging has a relatively stable moat due to relationship chains, while short dramas and short videos belong to a fully competitive market with rapidly changing dynamics. He also mentioned that Tencent's growth rate in short dramas and short videos far exceeds that of Douyin and Hongguo, and that instant messaging, gaming, e-commerce, and music occupy a significant amount of user time. He later posted that Qin Shuo's analysis contains several fundamental common sense errors.On the 26th, Qin Shuo published an article on his public account "Qin Shuo's Circle of Friends," citing QuestMobile data from a Nomura Securities report, stating that in July 2026, Douyin surpassed WeChat for the first time among the top 50 apps in China by mobile internet usage time, accounting for 19.4%, while WeChat accounted for 18.8%; the share of Byte's apps was 40.9%, and Tencent's was 29.1%. He questioned whether, despite WeChat's daily active users still exceeding Douyin's, China's Internet is shifting from Tencent time to Byte time, and from WeChat time to "Douyin + Hongguo time." This morning, Qin Shuo posted on social media that in the relevant rankings for August 2026, Byte's share was 41.8% and Tencent's was 28.6%, a difference of 13.2 percentage points. He believes that "Byte time" is a summary of Byte's total usage time share exceeding 40%, which is "a very realistic fact," while emphasizing that the share of user time does not equate to the share of user value.On the same day, Hongguo Short Drama, a platform under ByteDance, issued a statement saying that the claims circulating online about "annual revenue approaching 40 billion yuan" and "this year's revenue reaching 42 to 45 billion yuan" are inaccurate, and that the related comparisons, calculations, and extended interpretations lack factual basis. They stated that most of the current revenue continues to be used for content creator revenue sharing, copyright guarantees, and support for high-quality content. Data from third-party institutions shows that as of July 2026, Hongguo Short Drama had 168 million daily active users, a year-on-year increase of 107%. On October 19, Liu Xing, head of public relations at Doubao, responded to the claim that "over half of the domestic computing power is used to create feel-good dramas," stating that the data is unreliable, and that for Byte, only about 10% of the company's total computing power is used for training and inference of video generation models.

According to Santiment analysis, wallets holding at least 10 million XRP currently control 46.87 billion tokens, accounting for approximately 68.5% of the total XRP supply, which is the highest share for this group since November 2022. The key signal is that even as XRP struggles around $1.29, these large holders continue to increase their exposure, indicating that their confidence remains strong beneath the price movements. If retail investors continue to capitulate, it will create a more bullish pattern.Santiment believes that $1.30 is a recent pivot point, while $1.50 is a stronger confirmation level. If the price remains above $1.20 and the whale balances stay near record levels, the accumulation logic will remain intact; if it recovers to $1.50 and whale holdings further increase, it will significantly strengthen the case for a larger-scale recovery of XRP.

According to informed sources, the expanded $25 billion stock issuance by Meta Platforms (META.O) received approximately five times the demand for the available shares. The company plans to raise $98 billion for expenditures in the field of artificial intelligence.Informed sources indicated that more than half of the shares in this common stock issuance were allocated to long-term investors and existing shareholders. Among them, the top 15 investors by subscription size collectively received about 70% of the issued shares. The issuance was priced at $625 per share, which is a 2.7% discount compared to the closing price last Friday before the issuance announcement.On Tuesday, Meta's stock price fell by 1.4% at one point in the New York market, reaching $621.47 per share. This stock issuance is just part of Meta's financing plan. The plan also includes the issuance of $12.5 billion in mandatory convertible preferred stock, as well as a planned market-priced stock issuance. If the final fundraising amount reaches $98 billion, it will become one of the largest equity financing plans in history.

Well-known trader Bonk Guy posted that although the current crypto community generally believes that the on-chain trading environment has fallen to historical lows, approximately six new tokens have reached a market capitalization of over 100 million to 300 million dollars in the past four months, and dozens of new tokens have completely diluted valuations (FDV) exceeding 10 million dollars.Among them, tokens such as PONS, ANSEM, CASHCAT, AI, and STONK have all reached FDVs of at least 300 million dollars. Despite the deterioration in market structure, there are still tokens that occasionally experience significant price increases. Compared to the period before the emergence of Robinhood Chain, and the sluggish period after the issuance of the TRUMP token last year, and before the initial rise of BonkFun, the current market is far from reaching its historical worst levels.Although the current market environment is not as bullish as it was a few months ago, it does not mean that on-chain trading opportunities have disappeared. As market sentiment is dominated by pessimistic views, it is expected that the market may soon warm up, with the recovery speed potentially faster than most people's expectations. It is recommended to pay attention to tokens that performed well in the last round of market trends and have high confidence, and consider gradually positioning during pullbacks. Historical experience indicates that some tokens may not only return to previous highs in the next round of increases but may also rise further, and the biggest opportunities in the market often appear before mainstream sentiment shifts.

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.

According to The New York Times, the market generally expects the Federal Reserve to maintain interest rates at the FOMC meeting this week (October 27 to 28). Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh needs to explain why he is not raising interest rates while inflationary pressures remain high, while also indicating that the determination to combat inflation has not weakened and keeping the possibility of another rate hike this year.The report states that the Federal Reserve raised rates once in September, and the market had once priced in another rate hike in October. New York Fed President John Williams, Vice President Jefferson, and Governor Waller expressed at the end of September to early October that they could wait a bit longer, causing the probability of an October rate hike to drop from over 70% to less than 30%. High oil prices and the demand for materials and electricity driven by AI infrastructure increased price pressures in September. The Nasdaq 100 index has fallen more than 7% since its historical high on October 6, and the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond had previously stood above 5% for several consecutive weeks.Stephen Stanley, Chief Economist at Santander U.S. Capital Markets, stated that he expects interest rates to remain unchanged this week but believes there may still be another rate hike in December. Walsh needs to explain why he is not taking action in October while also clarifying why December is still under consideration. Since taking office in May, Walsh has provided little forward guidance on the interest rate path. The press conference after the decision to hold rates steady in July caused market volatility due to overly brief wording, and subsequent hawkish remarks in August, along with the rate hike in September and signals of another hike this year, somewhat repaired communication. This week's decision is approaching the U.S. midterm elections on November 3, and Trump had previously criticized the rate hike in September.

OpenAI recently announced that its AI model has cracked the Exponential Time Hypothesis, abbreviated as ETH, which has been a longstanding conjecture in computer science for over twenty years, and is not related to Ethereum. This hypothesis focuses on how difficult particularly hard problems are, using the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) as an example: given a set of logical conditions, is there an assignment that makes all conditions true simultaneously? As the problem size increases, the best-known methods essentially can only try possible answers one by one, with the time cost growing exponentially with the size. The Exponential Time Hypothesis further asserts that such problems cannot be significantly accelerated, and there are no truly sub-exponential time efficient algorithms.Since its proposal in 1999, this hypothesis has been a crucial cornerstone of theoretical computer science, with numerous papers proving that certain problems are hard and that some algorithms are close to optimal based on it. If the Exponential Time Hypothesis were to be overturned, it would imply that many problems considered nearly impossible to solve faster might theoretically have better solutions. OpenAI claims that its model has found a deterministic algorithm that can accurately count the number of solutions to the k-SAT problem in sub-exponential time, and it has been formally verified using Lean. If this result withstands expert scrutiny, it will directly challenge the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo Valente, stated that the number of addresses holding stablecoins has surpassed 300 million for the first time. The Ethereum ecosystem currently accounts for 37% of all stablecoin holding addresses, up from 29% two years ago, with approximately three-quarters coming from L2. He believes that the strategy of expanding adoption through L2 is proving effective and expects tokenized stocks to develop along the same path.Valente also mentioned that if one were to illustrate the dominance of EVM, EVM-compatible chains hold about 94% of stablecoin addresses. It took 8 years for the number of stablecoin holding addresses to reach 300 million, and he anticipates that it could reach 1 billion wallets within 18 months, faster than the existing trend.

OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, focusing on enhancing computer operations, visual understanding, and programming capabilities. Compared to the previous generation, this model's operational speed has increased by over 3 times, and the API price has been reduced by 50%.The error rate in low inference mode has dropped from 53.6% to 16.7%, while the maximum inference mode error rate has decreased to 4.3%. In programming tests, the maximum inference mode score has risen from 21.5% to 50.3%.

The humanoid robot company Yushu Technology (688836.SH) announced that the cumulative price deviation of the company's stock closing price has exceeded 30% over three consecutive trading days, which falls under the category of abnormal stock trading fluctuations. As of October 26, 2026, the company's rolling price-to-earnings ratio is 465.22 times, significantly higher than the average rolling price-to-earnings ratio of 38.54 times in the general equipment manufacturing industry.The announcement pointed out that the humanoid robot industry is still in the early stages of commercialization, with uncertainties in technology maturity, cultivation of downstream market demand, and supporting capabilities in the industrial chain. The transition of physical AI technology from laboratory demonstrations to large-scale implementation in real-world scenarios still faces challenges such as perception accuracy, motion control stability, data accumulation, and hardware-software collaboration. The maturity of the technological path and business model still requires time for validation. If the industry's large-scale commercialization progress does not meet expectations, the company's future revenue expansion and performance release may be adversely affected, posing investment risks of valuation regression.

On October 26, B.AI announced a limited-time benefit, with the latest MiniMax model MiniMax-M3.1-Flash (Space Bunny) available at 50% OFF on the B.AI web platform, Android App, and API. This model is designed for complex agent tasks, software engineering, visual reasoning, and professional analysis, helping developers efficiently complete complex tasks from code development to multi-step automated workflows.The event runs from October 26, 17:00 to November 2, 16:59 (SGT), allowing users to experience the popular new model at a lower cost and flexibly manage AI invocation costs. B.AI stated that it will continue to integrate high-quality models from around the world, providing a richer selection of models and more competitive prices through a unified entry point. Users are welcome to log in to chat.b.ai/chat to experience it immediately.

According to USA Today, McDonald's McRib is set to return and will be available for a limited time in select U.S. cities, with confirmed cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Dallas.Related discussions mention that historically, every time McDonald's McRib returns, Bitcoin has seen a significant increase, prompting some users in the crypto community to urge investors not to short McRib.

According to a report by the Korea Economic Daily, KB Securities expects that the combined operating profit of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will reach 157.1 trillion won from 2026 to 2027, which is 2.1 times the cumulative operating profit of 74.8 trillion won for both companies from 2000 to 2025. It is estimated that in 2027, the operating profits of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will be 55.5 trillion won and 38.9 trillion won, respectively, representing year-on-year growth of 51% and 50%.KB Securities stated that the demand for AI chips is driving a tightening of memory supply, and about 70% to 80% of the memory that both companies plan to produce in 2027 has been secured through long-term supply agreements signed with major global technology companies for five years. The price-to-earnings ratios of both companies have fallen to about 3 times, and the proportion of foreign ownership has dropped to its lowest level since the global financial crisis in 2008. KB Securities believes that the market may be underestimating the long-term profit growth potential.