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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.

Strategy founder and chairman Michael Saylor posted that MSTR shareholders have approved the daily dividend amendment, with preliminary results showing 99.3% voting in favor. This amendment allows the four preferred stocks STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD to accrue dividends on a daily basis.After the new regulations are implemented, every calendar day will be a dividend record date, and dividends will be paid on the next business day. The first record date and payment date for STRC are November 1 and November 2, respectively. The first record date and payment date for STRF, STRK, and STRD are January 1 and January 4 of next year, respectively.

According to Bitcoin.com News, shareholders of the Bitcoin holding company Strategy will vote on October 28 to decide whether to adjust the terms of STRC, STRF, STRK, and STRD, allowing for the daily setting of dividend record dates. The proposal requires majority support from all issued common stock voting rights, with abstentions and broker non-votes counted as opposition; preferred shareholders do not have voting rights.Michael Saylor currently holds 32.9% of the total voting rights, and the proposal needs approximately 17 percentage points of support from other shareholders. If approved, STRC holders can receive daily dividends from November 1 to 30, totaling $1 per share, with an annualized rate of 12%; if not approved, daily dividends will not be implemented.Strategy will announce its third-quarter performance on October 29. As of October 25, the company holds 848,517 bitcoins and $5.1 billion in assets.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that ETF analyst Nate Geraci stated that two Bitcoin dividend reinvestment ETFs, FBEQ and FIBT, under Franklin Templeton are expected to launch soon. The effective registration date listed in the SEC filing is October 27, which may not necessarily be the date trading begins.Both funds target approximately 95% exposure to U.S. equities and 5% exposure to Bitcoin, automatically reinvesting U.S. stock dividends into Bitcoin exposure rather than distributing them to investors. FBEQ tracks a U.S. large-cap stock index covering about 500 companies, with an annual management fee of 0.09%; FIBT tracks an innovation-themed index composed of 100 U.S. companies, with an annual management fee of 0.19%.

According to U.S. SEC filings, Franklin Templeton has registered two index ETFs that reinvest stock dividends into Bitcoin for listing on Nasdaq, namely the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FBEQ) and the Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FIBT).

According to an exclusive report by the East Asia Daily on October 26, the memory chip company SK Hynix plans to return 80% of the proceeds from the sale of its stake in the Japanese NAND manufacturer Kioxia to shareholders as a special dividend. The report cites investment banks and financial industry sources estimating the related proceeds to be around 20 trillion Korean won, with the special dividend expected to be about 16 trillion Korean won. The company intends to announce this plan during the third-quarter earnings release on October 28. Currently, this is an industry expectation and not an officially confirmed announcement by the company.Based on the current number of shares issued, the special dividend amounts to approximately 23,000 Korean won per share, which is 15 times the annual fixed dividend of 1,500 Korean won per share and 61 times the quarterly dividend of 375 Korean won. Whether the payment will be made in installments is still under consideration. Last year's total dividend was 2.1 trillion Korean won. The company stated during the second-quarter earnings call that it is exploring various additional ways to return value to shareholders and will share the details once determined within the year.In 2018, SK Hynix participated in a consortium led by Bain Capital to acquire the NAND business spun off from Toshiba, which was renamed Kioxia in 2019. The total investment by the company was approximately 395 billion Japanese yen, of which the fund's contribution has been sold in phases by Bain and fully recovered. In the first quarter of this year, part of the disposal recovered 4.1178 trillion Korean won, and after further disposal in the second quarter, the estimated proceeds, excluding the principal, are around 20 trillion Korean won. Kioxia's stock price rose from about 10,000 Japanese yen at the end of last year to a historical high of 112,700 Japanese yen on June 22 this year.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Franklin Templeton, with assets under management of $1.7 trillion, has completed the final regulatory procedure before listing two ETFs that convert stock dividends into Bitcoin.On October 22, the company submitted Form 8-A to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register shares of the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF and the Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF for trading on NASDAQ. The prospectus submitted on the same day indicates an effective date of October 27. These two funds were first filed in June of this year, with codes and fees not disclosed at that time.The stock fund code is FBEQ, which tracks the VettaFi US Large-Cap 500 Bitcoin DRIP Index. This index holds the 500 largest companies in the U.S. by market capitalization, weighted by free float. As of September 30, it actually held 499 stocks, with a concentration in the information technology sector. The fund's initial allocation is 95% stocks and 5% Bitcoin, with regular or special dividends distributed by companies being used to purchase Bitcoin at the opening of the next trading day after the ex-dividend date, increasing the Bitcoin allocation with each dividend payment.During quarterly rebalancing, any Bitcoin allocation exceeding 5% will be reduced to 4.5%; if the Bitcoin allocation exceeds 20% between two rebalancing periods, it will be brought down to 4.5% within two trading days, with the funds flowing back into stocks. The fund does not directly hold on-chain Bitcoin but gains exposure through Bitcoin exchange-traded products (including its own spot fund), futures and options, or depository receipts, with some achieved through a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands. The FBEQ fee is 0.09%, with no 12b-1 fees, managed by Franklin Advisory Services, and Franklin Templeton Institutional serves as a sub-advisor. The innovation fund employs the same mechanism, tracking the VettaFi US Innovation 100 Bitcoin DRIP Index, with components from the 100 largest non-financial companies listed on NASDAQ.Franklin Templeton had previously filed for a spot Bitcoin ETF in September 2023 and launched it in January 2024 under the code EZBC; in April of this year, it acquired 250 Digital and established an institutional digital asset department, Franklin Crypto. These two DRIP funds extend the strategy to investors who will not purchase Bitcoin on their own.

Strategy officially stated that the company has conditionally declared a daily dividend for its variable rate A series perpetual preferred stock STRC from November 1 to November 30, 2026, maintaining an annualized regular dividend rate of 12.00%.This arrangement depends on the approval of the daily dividend amendment by Strategy shareholders at the special shareholder meeting on October 28, and the completion and effectiveness of the relevant preferred stock terms revision. If conditions are met, STRC will use each calendar day as the dividend record date starting from November 1, including weekends and U.S. holidays; the corresponding dividend will be paid on the next business day after the applicable record date.This adjustment will change the cash flow rhythm of STRC. The product currently adopts a bi-monthly dividend mechanism, and future holders will receive more frequent, smaller dividend payments; Strategy emphasizes that the adjustment will not change the annualized dividend rate or the total annual dividend amount. If the amendment is not approved, STRC will continue to pay dividends according to the existing semi-monthly rhythm.According to the proposed terms, the 12% rate will cover the entire month of November; thereafter, STRC's applicable dividend rate will be determined monthly, and the company must announce the next month's rate by the 15th of the previous month.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana reserve company DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that it will raise the annual dividend yield of its CHAD preferred stock from 13% to 14%, effective November 2. Based on a par value of $10 per CHAD share, the annual dividend will increase from $1.3 per share to $1.4 per share, paid once every business day, contingent upon the company's board declaring the dividend. The company stated that future funds raised from CHAD issuance will be used to expand its Solana reserves, which generate income through staking and validating node operations.CEO Joseph Onorati stated that raising the dividend yield to 14% will help expand investor participation and grow the scale of CHAD. He noted that the appeal of CHAD lies in providing double-digit dividend income through Nasdaq-listed preferred securities, with daily payouts, while the issuer holds income-generating SOL reserves. The company aims to position CHAD as a leading digital credit tool, enhancing the ability to accumulate SOL, adding value for common stock shareholders, while maintaining prudent capital management.DeFi Development increased its holdings by approximately 22,070 SOL and equivalent assets last week, raising its total holdings to about 2.59 million SOL; the company stated that CHAD reached a new trading price high that week and recently approved a buyback plan to repurchase up to all issued CHAD shares.

According to The Block, research institution K33 believes that although Strategy's financing through preferred stock STRC has helped it acquire nearly 100,000 bitcoins in the first half of 2026, the ongoing dividend costs may offset the gains. K33 estimates that STRC increases Strategy's annual dividend obligations by approximately $725 million, which is equivalent to about 8,740 BTC at a price of $83,000 per bitcoin.If we exclude the approximately $7.5 billion raised through STRC in the first half of the year and redirect the dollar reserves, STRC buybacks, and most dividend expenditures towards purchasing bitcoins, Strategy's holdings would only be about 4,947 BTC more than this hypothetical scenario; based on the aforementioned annualized costs, it would take about seven months to offset this difference. K33 believes that the preferred stock financing model "is a mistake" and prefers that it raises funds through common stock ATM and other methods.

U.S. President Donald Trump has once again promised that if the Republican Party wins the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections, every adult American citizen will receive a $5,000 dividend. This plan was previously proposed by Trump and remains a campaign promise.When asked whether this funding requires Congressional approval, Trump stated that they believe it does not; if it does, Congress will approve it. He also set a prerequisite that the funds must be spent within the United States, expressing a desire that this money does not flow to other countries, and claimed that this initiative will inject momentum into the economy.Based on approximately 240 million adult American citizens, the plan is expected to cost about $1.2 trillion, making it one of the largest economic stimulus plans in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Bloomberg, Strategy's Executive Chairman Michael Saylor is seeking to adjust the dividend mechanism for the company's preferred shares, proposing to change the dividend payment from bi-monthly or quarterly to daily for billions of dollars in preferred stock. The annualized yield on the related securities can reach up to 12%, and Saylor stated that this move would help improve liquidity and market efficiency.Previously, Strategy primarily raised funds by selling common stock to purchase Bitcoin, but as the premium of common stock relative to its Bitcoin assets disappeared, the company shifted to issuing perpetual preferred shares that do not dilute the equity of common stock shareholders. Such securities have no fixed repayment date and can provide a new source of financing for Strategy. The company currently has over $14 billion in preferred shares outstanding. Although the company has repurchased over $1 billion of floating-rate preferred shares STRC, it has still been unable to issue new STRC since May.Analysts pointed out that increasing the frequency of dividend payments mainly reduces dividend-related volatility, cannot eliminate credit and Bitcoin price risks, and may not necessarily enhance market liquidity. The shareholder vote on the proposal will conclude on October 28. Given that Saylor is the main shareholder of Strategy, the proposal is expected to pass.

Strategy announced that the special shareholders' meeting is scheduled to be held online on October 28 at 10:00 AM (Eastern Time), with the record date for stock ownership set for September 25, where common stock shareholders will vote.Previously, Strategy indicated that it plans to change the dividends for STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD to be accrued daily, and related matters will be voted on at this shareholders' meeting.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor posted that Strategy plans to adjust the dividend mechanism for STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD, intending to accrue dividends daily, including weekends and holidays, and pay them on the next business day.Saylor stated that this proposed adjustment will not change the economic terms of the relevant securities, and the main goal is to enhance price stability, liquidity, and market demand.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, the Bitcoin fintech company Castle announced that it will open its automated Bitcoin financial stack to individual users and launch a pioneering feature in this category: users can choose to receive dividend income in cash or Bitcoin at any ratio.Castle's revenue comes from the perpetual preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy, which was incorporated into the platform earlier this year and currently pays an annualized dividend of 12% on a semi-monthly basis. Users can receive 100% of the dividends in cash, convert 100% to Bitcoin, or choose any ratio between the two. According to the company, most users opt for a compromise solution, using cash to cover daily expenses while automatically reinvesting the remaining portion into Bitcoin with each dividend payout.Castle co-founder and CTO João Almeida stated that investors have long faced a dilemma of choosing between stable income and holding Bitcoin. Castle allows users to achieve both cash flow and long-term upside by automatically converting a portion of the dividends into Bitcoin. Previously, Castle only catered to business clients such as restaurants, gyms, accounting firms, and e-commerce; the opening of personal accounts was due to repeated requests from business owners. Castle was co-founded by Almeida and CEO Stephen Cole and has received investments from Boost VC and Winklevoss Capital.

According to the official announcement from Gate, 207 U.S. stock assets including Visa (V), Wells Fargo (WFC), Raytheon Technologies (RTX), Target (TGT), and Pfizer (PFE) have recently completed cash dividend distributions. Gate has completed the corresponding USDT settlement based on users' holdings, and the related process is handled automatically.This dividend distribution covers U.S. stock assets with dividend payment dates from August 31, 2026, to September 4, 2026, encompassing multiple industry sectors including technology and semiconductors, financial services, energy, consumer goods, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, real estate REITs, utilities, materials manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, and strategic ETFs.

Changxin Technology held a performance briefing for the first half of 2026. The company's independent director Chen Wuchao stated in response to investor questions that in the first half of 2026, the global DRAM product market improved, and prices increased.Currently, the company is still in a critical investment period for capacity expansion and technological upgrades, and it needs to gradually create returns for shareholders while ensuring necessary capital expenditures. As profitability continues to strengthen, the company will legally and in accordance with regulations timely initiate the verification of the dividend plan.