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According to Pendle monitoring, the scale of STRCx on Pendle has surpassed 50 million dollars and set a historical record.Pendle currently holds about 30% of the total supply of STRCx, which is the largest tokenized equity asset in DeFi.

According to informed sources, in response to market skepticism, Josh Payne, founder and CEO of Nscale, an AI data center developer transformed from a Bitcoin mining company, stated that the company will continue to advance its IPO as planned, with a target valuation of $30 billion. In a recent internal memo to employees, he mentioned that Nscale has an "insatiable" market demand and a "robust capital structure," and stated that "data speaks louder than words."Reports indicate that the AI infrastructure industry is under pressure as Nscale approaches its IPO. The company claims to have signed contracts worth $103 billion, but as of August 2026, it has only delivered 55 megawatts of computing power, while potential contract demand corresponds to a capacity of 10 gigawatts. Its data center projects are also facing delays, safety violations, and operational challenges, with Microsoft recently withdrawing from one of its data center projects in the UK.

The park is operated by ACS and has signed a 10-year master service agreement with a new cloud service provider in California, initially providing 20 megawatts of critical AI computing capacity. The client has two options for five-year renewals and holds a preferential offer for an additional 32 megawatts of capacity, with a total capacity of up to 52 megawatts.The company expects the first batch of 10 megawatts of capacity to be powered on in December 2026 and begin generating revenue.

Chainalysis released a report on cryptocurrency adoption in the Middle East and North Africa, showing that from July 2025 to June 2026, the scale of cryptocurrency activity in the UAE grew by 32% year-on-year to $10.48 billion, ranking second in the region, only behind Turkey's $14.45 billion.This scale measures the asset value flowing into cryptocurrency service providers and peer-to-peer channels, rather than the market value of asset holdings. During the same period, the overall scale in the Middle East and North Africa decreased by 1.4% to $44.33 billion; excluding the UAE, the decline in other markets was 8.6%. The inflow of funds into centralized exchanges in the UAE increased by 22% to $5.5 billion, while inflows into institutional platforms such as custodians and market makers grew by 75% to $1.17 billion.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) and Meta will expand the deployment scale of NVIDIA Vera Rubin, Vera CPU, Spectrum-X, and BlueField-4.

Meta Platforms (META.O) has increased the issuance scale of common stock from the previously announced 22.5 billion dollars to 25 billion dollars.

Asset management company Grayscale reported that the privacy cryptocurrency Zcash celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. The report states that Zcash's ability to continuously innovate partly stems from allocating 20% of block rewards for developer funding, with the protocol evolving from the Sprout pool to Sapling and Orchard.Launched in 2026, the Ironwood pool adds quantum-resistant addresses and formal verification to address code vulnerabilities. Grayscale expressed hope and expectation that Zcash will continue to expand transaction capacity and prepare for post-quantum era and AI-driven cybersecurity risks, which may require ongoing funding from multiple parties and efficient allocation.

Seoul police arrested 7 suspects accused of using generative AI to launch hacking attacks. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency stated that about 90 organizations were involved, collectively stealing 8.2 million records, marking the first large-scale arrest of suspects in AI-assisted hacking attacks in South Korea. The targeted victims included hospitals, universities, private tutoring centers, golf courses, and subsidiaries of large corporate groups, all of which held a significant amount of personal information, including names, contact details, and records of ordinary citizens. One funeral service company lost 1.22 million records, and reports indicated that the tutoring center's data also contained information on minors.According to local media reports, the main suspect, 32 years old, studied arts and sports and has no IT background. He told investigators that he self-taught hacking techniques through YouTube and online blogs, while police pointed out that he had worked in a security company conducting simulated attacks from 2019 to 2022. He initially used website vulnerability scanning tools and later introduced AI coding proxies and an automated penetration testing system called Artex at the end of August. Police stated that he hacked into 60 companies over a span of 44 days from August 31 to October 13.The entire attack operation lasted about 13 months, from September 2025 to this October, and the case was filed in June after a victim reported it. Police indicated that such a large-scale attack previously required a hacker group to accomplish, but AI now allows one person to achieve this in a short time. The suspect sent emails to 38 victims, collectively extorting 360 million Korean won, approximately 272,000 US dollars, but the only confirmed payment was 300,000 won, about 210 dollars. The main suspect was detained and transferred to prosecutors last Friday, facing charges of violating South Korea's Information and Communication Network Act, as well as extortion and attempted extortion. Police will continue to investigate the other 6 accomplices and confirm more victims, with 15 institutions already reporting damages.

The People's Bank of China Open Market Operations Office announced the establishment of a non-bank large redemption swap facility in the bond market, referred to as BNSF. The announcement stated that this move aims to implement a scientifically sound and robust monetary policy system and a comprehensive macro-prudential management system to maintain stability in the bond market. The relevant document is the People's Bank of China Open Market Operations Announcement [2026] No. 12.According to the announcement, in specific scenarios where asset management institutions face systemic liquidity risks and the bond market experiences systemic pressure, support will be provided to bank wealth management subsidiaries, public fund managers, or corresponding parent banks, securities parent companies, etc., to borrow central bank bills from the People's Bank of China for market repurchase financing, in order to purchase eligible bonds or product shares of public products that are being redeemed by their own company or asset management subsidiaries, and to pledge to the People's Bank of China. Participating institutions must continuously meet the requirements of prudent management in the financial market and maintain market discipline.

According to Bitcoin News, researchers claim that Tailscale has a serious vulnerability, where users with approved access can exploit its built-in SSH to gain root access to devices, and the attack may spread to other devices on the network.Users running nodes with Tailscale should disable Tailscale SSH and update promptly after the patch is released. Tailscale has not yet responded.

According to Cointelegraph, approximately 32,380 BTC flowed into exchanges in a single day, worth about 2.6 billion dollars, marking the largest single-day inflow since April of this year.After the last similar peak of Bitcoin inflows, the BTC price peaked within a few weeks. Large-scale inflows into exchanges may indicate increased potential selling pressure, but the transfer of funds does not mean that they have actually been sold, and historical trends do not guarantee that this will happen again.

On October 22, the Frontier Red Team of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic released research stating that large language models can automatically write formal proofs on a larger scale. The team collaborated with Theorem to use Claude to prove safety properties on over 100 real open-source libraries at the RISC-V assembly level, claiming this is the first known instance of using AI for large-scale formal verification of production software at the assembly level. During the proof-writing process, vulnerabilities that had gone undetected for years were also discovered.The experiment converted existing compilable fuzz tests from Google OSS-Fuzz into specifications: under assumptions of single-threaded static binaries, fixed memory budgets, RISC-V CPUs, and Linux, for any input less than 64 MB, the program should exit normally without triggering memory safety errors or assertion failures. Within weeks, Claude proved the aforementioned properties for 239 entry points in 123 OSS-Fuzz libraries after patching the identified issues. The proofs targeted compiled RISC-V instructions, approximately 180 million lines of Rocq, and were checked by the Rocq kernel. The page states that this does not mean these libraries are free of vulnerabilities, as remaining issues may lie outside trusted components or the scope of the proofs.The page also mentions that the team had Claude formalize RFC 1950 and proved that the zlib implementation in the Linux kernel conforms to that specification at the x86 binary level; an interpreter written in Rust covering a large subset of Python showed a 99.95% consistency with CPython behavior across over 1.7 million randomly generated programs. In 36 small verification tasks, Opus 5.5 proved that about half required approximately 40% fewer tokens than Opus 5. The team also pointed out that the proofs targeted single-threaded, statically linked RISC-V binaries, and the proof checker cannot determine whether the specifications align with reality.

According to Rootdata, on October 21, 2026 (Eastern Time), the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs for the day was $14.9 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow for the day was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a net inflow of $28.1 million.Following that was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a net inflow of $13 million.

Grayscale announced two lists of the top ten cryptocurrency asset returns. In terms of token holder returns, HYPE, LIT, and CAKE ranked first, second, and third with returns of 8.0%, 7.9%, and 2.6%, respectively, followed by AERO, UNI, RAY, PENDLE, AAVE, JUP, and CRV.In terms of adjusted profit returns, CAKE, LIT, and HYPE ranked first, second, and third with returns of 14.4%, 14.1%, and 9.8%, respectively, followed by RAY, AAVE, JUP, SKY, UNI, AERO, and PENDLE. Grayscale stated that many cryptocurrency assets can be valued based on cash flow, profitability, and capital returned to token holders, without relying solely on narratives.

GMGN co-founder Haze stated that GMGN's self-developed cross-chain bridge is currently undergoing a small-scale rollout test, focusing on ensuring the speed, security, and stability of transactions.Haze mentioned that after this feature goes live, users will be able to directly use USDC within the GMGN App to purchase tokens on multiple blockchains.

Meta Platforms (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that he plans to build a "large-scale Muse network" to achieve agent collaboration.

Grayscale announced the launch of an in-kind investing mechanism, allowing investors to directly deliver eligible digital assets in exchange for shares of Grayscale's products. Grayscale stated that this mechanism is expected to alleviate the burden of self-custody of assets for investors, reduce potential trading execution costs, and make digital assets easier to incorporate into traditional portfolio management.Currently, this mechanism covers 10 products, including Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF (BTC), Ethereum Staking Mini ETF (ETH), Avalanche Staking ETF (GAVA), Chainlink Trust ETF (GLNK), Dogecoin Trust ETF (GDOG), Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG), Solana Staking ETF (GSOL), Sui Staking ETF (GSUI), XRP Trust ETF (GXRP), and Zcash ETF (ZCSH).

According to the official announcement, Gate has released the latest reserve report. As of October 18, 2026, the total reserve size of the platform has risen to $8.688 billion, an increase of 5.7% compared to the previous period; the overall reserve coverage rate has reached 118.49%, consistently above the industry safety benchmark of 100%. This report covers 500 cryptocurrencies, demonstrating Gate's ample excess reserves, providing solid support for the platform to cope with market fluctuations, maintain liquidity, and buffer risks.In terms of core asset reserves, BTC user assets have grown to 21,156 coins, with the platform's reserve amount increasing to 25,727 coins, and the reserve coverage rate rising from 120.32% to 121.60%; ETH user assets have increased to 362,785 coins, with the platform's reserve amount growing to 449,042 coins, and the reserve coverage rate rising from 123.59% to 123.78%.Regarding stablecoins, the total user assets of USDT, USD1, GUSD, and USDC amount to approximately $1.497 billion, corresponding to a platform reserve of $1.746 billion, with a comprehensive reserve rate of 116.59%. Additionally, the reserve rates for major assets such as DOGE, GT, and SOL have reached 106.76%, 129.00%, and 102.51%, respectively, all exceeding the 100% safety line. From overall reserves to various core assets, Gate consistently maintains sufficient safety margins, providing robust protection for the safety of global user assets.

Grayscale Research Director Zach Pandl stated in "The Stack" published on October 20, 2026: AI computing infrastructure stocks have recently declined due to investors' concerns about rising borrowing costs, while the financing needs of related companies are high. The stock index, which includes AI cloud service providers CoreWeave and Nebius, has fallen by approximately 27% since the end of September, according to data from Bloomberg and Grayscale Investments, based on the Indxx High-Performance Computing Index, as of October 19, 2026.Pandl noted: Most of these companies are in early stages and capital-intensive, with some neocloud capital expenditures being several times their current revenue. The top five holdings in the index have a capital expenditure to sales ratio exceeding 230% over the past 12 months, with data as of October 19, 2026. He believes that while stock prices are correcting, the demand and prices for computing power remain stable, with demand for computing power increasing rather than decreasing.He also anticipates: The decline in token prices and the increase in AI agent usage will lead to higher inference demand, thereby supporting the growth of computing power demand; if demand increases and computing power prices remain high, these companies may benefit. He also mentioned the slowdown in GPU depreciation, as well as the overlap between AI computing power and the Bitcoin mining industry, with the possibility of rising Bitcoin prices. Pandl believes: Higher borrowing costs have suppressed computing infrastructure stocks, but the fundamental trend of rising computing power demand remains valid, and this correction should be seen as an opportunity to increase exposure to the energized compute layer.

Elon Musk stated that as GrokBot continues to improve, user adoption is increasing. SpaceX will deploy GrokBot on a large scale to businesses within weeks.