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The storage chip manufacturer SK Hynix (SKHY.O) announced that its quarterly profit increased more than sevenfold year-on-year and announced an additional shareholder return plan worth 100 trillion won (approximately 75 billion USD) to be implemented in 2026. The company reported that its operating profit for the quarter ending in September reached 83.3 trillion won, exceeding the expected 76.7 trillion won; revenue rose to 104.6 trillion won, surpassing the expected 98.3 trillion won, with both metrics hitting historical highs for a single quarter.Driven by supply constraints, the company's operating profit margin remains at historically high levels. The company stated on Wednesday that it expects the shortage of storage chips to continue until 2030. The company's analysis suggests that the increasing technical difficulty of advanced processes and the long time required to build new semiconductor factories are limiting supply expansion. The company anticipates that in the short term, the application of artificial intelligence by businesses and consumers will drive storage demand, while in the medium to long term, physical artificial intelligence applications such as autonomous driving and robotics will become the driving force for demand growth.

SK Hynix will announce its Q3 2026 financial report after the U.S. stock market closes on Tuesday, along with a new shareholder return plan. The market is focused on the demand for high bandwidth memory (HBM), profitability, and whether a large special dividend will be issued. Other memory manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics and Kioxia Japan will also gradually announce their performance.The demand for AI infrastructure is driving an upward trend in the memory chip market. KB Securities analysts estimate that more than 70% of the memory that the two major Korean memory chip manufacturers plan to produce next year is covered by five-year supply agreements signed with large technology companies. The market is beginning to worry about the return on AI capital expenditures and financing costs, with investors paying more attention to order quality, the sustainability of future demand, and the pace of capacity expansion.Korean media previously reported that SK Hynix is considering issuing a special dividend of about 16 trillion won (approximately 12 billion USD); other reports suggest that the new shareholder return could reach as high as 60 trillion won (approximately 45 billion USD). These amounts have not been officially confirmed by the company. SK Hynix had previously announced a buyback and cancellation of treasury shares worth 40 trillion won and plans to use more than 50% of its free cash flow from 2025 to 2027 for shareholder returns.

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.

According to a report by Politico, Joel Greenberg, a shareholder of Circle Internet Group and a former software engineer at the company, filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court on Thursday, accusing U.S. President Donald Trump and his family of benefiting from two transactions involving the United Arab Emirates through the cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial (WLFI), allegedly violating the U.S. Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause. This clause restricts the president from accepting money or other benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval.The lawsuit states that the first transaction occurred before Trump's second term began, in which he sold 49% of WLFI for $500 million, with the related funds reportedly coming from the UAE. After Trump took office, he reportedly earned millions from this transaction. The second transaction involved an investment fund established by the UAE government purchasing $2 billion worth of digital currency from the Trump family. The plaintiff alleges that this transaction inflated the value of the cryptocurrency assets held by Trump and generated millions in interest income for him, while significantly expanding the circulation of his stablecoin.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market and mainstream financial institutions disclosed the latest developments in the disposal of crypto asset treasury, corporate governance accountability, and Layer 2 security tokenization cooperation. The core information is as follows:Shareholder Bastion Trading, holding approximately 9.99% of SkyAI shares, issued a statement pressuring for accountability regarding the liquidation of SOL and demanding a board restructuring: Major shareholder Bastion Trading, which holds approximately 9.99% of the NASDAQ-listed company SkyAI (NASDAQ: $SKYA), officially released a statement requesting that SkyAI's Executive Chairman Paul K. Danner III and three directors Soren Bo Christiansen, Timothy J. Ruemler, and Jason L. Monroe publicly explain their specific roles in evaluating, approving the takeover offer, and overseeing the complete liquidation of SOL, including who authorized and supervised the liquidation, reviewed the timing of the transaction, execution methods, counterparties, and transaction costs.Meritz Securities of South Korea signs MOU with Optimism Foundation to explore tokenized financial asset clearing based on OP Stack: South Korea's mainstream financial institution Meritz Securities announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Optimism Foundation. The two parties will jointly study the issuance, clearing, and distribution framework of tokenized financial assets based on OP Mainnet and other OP Stack networks, deeply exploring the commercial viability of using Ethereum public Layer 2 as a financial-grade distribution and clearing infrastructure. Meritz Securities stated that it will focus on exploring tokenized financial products based on high-quality local assets within the legal and licensing compliance framework, and will promote implementation in conjunction with the progress of South Korea's security token offering (STO) regulations. Previously, KB Securities and DB Securities in South Korea have also successively accessed the OP Stack ecosystem to explore related tokenization businesses.

According to GlobeNewswire, SkyAI's major shareholder Bastion Trading stated that it and its affiliates collectively hold about 9.99% of the company's common stock and require SkyAI's executive chairman and several directors to publicly explain the decision-making process for approving the liquidation of all SOL treasury and the cash tender offer.Bastion pointed out that SkyAI initiated the tender offer on October 16 and disclosed in subsequent documents that it had emptied all SOL treasury. A month ago, the company still stated that it would continue to adhere to the Solana DAT strategy and held over 2 million SOL. Bastion believes that the current tender offer price of $3 per share or for eligible warrants is too low and demands that it be raised to at least $3.50, and that the maximum acquisition ratio for pre-financing warrants be increased from 95% to 100%.Bastion also requested that the Strategic Advisor Warrants be excluded from the offer and that the securities and potential earnings held by directors, management, and affiliates be disclosed. It stated that if the relevant directors cannot prove they have fulfilled their independent oversight and fiduciary duties, they should voluntarily resign; otherwise, a special shareholders' meeting should be convened to allow shareholders to decide the future composition of the board.

According to GlobeNewswire, SkyAI (Nasdaq: SKYA) major shareholder Bastion Trading (holding approximately 9.99%) publicly questioned the company's cash tender offer plan.Bastion Trading pointed out that SkyAI quietly sold about 70% of its SOL treasury reserves (from over 2 million to about 600,000) in less than a month, without timely disclosure to shareholders, suspected of violating information disclosure regulations.Meanwhile, the company's board faced overwhelming opposition votes at the 2026 shareholder meeting, raising questions about its legitimacy. Bastion Trading demanded the company fully disclose the details of the SOL sell-off, restructure the board, and improve the acquisition terms (raising the acquisition price from $3 to at least $3.5), otherwise, it would not participate in this tender offer and reserves the right to take legal action.

According to The Block, shareholders of Armada Acquisition Corp. II have approved its business combination with XRP Treasury company Evernorth, clearing a key step for the latter's listing on Nasdaq.The transaction is expected to raise approximately $300 million in total cash proceeds, with investors also contributing in physical XRP. Upon completion of the transaction, Evernorth is expected to hold approximately 473 million XRP. The transaction is expected to be completed on October 7, and the combined company plans to trade under the ticker XRPN starting October 8.

The Smarter Web Company, a Bitcoin treasury company in the UK, has received shareholder approval to launch the UK's first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock MORE. Additionally, the company expects to raise between $20 million and $33 million through an IPO to acquire more Bitcoin and cash-generating operational businesses.

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.

Cryptocurrency exchange operators Bullish, Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions, and Drivewealth established the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition on September 24, promoting a direct link between on-chain tokens and the official shareholder register of listed companies.The coalition aims to grant token holders voting rights, dividends, stock splits, and other corporate action rights, and will study the interoperability of technical standards, settlement, custody, and traditional market infrastructure with blockchain. Members plan to meet with listed company issuers at the New York Stock Exchange on October 27.

According to Bloomberg, as the stock prices of companies holding cryptocurrency assets have significantly declined, retail and institutional investors are facing cumulative losses of about 50 billion dollars.Some investors are strengthening their scrutiny of governance issues such as employee compensation at related companies through shareholder actions to limit further losses.

Digital asset management company CoinShares PLC (Nasdaq: CSHR) announced that shareholders approved all resolutions at the special shareholder meeting on September 15, 2026, including authorizing the company to repurchase up to 25% of the issued common shares, as well as through the CoinShares PLC 2026 Equity Incentive Plan. The plan aims to implement the previously approved equity pool, covering all operating jurisdictions, without increasing the number of reserved shares.

According to CryptoSlate, the UK-listed company Satsuma Technology has sold its entire reserve of 669.4867 bitcoins, with the transaction completed between July 24 and 31, at a net transaction average price of £47,667 per bitcoin, resulting in total proceeds of approximately £31.91 million.The High Court of England has approved its capital reduction through the cancellation of Class B shares, and the company will return £30.718881 million to eligible shareholders, which amounts to £0.002734 per Class B share.

According to the Financial Times, the low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital currently holds approximately $40 billion worth of SpaceX shares, with a stake of about 3.4%. According to Bloomberg data, the firm has become the fifth-largest shareholder of SpaceX, disclosing a holding size larger than that of Silicon Valley venture capital firms such as Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. Vy Capital first invested in SpaceX in 2016 when the company's valuation was around $15 billion; after SpaceX went public this year with a valuation of about $1.75 trillion, the value of its holdings has significantly increased.Vy Capital is also the largest external investor in Elon Musk's tunnel company The Boring Company and brain-computer interface company Neuralink, and had committed $700 million for Musk's acquisition of Twitter in 2022. The firm's head, John Hering, has a close relationship with Musk, having invested over $100 million in SpaceX shortly after the Falcon 9 rocket launch failure in 2016; since 2019, he has also been involved in the early business development of Starlink, including hiring personnel and building financial models, and has held a SpaceX employee badge. Currently, Hering serves as a director of The Boring Company, and Vy Capital also participated in the company's recent $3 billion financing round.Vy Capital's assets under management have increased from $27 billion at the end of last year to $50 billion in June of this year. In a letter to investors, the firm stated that since its establishment in 2014, it has achieved a total internal rate of return of 41% and has distributed $4.6 billion to investors. Vy Capital expects that if investment judgments materialize, SpaceX's valuation will exceed $10 trillion in the next 5 to 7 years. The firm currently has only a few dozen employees, with a core investment team of four, and has stopped accepting external investors since last year.

AMC CEO Adam Aron once again criticized Robinhood's stock token business in a post, raising several questions to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher. Aron stated that stock tokens violate the fundamental concept of stock ownership and questioned why Robinhood continues to heavily promote stock tokens on its U.S. site when it cannot provide relevant products to U.S. users.Aron also questioned whether stock tokens might lead buyers to mistakenly believe they have the same rights as actual shareholders, as well as the 1:1 stock support mechanism: if some of the underlying real stocks used to support the stock tokens are simultaneously lent to short sellers, can the related tokens still be considered truly 1:1 supported? Aron further criticized Robinhood for conducting related business through a Jersey entity, stating that while stock tokens may represent innovation in Robinhood's view, in his view, "it will only bring shame to Robinhood."Yesterday, Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev published a lengthy article outlining Robinhood's vision of enabling global investors (especially non-U.S. users) to gain exposure to U.S. stocks and ETFs through blockchain, and he focused on the question of whether issuers need to agree to the tokenization of stocks.

The Southeast Asian cryptocurrency industry is expected to double its funding to $680 million by 2026, with Singapore taking the lead.Japan's Metaplanet faces shareholder backlash due to the executive stock incentive plan.