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Odaily reports: Bitcoin treasury company Strategy shareholders will vote on October 28 on whether to amend the terms of STRC, STRF, STRK, and STRD to allow dividend record dates to be set on a daily basis. The proposal requires majority support of the total voting power of all outstanding common shares, with abstentions and broker non-votes counted as opposition; preferred shareholders have no voting rights.Michael Saylor currently controls 32.9% of the total voting power, and the proposal still needs about 17 percentage points of support from other shareholders. If approved, STRC holders can receive dividends on a daily basis 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 results on October 29. As of October 25, the company held 848,517 bitcoins and $5.1 billion in dollar assets. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Bloomberg, Infineon Technologies AG announced it will invest 1.1 billion euros (approximately $1.2 billion) over eight years to expand its core power chip facility in Villach, Austria. The move aims to meet the growing demand for high-energy-efficiency semiconductors in AI data centers, electric vehicles, and robotics. The project will upgrade existing infrastructure to produce gallium nitride (GaN) power chips using 300-millimeter wafers. In a statement released on Tuesday, the company said mass production is expected to begin by the end of 2027, with expansion work continuing through 2034.
Odaily reports: According to a latest survey jointly conducted by the DeFi Education Fund and market research firm Ipsos, 35% of US respondents believe that political candidates should support the development of next-generation fintech in the United States, but when the question explicitly involves blockchain, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance (DeFi), the support rate drops to 13%.The survey shows that 74% of respondents believe the financial system needs reform to give individuals more control over their money and assets, but only 9% say they are very or extremely familiar with cryptocurrency, and only 5% have high or complete trust in decentralized platforms.Among respondents willing to try DeFi, savings and domestic US transfers are the most notable potential use cases, rather than speculative trading. In addition, cryptocurrency ownership rose by 4 percentage points, but the proportion of respondents who have used cryptocurrency in the past year remains at 13%, unchanged from before.
Odaily reports: OpenFour, the open token issuance ecosystem under Four.Meme, has announced a partnership with GoPlus to launch a $500,000 incentive program, calling on developers to submit innovative token launch mechanisms. Developers can build custom mechanisms based on Four.Meme's issuance infrastructure on BNB Chain, and once approved and launched, these mechanisms will be available for projects within the OpenFour ecosystem to adopt.Selected mechanisms will receive free security audits, a $2,000 launch reward, up to 50% fee sharing, as well as official promotion and integration support.This call for proposals prioritizes Royalty / revenue vaults, custom Bonding Curves and trading logic, novel migration paths and incentive models, as well as innovative combinations of existing modules, but is not limited to these areas. Proposal applications are now open.
Odaily report: Shana Bautista, Polymarket's Head of Global Intelligence and Investigations, stated that Polymarket has launched investigations into dozens of trades involving the U.S. midterm elections, focusing on identifying potential insider trading and market manipulation. A person familiar with the investigations, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said that at least two of the cases have been referred to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).Bautista said Polymarket has assembled a 16-person investigations team and deployed a new election trading monitoring system ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. The system integrates data from social media, the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC), crypto companies, banking partners, and other public information sources, generating hundreds of anomalous trading alerts each day. She noted that the investigations team can identify potential manipulation through behavioral patterns such as concentrated trading across multiple accounts within a short period and different wallets using the same device ID. (U.S. National Public Radio)
According to Bitcoin.com News, a collaborative project in Thailand has launched a digital wallet app called WORPT, which allows foreign tourists to exchange stablecoins such as USDT and USDC for Thai baht and make payments to local merchants via Thailand's QR Promptpay network. Launched under the Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand’s (SEC) tourist Digipay regulatory sandbox initiative, the app is jointly developed by Waan Exchange and Wipay, in partnership with the USDT issuer, The Mall Group, and Visa. Designed within the sandbox framework, local merchants will not receive cryptocurrency directly; instead, payments are settled in Thai baht through standard payment channels. WORPT also plans to introduce physical and virtual Visa prepaid cards, allowing users to draw from a shared Thai baht balance for both QR code scans and card transactions. The project is slated to hold its official launch event in November 2026.
According to Initia monitoring, a security remediation plan has been drafted for the vulnerability discovered on October 23 and is currently being audited with security partners. Once the audit is complete, Initia will publish a detailed plan outlining how support for affected assets will be restored and how the Initia L1 and Rollup networks will be restarted in an orderly manner. This process is expected to be completed within the coming days.
Odaily Report: OneKey founder Yishi posted that after a series of data breaches and supply chain attacks in the hardware wallet industry recently, OneKey is strengthening its existing security measures, stating that it has not experienced any security incidents and that these measures are being implemented proactively. OneKey has confirmed through the Shopify API that personal information such as customer names, emails, and shipping addresses in historical order records has been deleted, and has reduced the customer data retention period to a maximum of 30 days. Returns, warranties, and device verification will switch to methods that do not rely on long-term data retention. The retention policies of carriers such as FedEx and UPS are not controlled by OneKey; with customers' explicit consent, OneKey may separately retain privacy-processed email addresses solely for product updates and security patch notifications. OneKey's long-term goal is to migrate its e-commerce operations to its own infrastructure and reduce dependence on third-party platforms such as Shopify.
Bybit partners with XAUE Protocol to launch a 90-day fixed-yield XAU₮ product with a 2.83% annualized yield and a total allocation of 2,000 XAUT, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
ZCode stated that the platform provides 300 million free GLM-5.3-Flash tokens to users daily. Users can claim them in-app starting at 11:00 UTC and use them from 15:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC the following day. Users must update ZCode to the latest version, switch to Global Building after claiming, and select the GLM-5.3-Flash model.
According to Forbes, Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot personalization update for eligible Microsoft 365 business and education accounts. It leverages Outlook emails, Teams chat logs, and meeting transcripts to infer users' preferences, relationships, and work priorities in order to provide personalized services. Microsoft stated that the relevant data is confidential and will not be used to train its models. Users can navigate to the "Settings" — "Chat Settings" — "Personalization" section in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to disable the "Chat History and Work Insights" setting. Once turned off, inferred memories will be deleted after 30 days; if the setting is re-enabled during this period, related memories may be restored.
according to an official announcement, Upbit will list the NIL/KRW trading pair.
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have fixed a bug in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade that could cause ETH deposited by staking services for new validators to be incorrectly credited to block builder accounts, giving operators the opportunity to withdraw the associated funds. The fix was merged into the Ethereum consensus specification on October 26, having previously been rejected on October 19 due to insufficient support from client teams.
According to AGIBOT, the company has officially launched the embodied agent framework Genie Master, enabling robots to "unlock new skills while on the job." Genie Master allows robots to achieve autonomous improvement after deployment, continuously enhancing their capabilities in real-world operations, thereby laying the foundation for cross-scenario replication and large-scale application.
According to official announcements, Odaily reports that Gate will launch contract trading, trading bots, and copy trading for TTMI (TTM Technologies), EIDO (iShares MSCI Indonesia ETF), EQT (EQT Corporation), CSX (CSX Corporation), and AXP (American Express) on October 27, 2026, at 17:00 (UTC+8), supporting 1–20x long and short positions.As of now, Gate supports contract trading for 496 stocks.
NVIDIA stated that it will expand its collaboration with Meta on Muse and the Muse series models, focusing on optimizing AI Agent training and inference performance. The partnership will also explore using NVIDIA OpenShell to enhance the secure deployment of AI Agents and leverage NVIDIA Sentry to monitor Agent behavior. On the infrastructure front, Meta plans to expand deployments of NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Vera CPUs, and adopt Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and BlueField-4 to improve network efficiency and throughput. Additionally, NVIDIA plans to invest $3 billion in Meta's equity offering.
Odaily Report: Hyperliquid co-founder jeff posted that he is excited to partner with Kraken's parent company Payward to advance onchain derivatives development built on Hyperliquid infrastructure and bring a new generation of perpetual futures markets to the US.jeff stated that Kraken is one of the most trusted exchanges in the crypto industry and a firm supporter of blockchain technology and crypto ideals, and that Hyperliquid is honored that Kraken chose to build on Hyperliquid.
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe has released a ZIP draft proposing to halt the automatic allocation of block subsidies to the Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) and redirect the original 8% subsidy portion to the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM). The draft notes that ZCG currently holds approximately 91,452.98 ZEC, valued at around $125 million, indicating that existing funds are sufficient to continue supporting related activities without requiring ongoing block subsidies. If the proposal takes effect, starting from a designated activation height, the original 8% allocation will be transferred to the NSM fund until the original funding stream expires; ZCG's existing assets and governance rules will remain unchanged.
According to data from Qichacha, National Data Group Co., Ltd. has completed its business registration with a registered capital of 30 billion RMB. SASAC contributed 6 billion RMB, holding a 20% stake; China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom each contributed 4.5 billion RMB, holding 15% apiece for a combined 45%; China Southern Power Grid and State Grid each contributed 3.75 billion RMB, holding 12.5% apiece for a combined 25%; and Xiong'an Group contributed 3 billion RMB, holding a 10% stake. The company's business scope encompasses big data services, data processing and storage support services, artificial intelligence application software development, blockchain-related software and services, and cloud computing equipment technical services, among others.
According to the official announcement, Binance will adjust the minimum price precision for the BLURUSDT and QUSDT USDT-margined perpetual contracts on October 28 at 14:30 (UTC+8). Specifically, the minimum price tick size for BLURUSDT will change from 0.00001 to 0.000001, while for QUSDT it will change from 0.000001 to 0.00001. Contract trading and other operations will remain unaffected during the adjustment period. API price precision information will be updated synchronously, and existing orders will remain unchanged.