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According to Axios on October 1, the U.S. deployed one Patriot air defense system to Saudi Arabia in September to protect a critical oil production facility, and another to Qatar to safeguard a natural gas facility. The report cited U.S. officials and regional sources. The deployments aim to reassure the regional allies of U.S. commitment to protect their key energy infrastructure.

According to ChainCatcher, during Korea Blockchain Week, Robinhood's senior vice president Johann Kerbrat stated that the company continues to advance work related to SEC innovation exemptions to support tokenized stock trading. Kerbrat noted that as trading volumes in stock tokens grow, they may approach the limits set by the SEC.

According to Chosun Daily, on October 2, LG Uplus, a South Korean telecommunications company, partnered with OptAI, an AI model optimization specialist, to develop token optimization technology that reduces GPU and power consumption while improving AI processing efficiency. In earlier tests on a small language model based on LG AI Research's Exaone, the companies ran the model on smartphone neural processing units and achieved 78% power reduction and 82% model size reduction compared to CPU-base

According to Yonhapinfomax, South Korea's inter-bank lending rates (KORIBOR) declined across major tenors on October 2. The 12-month KORIBOR fell 4 basis points to 4.09%, while the 2-month rate dropped 1 basis point to 3.27%. Rates across the 3-month, 6-month, and other tenors also retreated, marking a broad-based decline in short-term borrowing costs.

According to a Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson, Yemen's air force conducted 20 strikes on Houthi targets across multiple areas of Taiz Province in the past three hours.

According to a recent TIME interview, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the American government may consider holding equity stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic, similar to a deal the government reached with Intel.

According to the Financial Times, Amazon has been in talks with investors in recent weeks to transfer Nvidia chips worth approximately $8 billion.

According to ZhiTong Finance, Hang Seng Index fell 2.64% to 23,964 points on October 2 morning, while Hang Seng Tech Index declined 2.45%. Seres Enterprises (09927) bucked the trend with a gain of over 8% following an announcement of a new five-year cooperation agreement with Huawei to upgrade the Wenjie vehicle business.

According to CCTV News, China Huadian's compressed CO2 energy storage project in Mulei, Xinjiang, successfully connected to the grid today (October 2), marking the country's first utility-scale deployment of this technology.

According to ChainCatcher, Super Inu (SI) reached 60,000 token holders within one week of launch, with over 30,000 new holders added in a single day. The protocol recorded over $110 million in on-chain trading volume over the past two days and approximately $163 million cumulative volume in the past seven days. SI's market capitalization has declined to $34.46 million with a 24-hour drop exceeding 22%, after rising from $3 million to $70 million. Bonk Guy noted on X that the pullback represents

According to Xinhua, China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently released the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the livestock and veterinary industry, setting 15 quantitative targets. The plan aims to reach 1.3 billion tons of total fodder production by 2030.

According to a report by the Korea Institute of Finance released on October 1, the country's financial regulator recommends maintaining the real-name deposit account system for cryptocurrency exchanges while reconsidering the '1 entity-1 bank' requirement. The report, submitted to the Financial Services Commission late last year, found that real-name accounts effectively strengthen anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring at the banking stage and lack viable alternatives. However, the institute su

According to KB Securities research division on October 2, memory chip prices are forecast to rise double digits in Q4, with generic DRAM prices expected to climb 10-15% quarter-on-quarter and NAND prices rising 15-20%. The bank cited TrendForce data, projecting strong demand from server DRAM and enterprise SSDs, while SSD bit demand is anticipated to increase over 80% year-on-year driven by rapid expansion in AI inference workloads. Additionally, Micron signaled a significant price increase for

The U.S. dollar index fell to 101.94 today, down 0.10% on the day.

According to Bitwise CEO on X, Bitwise Chainlink ETF saw inflows for three consecutive days, with assets under management exceeding $68 million.

According to Investopedia, Micron's stock rose over 3% on Thursday (Oct 1) after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings that exceeded analyst expectations and provided an optimistic outlook. In contrast, when Micron posted better-than-expected results in June, the stock surged nearly 16% the following day, signaling a shift in investor sentiment. Of 11 analysts tracked by Visible Alpha, 10 recommend buying Micron shares and one offers a neutral rating. Their average price target stands at

According to Nio, on October 1, 2026, Nio, Laoday, and Firefly completed 183,469 battery swaps in a single day, hitting a new record. The brands achieved an average swap every 0.47 seconds.

According to the U.S. Department of Treasury, on October 1, the A7 Network has been designated as a "significant transnational criminal organization" linked to Russia and exploited by Iran for sanctions evasion. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will prohibit fund transfers involving A7 Network sub-agents and require financial institutions to identify and report related suspicious transactions. Investigations show that A7 Network sub-agents handled over $17 billion in transactions between

According to Odaily, on October 1, SBI Digital Trust, NICE Information & Telecommunication, and DSRV signed an agreement to verify stablecoin-based cross-border payment solutions between Japan and South Korea. The verification will use QR code payments by Japanese tourists at NICE merchants as the test case, focusing on fund flow mechanisms, transaction instructions, and system connectivity. Each party will contribute expertise: SBI Digital Trust brings Japanese regulatory and financial experien

According to ChainCatcher, Blockworks has launched Blockworks MCP, opening its data sets to AI agents including ChatGPT and Claude. The platform will allow users to integrate their AI agents with Blockworks' full dataset to build custom applications.