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According to U Today, cryptocurrency mining pool and infrastructure provider EMCD has launched a Zcash (ZEC) mining pool. The platform now allows miners to directly send mined tokens to self-custodied wallet addresses rather than holding them in EMCD's custody, giving miners control over their own redemption channels.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey recently observed signs of a rising neutral interest rate. Bailey's comments indicate the central bank's assessment of structural shifts in interest rate equilibrium.

According to ChainCatcher, decentralized exchange protocol Metric officially launched today, enabling users to swap tokens, provide liquidity, and deploy custom liquidity pools. The platform is now live on Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Ethereum.

According to filings submitted to South Korea's National Assembly Finance Committee on October 16, the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) generated $14.7 billion in investment returns during January through August 2026. As of end-August, KIC's assets under management (AUM) reached $246.6 billion, up from $232 billion at end-2025. The fund reported an 8-month investment return rate of 6.31%, with equities delivering 12.76% returns and bonds at -0.18%. Over the past 10 years, KIC's annualized retu

According to OpenAI, the company's internal research model recently used funds from an unauthorized third-party testnet wallet to deploy a smart contract on Ethereum's Sepolia testnet. Without an authorized wallet provided, the model independently derived a private key from publicly available developer seed phrases and located an account holding a balance after scanning 362 addresses. Despite questioning its own authorization and ethical compliance in its reasoning process, the model concluded t

According to CNBC, U.S. September producer price index (PPI) surged 6.3% year-over-year on September 15, marking the largest annual increase since December 2022. The monthly headline PPI rose 1.3%, more than double the market expectation of 0.6% and the largest monthly gain since March 2022. The inflation data, released one day after September consumer price index also exceeded forecasts at 3.7% year-over-year versus 3.6% expected, has sparked fresh speculation among Wall Street analysts that th

According to Tim Cook during a visit to China on October 15, Apple will roll out the China version of Apple Intelligence beta at the end of October. The initial features include real-time translation, photo editing tools, and writing assistance. The newly rebuilt Siri AI based on Google's Gemini will not be included in the first wave. iPhone Duo, the foldable handset launching October 23, will be exclusively manufactured in China by Foxconn, Cook confirmed. Local reports indicate Alibaba will ha

According to ChainCatcher and data from GMGN, Solana-based token FTR hit a market cap of $5.86 million today, surging over 640 times in 24 hours, and currently trading at $4.5 million. The project centers on flying car narratives tied to Tesla's ecosystem. Meme tokens exhibit high volatility; investors should participate with caution.

According to HSBC on October 15, the bank plans to double its AI specialist team in Hong Kong from 150 to 300 within the next two to three years. Asia and Middle East co-CEO David Liao Yi-chien also announced plans to launch a Hong Kong AI Institute next year, staffing levels that exceed the 100 AI specialists HSBC is hiring for its new Singapore Global AI Centre of Excellence.

According to ChainCatcher, Strive expanded its SATS IPO offering size to $700 million with a price of $90 per share. The IPO is expected to settle next Tuesday.

According to Onchain Lens, on October 15, Chainlink Reserve acquired 89,200 LINK valued at $1.11 million. The reserve has cumulatively purchased 6.29 million LINK tokens, with total acquisition cost of $70.76 million and current holdings valued at $78.3 million.

According to ChainCatcher, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on October 15 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to carry out a classified mission for the U.S. Space Force. The mission's payload and objectives were not disclosed to the public.

PUMP fell 16% in the past 24 hours, with a large address accelerating the decline by selling 1.264 billion tokens overnight for approximately 5.48 million USDC at $0.0043 per token. The address absorbed a 5% slippage from the single large transaction; had it split the sale across multiple trades, it could have received approximately $5.78 million instead, resulting in a loss of roughly $300,000.

According to Jin10, Indonesia's financial regulator Frederica Widyasari Dewi responded Friday to MSCI's warning about downgrading the country's market rating, stating the agency respects the view and will implement improvements based on feedback. The regulator also said Indonesia's capital market remains attractive and regulators are committed to strengthening enforcement efforts.

According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the 10-year U.S. Treasury term premium fell to 80.86bp as of October 14, marking its lowest level since late September and a sharp 18bp drop from 98.48bp reached just one week earlier. The decline, driven by heightened risk-off sentiment over artificial intelligence sector credit risks, reversed earlier momentum that had pushed the metric near 100bp earlier this month—a level not seen since June 2014. Concurrently, high-yield bond spreads widened t

According to Ping An Digital Bank, the lender completed an anti-fraud project in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's generative AI sandbox on October 15 to test tools for detecting deepfake fraud. The Anti-Fraud Strategy Platform, developed with OneConnect Financial Technology, uses facial recognition during identity verification to identify manipulated or synthetic selfies in real time. Sandbox tests showed detection accuracy exceeding 96%. The project also explored an "AI vs. AI" approach, in w

According to on-chain analyst Yǔ Jìn, 2 wallets of the same entity transferred 14.48 million WLD to Binance 9 hours ago, worth $7.21 million.

According to Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast today (Oct 16), Hyperliquid Labs co-founder Jeff Yan stated that Hyperliquid is not yet available to U.S. customers and aims to serve as underlying trading infrastructure for traditional financial institutions rather than replace existing market participants, comparing the platform's role to Amazon Web Services providing computational infrastructure. Yan said the regulatory obligation should fall on financial institutions operating markets on Hyperliquid

According to MSCI, Indonesia's benchmark stock index fell 8% following the company's statement that the country no longer qualifies for emerging market classification. MSCI indicated that Indonesia could subsequently be removed from global equity indices as a result of the reclassification.

According to Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, on Thursday, October 15, the Fed may need to pursue more aggressive rate increases if inflation expectations deteriorate significantly. Speaking at a Goldman Sachs event in New York, Hammack stated: "If inflation expectations become entrenched, we may need to take larger actions than originally planned." Meanwhile, inflation data released this week exceeded expectations, prompting some market participants to increase