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According to Blur, the Ethereum NFT marketplace will deprecate its blur.io frontend on November 12, 2026, though its on-chain marketplace protocol will remain operational and BLUR token holders will retain control of the fee switch. On the same date, Blend, Blur's peer-to-peer NFT lending platform, will stop matching new loans. Borrowers must repay or allow their loans to default before then, and Blur will provide a tool afterward to help users withdraw assets from Blend.

According to Arkham's monitoring, Tesla continues to hold approximately 8,430 Bitcoin on October 13, with a total value of around $960 million. Tesla originally purchased Bitcoin for $1.5 billion in February 2021 and subsequently sold approximately 4,670 BTC for roughly $100.2 million in profit between March and April 2021. The company's Bitcoin holdings have undergone adjustments since then, with no further reductions during the FTX collapse in 2022.

According to Jin10, South Korean refiner SK Energy purchased 600,000 barrels of U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude oil on October 13, scheduled for delivery in the first half of January 2027. The cargo, sold by Vitol last week, was priced at a premium of approximately $30 per barrel relative to December ICE Brent crude futures, marking a rare major U.S. crude purchase by an Asian refiner amid elevated tanker freight costs.

According to Justice Mark Turner's ruling Monday, Chinese fraud victims lost their High Court bid to recover 61,000 Bitcoin seized by British authorities. London's High Court determined that Chinese law, rather than English law, should govern ownership claims to the assets. The victims sought to apply English law to claim direct ownership of the Bitcoin worth over $5 billion. However, the judge ruled that since the fraud scheme occurred in China between 2014 and 2017, Chinese law must determine

According to a New York City Council announcement on Tuesday, SpaceX has agreed to testify before the council's tech committee on Friday at 10 a.m. ET regarding artificial intelligence safety risks. The company received a subpoena on Sept. 28 from council speaker Julie Menin and general counsel Nwamaka Ejebe. SpaceX was notably absent from a major AI hearing held on Oct. 5, where representatives from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta testified. The council said SpaceX agreed to appear after it

According to Zhitong Finance, Hang Seng Index October futures opened at 24,360 points on Oct 13. As of 5:00 PM Beijing time, the contract was trading at 24,356 points, down 5 points or 0.021%, with a 11-point premium to the spot index. Trading volume reached 36 contracts.

According to BlockBeats, on October 13, hackers minted 19 million THEO tokens on the Base network and swapped them for 700.8 ETH, worth approximately $1.76 million, before bridging the funds to Ethereum, according to Peckshield monitoring. THEO declined 92% over the past 24 hours.

According to K33 Research, the U.S. government transferred approximately 17,733 BTC to Coinbase Prime this week, with 12,267 BTC related to the Bitfinex hacking incident included in the transfer. The move is likely a custody operation rather than a sale, as Coinbase Prime has served as the custodian for the U.S. Marshals Service since 2024. The government's marked BTC holdings decreased from 324,527 to 306,795 BTC following the transfer. Bitfinex-related funds remain under claims procedures, wit

According to German government officials, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will attend the European Union summit on Thursday (October 15).

According to company announcement, Concord Real Estate (00193) expects a loss attributable to shareholders of not less than HK$29 million for the year ended July 31, 2026, compared with a loss of approximately HK$13.9 million in the prior year. The significant increase was primarily driven by a turnaround in a joint venture company's performance from a profit of HK$5 million in FY2025 to a loss exceeding HK$6 million in FY2026, due to reduced hotel-related rental and service income and a decline

According to Sinarad New Energy's (00956) preliminary statement, the company completed a cumulative electricity generation of 10.6879 TWh in the first nine months of 2026, down 0.74% year-on-year as of September 30. The company also reported cumulative on-grid electricity of 10.4187 TWh, declining 0.83% year-over-year. The average on-grid electricity price (before tax) for the January-September period was CNY 0.40 per kilowatt-hour, down 3.05% compared to the same period last year.

According to Bloomberg, Alpaca announced on October 13 its plan to launch primary brokerage services in the first quarter of 2027. The API brokerage will offer financing, asset custody, and securities lending services targeting institutional investors such as hedge funds seeking exposure to tokenized securities. Alpaca currently custodies over $3.5 billion in U.S. equity assets and supports tokenized products from more than 10 issuers, including Binance, Coinbase, and Crypto.com. The company's c

According to Bloomberg, on Oct 13, Jump Trading established an internal compute trading desk and recruited Affaan Mustafa and Alejandro Soumah Fernandez, co-founders of Ito Markets, through an acqui-hire arrangement. Deal terms were not disclosed.

Betahaus Vehicle-Net Limited (02889) announced on October 13 that shareholder Guangzhou Ping An Consumer Equity Investment Partnership has voluntarily extended its lock-up commitment. The shareholder agreed to extend the original 12-month lock-up period from the listing date (September 30, 2025) to 18 months from the listing date. Additionally, Sanfeng Holdings Management Limited has committed to a 6-month lock-up period from the signing date, effective immediately. Together, both shareholders h

At a recent industrial expo, JD Industrial released its Industrial World Model, marking a significant upgrade in its AI model architecture. The new model represents a transition from perceiving industrial supply chains to connecting the physical world in real-time, enhancing the company's capability to optimize industrial operations.

According to The Latent, Bitdeer AI added 60MW of AI data center capacity in Malaysia, bringing its global portfolio to 333.5MW — 95% of its 350MW target. The facility is designed specifically for Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin systems.

On October 12, China's WTO representative Li Yongxiao presented a proposal on WTO reform at the World Trade Organization's thematic meeting on fundamental reform issues. The proposal systematically outlined China's positions on challenges facing the WTO, reform objectives, and core principles, receiving broad attention and positive response from attending parties.

According to Gate data, the US dollar to Japanese yen (USD/JPY) fell to 157.999 on October 13, marking a 0.3% decline over the past 24 hours.

According to Coinbase's official blog, Singapore's Anti-Scam Centre (ASC) reported that cryptocurrency fraud losses dropped 43% year-over-year in the first half of 2026, declining from 114.9 million SGD to 65.5 million SGD. The improvement was attributed partly to industry partnerships that shut down 47,500 phone lines, 37,500 WhatsApp accounts, and 52,200 malicious websites, while investigating over 2,900 money mules and scammers. Coinbase's global intelligence team conducted four joint operati

According to Russian Defense Ministry, Russia launched cluster strikes on Ukrainian military facilities and infrastructure overnight (October 12-13), using land-based precision weapons and drones. The strikes targeted missile and long-range drone manufacturing facilities in Kyiv, a railway depot servicing transport for Ukrainian military supplies, and logistics infrastructure in Mykolaiv region including a logistics center, drone storage facility, and a cargo vessel carrying military supplies to