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WEMIX announced on Oct. 14 that it had relaunched its bug bounty program in partnership with CertiK. The program now operates on the CertiK Hunt security platform, offering CertiK-approved security researchers a maximum bounty of $10k for discovering a single critical vulnerability in the WEMIX3.0 blockchain or its governance smart contracts. Bounties are denominated in USD and paid in USDT via the Ethereum network. Bounty Structure: Tiered Rewards for WEMIX3.0 Blockchain and Smart Contract Vuln

BingX EU (MEGE zweite GmbH) recently obtained a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA). The license enables BingX to offer regulated broker services across 29 countries in the European Economic Area (EEA), significantly broadening its

Japanese stocks opened sharply lower on the morning of October 15, with the Nikkei 225 index falling 2,147.15 points (3.17%) to 65,597.14 at 9:16 AM, according to Yonhap Infomax World Stock Index. The decline followed a sharp sell-off in US semiconductor stocks overnight after September US

SK Hynix's US subsidiary Solidigm requested US government approval on October 14 to expand semiconductor production at its Dalian, China plant by importing additional US-made equipment, proposing to link the approval to plans for a new NAND flash factory in the US, according to Reuters citing

Anthropic is counting down to its initial public offering (IPO), holding a closed-door investor day at its San Francisco headquarters on October 14 to disclose its third-quarter financial results to invited institutional investors: quarterly revenue reached $16.8 billion, up approximately 46% from $11.5 billion in the second quarter; adjusted profit turned positive for the first time, and quarterly cash flow was also positive. Q1–Q3 Totaled $33 Billion: More Than 500 Enterprise Customers Pay Ove

The Direxion Daily South Korea Bull 3X ETF (KORU) plunged more than 18% overnight late Wednesday as South Korea's benchmark KOSPI dipped below 6,000 intraday Wednesday for the first time since late July, driven by sharp declines in semiconductor giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The selloff w

On October 14, Netflix announced plans to cut approximately 6% of its workforce, affecting around 1,000 positions worldwide—the company’s largest round of layoffs since 2022. The cuts mainly affect the product, technology, legal, and human resources departments. In the first half of 2026, members worldwide watched a total of 97 billion hours of content, just 2% more than during the same period last year, while movie viewing hours fell 3.1%. Layoff Details: 6% of Employees Affected, Largest Round

In US Stock Market News, the S&P 500 fell 1.1% to 7,718.94 points on Wednesday, October 16, 2026 (4:00 PM ET / 1:30 AM IST next day), while the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.9% to end at 26,692.87 points, reflecting broad selling pressure across US equities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

SOXL, a leveraged exchange-traded fund tracking the US semiconductor index threefold, plummeted 13.35% on October 14 local time in US Stock Market News activity, closing at $110.54. The sharp decline in the semiconductor-focused ETF followed a 4.30% drop in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index on th

Polygon Labs announced on October 15 that it had officially completed its acquisition of Coinme, enabling its stablecoin payment platform to exchange USD for digital assets, and vice versa, in a regulated manner across 48 U.S. states. The acquisition provided Polygon’s U.S. payments business with 37 money transmission licenses and exemptions in 11 states, covering the entire United States. The business is also registered with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as a money services business.

An Ethereum whale closed a long position for a profit of $8.93 million after holding it for 56 days. The position, consisting of 20,000 ETH, was opened on August 19 and initially represented a $48.4 million investment. The whale's profit-taking occurred after the position reached a peak unrealized p

DeepSeek experienced a partial outage of its web and API services on October 15, affecting three components: the V4 Pro API, V4.1 Flash API, and chat service. The official status page was updated to “Identified,” indicating that the cause had been determined and fixes were being implemented, but the services remained completely unavailable, with no recovery time announced. DeepSeek October 15 Service Outage: Recovery Time Not Announced According to DeepSeek’s official status page, the services e

Asset manager VanEck Digital Assets filed a Form RW with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Oct. 14, withdrawing the S-1 registration statement for its Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. VanEck stated in the filing that it did not intend to proceed with the planned distribution of fund shares, but it did not provide a reason for the withdrawal or announce any alternative product. Withdrawal Details: S-1 Never Became Effective, No Securities Were Issued According to the Form RW withdrawa

According to a paper released on Oct. 14, researchers from the Data Science and Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University introduced two AI scientific research tools: SRHarness and MechBench. SRHarness achieved a 93.69% symbolic recovery rate on the LSR-Transform benchmark, even surpassing the combination of Codex and GPT-5.5. SRHarness Performance: LSR-Transform Reaches 93.69%, Remaining at 72.97% After Background Removal According to the paper’s

The Crypto Council for Innovation, the Blockchain Association, the Digital Chamber, and the Illinois Blockchain Association jointly filed documents with the Sangamon County Circuit Court on October 13, requesting that the court approve an expedited summary judgment process “so that a ruling on the legality of Illinois’s 0.2% digital asset tax can be issued as soon as possible”; if the court approves, a ruling on the substance of the tax law is expected in March 2027. Four Organizations Jointly S

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management projects US 10-year Treasury yields will gradually decline to 4.7% over the next 12 to 15 months, according to Chief Investment Officer Lisa Shalett in a report released on the 14th (local time). The forecast comes as recent yields reached 5.3%, marking a 24-year

Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song is repeatedly emphasizing inflation as the Monetary Policy Committee meeting approaches in approximately one week, occurring in October during Q4 2026. The focus intensifies as the BOK considers additional rate hikes while some of the four policy arrows

According to an October 14 announcement by Doubao, ByteDance’s mobile assistant, the 30-day public notice period for its Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) has ended. Screen automation functionality will gradually be opened to third-party apps that have not opted out; apps whose developers have not opted out will be available for Doubao’s AI agents to operate on behalf of users. A total of 151 apps have opted out, including 65 in the Tencent ecosystem. 151 Apps Have Opted Out: 65 in the

Rocket Lab saw its stock decline 8% after hours on Wednesday after the company announced its Neutron rocket will not fly until next year, marking the latest delay for the vehicle central to its growth plans. CEO Peter Beck attributed the postponement to manufacturing issues identified in the

SpaceXSI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk, announced on X on Oct. 15 that it had launched Grok Voice 3.0, which it calls “the world’s smartest voice-to-voice model.” Its key selling points are strong performance in customer service calls, response latency of under 1 second, and lower costs than other frontier models. According to Artificial Analysis testing, the model scored 86.9 on the Voice-to-Voice Overall Index. Artificial Analysis Voice Index: 86.9 Points, Ranked First According to the