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Pendle launched PendleLoop, a platform enabling users to trade with leverage on any token, including tokenized stocks. The platform allows traders to take long or short positions while multiplying yields on Pendle PT and non-Pendle assets such as sUSDe. PendleLoop aims to enhance yield

Wintermute transferred 1,127 BTC, valued at approximately $93.45 million, into newly created wallets according to recent reports highlighted by CryptoTwitter commentator @lookonchain. The transfer reflects a broader accumulation trend among large Bitcoin holders, commonly referred to as whales.

The Bank of Korea froze its base rate at 3.00% on October 22 in a unanimous decision by the Monetary Policy Committee. The rate freeze follows two consecutive rate hikes in July and August, with the central bank citing the need to assess the effects and pace of monetary tightening. The BOK

Hanwha Investment & Securities set a 2027 target of 8,500 for the Kospi in its equity outlook report released on Oct. 22, arguing that stronger profitability at South Korean companies has yet to be fully reflected in share prices. BNK Investment & Securities put the index's fair value at 6,700,

Morgan Stanley Chief Investment Officer Joe Amato stated on CNBC on the 20th that the US stock market correction is approaching its final stage, though investors may need to endure another 2-3 weeks of volatility. Amato diagnosed that credit spread widening in the artificial intelligence sector

SSV Labs, a key developer of the SSV Network, recently submitted governance proposal DIP-59 to significantly reduce its development roadmap due to financial strains within its DAO. The proposal emphasizes network maintenance and security while extending operations through June 2027, and highlights c

Grayscale expanded in-kind crypto subscriptions to 10 investment products, The Block reported on October 21. The structure lets clients contribute crypto they already hold directly in exchange for fund shares, allowing investors to invest without first selling tokens to raise cash. Grayscale said th

The Bank of England (BOE) is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate in response to inflationary pressures from rising energy prices, according to a forecast released on the 21st (local time) by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). MUFG Chief Economist Henry Cook projected in a report that t

The United States and Israel have developed concrete plans for renewed airstrikes on Iran, according to a New York Times report citing US officials and sources. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week to discuss the new airstrike options, as both m

The American Bankers Association (ABA) issued a statement on October 22 criticizing the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) final rules for payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act. It said that by removing a protective provision from the final version—a provision in the original proposal that presumed violations in indirect third-party arrangements involving affiliates, exchanges, and other issuance partners—the OCC has enabled payment stablecoin issuers to technically circumvent

Meta AI analyzed Pi Network's potential price following a Binance listing, projecting a target of $5 to $15 in the base case and the possibility of exceeding $25 in an extremely bullish scenario. These projections assume PI is officially listed on Binance and a full-scale cryptocurrency bull run takes off. As of October 2026, PI is trading at around $0.08 and is not listed on Binance. Although a previous community vote supported a listing, Binance has yet to make an official announcement. Meta A

Near Protocol rose 5% on Oct. 22 to $5.29, making it one of the top performers among the 20 largest cryptocurrencies by market cap. Three major ecosystem catalysts drove the rally: the number of tokens staked through NEAR AI surpassed 1 million, Near Business—a confidential multi-signature treasury for enterprise users—launched, and Near Intents volume reached $35.6 billion. Three Key NEAR Catalysts: AI Staking, Near Business Launch, and 14.6x Year-Over-Year Growth in Intents The three major cat

UOS surged 13.87% in the past hour, reaching $0.002726. The token demonstrated strong upward momentum after recording a low of $0.00226265 earlier in the trading day. The source states no confirmed catalyst behind this surge, though the broader crypto market is displaying mixed signals with UOS

Xiaomi Group founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun announced at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference on Oct. 21 that Xiaomi expects to invest more than 200 billion Yuan in R&D for core technologies over the next 5 years—nearly double the 105.5 billion Yuan invested over the past 5 years. The funds will focus on foundational technologies such as in-house chips and AI. In the two and a half years since Xiaomi launched its cars, cumulative deliveries have exceeded 800k vehicles. Le

The New York Stock Exchange amplified a retweet from CoinDesk on October 19 featuring Citi analyst Pete Christiansen's bullish case for crypto equities ahead of Q3 earnings. Christiansen highlighted positive upgrades for companies including Galaxy and Gemini. The NYSE's amplification of this

GTC cryptocurrency surged 10.10% in the past hour to reach $0.28155, driven by heightened trading activity and whale accumulation. The sharp increase follows a 24-hour decline of 8.53%, marking a notable turnaround in market sentiment. Observers note that large wallet movements suggest significant p

According to BlockTempo, the critical PHP2Shell and high-severity Node.js Brotli vulnerabilities were disclosed on October 21. PHP2Shell has a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.2 and is a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to run code on servers without authentication. The report says to be especially wary over the next few weeks of phishing emails, fake browser update screens, and checkout pages on unfamiliar online stores. Overview of the PHP2Shell and eMudhra certificate vulnerabili

According to a post by Xiaomi’s official tech account on October 20, Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro is now available in the Tencent WorkBuddy desktop AI assistant and is listed in the Tencent Cloud TokenHub model catalog under the API ID mimo-v2.6-pro. TokenHub documentation lists a 1M-token context window and a maximum input of 1M tokens. Xiaomi’s Official Tech Account: MiMo-V2.6-Pro Launches on Tencent WorkBuddy Agent On October 20, 2026, Xiaomi’s official tech account announced that MiMo-V2.6-Pro is no

The Economist published an editorial on May 21 (local time) warning that a sovereign debt crisis in major advanced economies poses a far greater threat to global financial markets than an artificial intelligence bubble collapse. The editorial argued that if a run on sovereign debt materializes,

Xiaomi-affiliated SeerRay Lab open-sourced Xiaomi-Lens-0 on October 21. The 4-billion-parameter multimodal model is based on Qwen3.5-4B and can generate pixel-level segmentation masks for image regions during inference. It adds a lightweight pixel mask decoder to Qwen3.5-4B. When the model emits a special mask token, the visual latent information it carries is decoded into a segmentation mask for the image. Xiaomi-Lens-0 Open-Source Information: Hugging Face Weights, GitHub Code, and arXiv Techn