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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

Hashed and its subsidiary ShardLab hosted Collectible Con, a trading card game (TCG) show, on Oct. 2-3 at Stage X Seongsu Chabot in Seoul's Seongsu neighborhood, drawing about 4,000 visitors over two days. The event combined collectible exhibitions and trading with networking among collectors,

Bitmine announced a cap on its Ethereum holdings at 5% of the total supply, as revealed by Tom Lee of Fundstrat during his speech at TOKEN2049. The decision was influenced by Vitalik Buterin's suggestion. Bitmine currently holds approximately 6 million ETH, representing 4.9% of the total supply. Eth

South Korea's Financial Services Commission Chairman Kim Byoung-hwan stated on Oct. 22 that Solidigm's potential U.S. listing would fall under the country's dual-listing guidelines, requiring parent companies SK hynix and SK Square to complete shareholder-protection procedures. Kim testified

OpenZeppelin announced a strategic partnership with Chainlink on Oct. 20, integrating Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Automated Compliance Engine (ACE) into its development tools. The integration is now live in Contracts Wizard, AI tools, Skills, and developer documentation; support for UI Builder is planned for a future release. Live Features: CCIP and ACE Integration in Contracts Wizard, AI Tools, Skills, and Documentation OpenZeppelin’s announcement clearly distin

French government bond markets saw the 10-year OAT yield exceed 5% on October 21 for the first time in 24 years, according to Yonhap Infomax data. The surge was driven by fiscal deterioration and the unwinding of accumulated carry trade positions, according to analysis from former Goldman Sachs

Art Token, an art-content solutions company, will debut the temple character 'Hwangak-i' and the fortune app 'Myoyong' at the Gimcheon Gimbap Festival in collaboration with Jikjisa Temple, to be held from Oct. 23 to Oct. 25 in Gimcheon, North Gyeongsang Province. The company announced on Oct. 22

According to IT Home on Oct. 22, Micron held its 2026 Technology Symposium last week and expects to launch two new types of 3DS memory in 2028, when standard HBM5 is also expected to arrive: vHBM (3D-integrated HBM) and vEIM (edge AI inference memory). vHBM uses numerous DRAM chips, a base die, and an XPU logic die. Micron 2026 Technology Symposium: Two New Types of 3DS Memory to Launch Alongside HBM5 At its 2026 Technology Symposium, Micron shared its outlook on DRAM, HBM and related technologi