Odaily News: US initial jobless claims for the week ending October 10 were 199,000, compared with expectations of 200,000.

The US September PPI annual rate was 6.3%, compared with expectations of 5.3%, and the previous value was revised from 5.40% to 5.6%. (Jinshi)

Odaily Planet Daily News: According to Bitcoin News monitoring, an address had held 4,581.94 bitcoins since March 3, 2020, and transferred them all out in a single transaction on October 12. When these bitcoins were received, the price was approximately $8,830, worth about $40.5 million; at the time of this transfer, the price was approximately $82,350, corresponding to a value of about $377 million. Four new addresses each received 1,000 bitcoins, and a fifth address received 581.94 bitcoins, with a transaction fee of 732 satoshis. As of the next day, none of the five addresses had transferred any funds out. This address had also previously ignored 22 dust transfers, including one similar-address poisoning attempt.

Odaily News: Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, the key market and financial news investors should focus on is as follows:

1. U.S. stock index futures were mixed. Dow Jones futures rose 0.35%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.31%, and Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 1.25%.

2. International oil prices were mixed. WTI crude oil futures rose 0.33% to $95.400 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures fell 1.18% to $104.804 per barrel.

3. International spot gold and silver both climbed. Spot gold rose 1.20% to $4,154.39 per ounce; spot silver rose 1.94% to $56.70 per ounce.

4. Europe's three major stock indices mostly rose. The UK's FTSE 100 gained 0.77%, France's CAC 40 rose 0.27%, and Germany's DAX 30 fell 0.39%.

5. Apple Board Executive Chairman Cook said during a visit to Shanghai that Apple Intelligence and the related Alibaba Qwen large model have indeed been approved and will release a test version later in October, but this will not include Siri AI.

6. Musk's chip project Terafab may receive its first ASML EUV lithography equipment in the middle of next year. Terafab's initial chips are still expected to use traditional chip equipment to align with Intel's 14A process.

7. TSMC said its 2026 capital expenditure is expected to be $60 billion to $64 billion; CPU demand for AI agents is growing and far exceeds existing supply capacity; it is in discussions with Musk about whether it can utilize TeraFab's idle capacity.

8. Concerns over the credit risk of AI cloud service provider CoreWeave have further intensified, with the spread on its five-year credit default swaps (CDS) surpassing 1,000 basis points, reflecting market worries about its debt repayment and refinancing capacity.

9. Rocket Lab once again postponed the maiden flight plan for its new heavy-lift rocket Neutron, delaying its first launch to 2027. Rocket Lab fell nearly 12% in pre-market trading at one point.

10. Goldman Sachs expects Google's capital expenditure next year to approach $350 billion and maintains a "Buy" rating on Google with a $435 target price.

11. With U.S. stocks declining and yields proving attractive, the U.S. Treasury "safe-haven trade" has made a comeback. U.S. Treasury prices have recently extended their gains, driving yields across maturities lower across the board. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield fell as much as 10 basis points intraday to 5.08%.

Odaily News: Ripple's prime brokerage division, Ripple Prime, is launching perpetual contracts linked to real-world assets (RWA) for institutional clients, covering over 100 reference markets including equities, indices, ETFs, and commodities. The service is offered through Trade.xyz and supports cross-margin mechanisms, allowing clients to share account funds across multiple positions to improve capital efficiency. As institutional demand for leverage and 24/7 trading grows, open interest in traditional asset perpetual contracts across several major trading platforms has risen from nearly zero to $9 billion over the past year.

Michael Higgins, International CEO of Ripple Prime, said some institutions use such contracts for basis trading, while others use them to express directional views outside of regular market trading hours. He also noted that traditional hedge funds are very close to directly trading tokenized real-world assets. (Bloomberg)

Odaily News: Nvidia will provide $250 million worth of computing resources to the UK AI safety research community over the next five years, amounting to approximately $50 million per year. Beneficiary institutions include the BOLD Lab led by Oxford University, the SOFAIR Lab led by UCL, and Imperial College London, with research covering safe agents, open model safety, and real-world threat defense, among other areas. The compute will be provided by UK-based cloud partners, with specific service providers and commercial terms yet to be finalized.

Additionally, Nvidia plans to invest in five UK startups: biomolecular AI model company Boltz, infrastructure risk prediction platform Foresight, algorithm optimization AI engine Hiverge, biological foundation model company Prima Mente focused on neurodegenerative diseases, and quantum error correction hardware and software company Riverlane.

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang stated that AI capabilities and safety must advance in tandem, and the UK possesses world-class scientific rigor. This $250 million commitment will put accelerated computing into the hands of UK researchers. (Techfundingnews)

According to Lookonchain monitoring, approximately 9 hours ago, three addresses sold 2.9 billion PUMP at a price of $0.00434 in exchange for 12.58 million USDC.

Odaily News: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is pushing a disruptive communications revolution inside the Fed. He advocates sharply reducing the Fed's public hints about the future path of interest rates, weakening or even possibly eliminating the closely watched quarterly "dot plot," and instead letting investors price assets on their own based on economic data.

In Warsh's view, overly transparent forward guidance has turned market prices into an "echo chamber" of the central bank's own rhetoric, distorting the ability of asset prices to reflect the real economy.

However, as soon as this new policy of embracing silence was tested, it stirred up a surging wave of opposition within the Fed. Many policymakers said bluntly that the central bank's responsibility to manage expectations is indispensable, and that deliberately staying silent not only fails to bring rationality, but instead causes markets to frequently fall into violent swings due to a lack of reference points.

Odaily News: New York City Comptroller Mark Levine said in an interview that he has sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, calling on the company to pause its planned initial public offering (IPO). The letter urges Anthropic to suspend its IPO plans until it has fully and transparently addressed concerns related to AI safety, governance, and development that the company itself has raised. Levine wrote that the company should focus on resolving these risks rather than moving forward with an IPO. New York City currently holds less than $10 million in investment exposure to Anthropic through private markets. (CNBC)

Odaily reports that trader Bonk Guy posted on the Fomo platform stating that despite the continued decline in the crypto market over the past few days, PONS has still demonstrated strong price resilience and is expected to see a significant rebound once the market re-enters an uptrend.

Bonk Guy believes that PONS is one of the key indicators for measuring the activity level of the Robinhood chain ecosystem, and if its price strengthens first, it could drive other tokens within the ecosystem to follow suit.

He predicts that the Robinhood chain ecosystem is about to usher in a new round of active trading, and the magnitude of the rally could exceed any previous round.

Odaily News — On October 15, Tether's independent investment arm Tether Capital announced a strategic investment in AIsa. AIsa provides a platform for AI agents to access and pay for data, software, and computing services. Developers can connect to AI models, data, APIs, software tools, and computing resources through a single interface, with fees settleable in fiat or stablecoins.

AIsa stated that its platform has already run over 250,000 agents, processed more than 100 million cumulative transactions, and provides access to over 5,000 APIs, skills, and models through a single key, with pay-per-call pricing. Enterprises can procure resources on demand, and service providers can integrate their services into automated workflows.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said that as AI agents take on more work, users need to provide agents with service access while controlling spending. This investment continues Tether's support for agent payment infrastructure. It previously invested in NEURA Robotics and plans to integrate WDK and QVAC into robotic systems. (Tether News)

Odaily News: Crypto hardware wallet company Ledger will launch the Atom in mid-2027. The device supports running apps such as WhatsApp and Instagram, and can switch between smartphone functionality and a protected digital asset management mode.

The Atom will feature a tamper-resistant casing, sensors, and specialized packaging, which can help prevent supply chain attacks like the recent CryptoBilis vulnerability even when the device is powered off.

Ledger initially plans to sell the Atom exclusively through its official website to reduce third-party distribution risks, but will not offer trade-in services for customers affected by the vulnerability. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Hyperliquid Labs CEO and co-founder Jeff Yan gave a rare interview, detailing the platform's operating mechanism and future plans.

Hyperliquid entered the spotlight of global traders and market observers earlier this year—after the Iran war broke out, speculators used the markets built on it to trade crude oil, with the platform offering 24/7 markets on the blockchain. In August, U.S. President Trump said the CFTC is pushing to allow Hyperliquid to "enter the United States in a fully compliant and legal manner." Hyperliquid currently operates outside the United States, but that has not hindered its rapid expansion over the past year.

In the interview, Jeff Yan introduced the protocol he built with his co-founder, the ecosystem of participants and assets tied to Hyperliquid (such as the platform's cryptocurrency HYPE), how perpetual contracts are bought and sold on the platform, and explained what a blockchain oracle is, as well as the conditions Hyperliquid needs to meet to conduct business in the United States. (Bloomberg)

Odaily reports that the AI Agent project NeoSoul's token DNA will be listed on October 16 on exchanges including Binance, OKX, Bitget, Gate, and KuCoin. DNA airdrop inquiries are now open. According to Binance Wallet, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to list DNA, and eligible users can use Binance Alpha Points to claim the DNA airdrop.

Odaily News: The Seoul Southern District Court recently issued a first-instance verdict in a fraud case involving approximately $253 million in POD and ATT tokens, acquitting Park, known as Jonber Kim. The court found that the defendant did indeed make misleading claims regarding the project's actual progress, business prospects, and use of funds, but prosecutors failed to prove that any specific investors purchased tokens based on this false information, and therefore the fraud charge did not stand; the related breach of trust charge was also acquitted due to insufficient evidence.

In addition, two co-defendants were sentenced to imprisonment with a suspended execution for submitting false materials during the maintenance review process for listing on Coinone. (DigitalassetWorks)

Odaily News: Multiple banks are competing to participate in a $4.25 billion debt financing to support Curium's acquisition of radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings. The financing is planned to be syndicated to investors next year.

People familiar with the matter revealed that JPMorgan, one of Curium's financial advisors, is leading the arrangement of this financing, and another financial advisor, Jefferies Financial Group, has also joined. According to the sources, several other lenders are in negotiations to join the financing, and a larger banking consortium is expected to form soon. Banks are competing for leveraged buyout financing business because such deals typically generate some of the highest fee income in investment banking. (Jinshi)

Odaily reports that Taiwan, China has blocked the websites of Coinbase and prediction market platform Kalshi. It is reported that the New Taipei District Court has authorized Taiwan's communications regulator and internet registration authorities to restrict local users' access to the relevant platforms. Taiwan had previously blocked Polymarket, Kalshi's main competitor. (Bloomberg)