Odaily — Polkadot has officially announced that the stablecoin dotUSD has officially launched on the Polkadot network. The stablecoin has no single issuing company or controlling entity; instead, it is managed by the DOT DAO through the OpenGov on-chain governance mechanism. Polkadot stated that dotUSD aims to become a native stablecoin governed by the network itself, thereby reducing reliance on centralized issuing institutions.

Odaily reports, according to ICANN's official announcement, the new round of generic top-level domain (gTLD) applications received a total of 1,615 submissions, with AI-related domains becoming a focal point of competition. Among them, the .agent domain attracted 13 applicants, including OpenAI, Meta, Google's registry, and iPollo. OpenAI applied for 15 top-level domains in total, covering .gpt, .chatgpt, and others; Anthropic applied for .claude. In addition, crypto-related domains such as .btc and .bnb also received multiple applications.

Odaily News: Digital asset securitization platform Securitize has brought 12 US stocks, including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, and Microsoft, onto Solana. The tokens are pegged one-to-one to the underlying stocks and are designed to preserve shareholder rights.

Trading will initially launch on Securitize's PropAMM platform, with Jump Trading providing liquidity and RQD supporting clearing, custody, and settlement. Listings on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and OKXICE are planned for later.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is exploring an innovation exemption for tokenized securities, and the ICE-OKX joint venture is also seeking to launch tokenized stock trading under the US regulatory framework. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Blockchain privacy infrastructure company Soda Labs has announced the completion of a $3 million seed round led by NextBlock, covering the company's full fundraising target. Soda Labs is dedicated to providing programmable privacy infrastructure for financial activities on public chains. Over the past two and a half years, the company has developed a cryptographic privacy solution combining Garbled Circuits and Multi-Party Computation (MPC) that can run on standard cloud CPUs without requiring specialized hardware, while maintaining compatibility with existing public chain ecosystems.

Odaily reports: Members of the European Parliament are calling on the European Commission to include corruption risks related to crypto assets, opaque ownership structures, and digital tools in its upcoming anti-corruption strategy. The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday outlining policy priorities for the strategy.

Lawmakers also called for strengthened tracking, freezing, confiscation, and recovery of criminal proceeds, as well as improved rules on public procurement, conflicts of interest, lobbying, and political financing, along with enhanced protections for whistleblowers and investigative journalists.

The European Commission plans to adopt its first anti-corruption strategy by the end of 2026. The strategy will complement the EU Anti-Corruption Directive that took effect in May, which harmonized the definition of corruption offenses and minimum penalty standards across member states. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports that security firm CrowdStrike released an intelligence report stating that an unidentified hacker, between late September and early October, combined large language models (LLMs) with the domestic open-source AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to launch targeted cyberattacks against multiple South Korean financial institutions and steal data.

After analyzing the hacker's exposed open directory, it was found that they employed a dual-server architecture centered on a Hong Kong IP, and used models including Claude Code, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and DeepSeek v4.1-flash accessed through an API proxy to orchestrate the attack process. The hacker also asked Claude how to monetize the leaked South Korean data in Telegram groups. According to estimates by South Korean media, at least seven South Korean financial institutions were attacked, including KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, and Hana Bank, with personal data of approximately 68,000 people leaked, involving sensitive information such as annual income and loan limits.

Odaily report: Sources familiar with the matter say Tencent Holdings is considering issuing offshore bonds to raise approximately $5 billion to meet the funding needs of its artificial intelligence business expansion. It is reported that the issuance may be denominated in both US dollars and offshore renminbi, and could launch as early as this month. Analysts note that as demand for AI infrastructure construction and computing power investment continues to rise, global tech companies are increasingly turning to bond financing to raise capital. The fundraising plan is still in the discussion stage, and the final issuance size and timing have not yet been finalized. (Bloomberg)

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 edged lower. Dow Jones futures fell 0.72%, S&P 500 futures fell 0.41%, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.64%.

2. International oil prices surged across the board. WTI crude oil futures rose 4.81% to $92.525 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures rose 4.83% to $105.039 per barrel.

3. International gold and silver spot prices showed mixed performance. Spot gold rose 0.49% to $4,130.91 per ounce; spot silver fell 1.36% to $58.96 per ounce.

4. Europe's three major stock indices all declined. The UK's FTSE 100 fell 0.10%, France's CAC 40 fell 0.46%, and Germany's DAX 30 fell 0.86%.

5. Google Cloud launched the Gemini agent, positioned as a general-purpose work agent that can run on either Gemini models or Claude models. As a result, Google rose more than 1% in pre-market trading, while Meta fell more than 1%.

6. Broadcom is arranging over $50 billion in financing for its custom AI chip project developed in collaboration with OpenAI. People familiar with the matter said Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are among the lenders in talks to participate in the financing.

7. U.S. silicon carbide leader Wolfspeed surged more than 15% in pre-market trading after the company received a $1.5 billion conditional loan commitment from the U.S. Department of Defense.

8. Globalfoundries signed a $2 billion silicon interposer agreement with TSMC for advanced AI packaging, with an initial term of 5 years.

9. TSMC's September sales were NT$511.86 billion, down 0.6% month-over-month and up 54.6% year-over-year. TSMC's revenue for the first three quarters of 2026 was NT$3,898.73 billion, up 41.1% year-over-year.

10. Citi said it expects the CPU market to reach $300 billion by 2030, sharply raised its AMD target price from $575 to $800, and maintained a "Buy" rating.

11. Investment bank DA Davidson sharply raised Micron Technology's target price from $2,100 to $3,000, the highest on Wall Street, and reiterated a "Buy" rating.

12. OpenAI fully rolled out GPT-6 to all ChatGPT free and paid users worldwide, officially replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA.

13. Federal Reserve Governor Waller said further rate hikes are still needed, but there is "flexibility" in the pace of hikes. The dot plot may reflect a rate hike in early 2027, followed by rate cuts thereafter.

Odaily News: Nvidia-backed AI infrastructure startup Upscale AI has officially launched its Token Fabric platform, aiming to enable customers to connect AI chips from different vendors within the same data center. The platform combines hardware and software and features equipment based on Nvidia's Spectrum-X technology, enabling interconnectivity across AI processors from multiple vendors.

According to the plan, the first version of Token Fabric will be released in the fourth quarter of this year to connect AI chip clusters within data centers, with the full platform to be rolled out in phases by 2027. On the funding side, Upscale AI completed a $190 million extension round in June this year, led by Premji Invest, the investment firm of Indian billionaire Azim Premji, with participation from Nvidia, Salesforce, and Singapore's Temasek, among others. To date, the company has raised a cumulative $500 million at a valuation of approximately $2 billion. (Reuters)

Odaily: US initial jobless claims for the week ending October 3 were 197,000, compared with expectations of 200,000. The previous reading was revised from 197,000 to 199,000. (Jinshi)

Odaily News: South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Lee Hyung-il stated that regarding the virtual asset taxation policy planned for implementation in 2027, various opinions raised by the National Assembly, as well as those from experts, industry participants, and relevant stakeholders, will be extensively collected. South Korean lawmaker Kim Sang-hoon questioned that months before the implementation of virtual asset taxation, the relevant infrastructure remains incomplete, including insufficient capabilities for tracking and verifying transaction records on overseas exchanges, DEX, DeFi, and other platforms.

Regarding the estimated tax revenue from virtual asset taxation, Lee Hyung-il stated that there are indeed "parts that are difficult to accurately grasp," and since taxation requires obtaining tax filing data first, further tax revenue estimates can only be made after the relevant filing system is launched next year, with prudent evaluation of related policies. (chosun)

According to MSX.COM data, Google is up over 1% in pre-market trading following the launch of its Gemini agent.

Odaily reports that AI-native security platform Rein Security has completed a $25 million Series A funding round, co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle, and RNP Capital Advisors.

Rein Security primarily provides AI agent security protection for enterprises, helping them defend against AI-driven attacks, and can monitor the code executed and resources accessed by AI agents to achieve real-time governance and control. The new funds from this round will be used to accelerate product development, expand intelligent AI security research, and support global hiring. (Pulse 2.0)

Odaily News: Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said in an interview that negotiations between Iran and the U.S. are still ongoing. Iran is still evaluating the U.S. response to the proposal to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days" and will reply within a few days. (Xinhua News Agency)

Odaily News: Strategy has announced that it will release its third-quarter financial results after the U.S. stock market closes on October 29, 2026, and will hold a video webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time that day to discuss the results. About two hours after the webcast ends, a replay will be uploaded to Strategy's Investor Relations website, and the video webcast will also be available simultaneously.