Odaily: Recently, Tesla submitted an annual disclosure filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), officially announcing that CEO Elon Musk's total compensation for 2025 was $158.359 billion (approximately 1.07 trillion yuan), all granted in the form of stock awards. The compensation consists of two parts: a $132.3 billion 2025 long-term performance stock award, plus a $26.06 billion temporary transition award, of which the transition award was subsequently voided. The combined book-value total of the two is $158.359 billion. If this astronomical book figure is converted based on 8,760 hours in a year, it equates to Musk earning $18.08 million per hour, approximately 120 million yuan.
However, it should be made clear that $158.359 billion is not cash that Musk has taken home; it is merely the accounting fair value estimate of Tesla's 2025 CEO performance award plan at the grant date.
At the same time, Tesla explicitly stated in the filing that in fiscal year 2025, Tesla did not meet the market capitalization and operating performance targets corresponding to this incentive plan. Therefore, Musk's actual take-home income for the full year of 2025 was zero—no cash income, and no equity was unlocked. The relevant shares are currently in a locked state. (Bianniu Shi)
Odaily: Goldman Sachs upgrades Coreweave stock rating from Neutral to Buy; lowers the price target from $139 to $106.
Odaily reports: Bitmine added 12,535 ETH over the past week. As of 3:00 PM ET on October 18, 2026, Bitmine holds 6.0415 million ETH and 215 BTC, and has invested $180 million in Beast Industries and $74 million in Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS), with cash and marketable securities totaling $582 million. Its ETH holdings account for 4.9% of the total ETH supply.
Odaily: The New York Stock Exchange has launched an extended trading hours service for U.S. equity options. (Jinshi)
Odaily Report: Spencer Applebaum, General Partner and Co-Head of Venture Investments at Multicoin Capital, said that Multicoin Capital manages $2.7 billion in assets, will not follow institutions such as Paradigm in expanding its investment scope into AI and robotics, and will continue to focus on the digital asset sector. Regarding the "crypto + AI" concept, Applebaum said that some investors are looking for problems at the intersection of crypto and AI that do not actually exist. In response to the slowdown in capital deployment, he said that in 2023, most seed-round projects had post-money valuations of about $30 million and raised about $3 million, and that using a $422 million fund to invest in such rounds requires more time. In addition, the largest position of Multicoin Capital's hedge fund is the Hyperliquid-related token HYPE, all of which was purchased through the public market; the firm typically holds publicly traded assets for several years.
Odaily reports: Metaplanet founder and CEO Simon Gerovich announced that the transaction between Metaplanet and Nasdaq-listed company Super League Enterprise (ticker: SLE) has been approved by the company's shareholders' meeting. Metaplanet will inject 2,100 BTC and $2.5 million in cash into SLE, with a total value of approximately $134.6 million, in exchange for controlling stake. As consideration for the transaction, Metaplanet will receive approximately 44.86 million newly issued shares of SLE common stock, preferred stock, and warrants, with the common stock issuance price set at $3 per share. Upon completion of the transaction, Metaplanet will hold approximately 95.7% of SLE's issued common stock and become its controlling shareholder. After the transaction is completed, SLE will serve as Metaplanet's U.S.-listed Bitcoin treasury platform, helping it access U.S. capital markets and expand its financing capabilities. Combined with Metaplanet Securities established in Japan, the transaction will enable Metaplanet to form complementary platforms in the two major capital markets of the United States and Japan, and further advance its business layout in areas such as Bitcoin treasury, financial services, financial products, and asset management.
Odaily reports: At 20:10 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.
Odaily: SOL treasury company DeFi Development Corp. (Nasdaq: DFDV) announced today that its treasury balance increased by 3,983 SOL over the past week, bringing total holdings to approximately 2,590,300 SOL and SOL equivalents.
Odaily reports: Micron Technology has announced that it will host a technology webinar at 8:00 a.m. local time on October 21, led by company President and Chief Technology and Product Officer Scott DeBoer, to discuss technological innovation in the DRAM, HBM, and NAND sectors. Micron stated that next-generation AI infrastructure will require higher bandwidth, capacity, and efficiency in data transmission, storage, and access. The webinar will present the company's multi-generational technology roadmap, customer co-design efforts, and long-term research plans, with the goal of further consolidating its technology leadership position for the next decade. (Jinshi)
Odaily reports: According to an official announcement, Gate launched contract trading, trading bots, and copy trading features for VICR (Vicor Electronics), GRAL (Gral Company), YPF (YPF S.A.), VIST (Vista Energy), PBR (Petrobras), and NU (Nu Holdings) on October 19 at 18:00 (UTC+8), all supporting 1–20x long and short operations. As of now, Gate supports contract trading for 482 stocks.
Odaily reports that Bitcoin News posted on X stating that Strategy has expanded its digital credit securities repurchase program from $2 billion to $3 billion, with approximately 92% of the previous $2 billion authorization already utilized. Last week, Strategy repurchased an additional $193.1 million worth of STRC, leaving $160 million in remaining buyback capacity before the program expansion.
Strategy also purchased 267 BTC for $22.1 million, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 848,517 BTC.
Odaily: The market cap of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin USD1 has decreased by over $400 million over the past two weeks, primarily driven by large-scale redemptions on Ethereum and BNB Chain. As of Monday, USD1's market cap stood at approximately $4.02 billion, down about 9.1% from $4.43 billion on October 6.
On-chain data shows that from October 6 to 15, Ethereum recorded cumulative net redemptions of $184.6 million across 63 token burns, while BNB Chain saw cumulative redemptions of $200.43 million across 12 burns. Notably, nearly $200 million of the redemptions on BNB Chain originated from a single unidentified address, with the controlling party and reason for redemption still undetermined.
During the same period, USD1 supply on Solana remained stable at approximately $1.42 billion, failing to offset the supply contraction on other networks. USD1's price held between $0.998 and $1 throughout the period without sustained depegging; its Ethereum supply declined by 11.45%, a steeper drop than that of USDe, USDC, and circulating USDT. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reported that Strive CEO posted on X platform that from last Wednesday to Friday, Strive purchased 1,223 BTC at an average cost of $81,734 per BTC, bringing its holdings to 36,818 BTC. The funds raised from the SATS IPO will settle this Tuesday, and Strive plans to maintain its current 18-month dividend reserve, with traditional warrants having expired.
Odaily: Strategy purchased 267 BTC over the past week and spent $193 million to repurchase STRC stock.
Odaily reports that SlowMist has released an analysis report on the DarkSword trojan's backend and iOS attack chain. According to the report, after the relevant exploit code was publicly disclosed in March 2026, DarkSword-PROV2 appeared on GitHub in July, and its attack infrastructure was observed coming online in late September. SlowMist traced the related online infrastructure, linked its management panel to a public GitHub repository, and analyzed the exploit code, delivery chain, and post-compromise exploitation capabilities. The report shows that the attack framework integrates exploit, device and data collection, data exfiltration, and crypto wallet fund consolidation functions. It can target keychains, files, messages, and crypto wallet data, and has the ability to decrypt wallet data and consolidate funds. Although the toolkit claims support for iOS 13 and later, code analysis shows that its actually effective exploitation window is concentrated in iOS 18.6 to 18.7.2 and iOS 26.0 to 26.1. The public exploit components have been integrated into a deployable attack framework. SlowMist advises users to update their iOS systems promptly and avoid clicking untrusted links; opening malicious pages in the Safari browser may also trigger the exploit. If a device has visited a suspicious landing page, users should treat their mnemonic phrase and private key as compromised, use a clean device that has never visited the page to create a new wallet and transfer assets, and check for abnormal transactions and token approvals across chains, revoking unnecessary approvals.
