Odaily: ASML Holding NV (ASML.O)'s capacity expansion guidance has become a key focal point on its earnings release day. As the semiconductor sector's rally loses momentum, investors are eager for signs of confidence, making the capacity guidance all the more significant. After a strong rally in the first half of the year, semiconductor stocks have recently cooled off. Following another decline in US chip stocks, South Korean chipmakers' shares fell to a two-month low on Tuesday. Over the next 48 hours, investors will closely watch the earnings performance of ASML and its key customer TSMC, hoping the two companies can shore up market confidence.

Ben Barringer, Head of Technology Research at Quilter Cheviot, said: "Capacity is the biggest focus for the market right now. With no visibility into order data and limited backlog information, it is crucial for the company to raise its capacity targets." ASML previously stopped disclosing quarterly order data, citing significant order volatility, and instead began providing guidance on the number of units it expects to produce this year and in the coming years. Investors are increasingly relying on this metric to gauge demand strength and ASML's ability to expand supply. (Jinshi)

Odaily News: Tesla spent $1.5 billion to buy bitcoin in February 2021, and then sold about 4,670 bitcoins between March and April 2021, making a profit of about $100.2 million. During the LUNA collapse in May 2022, Tesla transferred about 30,690 bitcoins to Coinbase, and the market briefly believed that it had sold most of its holdings. Since then, Tesla's bitcoin holdings have undergone adjustments, and it currently still holds about 8,430 bitcoins, worth approximately $960 million; during the FTX collapse in 2022, Tesla did not further reduce its bitcoin holdings.

Odaily reports: According to an official announcement, Binance has officially launched the 2026 Global Blockchain Top 100 Creator Awards. The awards aim to recognize financial content creators who have made a positive impact on the industry through knowledge dissemination, information sharing, and high-quality content.

Users can participate in public nominations by filling out the form via the nomination entry on the Global Blockchain Top 100 Creators campaign landing page. Nomination methods include self-nomination, or nomination by institutions on behalf of communities, projects, or companies.

Nomination period: October 13, 2026, 17:00 to October 16, 2026, 23:59 (UTC+8)

Evaluation criteria: After the nomination deadline, candidates will be comprehensively assessed based on multiple factors, including but not limited to:

The number and diversity of valid nominations (from online nominations or industry referrals);

Quantifiable influence, such as audience size (subscriber count, follower count);

Engagement metrics, including views, likes, and reposts;

Industry influence, such as promoting industry awareness, shaping public discourse, or fostering community development.

Shortlisted candidates will enter the community voting phase, and the final winners will be determined based on the voting results.

Odaily News: Bitget has launched a futures trading leaderboard competition, running from October 13 to October 27, with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDT. During the event, users who complete designated futures trading tasks will earn mystery box draw chances, with prizes including popular tokens such as ETH and SOL, as well as position trial vouchers worth up to 1,000 USDT. New futures users who complete their first trade can also receive an additional mystery box reward.

In addition, the event features a trading volume leaderboard. The top 1,000 users by trading volume can share a total of 60,000 USDT, with the champion receiving 5,000 USDT. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.

Odaily reported that a hacker minted 19 million THEO tokens on the Base chain, then swapped them for 700.8 ETH, worth approximately $1.76 million, and transferred the ETH to the Ethereum mainnet via a cross-chain bridge. Due to this incident, the THEO token has dropped 92% over the past 24 hours.

Odaily News: Alpaca has announced plans to launch a prime brokerage business in Q1 2027, providing financing, asset custody, and securities lending services to large institutional investors such as hedge funds. Currently, Alpaca custodies over $3.5 billion in U.S. underlying equity assets and supports tokenized products from more than 10 issuers, including Binance, Coinbase, and Crypto.com. Its assets under custody have grown approximately 8x compared to a year ago.

Odaily News — As Europe's top football leagues continue to heat up in the new season, trading activity on Gate Prediction Market for marquee fixtures keeps climbing. At 03:00 AM on October 14 (UTC+8), two high-profile UEFA Champions League league phase Matchday 2 fixtures will kick off simultaneously, with Arsenal vs. Lille and Atlético Madrid vs. Manchester United set to deliver blockbuster showdowns. Currently, Arsenal's win probability stands at 81%, Lille's at 6%, and a draw at 14%; Atlético Madrid's win probability stands at 49%, Manchester United's at 26%, and a draw at 25%. Prediction trading for major UEFA Champions League matchups is currently in full swing, and platform users are encouraged to head to the Gate App to participate in match predictions.

Gate Prediction Market Points Campaign Season 8 has wrapped up successfully, with a points prize pool of 19,863.30 USDT, and the No. 1 on the leaderboard expected to receive 7,448.74 USDT. Meanwhile, Season 9 is now live. Users can participate in Gate Prediction Market trading to earn 100% winning scratch cards and points rewards, compete on the leaderboard to share the points prize pool, and have the chance to win a Super Lucky Grand Prize, 88,888 PTS, a cumulative grand prize pool, an iPhone Duo, and many more rewards.

Odaily News: In the predict.fun "Demacia Cup knockout stage LGD vs BRO" prediction event, the probability of LGD defeating BRO is currently reported at 51%.

At 5 PM today, the 2026 Demacia Cup International Invitational quarterfinal knockout stage will feature LGD vs BRO in a BO5 format. The match will be held at the JDG home venue in Beijing, using a single-elimination format, with the winner advancing to the semifinals and the loser eliminated.

In the Swiss stage, LGD defeated North American team FLY in the first round, then lost to LCK team BFX, and ultimately swept JDG 2:0 in the 1-1 group to secure a quarterfinal spot; BRO first defeated JDG 1:0, then lost to WE 1:2, and in the final round defeated NAVI 2:1 to advance.

Odaily News: According to foreign media reports, sources familiar with the matter revealed that Bank of Japan officials lean toward not implementing a rare back-to-back rate hike this month, but still keep the possibility of a rate hike as early as December on the table. The sources said that, absent any signs of a sudden rise in upside inflation risks, BOJ officials see no need for consecutive rate hikes. The central bank will carefully assess economic data to evaluate whether a new round of rate hikes can be launched at its December meeting.

The sources said the final policy decision at the October 30 meeting could still change at the last minute. To contain upside inflation risks, the policy board led by Governor Kazuo Ueda raised interest rates to 1.25% last month. This followed pressure from Bessent for Japan to continue advancing policy normalization and help strengthen the yen. (Jinshi)

Odaily reports, according to Gate data, the US dollar fell to 158.0 against the Japanese yen (USDJPY), currently at 157.999, with a 24-hour decline of 0.3%.

Odaily News: Machi (Huang Licheng) posted on X platform: "Papertrade is profitable. No useless points. You can immediately get PAPER tokens, stake them to earn fees. There is now absolutely no reason to use any other perpetual contract protocol."

Odaily News: Bybit today added three stock perpetual contracts—Zcash ETF (ZCSHUSDT), Synopsys (SNPSUSDT), and GRAIL (GRALUSDT)—with leverage of up to 25x. A limited-time trading fee promotion is available during the launch period: 0% maker fee and 50% off taker fee.

According to MSX.COM data, shares of memory and data storage-related companies fell in US pre-market trading. Micron Technology (MU.O) dropped 2.8%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) fell 3%, Western Digital (WDC.O) declined 3.5%, Seagate Technology (STX.O) dropped 3.1%, and SK Hynix (SKHY.O) fell 4.8%.

Odaily reports that according to DeFiLlama data, Bitget's net capital inflow over the past 24 hours reached $52.02 million, ranking second among centralized exchanges (CEX), trailing only Binance.

Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, a whale accumulated 5,147 ETH between August 12 and 13 at an average price of $1,886.7, and 5 hours ago transferred 5,170 ETH into Tornado Cash for batch "cleansing," worth $12.82 million; this portion of tokens currently has an unrealized profit of $3.056 million, and the purpose of the transfer is unknown.

Odaily: Tom Lee stated that the South Korean stock market selloff may be spilling over into the crypto market, citing margin liquidations and South Korean investors' significant holdings of crypto assets, and described it as short-term pain. (Cointelegraph)