Odaily News: Applied Materials has announced that Kioxia has joined its "Applied EPIC (Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization) Center" as an innovation partner to jointly advance the development of next-generation memory technology. Through this collaboration, the two parties will jointly research advanced memory cell and structure formation, multi-chip stacking architectures, and novel materials engineering methods at the EPIC Center, aiming to enhance the memory density and performance required in the AI era. (Jinshi)

Odaily: According to two people familiar with the matter, TSMC is evaluating a potential investment in Texas to expand its chip production capacity in the United States. The potential investment would be in addition to the $265 billion TSMC has already committed to Arizona.

Odaily News: Ripple and Brazil's licensed central securities depository CSD BR have brought Brazilian investment fund records onto the XRP Ledger in a regulated, real-world environment, with the first phase targeting BTG Pactual fund shares. CSD BR uses XRPL as an additional recording and auditing layer, while its own systems retain legal authority over ownership, registration, custody, and settlement, with over 22 trillion Brazilian reais in registered assets under its management. Fund shares are mapped according to the XRPL multi-purpose token standard, allowing authorized institutions to reconcile on-chain and official records in near real time; the two parties did not disclose the specific funds, scale, or trading volume.

According to Odaily, Elliptic monitoring shows it has tracked over 50 North Korea-related security incidents, with approximately $1.2 billion in stolen funds accumulated so far this year. Some of the funds stolen from Bitget overlap with addresses linked to last year's $1.5 billion hack of the Bybit exchange. On-chain money laundering patterns preliminarily indicate that the Bitget incident was carried out by the hacker group TraderTraitor.

Odaily reports that the UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced it is now accepting authorization applications from crypto asset firms under the new regulatory regime. Firms planning to continue operating in the UK should submit their applications by February 28, 2027; the new regime will take effect on October 25, 2027, when crypto firms operating in the UK will for the first time come under full FCA regulation, with relevant standards covering consumer protection, custody of client assets, market integrity, and financial resilience.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority stated that submitting an application does not guarantee automatic approval, and firms that fail to meet the standards will not be permitted to continue providing regulated crypto asset services in the UK.

Odaily News: According to the New York Times, Meta Platforms (META.O) avoided billions of dollars in federal taxes by classifying its data centers as experimental facilities. (Jinshi Data APP)

Odaily reports: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins stated that although the CLARITY Act was not passed by Congress, the SEC will still clarify onchain fundraising rules within its statutory authority.

The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act on September 15 with a 49-50 vote, falling short of the required 60-vote threshold. Atkins has not yet disclosed what form the relevant guidance will take—whether exemptions, a registration pathway, or staff guidance.

The SEC previously paved the way for tokenized stocks on September 17, and on September 25 published nine FAQs explaining the impact of token issuers' commitments on securities determinations. Commissioner Hester Peirce will depart on October 2, leaving the SEC with only two sitting commissioners, Atkins and Mark Uyeda. (Bitcoin.com News)

According to Gate data, Brent crude oil (XBRUSD) briefly rebounded to $102/barrel, currently at $102.01/barrel, with a 24-hour decline of 0.4%.

Odaily News: Coinbase Clearing LLC has received approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register as a derivatives clearing organization, achieving a fully self-operated closed loop spanning brokerage, listing, and clearing.

The approval covers only fully collateralized futures, options, and swaps products, while leveraged derivatives still rely on third-party clearing. The clearinghouse will use USDC as collateral and support 24-hour settlement.

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Odaily reports, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address has accumulated a position worth $6.99 million in ETHFI since yesterday, marking the first time this address has accumulated tokens in 2 years. The address withdrew 2.61 million ETHFI yesterday, and withdrew another 6.91 million ETHFI 1 hour ago. The currently held 9.52 million ETHFI has an average withdrawal price of $0.734, with a temporary profit of $217,000.

Odaily News: Trader Point Farm Capital invested in STONK, turning $1.5 million into $10 million. Since early August, they made 1,896 purchases of STONK, when STONK's market cap was $2.65 million; it now stands at $222 million. Point Farm Capital has cashed out $91,600 and still holds STONK worth $9.97 million.

Odaily News: HANetf has partnered with HSBC to launch GBP- and EUR-hedged Bitcoin exchange-traded commodities (ETCs), described as among the world's first such products to provide Bitcoin exposure while mitigating the impact of USD exchange rate fluctuations.

The GBP-hedged product GBTC is already trading on the London Stock Exchange, while the EUR-hedged product EBTC is trading on Xetra and Euronext Paris, with HSBC providing currency hedging services. The products target long-term Bitcoin investors concerned about a weakening US dollar, eliminating the need for investors to manage custody themselves. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has switched its Zcash system operating software from Zebra to Zakura, reducing the time required for nodes to catch up with the network state from nearly a day to just over 6 hours.

The switch was made ahead of Zcash's planned NU7 upgrade. The upgrade aims to reduce block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, requiring network computers to process transactions at three times the previous frequency.

Developers aim to implement the mainnet upgrade on November 5, but Gemini has not yet published performance test results for Zakura under the faster block production frequency. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Standard Chartered has initiated coverage of Ethena's token ENA, forecasting its price will reach $2 by the end of 2028. The bank believes that Ethena sits at the intersection of perpetual contracts, tokenization, and stablecoins, and that ENA will benefit from growth in these sectors as well as its newly launched buyback program.

Standard Chartered stated that Ethena is currently the fourth-largest stablecoin issuer after Tether, Circle, and Sky, and the second-largest interest-bearing stablecoin issuer after Sky; its USDe is the fastest stablecoin to reach $10 billion in market cap.

Odaily Report: Hong Kong stocks rallied in the afternoon, with the Hang Seng Index closing up 0.37%, down 3.7% for the month; the Hang Seng Tech Index closed up 0.10%, down 7.9% for the month. Star tech stocks showed mixed performance, with Bilibili, Meituan, and Baidu up over 1%, while Tencent edged lower. The AI large model "duo" rebounded, with Zhipu up over 4% and MINIMAX up over 3%.