X Platform Outage Recovery, OpenAI Reports Partial User Access Issues to ChatGPT and Platform Website

On November 18th, according to the official announcement, WEEX launched zkPass (ZKP) and GAIB (GAIB) today. Each offers a new user airdrop of 50,000 USDT, and new users can choose one to participate. Event period: November 18th to 25th. During the event, new users with a net deposit of ≥ 100 U and who choose ZKP or GAIB for their first trade will receive a 10 USDT reward. New users participating in any coin contract trading with a trading volume of ≥ 500 U will receive 5 - 20 USDT in cash and 5 - 10 USDT in trial funds. Additionally, for contract trading volumes of ≥ 20,000 U, users will also share 20,000 USDT based on their trading volume proportion.

On November 18th, according to the data disclosed by ADP Research on Tuesday. As of the four weeks ending on November 1st, U.S. companies have been dismissing an average of approximately 2,500 employees each week. This shows that the labor market lost a certain amount of momentum in late October. The monthly employment report released on November 5th indicated that private sector employment grew by 42,000 people, following two consecutive months of decline. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the employment report for September on Thursday. It is expected that U.S. total employment will increase by 55,000 people compared to the previous month. Prior to the release of ADP's weekly data, several large companies had already announced layoffs for the month, such as Amazon and Target. According to a report from Challenger, the number of planned layoffs in October this year is the highest in more than twenty years. (Jinshi)

On November 18th, the fear index VIX reached a one-month high, increasing by 1.2 points to 23.58. Intraday, spot gold rose to $4060 per ounce, with a 0.36% increase. (FX168)

On November 18th, based on HTX market data, Bitcoin fell below $91,000, with a 24-hour decline of 3.37%.

On November 18th, Cloudflare announced in a post that the root cause of the outage has been determined and a fix is being put into practice. Previously, Cloudflare had noted on its website that the company was looking into an issue which "might be affecting multiple customers." The incident page showed that even Cloudflare's customer support portal had run into problems, and the company had earlier planned for maintenance in some regions on the same day. At one time, even Cloudflare's own status site was not accessible. Cloudflare provides security software for hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide, and the company's systems have had several outages in the past.

On November 18th, according to a report in "Fortune", the Bitcoin mining firm Bitfury has announced the launch of an investment plan with a maximum amount of $1 billion. This plan is aimed at supporting "mission-driven" entrepreneurs, with a particular focus on investing in the fields of Ethical Tech and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The company plans to invest $200 million in the next year, and the remaining funds will be disbursed over the next few years. Bitfury plans to invest in areas such as AI, quantum computing, transparent decentralized systems, and self-sovereign identity, which enables individuals to have full control over their own data. Val Vavilov, the co-founder and CEO of Bitfury, stated that the company's strategic shift is based on the significant synergy between AI and decentralized systems, and believes that the future will be a combination of the two. Bitfury primarily generates profits through its Bitcoin mining business and has previously spun off two Nasdaq-li