XXAntiWar has shorted ZEC again, currently holding a short position worth $4.11 million.

Beating AI News Flash: According to Bloomberg, Nvidia-backed data center firm Firmus Grid is exploring a private placement to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion after withdrawing its Australian IPO application. People familiar with the matter said the company and its advisors are in discussions with existing investors. The financing structure has not been finalized and may include both equity and debt, while the final amount could also be adjusted. It remains unclear whether Nvidia will participate. Firmus pulled its listing application from the Australian Securities Exchange on Friday, noting it would consider alternative financing routes. The company had originally planned to raise around $5 billion via an IPO, which would have given it a valuation of roughly $30 billion. Existing investors were set to contribute approximately half of the IPO’s fundraising target, a factor that could help the company move faster on its new financing round. Firmus requires continuous capital to advance its planned data center projects. It previously secured a total of $2 billion in capital commitments from investors including Nvidia and Blackstone; other shareholders include Jane Street. In April this year, it also closed a $505 million funding round led by Coatue. People familiar with the matter added that Firmus still intends to explore a U.S. listing in the long run. Firmus declined to comment on the ongoing financing discussions.

According to an official announcement, Huobi HTX launched the MAR/USDT perpetual contract on October 9, supporting long and short positions with leverage ranging from 1x to 20x. Meanwhile, from now until 15:00 (UTC+8) on October 15, Huobi HTX is holding a new crypto contract trading contest. Users who complete registration, trade the event's designated contract, and meet the specified thresholds will be eligible to split a total prize pool of 1 billion HTX tokens.

Per official announcement, Binance Alpha will delist tokens including SUP, CUDIS, PYTHIA, BLUM, KIN, DN, GAIA, STRIKE, CDL, KO, VRA, EPT, SLX (SLIMEX), and CAI at 16:00 on October 9, 2026. Post-delisting, Binance Alpha will continue to support withdrawals and sales of these tokens.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, US pre-market trading saw a collective uptick in optical communications, Neocloud, semiconductor, and storage stocks. Optical communications-related stocks led the gains: Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) rose 5.51%, Lumentum (LITE) gained 3.95%, Coherent (COHR) climbed 3.44%, Astera Labs (ALAB) advanced 3.16%, and Corning (GLW) added 2.77%. Neocloud stocks rallied broadly: IREN (IREN) rose 3.58%, Nebius (NBIS) gained 3.54%, CoreWeave (CRWV) climbed 2.72%, and Hut 8 (HUT) advanced 2.54%. Semiconductor stocks strengthened in tandem: ASML (ASML) rose 2.73%, Lam Research (LRCX) gained 2.42%, Intel (INTC) climbed 1.98%, Marvell Technology (MRVL) advanced 1.94%, and NVIDIA (NVDA) added 1.59%. Storage stocks rallied across the board: SK Hynix (SKHY) rose 2.23%, SanDisk (SNDK) gained 2.21%, Micron Technology (MU) climbed 1.98%, Western Digital (WDC) advanced 1.46%, and Seagate Technology (STX) added 1.06%.

Dynamic Insight Beating AI Flash News: JetBrains releases open-source programming model Mellum2.1. Compared to Mellum2 launched in June this year, the new version retains a total of 12 billion parameters, with only 2.5 billion activated per generation, but it is more adept at identifying code issues, modifying files, and verifying results. JetBrains did not alter the model architecture, primarily enhancing capabilities via reinforcement learning. The team executed millions of sandbox tasks across thousands of environments. During training, the model invoked terminals and file-editing tools in real code repositories, earning rewards when it passed tests. JetBrains’ self-tests show its success rate on SWE-bench Verified (real-world software problem repair test) has jumped from 2% of the old version to 47%, slightly lower than Qwen3.5-9B’s 50%. However, in LiveCodeBench v6 programming tests, Mellum2.1 scored 82%, outperforming Qwen’s 75.4%. JetBrains also noted that under high load on a single H200, the new model’s output throughput is nearly twice that of Qwen3.5-9B. The model weights and GGUF quantized version are now available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling local deployment for developers.

According to data from Farside Investors, U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have posted a combined net outflow of $986.3 million so far in October. Of this total, Bitcoin ETFs saw a net outflow of $407.4 million, while Ethereum ETFs recorded $578.9 million in net outflows. Bitcoin ETFs saw a $244.1 million net outflow on Thursday, following a $484.9 million outflow the prior day — their largest single-day outflow since June 25. Ethereum ETFs posted a $72.5 million net outflow on Thursday, extending their consecutive net outflow streak to 8 trading days; total net outflows during the current outflow period that began on September 29 stand at roughly $641.3 million. Amid these outflows, Bitcoin’s rally has weakened. Data from CoinGecko shows BTC hit a low of $80,427 on Thursday and has since rebounded to $82,506.