South Korea's stock index plunged more than 5% at the opening.

According to Bitget market data, spot gold climbed 1% during the Asian trading session, now trading at $4,146 per ounce, having nearly recouped all losses incurred since the release of yesterday’s U.S. CPI report.

According to Bitget's market data, South Korea's KOSPI index has declined by 7%. SK Hynix has dropped 10%, while Samsung Electronics is down nearly 8%.

Binance founder CZ commented on OneKey's launch of the hardware wallet selfie self-test verification website "Yishi Jianbao", stating that all hardware wallets must adopt transparent casings in the future.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a crypto whale withdrew 1,100 ETH (valued at roughly $2.77 million) from OKX at an average price of $2,516.77 20 hours ago. The broader crypto market subsequently continued to decline, and the whale added 2,188 ETH (worth approximately $5.29 million) at an average price of $2,416.89 one hour ago.

According to Yu Jian Monitoring, a whale or institutional player sold 237.8 BTC to convert into 19.7 million USDC, then bought 7,929 ETH in the past day. Cumulatively over four days, the entity has sold 1,312.1 BTC for 109.1 million USDC, acquiring 43,275 ETH in total.

The global tech hardware stock sell-off extended into Thursday. Driven by expectations of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes and financing headwinds in the AI sector, shares of Asian chip manufacturers followed U.S. equities lower. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics fell more than 7% and SK Hynix dropped over 8%, dragging the KOSPI index down by over 6% at one point. The Nikkei 225 index fell more than 3% intraday, with Tokyo Electron and Screen Holdings declining by 3% each. As market concerns intensify over rising interest rates, overvaluation, and the massive capital needed to build AI infrastructure, investor confidence remains under pressure. Despite strong earnings reports from Samsung and ASML, they failed to reassure investors. Meanwhile, shares of AI cloud infrastructure firm CoreWeave plummeted, while its bond prices fell to levels typically signaling corporate financial distress, prompting investors to once again question the sustainability of large-scale AI infrastructure spending. Data released Wednesday showed that U.S. September CPI rose at a 5-month high, boosting market expectations of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.