10 #Bitcoin ETFs inflows 2,586 $BTC(+$247.92M) and 9 #Ethereum ETFs outflows 20,884 $ETH(-$70.69M) yesterday.

According to sources, U.S. allies have privately assessed that mines are likely still present in the Strait of Hormuz. While the U.S. has made some progress in mine clearance in international waters, it is estimated that not all of the 80 to 150 mines laid by Iran have been removed, and some may have drifted from their original positions due to ocean currents. Trump has repeatedly claimed in recent days that all mines in the strait have been cleared, calling the Strait of Hormuz a "very smoothly operating waterway." U.S. Central Command declined to comment on the estimates of the number of mines in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday local time. Analysts believe the likelihood that all mines in the strait have been cleared is "extremely low." Even if the mine threat has eased, a large number of merchant ships remain within the range of Iran's drones and short-range missiles, and many vessels are beyond the coverage of U.S. air defense systems. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) also stated that there is no exact information confirming all mines have been cleared, calling on ships to exercise the utmost caution. Iran has claimed that only it knows the locations of the mines, and warned that U.S. mine-clearing vessels could become targets of attacks. Currently, Iran and Oman have discussed establishing a "temporary joint maritime corridor" and mine clearance projects; the United Kingdom and France are also planning post-ceasefire mine clearance and shipping security operations. (Golden Ten)

39 U.S. state banking associations have established the BankChain Alliance, with plans to build a bank-owned and governed blockchain network for community and regional banks, targeting a 2027 launch. The network is designed to support functions including tokenized deposits, stablecoins, programmable payments and automated settlement, aiming to help small and medium-sized banks access blockchain financial infrastructure while adhering to existing regulatory standards. To date, BankChain has not disclosed its technology providers, underlying blockchain, network architecture, governance model or regulatory framework, nor clarified whether it will be built on existing public chains such as XRP, Ethereum or Solana. The alliance notes the network is expected to cover thousands of U.S. financial institutions.

Beating AI News: OpenAI has published a 37-page technical report detailing how its AI models previously infiltrated Hugging Face, noting the incident demonstrates autonomous AI agents can collaborate, bypass production environment security controls, and attack hardened systems. The company explained that the AI agents involved in the test were initially in an isolated environment with extremely limited internet access, but later broke out of isolation by chaining multiple vulnerabilities, connected to the public internet, and ultimately gained access to Hugging Face. The investigation found the relevant models first attempted to "cheat" by searching for answers online, a behavior categorized as "reward hacking". OpenAI added that an internal research model played the most extensive and confirmed role in the incident, and the company halted training and inference for this model and its derivatives on July 25. OpenAI will also strengthen security isolation, network control, behavior monitoring, and incident response, and implement stricter environment, prompt, and review mechanisms for model reactivation.

Beating AI News (from Dongcha) — Nvidia released a post stating that Alibaba’s latest preview model, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, is now compatible with Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72 platform. The model has a total parameter count of 176 billion, with approximately 6 billion parameters activated per token. It natively supports a 262,000-token context window, expandable to 1 million tokens via YaRN, and is designed primarily for long-context agent use cases such as intelligent programming, document processing, and tool calling. Nvidia noted that Qwen3.8-Flash-Next uses a hybrid architecture of Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA) to reduce computational and KV cache overhead in long-context scenarios. Tests show that on the GB300 NVL72 platform, the model delivers over 16,000 tokens per second throughput per GPU, and over 200 tokens per second per user; it also supports inference frameworks including SGLang, vLLM, and TensorRT-LLM.

Sources familiar with the matter said AI firm Anthropic will lease data centers from AI infrastructure provider Nscale for $45 billion, securing roughly 460 megawatts of computing power capacity. The sources added that Nscale will supply computing power to Anthropic from its data centers in West Virginia, U.S., and plans to invest $71 billion to develop the project.

A new survey by the U.S. National Institute for Retirement Security (NIRS) shows that 77% of Americans view including cryptocurrencies in workplace retirement plans as risky, with 46% deeming the risk "very high"; 53% of respondents oppose employers offering crypto investment options. The survey also reveals growing U.S. concerns about retirement security: 80% of Americans say the country is facing a "retirement crisis," a sharp rise from 67% in 2020. Additionally, 61% worry about their post-retirement financial stability, 68% note saving for retirement is becoming more difficult, and 77% say debt is impacting their ability to save. Conducted by Greenwald Research between Oct. 24 and Nov. 14, 2025, the survey polled 1,203 Americans aged 25 and older. Separately, the U.S. government and regulators are pushing to expand access for retirement accounts such as 401(k)s to cryptocurrencies and other alternative assets. The U.S. Department of Labor proposed relevant rules in March this year, which would provide a potential safe harbor for including alternative assets in 401(k)s, but the plan has faced opposition from some Democratic lawmakers, who argue crypto assets are highly volatile and investor protections remain inadequate. This signals that U.S. policy is gradually relaxing channels for retirement funds to allocate to crypto, though ordinary investors still hold cautious views on its risks.