The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

On October 27th, according to HTX market data, ZEC witnessed a short-term sharp rise reaching $359. It has now pulled back to $343.70. There has been a more than 27% increase in the past 24 hours, which has driven its market capitalization to $5.793 billion.

On October 26, glassnode put forward an analysis indicating that since the sharp drop on October 11, for the first time, the spot and futures Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) has become stable. This shows that the aggressive selling pressure in the past few days has significantly decreased.

On October 26th, Michael Repetny, the CEO of Marinade Labs, stated that the Solana ecosystem is gearing up for an upgrade by the end of this year or the beginning of 2026. The future plans encompass lowering the validator admission threshold following the Alpenglow upgrade, enhancing bandwidth, and reducing latency. Presently, operating a Solana validator costs approximately $5000 per month, and among this cost, $4000 (80%) is allocated to paying the voting fee. The Alpenglow upgrade is set to substantially reduce these voting fees, enabling a greater number of participants to afford operating a validator node.

Update on October 26th: Based on the data from lookonchain, a week ago, a large investor sold 99,979 SOL at a price of $185 per coin (approximately $18.5 million) and transferred the funds across chains to the Ethereum network. Subsequently, they bought 4,532 ETH at a price of $4,084 per coin (approximately $18.5 million).

On October 26th, according to the on-chain AI analysis tool CoinBob (@CoinbobAI_bot), as the market warmed up, Bitcoin briefly exceeded $114,000. The trading account funds of six major AI models have rebounded. Among them, QWEN3 performed the most outstandingly, adhering to a BTC-only long strategy with significant gains. The current return rate is close to 100%, with a total account balance of $19,571.36, maintaining a leading position. DeepSeek closely follows with a total account balance of $18,292.30. The strategy is relatively diversified, mainly holding ETH while also opening positions in BTC, SOL, BNB, XRP, and DOGE and other currencies. In addition, the total account balances of Claude and Grok have also rebounded to around $11,000 and $10,000 respectively and returned to near the initial capital. Ranked by position size, the current ranking is: QWEN3 ($19,571.36), DeepSeek ($18,292.30), Claude ($11,383.82), Grok ($10,469), Gemini ($3,897.11), ChatGPT ($3,540.99).

On October 26th, the Kremlin spokesman Peskov stated in a media interview that the new sanctions imposed by the US and Europe on Russia have made the restoration of Russia-US relations more complicated. On the 26th, the video of the interview with Peskov by the Russian state television host Zharubin was posted on social media. Peskov emphasized that Russia will still give priority to its own interests, which lie in maintaining good relations with all countries, including the US. "The actions taken by the US in the past week were unfriendly, and these measures have indeed damaged the prospects of the revival of our relationship. However, this does not mean that we should give up these efforts." Peskov also said in the interview that Russian President Putin undoubtedly values President Trump's sincere desire to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but this matter cannot be resolved in a short period. (FXStreet)