South Korea’s KOSPI index closed 1.75% higher, while Samsung Electronics rose 1.16%.

According to monitoring by ai_9684xtpa, three addresses suspected to belong to the same entity or a crypto whale redeemed 18.085 million ENA tokens from Ethena and deposited them into Binance in the past hour, valued at approximately $3.64 million with an average deposit price of $0.2013.

Aster officials announced in a statement that from 00:00 UTC on October 5, 2026 to 00:00 UTC on October 19, 2026, 99% of the platform’s daily fees were used for token buybacks, totaling 2,721,732.41 ASTER tokens for stakers. An equivalent amount of ASTER tokens allocated to the team has also been burned. Since the project adopted an upgraded token economic model on June 17, 2026, cumulative ASTER burns have reached 32,307,874.94, bringing the project’s total historical cumulative burn to 210,088,876.51. As of October 19, Aster’s estimated annualized staking yields are 4.53% for a 26-week lock-up and 24.8% for a 208-week lock-up; actual yields may differ.

According to Bloomberg, JPMorgan is expanding its deposit token JPM Coin to the Ethereum mainnet for institutional clients. JPM Coin enables institutional clients to send and receive funds around the clock, rather than being restricted to business hours and multi-day settlement periods.

IoTeX, a DePIN and AI open ecosystem platform, announced that its Zanzibar hard fork has launched on the mainnet. Under the IIP-59 proposal, voter staking rewards are now directly calculated and distributed on-chain by the protocol for each reward cycle, eliminating the need for off-chain services or intermediaries, with every payment verifiable directly on-chain by anyone. The first on-chain distribution will take place tomorrow. Zanzibar also strengthened its consensus mechanism through delegated key proof-of-possession checks, in preparation for future BLS signature aggregation.

According to monitoring by ai_9684xtpa, three addresses suspected to belong to the same entity or a crypto whale redeemed 18.085 million ENA tokens from Ethena and deposited them into Binance over the past hour, with a total value of roughly $3.64 million and an average deposit price of $0.2013.

Tron founder Justin Sun stated in an offline discussion with Jin Ming that market concerns over the U.S. debt credit crisis may be excessive. He argued that the core issue with U.S. Treasuries is not solvency, but whether the U.S. can maintain its global technological and military dominance to sustain global investors’ ongoing demand for U.S. debt. Sun noted that the U.S. can repay old debt by issuing new debt, with the key being whether newly issued U.S. Treasuries can continue to attract market subscriptions; the U.S.’s global tech and military influence is a critical foundation for investors to hold U.S. debt. As AI emerges as a core area of future development, dominance in chips, storage industry chains and AI technology will grow increasingly important. Regarding whether the continuous rise in U.S. Treasury yields reflects weakening market confidence, Justin Sun said this is also tied to asset allocation competition between AI and U.S. debt: when investors favor equity assets like AI, risk-free assets need higher yields to draw capital. He added that as long as the U.S. retains its dominance in the AI sector, U.S. Treasuries will not lack buyers. Additional quick news roundups: "Justin Sun’s Latest Personal Asset Allocation: BTC Core Holdings Unchanged, ETH Reduced by 80-90% Shifted to U.S. Stocks", "Justin Sun: Quantum Computing Risks Underestimated by the Market, Q-Day May Arrive in 1 to 1.5 Years", "Justin Sun on 'Sun Theory': Essentially Game Theory and Evolutionary Theory, Helping Ordinary Young People Achieve Zero-to-One Growth"