Grayscale believes that Ethereum is a leading platform for blockchain innovations such as stablecoins and tokenization. Investing in ETH is equivalent to positioning oneself to capitalize on the growth potential of this emerging financial infrastructure.

Polymarket has listed a prediction market on whether Jensen Huang will announce his resignation or be removed as Nvidia CEO by Dec. 31, 2026. According to Odaily, the market currently assigns the outcome a 13% probability. A “Yes” outcome requires Huang, Nvidia, or an authorized representative to publicly and explicitly announce that Huang has resigned, been removed, or will resign or be removed, with the change expected to take effect within 18 months of the announcement. The announcement must be made before 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Dec. 31, 2026. Media reports, rumors, consideration of resignation, and temporary suspensions do not qualify; otherwise, the market settles “No.”

Berkshire Hathaway has appointed Mizuho Securities and BofA Securities to prepare a potential benchmark-sized, yen-denominated, fixed-rate senior unsecured bond offering, according to people familiar with the matter. According to Sina Finance, the bonds will be registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and a formal announcement is expected soon, subject to market conditions.

Investors are shifting funds from AI to startups developing batteries and battery-powered technologies. According to Sina Finance, Harbinger Motors announced a $240 million Series D funding round on Thursday to expand product lines, including hybrid autonomous vehicles for the U.S. Army. On the same day, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a conditional $250 million loan to battery materials company 6K to support construction of a plant in Jackson, Tennessee, producing nickel-based cathode materials. The two deals had been in development for months and were announced as AI stocks suffered a sharp decline on Thursday. They reflect investor interest moving toward areas adjacent to AI rather than AI core businesses, including battery-powered drones, humanoid robots and commercial electric vehicles such as Harbinger’s. Other recent investments include a $450 million conditional Defense Department loan on Monday to combat-drone maker Neros Technologies for a vertically integrated plant in Torrance, California. On October 26, electric construction equipment company Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million in a Series C round at a post-money valuation of $4.1 billion to expand its excavator business. Investment from private capital and the federal government has reversed a four-year downturn for battery-related startups that followed the 2020 and 2021 investment boom in batteries and electric vehicles. David Howell, vice president of battery-industry lobbying group Strategic Marketing Innovation and a former senior Energy Department official, said large Defense Department investments reflect a strategy to build a domestic supply chain. He said private investors are also seeking new opportunities as the AI sector becomes saturated. Harbinger CEO John Harris said the new funding will expand several product lines and increase production of autonomous military vehicles. He said the vehicles can carry more cargo and cost less than traditional crewed military vehicles that require added armor. Harris criticized the traditional approach of making military vehicles faster, larger and more heavily armored, saying it doubles cost, size and weight while halving payload. He called it a “faster horse” mindset. Autonomous vehicles can be lighter without heavy armor, leaving more power for sensors, radar and other electronics. Harris said military logistics is fundamentally a power-system problem. The 6K loan targets a longstanding gap in battery materials funding. In the past, government and private investment largely went to battery packs and cell assembly, with little directed to startups developing core materials. Investors and the government largely overlooked startups working on domestic cathode production, although cathodes are a battery’s core and most expensive component. Tesla processes lithium and makes some cells, but relies almost entirely on imported cathode materials. 6K CEO Sourabh Ural said the loan will fund a plant in Jackson, Tennessee, with a goal of producing 1,000 metric tons of cathode powder annually by 2028, enough for batteries for 10,000 electric vehicles. The company aims to expand capacity to 13,000 metric tons by 2030. Under its agreement with the Defense Department, 6K must raise an equal $250 million in private capital. Ural said the government loan will help the company raise that funding. He said he believes investors are beginning to view batteries as an allocation and a long-term investment the country needs.

Less than six months ago, China’s central bank made its biggest push yet to curb inflated credit ratings in the country’s $5.6 trillion corporate debt market. Sudden distress at a top-rated firm now provides a live test case, Bloomberg reported.

The US midterm election results have provided the Democrats with new institutional leverage to check Trump's interference in the Federal Reserve. Even if Trump's handpicked Warsh becomes chairman, it will be difficult to place enough close associates, and Trump's plan to control the Fed and push for interest rate cuts will face greater resistance.

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Analysts believe that the SpaceX-Anthropic contract contains a "90-day two-way exit clause"—if the supply of computing power tightens, Musk can reprice the computing power to 2-3 times the original contract price, directly determining the fate of Anthropic and the future of the entire AI landscape.

With the release of results from multiple referendums and local elections across the United States in November, public resistance to the expansion of AI data centers has reached unprecedented levels, with 76% of surveyed voters explicitly opposing the construction of data centers in their own communities in exit polls.

For many people working in the crypto industry, the real concern may lie in another direction: since domestic policies have clearly prohibited virtual currency mining activities, would purchasing mining machines in China and exporting them to overseas mining farms also constitute smuggling?

Nomura believes that the "blue wave" will slow down the construction of US data centers through tightened regulations, thereby lowering global AI chip prices and easing the difficulty for Chinese companies to obtain high-end GPUs and HBMs, which is generally beneficial to China's AI economy.

The U.S. Treasury Department's restrictions on MEXC start with its fund transfers with U.S. financial institutions.