Venture capital, artificial intelligence, financing, anonymous interviews with frontline investors and entrepreneurs: Who is forcing whom to chase consensus? Golden Finance: No one genuinely enjoys chasing consensus, yet most people are doing it.

Ansem said crypto markets may already have peaked ahead of U.S. stocks in this cycle. According to ChainCatcher, he said that if the recent rebound is countertrend and U.S. stocks are beginning a broader correction, crypto could face another decline. Ansem noted that risk appetite in this cycle has been driven largely by AI and the performance of U.S. stocks, making it worth considering whether crypto and traditional markets peaked at different times. He said he was not certain this scenario would unfold and would remain open-minded, watching how both asset classes respond near key price levels. He added that even if crypto and U.S. stocks continue to fall in the short term, Bitcoin could bottom before the broader stock market.

BTC, Wall Street, Satoshi Nakamoto, Bloomberg: 18th Anniversary of the Bitcoin White Paper – Has it Truly Matured After Being Accepted by Wall Street? Golden Finance: Bitcoin is Entering Adulthood. At least in terms of age, it certainly is.

On Oct 31, 2026, 07:40 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 700 USDT and is now trading at 699.890015 USDT, with a narrowed 1.42% decrease in 24 hours.

Confidence supports financing, and financing supports investment; once confidence weakens, the contraction of funds will in turn dampen investment and growth expectations.

Africa, Stablecoins, Crypto Market, Chainalysis Report: Sub-Saharan Africa Becomes the Fastest Growing Crypto Region Globally. Golden Finance reports that the sub-Saharan African crypto market has surpassed $100 billion, with South Africa leading the way.

The shareholder-return ratio at five U.S. tech giants has fallen to a 15-year low amid AI spending, while their buybacks have been cut by 83%. According to Sina Finance, citing Reuters, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle devoted 9.3% of cash generated by their businesses to dividends and buybacks in the first three quarters of this year, down from 27.4% a year earlier; operating cash flow rose 29% to a record $542.9 billion. Their capital expenditures doubled to $556.9 billion, exceeding the cash flow the companies had generated since data became available in 2011. Their combined free cash flow swung to a $14 billion deficit from a $143.5 billion surplus a year earlier. Buybacks fell to $13.6 billion from $81.8 billion a year earlier. Alphabet and Meta have made no buybacks so far in 2026, after repurchasing $66.5 billion of shares in the first nine months of last year. Amazon pays no dividend and has not repurchased shares since 2022. Microsoft accounted for nearly all of the five companies’ remaining buybacks, cutting repurchases in its September quarter to $4.4 billion from $5.7 billion a year earlier. Amazon’s third-quarter capital expenditure was $75.9 billion, nearly 80% more than the $42.4 billion it generated from operations, and it raised $48.1 billion in long-term debt during the quarter. Alphabet also had negative free cash flow and raised about $12.4 billion through share sales and $29 billion through debt issuance. Ellen Stanhope, co-head of investment management at Franklin Templeton, said companies had increasingly returned surplus capital to shareholders through buybacks and dividends over the past 15 years. She said the current trend may involve increasing equity and debt issuance as a way to seek funds from investors.

ICE's official account has deleted a post about its partnership with Trade.xyz but still retains a repost of Trade.xyz promotional content. According to Odaily, the companies plan to launch perpetual futures products on Hyperliquid for regulated U.S. markets, subject to regulatory approval. The markets would have separate clearing, customer identity verification and anti-money laundering systems, and the products would be linked to stock indexes, commodities and currency prices.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman met with Samsung Group’s top executives in South Korea on Saturday to deepen cooperation on memory chips and AI infrastructure as global shortages intensify, Bloomberg reported.

Nscale is pursuing a $35 billion IPO as setbacks at its flagship West Virginia computing campus raise execution and financing risks. According to Sina Finance, the 2-gigawatt first phase of the Monarch computing campus is set to use 864 gas engines, after the project shifted away from its original hydrogen-powered plan. The 2,250-acre site is planned for up to 8 gigawatts, but has faced construction problems, local opposition and regulatory scrutiny, including stop-work orders and 10 violation notices related to stormwater controls. Anthropic has signed a $45 billion order for computing capacity at Nscale’s first West Virginia data center, accounting for more than 40% of the company’s $103 billion in contracted future revenue. Nscale disclosed in its IPO filing that funding for the facility has not been secured; Anthropic can terminate the agreement if financing is not obtained by the deadline. An Ernst & Young report commissioned by Nscale estimated that the campus’s first phase, including three data centers and 2 gigawatts of gas power, would cost $69.2 billion. A draft permit would allow the engines to emit 271 tons of formaldehyde annually at full capacity, while the facilities are expected to release 10 million tons of greenhouse gases each year. Nscale says the campus will operate at an average of about 55% of its permitted capacity and that its emissions controls can reduce actual emissions below federal standards. The project still requires a final state air permit and approval to fill wetlands and streams for additional data centers. Microsoft withdrew from a computing-capacity lease for a planned data center in Essex this month because the site is not expected to have power until the 2030s, increasing the importance of the West Virginia project to Nscale. The company reported revenue of $141 million and a net loss of $1 billion in the first half of 2026. Three people familiar with its financing plans said its IPO valuation target remains $35 billion, though one said a recent sell-off in the sector could reset valuations across the industry.

According to Jin10, OpenAI core product and platform lead Thibault Sottiaux announced that ChatGPT account switching is now available on the web, iOS and Android, with a desktop rollout planned soon. Sottiaux also previewed reset cards for each of the next two days. OpenAI's release notes say users can sign in to up to two accounts at once and switch between them without logging out, although only one account can be active at a time.

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Jinse Finance launches its daily cryptocurrency and blockchain news bulletin, "Jinse at 8 AM," issue 3228, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Anthropic has filed for an IPO, with an expected valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. Looking at the revenue and gross margin in the prospectus, is a large-scale model company a good business?

SlowMist Security Team Recapsulates the $783,000 ZKLink Theft: Arbitrator's arbitrary external calls superimposed on uncleaned transient storage, allowing attackers to exploit multiple vulnerabilities.

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on AI, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse industry.

Buying a 5-year default insurance policy on $1 million of Oracle debt costs $31,500 a year; CoreWeave costs $114,500. The credit alarm bells for AI are ringing.