The selloff in US stocks paused, with dip buyers moving in to support the bruised artificial-intelligence trade after the S&P 500's steepest drop in more than a year, Bloomberg reported. S&P 500 futures rose 0.4%, and Nasdaq 100 contracts gained 1.4%, set to pare part of Thursday's 6.4% decline. Worries about tighter data center regulation shaved around $3 trillion off the index in the previous session. The turmoil kept reverberating: the MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 3.9%, the Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 1.2% and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index lost 2.7%, while Dow futures slipped 0.6%. Treasuries halted their haven-driven advance ahead of Friday's payrolls report, the dollar outperformed all major peers and Brent traded around $97 a barrel. Global markets have been whipsawed this week. Investors first bet a Democratic sweep would hasten an end to the Iran war, before fears of a clampdown on the data center buildout overwhelmed that optimism. Chipmakers bore the brunt, with a key US semiconductor gauge down almost 16% since Monday. An ETF tracking US chip stocks rebounded 4.5% in premarket trading and Nvidia jumped more than 4%, though Amazon and Apple remained under pressure. Data center firm IREN soared 18% after reporting a surge in AI cloud revenue. Roberto Scholtes at Singular Bank said he expected a modest rebound as opportunistic buyers picked up some of the hardest-hit stocks, adding that investors would look for clues about the Democratic Party's intentions and that a credible sign a nationwide moratorium was off the table could help reverse sentiment. Santiago Mateo Yanguas at CaixaBank Asset Management said Thursday felt close to capitulation, and that while it may be too early to call a bottom, much risk had already been flushed out and fundamentals were not validating the most bearish AI concerns. Hedge fund losses deepened the unease: Walleye Capital is returning cash after its worst month since March 2020, Greg Coffey's Kirkoswald posted its worst-ever monthly decline, and credit fund Arini Capital Management lost more than 12% last month. Bloomberg Economics expects payrolls to rise 26,000 with unemployment near 4.2%, neither of which would deter the Fed from its path to a December rate hike, economists including Anna Wong wrote. Francisco Simon at Santander Asset Management said a strong jobs report could calm nerves by reinforcing confidence in the economic cycle, though focus is likely to stay on AI and data centers, and that cyclical employment still has room to expand. Other moves: 10-year Treasury yields were little changed at 4.84%, gold slipped 0.4% to $4,072.05 an ounce, Brent fell 1.3% to $96.98, bitcoin rose 0.4% to $76,054.23 and ether added 0.4% to $2,235.54.

BNB Chain announced that BEP-706 will be included in the Jenner hard fork, adding a precompiled contract at address 0x70 to provide smart contracts with millisecond-level block timestamps. According to Odaily, the new interface will let developers read timestamps in milliseconds, while the existing `block.timestamp` value and second-based timing logic will remain unchanged. The feature is intended for applications requiring subsecond precision, including quote settlement with validity periods of several hundred milliseconds, auction deadlines and checks on price oracle data freshness. The precompiled contract will cost 20 gas, with additional costs for the call and memory. BNB Chain advised developers to check unit consistency between seconds and milliseconds and verify that calls succeed and return the expected 32 bytes of data.

Alphabet 单日市值蒸发近 5000 亿美元，广告增速与搜索量首次背离；当 AI 代理替人比价下单，广告模式的根基正在松动。

According to ChainCatcher, Oakland police in California are investigating the theft of Nvidia computer hardware valued at $11.4 million. The cargo was picked up by a truck suspected of belonging to a food transportation company and disappeared while en route to Texas.

BNB Chain announced on X that the BSC-Reth hotfix is now available. Node operators running BSC-Reth on mainnet or testnet should upgrade to v0.1.4-hotfix as soon as possible and restart their nodes. No action is required from users.

The Ethereum Foundation said security firm ChainSecurity recently found that certain invariants used by some projects could stop holding after the Glamsterdam upgrade. According to Odaily, the risks involve EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, which change gas fees for some operations and state gas accounting. The All Core Developers meeting decided to delay the hard fork and not start the fork on the Hoodi testnet until the issues are resolved. The foundation said it is reviewing the changes with several audit firms and conducting an internal audit, but cannot cover every project’s on-chain and off-chain code. The foundation urged contract developers and auditors to check whether their projects rely on the eight invariants. It has created a dedicated GitHub repository with explanations, examples and prompts for projects to assess potential effects and possible specification changes.

The Ethereum Foundation has urged contract developers and auditors to check whether their projects rely on eight gas-cost assumptions that will no longer hold after changes under Glamsterdam. According to Foresight News, EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 will alter gas charging, and the Foundation has published a code repository with explanations, examples, and prompts for reviewing the assumptions. Affected projects can contact the team by email; the Foundation is working with several auditing firms and conducting internal reviews, but says it cannot cover every project or all on-chain and off-chain code on Ethereum. The Foundation previously announced on October 23 that Glamsterdam’s activation on the Hoodi testnet would be postponed, with a new date yet to be determined. On October 26, Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter said the delay followed a ChainSecurity report identifying issues with EIP-8037’s interactions with some contracts, and that the scope of the impact had since become largely clear.

Solana在陆家嘴投放广告并筹划线下活动被叫停，人民银行有关司局负责人独家回应：相关业务属非法金融活动。

Hackers linked to North Korea stole $6.3 billion from Binance and are now moving some of it through Chinese money-laundering networks, with hundreds of thousands of dollars already traced there. About $3 billion has been frozen, but close to $1 billion has started moving through laundering channels.

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has announced his resignation amid a growing political and financial crisis following the collapse of digital lender Ueno Bank, whose suspended operations have restricted millions of customers' access to their deposits and sparked protests in the capital.

Canva is cutting 1,271 jobs, about 22 per cent of its staff, after its growth slowed and competition from AI design tools grew. Those leaving will get at least six months' salary, 12 months of healthcare cover where offered, career support, their company laptops and the chance to apply for a US$10,000 startup grant.

面对量子计算威胁，开发者提出「量子地雷」：想动旧地址的币，须先押上等额本金。

1000亿美元机械卖单被全街抢跑，反身性踩踏让美股创2020年3月以来最大单日跌幅。

The artificial intelligence boom is putting increasing pressure on the global supply of computer memory, leaving everyday consumers facing rising hardware prices as data centers compete for limited resources.

科技股恐慌经 ETF 传导，BTC 两天跌回 7.52 万美元，与黄金一起垫底，“数字黄金”叙事再被数据推翻。

Police in Penang, Malaysia, arrested 141 people, mostly foreigners, in 14 raids on suspected scam call centres between 9 and 29 October 2026. The groups are accused of cheating people in several countries, including through fake investment offers, romance scams and a second scam targeting people who had already lost money.