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Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are no longer just talking to each other. They are paying for services, buying data and even purchasing access to tokens the AI models, with more than 138 million transactions recorded through the x402 protocol on Coinbase’s Base blockchain, according to a Chainalysis’ <a href="https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/north-america-crypto-adoption-2026/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">><em>Inside North America's $3 trillion crypto economy: Agentic commerce accelerates</em> report</a>. The United States dominates this emerging market. U.S.linked wallets accounted for 88.1% of the geographically identified payments for AI model inference, compared with just 0.1% for Chinese-linked wallets, the blockchain analytics firm found. "One possible explanation is that Chinese developers are more inclined to use open-weight models such as DeepSeek and Qwen, reducing their need to purchase metered inference services," Eric Jardine, Chainalysis' head of research, told CoinDesk. The findings, released Wednesday, come as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and other payments giants <a href="/tech/2026/07/15/visa-mastercard-and-ripple-join-the-standard-letting-ai-agents-pay-in-stablecoins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">have backed the x402 protocol,</a> while Coinbase <a href="/business/2026/07/23/coinbase-closes-the-gaps-in-ai-agent-economy-for-businesses-users-and-developers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has begun allowing business customers</a> to accept payments from AI agents. Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, <a href="/business/2026/08/29/the-next-trillion-dollar-currency-may-not-be-a-stablecoin-it-might-not-even-have-a-name-yet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">recently told CoinDesk</a> that over the next few years he estimates up to 100 billion AI agents will be transacting on the internet and they will be using crypto. And crypto’s <a href="/business/2026/08/23/crypto-s-next-billion-users-might-be-ai-agents-and-they-re-paying-with-stablecoins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">next billion users might be AI agents</a> paying with stablecoins. “Stablecoins are particularly well suited to the kinds of transactions we expect AI agents to make at first,” Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare’s chief strategy officer, <a href="/business/2026/08/23/crypto-s-next-billion-users-might-be-ai-agents-and-they-re-paying-with-stablecoins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">told CoinDesk.</a> Unlike traditional card payments, stablecoins can handle transactions worth fractions of a cent, allowing AI agents to buy data, computing power and other services without human intervention. The new Chainalysis figures offer evidence of growing use of those payment systems, although transaction counts alone do not establish how much represents genuine commercial demand. Much of the activity runs through x402, a payments protocol incubated by Coinbase that allows AI agents to pay automatically for digital services using crypto. More than 87% o
S&P 500 options are the hottest bet on this Hyperliquid exchange
Talk about options<strong> </strong>on the S&P 500 index, and you are discussing a beast of a market that trades trillions of dollars in notional volume every day. Crypto traders now appear to want to access it over a blockchain. Hypercall illustrates the demand. The options platform built on Hyperliquid, the <a href="https://defillama.com/chains" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>eighth-largest blockchain</a> by total value locked (TVL), went live in June, and more than 80% of the $640 million in notional volume since then has come from S&P 500 options, the exchange told CoinDesk. Open interest, the value of contracts still outstanding, is about $49 million, of which $47 million is in S&P 500 options. While the numbers are small next to traditional markets and Deribit's crypto options business, which started shortly after the platform’s 2016 debut and now routinely sees billions of dollars in daily volume and open interest, they illustrate a growing trend: the desire to access financial instruments when conventional markets are closed. Hypercall lists daily, weekly and monthly expiries, including over weekends. "The volume is concentrated in options expiring the following day," Jake Sylvestre, founder of Hypercall, said in an email interview. "Traders can take a view on the next day's move or hold a position further out." Traders are gravitating to blockchains for exposure to traditional markets, including derivatives. Hyperliquid’s decentralized exchange (DEX), also known as Hyperliquid, <a href="/coindesk-indices/2026/09/10/crypto-for-advisors" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has become a</a> go-to venue for placing trades and managing risk through perpetual futures, especially on weekends when conventional markets are closed and geopolitical tensions have repeatedly escalated. Hypercall takes Hyperliquid’s perpetual futures into the options arena. An option is a contract that pays out if an asset ends up above or below — depending on the details — a set price by a specified date. A call option pays off when the asset finishes above that price at expiry. A put option works the other way round. Traders use both to hedge against price swings and bet on direction, volatility and time. Each Hypercall contract has a $1 multiplier, which means each index point is worth $1 at settlement. A call with a 7,000 strike pays $100 if the index settles at 7,100. Contracts settle in USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, against the average price over the final 30 minutes for Hyperliquid's S&P 500 perps. Trading around the clock is the draw. "Hyperliquid has become the best venue for trading these markets outside exchange hours," Sylvestre said. Hypercall’s exchange's market makers, the firms that quote prices, "hedge on Hyperliquid's perpetual futures, including on weekends when the cash equity market is closed," Sylvestre said. Earnings, economic data and company news can move an underlying asset while its home exchange is closed, and makers "hav
The US Dollar Index DXY is slowly declining in early Asian trading.
CoinWorld news: The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) edged lower in early Asian trading, completely erasing all of yesterday's gains since the release of U.S. September CPI data (which had risen by a cumulative maximum of about 70 points), now at 102.16. GBP/USD and EUR/USD rose about 0.3%, now at 1.3231 and 1.1197, respectively.
OpenAI pledges not to use trade secrets Apple alleges were stolen, and devices of 14 employees will undergo forensic examination.
Coin World News: OpenAI has promised not to use what Apple alleges are stolen trade secrets, and forensic examinations will be conducted on the devices of 14 employees. On October 14 local time, OpenAI agreed not to use confidential information that Apple claims was taken by former employees during the trade secret lawsuit with Apple. Under the agreement reached by both parties, OpenAI must collect forensic images of the devices of 14 employees, and U.S. District Judge Edward Davila of the Northern District of California will have the authority to enforce the agreement. Previously, the judge said he was likely to side with Apple and issue an injunction against OpenAI, and the agreement essentially satisfies Apple's demand to prevent its confidential information from being used in the development of competing technologies. Apple sued OpenAI and related individuals in July this year, accusing them of obtaining confidential information involving product design, manufacturing, component technology, testing methods, and supply chains in order to advance OpenAI's entry into the consumer hardware market. OpenAI denied the allegations, saying it had no intention of using Apple's trade secrets and accusing Apple of trying to restrict employees from changing jobs.
TSMC Earnings Face a High Bar: Beating Expectations Alone May Not Calm the Global AI Selloff
According to CoinWorld news, TSMC's earnings report faces a high bar, and merely beating expectations may not be enough to quell the global AI sector sell-off. As strong results from major global chipmakers fail to lift AI trading, TSMC will face a fairly high threshold on Thursday if its earnings report is to impress investors. Weighed down by concerns over interest rate hikes, AI infrastructure financing, and whether the chip boom cycle can continue, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has fallen for six consecutive trading days, with more than $1.5 trillion in market value wiped out cumulatively. TSMC had previously reported a 51% surge in quarterly revenue. However, recent solid results from Samsung Electronics and ASML still failed to ease market anxiety about chip stocks. The bar to impress investors is "very high," said Kevin Net, portfolio manager at Financiere de L Echiquier. "To drive a positive share price reaction, simply beating expectations is not enough.
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Jie Mian News: GenFleet Therapeutics-B (02595.HK): Multiple domestic and overseas clinical studies of GFH375/VS-7375 have achieved positive progress, showing excellent efficacy in various RAS-mutant solid tumors. Zhitong Finance APP News: GenFleet Therapeutics-B (02595.HK) announced that multiple domestic and overseas clinical studies of GFH375/VS-7375 (an oral KRAS G12D inhibitor) have achieved positive progress and the latest data from the relevant studies have been released. Currently, GFH375 has obtained three Breakthrough Therapy Designations (BTD) in China for the treatment of KRAS G12D-mutant pancreatic cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and colorectal cancer (CRC), and has entered two registrational Phase III studies for monotherapy in pancreatic cancer and NSCLC.
Kunlun Wanwei releases a consumer-grade GPU video large model game, simultaneously open-sourced.
Coin World News: Kunlun Wanwei has released a consumer-grade GPU video large-model game and simultaneously open-sourced it. Kunlun Wanwei stated that on October 15, it officially released the world's first video large-model game capable of running on a single consumer-grade GPU — Matrix-Game4.0. Kunlun Wanwei said that Matrix-Game4.0 establishes a new paradigm for game world models: the game engine maintains the world state and interaction rules, while the video generation model presents detailed visuals in real time. It packs a 480p, 60FPS real-time gaming experience into a single NVIDIA RTX 5090. The project has also been open-sourced.
Bitwise CIO: Almost all macro scenarios will drive Bitcoin higher.
According to Cointelegraph, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan said that whether the economy faces rate hikes, inflation, recession, or an AI boom, almost every macroeconomic scenario will ultimately lead to Bitcoin rising. He noted: "All roads still lead to Bitcoin."
US stocks closed with Coreweave down over 15% and SK Hynix down over 6%.
CoinWorld data: According to msx.com data, at the U.S. stock market close, popular tech stocks generally declined, with the storage and semiconductor sectors falling broadly. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed down 4.3%, and the chip stock index fell for a sixth consecutive session, marking its longest losing streak since May 2025. AI cloud service provider Coreweave plunged more than 15%, SK Hynix fell more than 6%, SanDisk dropped more than 5%, Seagate Technology, Western Digital, and Micron Technology each fell more than 4%, Nvidia, Broadcom, and Meta each dropped more than 3%, Tesla fell more than 2%, and Google, Microsoft, and Amazon each declined more than 1%. Apple rose 0.5% against the trend, closing with a market capitalization of $5 trillion, becoming the second publicly listed company after Nvidia to surpass a $5 trillion market value. Precious metals, computer hardware, and crypto mining companies were among the biggest decliners, with Dell Technologies down more than 11%, U.S. Gold Corp and Quantum down more than 10%, Super Micro Computer down more than 8%, and Coinbase and Pan American Silver down nearly 5%. Oil and gas, weight-loss drugs, and food and beverages were among the top gainers, with Eli Lilly, Roche, and Amgen up more than 3%, and Chevron and Exxon Mobil up more than 1%.
1. CCTV News reported, according to customs statistics
News from Bijie.com. 1. CCTV News reported that, according to customs statistics, imports and exports in September totaled 5.16 trillion yuan, exceeding 5 trillion yuan for the first time, an increase of 27.5%. 2. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in September 2026, the national consumer price index rose 0.9% year-on-year and 0.2% month-on-month; the national producer price index for industrial products rose 5.0% year-on-year and 1.2% month-on-month. 3. The Ministry of Commerce announced that the total tariff quota for fertilizer imports in 2027 will be 13.65 million tons. Among them, urea 3.3 million tons; diammonium phosphate 6.9 million tons; compound fertilizer 3.45 million tons. 4. Indonesia's Nickel Smelter Association FINI said on Wednesday that due to tight supply of some raw materials, production shifting to other metals, and the impact of drought on production, Indonesia's nickel product output in 2026 is expected to decline by up to 4% year-on-year.