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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
ETH DVOL指数报52.68点
CoinWorld data: The latest reading of the ETH DVOL index is 52.68 points.
Prestige Economics总裁Jason Schenker表示
According to news from Bijie, Prestige Economics President Jason Schenker said he believes the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise interest rates at this month's meeting. Instead, he believes the Fed may "leave some breathing room" for a rate hike in September, and then possibly step up in December. "By December, if inflation has not been more effectively curbed after the September rate hike, they may increase their action and choose to raise rates by 50 rather than 25 basis points," Schenker said.
Analysts predict that thanks to a significant increase in infrastructure spending in the technology sector
According to news from Bijie, analysts predict that thanks to a significant increase in infrastructure spending in the technology sector, TSMC (TSM.US) is expected to report record profits for the sixth consecutive quarter on Thursday. Forecasts show that TSMC's third-quarter net profit will rise 65% year-on-year to NT$746.3 billion (about US$23.4 billion). Analysts point out that market demand for TSMC's AI chip manufacturing capacity and its advanced packaging technology CoWoS remains strong. If the final net profit exceeds NT$706.56 billion, this will set a new historical high for the company's single-quarter net profit and achieve 11 consecutive quarters of profit growth.
Northbound capital rebalanced its holdings in the third quarter, with the market value of positions in the banking and pharmaceutical sectors increasing significantly.
According to news from Bijie, northbound capital adjusted its positions in the third quarter, with the market value of holdings in the banking and pharmaceutical sectors increasing significantly. On October 14, data on holdings at the end of the third quarter of 2026 under the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect was released, and northbound capital's third-quarter movements also came to light. The data shows that as of the end of the third quarter of 2026, northbound capital held a total of 3,531 individual stocks, with total holdings amounting to 2.577 trillion yuan, down by more than 550 billion yuan from 3.127 trillion yuan at the end of the second quarter, but basically flat compared with 2.572 trillion yuan at the end of the first quarter. In terms of structure, northbound capital increased allocations to the dividend and pharmaceutical sectors in the third quarter, while reducing allocations to directions such as AI and the overseas expansion chain. By industry, northbound capital's market value of holdings in the banking sector rose sharply by 67.336 billion yuan compared with the previous quarter, an increase of 47% quarter-on-quarter, ranking first among the 31 Shenwan industries in terms of growth, while the banking sector index rose by more than 16% overall during the same period.
Shinhan Financial plans to spend 1.2 trillion won to acquire Lotte's non-life insurance business.
Shinhan Financial plans to spend 1.2 trillion won to acquire Lotte Non-Life Insurance.
CoreWeave bond yields surge to 16%, drawing attention
News from Bijie: The accelerating deterioration of the AI-related corporate bond market has made professional investors particularly wary. CoreWeave's 9.75% bonds issued in July this year and maturing in 2031 saw their yields surge to 16% on Wednesday, with prices falling to new lows. CoreWeave's credit default swaps (CDS) widened by more than 135 basis points in a single day, drawing attention from "Silicon Valley influencers" such as Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya. Palihapitiya noted that at this price, the yields on these bonds exceed 15% (the coupon rate at issuance in June was 9.625%). Oracle's bonds maturing in 2033 also hit historic lows, and Meta's bonds maturing in 2049 likewise hovered near lows close to their issuance price. All of the above bonds have fallen by about 20% from their issuance levels.
Jinshi Data Compilation: Daily Tech News Briefing (October 15)
Crypto World News, Compiled by: Daily Tech News Briefing (October 15). 1. Jensen Huang says he will cut off chip supplies to customers developing unsafe AI software. 2. Anthropic says third-quarter revenue rose to $16.8 billion and it achieved profitability. 3. Japan plans to achieve 30 rocket launches per year in the early 2030s. 4. Nvidia-backed AI pharmaceutical company Iambic raised $150 million through a U.S. IPO. 5. One rocket carrying ten satellites, the Zhuque-2 improved Y4 carrier rocket was successfully launched. 6. Ukraine says Starlink service use is restricted, and Musk and the U.S. government are passing the buck to each other. 7. Rocket Lab has postponed the first flight of its "Neutron" rocket to 2027. 8. ASML raised its full-year sales forecast for the third consecutive quarter, with a projected range of 44 billion to 45 billion euros.
Nvidia-backed AI drugmaker Iambic raises $150 million in US IPO
According to news from Bijie, Nvidia-backed AI pharmaceutical company Iambic Therapeutics completed its initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, raising $150 million, with the issue price set at the midpoint of its marketed range at $16 per share, offering approximately 9.38 million shares. According to the filing, Iambic had originally set its issue price range at $15 to $17 per share, and based on this IPO issue price, the company has a market value of $758 million. Iambic uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new therapies, and the proceeds will be used to advance three early-stage anti-cancer drug candidates.