NVIDIA Announces Nearly $10 Billion Investment Plan in Europe, Plans to Take Stakes in Four German AI Startups

Odaily: Upbit has announced that due to GRAM wallet maintenance on The Open Network (TON), the platform has suspended GRAM deposit and withdrawal services starting from the announcement on October 21, 2026. The resumption time is to be determined and will be notified separately. During the maintenance period, GRAM trading will not be affected.

Odaily reports: Nasdaq-listed company BNB Standard Corporation (ticker: BNC) has announced that it will ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square at 9:30 AM ET on October 26, celebrating the company's adoption of its new name and the appointment of Alex Odagiu as Chief Executive Officer on October 19. Odagiu will be joined by board members and management, with the livestream beginning at 9:15.BNC states that it holds the world's largest corporate BNB treasury and builds and operates its business on BNB Chain, with plans to run a BNB Chain validator node. Odagiu said that most institutional investors have not yet researched BNB.

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Odaily reports that, according to Lookonchain monitoring, over the past 15 hours, 2 whales opened 10x leveraged long positions on a total of 29,798 ZEC, worth $37.57 million.

Odaily reports: Solana will launch its major network upgrade Alpenglow on Wednesday, one of its largest network architecture upgrades since 2020. The upgrade will replace the existing system with a new validator voting mechanism, using off-chain voting and certificate mechanisms to shorten the target transaction finality time to approximately 150 milliseconds—roughly a 40x improvement over the current ~6 seconds.Alpenglow will also eliminate per-vote on-chain voting fees for validators, replacing them with a fixed admission fee of 0.8 SOL per Epoch, which is expected to reduce related costs by approximately 60%. The upgrade previously underwent multiple testnet restarts and was once rolled back due to a migration failure; after a subsequent successful migration, it paved the way for the official launch. The switch is scheduled to begin at Epoch 1064 and will be completed after a transition of 5,000 slots. (CoinDesk)

According to Odaily, NVIDIA plans to invest in four German startups: robotics company Agile Robots, medical software company Avelios Medical, AI audio-video generation company Mirelo, and satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace. This investment plan is part of NVIDIA's commitment to invest nearly $10 billion in Europe, aimed at advancing the development of Europe's AI industry.German Chancellor Merz, along with Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, and NVIDIA, signed a declaration of intent on the same day, planning to cooperate around physical AI models and promote the application of AI in robotics, industrial equipment, and manufacturing. Merz also called on German small and medium-sized enterprises to fully leverage existing industrial data and accelerate the implementation of AI technologies. (TFN)