Odaily News: Before the U.S. stock market opens, the key market and financial news investors should focus on is as follows:1. The three major U.S. stock index futures showed divergence. Dow Jones Index futures rose 0.95%, S&P 500 Index futures fell 0.03%, and Nasdaq 100 Index futures fell 0.75%.2. International oil prices fell across the board. WTI crude oil futures fell 1.78% to $92.068 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures fell 1.99% to $104.532 per barrel.3. International spot gold and silver fluctuated within a narrow range. Spot gold rose 0.28% to $4,183.29 per ounce; spot silver fell 0.22% to $60.15 per ounce.4. Most of Europe's three major stock indices rose. The UK FTSE 100 Index rose 0.51%, the French CAC40 Index fell 0.08%, and the German DAX30 Index rose 0.10%.5. AMD CEO Su Zifeng expressed strong confidence in the outlook for the CPU market and designated 2026 as the "year of inference." She expects that, driven by agentic AI workloads, the CPU market size will achieve explosive growth in the coming years.6. Applied Materials (AMAT), the largest U.S. semiconductor equipment manufacturer, expects its revenue to double in the coming years. The company is also using AI tools to drive innovation and product R&D, exploring ways to improve semiconductor yield rates.7. Marvell Technology announced the launch of its second-generation Structera X 3406 and 3506 CXL memory expanders, aimed at AI inference applications. The new products are the industry's first six-channel CXL 3.2 memory expanders, with a single controller supporting up to 9TB DDR4 or 6TB DDR5 memory.8. Nvidia and Cisco jointly launched a new ultra-dense small pluggable module (USFP). USFP is the first module to support 400Gb/s electrical signals per channel, with a single module capacity of up to 12.8Tb/s, suitable for next-generation AI factories.9. Samsung Electronics jointly demonstrated a memory expansion solution based on Compute Express Link (CXL) with AMD at the 2026 OCP Global Summit. Samsung also exhibited customized HBM and the new HBM5, as well as compute-in-memory technology.10. Streaming giant Netflix obtained exclusive broadcasting rights for the 2030 FIFA World Cup in Spain and Andorra. Boosted by this, Netflix rose more than 1% in pre-market trading.11. Federal Reserve Governor Waller said that rising U.S. Treasury yields are having a tightening effect on policy and helping to curb demand in some areas of the economy. He also said that hyperscale companies still plan to invest trillions of dollars over the next three years.12. A Bank of America survey showed that investors' allocation to tech stocks has reached its highest level since 2020, and global semiconductor stocks have become the market's "most crowded" trade.

Odaily News: Two Chainlink non-circulating supply multisig wallets (Noncirculating Supply 17 and 24) transferred a total of about 7.4 million LINK, worth approximately $94.32 million, to Binance deposit addresses in two transactions at 03:53 and 04:01 Beijing time today.

Odaily News: Citrini Research, the institution that previously published the "AI Doomsday Report," has released a new article titled "Breaking The Wall," exploring the intersection of agentic AI with crypto and traditional finance, and suggesting that blockchain may have finally found its use case. The article seemingly discloses Citrini Research's investment portfolio, and related screenshots are circulating.The crypto token portfolio weights are: Derive (DRV) 10%, Lighter (LIT) 10%, Ether.fi (ETHFI) 10%, Aave (AAVE) 9%, Ethena (ENA) 9%, Solana (SOL) 8%, Hyperliquid (HYPE) 7%, Aerodrome (AERO) 7%, LayerZero (ZRO) 5%, Chainlink (LINK) 5%, Backpack (BP) 5%, Maple (SYRUP) 5%, Uniswap (UNI) 4%, Pendle (PENDLE) 3%, Ondo (ONDO) 3%.The crypto market equity portfolio weights are: Securitize (SECZ) 20%, Circle (CRCL) 18%, Coinbase (COIN) 18%, Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF (BHYP) 14%, Robinhood (HOOD) 14%, Bullish (BLSH) 7%, Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR) 5%, BlackRock (BLK) 2%, WisdomTree (WT) 2%.

Odaily News: Chainlink has launched CCIP Vault Adapters, enabling DeFi vaults to directly accept user deposits from more than 80 blockchains without needing to redeploy the vault on each chain. The product is now live, with protocols including Aave, Lombard, United Stables, Veda, and Venus already beginning to adopt it. The relevant vaults cover areas such as stablecoins, lending, yield strategies, digital credit, and tokenized assets.

Odaily News: Chainlink has launched Fulcrum, an institutional financing and collateral management solution that separates financing agreement management from cash and collateral settlement networks, supporting cross-chain repo and 24/7 collateral mobility, with a demonstration conducted alongside DTCC at Sibos 2026. Chainlink stated that 40 new integrations were added in September, covering 24 users including Aave, Coinbase, Paxos, Monad, and Tempo.

Odaily reports that community member ugurmersin has proposed an alternative to Proposal 613, suggesting that custody of the Ecosystem Protection and Continuity Fund (EPCF) and mainnet Chainlink SVR revenue be transferred from the Safe controlled by the Compound Foundation to a Community Multisig, adopting a 9-party 5/9 multisig mechanism. The proposal does not advocate shutting down the EPCF, but rather preserving its purpose, size, 48-month term, and emergency fund deployment capability.As of October 8, the EPCF held 500,000 USDC and 4.5834 million USDC deposited in cUSDCv3, while mainnet Chainlink SVR revenue held 355.95 ETH. The proposal states that the original Proposal 613 had planned to shut down the EPCF and transfer the funds to the Governor Timelock, and was canceled by the Proposal Guardian on October 7.

1. Robinhood purchases $25 million worth of Bitcoin;2. Arthur Hayes: Flop testnet to launch in October, airdrop planned for testnet mining users;3. In the past half hour, DeGods founder Frank sold over $1 million worth of altcoins on-chain;4. A whale sold over 138,000 LINK to raise funds to "rescue" a high-leverage CRCL position on Hyperliquid;5. Kalshi's 15-minute gold market contracts surpass Ethereum, with approximately $5 million in fees in September.

Odaily reports that according to Arkham monitoring, the whale mtAAVEbank.ETH sold over 138,000 LINK, worth $1.9 million, 6 hours ago, when BTC had not yet fallen below $84,000. The whale is suspected of selling LINK to fund its 8x leveraged CRCL position on Hyperliquid. The position was once underwater by over $1.25 million. It still holds over $21 million in digital assets, mainly stablecoins, with over 10% of the funds coming from Aave borrowing.

Odaily reports that Rajath Alex posted on X stating that Polymarket has launched its next-generation prediction market smart contract system, Protocol V2. V2 adopts a single ERC1155 position contract, unified pUSD collateral, a single exchange, and a single router. It initially supports binary, atomic negative risk, incremental negative risk, and combinatorial markets, with settlement compatible with UMA and Chainlink oracles. The code has been audited by Cantina, Certora, and other firms, with Certora completing formal verification, and bug bounties reaching up to $5 million. Canary trial markets launched from October 5 to October 30, with brand-new markets expected to go live on V2 on November 2. Existing CTF markets and positions remain unchanged, and Data API V2 is launching simultaneously.

Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, GSR continues to sell LINK. After receiving tokens from Gnosis Safe, it transferred 303,010 LINK ($4.29 million) to Binance. Two days ago, the same wallet transferred 275,000 LINK ($3.96 million) to Binance. Over the past two days, a total of 578,010 LINK (approximately $8.25 million) has been transferred to Binance.