Golden Finance reports that Standard Chartered has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity of the crypto custody firm Zodia Custody, with the transaction still subject to regulatory approval. Upon completion, Zodia Custody's custody business will be integrated into Standard Chartered; its software business will be transferred to an independent company managed by Standard Chartered's innovation investment arm SC Ventures.

Golden Finance reported that on October 21, two companies announced on Wednesday that OpenAI will provide its cutting-edge AI models and Codex code intelligence services through Google Cloud in the coming weeks. This move deepens the cooperation between these two competitors and highlights that major cloud service providers are becoming important distribution channels for top AI models. According to the corporate blog announcement, this collaboration will integrate OpenAI's latest models such as

Microsoft, Alphabet (Google's parent company), Goldman Sachs, and McDonald's recently submitted the same type of document to OKXICE: an objection notice. OKXICE is a platform jointly operated by the cryptocurrency exchange OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, planning to enable 24/7 on-chain trading of stock tokens for 62 U.S. listed companies. However, their "objection notices" do not represent opposition to stock tokenization itself. W

Source: Crypto in America, OCC Compiled by: Shan Oba, Jinse Finance On October 21, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued Bulletin 2026-50, officially finalizing the implementation rules of the GENIUS Act. This rulebook, spanning over 700 pages, sets federal standards for payment stablecoin issuers and will take effect on January 18, 2027. The OCC thus becomes the first federal banking regulator to complete the core rules of the GENIUS Act, ahead of the Federal Reserve a

Golden Finance reported that on October 21, Ukrainian President Zelensky said in an interview on October 21 local time that Ukraine could reach a peace agreement on the basis of retaining control of at least 75% of its territory. The host asked Zelensky whether he was willing to accept a peace agreement that would freeze everything as it is, with Ukraine still retaining 75% or more of its territory. Zelensky responded affirmatively, saying, "Now we must freeze (the front line), this is a practic

Jinse Finance reports, market news: eBay will lay off about 9% of its workforce to streamline operations and prioritize growth areas.

Author: Biteye Core Contributor Denise Editor: Biteye Core Contributor Denise Yesterday, Analysys and QuestMobile released their Q3 reports on China's AI intelligent agents almost simultaneously. There are two sets of figures worth noting: First, the monthly visits to domestic desktop AI office agents surged from 60.62 million in June to over 300 million, nearly a 5-fold increase in three months; Second, Tencent's WorkBuddy single product visits reached 85.34 million, with its sibling CodeBuddy

Golden Finance reported that on October 21, CME Group plans to collaborate with AI index startup Silicon Data to launch a tradable product based on AI model Token expenditure. The related product will be based on its large language model (LLM) Token index, weighting the Token prices of different AI models according to usage. Silicon Data CEO Carmen Li stated that the market already has a fairly good understanding of GPU computing power costs but lacks insight into the consumer layer within the A

Author: Zeno ; Editor: Zeno Produced by | Bitkoala Finance AI is booming, computing power is rapidly expanding, but the U.S. power grid and communities are about to "break down". Facing escalating conflicts, former U.S. President Trump directly took to social media to issue tough demands, ordering data center companies to "generate their own power" and "pay protection fees"; meanwhile, tech giants have sensed the crisis and have started "lavish spending"... 1. The King of Understanding Explode

Golden Finance reports, TD COWEN: raised SpaceX target price from $200 to $224.