727 FinanceBinance hot wallet saw abnormal outflows of approximately $6.3 billion; attackers used EIP-7702 authorizations to take over wallets in batches; on-chain sleuths suspect Lazarus, about $3 billion has been frozen; Aave, Arbitrum and others took emergency measures; ETH fell below $2,200, and spot gold also fell below the $4,000 mark. On the AI side, Anthropic submitted an S-1 in a sprint toward listing, with half-year revenue and hundreds of billions of dollars in compute payment obligations forming a tension; giants such as Amazon have high profits while free cash flow has turned negative, and whether AI capital expenditure can recoup its costs has become the main line of earnings reports, while YC, a16z and embodied intelligence research provide answers from the industry side.
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Products of the AI Craze
On the Eve of the Largest IPO in History, Anthropic Submits Its Prospectus: Revenue or Compute Bills—Which Comes First?
The prospectus admits it previously significantly underestimated compute demand, with half-year revenue of $16.29 billion, while the minimum payment obligations under signed compute contracts are approximately $417 billion.
Embodied Industry Clock Cycles: The Mismatch Between Capital Frenzy and Deployment Economics
Capital frenzy versus deployment economics mismatch: Unitree retreated about 61% after listing, and September financing fell 70% month-over-month. The author uses the misalignment of six clocks to explain why valuations peaked first.
Keeping an AI as a Pet: A Cyber "Fish Plague" Is Unfolding on Bilibili
The Fat Fish Agent uses a plugin to automatically flood Bilibili comment sections and build threads, and also runs a daily automated check-in on Bilibili. The article treats it as an out-of-control experiment of AI entering public space, rather than mere meme play.
Profits Rising, Cash Flow Turning Negative: When Will AI Investments by Amazon, Meta, and Oracle Pay Off?
Amazon posted net profit of $135 billion over the past year, with its operating margin hitting a 40-quarter high, while free cash flow over the same period was negative $7.6 billion. The article asks when AI investments will pay off.
Goodbye to "Wrapper" AI: YC Calls on Founders to Enter These 11 Asset-Heavy Sectors
YC lists 11 asset-heavy directions: the U.S. domestic robotics supply chain, data center power supply, and government data pipelines. It judges that the AI bottleneck is spilling over from the model layer into the physical world.
Macro Insights
Reviewing the U.S., India, and South Korea: How Do Retail Investors Ignite the Options Market?
Cases from the U.S., India, and South Korea show that retail investors flood in once they get low-priced short-term contracts: SPX same-day options rose from 5% to 60% of volume over ten years, and Robinhood's options revenue is already 1.5 times the sum of its equities and crypto revenue.
JPY Stablecoins Begin Connecting to Real Consumption: Can Shinhan Card and SBI's Cooperation Rewrite Japan-Korea Cross-Border Payments?
Shinhan Card and SBI signed an MOU to connect JPY stablecoins to Korean merchant acquiring, still in proof of concept. The real test is FX costs, refunds, and how merchants receive KRW.
Hong Kong's Digital Asset Layout Begins to Land: Stablecoin Payments and All-Weather Fund Trading Roll Out Successively
HSBC's RedCoin connects to PayMe, with only 6.11 million HKDAP in circulation, and tokenized money market funds open all-weather trading. The author stresses that metrics should shift from licenses to usage rates.
USD Stablecoins Are More Than a Payment Tool: Why Has Bessent Brought Cryptocurrency Into the U.S. Monetary Strategy?
Bessent incorporates USD stablecoins into monetary strategy: 90% of stablecoins are pegged to the dollar, and reserves buy short-term debt. But the author cautions to distinguish new demand from the transfer of existing demand.
Institutional and Celebrity Brainstorms
CZ: In the AI Era, Reject "Cog-in-the-Wheel" Thinking and Embrace the Golden Age of Entrepreneurship
CZ reviews his prison term and stepping down: in 2017, he fully compensated users with $6 million, equal to 40% of the treasury. He asserts that AI agents cannot open bank accounts, and crypto is their only native blood.
Arthur Hayes' New Article: The Fed's Triple Kill, the More Powell Struggles, the Crazier the Crypto Bull Market
Hayes treats compute as a commodity: using FLOPS as the anchor for a spot benchmark, then layering on deliverable FCU forwards and FRCR futures. It is his third bet on derivatives becoming the industry standard.
a16z Partner: In the AI Era, These 5 Types of People Are Most Likely to Become Unicorn Founders
The a16z partner lists five new profiles: solo founders, non-technical backgrounds, industry veterans, students, and influencers. But he cautions that there is still a gap between a demo and a scaled product.
Anthropic's President Refuses Advertising and Blasts Virtual Companions: How to Define AI's "Bottom Line"?
Anthropic's president makes clear it will not do advertising and opposes AI virtual companions, on the grounds that AI is a thousand times more private than social media. She advocates that AI manage information while humans retain judgment and empathy.
Strategy Faces MSCI Deletion Risk: What Do You Need to Watch Before November 11?
MSCI will rule on November 11. If Strategy is deleted, it could face $2.8 billion in passive selling and shake its financing flywheel of premium issuance to buy coins.
Seizing the Initiative
A New Wave of TGEs Is Coming? 19 Projects May Debut Densely in Q4
A roundup of 19 projects planning Q4 TGEs, covering AI, DeFi, RWA, prediction markets, and gaming. What they share is tying tokens to staking, buyback-and-burn, and real use cases.
Out of the Crypto Bubble, How Does Hyperliquid Use "Traditional Finance" to Support a $128 Target Price?
In October, non-crypto trading accounted for about 30% and once reached 40% in a single day. The model projects 2029 revenue of $4.9 billion corresponding to $128, with the biggest variable being whether fees can approach CME levels.
Crypto + AI Inference: Three Projects, Three Completely Different Business Logics
Three crypto inference projects take different paths: selling credits, aggregating to push prices down, and P2P compute discovery. The author notes that most issued credits have not been used, and tokens are disconnected from demand.
Is Pearl the Future of "AI Bitcoin" or Just Another Mining Coin Bubble?
PEARL, which calls itself "AI Bitcoin," uses PoUW to integrate AI matrix computation, with its price rising from $0.19 to $2.44. But most of the network's hash power is still computing random data.
Web3 Happenings
Bitcoin Mining Shake-Up: Tether Rallies 15 Giants to Let AI Take Over Global Mining Machines
Tether's self-developed open-source MDK framework has already been joined by 15 mining companies that signed commitments. It first unifies miner interfaces, then lets QVAC agents take over. Actual installed capacity and permission boundaries remain in doubt.
Full-Page Ads Open Fire, 33 Giants Join Forces to Snipe: Why Tokenized U.S. Stocks Hit the Brakes with Issuers
33 issuers oppose it, involving about $17 trillion in market value, with the core dispute being issuer authorization. The article compares DTCC's tokenization within the old custody system and points out that the divergence is about route, not technology.
On-Chain Tracking: Hackers Make Off with $6.28 Billion from Binance, a Deep Review of the Full Attack Path
$6.28 billion flowed out across 8 chains. The attacker used 50 EIP-7702 authorizations to take over Binance 14 and raced against Tether and Circle freezes, marking each escape window transaction by transaction.
A $125 Million "Idle" Treasury Ignites Controversy, Zcash Community Clamors to "Cut" Subsidies
The ZCG treasury has swelled to $125 million, while the 8% block subsidy still auto-mints. Co-founder Sean Bowe advocates cutting it off and shifting to NSM, and the community has formed four competing proposals.
Key News
Binance: Security Incident May Involve Compromise of a DevOps Engineer's Computer, No Private Key Leak Found, Estimated Total Loss About $6.3 Billion
He Yi: User Funds Are Safe, Binance Will Bear All Hacker Attack Losses
Binance: Verified Total Frozen Amount Is About $3 Billion
ZachXBT: Binance Hacker Suspected to Be North Korean Hacker Group Lazarus Group
Binance Hacker Has Sold UNI, ENA, PEPE, LINK, AAVE, ONDO, and WLD, Converting a Total of 70,480 ETH
Aave: Affected by the Binance Incident, All V3 and V4 DAO Markets Have Been Temporarily Frozen
Shenyu: Binance 14 Hot Wallet Still Has Not Revoked EIP-7702 Delegation, About 2,961 ETH at Risk of Being Swept Again
SlowMist Cosine: The EIP-7702 Mechanism Itself Is Fine; the Binance Hacker Merely Used It to Facilitate Batch Theft
Zhao Changpeng: Binance's Stolen Fund Gap Is About $2 Billion, SPCX Holdings Can Cover Most of It
Binance Investigation Update: More Intrusion Points Found in Security Incident, Still Expects Withdrawals to Resume Within 45 Hours
Arbitrum Security Council Freezes About $30.5 Million in Funds in the Binance Attack Incident
Microsoft: North Korean Hacker Group Has Embedded AI Into the Entire Attack Workflow, Usually Targeting Cryptocurrency and Other Assets
Spot Gold Falls Below the $4,000 Mark
ETH Falls Below $2,200, Down 7.19% Intraday
DeepSeek's 105.5 Billion Yuan Financing Details Exposed: Valuation About 615.5 Billion Yuan, Nearly 30 Investors Participated
Binance Will Delay the Listing of Predict (PREDICT)
Bipartisan Senators Press Kalshi and Polymarket on How They Prevent Insider Trading in Election Bets
Coinbase CEO Plans to Sell Up to 8,167,400 Shares, Worth About $1.31 Billion
Trezor: Trezor Safe 5 Devices Sold Through Reseller CryptoBilis Suspected of Being Implanted with Malicious Hardware
OKX CEO Calls for Industry to Jointly Establish Security Standards and Coordinated Response Mechanisms