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The spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong, stated that China and the United States are maintaining close communication on the "30 billion for 30 billion" framework arrangement for reciprocal tariff reductions, which is beneficial for stabilizing and expanding bilateral trade. Communication between the two sides in areas such as trade and investment will create more favorable conditions for agricultural product trade between the two countries, and relevant progress will be announced in a timely manner.

The Solana Foundation is hiring a Vice President of International Communications. This is a full-time position within the marketing team, supporting remote work in the United States, with other locations including San Francisco and New York. The hire will be responsible for Solana's global narrative and network reputation management, developing and maintaining the global narrative, establishing and personally maintaining relationships with media in the U.S. business, finance, technology, and cryptocurrency sectors, while providing executive positioning and communication consulting to the foundation's management.This position will also be responsible for reputation and issue management related to network incidents, client vulnerabilities, application layer attacks, and validator disputes, establishing severity classifications, identifying decision-makers, rehearsing processes, and preparing response language in advance; providing communication support for project launches, founder media training, etc., to the ecosystem team, and collaborating with policy and legal teams to handle regulatory and legislative matters. The ideal candidate should have approximately 10 to 15 years of communication experience, possess direct contacts with business, finance, and technology media reporters, and be able to use AI tools in monitoring, research, drafting, information testing, and adversarial review tasks.

According to Gate quotes, the Hong Kong stock market opened, with the Hang Seng Index down 1.58%, and the Tech Index down 3.11%. The optical communication sector opened lower collectively, with Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable down 12.59%, and Zhongji Xuchuang down 11.06%.Among AI model stocks, Zhipu fell 8.82%, and MINIMAX-W fell 7.4%.

According to Gate market data, the decline in the optical communication sector of the US stock market has continued to widen: FOTO (FOTO) fell 8.12%; Marvell Technology (MRVL) fell 8.18%; Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) fell 12.01%; Lumentum (LITE) fell 10.34%; Coherent (COHR) fell 8.12%; Ciena (CIEN) fell 10.85%; Fabrinet (FN) fell 8.45%; AXT (AXTI) fell 14.18%.

Vitalik emphasized trusted hardware and privacy protection in his keynote speech at Devcon, and the Ethereum Foundation outlined related goals such as open chips.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 Communication Services Sector Index has reached a new 14-month low, recently dropping by 6.9%.

Huobi HTX announced that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) had previously initiated legal proceedings against the exchange in the UK. After a period of constructive communication between both parties, the matter has now been properly resolved.Huobi HTX has always sincerely cooperated with the FCA, actively collaborating and responding to its concerns regarding the UK market. During this period, Huobi HTX, based on its commitment to continuously adhere to compliance standards, has gradually strengthened restrictions related to the UK market and exit arrangements, and implemented supporting operational measures.These measures were already in place before this settlement was reached. The settlement further consolidates the aforementioned measures and does not constitute an admission of any legal liability, misconduct, or violations by Huobi HTX.The settlement eliminates relevant legal uncertainties and is consistent with the exchange's commitment to continuously enhance compliance levels. This is beneficial for Huobi HTX to focus on the most important matter, which is to provide high-value services to users and achieve long-term sustainable growth.Huobi HTX thanks all parties for their professional cooperation in properly concluding this matter and will continue to focus on responsibly serving users. Looking ahead, Huobi HTX is willing to constructively cooperate with all parties in the industry, including working hand in hand with regulators where appropriate, to jointly safeguard user interests and promote the healthy development of the digital asset ecosystem.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX will build a ground communication network.

SpaceX announced the acquisition of wireless spectrum to provide mobile communication services through Starlink satellites, potentially becoming a major mobile operator. This move led to double-digit percentage declines in the stock prices of Verizon Communications, AT&T, and T-Mobile US last Friday.

According to Gate market data, U.S. pre-market S&P 500 mini index futures fell 0.3%, Nasdaq 100 index futures fell 1.1%, and Dow Jones index futures rose 0.3%. The "Seven Sisters" concept stocks and the optical communication sector saw widespread declines, while the biotechnology sector saw widespread gains.NVIDIA fell 1.54%, Apple rose 0.76%, Microsoft fell 0.46%, Google fell 1.58%, Amazon fell 1.47%, Meta fell 1.47%, and Tesla fell 1.40%.Lumentum fell 3.50%, Corning fell 3.28%, Coherent fell 3.34%, Applied Optoelectronics fell 3.15%, Ciena fell 3.14%, Broadcom fell 1.77%, and Marvell Technology fell 2.80%; Eli Lilly rose 1.25%, Johnson & Johnson rose 1.76%, Moderna fell 1.67%, Novo Nordisk rose 1.20%, AbbVie rose 1.00%, and Merck rose 1.23%.

According to Gate market data, the decline in the U.S. stock market's storage and optical communication sectors has narrowed.In the storage sector, Micron Technology (MU) fell by 2.88%, Western Digital (WDC) fell by 2.11%, SanDisk (SNDK) fell by 5.68%, Seagate Technology (STX) fell by 3.62%, and SK Hynix (SKHY) fell by 3.67%.In the optical communication concept stocks, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) fell by 6.47%, Coherent (COHR) fell by 7.14%, Credo (CRDO) fell by 5.69%, Lumentum (LITE) fell by 1.57%, and Nokia (NOK) fell by 2.99%.

J.P. Morgan analysts stated that SpaceX's latest spectrum deal may raise concerns about intensified competition among the three major wireless carriers in the United States. Although SpaceX could become a new market participant, the threat to Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T remains limited in the short term.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 Telecommunications Services Index fell by 7.2%, marking the largest percentage drop since March 2020.

According to the official public account of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the smart agent identification and identity network has officially launched its trial operation and is open for access to the public.This network relies on trusted interconnection centers for smart agents in Beijing, Xiamen, and other locations, providing services such as identity registration, identity verification, addressing resolution, and capability discovery. It adopts a "Blockchain + DID + Super Smart Agent" technical route, compatible with various DID methods, and adapts to mainstream interconnection protocols such as A2A and ANP.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks in the semiconductor, storage, and optical communication sectors rose broadly before the market opened on Monday.In the semiconductor sector, Lam Research (LRCX) rose 0.21%, Applied Materials (AMAT) rose 0.21%, Arm (ARM) rose 0.7%; in the storage sector, Micron Technology (MU) rose 0.03%, Western Digital (WDC) rose 1.62%, SanDisk (SNDK) rose 0.87%, Seagate Technology (STX) rose 1.56%.In the optical communication concept stocks, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) rose 1.45%, Coherent (COHR) rose 0.88%, Credo (CRDO) rose 1.44%, Lumentum (LITE) rose 0.88%, Nokia (NOK) rose 0.19%, Astera (ALAB) rose 1.88%.

The artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has officially open-sourced infrastructure components for the Huawei Ascend computing platform, covering the TileLang high-level language compilation tool, computing libraries, and distributed communication libraries, corresponding to the previously open-sourced components for the NVIDIA platform. TileLang aims to provide a general-purpose, simpler programming language that can achieve the hardware performance limits, improving development efficiency and simplifying logic compared to CUDA, while its programming model can also leverage chip features.The TileLang route was first validated on the NVIDIA platform and has already supported the implementation of most operators in the training of the DeepSeek V4 series models. The open-sourced Ascend version encapsulates the underlying instructions of the Ascend C, providing a high-level programming approach without sacrificing hardware performance. Currently, every TileLang operator used in DeepSeek's training has a corresponding high-performance implementation on Ascend.The components open-sourced at the same time also include DeepGEMM, DeepEP, TileKernels, FlashMLA, and DeepSelect, which are used for general matrix operations, large-scale cross-device communication, conventional vector calculations and memory access, long-context sparse attention, and data filtering, respectively. DeepSeek claims that in multiple key tests, the related computing and communication performance has approached hardware limits; during the R&D process, the Huawei team provided support, and both parties collaborated to advance the 128-card supernode solution based on Ascend 950, with deep optimizations made for computing and communication.

Satellite communication infrastructure company Space Network has signed a binding pre-purchase agreement worth $50 million with Philippine infrastructure company HQ Company International Holdings to provide satellite connectivity to the Philippines through the low Earth orbit satellite network Freeport. The signing ceremony was held at SKY 31 in Seoul, attended by Space Network CEO Tae Lim Oh and HQ Company CEO Yongsoo Samuel Cho.According to the agreement, Space Network will provide access to the Freeport network, technical hardware, software, and ongoing engineering support, while HQ Company will be responsible for local sales, customer acquisition, spectrum authorization, and regional service implementation. Cho is the son-in-law of former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos and has long been engaged in cross-border investment and infrastructure business in the Philippines. This agreement adds to the $100 million agreement signed by Space Network with Vietnam's DETI Technology in June 2026, bringing the total commercial pre-purchase amount to $150 million.Freeport is built and operated by Space Network, currently featuring 4 low Earth orbit satellites, with plans to expand to approximately 230 satellites by the time commercial services launch in 2029. Operators can purchase regional capacity and build their own services on the open network, with nodes settling through on-chain contracts. The related project Spacecoin combines blockchain protocols with low Earth orbit satellites for service pricing and payments within the network.

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong, stated that the economic and trade teams of China and the United States are maintaining close communication on the issue of mutual tariff reductions amounting to 30 billion dollars, and relevant progress will be released in due course.

On September 17, WEEX TradFi market data showed that the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, and the three major U.S. stock indices closed lower. After the interest rate hike expectations were realized, funds flowed back into the AI chip and optical communication sectors, with mixed performance in the storage sector. Specifically, chip stocks generally rose, with INTC up 4.03%, AMD up 1.65%, and NVDA up 0.82%; optical modules generally rose, with LITE up 9.59%, COHR up 6.92%, MRVL up 3.61%, and NOK up 3.05%; the storage sector showed divergence, with STX up 1.47%, WDC up 1.22%, MU down 0.11%, and SNDK down 0.71%.WEEX Labs believes that while the index is under pressure, the optical communication and some chip sectors are recovering in parallel, indicating that after the interest rate hike, funds are more willing to trade the oversold AI hardware sector, and the structural divergence is more noteworthy than the index direction. Today's focus is on the interest rate path pricing after the dot plot and whether the transaction in optical modules can turn the rebound into a trend.