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The OpenTensor Foundation of the Bittensor ecosystem has announced the native payment mechanism Gamma Tokens. Users and AI agents will be able to use the same Bittensor wallet to access subnets that adopt this standard and pay service fees without needing to register separate accounts or apply for API keys for each subnet.Users can obtain Gamma payment credits using TAO or the corresponding subnet's Alpha tokens. If using TAO, the protocol will buy and destroy the subnet's Alpha tokens in the same transaction to generate Gamma credits; if already holding the corresponding Alpha tokens, they can be directly destroyed to generate credits.

The decentralized machine learning network Bittensor announced on Twitter the launch of a quantum-resistant wallet, supporting three post-quantum signature schemes: ML-DSA-65, Falcon-512, and Falcon-1024, with ML-DSA-65 having been standardized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The quantum-resistant wallet supports both cold keys and hot keys, covering operations such as TAO transfers, staking, and validator weight settings.This update also provides an optional automatic key rotation feature: once a user-signed transaction is recorded on-chain, the wallet will automatically switch to a new signing key, and the old key will no longer authorize transactions for that account. The account address, balance, and staking remain unchanged, and there is no need to change the mnemonic phrase each time. The quantum-resistant wallet without key rotation does not require registration, while enabling key rotation requires registration and a one-time permanent lock of 0.2 TAO. Existing wallets can continue to be used, and users can migrate existing funds and stakes to the new account through transfers or cold key exchanges.

According to Bloomberg, due to ongoing labor disputes with employee unions, Micron Technology has essentially suspended its plans to build a new storage chip factory in Taoyuan, Taiwan, with a project investment budget of $3 billion to $4.5 billion, originally scheduled to start production in 2028. Sources indicate that Micron is concerned that the agreement reached with the union may be overturned, and currently only a small amount of site safety maintenance work is being retained, after which construction will be frozen.The dispute arises from employees' demands to share the profit growth brought by the AI boom. The Taoyuan union is requesting that Micron distribute 15% of its operating profits to global employees and hopes to receive a full cash bonus rather than a portion in stock. Although Micron reached an agreement with the larger Taichung union in October, some employees are dissatisfied with the terms of the agreement, and the Taoyuan union is attempting to expand its organization to push for renegotiation.The project was originally planned to produce high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and DRAM using ASML's advanced equipment. Taiwan currently contributes about 60% of Micron's DRAM output and is also an important production base for HBM, employing approximately 15,000 people. Micron responded that the company's existing operations in Taiwan are normal and will ensure business continuity for customers, but did not directly comment on the suspension of the Taoyuan project. Taiwan's economic department stated that the government will assist Micron in resolving differences with the union and promote the implementation of the investment plan.

According to BBX data, the global capital markets disclosed the latest developments yesterday regarding the issuance of digital asset ETFs, AI node operations, and treasury clearing. The core information is as follows:Franklin Templeton launched two "Dividend Reinvestment Bitcoin" ETFs, listed on Nasdaq: Asset management giant Franklin Templeton announced the official launch of two innovative fund products, the Franklin U.S. Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FBEQ) and the Franklin U.S. Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FIBT). Both ETFs have an initial asset allocation set at 95% stocks and 5% Bitcoin, with the core mechanism being the systematic reinvestment of dividends generated from the underlying stocks into Bitcoin. The index will be re-evaluated quarterly to ensure Bitcoin maintains its minor allocation weight. Among them, FBEQ covers approximately 500 of the largest U.S. companies by market capitalization, with a management fee rate of 0.09%; FIBT focuses on covering 100 large non-financial companies listed on Nasdaq, with a fee rate of 0.19%.KR1 purchased and staked 5,000 TAO, entering the decentralized AI infrastructure of Bittensor: London Stock Exchange-listed company KR1 announced that it has officially launched infrastructure operations on the decentralized AI network Bittensor. The company recently purchased and staked 5,000 TAO in the secondary market, supporting network validators to earn mining rewards. KR1 disclosed that, based on the network reward rate as of October 28, the annualized infrastructure income from this deployment is approximately 6.6% of its current total TAO holdings. In the future, KR1 will regularly disclose the scale of its TAO holdings and related node income in its monthly unaudited update reports.Ruihe Smart Technology sold 38.76 Bitcoins, cashing out over 3.12 million dollars to supplement working capital: Hong Kong-listed company Ruihe Smart Technology issued an official announcement stating that the company recently sold 38.76 Bitcoins held on its balance sheet in the open market. Excluding related transaction costs, the total value of this asset liquidation is approximately 3.1219 million dollars. The company clearly stated that the proceeds from this sale of crypto assets will be used as general working capital for the company.

On October 29, KR1 plc, a company listed on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, announced the launch of its technical infrastructure operations on the decentralized artificial intelligence network Bittensor. The company stated that it has recently acquired 5,000 network-native assets TAO and has initiated staking as part of its technical infrastructure strategy. Based on the reward rate observed on October 28, the company estimates that the annualized infrastructure income is approximately equivalent to 6.6% of the current value of the deployed TAO holdings.The announcement stated that Bittensor is a layer blockchain that supports subnets, covering services such as AI inference, computing power, training, and prediction, where independent suppliers compete for network rewards based on performance. KR1 supports the assessment of service provider performance through staking and receives a portion of the network rewards. There is no mandatory unbonding period for TAO unstaking, allowing the company to retrieve its holdings immediately after unstaking. Rewards can be retained to expand the scale of productive assets or can be liquidated for subsequent investments and operational costs. The company will also disclose its TAO holdings and related infrastructure income in monthly unaudited updates.Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, stated: "As artificial intelligence enables more complex tasks to be performed by software, the demand for infrastructure related to supply-side intelligence is expected to grow significantly. Bittensor introduces open competition for the supply of AI services, and the company is focused on how its incentives are forming services that lead to continuous customer payments, as well as how to deploy TAO holdings to enhance the value and income potential of productive digital assets per share." KR1 claims to be the only publicly listed company on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, holding and operating productive digital assets on the relevant network.

At the Decoding China 2026 event, Huawei announced the introduction of the time compression concept of the "Tao (τ) Law" into base station product design for the first time, summarizing the challenges faced by traditional basebands within a single TTI as "endless calculations and incomplete transmissions."At the same time, Huawei released the OSCAR intelligent channel processing solution and the new generation UBBPi baseband series, providing a collaborative solution direction for the constraints of computation and transmission within a single TTI.

According to a report by Reuters, Micron's Taoyuan union in Taiwan announced on October 20 that it plans to initiate a strike this Thursday to protest the dispute over employee bonuses and profit-sharing plans, and to support the Taichung union, which is currently in mediation negotiations with the company.Currently, the mediation between the Taoyuan union and Micron broke down in September, and the former received authorization from its members to strike in early October. The Taichung union represents Micron's largest operational department in Taiwan and is still negotiating with the company, having not yet voted on whether to strike. Micron has approximately 15,000 employees in Taiwan, primarily producing key components for AI servers, DRAM, and high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The Taoyuan union did not specify the duration of the strike, and Taiwan's regional leader Lai Ching-te called on both sides to negotiate sincerely last week.

According to Top Chinese Innovation Society reports, former head of the basic model for humanoid robots at ZhiJi Dynamics, Yu Tao, has left to start his own venture, focusing on the combination of LLM and embodied intelligence. According to relevant sources, his company's first round valuation is 70 million USD, and the second round valuation is 200 million USD, with DeepSeek and a leading top-tier fund participating in the investment.Yu Tao holds a PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China and was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore. He previously served as a senior researcher in Tencent AI Lab's Absolute Enlightenment team, where he led the team to build the full-body tracking system LimX WBT and the motion generation system from scratch during his time at ZhiJi Dynamics. According to reports from Phoenix Technology, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has recently met with several entrepreneurs in embodied intelligence and is internally evaluating different entry methods, such as forming a team independently or investing in external startups.In August of this year, DeepSeek invested approximately 141 million RMB through a strategic placement in Yushu Technology for its IPO; previously, Bloomberg also disclosed its plan to lead the investment in the robotics company Winverse AI founded by former Tencent AI scientist Hu Han.

According to a report by Reuters, reprinted by Nikkei Asia, the union representing employees at Micron Technology's Taoyuan plant in Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it has obtained authorization for a strike, with the focus of the dispute being the company's bonus plan. The union stated that 1,994 members voted in favor of the strike, accounting for 99% of the voters, while details such as the timing of the strike are still under discussion. Micron has approximately 15,000 employees in Taiwan, with independent unions in Taoyuan and Taichung, and the two unions together represent over 80% of Micron's employees in Taiwan. Micron Taiwan is the company's largest manufacturing base.Taiwan is a key production site for Micron's DRAM and high-bandwidth memory, with related chips being important components for AI servers. Mediation with the Taoyuan union did not reach an agreement in September, and the Taichung union is still in negotiations. In September, Micron announced that it would distribute bonuses for the fiscal year 2026 to over 60,000 employees worldwide, stating that the company had experienced an "extraordinary year," with Taiwanese employees receiving a cash bonus of 1 million New Taiwan Dollars, approximately 31,400 US dollars. The Taoyuan union stated that the plan did not address the request for a permanent profit-sharing mechanism and criticized Micron for announcing the bonuses without first reaching an agreement with the union during the mediation period.

According to exclusive reports from "Investment World", Yan Wentao officially joined DeepSeek on Monday and reported to the company, taking on the role of the company's first CFO.Yan Wentao was born in 1991 and graduated from Fudan University. He joined Hillhouse Capital in 2020 and has previously participated in projects such as MiniMax, Zhipu AI, and ByteDance.DeepSeek is finalizing its second round of financing, planning to raise 50 billion yuan, with a pre-investment valuation of 500 billion yuan, and has already hired CITIC Securities to prepare for a potential Sci-Tech Innovation Board IPO.

Huawei's rotating chairman Wang Tao stated at the Huawei Connect Conference 2026 that the Ascend 960 chip is ready ahead of schedule, achieving a doubling of performance. Among them, the Ascend 960DT will be released in Q1 2027, three quarters earlier than originally planned; the Ascend 960PR will be released in Q3 2027, one quarter earlier than originally planned.Wang Tao mentioned that they will adhere to an annual evolution pace, with the Ascend 970 planned for release in 2028 and the Ascend 980 planned for release in 2029.

TOP Chinese Technology Innovation Society states that Yan Wentao, a partner at Hillhouse Capital, is expected to join DeepSeek as CFO, with an anticipated start date soon.DeepSeek has begun preparations for its Sci-Tech Innovation Board IPO, with CITIC Securities currently conducting due diligence, but both parties have not yet signed a formal listing advisory agreement. DeepSeek hopes to initiate the IPO process this year.Yan Wentao is a post-90s partner at Hillhouse Capital, responsible for technology investments for a long time, with publicly disclosed investment projects including ByteDance, MiniMax, and Zhipu AI. DeepSeek currently does not have a CFO or a formal investor relations team.

According to the official announcement from Chainlink, Bittensor's TAO token has landed on Robinhood Chain through the bridge Forever Money built on the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), achieving a 1:1 native existence of TAO in the second major chain environment.

According to reports from The Paper and others, on August 24, consumers claimed that the Taobao Tmall store "SKhynix Flagship Store" suddenly announced the termination of its operations, raising concerns about the after-sales warranty of the purchased memory modules. The store's homepage indicated that it plans to voluntarily terminate operations on September 9, 2026, and has removed all products, making it currently impossible to search for the store directly on Taobao.Customer service on the Taobao platform stated that if an order is still within the after-sales validity period after the store closes, customers can apply for repairs or refunds on the order details page; if there is no after-sales entry or the seller has not processed it, customers can contact platform customer service for assistance or check if they are entitled to the brand's official warranty. On August 25, SK Hynix's stock price opened lower and continued to decline, falling more than 4% as of the related report.In another report, members of the SK Hynix union voted against a preliminary wage agreement reached after two months of negotiations, with 50.08% of the 15,045 employees who participated in the vote opposing it, with only a 25-vote difference between approval and disapproval. The agreement originally included a 6.3% wage increase and adjusted the profit-sharing bonus to 40% cash and 60% company shares, whereas it was previously distributed entirely in cash.

OKX will launch TAO/USDⓈ spot trading on June 30 at 21:00 to support the development of the USDⓈ ecosystem and meet users' diverse trading needs.

OKX will launch TAO/USDT (Bittensor) spot trading on June 30 at 20:00. Users can deposit funds on the same day starting at 11:00, place advance orders from 19:00 to 20:00, and withdraw funds starting at 22:00. Please prepare in advance.

According to Theblock, Covenant AI, the main subnet developer on Bittensor, has announced its exit from Bittensor. Covenant AI founder Sam Dare stated that Bittensor attracted builders, miners, validators, and investors into this ecosystem because of its promise of not being controlled by any single entity. However, this promise is a lie.Dare listed Bittensor co-founder Jacob Steeves as a major reason for the departure. He claimed that Jacob has been exercising authority over the subnet to regain control of Covenant, as Covenant has grown too large to manage.It is reported that after Covenant's announcement, the price of Bittensor's TAO token plummeted significantly, dropping from $338 to $285 in a short period, a decrease of 15%.

Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, stated on the X platform that he is willing to bet on the viewpoint proposed by KOL ampera that "Bittensor (TAO) will enter the top 10 of crypto assets before 2028," and he is willing to accept a maximum bet amount of $1 million.

According to SEC filings, Grayscale submitted an S-1 amendment for its Bittensor (TAO) trust.