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Infineon has raised its sales forecast for data center business in 2027, expecting sales for the fiscal year ending in September to grow to approximately 4 billion euros.The previous forecast for AI data center power solutions revenue was 2.5 billion euros. CEO Hannebeck stated that revenue and profitability will significantly increase in fiscal year 2027, with power chips being one of the main growth drivers.

According to Caixin, on November 10, multiple media outlets saw the draft of the Digital Fairness Act, which shows that the European Commission plans to require companies to allow users to disable features that induce compulsive or excessive use, and to regulate AI systems that extend interactions through simulated interpersonal relationships. The draft is expected to be published on November 11, and companies that violate the rules may face fines of up to 6% of their global annual revenue. The draft requires that adult users be given the option to disable autoplay, notifications unrelated to their activities, and continuous reward systems; if an AI chatbot encourages ongoing interaction by simulating interpersonal relationships, users should also have the right to disable related features.The draft also proposes to list 10 types of manipulative designs that are considered unfair under any circumstances, including making it significantly harder to register for services, hiding prices or automatic renewal terms, falsely implying there are no other choices, making false or inadequately qualified claims about supply or popularity, repeatedly emphasizing scarcity at checkout, pre-selecting additional products or quantities, framing refusal as a wrong choice, repeatedly asking to change a decision already made, using confusing double negatives, and fabricating notifications that someone has contacted the user. The European Commission can add new manipulative practices to the list without restarting the legislative process.The draft also proposes to require online subscriptions to provide a clear contract termination button, that consumers must actively consent before a free trial converts to a paid service, and that reminders must be sent before automatic renewals; for minors, it proposes to ban paid loot boxes and paid win mechanisms in video games. Impact assessments estimate that the relevant regulations will help consumers avoid economic losses of 88.4 billion euros between 2025 and 2035; when accounting for time lost, the annual benefit is expected to be 13.7 billion euros, with total annual compliance costs for companies estimated at 678 million euros. The draft still needs to be reviewed by the European Parliament and member states, and according to the current text, it will apply 12 months after coming into effect. The German government expressed opposition in mid-last month, advocating for amendments to the existing consumer protection directive rather than creating a new law.

During Halloween, U.S. President Trump stated at a party at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in response to reporters' questions that he is very confident about the midterm elections. He said that America has never been better, having created $25 trillion in wealth since he became president.Regarding the issue with Iran, Trump mentioned that negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are going smoothly, but unfortunately, Iran is not very reliable. He said they always reach an agreement and then backtrack.In addition, Trump also commented on the recent public sentiment surrounding Jensen Huang, the founder of NVIDIA, stating that he believes in Huang and hopes he will be okay. He said that Huang is a great and talented person, and he wants to protect talented individuals, respects him, likes him, and will get to the bottom of it.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 143,905,015 USDT was transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury, worth approximately 144 million USD.

Whale Alert monitoring shows that 750 BTC were transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex, valued at approximately 57.51 million USD. The address attribution is based on the institution's label, and the purpose of the funds has not been disclosed.

According to Bitfinex analysis, Strategy shareholders voted on October 28 to approve the proposal for daily dividends on STRC preferred shares, with preliminary results showing that 99.3% of votes supported the proposal. STRC is expected to change from bi-monthly dividends to daily dividends starting November 1, with the first cash dividend to be credited on November 2; the other three preferred shares under Strategy, STRF, STRK, and STRD, are expected to follow suit in January 2027.This move by Strategy aims to reduce price volatility caused by ex-dividend dates. The company's CEO Phong Le stated that previously, when STRC paid monthly dividends, the average price dropped about 49 basis points around the ex-dividend date, which decreased to about 36 basis points after switching to bi-monthly dividends. The company expects that daily dividends will further disperse selling pressure and enhance price stability.This model is not unique to Strategy. Bitcoin treasury company Strive switched its SATA preferred shares to daily dividends in June this year and launched a subordinate preferred share SATS with a fixed annual dividend rate of 15%. In October, Strive issued 7 million shares of SATS at $90 per share, raising approximately $630 million, and used about $511 million of that to purchase 6,182 BTC.

According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

According to First Financial News, the Korea Communications Commission (KMCC) has determined that Google and Apple violated the Telecommunications Business Act by enforcing in-app payments, and has decided to impose a total fine of 63.7 billion Korean Won on the two companies. Among them, Google was fined 42.9 billion Korean Won, and Apple was fined 20.81 billion Korean Won.The regulatory agency also issued a corrective order, requiring both companies to modify their relevant business procedures. This penalty comes about three years after South Korea first announced its sanction plans in 2023.

Whale Alert detected two transactions of approximately 142 million and 140 million USDT transferred from unknown wallets to Bitfinex.

According to Bitcoin.com News, the Central Bank of Ireland announced on October 22 that it has imposed a fine of €3,252,618 on Coinbase Ireland Limited for violating customer funds protection and outsourcing requirements in the Irish Electronic Money Regulations 2011. Coinbase admitted to the violations.The regulator stated that the violations occurred between November 1, 2020, and August 19, 2025, with a settlement reached on October 21. The case involves Coinbase Ireland's role as an electronic money institution, including the fiat and electronic money used by customers to purchase crypto assets, and should not be described as a MiCA custodial enforcement action.

a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen commented on the online programming platform Replit and its CEO Amjad Masad's proposed concept of Agent Habitat, believing that more companies will become autonomous driving companies as a result. He stated that the keyword pointed out by Masad is chaos, and quoted his viewpoint that most agents today operate in chat windows, personal accounts, and one-off scripts, holding credentials and data given to them by others, but no one decides what they can access, nor can anyone see what they have done.Andreessen noted that disruptive technologies like personal computers, spreadsheets, and email entered the workplace in a bottom-up chaotic manner, and only later did they require habitats to moderately constrain that chaos. He cited examples such as early employees bringing personal computers into the office, spreadsheets enabling non-programmers to create business models and forecasts, but also introducing hard-to-audit formula errors; email bypassed the information flow controlled by the mailroom in the past. He believes this kind of chaos indicates that employees are claiming tools that can bring alignment and significant productivity improvements.Andreessen also stated that code is the ultimate product of alignment, and expanding the range of code contributors will bring chaos, thus requiring a free-range style of agent habitat rather than cages, but it cannot be completely laissez-faire. He mentioned that an employee from Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing completed a development process originally planned to take 6 people 6 months in just one week. He indicated that for companies to become autonomous driving companies, they must achieve alignment, and in the future, the degree of alignment may be measured by the richness of the agent habitat; Replit and its clients have already understood this, while most companies have not yet grasped it.

Binance founder CZ recently accepted an interview with Japanese business media PIVOT, discussing his decision to voluntarily go to the United States to plead guilty and pay a hefty fine. He emphasized that this was because he did not want to be a fugitive or evade issues. CZ stated that Binance was only involved in registration-related violations, with no fraud and no victims, and that users have always been well protected. Serving time was an unpleasant experience and a lesson.CZ also mentioned that recently, American banks have committed more serious violations but were only fined $1.2 billion and were not prosecuted. He stated that the world is inherently unfair, but he is no longer entangled in it and wants to focus on moving forward, learning from experiences to do more positive things.

According to PR Newswire, the blockchain asset management firm CMCC Global announced the tokenization of its Crest Fund (Crest) and Liberty Bitcoin Accumulation Fund (LBAF), calling them the first tokenized master fund products issued under El Salvador's digital asset legal framework.The two funds will be issued using Tether's Hadron tokenization platform and will raise funds from qualified investors through the regulated Bitfinex Securities platform, with the subscription period ending on October 30, 2026. Both funds are multi-manager quantitative hedge funds that invest in market-neutral strategies in the digital asset market, including funding rates, cross-exchange and volatility arbitrage, market making, and DeFi strategies. Among them, Crest is denominated in USD, targeting returns above U.S. Treasury yields; LBAF is denominated in Bitcoin, targeting a net annualized return of 8% to 12%.BTCS S.A., a digital asset treasury company listed in Poland and Frankfurt, has agreed to act as a cornerstone investor and plans to allocate a three-digit number of Bitcoins to LBAF, with the specific amount not yet disclosed. The token issuance price is set at $10 per CREST and 0.0001 BTC per LBAF, with a minimum subscription of one token; eligible holders can also trade on the secondary market through Bitfinex Securities around the clock.

According to Bloomberg, the Central Bank of Ireland has fined Coinbase's Irish subsidiary €3.25 million (approximately $3.6 million) due to deficiencies in its outsourcing governance framework and inadequate customer fund protection measures.Regulators pointed out that the company relied too heavily on the U.S. Coinbase Group to execute customer fund protection processes, and design flaws in the system along with insufficient control testing led to a long-term shortfall in the designated customer fund protection accounts.A Coinbase spokesperson stated that the relevant issues mainly occurred during the U.S. banking crisis in 2023, when the company directed customers to deposit funds into other bank accounts of Coinbase to mitigate potential losses from bank failures. However, this practice resulted in the mixing of customer funds with those held by other entities of Coinbase, which did not comply with regulatory requirements.Last year, the Central Bank of Ireland also fined Coinbase Europe €21.5 million for violating anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing transaction monitoring obligations (which included a 30% settlement discount).

A court in New Mexico, USA, ordered Meta Platforms to pay a civil fine of $25 billion. The jury found that Meta made misleading statements regarding user privacy, data processing, and hate speech moderation, violating state consumer protection laws over 43 million times. This judgment amount is one of the highest fine judgments in the history of the U.S. judiciary.

Infineon and NVIDIA announced a collaboration on power conversion for data centers.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex posted on X: Since mid-September, Bitcoin has been operating in the upper half of the Keltner Channel on Bitfinex's daily chart.Bitfinex stated that about two weeks ago, Bitcoin fell below the flattening middle line. If the price returns to the upper half of the channel and the middle line turns upward again, it may indicate a recovery of bullish momentum.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bitfinex stated on X that even though the ETF is in a sell state, new BTC buyers have still accumulated about 570,000 BTC since the end of July.Bitfinex indicated that the average cost for these buyers is approximately $75,000, and this cost has been maintained during each pullback since August.

On October 15, 2026, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied the motion to revoke the $5 million settlement agreement reached between the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), with the fines paid and permanent injunctions remaining in effect. Previously, the CFTC had stated that the original lawsuit should not have been filed. The controversy stemmed from Gemini's involvement in proposed Bitcoin futures contracts.The CFTC filed the lawsuit in June 2022, accusing it of misleading regulators regarding trading safeguards, customer financing, special rate arrangements, and activities that could affect contract pricing; the parties settled in January 2025, with Gemini neither admitting nor denying the related allegations. In May 2026, after an internal review, the CFTC jointly filed a motion with Gemini to revoke the settlement, citing issues with whistleblower credibility, evidence, and enforcement practices. The judge found that the relevant circumstances existed prior to the settlement, and the change in enforcement focus was insufficient to revoke a binding court order; the CFTC still retains enforcement discretion.