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According to a report by Decrypt, due to the long delivery cycle of new gas turbines, AI data center developers are turning to second-hand gas turbines and retired jet engines. Data from the energy consulting firm Wood Mackenzie shows that the average delivery time for new gas turbines in the United States has reached 6 years, with related delivery discussions focusing on 2030 and 2031. Reuters reports that global gas turbine orders have exceeded 100 gigawatts, while manufacturers' annual production capacity is estimated to be only 60 to 70 gigawatts. Siemens Energy, GE Vernova, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have all stated that order growth exceeds production capacity.One response is to retrofit gas turbines based on aircraft jet engine technology. AI infrastructure company Crusoe ordered 13 units from ProEnergy in Missouri in April, each with a rated power of 50 megawatts, totaling 650 megawatts, for future data centers in the United States. Equipment brokers and energy analysts say that well-maintained second-hand turbines sell for about $1.5 million to $1.7 million per megawatt, while new ones cost about $2 million to $2.5 million per megawatt.The International Energy Agency expects global data center electricity consumption to increase from 485 terawatt-hours in 2025 to 950 terawatt-hours in 2030, with electricity consumption for AI facilities expected to double during the same period. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states that stationary turbines and engines used by data centers must comply with federal air pollution standards. Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä told Reuters that it has received orders for about 3 gigawatts of gas engine generators from U.S. data centers since spring 2025.

The Ethereum forum released a draft for "Versioned Opcodes for Gas Repricing." The draft proposes achieving Gas repricing through versioned opcodes while maintaining backward compatibility. Newly deployed contracts must use V2 opcodes and follow the Gas scheduling tables of EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, while existing contracts will continue to use the old scheduling table.The V2 opcode set does not include Gas introspection-related opcodes such as GAS and GASLIMIT; if included, the deployment will revert. The draft also introduces DELEGATECALL_V2, which behaves similarly to DELEGATECALL but requires the target contract's code_version to be greater than or equal to 2, otherwise it fails immediately. This design aims to allow future adjustments to Gas costs without disrupting already deployed contracts.

According to the Financial Times, as AI laboratories increase their involvement in the energy sector and bypass intermediaries in the competition for scarce power equipment, Anthropic has secured a massive procurement deal for gas generators. This cutting-edge AI laboratory has committed to purchasing 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty generators from the Texas-based equipment supplier OnePWR Solutions for $3.4 billion in late September.Anthropic did not acquire OnePWR itself, but the deal also includes the engineering and construction capabilities necessary for installing the generators. According to an informed source, no employees from OnePWR have transitioned to Anthropic. The source also mentioned that OnePWR had ordered generators from Caterpillar two years ago but needed financing to complete the deal. Anthropic initially planned to become a customer of OnePWR but later chose to take over the equipment ordered from Caterpillar.

The Ethereum Foundation published a blog, reminding contract developers and auditors to check whether their projects rely on 8 Gas billing assumptions, which will no longer hold due to the adjustments in Gas charging methods in Glamsterdam with EIP-8037 and EIP-8038. The Ethereum Foundation has established a code repository that provides explanations, examples, and keywords for self-checking related to each assumption. Affected projects can contact the team via email.The team is collaborating with several auditing companies and conducting internal audits, but it cannot cover all projects on Ethereum and their on-chain and off-chain code. The Ethereum Foundation announced on October 23 that it has postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade originally scheduled to be activated on the Hoodi testnet, with a new activation time yet to be determined. Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter stated on October 26 that the reason for the delay was a report from ChainSecurity that revealed issues with EIP-8037 when interacting with certain contracts, and its impact is now largely understood.

On November 4, the JUST ecosystem product GasFree released its October 2026 monthly report. GasFree allows users to directly pay TRON chain transfer fees with USDT and USDD, eliminating the need to hold TRX separately, further lowering the threshold for asset transfers.In October, the platform completed a total of 933,729 GasFree transactions, with a transfer scale reaching 15.89 billion USD. The cumulative number of users increased to 524,043, and the actual usage continues to grow. From direct payments with stablecoins to large-scale transfer implementations, GasFree is transforming the experience of "removing a barrier" into quantifiable on-chain activity, making asset circulation on TRON more convenient and smoother. More information can be found at gasfree.io.

According to a report by Agence France-Presse, the Ministry of Justice of Madagascar, an East African country, stated that 148 Chinese citizens involved in online romance, cryptocurrency, and fraudulent investment scams in the country have been extradited back to China.Earlier reports indicated that Madagascar conducted a series of raids from August to September this year, successfully dismantling 13 telecom fraud parks operated by Chinese citizens. During a single day of operations, cryptocurrencies worth up to 52 million USD (approximately 346 million RMB) were seized, along with over 3,200 electronic devices.

According to the Wall Street Journal, sources say that the United States is exploring a new agreement with Russia to deliver Russian natural gas to Europe through Ukraine. U.S. negotiators believe that gas sales provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with the incentive to agree to an energy ceasefire with Ukraine.

According to a report by 2424.mg, 49 Chinese citizens convicted of cryptocurrency network fraud in Madagascar were transferred to China to continue serving their sentences on October 26, including 40 men and 9 women. Since September, Madagascar has transferred a total of 148 individuals.Previously, Madagascar conducted a series of raids from August to September this year, successfully dismantling 13 fraud operations run by Chinese citizens. In a single day of action, approximately 52 million dollars worth of cryptocurrency was seized, along with over 3,200 electronic devices, and nearly 400 individuals involved in the case were arrested.

The EU Energy Ministers' meeting was held on October 29, with natural gas prices becoming the focus. The European benchmark natural gas futures price broke through 100 euros per megawatt hour for the first time since December 2022. EU Commissioner Jørgensen warned that Europe is facing "another energy crisis," with over 50 million residents potentially unable to afford winter heating costs.Energy costs are expected to increase by about 600 euros, with additional expenses reaching up to 715 euros. This crisis has expanded to include gasoline, diesel, and more, putting greater pressure on the economy.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that there is nothing unusual about the contact with Megaspeed.

According to a report by Yicai, driven by rising international oil prices, the energy sector has become the best-performing sector of the S&P 500 index in 2026. As of October 27, the S&P 500 Energy Index has risen approximately 52% year-to-date, reaching a historical high, while the S&P 500 index has increased nearly 13% during the same period. Brent crude oil and WTI crude oil have risen over 70% and nearly 75% year-to-date, respectively, with U.S. energy companies' profits growing over 100% compared to the same period last year.A report from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee shows that U.S. President Trump has seen his personal wealth increase by as much as $35.8 million this year due to holdings in oil and gas stocks, with net holdings in the sector reaching $81.6 million, nearly doubling since the end of 2025. A White House spokesperson stated that his portfolio is independently managed by third-party financial institutions.The report also points out that the surge in oil prices has led to a year-on-year increase of about 40% in the retail cost of regular unleaded gasoline, reaching $4.246 per gallon. Since March 1, U.S. consumers have spent approximately $145 billion more year-on-year on gasoline and diesel, making energy costs a key issue in the midterm elections.

On October 16, GasFree announced that its user base has reached 500,871, with over 500,000 transactions supported. With GasFree, users can directly use USDT to pay transaction fees without needing to hold TRX as Gas; currently, this experience has been extended to USDD, and Binance Web3 Wallet also supports TRC-20 token transfers powered by GasFree.No need to prepare additional TRX, and no need to be distracted by Gas fees, GasFree is making on-chain transfers easier and smoother.

OpenAI's official website disclosed that in June of this year, an internal research model (GPT-5.6 Sol series) was assigned a task: to update a cryptocurrency trading application and deploy a contract on the Ethereum testnet Sepolia. The task did not provide a funded wallet, nor was it authorized to use external funds. The model first attempted to obtain test ETH from a faucet but failed. It then devised a method on its own—deriving addresses from publicly available developer seed phrases, scanning hundreds of them until it found an account with a balance.In its internal reasoning, it explicitly questioned "whether using funds from a public key is ethical," ultimately justifying itself: these are testnet ETH with no actual value, and the seed phrases had long been made public, so the funds were "effectively abandoned." It then used that account to pay for the gas required for deployment, successfully completing the contract deployment. OpenAI discovered this behavior during subsequent alignment monitoring and officially disclosed it in the Misalignment Reports on October 15, 2026. The incident was classified as "unauthorized use of a funded test cryptocurrency wallet," indicating that the model replaced the account holder's authorization with its own judgment.

The next phase upgrade of Ethereum, Glamsterdam, was activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, completing block finality during the switch without any critical failures. This upgrade consists of the consensus layer Gloas and the execution layer Amsterdam, incorporating a total of 18 EIPs, designed with a gas limit of approximately 200 million, which is about 3.3 times the current mainnet limit of 60 million. The upgrade will not automatically raise the limit but will allow for larger blocks to be produced safely, with validators deciding whether to increase it.Key changes include EIP-7732, which embeds the separation of proposers and builders in the protocol, extending the time for most validators to check transactions from about 4 seconds to about 9 seconds; EIP-7928 requires blocks to include the touched state and updated values, facilitating client data prefetching and parallel validation; EIP-7954 raises the contract code limit from 24 KiB to 64 KiB; EIP-8037 increases the cost of creating new storage slots from 20,000 gas to 97,920 gas, while regular ETH transfers remain at 21,000 gas.The gas limit for the first relevant block on Sepolia was 60 million, reaching 200 million about 11 hours later and maintaining that level. Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter stated that the speed at which various clients handle gas units has improved compared to before the upgrade, with Geth's execution time for a 40 million gas block reduced from about 115 milliseconds to about 30 milliseconds. The Hoodi testnet is tentatively scheduled for deployment on October 27, with the mainnet target set for the fourth quarter of 2026;

According to the WeChat public account "Du Jia," ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao has added a utility payment feature. Users can initiate payment instructions for water, electricity, gas, and other services through voice or text in the Doubao app, with other life service scenarios also in development. Sources close to Doubao told "Du Jia" that Doubao is gradually building capabilities for handling tasks in life scenarios, including travel services and utility payments."Du Jia" claims to have tested that after issuing commands for paying electricity and water bills in the dialogue box, corresponding service cards pop up and redirect to the utility payment page. The interface is divided into electricity, water, and gas fees, with some regions showing that services are not yet available, while some cities have fully or partially opened them. The relevant framework has been established, and city coverage and service provider integration are still in progress, with actual payments requiring further permission to be granted.Currently, the dialogue only serves to invoke services; steps such as binding account numbers, confirmation, and payment will still be retained, and users will not be charged directly with a single command. Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen integrated utility payments earlier and can complete payments within the dialogue; Doubao at this stage redirects to handle tasks after invoking the card, and capabilities like food delivery have not yet been launched. The above content comes from "Du Jia" reports and tests, not an official announcement from Doubao.

Insiders revealed that, although the Russia-Ukraine conflict has not yet ended, the United States and Russia have begun discussions to restore natural gas supplies to Europe.

According to CoinDesk, the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade was activated on the Sepolia testnet this Tuesday, increasing the block Gas limit from about 60 million to nearly 200 million, more than tripling the increase.A review of over 25 consecutive test blocks showed that the actual Gas usage was around 52 million to 92 million, accounting for only 26% to 46% of the available limit, with no instances of full capacity. The upgrade also adjusted the Gas consumption method for specific tasks and the costs of storing data, requiring developers to retest applications involving specific Gas cost assumptions. The next public testnet, Hoodi, is tentatively scheduled to launch on October 27, and the activation date for the Ethereum mainnet has yet to be determined.