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Noel Walsh, head of Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation department, stated that the company will bear the electricity costs associated with the expansion of data centers, without relying on government subsidies or passing costs onto other electricity consumers. Microsoft plans to invest $117 billion this year in building AI and cloud service computing power.Microsoft is collaborating with Chevron and investment firm Engine No. 1 to advance the large data center and supporting power project Project Kilby in West Texas. The project was previously affected by a local data center approval suspension but is still scheduled to begin construction in 2028 and fully operate by 2031. Chevron stated that the project will create jobs and stabilize tax revenue for the local area; Microsoft indicated that data center construction must bring net benefits to the community where it is located, or it will be difficult to continue.

According to Glassnode data, as of November 9, the total supply of major stablecoins has decreased by approximately $14.2 billion over the past 30 days, marking the largest monthly decline since June 2022, surpassing the $9.5 billion drop that occurred when Bitcoin fell below $58,000 in July of this year. Glassnode indicates that the contraction in stablecoin supply means that holders are redeeming stablecoins for US dollars and withdrawing from the crypto market, leading to a reduction in liquidity available to drive market rallies.Among them, the largest stablecoin USDT is currently trading slightly below the $1 peg, which Glassnode attributes to investors continuously exiting the stablecoin market. CryptoQuant data shows that the demand for Bitcoin has decreased by 284,000 coins over 30 days, marking the largest decline since March 2025; the Coinbase Bitcoin premium index fell to -0.27% on October 29, the lowest level since November 2022, and as of Wednesday, it remains in negative territory, reflecting relatively weak demand and significant selling pressure in the U.S. market.

ZDNet Korea reported on November 12 that storage companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have decided to allocate additional supplies of enterprise-level solid-state drives (eSSD) that are currently being discussed with Chinese customers to U.S. customers. Major Chinese artificial intelligence companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent have decided to reduce the scale of eSSD orders to below expectations, and storage companies are aware of this situation. The report states that after the U.S. strengthened export controls on artificial intelligence to China, the supply of high-performance artificial intelligence semiconductors such as graphics processors and high-bandwidth memory has become difficult, leading to a decrease in the demand for accompanying storage.eSSD is a NAND-based storage module primarily used for data centers, serving as an auxiliary storage device for data preservation. Insiders indicate that the main reason for the order reduction among Chinese companies is the difficulty in supplying artificial intelligence semiconductors. The U.S. government has effectively prohibited companies like NVIDIA and AMD from exporting high-performance artificial intelligence semiconductors to China, and the accompanying high-bandwidth memory is also subject to controls. Previously, Chinese companies had circumvented these controls through overseas entities and product disassembly, but these alternative routes have gradually faced obstacles, causing delays in investment plans.Another insider stated that the adjustment of eSSD supply plans for China by storage companies is true, and the related supply volume plans are being shifted to U.S. cloud service providers. This person noted that the storage demand from U.S. data centers remains robust, and the supply shortage may continue into next year and the year after. Industry insiders say that the tight supply of NAND in global markets such as the U.S. is still ongoing, and the reduced demand in China will be taken up by U.S. data center companies; this adjustment will not have a significant impact on the overall demand for NAND and SSD.

Korean glass manufacturer JNTC will supply glass disks for HDDs to hard drive manufacturer Seagate, with plans to start production at its Vietnam factory in the first quarter of next year and expand supply starting in the second quarter. JNTC has completed the construction of the mass production line at its third factory in Viet Tri, Vietnam, which will be invested with approximately 55 billion Korean won starting from the end of 2024, transformed from a factory for wearable devices and automotive cover glass, with an annual production capacity currently estimated at 120 million to 170 million pieces.JNTC expects that the related business will start contributing revenue from the first quarter of next year, adding several hundred billion Korean won in sales each year, and plans to prioritize meeting Seagate's demand before expanding to customers like Western Digital and Toshiba by 2030. The article estimates that in the future, Seagate's procurement volume of glass disks will be approximately 60% from Japan's Hoya and 40% from JNTC. JNTC also plans to increase its annual production capacity to 400 million to 500 million pieces in the medium to long term.

Ornn Compute Price Index data shows that the hourly rental price of NVIDIA Blackwell chips has risen from $2.75 two months ago to $4.08, an increase of 48%. In recent months, the demand for AI agents performing autonomous tasks such as programming and real estate viewing appointments has grown, prompting companies to intensify their acquisition of computing power. The OpenAI API's token usage per minute has increased from 6 billion in October last year to 15 billion in late March this year.Anthropic began limiting user token usage during peak hours from 5 PM to 11 PM Pacific Time on weekdays in late March. CoreWeave raised service prices by over 20% at the end of last year and required smaller clients to sign service contracts of at least three years, up from a previous contract term of one year. OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar stated that due to insufficient computing power, the company is abandoning some projects.

PredictStreet has updated its official website to state that it uses USDC instead of USD1, claiming that the previous information is outdated. On-chain analysis has found no evidence that the platform trades using USD1; it actually uses USDC issued by Circle.An IHC spokesperson stated that the operator of PredictStreet is no longer a subsidiary of IHC. Approximately 64% of the USD1 circulation is held on Binance, while no other exchange holds more than 5%.

Glassnode posted on platform X that Bitcoin has fallen below the short-term holder cost price of $75,600, underperforming compared to U.S. stocks, and the funds that could drive its rise are continuously flowing out. Currently, about 35% of short-term holders are in profit, with sellers averaging small losses.In terms of capital, the total supply of stablecoins has decreased by $14.2 billion over the past 30 days, marking the fastest contraction since June 2022; the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has seen a net outflow of $1.6 billion over the past 20 trading days; excluding the impact of USDT falling below $1, the 30-day average premium on Coinbase has remained negative, with the discount being the deepest since February. On the macro front, the two-year U.S. Treasury yield is at 4.75%, which is 75 basis points higher than the current 4% rate of the Federal Reserve, indicating that the bond market expects further rate hikes, but it is far from the level of 244 basis points in June 2022.However, there are also positive signals, as the decline has cleared most of the long leverage near the price, with the largest concentration of liquidations located between $59,500 and $62,600; since the sell-off on November 5, buy orders within a 5% price range in the Binance and Coinbase spot order books have consistently outnumbered sell orders; wallets holding between 100 to 1,000 BTC and 1,000 to 10,000 BTC have started to accumulate over the past week.Glassnode stated that if it returns to $75,600, it will support the judgment of a trend reversal in August; if it continues to fall below $73,000, it may enter a longer period of consolidation; if it closes below the June low of $58,500, the trend reversal since August will be broken.

On November 10, 2026, an on-chain investigation reported that the Elysium issuance platform Ascend associated address transferred approximately $140,000 through two privacy pools into three new wallets, and purchased shortly after MONTRA went live. The tokens were sent to the same FOMO wallet, which holds 32,014,541 tokens, accounting for about 3.2% of the supply, and this wallet has no purchase records. MONTRA is the platform token of the Elysium issuance platform Montra, which went live at 00:36 UTC on that day. Ascend co-founder is CryptoTomYT.Route A deposited 40,000 USDC into the Privacy Cash on Solana on November 10, and withdrew an equivalent amount 47 seconds later, exchanging it for 530.57 HYPE, then purchased 6,846,772 tokens and transferred them out. Route B deposited 100,328.25 USDC into the Base privacy pool on November 9 and withdrew an equivalent amount within the same hour. Two new wallets from Route B purchased approximately 25.6 million tokens within about 5 minutes of going live, with launch fees up to 23.2%.The investigation stated that Route A's deposit wallet previously received 27.7 SOL from ethanhates.sol and transferred approximately $66,200 to an address claimed by CryptoTomYT. The first funds for Route B came from an Arkham labeled FOMO account as analyzationz. The remaining 10 new wallets that transferred funds within the same hour, combined with the aforementioned buyers, hold a total of 25.8% of the LAUNCHPAD supply.

According to the latest data from Glassnode, approximately 35.4% of the Bitcoin supply (7.12 million BTC) public keys are visible on-chain, which is part of what future quantum computers may attack.Among them, address reuse accounts for 25.8%, and exchanges account for 11.6%. The exposure ratio has continued to rise from 24.8% at the beginning of 2021, and the risk exposure under the threat of quantum computing is expanding. Glassnode points out that transferring these tokens to new addresses can eliminate this exposure risk.

The on-chain data analysis platform CryptoQuant stated that the contraction rate of USDT supply has exceeded the level after the FTX collapse. In the past 60 days, the market value of USDT has shrunk by 6.6 billion dollars, more than double the decline during the same period in December 2022.CryptoQuant also pointed out that in this round of the cryptocurrency market cycle, the growth of stablecoin scale has been an important source of funds driving the market upward, and now this liquidity support is gradually weakening.

The Industrial and Commercial Times reported on November 10 that the supply chain has recently indicated that NVIDIA intends to slow down chip orders. The report stated that NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang admitted to infidelity and apologized in a letter to employees on the 8th, U.S. time. The board has initiated an independent investigation to clarify whether it has been targeted by foreign intelligence activities. Foreign media disclosed that some companies authorized to handle the H200 are suspected of being shell companies, raising concerns that chips may be transshipped to mainland China through shell companies and third locations.The report indicated that stricter export reviews and the accumulation of H200 processors in Hong Kong have increased the risk of NVIDIA cutting orders, with upstream supply chain players such as TSMC and ASE being the first to bear the brunt. The supply chain revealed that there have also been rumors of NVIDIA cutting orders in wafer foundry recently, stating that this would benefit other chip manufacturers in obtaining more capacity, including AMD and cloud service providers' self-developed chips. ASIC manufacturers indicated that as long as TSMC can provide capacity, end customers will fully take on the orders. Industry sources pointed out that if NVIDIA releases capacity, companies like WorldChip, Creative, and MediaTek are expected to gain more capacity support.MediaTek estimates that the first AI accelerator aims for approximately $16 billion by 2027 and has already secured a second customer. WorldChip has also obtained a second ASIC order from a major American company and anticipates that revenue will gradually expand next year and the year after. Demand for AMD's data center business continues to exceed existing supply. AMD CEO Lisa Su stated in a recent earnings call that large cloud service providers are expanding EPYC deployments, with increased demand for AI accelerators and cabinets. The Instinct MI455X has been shipped in large quantities, and multiple cloud customers and computing power buyers have activated the first batch of Helios.

According to The Block, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, stated that after the Democratic Party won control of both the House and Senate, the LAPTOP token has destroyed 5.5% of its supply.Hunter Biden mentioned that this destruction triggered two of the thirty predictive conditions designed for the token. The total amount destroyed currently stands at 17.65%, but the token dropped 13% today, to $0.035.

The South Korean Minister of Industry stated that the current issues affecting NVIDIA will not impact South Korea's contracted GPU supply from the company.

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.

According to The Defiant, the total locked value of the decentralized finance protocol Sky has dropped by 15% within a week.During the same period, the circulating supply of the stablecoin USDS issued by Sky has decreased to 5.59 billion dollars. The Sky.money page shows that the savings interest rate set by governance is 3.8%.

HSBC Holdings stated that attacks on tankers or infrastructure leading to a daily disruption of 2 to 3 million barrels of oil supply will return the market to a state of shortage and put upward pressure on oil prices.

According to the 8-K filing submitted by the Nasdaq-listed HYPE Financial Company Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR), the company raised $911 million in the third quarter through a committed equity financing tool and purchased approximately 9.1 million HYPE for about $785 million. The HYPE holdings increased from 29.3 million shares on June 30 to 38.5 million shares on September 30; additionally, the company repurchased approximately 2.7 million shares of PURR stock for $17 million. Based on the approximately 238 million HYPE circulating supply disclosed by the company (as of October 29), its holdings account for about 16% of the HYPE circulating supply. As of the end of the quarter, the company held $254.6 million in cash and cash equivalents, with no debt.

According to GCSA monitoring, the Global Cybersecurity Alliance (GCSA) has released three independent technical investigation reports, disclosing several recent security risks related to digital assets. Attackers impersonated security@ku.com to lure users into downloading remote control programs. GCSA found that the relevant domain names had not previously configured DMARC; after notification, KuCoin has completed rectification and enabled DMARC isolation policies.After the original MCP toolkit referenced in Bitkub's official documentation was taken down, a third party re-registered the npm package name. The installation method without a fixed version and the risk of plaintext keys may lead to credential leakage; there is currently no actual evidence of theft, and Bitkub has not yet responded to the notification.The TranchePool treasury within the Avalanche ecosystem was attacked due to a cross-day settlement logic flaw, where attackers utilized flash loans and repeated withdrawals to transfer approximately 1.0134 million USDC within 202 seconds. This incident is categorized as a vulnerability in the upper application, and the underlying network was not affected. GCSA stated that it has reported the clues to the relevant platforms and published the original analysis and evidence for industry reference.

On the night of the U.S. midterm elections, the Silicon Valley podcast All-In held a live broadcast where several tech investors discussed the potential impact of the Democratic Party's victory on the AI industry. Host Chamath Palihapitiya stated that AI investment has become an important pillar of U.S. economic growth, and the construction of data centers heavily relies on power supply. If the Democrats restrict the construction of new data centers in places like Texas, the entire AI industry could be affected. Host Jason Calacanis suggested that the tech industry, which had previously actively supported Trump, should now proactively engage with the Democrats to collaborate on AI regulatory policies. He also believed that the tech community's repeated warnings about AI potentially leading to human extinction and massive unemployment have exacerbated public fear of AI.All-In regular guest and founder of Altimeter Capital, Brad Gerstner, believes that many Democratic winners simply hope to have more say in AI regulation and do not intend to completely halt AI. He estimates that the power capacity for new data centers in the U.S., originally planned for 2027, may see 10 to 15GW unable to be operational on time. He remains optimistic about the growth of AI model companies and stated that as an existing investor in Anthropic, even if data center construction is hindered, Altimeter still hopes to be one of the largest buyers at the time of Anthropic's IPO.

According to the Financial Times, sources say that Trump's diesel deal with Russia has encountered obstacles, and U.S. fuel supplies have fallen to a 20-year low.