ZCode announces new compensation over the code upload incident: paid users will receive 8 reset cards each, while all members will get an additional 100 million tokens.

Insight Beating AI News Flash: Anthropic’s newly released Claude Haiku 5.5 is exerting intense competitive pressure—akin to a "kill line"—on Chinese domestic low-cost large language models (LLMs). On October 8, Hong Kong-listed LLM firms saw broad declines: MiniMax fell over 9%, Zhipu AI dropped more than 6%, while the Hang Seng Tech Index fell roughly 1% in the same period. Claude Haiku 5.5’s base API pricing is $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens. By comparison, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash charges $0.3 and $1.2 per million input/output tokens during peak hours, sliding to $0.15 and $0.6 during off-peak periods. Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.3 Flash has standard pricing of $0.15 and $0.5 per million input and output tokens respectively. Claude Haiku 5.5 already holds clear unit price competitiveness when input tokens do not exceed 100,000. Artificial Analysis awarded Claude Haiku 5.5 a composite intelligence score of 43, outperforming GLM-5.3 Flash (42), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (39), and Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Flash (38). In the Terminal-Bench 4.0 programming benchmark, Claude Haiku 5.5 and GLM-5.3 Flash tied at 33%, ahead of DeepSeek (27%) and MiMo (23%). However, Claude Haiku 5.5’s strengths are primarily in its base pricing and performance under maximum inference load. It has higher token consumption, and long context inputs trigger a fivefold pricing surcharge.

According to Bitget market data, Hong Kong-listed artificial intelligence concept stocks fell broadly, with MINIMAX down over 10%, Zhipu down more than 6%, Xunce down nearly 5%, and Baidu and Meituan seeing minor declines.

Former Coinbase employee Edward Lee announced in a post that he has joined Polymarket as product lead, overseeing product development for Polymarket US and its international on-chain trading platform. Lee stated he has spent the past decade working on crypto industry infrastructure, and will now shift focus to building trading markets operating on top of these infrastructures, with the goal of advancing a vision of "everything tradable". He added that prediction markets will serve as the starting point for this vision, and invited developers, traders, and partners from regulated markets and DeFi sectors to reach out to him. According to his profile, Lee has previously built and operated trading platforms at Coinbase, Circle, Poloniex, and LINE.

According to HTX market data, Solana ecosystem tokens are seeing broad gains, with the following 24-hour performance: ? MET surged over 51%, pushing its market cap to $264 million; ? W rose over 25%, bringing its market cap to $116 million; ? JUP climbed over 14%, reaching a market cap of $1.237 billion; ? RAY gained over 10%, hitting a market cap of $1.365 billion; ? BOME rose over 8%, with its market cap now at $72 million; ? JTO climbed over 8%, reaching a market cap of $545 million.

News Flash from Dongcha Beating AI: Manus’ parent company Butterfly Effect officially announced that it has recently completed a new financing round of more than $500 million. The round was led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with existing shareholders Tencent, Sequoia China, and ZhenFund also participating.

According to monitoring by AI Yi, whale address 0xc3e…800dd shorted 400 BTC with 40x leverage in the early hours of today, with a notional value of roughly $33.13 million. The position was opened at $83,171.7, has a liquidation price of $86,042.6, and is currently holding an unrealized profit of approximately $134,000.