Word is that Vietnam’s one-year fixed deposit rates have surged to 9.8% 🔥 Domestic banks’ one-year rates are only a little over 1%. Put 1 million away for a year, and the difference in interest on paper would be over 80,000. No wonder so many people are eyeing deposits in Vietnam. Could this be a way to get rich?
Do transactions always have to be initiated by people?
Recently, a certain viewpoint has been widely shared on X. It goes beyond the familiar ups and downs of crypto prices and short-term battles over candlestick charts, and takes a fresh look at crypto finance in the broader context of the AI wave. Researchers at traditional institutions and asset allocation professionals alike are discussing how our understanding of the crypto market has mostly focused on speculative trading between people. But the core use case for the next generation of crypto finance may be the exchange of value between machines. Before we get into this, let’s start with a simple question: What is money, really? Textbooks tell us that money is a medium of exchange. From ancient times to the present, every monetary system, bank account, and payment clearing network has been designed around people. People hold accounts, initiate transfers, verify identities, and manually approve transaction limits. This system has supported centuries of commercial activity and is highly mature, but it has an inherent weakness: it cannot efficiently serve automated, high-frequency, low-value machine transactions running 24/7.
🔥 The AI wave is surging! Samsung’s Q3 operating profit skyrockets 782%, surpasses 100 trillion won to set an all-time record Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, today released its preliminary results for the third quarter of 2026. Driven by strong demand for AI-related chips, several key financial metrics hit new all-time highs:
📊 Key highlights:
• Operating profit: 107.4 trillion won (approximately $80.17 billion), up 782% year over year and beating analysts’ expectations of 106.1 trillion won. This marks the first time Samsung’s quarterly operating profit has exceeded 100 trillion won, and its fourth consecutive quarter of record-high profits.
• Revenue: 195 trillion won, up 127% year over year (compared with 86.06 trillion won in the same period last year). • Main growth drivers: A sharp surge in prices for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and conventional DRAM/NAND. Analysts estimate Samsung’s HBM shipments jumped nearly 50% quarter over quarter in Q3.
⚠️ Industry signals and supply-demand dynamics:
• The memory supply-demand gap is expected to persist through 2027–2028: Demand from AI infrastructure is surging, while memory chip capacity remains severely constrained.
• Micron’s results are also soaring: Micron’s latest quarterly net profit surged more than tenfold year over year to $37.7 billion. The company said customers have already booked more than 75% of its 2027 capacity, with negotiations extending into 2028.
• Pressure on downstream supply chains: Rising memory prices are benefiting semiconductor divisions, but they are also driving up component costs for downstream products such as smartphones and consumer electronics, squeezing profit margins in related divisions.
💡 As AI infrastructure construction intensifies, memory chips have become one of the most critical “hard currencies” in the computing value chain. $MU
🔥 Binance’s Leading Lady Joins Two Tech Leaders for a Major Talk: All In on AI—the Era of Financial Inclusion Is Here!
$BNB Hello, everyone. Today is an important day: Binance’s leading lady is here to share her insights with everyone on Binance Square. I’m Fendou1688, and I’ve compiled and reconstructed the following content for everyone. I hope everyone will listen closely to tonight’s sharing from Binance’s leading lady, Jeff, and Jackson. This includes both Binance’s future direction and the opportunities that ordinary users like us can seize. Hello, everyone. I’m Xiao He, Binance’s familiar Chief Customer Service Representative. It’s been a long time since we last met. The last time I chatted with you face to face like this, If I remember correctly, it was that time in Hong Kong. I remember saying back then that Binance would become the financial infrastructure of the future. And throughout this process, we’ve seen AI arrive.