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During a live AMA interview hosted by CoinMarketCap, Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han discussed the development direction of digital finance, the product positioning of Gate Money, and the accelerated integration of digital assets with traditional finance.Dr. Han stated, "The future of digital finance lies not only in providing more asset choices but also in connecting assets, funds, and payments, allowing users to manage assets, transfer funds, and meet daily payment needs more conveniently within one ecosystem." Upholding the core concept of "One Gate, Everything Money," Gate Money integrates services such as digital assets, fiat currency, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts, payments, and asset management into a single account, covering scenarios like asset holding, receiving payments, transferring, exchanging, paying, and earning. Users in eligible regions can also open an e-banking account with the same name and use the Gate Card for online and offline consumption with fiat or digital assets, further bridging asset allocation and daily payment scenarios.Regarding the accelerated integration of digital assets and traditional finance, Dr. Han also explored the roles of stablecoins and asset tokenization in cross-border capital flow, on-chain settlement, and financial service innovation. As user demands extend from single transactions to investment management, fund transfers, and daily consumption scenarios, Gate will continue to expand the asset categories, payment methods, and service capabilities of Gate Money, enriching the application of digital assets in diverse financial scenarios and providing users with a more integrated financial service experience.

After briefly publishing the rumor-refuting content "Cheung Kong Responds to Li Ka-shing's Death: Absolutely Not True," mainstream Chinese financial media outlets including The Paper and Jinshi Data collectively deleted the news, with the deletion occurring on October 15.Currently, Caixin still retains this report, but its source is also The Paper.

According to DefiLlama data, Papertrade's revenue in the past 7 days reached 36.31 million USD, ranking third in total protocol revenue, only behind Tether and Circle, and higher than Pump.fun's 16.06 million USD and Hyperliquid's 14.56 million USD.

The stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace announced a joint initiative with multiple industry partners, including OSL, AllScale, Stable, Hetu, Cregis, WIDTH, KEM, and KTX, to launch the white paper titled Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure: From On-Chain Settlement to Real-World Payments. As stablecoins evolve from crypto-native financial instruments into global financial infrastructure, stablecoin payment activity is also growing rapidly. In Q1 2026, stablecoin transaction volume exceeded $28 trillion, while stablecoin B2B payments reached $226 billion in 2025, representing a 733% year-over-year increase. However, as stablecoin payments expand into real-world commercial use cases, the industry still lacks a systematic framework for defining the capabilities covered by stablecoin payment infrastructure and how on-chain assets can be connected with real-world commerce. The white paper will focus on this gap, covering key topics such as stablecoin payment infrastructure, end-to-end costs, compliance and risk management, and enterprise-scale adoption. Drawing on industry data, practical experience, and real-world cases, it will further explore the development path of stablecoin payment infrastructure. The full white paper is expected to be officially released within the next 1-2 months.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain trader has accumulated a loss of 637,000 USD in Papertrade, with a cumulative nominal trading volume of 2.84 billion USD. Their trading losses amount to 1.71 million USD, and they have received 136 million PAPER tokens.In addition, the trader earned a reward of 1.07 million USD in USDC through staking, of which 943,000 USD has been claimed, and 130,000 USD remains unclaimed. In total, their net loss is 637,000 USD.

Trader Maji (Huang Licheng) posted on X to comment on the perpetual contract protocol Papertrade. He stated that Papertrade is profitable, there are no useless points, users can immediately receive PAPER tokens, and by staking, they can earn fees. There is currently no reason to use any other perpetual contract protocol.

According to DefiLlama data, Papertrade's revenue in the last 24 hours has risen to 4.02 million USD, currently ranking third in total protocol revenue, above Pump's 2.11 million USD and Hyperliquid's 1.7 million USD.

Grayscale's Research Director Zach Pandl stated in his column The Stack on October 8 that the rising demand for AI is due to decreasing usage costs and technology's ability to perform tasks more autonomously, thereby increasing the demand for computing power and the physical infrastructure that supports AI. Lower costs can unleash more AI activities, and the low-cost competition of open-source weight models is driving down token prices, making cheaper intelligence economically viable for more applications and automated workflows.The article cites that Anthropic's latest Sonnet model claims to reduce the cost of each task by up to 30%; OpenAI's always-on agent dots, launched on September 29, can work towards user goals around the clock, potentially significantly increasing the demand for computing power. Pandl compares that chatbots primarily answer questions, while agents execute multi-step processes to achieve goals, with tasks like preparing for client meetings potentially consuming 5 to 50 times the tokens of a single chat interaction, and always-on agents may extend processing beyond a single conversation.Pandl cites Goldman Sachs' prediction that by 2030, token consumption could increase 24 times, primarily driven by agents; even with improved efficiency, if usage grows faster, the total demand for computing power may still rise. He points out that digital activities still rely on physical infrastructure that requires time to deliver, such as electricity, data centers, and GPUs, and cheaper AI can coexist with tight computing power supply, mentioning that CoreWeave recently signed new contracts at higher computing power prices. His conclusion is that cheaper intelligence and stronger agents may expand use cases and usage enough to offset efficiency gains, thereby supporting the demand for scarce computing power and benefiting its owners.

Papertrade's official response to the allegations of price manipulation and the existence of obvious loopholes in the protocol states: It has never been possible for small orders to have the same priority as large orders. If this were done, the front end would suffer from congestion due to junk trading, and the consequences would be much worse than the existing queuing mechanism.Under these constraints, we have designed the fair launch to be as inclusive as possible.Last night, the attempts to manipulate BTC/ETH on Hyperliquid BBO were not due to flaws in the mechanism that took six months to design. These situations had already been considered; it was only because the position limits were set very loosely in the early stages to cope with congestion that such occurrences were possible. If position limits were set during peak demand for launching, it would only exacerbate the slow experience, and the queuing mechanism itself, due to the uncertainty of opening/closing confirmation times, naturally provides protection against manipulation.As congestion eases, we have begun to tighten position limits on-chain and at the relay level. In such a system, manipulation attacks are always possible— the key is whether the attempt is economically viable. The official goal is to set parameters to a point where it is almost never profitable; even if successful, the tail risk is extremely high, and the expected value is negative.

Crypto trader Rune stated on platform X that the official documentation of PaperTrade has disclosed a "vulnerability" risk in the pricing mechanism at the protocol level. According to the screenshots of the displayed documentation, attackers can manipulate prices using the Best Bid and Offer (BBO) from the Hyperliquid order book. This risk involves unresolved price manipulation pathways, contract economic mechanisms, risk exposure control, as well as operational protective measures and permission management mechanisms.In addition, Rune also forwarded a tweet from community user boblob, which revealed that two wallets are suspected of actively exploiting "attacks" on the PaperTrade platform, causing a slight fluctuation of about 10-20 basis points in the ETH price on the Hyperliquid platform through trades totaling approximately 20 million dollars. Boblob further added that there are obvious issues with the current PaperTrade protocol that need to be fixed as soon as possible, or it may affect the long-term sustainability of the protocol.

Elon Musk stated that although he currently "doesn't know how to manufacture microchips," he believes his company may find better manufacturing methods. He pointed out that during visits to competitors' facilities, he did not see much custom equipment, while his company has extensive experience in manufacturing custom equipment and is capable of improving the manufacturing process.

According to official website data, since the launch of the synthetic perpetual protocol Papertrade based on HyperEVM at 22:00 Beijing time yesterday, the platform has accumulated a nominal trading volume of over 57.3 billion USD, with open contract positions reaching 3.322 billion USD, and the total margin amount corresponding to all existing positions is 20.29 million USD.Papertrade is a fully on-chain synthetic perpetual trading platform deployed on HyperEVM, with price readings from the Hyperliquid order book BBO mid-price. Users interact directly with the protocol's liquidity providers as counterparties, rather than through traditional order book matching. The protocol emphasizes high leverage, zero slippage, and no funding rates. The native token PAPER has an initial supply of zero, with no pre-mining, team, or VC shares; the only source of minting is user losses or liquidations. Initially, the token cannot be freely transferred and is primarily used for staking.

According to official website information, the fully on-chain synthetic perpetual trading platform Papertrade deployed on HyperEVM went live for 1 hour, with a cumulative nominal trading volume exceeding 80 billion USD. Data shows that the cumulative trading losses of platform users reached 4.73 million USD.According to official documentation, the issuance model of the Papertrade token PAPER is such that for every 1 USD lost by platform users, the protocol mints a certain amount of PAPER according to a curve. When the LP balance is below 2 million USD, the minting ratio is fixed at 100 PAPER for every 1 USD lost; currently, due to the LP scale exceeding 2 million USD, PAPER emissions have entered a decay mode.Papertrade reads prices from the Hyperliquid order book BBO mid-price, with users directly trading against the protocol LP as the counterparty, rather than through traditional order book matching. The protocol supports high leverage, zero slippage, and no funding rates.

According to official information, the synthetic perpetual protocol Papertrade based on HyperEVM has officially launched. Its pre-deposit has been closed, with 11,465 addresses depositing 138 million dollars.Papertrade is a fully on-chain synthetic perpetual trading platform deployed on HyperEVM, with prices sourced from the Hyperliquid order book BBO mid-price. Users interact directly with the protocol's LP as counterparties, without using traditional order book matching, focusing on high leverage, zero slippage, and no funding rates. The native token PAPER has an initial supply of zero, with no pre-mining, team, or VC shares; the only minting source is user losses or liquidations. At the initial launch, PAPER cannot be freely transferred and is primarily used for staking.

HyperEVM perpetual contract exchange Papertrade is scheduled to open trading at 10 AM Eastern Time on October 10. According to DefiLlama data, it has accumulated approximately $85.3 million in deposits before its launch. The platform supports up to 1000x leverage, and traders do not match with counterparties but trade directly with the protocol's own liquidity pool. Papertrade stated in the announcement that website trading will start after the HyperEVM upgrade is completed, and deposits will be paused at 9:45 AM to prioritize trading; users need to deposit in advance to participate in the launch.The contracts on Papertrade use the midpoint of Hyperliquid's optimal buy and sell prices as the opening and closing price, with positions being synthetic trades against its liquidity pool, and there are no corresponding perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid. This design eliminates funding rates and reduces profits from closing positions through asymmetric impact discounts instead of charging fees based on position size. When the liquidity pool cannot cover profitable trades, unpaid profits will convert to queued debt, filled by subsequent traders' losses. Its PAPER token grants losing traders the right to claim related earnings from the liquidity pool, with an initial supply of zero, minted from realized losses, with no team or venture capital shares.In the initial phase of the launch, Papertrade will only open trading through the frontend and approved trading relays, and direct access to public contracts will not be supported. Platform administrators can pause new positions, freeze the market, and adjust fee parameters, with a 7-day time lock for contract upgrades. Initially, the PAPER token will only support staking and unstaking, and wallet-to-wallet transfers will not be supported;