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According to the official announcement, Gate has released the latest reserve report. As of October 18, 2026, the total reserve size of the platform has risen to $8.688 billion, an increase of 5.7% compared to the previous period; the overall reserve coverage rate has reached 118.49%, consistently above the industry safety benchmark of 100%. This report covers 500 cryptocurrencies, demonstrating Gate's ample excess reserves, providing solid support for the platform to cope with market fluctuations, maintain liquidity, and buffer risks.In terms of core asset reserves, BTC user assets have grown to 21,156 coins, with the platform's reserve amount increasing to 25,727 coins, and the reserve coverage rate rising from 120.32% to 121.60%; ETH user assets have increased to 362,785 coins, with the platform's reserve amount growing to 449,042 coins, and the reserve coverage rate rising from 123.59% to 123.78%.Regarding stablecoins, the total user assets of USDT, USD1, GUSD, and USDC amount to approximately $1.497 billion, corresponding to a platform reserve of $1.746 billion, with a comprehensive reserve rate of 116.59%. Additionally, the reserve rates for major assets such as DOGE, GT, and SOL have reached 106.76%, 129.00%, and 102.51%, respectively, all exceeding the 100% safety line. From overall reserves to various core assets, Gate consistently maintains sufficient safety margins, providing robust protection for the safety of global user assets.

According to "Du Jia," Alibaba Cloud merged its original IQS information query service with CleverSee in mid-September to create a brand new AI-native search service product called CleverSee (Chinese name "Kai Xi"), providing integrated search and Q&A services for enterprise clients.CleverSee is positioned as an AI-native retrieval tool specifically designed to provide understandable high-quality information sources for large models and intelligent agents. Its core includes three sub-products: networked inquiry, vertical domain inquiry, and enterprise internal search, covering public internet information, semi-public information in vertical fields, and private data within enterprises, respectively. The networked inquiry supports intent recognition, multi-turn thinking, and searching while thinking, and can return answers with source citations as well as structured cards for weather, stock prices, etc.; the enterprise internal search is currently in a targeted experience testing phase.Previously, Tencent Cloud opened "Yuanbao Search" to the public on October 20, and ByteDance's Volcano Engine also launched Viking AI Search, accelerating the deployment of AI search infrastructure among domestic cloud vendors for enterprise applications.

According to The Defiant, Blockaid data shows that from January to August 2026, the 60 cryptocurrency attack incidents it tracked involved approximately $1.18 billion in funds, with victims recovering about $9.8 million, accounting for less than 1%.The report pointed out that all frozen or returned funds were achieved through on-chain governance or validator actions, and the blacklist mechanism of stablecoin issuers did not recover any funds in these 60 incidents.

U.S. online brokerage Webull, listed on NASDAQ, plans to open perpetual contract trading to eligible U.S. customers starting in November, with the first products including Bitcoin and other crypto assets, and aims to expand the scope by the end of the year.The related contracts will be listed on the Kalshi exchange, regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), with clearing handled by Kalshi's clearing agency. Webull users who have been approved for futures trading can trade through their existing futures accounts.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX will attempt to recover both the booster and the spacecraft simultaneously during the 15th test flight of Starship.

The Liquid Network officially announced the progress of the phased recovery, stating that the network recovery work has entered the final stage, focusing on strengthening security mechanisms, conducting independent audits, and gradually restoring the redeeming function of pegged assets.In terms of functional recovery, the network will first gradually open semi-automated BTC and LBTC exchange services, coordinating with participating exchange service providers to implement this service, which itself does not impose transaction volume limits at the protocol layer.In the next phase, the Liquid Network will restore the 1:1 Bitcoin reserve support for the network, and then gradually reopen the Federation redeeming function to authorized PAK key holders, but the full restoration of related functions still depends on the completion of remaining security checks and operational requirements.

According to Crypto.news, Beast Holdings, associated with YouTube creator MrBeast, has submitted two U.S. trademark applications for MRBEAST FINANCIAL and BEAST FINANCIAL, covering financial services such as cryptocurrency trading, payment processing, decentralized exchanges (DEX), online banking, consumer loans, credit and debit cards, and investment management.

According to a report by Bloomberg, when Founders Fund was considering investing in Polymarket in 2025, it was discovered that at that time the company had no revenue, and CEO Coplan had used company funds to pay for personal expenses such as private jets and apartment rent. Founders Fund required the company to improve its financial controls and repay the related amounts before making the investment.

The cryptocurrency market data agency Kaiko stated that one year after the largest liquidation event in the crypto market, the market has not fully recovered.Kaiko noted that in terms of Bitcoin, the open interest of Bitcoin perpetual contracts is still about 16% lower than pre-crash levels, while the spot depth in USD is down 27%. The decline in leverage is faster than the decline in liquidity, with leverage corresponding to each dollar of market depth being 20% lower than before October 10.

According to PR Newswire, Cboe Global Markets, the parent company of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), announced that Cboe has expanded the trading hours for certain U.S. stock individual stocks and exchange-traded fund (ETF) options.The newly added pre-market and after-hours trading periods for the relevant options are from 7:30 to 9:25 AM ET Monday to Friday for pre-market trading, and from 4:00 to 4:15 PM for after-hours trading. This covers popular individual stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Robinhood, Intel, as well as major ETFs like SPY, QQQ, and GLD, currently involving a total of 29 underlying assets.

CryptoQuant's latest analysis indicates that while Bitcoin has support, the recovery process is uneven. First, regarding exchange reserves, it has risen from about 2.67 million BTC at the beginning of October to about 2.68 million BTC, still far below January levels. Low reserves do not mean that supply is continuously shrinking; transfers may reflect custody changes, and the increase itself does not prove selling pressure. Secondly, the recovery of spot demand has been hindered, with 30-day spot demand once approaching zero before turning negative again. Perpetual contract demand is positive, supporting overall demand.Finally, the behavior of whales is diverging. Addresses holding 100 to 1,000 BTC have still net accumulated over the past 60 days, but this is below the peak at the end of September; the group holding 1,000 to 10,000 BTC has seen a net decrease approaching zero; and the group holding over 10,000 BTC is negative. Accumulation is not fully underway. CryptoQuant believes that conditions still exist to support Bitcoin's bottoming out. For a solid recovery to occur, sustained spot demand support is needed, buyers must be able to absorb the BTC flowing back to exchanges, and accumulation behavior should spread to more holding groups. Market expectations regarding the U.S. midterm elections and monetary policy must translate into actual buying behavior. The key is whether price increases can attract a growing and lasting group of buyers.

The decentralized perpetual contract exchange Deepsigma has launched a real-time simulation trading platform, covering 77 traditional financial markets, including U.S. stocks, stock indices, commodities, and U.S. Treasury yield rates. The platform is developed based on the Cypherium blockchain, driven by a team of alumni from Goldman Sachs, Citadel Securities, Google, and Uber, supporting long and short exposure trading of related assets.Deepsigma's perpetual contracts do not tokenize, custody, or physically deliver the underlying assets but instead track prices through external market data sources. The platform currently supports the S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite Index, Russell 2000 Index, Cboe Volatility Index, as well as contracts for crude oil, gold, silver, natural gas, and copper. The platform's risk engine employs multiple external price sources, mark prices, circuit breaker mechanisms, partial liquidation, and insurance funds, and uses a central limit order book and clearing layer to handle margin, collateral, and settlement.Deepsigma is also developing a decentralized identity framework based on zero-knowledge proofs and configuring off-chain AI analysis tools with no fund execution permissions; the underlying Cypherium utilizes a hybrid PoW and HotStuff Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus mechanism, holding 4 U.S. patents.

According to The Bitcoin Historian, Charles Schwab, which manages approximately $13 trillion in assets, has announced that all customers can now directly purchase Bitcoin within their accounts, involving over 40 million U.S. users.In April, Charles Schwab announced the launch of its spot crypto trading service Schwab Crypto, which will be rolled out in phases, supporting BTC and ETH trading, with a fee of 0.75% per transaction, provided by Paxos for sub-custody and trade execution. This service is currently not available to residents of New York and Louisiana.

Binance Wallet announces the launch of the DeFi API. This interface is based on its Web3 API infrastructure, allowing developers to integrate DeFi capabilities without connecting to each protocol individually, initially supporting 10 EVM chains including BSC, Ethereum, Base, and Robinhood Chain.The interface covers protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Uniswap, supporting the discovery of DeFi products, tracking positions, obtaining protocol insights, and building trades. It also allows for the creation of trades to add liquidity to supported bStocks liquidity pools. Solana support is coming soon.

According to data from the CoinGlass platform, Gate's stock perpetual contracts rank second across the network, with several popular stock derivatives, such as SPCX, SKHYNIX, SNDK, and SOXL, having positions that also rank second across the network, only behind Binance.Real-time data from the platform shows that Gate SPCX has a position of 144 million USD, accounting for 14.65% of the total market share; SKHYNIX has a position of 137 million USD, accounting for 15.38%; SNDK has a position of 150 million USD, accounting for 18.62%; and SOXL has a position of 143 million USD, accounting for 23.92%.

According to Gate quotes, the Japanese and South Korean stock markets opened higher today but the gains have slightly retreated.The South Korean KOSPI opened up 1.80% to 5653.99 points, currently reported at 5623.72 points, with an intraday increase of 1.25%; KOSDAQ opened up 1.49%. The memory chip sector continues to lead the gains, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both rising over 2%. The South Korean stock market saw a significant drop yesterday, triggering a circuit breaker, and today is experiencing a recovery rebound. The Japanese Nikkei 225 opened up 0.78% to 64925.29 points, briefly surging to 1% after opening, and is currently maintaining a high-level fluctuation.

Binance launched the Covered Call and Cash-Secured Put strategies on October 15.These two strategies allow users to sell options contracts while holding the required collateral to earn premium income. Users must provide the corresponding collateral, with Covered Call using stocks as collateral and Cash-Secured Put using cash as collateral.

According to reports from Strait News, in March 2025, Zheng Mouyi, Zou Moumou, and others exploited the weak regulation and difficulty of evidence collection in offline USDT over-the-counter trading to plan a "black eat black" robbery crime under the guise of virtual currency offline trading.The gang raised over 340,000 yuan and invited virtual currency merchants for offline transactions. During the transaction, after the merchant transferred over 40,000 USDT into the virtual wallet controlled by the gang, Zheng Mouyi sprayed the victim's eyes with chili water on the spot and, along with others, violently seized all the transaction funds. After the incident, six involved individuals divided the stolen money. The day after the incident, the public security authorities quickly arrested all involved individuals, recovering most of the stolen funds and returning them to the victim.The Jin'an District Prosecutor's Office legally prosecuted Zheng Mouyi, Zou Moumou, and four others for robbery. In 2026, the court heard the case and sentenced the five defendants to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years and seven months to ten years and four months for the crime of robbery.

According to a report by Vortexa, the U.S. maritime blockade has caused Iran's maritime crude oil exports to drop to zero since the second week of September, and they have not yet recovered as of October 5.Iran's liquefied petroleum gas exports decreased by 48% month-on-month, reaching the lowest level since 2023.Meanwhile, Russia's crude oil exports increased by 6% month-on-month in September to 3.79 million barrels per day, accounting for about 80% of the total high-risk crude oil exports from the three countries.