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According to Fortune, the New York startup Mural, founded by former Palantir engineers, has completed a $15 million financing round. The company aims to provide a unified international payment management platform for businesses, reducing the complexity of handling banks, payment service providers, and different regulatory requirements during cross-border transfers.

According to The Defiant, the cryptocurrency exchange MEXC announced that it will terminate services for users in Russia and Belarus. Affected customers will receive a separately set deadline to close positions and withdraw assets.MEXC stated that users who have not received the relevant notice can continue to use the exchange's services, but must comply with its terms.

Strive announced that its newly issued preferred stock SATS has raised $630 million through its initial public offering (IPO) and has been listed on Nasdaq. The raised funds will be used to purchase more Bitcoin and income-generating assets.The preferred stock has a fixed annual dividend rate of 15%, paid daily, with the first dividend scheduled to be distributed on November 9.

According to a report by Reuters, a U.S. judge dismissed a civil lawsuit for sexual abuse against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, which was filed by his sister.

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 CoinDesk, France has narrowly passed a cryptocurrency tax amendment, proposing to impose a 31.4% capital gains tax on transactions exchanging crypto assets for stablecoins starting from January 2027.However, the amendment still needs to be approved by the French Senate and go through the budget coordination process before it can officially become law.

According to Cointelegraph, the RWA platform Tx has launched the dollar stablecoin USTX for its wallet and the planned tokenized stock market.Users can mint USTX using USDC from 8 blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, and Base, and can redeem it for USDC.

The weekly change in ADP employment in the United States for the week ending October 3 was an increase of 18,500 people, compared to the previous value of 24,750 people.

According to the official announcement, Binance will update the full margin borrowing and withdrawal collateral rates for POL, SHIB, XLM, COW, NEXO, RVN, and SAND on October 23, 2026, at 06:00 (UTC). The update is expected to be completed within 30 minutes.

The complete trailer for Netflix's upcoming FTX-themed series "The Altruists" was released this week, and former FTX Chief Operating Officer Constance Wang criticized the trailer in a post on X, stating that watching it made her "physically want to vomit." She mentioned that she had served as COO since before FTX was named and viewed the company as her child. She was also the last person to leave the Bahamas after Sam Bankman-Fried was extradited and lost all her assets in FTX, thus she has no intention of defending those responsible for all of this.Wang pointed out that the media is eager to tell the story of FTX's collapse due to the team's partying in the Bahamas, but her workplace was completely different. The core team of the company had fewer than 200 people at its peak, while other exchanges of similar size had thousands of employees, many of whom worked 16 to 18 hours a day for over three years with almost no time to sleep. She also questioned the portrayal of Caroline Ellison in the trailer, stating that she had worked with Caroline and had never seen her as aggressive as depicted in the trailer; she described her as quiet and gentle, often lost in her own thoughts. Most of the team only learned about Caroline's relationship with Sam through reports after the bankruptcy."The Altruists" consists of eight episodes and will premiere on Netflix on November 19, featuring Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison. FTX collapsed in November 2022 due to a liquidity crisis, exposing its close financial ties with Alameda Research and issues of customer fund misappropriation. Bankman-Fried was convicted of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in November 2023 and sentenced to 25 years in prison; Ellison pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors, receiving a two-year prison sentence in September 2024.

According to Cointelegraph, the Astana International Financial Centre Court (AIFC) in Kazakhstan has issued an injunction against six unlicensed cryptocurrency platforms, prohibiting them from providing digital asset services locally and expanding access restrictions to app stores. The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) stated on Tuesday that the court made this ruling after the regulatory agency sued the operators of the relevant platforms for providing digital asset services without authorization.The order issued on September 15 specifically named BingX, Bitcoin.com, Huobi Global (HTX), BitMart, Coinbase, LBank, and WEEX; a three-day later amendment removed LBank from the list, as its operator had blocked access for users in Kazakhstan. Google and Apple, as app store operators, were also included and are required to implement regional access restrictions for the remaining platforms.AFSA stated that users of unlicensed platforms lack the protections that licensed institutions should provide, including asset protection, information disclosure, complaint handling, and dispute resolution. The National Bank of Kazakhstan is responsible for regulating digital asset service providers outside of the AIFC.AFSA CEO Evgeniya Bogdanova stated that this court ruling is the result of the agency's long-term efforts by its supervision and enforcement team to address the activities of unlicensed crypto platforms that advertise without authorization and provide digital asset-related services in Kazakhstan without a license.AFSA noted that it had issued warnings to over 20 platforms by 2025, nine of which voluntarily restricted app access in the country, and seven expressed intent to apply for licenses. The agency has withdrawn its claims against these nine, and the injunction will be enforced against the remaining six. Cointelegraph previously reported that the financial regulator in Kazakhstan had blocked nearly 1,000 unregistered cryptocurrency exchanges that were providing services to citizens of the country in 2023.

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 collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox has extended the repayment deadline for creditors to October 31, 2027. Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi stated that the Tokyo District Court has approved the adjustment of the relevant repayment deadline. This is the sixth extension for Mt. Gox since 2023.Most creditors who have completed the necessary processes and encountered no issues have received their repayments; however, some creditors have not received payments due to incomplete processes or payment processing issues. Mt. Gox began repaying creditors in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in July 2024, and by March 2025, it reported that over 19,500 creditors had received repayments. The latest notice did not disclose the number of unpaid creditors or the amount of Bitcoin yet to be distributed. As of Tuesday, wallets belonging to Mt. Gox still hold approximately 34,400 Bitcoins, valued at around $2.8 billion.

BlockBeats published an in-depth article titled "All in One is the Only Way Out," focusing on the industry trend of cryptocurrency trading platforms transforming into comprehensive financial services, using Gate Money as an example to analyze the development potential of integrated global asset trading, daily payments, and wealth management.The article points out that as user demands extend from cryptocurrency trading to multi-asset allocation, cross-border consumption, and idle fund management, All in One is becoming an important direction for trading platforms to explore business growth. Gate currently supports over 5,400 digital assets and 12,800 stock assets, while Gate Money further integrates multi-currency accounts, exchanges, payments, and wealth management functions, supporting over 60 currencies and planning to expand services for stocks, ETFs, and gold. At the same time, the platform connects eligible stock assets with consumption scenarios through an automatic recharge feature, with Money Earn offering an annualized yield of up to 3.6%.BlockBeats believes that as financial demands become increasingly diversified, the ability to allow assets to flow freely between investment, management, and payment, while continuously meeting users' actual needs, will become an important direction for cryptocurrency platforms to build long-term competitiveness. Gate Money not only integrates product functions but also connects global assets with real financial needs, promoting cryptocurrency platforms to extend into broader and more frequent financial service scenarios, opening new space for the evolution of the global financial service landscape and long-term industry growth.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon stated in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal that the current state of the U.S. economy is strong, with significant growth in corporate profits, a low unemployment rate, and overall low leverage for businesses and consumers. He described this as a good time. Dimon also pointed out that several potential risks are accumulating beneath the surface, including persistent inflation that has lasted for five years, large fiscal deficits, and geopolitical uncertainties such as overseas wars.He emphasized that predicting the specific timing and triggers of an economic downturn is extremely difficult, as the eventual recession is often caused by a combination of factors that cannot be accurately assessed at present. When discussing how banks should respond, Dimon stated that JPMorgan Chase conducts extremely in-depth analyses of various risks to ensure that the bank can withstand shocks whether interest rates rise or fall, and whether inflation or stagflation occurs, while continuing to serve clients during difficult times. He mentioned that the bank is prepared for extreme scenarios such as a 40% drop in the stock market and a two to three times widening of bond credit spreads, rather than trying to guess when these scenarios will happen. The core principle is to be well-prepared to continuously support businesses and communities in various environments.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced three proposals for the safe development of super AI to employees last week. The first is to establish a global regulatory organization similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency, to inspect advanced models and audit safety measures. Insiders say Altman leans towards this route.The second proposal emulates the European Organization for Nuclear Research, merging major AI laboratories into one organization or collaborating through a unified agency for joint development, rather than continuing to race against each other. The third and most extreme, which he referred to as the "Eliezer Plan": an AI company achieves recursive self-improvement first, and then uses overwhelming economic power to control computing power, making it impossible for other developers to catch up. Altman described this idea as "melting down all other companies' GPUs," while stating that this plan is very bad and is only meant to illustrate the extreme possibility.The idea of "melting down GPUs" comes from AI safety researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. He proposed a thought experiment in 2021, suggesting that super AI could create self-replicating nanomachines to melt down global GPUs, stating that this is merely an extreme example to illustrate the intensity of intervention, not a proposal to be executed. OpenAI proposed the establishment of an "AI version of the International Atomic Energy Agency" in 2023, and Google DeepMind head Hassabis has also advocated for the creation of an "AI version of CERN." Currently, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic plan to establish a joint safety standards organization by the end of this year or early next year, but there are disagreements over the responsibility for model safety testing. Altman hopes to set speed limits for AI development while stating that OpenAI cannot currently cede its competitive advantage to rivals.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, hosted a regular press conference. A reporter from AFP asked whether the U.S. government has requested federal agencies to stop using Chinese artificial intelligence products like DeepSeek, citing concerns about the potential transfer of sensitive data, and inquired about China's comments.Mao Ning stated that China has always opposed the generalization of the concept of national security and the politicization of technological and economic issues, and will firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises. Previously, the U.S. government prohibited civilian agencies from using DeepSeek products.

According to the official website of the State Taxation Administration, the Taxation Administration has issued a reminder for offshore trust taxpayers to declare and pay individual income tax on offshore trust income before the transition period ends on October 22. Those who complete the declaration and payment during the transition period will not incur late fees.According to the "Announcement on Matters Related to Individual Income Tax for Offshore Trusts" (Announcement No. 21 of 2026) issued by the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration on July 24, offshore trust taxpayers are required to declare and pay taxes on offshore trust income. The announcement provides taxpayers with a 90-day transition period, during which the tax authorities will offer tax guidance and tax filing services.