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According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek plans to lead a seed round for the robotics AI startup Winverse AI, which was established only a few months ago, with an amount in the tens of millions of dollars and a post-investment valuation of approximately 400 million dollars. Sources say that the Hangzhou research institution DeepSeek has agreed to lead this round of financing, with other committed investors including Long-Z Investments, a subsidiary of Meituan. The deal has not yet been finalized, and the valuation and list of investors may change.Winverse was founded in 2026 by former Tencent scientist Hu Han and is currently in stealth mode. Hu Han previously served as the head of Tencent's Vision-Language and Embodied Foundation Models team and chief scientist, holding a PhD from Tsinghua University, with experience that includes Microsoft Research Asia and Baidu. When he left Tencent, the company was restructuring its AI research team. Neither Hu Han, DeepSeek, nor representatives from Long-Z have responded to inquiries.This is one of the larger startup investments since Liang Wenfeng founded DeepSeek in 2023, aimed at extending its business into real-world applications such as humanoid robots for factories. Previously, DeepSeek also acquired about 2% of shares in Yushu Robotics during its Shanghai listing to collaborate on embodied intelligent models. DeepSeek is close to completing a new round of financing of at least 80 billion yuan, approximately 12 billion dollars, exceeding its original target, and plans to go public in early 2027, with funds primarily used for model training and data centers, and possibly for investing in the next generation of startups.

On October 12, 2026, Bulgarian bank Fibank (First Investment Bank) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Austrian licensed cryptocurrency service provider Bitpanda GmbH. The cooperation will allow Fibank customers to directly access cryptocurrency asset service technology provided by Bitpanda through the My Fibank mobile application. The article states that Fibank thus becomes the first bank in Bulgaria to offer integrated cryptocurrency trading access to its customers.Customers can apply and, once approved, use the related services through the embedded Bitpanda interface in My Fibank around the clock, with a minimum investment threshold of 1 euro. The cryptocurrency asset services are provided by Bitpanda, and access depends on Bitpanda's acceptance of potential customers and its applicable terms and standards. The article explains that these digital products are different from traditional deposits and financial instruments, and do not come with guarantees or compensation plans.Fibank CEO Nikola Bakalov stated that the cooperation with Bitpanda is the next step for My Fibank to expand financial services as a digital platform, emphasizing collaboration with European technology partners and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. Bitpanda Enterprise's global head Nadeem Ladki stated that the two parties will bring cryptocurrency services to over 1 million customers in Bulgaria. Fibank claims to be the largest bank in Bulgaria by capital holdings, with core operations in Bulgaria and branches in Cyprus and a subsidiary in Albania.

Solana rating card hosting and card drawing platform Collector Crypt released its Q3 2026 report: revenue of $433.5 million and gross profit of $25.4 million, both setting records, with increases of 8% and 12% compared to Q2, respectively. Card pack revenue was $433.1 million, almost constituting all revenue; buyback and redemption expenses were $408.1 million, accounting for 94.1% of revenue, with a quarterly gross margin of 5.9%.Sales reached $212.2 million in June but declined month by month, with July, August, and September at $157.3 million, $141.7 million, and $134.5 million, respectively, while the gross margin in September rose to 6.7%. Sales of card packs priced at $2,500 and above amounted to $169.6 million, accounting for 39% of card pack sales; the $1,000 tier dropped from $132.1 million to $53.4 million. After Jupiter began selling card packs on July 13, the number of active wallets increased from 7,051 to 9,127 over 30 days, while daily revenue per wallet decreased from $9,100 to $5,600.As of September 30, tokenized inventory was $55.1 million; market transactions totaled $8.6 million, accounting for about 2% of the business, with two initial edition Charizard cards sold in September for $600,000 and $825,000, respectively. Cumulative revenue surpassed $1 billion on August 13, and the token CARDS fell 14% to $0.195 in the quarter. Courtyard's Q3 revenue was $7.6 million, approximately 3.3 times that of Collector Crypt;

According to Gate market data, SOL/USDT is currently priced at $104.87, with a 24-hour decline of 5.73%.

According to the market intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase spot BTC has approximately 64.53 sell orders at the price level of $82,071, with a nominal value of about $5.3 million, which is about 0.40% above the mid-price of approximately $81,741 at that time. The total near-term sell orders amount to about $25.1354 million, while the buy orders are approximately $18.7532 million.Currently, the net sell orders on Coinbase spot are about $6.3822 million, accounting for 14.54% of the total depth. This sell order level is the most prominent resistance in the near term.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently priced at $2449.95, with a 24-hour decline of 3.38%.

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently priced at $81990.7, with a 24-hour decline of 2.1%.

xAI launched the X subscription plan, integrating Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium benefits globally, with subscription fees ranging from 8 to 200 USD per month.

According to Coinglass data, Binance had a net inflow of 187 million USDT in the past 24 hours.

Whale Alert posted on the X platform that at 05:49 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

The NFT trading market Blur announced on X that its frontend will be deprecated on November 12, 2026, and this arrangement only applies to the frontend.Blur stated that the Blur market protocol will continue to operate on-chain, and BLUR will continue to control its fee switch.

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer’s subsidiary Bitdeer AI has signed an 8-year agreement in Malaysia to build a 60 MW A103 AI cloud data center, expected to be powered on in the first quarter of 2028.The facility will join the existing A101 and A102 data centers to form the Cyberjaya campus, increasing the total capacity to approximately 71.5 MW. Bitdeer AI has secured 333.5 MW of its global capacity target of 350 MW, completing about 95%, with its AI cloud business projects exceeding $10 billion in scale.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently priced at $2499.59, with a 24-hour decline of 1.12%.

SWI Group announced the raising of approximately 900 million dollars in funding to expand its AI and data center business. The company has taken control of the cryptocurrency mining company Genesis Digital Assets, which originally belonged to FTX, and will continue to advance its transformation.

Google collaborates with Planet to launch the "Project Suncatcher" prototype satellite through SpaceX Transporter-18.

Meta Platforms (META.O) will announce its third quarter financial report for 2026 after the U.S. stock market closes on October 21, 2026, Eastern Time, and will hold a conference call at 4:30 PM Eastern Time (4:30 AM Beijing Time on October 22).

Navitas Semiconductor announced a collaboration with NVIDIA (NVDA.O) to develop an 800V to 12V power conversion board for next-generation AI infrastructure.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed up 195.6 points on October 12, an increase of 0.38%, reporting at 51,850.55 points; the S&P 500 Index fell by 4.33 points, a decrease of 0.06%, reporting at 7,807.21 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index fell by 120.27 points, a decrease of 0.44%, reporting at 27,245.9 points.

Intel announces the acceleration of the open infrastructure aimed at the AI era for intelligent agents.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointed out in Chapter 3 of the October 2026 "Global Financial Stability Report" that as of July 31, excluding repurchase agreements and stablecoins, the scale of tokenized real-world assets reached approximately $65.1 billion, including tokenized credit of $30.4 billion, money market funds of $17.5 billion, and tokenized equities of $2.3 billion.The report indicated that automatic clearing, instant settlement, continuous trading, and programmable collateral could accelerate forced liquidations and amplify financial shocks during market stress. Cross-platform reuse of collateral could also increase leverage, allowing risks to transmit more quickly to different institutions and markets. The IMF identified four obstacles to the expanded application of the tokenized market: legal certainty, regulatory clarity, blockchain network interoperability, and reliable settlement assets, and recommended adopting technology-neutral regulation, strengthening supervision, establishing circuit breakers, and preventing instability in automatic clearing.