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According to market news, Binance.US is seeking to raise $100 million to expand its cryptocurrency business.

According to The Block, Nasdaq-listed Solana reserve company DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that it will raise the annual dividend yield of its CHAD preferred stock from 13% to 14%, effective November 2. Based on a par value of $10 per CHAD share, the annual dividend will increase from $1.3 per share to $1.4 per share, paid once every business day, contingent upon the company's board declaring the dividend. The company stated that future funds raised from CHAD issuance will be used to expand its Solana reserves, which generate income through staking and validating node operations.CEO Joseph Onorati stated that raising the dividend yield to 14% will help expand investor participation and grow the scale of CHAD. He noted that the appeal of CHAD lies in providing double-digit dividend income through Nasdaq-listed preferred securities, with daily payouts, while the issuer holds income-generating SOL reserves. The company aims to position CHAD as a leading digital credit tool, enhancing the ability to accumulate SOL, adding value for common stock shareholders, while maintaining prudent capital management.DeFi Development increased its holdings by approximately 22,070 SOL and equivalent assets last week, raising its total holdings to about 2.59 million SOL; the company stated that CHAD reached a new trading price high that week and recently approved a buyback plan to repurchase up to all issued CHAD shares.

According to PR Newswire, Solana Mobile, the mobile business of the Solana ecosystem, announced at the Ledger Op3n 2026 event in Paris that the hardware wallet company Ledger has become its first hardware expansion partner. The Solana dApp Store and wallet will merge into the Seeker app and integrate with the new device Ledger Atom, which will be pre-installed on the device's home screen for users to access the Solana ecosystem. Pre-orders for Ledger Atom are now open.Ledger Atom is based on the Android open-source project and features a secure element running Ledger OS, with a protection level of EAL6+, displaying and touch control physically isolated from the Android system. Signing and approval are completed in secure mode, and the device includes tamper-proof and tamper-evident solutions, sold exclusively through the Ledger official website. The built-in app store currently has over 1,500 applications covering categories such as trading, payments, gaming, and AI. Existing Seeker users are unaffected, and developers can reach more devices with a single submission.This collaboration builds on Solana Mobile's opening of the Solana Mobile Stack to Android manufacturers at the World Mobile Communications Conference in March 2026. The SKR token is used to reward user participation, developer building, and hardware vendor integration. Seeker has a transaction volume exceeding $13 billion, with 154 million transactions and over 200,000 devices sold; the company shipped Saga in 2023 and will ship Seeker in 2025.

On October 15, Musk responded to a post on X. The post claimed that Amazon is blocking the Grok robot from placing orders and suggested that Musk launch X Shop. Musk stated that perhaps a company should be founded to compete with Amazon.

According to Fortune, the tokenized fund liquidity platform Fission announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing round, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital, and Ari Rubenstein. This round of financing was completed in September, and the company did not disclose its valuation.Fission aims to solve the problem of tokenized fund shares being difficult to quickly liquidate. The platform acts as a buyer, allowing investors to sell their shares without having to wait for the fund to process redemptions. Users connect their digital wallets and submit sale requests, while Fission handles the backend legal and transaction processes. CEO Jonathan Shaffer stated that for products that typically take about 200 days to sell, investors can pay a fee to sell immediately and complete settlement in 90 seconds or less.Fission was founded in 2024, and the founding team includes former employees of Point72 and Securitize. Currently, the clients are mainly institutional investors and organizations holding on-chain assets, including hedge funds holding tokenized private credit or equity assets, crypto institutions managing treasury, and stablecoin issuers allocating reserves to interest-bearing tokenized investment products.

Lido announced the integration of direct ETH staking functionality for Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Optimism Layer 2 networks into its official staking interface, which was announced on October 15. This process is supported by Chainlink's cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP, allowing users to directly obtain wstETH on the originating network without manually transferring ETH across chains to Ethereum and back.Lido stated that users' ETH will be exchanged for wstETH through dedicated liquidity pools on the same L2, with the Chainlink price feed reflecting the exchange rate of the Lido protocol rather than the exchange market price. The underlying staking still occurs on the Ethereum mainnet: the ETH deposited by users on L2 will automatically be transferred to Ethereum and staked through Lido, after which wstETH will be sent back to replenish the local liquidity pool. Users receive the wrapped version of stETH, wstETH, which maintains a fixed balance while its value reflects staking rewards.This functionality integrates existing cross-chain infrastructure into Lido's own interface. Lido previously introduced relevant channels for Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism in October 2024, with third-party frontends including XSwap, OpenOcean, and Interport, while Linea followed up in October 2025. In terms of fees, users will still need to pay L2 transaction gas, and cross-chain costs come from the separately funded contract balance rather than staker deposits;

Blockworks released a status report on cryptocurrency inference service providers, stating that global computing power investment is substantial and demand still exceeds supply; the market capitalization of liquidity crypto AI is approximately $24.9 billion, lower than Crusoe's $30.9 billion, and no decentralized computing network has disclosed verifiable revenue exceeding tens of millions of dollars.The report compares seven crypto-native inference providers on OpenRouter: Venice, Phala, Darkbloom, io.net, AkashML, NEAR AI, and Chutes. Over the past month, the seven have processed an average of about 211 billion tokens daily, accounting for about 1% of the platform's daily average of 21.9 trillion tokens. Venice processed about 87 billion tokens daily, with the team stating in July that its annual recurring revenue reached $100 million, with OpenRouter contributing less than 10%; Phala averaged about 54.6 billion tokens daily over the past week, up from about 5 billion in July.Chutes is the Bittensor inference subnet SN64, operating approximately 4,350 GPUs, with the team claiming to process 160 billion tokens daily, with OpenRouter channels averaging 5.7 billion. Akash has 283 active GPUs, down from a peak of about 897, with an annual leasing fee of about $3.7 million, and GPU incentives have ended. io.net's demand has nearly doubled over the past month to an average of 14.8 billion tokens daily.

According to Gate market data, the Nikkei 225 index closed down 3318.34 points on October 15, with a decline of 4.90%, reporting at 64425.95 points. The South Korean KOSPI index also closed down 454.54 points on the same day, with a decline of 7.56%, reporting at 5554.27 points.During the trading session, the South Korean stock market once fell more than 9%, triggering the circuit breaker mechanism for the tenth time this year. The South Korean financial regulatory agency held an emergency meeting in the afternoon regarding the stock market, and subsequently, the market's decline narrowed. SK Hynix initially closed down 11.06%, while Samsung Electronics fell 9.48%.

The CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM.N) stated that TSMC has discussed capacity cooperation with Terafab, a company under Elon Musk.

According to official news, the London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 83 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 2,830 bitcoins.

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea stated that after investigating 16 companies (including cryptocurrency exchanges) involved in a previous security incident, it plans to implement stricter cybersecurity requirements for financial institutions. The agency noted that in an industry review covering 555 financial companies, 130 companies were found to have cybersecurity deficiencies, with approximately 100,000 pieces of customer information leaked, including names, contact details, and identification numbers.Affected companies include Streami, the operator of Gopax, and the cryptocurrency trading platform Prabang, which previously disclosed that a hacking incident on October 2 led to the leakage of some customers' personal information. The FSC indicated that it is still investigating whether these incidents involved the use of artificial intelligence or if they are related to the same group of attackers.According to the proposed reforms, larger financial institutions will undergo vulnerability assessments at least twice a year. The regulatory agency also plans to improve the information-sharing system and is considering using artificial intelligence for security monitoring of small businesses. Additionally, the FSC is considering allowing supplementary cybersecurity inspections outside of the regular assessment schedule in the event of an urgent threat to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.

According to Gate market data, the South Korean KOSPI index plummeted 8.00% during the day, currently reported at 5527.29 points. SK Hynix fell over 11%, and Samsung Electronics dropped over 9%.At the same time, the Korea Exchange activated the circuit breaker mechanism for the KOSDAQ, suspending trading for 20 minutes.

During the promotion of the GENIUS Act by former White House crypto advisor Bo Hines, the consulting firm Nxum, which he co-founded and holds shares in, established a business relationship with Tether. Tether paid over 6 million dollars to Nxum, with the related funds distributed among three partners.Although Hines has exited the daily operations of Nxum, he continued to discuss the act with partners via Signal during his tenure. After the GENIUS Act was signed into law in July 2025, Hines left in August and was appointed CEO of Tether's U.S. stablecoin business in September, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest.

Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki warned speculators that she is prepared to take action in the foreign exchange market again if necessary, after the yen's exchange rate against the dollar hit a monthly low due to rising U.S. inflation data. Suzuki stated that the positions of both countries have not changed since the joint intervention in July to support the yen.

X user Irene Patrikios (@crypto_irene) announced that she has been appointed as the Chief Business Officer of the fully homomorphic encryption company Zama. She stated that she has been working in the cryptocurrency industry for nearly 12 years and believes that blockchain requires institutions, enterprises, and individuals to publicly operate financial activities, a gap that has long existed and is difficult to support large-scale funds on-chain. She joined the company in November 2025, before the launch of the Zama mainnet, and stated that confidentiality is the infrastructure that enables institutions holding global capital to truly go on-chain, and Zama is providing this capability.Irene Patrikios also mentioned that over the past year, Zama's business team has reached collaborations with several major participants to launch confidential DeFi and establish a business pipeline. Zama's CEO Rand Hindi and the board are increasing support for the next phase of the team's development. She expressed her gratitude to Rand Hindi, the board, and the Zama team.