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According to The Block, the qualified Bitcoin custodian licensed in Nevada, AnchorWatch Trust Company, has officially launched Bitcoin custody services. Its custody fees are based on a fixed amount pricing model, with a maximum of $10,000 per month, and it can provide optional insurance coverage of up to $370 million for each client.Its client base includes trustees, publicly traded companies, trust institutions, and high-net-worth individuals with qualified Bitcoin custody needs.

According to a report by Reuters, AI computing company Tenstorrent has completed a $1.5 billion Series E funding round, with a post-money valuation of $6.2 billion. This round of financing was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participation from both new and existing investors, including Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Brett Barna, Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Maverick Silicon, Morgan Stanley, Protagonist, Sandisk, T. Rowe Price, Tether Investments, Troluce Capital, Virtu Financial, and XTX Markets.Tenstorrent will use this funding to deploy Galaxy servers on a large scale, continue to serve open-weight models for large language models (LLMs) and video generation, and advance its AI and CPU IP business towards licensing its own chip designs to customers.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on October 19, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $360 million, an increase of 1,500% compared to two weeks ago.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 267 Bitcoins last week at a price of $82,900, spending approximately $22.1 million, bringing its total holdings to 848,517 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week.In addition, three other companies announced their Bitcoin purchases or holdings last week. Asset management company Strive announced on October 19 that it spent approximately $330 million last week to purchase 4,045 Bitcoins at a price of $81,734, bringing its total holdings to about 36,818 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin treasury company The Smarter Web Company announced on October 19 that it invested $6.93 million to purchase 83 Bitcoins at a price of $83,542, bringing its total holdings to 2,830 Bitcoins; Ethereum asset company Bitmine announced on October 19 that it purchased 1 Bitcoin, without disclosing the specific purchase amount, bringing its total holdings to 215 Bitcoins.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,161,643 Bitcoins, with a current market value of approximately $95.41 billion, accounting for 5.8% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

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.

Metaplanet founder and CEO Simon Gerovich announced that the transaction between Metaplanet and Super League Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLE) has been formally approved at the company's shareholder meeting.This move marks a key step for Metaplanet in transforming from a Bitcoin treasury company to a global Bitcoin-native financial platform.It is reported that Metaplanet injected 2,100 Bitcoins and $2.5 million in cash into the NASDAQ-listed company Super League Enterprise (SLE), with a total value of approximately $134.6 million, in exchange for a controlling stake. In return, Metaplanet received approximately 44.86 million newly issued shares of common stock (at $3 per share), as well as preferred stock and warrants. After the transaction is completed, Metaplanet will hold about 95.7% of SLE's issued common stock, becoming its controlling shareholder.According to Gerovich, after the transaction is completed, Superplanet will serve as Metaplanet's Bitcoin treasury platform listed in the United States, which will enable it to directly access the U.S. capital markets and gain more agile and flexible financing capabilities. Strategically, combined with Metaplanet Securities established in Japan, this approval will provide the company with complementary platforms in the two most important capital markets globally (the U.S. and Japan).This will not only facilitate its international financing and capital allocation but also further advance its business expansion in areas such as Bitcoin treasury, financial services, financial products, and asset management. Gerovich stated that this is a new milestone on Metaplanet's long-term growth path, and the company will continue to update the public on the latest progress regarding the completion of this transaction.

According to Bloomberg, Spencer Applebaum, General Partner and Co-Head of Venture Capital at Multicoin Capital, stated that unlike institutions such as Paradigm, Framework Ventures, and Haun Ventures, which are expanding their investment scope beyond the crypto space, Multicoin will not extend its investment scope to pure AI projects, as its strengths lie in the crypto field, and believes that many investors are "forcing" a search for intersections between crypto and AI.The $422 million venture capital fund raised by Multicoin in 2022 has been deployed slowly due to the decline in valuations of startup projects following the collapse of FTX. Spencer Applebaum also mentioned that HYPE remains the largest position in Multicoin's hedge fund. Currently, Multicoin's assets under management stand at $2.7 billion.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Japan Women's Open: Katie Bolt vs. Hinano Sakanoue," the "Over" option for the sub-market "Japan Women's Open: Katie Bolt vs. Hinano Sakanoue total game points greater than 22.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 23.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 26.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Binance Research weekly report, the U.S. CPI rose to 3.7% in September, with energy contributing more than one-third, and the PPI increased year-on-year to 6.3%. Based on the EIA oil price path, the overall CPI may peak at around 3.9% in October and fall back to about 2.6% by March 2027.In terms of AI, Anthropic's revenue grew by 45% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, significantly lower than the previous growth rate of more than double; its Binance Pre-IPO contracts fell by 8.8% over two trading days, while the yield on CoreWeave bonds maturing in 2032 rose to about 16%. Binance Research believes that the cooling demand for AI and rising financing costs are simultaneously affecting AI infrastructure transactions.

During the opening ceremony of the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference, the Governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, stated that the rapid development of artificial intelligence globally has a profound impact on productivity, investment, employment, income distribution, and financial stability.Pan Gongsheng mentioned that from the perspective of the People's Bank, they will closely monitor and assess the macroeconomic impacts of artificial intelligence development, ensure financial support for the development of the artificial intelligence industry, and steadily promote the application of artificial intelligence in the financial sector.

The Governor of the People's Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, stated at the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Meeting that it will pilot further facilitation for foreign financial institutions to conduct RMB purchase and sale operations in the domestic foreign exchange market.The People's Bank plans to allow 8 domestic and foreign RMB offshore clearing banks to conduct proprietary trading in the domestic interbank foreign exchange market, promoting the integrated development of onshore and offshore markets.

JPMorgan Chase is expanding its JPM Coin dollar deposit token to the Ethereum mainnet, offering it to institutional clients. The token was previously launched in 2025 on Base, representing actual bank deposits and can be used for near-instantaneous peer-to-peer transfers and settlements around the clock.Currently, it is only available to JPMorgan Chase's institutional clients through Kinexys, not supported for public trading, and not open to retail clients. JPM Coin is a permissioned and regulatory-compliant bank currency, not a decentralized stablecoin.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Japan Women's Open: Caty McNally vs Sinja Kraus," the sub-market "Japan Women's Open: Caty McNally vs Sinja Kraus Second Set Winner" saw the winning probability for the option "Caty McNally" experience significant fluctuations, rising from 22% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 28%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Beating reports, Lei Feng Network interviewed several headhunters and found that major domestic internet companies are tightening their recruitment quotas but are still willing to break salary limits for top AI talents. Headhunters revealed that this year, some outstanding fresh graduates in foundational model directions have annual packages reaching 2 million yuan; ByteDance Seed and Xiaohongshu's highest offers have reached 4 million to 5 million yuan, while Baidu is in the range of 2 million to 3 million yuan.The high salaries for talent are exacerbating internal salary discrepancies. An internet professional stated that some employees in foundational models have lower job levels but earn more than their higher-level colleagues. Similar situations emerged as early as 2017; an experienced engineer recalled that at that time, a returnee fresh graduate who joined a year later and was at a lower job level had a monthly salary 10,000 yuan higher than his own, leading to a monthly turnover of about 10% in a team of over thirty people.Headhunters noted that application-side positions are shrinking, while foundational model teams still lack individuals who can truly train large models. Coding Agents, model evaluation, pre-training data, and Agent infrastructure have become new focal points for talent acquisition; DeepSeek has recently been expanding its recruitment for backend developers and Agent Infra engineers, while the hiring enthusiasm in areas like AI search has decreased. Companies are not only looking at academic qualifications and papers but also place greater importance on whether candidates have actually trained large-scale models in leading teams; the salaries and responsibilities of scarce talents can be negotiated separately, while competition among ordinary AI job seekers is more intense.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou recently stated in an interview with Wu Shuo that Bybit has covered the losses caused by previous attacks from North Korean hackers through operational income such as transaction fees by the end of last year. He believes that there will still be trading platforms that encounter hacker attacks in the future, and the security system should be designed with the premise of "assuming it will definitely be hacked."Regarding competition, Ben Zhou believes that the golden period for the expansion of global trading platforms has passed, and the industry will further consolidate. Regional trading platforms with licenses and local operational capabilities still have opportunities. He revealed that Bybit's profits have declined year-on-year this year, and traditional asset trading businesses such as stocks are currently not enough to offset the impact brought by the cryptocurrency business.In terms of the U.S. market, he stated that Bybit is still waiting for the right opportunity to enter and is more inclined to cooperate with local institutions that have a retail user base. The core strategy for the next year will focus on regional development and deep localization. He also discussed the differences between the Bitget security incident and the Bybit theft incident, as well as the data security challenges brought by the large-scale application of AI within the platform.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings is suspected of selling BTC.In the past 5 days, wallets associated with MARA have transferred a total of 1000 BTC to Binance and Gate, worth approximately 82.8 million dollars.

Clearpool announced the 2026 v4 protocol whitepaper and stated that its institutional credit market has been operating on multiple EVM-compatible networks and is further expanding to the XRP Ledger. The whitepaper reveals that the institutional credit protocol will collaborate with Ripple and Cicada Partners to expand to the XRP Ledger for the settlement of the regulated stablecoin RLUSD, and will migrate the token from CPOOL to the new token CLEAR at a 1:1 ratio.The total supply of CLEAR is 1.429 billion tokens, with 1.125 billion tokens in circulation at the time of migration, accounting for 78.75%; this migration and the XRPL expansion have been approved through Snapshot voting, with a support rate of 97.16%. Since its operation began in 2021, the protocol has issued loans totaling approximately $965 million, with borrowers including Jane Street, Flow Traders, and Wintermute, and currently supports six EVM chains. 50% of the protocol fees will be used for open market repurchases and permanent destruction of CLEAR. XRPL products are preparing for testing on Devnet.

Apple Inc. announced the expansion of App Store review rules to include the regulation of AI-generated non-consensual intimate images. The platform had previously banned pornographic content, and the new rules require developers to proactively prevent and remove AI-generated deepfake content. If effective action is not taken, applications containing such violations will be forcibly removed from the store.The updated Clause 1.2 specifically mentions applications that create AI content and names controversial products such as Grok. Previously, users complained that Grok, a product of xAI, was used to create nude and sexually suggestive deepfake images. Earlier this year, Apple warned xAI that if such content continued to spread, Grok would be removed from the App Store; subsequently, xAI implemented safety measures, and the updated version was approved.The newly added Clause 2.5.19 targets so-called "bait-and-switch" tactics, stating that if developers hide new features or modules outside of the submitted review version, especially harmful features like "de-clothing" that are activated only after approval, they may be removed from both the App Store and the Apple Developer Program. Updates to Section 5 will also extend the ban on applications promoting human trafficking or child exploitation to alternative application distribution channels. Apple stated that when developers violate these guidelines, the related applications will be removed, and the developer's eligibility will be terminated.

The world's largest asset management company, BlackRock, is exploring the expansion of tokenized assets from the cryptocurrency market to the traditional financial sector, making them usable not only as collateral but also for payments. The tokenized money market fund BUIDL, launched by the company in 2024, has seen its assets under management grow to approximately $2.3 billion. Subsequently, related products were launched in the United States and Europe, and in September of this year, approval was granted to launch a digital liquidity fund denominated in Hong Kong dollars.BlackRock is shifting its focus from issuing stocks, bonds, and money market funds on blockchain networks to improving the transfer methods and collateral uses of related assets. Through tokenization, investors can directly transfer their held assets to other investors or use them as trading collateral without needing to redeem them for cash first. Nikhil Sharma, a director of the BlackRock digital assets team, stated that early users of tokenized funds were primarily participants in the cryptocurrency market, and the key moving forward is to establish a bridging mechanism that allows traditional financial institutions to use tokenized products without having to build separate independent systems.

Binance founder CZ posted that the Japanese version of his autobiography "Freedom of Money" is on sale today, with more language versions coming soon, and all proceeds will be donated to charity.

According to The Block, the prediction market exchange under Crypto.com filed a lawsuit against Missouri officials in federal court on October 16, along with Novig, seeking to prohibit the state from enforcing sports betting laws on its sports event contracts. Previously, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway issued cease-and-desist orders to six companies from September 16 to 17, requiring them to stop offering sports event contracts to local users within 30 days or obtain a license from the Missouri Gaming Commission and pay a 10% betting tax.The exchange of Crypto.com, North American Derivatives Exchange, sued in the Western District Federal Court of Missouri, claiming that the Commodity Exchange Act grants the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction and takes precedence over state gambling laws. The lawsuit also stated that the Attorney General's letter was mistakenly sent to Foris DAX, Inc., and that the state constitution only allows for the issuance of two mobile sports betting licenses, with no licenses currently available.Novig, through its exchange operator Ludlow Exchange LLC, filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District Court, requesting a preliminary and permanent injunction to maintain the status quo while the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals hears the related case in Iowa regarding Kalshi. Among the six companies that received cease-and-desist orders, four, including Kalshi and Polymarket, have not yet followed up with lawsuits.