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According to FNNews, South Korea's JB Financial Group announced that it is investing in the artificial intelligence company Upstage through its subsidiaries Jeonbuk Bank, Gwangju Bank, and JB Woori Capital. The three institutions collectively invested 40 billion Korean won (approximately 30 million USD) in its C-2 round of financing, acquiring about 2% equity.Previously, Upstage co-founder and CTO Hwalsuk Lee revealed that the company is considering various capital market options, including an IPO, and is also contemplating launching a Pre-IPO round of financing.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase stated on X that stablecoins can complete cross-border transfers in seconds, but the funds still need to enter channels that the recipient can actually use.Coinbase mentioned that it is collaborating with the cross-border payment company Thunes to connect its stablecoin infrastructure to local bank accounts and mobile wallets worldwide.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin that Germany hopes to become a leader in integrating AI in key industries, specifically naming manufacturing, machinery, and the automotive industry. He urged small and medium-sized enterprises to utilize existing data, saying, "Please open the door for AI to use your data." He claimed this is Germany's true secret and real advantage.NVIDIA announced at the summit that it would increase its investment in the European AI sector, planning to support four German startups: Agile Robots, Avelios Medical, Mirelo, and Reflex Aerospace. This is part of its nearly $10 billion commitment to Europe for investing in companies, universities, and research institutions; NVIDIA did not disclose the specific amounts for these four investments. Agile Robots develops AI robots for manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, Avelios Medical creates hospital management software, Mirelo develops AI models for generating audio from video, and Reflex Aerospace designs and manufactures satellites.NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that AI will only enhance, not replace, Germany's capabilities in manufacturing, mathematics, and science, and called AI a new tool for businesses. NVIDIA is expanding its cooperation with the German federal government and the Industry 4.0 Platform, with both parties signing a joint declaration of intent to promote industrial application AI models. On the same day, Siemens announced a new AI program in collaboration with NVIDIA at its Erlangen plant, stating that the related technology could reduce engineering work in production preparation by up to 85%, and AI production planning could lower costs by up to 20%.

According to Cointelegraph, Bitwise Research Director Ryan Rasmussen stated that in the third quarter of 2026, the overall purchasing of Bitcoin by treasury companies slowed down, with a net increase of 1,666 BTC for the Strategy that quarter, down from 83,901 BTC in the second quarter; other listed companies had a net increase of 5,617 BTC, down from 45,725 BTC in the previous quarter. He expects corporate purchases to accelerate again as early as this year.Bitfinex Derivatives Director Jag Kooner mentioned that if the stock prices of treasury companies rise above the value of their holdings, it may restart stock purchases, but "the likelihood of returning to last year's indiscriminate financing wave is low," and funds will prioritize mature companies with scale, liquidity, and a proven track record.

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 score greater than 22.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 25% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 25%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The token issuance platform Pump.fun announced on X that PreStocks has launched on Pump.fun. Users can now issue tokens paired with OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Neuralink, Figure AI, Kalshi, Polymarket, and Oura.Pump.fun stated that users can trade pre-IPO tokens on the platform and pair the newly issued tokens with these tokens. This feature is supported by PreStocks.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced plans for new investments in Agile Robots, Avelios Medical, Mirelo, and Reflex Aerospace in Germany.

Reflex Aerospace, a German satellite company, is expanding satellite production in Europe with the support of NVIDIA's planned investment.

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.