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AI prediction market infrastructure project InsightX announced the completion of a strategic round of financing, with investors including Aurumx Capital and Becker Ventures. The project previously secured Series A financing with participation from Infinite Alliance, UZ Capital, and Gemhead, bringing the total financing scale to 7.4 million USD.InsightX positions itself as the AI infrastructure layer for the intelligent economy, dedicated to transforming data, information, and collective consensus into programmable on-chain value. The first benchmark product is an AI-native prediction market, which now supports Mantle and Morph networks. As of October 20, the platform has over 40,000 registered users, with more than 540,000 on-chain interactions, and the cumulative platform trading volume has surpassed 1.157 billion USD.This round of strategic investors will introduce institutional market-making resources and industry networks to InsightX, helping to iterate the order depth engine, improve cross-market liquidity mechanisms, and promote the implementation of underlying infrastructure for the intelligent economy.

S&P Global Ratings released a report on Thursday, granting the UK digital bank Revolut a BBB+ investment grade rating for the first time, and expects the company to issue senior unsecured bonds in 2027 to establish a debt buffer capable of absorbing potential losses and meeting regulatory requirements.The report noted that Revolut's balance sheet has exceeded £40 billion (approximately $53.5 billion); if the bank were to collapse, the Bank of England could push for a restructuring, with investors bearing the corresponding losses. S&P expects that as Revolut expands its unsecured retail lending business and launches mortgage products, its loan portfolio size will double by 2027 and double again by 2028.S&P believes that Revolut has a strong consumer brand, a scalable technology platform, and an increasingly diversified product range, but its main banking customer relationships still account for a lower proportion compared to traditional banks, and rapid global expansion may exacerbate operational complexity and compliance risks. BBB+ is considered a lower tier within S&P's investment grade ratings.

IBM's revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 was 17.1 billion dollars, a year-on-year increase of about 5%. The adjusted earnings per share were 2.95 dollars, both exceeding analysts' expectations. The company raised its full-year software revenue growth guidance to about 7%–8% and increased its full-year free cash flow growth guidance to over 1 billion dollars.Previously delayed software and mainframe deals, due to customer spending shifting towards data center infrastructure, have started to sign contracts. Free cash flow for the first nine months totaled 8 billion dollars, setting a historical record for the same period. IBM's stock price fell 4.95% in after-hours trading, closing at 239.02 dollars.

SpaceX's net profit for the third quarter reached 4.4 billion USD, far exceeding market expectations of 1.88 billion USD, with revenue growing by 161% year-on-year. Although the stock price rose by 12.4% at one point, concerns in the market about the company's future debt expansion intensified. The bond spread for SpaceX maturing in 2046 widened to 264 basis points, and the price of five-year credit default swaps rose to 232.6 basis points.Chief Financial Officer Brett Johnson stated that the company will continue to invest in the superintelligence department's computing power and Starlink business, and is negotiating financing with multiple sources of debt capital.

According to Bloomberg, Augnition Global Investors, a technology hedge fund founded by Jeff Wang, the former head of global equities at Sequoia Capital, announced that it has completed fundraising of over $1 billion.According to disclosed regulatory documents, the fund started with at least $570 million in capital, of which about 45% is internal capital.

According to CME's "FedWatch" data, the probability of the Federal Reserve maintaining interest rates in October is 84.5%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike is 15.5%.

U.S. short-term interest rate futures fell as the market increased bets on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates after the inflation data was released. The U.S. Dollar Index DXY rose nearly 40 points in the short term, currently reported at 102.52.In addition, the market has increased bets on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates three more times before the end of 2027.

According to a report by The Paper, the case of Qian Zhimin, involving over 40 billion yuan in illegal fundraising and more than 60,000 bitcoins, has seen new developments in domestic judicial procedures. The Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court announced that it has accepted the Tianjin People's Procuratorate Second Branch's application to confiscate the illegal gains of the suspect Qian Zhimin as of September 28.According to the property confiscation list published by the Tianjin Second Intermediate Court, in addition to bitcoins, the involved virtual currencies also include 72,745.79502 bitcoins cash, 72,745.78555 bitcoins gold, 72,745.7845 bitcoins Satoshi Vision, 3,605,989.9995 ripples, and 70,081,208.62553222 dogecoins (which have been converted and deposited into an interest-bearing account by British judicial authorities). Additionally, the confiscated assets also include cash in US dollars, euros, and British pounds, jewelry, as well as bank balances and investment portfolios.The Tianjin People's Procuratorate Second Branch believes that Qian Zhimin is suspected of fundraising fraud, and after fleeing, he has been wanted for a year without appearing in court. There is evidence proving that over 61,800 bitcoins and other assets seized in the UK belong to illegal gains and their proceeds, and should be recovered along with the transformed and converted properties and proceeds, except for those legally returned to the harmed fundraising participants, which should be confiscated.

According to CME's "FedWatch" data, the probability of the Federal Reserve maintaining interest rates in October is 76.2%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike is 23.8%.

According to The Block, the UK Bitcoin treasury company The Smarter Web Company is conditionally raising £10 million (approximately $13.2 million) through a preferred stock issuance. Of this, £4 million (approximately $5.3 million) in net proceeds will be used to increase its Bitcoin holdings.This batch of preferred shares is expected to start trading in London on October 14, with an initial annual dividend yield of 12%, paid weekly.

In 2025, there were approximately 20 financing rounds in the domestic tactile sensor sector, with a total disclosed amount nearing 1.8 billion yuan. According to data from the Financial Association, in the first seven months of 2026, there were 15 financing rounds completed in the humanoid robot sensor field, totaling 3.1 billion yuan, with July alone accounting for 1.56 billion yuan. Related estimates indicate that the global tactile sensor market size will be around 6 billion yuan in 2026 and approximately 29 billion yuan in 2030.The tactile sensor company, PaxiNi, was founded by Xu Jincheng and Nie Xiangru in June 2021 in Shenzhen, with the Hall array sensor PX-6AX GEN3 starting at a price of 199 yuan. The company completed over 1 billion yuan in Series B financing in March, with a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, followed by 1 billion yuan in strategic financing in August and several hundred million yuan in B++ financing in September, accumulating over 4 billion yuan in total financing, with BYD as the largest external shareholder. On September 20, PaxiNi completed its counseling filing with the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau, with Guotai Junan as the counseling institution.The tactile perception chip company, Tashan Technology, was founded by Ma Yang, Sun Tengchen, and Yang Wuqiang in December 2017, with revenue exceeding 100 million yuan in 2024, and was listed by NVIDIA as the world's first tactile simulation partner for Isaac Sim. Qianjue Robotics was founded by Ma Daolin in May 2024, with Hillhouse Capital having led the angel round, and in September of this year, it completed two rounds of strategic financing totaling several hundred million yuan. Companies such as Daimeng, Weitai, Xiangmuguo, Yimu Technology, and Lingxin Qiaoshou also secured new financing or advanced higher valuation financing in 2026.

The Federal Reserve meeting minutes show that some officials stated that raising interest rates would prevent the spread of price increases in certain industries.

Bitcoin Treasuries posted on platform X that the 165-year-old Japanese company Marusho Hotta has been renamed Bitcoin Japan Corp (8105.T) and has newly purchased 5.88 bitcoins, currently holding a total of 17.8 bitcoins.

SATA under Strive has started increasing its Bitcoin holdings, having raised enough funds to purchase over 450 Bitcoins so far this week. STRC is approaching a par value of 100 dollars.Relevant information is supported by Apyx_fi, which claims to offer double-digit returns for all users.

Strive CEO Matt Cole disclosed that Strive purchased 2,000 BTC at an average price of $84,422 per coin, totaling approximately $169 million, increasing the company's total Bitcoin holdings to 29,462 coins.In this financing, 61.5% of the funds came from SATA, with warrants generating an additional $56.7 million in revenue.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against a member of Hamas's military wing, two French nationals, and two charitable organizations, accusing them of raising over $2 million for Hamas through cryptocurrency and so-called humanitarian donations in a fundraising campaign that lasted six years.The Treasury stated that Faouzi Barika and Amel Oualid raised funds in France under the guise of humanitarian efforts, subsequently transferring the money to Hamas. This network raised over $2 million between 2020 and 2026, with $1.5 million occurring after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The two also sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency to Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq in Gaza, who is the deputy battalion commander of Hamas's Kassam Brigades.The sanctions freeze the assets of the relevant entities within U.S. jurisdiction, and Americans are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them. Foreign financial institutions that knowingly facilitate significant transactions may face secondary sanctions risks, and restrictions also extend to companies in which the sanctioned parties hold more than 50% directly or indirectly. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that terrorist organizations like Hamas rely on complex financial intermediaries and fraudulent means. This move indicates U.S. concern about the role of cryptocurrency in broader fundraising networks, rather than viewing it as Hamas's primary source of funding.