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Adena Friedman, CEO of Nasdaq, stated at the TOKEN 2049 conference in Singapore that tokenizing government bonds, stocks, money market funds, and funds can enhance collateral liquidity and unlock billions of dollars of trapped capital in the global financial system. Over the past year, institutional interest in tokenization has significantly increased, partly due to the U.S. GENIUS Act establishing a regulatory framework for stablecoins.She mentioned that institutional interest is converging with retail demand for around-the-clock trading. The retail ecosystem is about 10 years ahead, but moving towards a fully 7×24 hour market is a massive undertaking for the financial industry, requiring continuous real-time risk and collateral management. She also pointed out that AI is crucial for 7×24 hour trading, and Nasdaq has launched digital agents on its risk management platform, initially providing recommendations, with banks able to take more direct actions in the future. Arjun Sethi, co-CEO of Kraken, stated that companies outside the U.S. are also very interested in tokenization and entering the U.S. capital markets, including a company with approximately $25 million in revenue and larger international firms. Friedman cautioned that not all assets have sufficient liquidity to support a 7×24 hour trading environment.

The official account of the AI assistant Claude from the artificial intelligence company Anthropic stated that the application volume for the Claude Startups program has exceeded expectations, and they will suspend the $1000 API credit offer for Claude Team.Claude mentioned that there have been hundreds of thousands of applications for the program, and the team is re-evaluating to cover as many startups as possible. Accounts that have already received the discount can still retain their related rights; accounts that have applied or have been approved but have not yet claimed will enter a review process, and some previously approved accounts will not be able to receive the discount.Claude stated that accepted program members can still use Startup Stack and Applied AI office hours. Users on the Claude Max or Team plan can continue to use their monthly API credits as usual in the Console.

According to DeFiLlama data, Bitget has seen a net inflow of $675 million in the past 7 days, ranking first among centralized exchanges (CEX).

Venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) announced the establishment of a new fund totaling $900 million to support companies that are innovating on the edges of large markets reshaped by technology. USV stated that the previous core fund was $275 million; this expansion aims to lead more rounds and support companies for a longer time in the AI era, as well as invest in areas such as robotics, manufacturing, and energy that require more capital. The number of investments from the new fund will be roughly equivalent to previous ones.USV founders Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham articulated their early investment thesis to limited partners in 2004, arguing that investments should be made in early companies that leverage the internet infrastructure that was already widespread at the time and add value to widely available core technologies. Based on this, USV made early investments in Twitter, Twilio, Etsy, MongoDB, and Coinbase. This announcement was co-signed by Nick Grossman, Rebecca Kaden, Michael Mignano, and Fred Wilson.USV stated that the core investment team also includes long-time investors Nick Grossman, Nikhil Raman, and newly joined general partner Michael Mignano (co-founder of Anchor), venture partner Jared Hecht (co-founder of GroupMe and Fundera), and product advisor partner Scott Belsky (co-founder of Behance and former Chief Product Officer of Adobe).

B.AI platform announces that Anthropic's latest Haiku model, Claude Haiku 5.5, is officially launched, with API and Web Chat both open for experience. This model is designed for high-frequency calls and latency-sensitive workloads, achieving a better balance between speed, cost, and intelligence, suitable for well-defined sub-agent tasks. The model defaults to adaptive thinking, supports five levels of reasoning intensity, has image understanding and tool invocation capabilities, and supports 1M Token ultra-long context with a maximum output of 128K. It is applicable in scenarios such as classification, routing, information extraction, summarization, real-time customer service, code-assisted retrieval, and interface automation. From now on, developers and users can directly call Claude Haiku 5.5 through the B.AI platform.

According to Fortune, AI trading agent startup Catalyst announced the completion of a $30 million seed round financing, led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Jump Trading, Peak XV, Lux Capital, AntiFund, Coinbase, and Premji Invest.The company was co-founded by Justin Zheng and Dylan Iskandar in 2025, aiming to assist ordinary investors in formulating and executing trading strategies through AI agents, allowing users to express investment goals in natural language. The AI agent then translates these into trading strategies and completes processes such as asset selection, cost optimization, and trade execution, but the final trades still require user confirmation. It is reported that Catalyst has currently completed a round of testing aimed at high-frequency trading users.

The cryptocurrency and fintech investment company Deus X Capital has ceased operations and will officially liquidate on January 31, 2027. The investors behind it will shift to their respective independent investment strategies. The company was led by former Galaxy Digital executive Tim Grant, and Chief Investment Officer Stuart Connolly will remain to oversee the transition. Some of the invested enterprises will continue to operate with the participation of existing shareholders.The Morton family investors behind Deus X Capital are splitting their investment activities. Shane Morton is establishing Darius, which focuses on artificial intelligence, while Owen and Jason Morton have founded 95, which focuses on markets and fintech. Grant will serve as CEO of TensorX, the AI business owned by Darius under Shane Morton. Grant stated that he hopes to become a significant player in the European AI sector.Deus X Capital was established in October 2023, supported by a family office, with $1 billion in existing investments and deployable capital at its inception. Its strategy covers private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund allocations in the fields of digital assets, blockchain, fintech, and institutional capital markets. Its early investments include stakes in Galaxy Digital and asset management company Hilbert Group, with operations in Malta, London, and the UAE.

Greece is preparing to legislate a 10% tax on capital gains from cryptocurrencies. The draft bill was published on Thursday local time and has entered the public consultation phase, with a submission to parliament expected in November.According to the draft, individuals can be exempt from tax on capital gains from cryptocurrencies up to 500 euros per year, which is approximately 559.95 USD. Greece currently lacks a complete tax legal framework for cryptocurrencies, and officials have stated that it is difficult to accurately estimate the size of the country's cryptocurrency market due to the vast majority of investors using offshore platforms. The government has not made specific predictions regarding the fiscal revenue generated by the new tax.

Robot data startup Mecka AI has completed a $60 million Series B funding round, led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Nvidia, Microsoft's venture fund M12, Qualcomm, and Samsung Electronics.Mecka AI is a startup dedicated to collecting and analyzing human motion data to train humanoid robots and other types of robots. According to previous reports, Mecka AI is set to complete a funding round led by Sequoia, with a valuation of approximately $500 million.

According to PRNewswire, the publicly traded company Universal Safety Products (UUU) announced that it will be renamed DeFi Capital Markets on October 19 and will trade under the new ticker "DCM." In the future, it will gradually cease its original product business and focus on asset tokenization, digital assets, market making, as well as quantitative trading and blockchain financial markets.

Moody's has assigned a B3 rating to the decentralized finance protocol Sky, with a stable outlook. This rating places Sky in Moody's speculative grade category.Moody's noted that Sky's capital buffer is relatively weak, with equity capital of approximately 90 million dollars, while the assets under management are about 10 billion dollars.

Bitget, in collaboration with the digital asset research institution Block Scholes, has released the latest research report analyzing the synergistic effects of tokenized stocks and crypto assets within a unified trading account. In the report, Block Scholes simulated an investment portfolio with a total size of $1 million, covering AI and semiconductor tokenized stocks, BTC and ETH perpetual contracts, as well as Nasdaq 100 ETF perpetual contracts. Under a structure where accounts are mutually independent, the total margin required occupies about $340,000 in capital; however, in Bitget's cross-asset unified account, tokenized stocks can simultaneously be counted as collateral, reducing the required capital to about $175,000, a decrease of approximately 48.5%.The research report also analyzes the risk characteristics associated with higher capital efficiency. Stress tests show that when collateral and positions are driven by the same macro factors, the simulated portfolio using tokenized stocks as collateral reaches the estimated liquidation point after a market decline of about 21% in correlation; when using equivalent USDT as collateral, it withstands a decline of about 27% in correlation. The study indicates that while improving capital efficiency, it is also necessary to comprehensively assess the correlation between collateral and positions as well as their own volatility.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that putting assets on-chain is just the first step; more importantly, it is to enhance the efficiency of capital usage across different markets. Bitget is promoting the collaborative operation of crypto assets, tokenized stocks, and other global assets under a unified capital framework through the UEX model. Currently, Bitget's cross-asset unified account (UTA) supports over 370 types of collateralizable assets, including 125 types of tokenized U.S. stocks. Eligible crypto assets and tokenized stocks can enter the same margin system, sharing collateral value and meeting margin requirements for different positions.

At the TOKEN2049 event in Singapore, OKX founder and CEO Star stated that AI's impact on the financial industry is not only occurring at the user level but is also deeply penetrating backend operations such as compliance and risk control. OKX has utilized AI to assist in identifying risks, supporting investigations of suspicious transactions and behaviors, and providing recommendations to enhance processing efficiency and execution consistency. Currently, AI does not make compliance or risk management decisions directly; the final decisions are still made by humans.On-site, OKX board member and former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo also added that clear regulatory rules are an important foundation for fintech companies to expand their services. To provide financial services to a broader user base, companies must comply with regulatory requirements and establish public trust through compliant operations.

Former Messari analyst Mason Nystrom announced on the X platform that he has officially joined Multicoin Capital as an investment partner. Prior to this, Mason Nystrom worked at Pantera Capital and Variant Fund.Mason stated that with his background at ConsenSys and Messari, along with in-depth research on stablecoins, tokenization, and consumer cryptocurrencies, he will closely focus on venture capital in stablecoins, consumer applications, and financial infrastructure.

Financial technology startup Navra announced the completion of a $19 million Series A financing round, led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Baseline, DCM, and others, while Jump Crypto and Figure Technology Solutions acted as strategic investors.Navra primarily connects multiple blockchain venues through a single interface, directly linking DeFi yield protocols and cash channels, providing keyless self-custody services that meet qualified custody requirements, and includes an AI agent; the institutional version also supports enterprise team management and full audit tracking.

According to research data from CoinDesk, the market capitalization of Ripple's USD stablecoin RLUSD reached $2.37 billion in September 2026.Data shows that in June of this year, the supply of RLUSD on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) network surpassed that on Ethereum for the first time, accounting for 52% of the total supply, while Ethereum's network accounted for 48%. This change indicates that the liquidity of RLUSD is increasingly shifting towards Ripple's native settlement infrastructure, XRPL.

According to official news, the P2P AI inference network Antseed has officially been released, while also disclosing that the nonprofit foundation Antseed Foundation has completed a $2.4 million token round of financing. Spark Capital led the investment, with participation from Collider, DCG, North Island Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Relay Capital, and Venice.ai.Antseed aims to apply BitTorrent's peer-to-peer model to the AI inference field, allowing different providers to sell models and Agent services directly. After running Antseed's local router on their computers, users can connect tools like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc., to the same address. Each call is selected by the router based on price, speed, reputation, and privacy conditions, with fees settled directly in USDC on Base. Providers can run their own local models, fine-tune models, or offer other AI services and set their own prices.The biggest difference between Antseed and OpenRouter is that there is no unified platform responsible for forwarding in between. Buyers connect directly to providers, while Antseed is responsible for discovery, routing, reputation, and payment protocols. Ordinary providers can still see the requests they handle; users can also choose providers verified through TEE, allowing requests to run in a trusted execution environment.Antseed is also continuing to improve verification mechanisms such as model fingerprints, signature responses, and audits to prevent providers from misrepresenting cheaper models as more expensive ones. The code has been open-sourced, and the network is operational, although GitHub is currently addressing compatibility issues with Codex, Claude Desktop, and others.

According to SolanaFloor, the Solana perpetual futures trading platform Imperial has completed a $1.5 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $15 million, led by Foundation Capital and supported by angel investors in the Solana ecosystem.The funds from this round will be used to expand Imperial's product portfolio, including a perpetual contract aggregator, a lending platform, and the flagship project Armada. Imperial's Armada is a perpetual contract AMM in the Solana ecosystem, sourcing liquidity from DeFi platforms like Hyperliquid, allowing traders to access a deeper order book without leaving Solana.

According to Businesswire, AI security company Hadrian announced the completion of a $40 million financing round, led jointly by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors such as HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures.The company simulates an attacker's perspective for enterprises by combining Continuous Exposure Management and AI-driven penetration testing, helping to identify external attack surfaces, validate real risks, and optimize remediation priorities. After this financing round, Hadrian's total funding amount reaches $65 million, and the funds will be used to expand into the European and American markets, grow the engineering and research teams, and further develop its AI-driven cybersecurity platform.