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CME Group announced that FalconX and GSR have completed the first block trade of CME's newly launched Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures.CME stated that the new contracts further expand its single cryptocurrency futures product line, which now covers assets such as BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA, LINK, XLM, AVAX, and SUI.

According to Cointelegraph, the RWA platform Tx has launched the dollar stablecoin USTX for its wallet and the planned tokenized stock market.Users can mint USTX using USDC from 8 blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, and Base, and can redeem it for USDC.

SpaceX announced that Falcon 9 Bandwagon-5 will conduct a rideshare launch mission from Launch Complex 40 in Florida, with a target launch time of 7:04 AM Eastern Time, and a favorable weather probability of 95%.

UPBIT will launch the KRW trading pair for Metaplex (MPLX) on October 20 at 18:30. Users should note that only deposits and withdrawals on the Solana network are supported.

According to the official announcement from 21Shares, the company has launched the Lighter (LIT) ETP and Venice Token (VVV) ETP in Europe. Both products are backed by physical tokens, with a fee rate of 2.50%.The trading code for Lighter ETP is LIHT, listed on the German exchange Xetra, supporting trading in euros and US dollars. The trading code for Venice Token ETP is VENC, listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX, trading in US dollars.Lighter is a decentralized perpetual contract trading platform that uses zero-knowledge technology, while Venice is a privacy-focused AI platform. Investors can hold the relevant ETPs through regular securities accounts without the need to purchase, custody tokens, or manage private keys themselves.

According to Beating reports, Tencent announced the opening of Yuanbao Search to developers through Tencent Cloud, supporting API, MCP, and Skill access. Tencent disclosed that this search service has an index of hundreds of billions, with an average daily call volume of hundreds of millions, and has supported over 50 internal businesses including WorkBuddy, ima, and Tencent Video. The underlying technology of Yuanbao Search comes from Sogou Search, integrates Tencent's content ecosystem, and connects to 157 authoritative sources across 13 industries including finance, healthcare, and law.Records from the Tencent Cloud Internet Search API show that this service went live on July 1, 2025. Alibaba Cloud launched its independent Internet Search API on March 20 of the same year; Volcano Engine upgraded its existing service to Doubao Search in June this year and officially released it to the public in July; DeepSeek opened its self-developed search engine's Search and Fetch API on October 17. The prices for Yuanbao Search's Express, Standard, and Premium versions are 14 yuan, 20 yuan, and 26 yuan per thousand calls, respectively, with an additional monthly free quota of 2,000 calls; the Express version only supports public web sources. The price for DeepSeek Search API is 5 yuan per thousand successful requests, Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Lite is 12 yuan, and the Pro version was reduced to 18 yuan on October 15.

Bitget will launch spot trading for Axis Robotics (AXIS) in the AI sector. The deposit channel is now open, and the trading channel will open on October 21 at 21:00 (UTC+8).

OKX announced the launch of tokenized stock xNFLX/USDC in the spot trading market. Users can place limit orders in advance from 18:00 to 19:00 on October 20, and spot trading will open at 19:00.

According to the official announcement, Gate Doge (Trenches) will hold the 67th Hot Coin Competition from October 19, 16:00 to October 22, 16:00 (UTC+8). After registering, users can trade all Robinhood chain tokens in the Doge area to earn chances for a blind box lottery based on their cumulative trading volume, sharing a total airdrop reward of 30,000 USDT.Users who did not register with an invitation code can earn 1 regular blind box lottery chance for every cumulative trade of 200 USDT, while users who registered with an invitation code can earn 1 premium blind box lottery chance for every cumulative trade of 500 USDT. Both types of users can earn a maximum of 12 lottery chances during the event, with a winning rate of 100%.At the same time, the Gate Doge SOL chain peak trading competition will be held from October 19, 18:00 to November 2, 16:00 (UTC+8). Users who register and trade SOL chain tokens in the Doge area can unlock an airdrop prize pool worth up to 50,000 USDT. Once the effective cumulative trading volume of all registered users reaches a certain threshold, the corresponding tier prize pool will be unlocked, based on the highest tier reached at the end of the event.In addition, users with an effective cumulative trading volume of 40,000 USDT can participate in the trading ranking, with the top 100 qualifying users receiving rewards, and the champion can win an airdrop worth up to 10,000 USDT.

Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 4 popular stocks: CSTOCK (Citibank), MDT (Medtronic), BP (British Petroleum), and VLO (Valero Energy). The above contracts are settled in USDT, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 368 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Robot AI company Dream Labs announced the completion of a $90 million seed round financing, with investors including B Capital, Kindred Ventures, A.Capital, SV Angel, and Wing VC. The company was founded in 2026 by the former head of the NVIDIA GR00T robotics research team, and the funds will primarily be used for computing power investment, expanding the tasks supported by the model, types of robots, and user scale.Dream Labs also launched Dream API, which can convert robot camera footage and natural language commands into motion control commands. The company claims that its Dream-1 model, through video learning, can adapt to robots from different manufacturers and has already partnered with over 20 hardware partners to support desktop tasks such as object grasping, placement, and folding clothes.

Cross-chain stablecoin bridge Cashmere announces expansion plans, with the automated liquidity product Goat LP set to open to all users, followed by the launch of the main product Mountain and the token $CSM. Cashmere Bridge currently supports zero-slippage stablecoin transfers across 16 chains, and Goat Street features 6,666 goat NFTs on the Robinhood Chain. The team states that there is currently no official $CSM, and the related arrangements are part of the current plan and may change.Goat LP targets Uniswap v3 and v4 positions on the Robinhood Chain, with positions remaining in users' wallets as Uniswap NFTs. Automatic reinvestment incurs a 10% reinvestment fee, with Gas covered by the project team; automatic adjustment of ranges and automatic exits both incur a 0.15% fee. The official description refers to it as experimental software. The Mountain code has completed testing and will undergo external auditing before going live. Barn is a soulbound NFT with a maximum of 10 slots, and after issuance begins, new $CSM will be distributed every second. Goat NFTs can be permanently bound to receive issuance shares and cannot be sold or withdrawn after binding.The plan is to issue 1,000 founding Barns, with a guaranteed slot price of 0.125 ETH, whitelist at 0.25 ETH, and public auction prices dropping from 1.5 ETH to 0.25 ETH. $CSM will begin trading through the official Uniswap v4 ETH pool, while market making and tokens on Anvil have been canceled and redeployed due to technical issues. The maximum supply is planned at 666 million, with 10% allocated for official pool liquidity, 25% for the team and treasury with designated ownership, and 65% issued as the system operates. The team also plans to airdrop to Barn participants, Goat Street activators, and early users, with wallets that have listed goat NFTs on OpenSea being excluded.

CME Group announced the official launch of Uniswap futures contracts, which are now open for trading, offering two contract sizes and supporting 24/7 trading.

According to "Du Jia," the Meituan AI team has launched the AI Agent skill platform DeepSkill, which currently includes over 370,000 validated Skill tools that have been tested through real tasks, nearly doubling from 130,000 at the beginning of September.The platform does not use a traditional directory search model; users can directly describe their task requirements, and the platform automatically breaks down and matches candidate Skills from the library. The platform will scan and analyze all content of the Skills, outputting an analysis report that includes capability boundaries, tool invocation, potential risks, and data security reviews. It also features trend rankings on GitHub, authoritative source rankings, and market hot search rankings. Currently, major companies such as Tencent, ByteDance, and Alibaba have made arrangements in the Skill platform field.

Financial Associated Press, October 20 - Amazon launched the open-source tool TorchNeuron on the 19th local time, aiming to lower the barrier for developers to transition from NVIDIA chips to its self-developed chips, challenging NVIDIA's software barrier built on CUDA. According to reports, this tool allows AI code written in PyTorch to run on Amazon's self-developed AI chips without the need for rewriting. PyTorch is maintained primarily by Meta and is described as an open-source framework used by most AI developers.Amazon's chip design department, Annapurna Labs, introduced that with TorchNeuron, developers only need to modify one configuration to run the same code on the self-developed Trainium chip. Amazon announced the launch of this tool on the 19th local time and plans to publicly release it in a free open-source format at the PyTorch conference in San Jose, California on the 20th.Colin Brace, Vice President of Software at Annapurna Labs, stated in an interview that the launch of TorchNeuron is intended to reduce the steps required for developers to try Amazon's self-developed chips, starting from the customers' existing workflows. He revealed that over 30 early customers are already using it, covering fields such as robotics, world models, and voice AI, and mentioned that switching to Amazon chips can save costs.

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.

The decentralized perpetual contract protocol Lighter announced the launch of BTC and ETH binary options on Core. Lighter is a low-latency decentralized exchange built on Ethereum zero-knowledge proofs, with order matching times, prices, and priorities all proven and published on Ethereum to ensure that transactions are verifiable and fair.Lighter's founder and CEO Vladimir Novakovski stated that the protocol is focusing on advancing options products this quarter, starting with binary options and gradually transitioning to on-chain European options, sharing the same balance sheet as perpetual contracts. Users can trade spot, options, and perpetual contracts on the same platform, enabling composite strategies such as basis trading and Delta hedging.Lighter claims its latency is in the tens of milliseconds, far lower than some competing platforms that exceed 500 milliseconds. As a U.S. company, Lighter is seeking to obtain a license from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which, if successful, will make it the first on-chain trading venue to obtain such a license.

On October 19, the B.AI platform announced that MiniMax's MiniMax M3.1 Flash (also known as Space Bunny) is officially online, with API and Web Chat both available for a synchronized experience. This model is designed for complex office automation, software engineering, visual reasoning, and professional analysis, supporting multi-step task execution, front-end implementation, and presentation creation, helping developers and professional users efficiently transform ideas into tangible results. The model supports a 1M Token context window and up to 512K output Tokens, with standard prices as low as $0.15 per million input Tokens and $0.60 per million output Tokens, balancing complex task processing with high cost-effectiveness.

According to The Block, payment company Mastercard has launched the Stablecoin Security tool to screen for fraud and sanction risks in stablecoin payments.This tool is aimed at stablecoin payment scenarios, helping relevant institutions identify fraudulent activities and sanction compliance risks during transaction processing. Mastercard did not disclose more product parameters and launch scope in the summary of the report.

According to CoinDesk, on-site infrastructure provider ZeroHash announced the launch of the AUTH product at the Money20/20 USA conference held in Las Vegas. This product is a set of on-chain identity verification and account connection tools designed to address user experience issues during the on-chain transfer of crypto assets, stablecoins, and tokenized securities. Users no longer need to copy long strings of wallet addresses made up of letters and numbers, nor do they need to manually select a blockchain network to complete asset transfers.It is reported that AUTH transforms on-chain asset transfers from an address model to an account model, allowing users to directly connect self-custody accounts with custodial accounts. The process involves: selecting the account to connect, logging in via account credentials and multi-factor authentication, and then assets are transferred directly on-chain, with the entire process being nearly instantaneous.AUTH currently offers over 600 connections, covering both custodial and non-custodial accounts, involving approximately 250 million users across more than 190 countries. Partner platforms include Robinhood, Gemini, Coinbase (exchange and wallet), MetaMask, and Phantom.ZeroHash stated that AUTH emphasizes trust and control in addition to usability: replacing original addresses with verified, user-authorized accounts, while allowing partners to configure the supported account types, on-chain assets, and transfer methods themselves.In addition, ZeroHash appointed Ryan Beaudry as the General Manager of AUTH, who previously served as the Executive Vice President of Global Open Finance Products and Operations at Mastercard. AUTH can be used as a standalone product or enabled through ZeroHash's existing SDK, and platforms that have integrated other ZeroHash products do not need to connect separately.