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According to Globenewswire, the stablecoin payment infrastructure company Noah announced the completion of a $38 million seed round financing, with participation from Endeit Capital, FJ Labs, LocalGlobe, Felix Capital, and several well-known angel investors.The new funds will be used to expand international remittance services, develop regulatory frameworks, and provide cross-border payment services based on stablecoins for businesses and individuals.

Four-time F1 World Champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen participated in a roundtable discussion on the main stage of TOKEN2049 in Singapore. Following this, at the invitation of Gate, he joined platform founder and CEO Dr. Han and teammate Isack Hadjar for an exclusive handprint ceremony. Previously, Max Verstappen engaged with the guests on topics related to racing performance, on-the-spot adjustments, and competition. The subsequent handprint ceremony extended the stage interaction to the Gate on-site event, becoming a special memento left by the three during TOKEN2049. After the handprint ceremony, Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar also went to the Gate Lounge to participate in a driver meet-and-greet, where they signed autographs, took photos, and interacted with guests.As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate continues to bring top-tier racing culture into the Web3 industry through various forms such as stage discussions, handprint commemorations, booth interactions, and driver meet-and-greets. This handprint ceremony also became a special segment in the series of interactions between Gate and the F1 Red Bull Racing team during TOKEN2049. Gate will leverage this collaboration to further expand the connection between digital assets and global sports as well as mainstream culture.

The co-founder and CEO of the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid, Jeff Yan, stated during a fireside chat at the Token2049 conference in Singapore that traditional wealth creation opportunities on Wall Street, such as company stocks, are essentially inaccessible to the investing public before they are listed on exchanges, causing retail investors to miss out on the most significant price increases prior to listing. He noted that certain assets are tradable by only a few people during most of their growth phases, and by the time the public can trade them, the growth has already been captured by a privileged few, making this wealth creation model unsustainable.Yan stated that Hyperliquid's main mission is to expand the accessibility of wealth creation opportunities and encourage more people to participate in the financial system, with income being merely a byproduct. He mentioned that Hyperliquid's success partly stems from its perpetual contracts having no expiration date, which reduces the number of decisions traders need to make and prevents liquidity fragmentation. According to data from DefiLlama, Hyperliquid generated $72 million in revenue over the past 30 days, ranking third among protocols in terms of revenue.Blockchain asset management company Pantera stated in July that perpetual contracts, due to their structural advantages, could become one of the dominant trading tools in the global financial sector, and Hyperliquid has demonstrated the potential of blockchain infrastructure to challenge traditional markets. Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, called on regulators to create a fair competitive environment for the launch of 24/7 on-chain perpetual contracts. In March of this year, the New York Stock Exchange partnered with the tokenization platform Securitize to advance blockchain-based stock trading infrastructure.

Intel CEO Chen Liwu stated that the company will continue to collaborate with Elon Musk to advance the Terafab project. Previously, Musk had discussions with TSMC regarding this project, which affected investors' confidence in Intel. Intel signed a contract in April this year to become a development partner for the Terafab project.

On October 6, the U.S. IRS released Revenue Procedure 2026-20, updating and replacing Revenue Procedure 2025-31 published in November 2025, clarifying that eligible investment trusts and grantor trusts can participate in PoS staking while retaining tax benefits.The IRS defines compliant staking as "property preservation activities," allowing trusts to remain on the passive side and retain their status as investment trusts and grantor trusts (IRC Sections 671 to 677). This safe harbor includes 14 requirements, including shares listed on national exchanges, holding only a single digital asset, assets held by qualified custodians, liquidity policies approved by the SEC, and not hoarding staking rewards. This guidance applies to tax years ending on or after November 10, 2025.

According to Bloomberg, cryptocurrency exchange platform OKX has completed a new round of financing with a valuation of $25 billion, with existing partners and hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies participating in the investment.OKX stated that Circle Internet Group, Ripple, and SC Ventures, the investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank, all participated in this round of financing. OKX declined to disclose the specific amount of financing but indicated that this round is an extension of the financing from March of this year. At that time, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, invested approximately $200 million in OKX at the same valuation of $25 billion.

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.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated that there is currently a "fatal" problem in the cryptocurrency industry, which is that some projects lack a spirit of contract, resulting in situations where users cannot withdraw their BTC after depositing, arbitrary deductions of investors' assets, and forced modifications of terms.He believes that such behaviors pose indiscriminate credibility risks to VCs, KOLs, and secondary market investors, and suggests that trading platforms incorporate the credibility of project parties as a key assessment indicator.In the traditional stock market, companies involved in fraud typically face penalties or delisting rules. He mentioned that he is actively seeking secondary market projects that are profitable, capable of buybacks, and have credibility, and welcomes relevant projects or investors to communicate via private messages or to meet in person in Singapore soon.

According to Decrypt, the Solana Foundation announced the launch of the open-source custody program Solana DvP, providing standardized delivery versus payment (DvP) settlement APIs for financial institutions, released under the MIT license, with input from JPMorgan on the design of institutional settlement practices.The program aims to introduce settlement assurance into public chain infrastructure as a reusable standard, replacing the customized smart contracts previously relied upon by institutional trading.Solana DvP compresses the process that traditionally takes days to complete through clearinghouses, custodians, and custodians into a single atomic transaction, where assets and payments are settled simultaneously or not at all. The program supports SPL Tokens and Token-2022, covering extended features such as permanent delegation, pauseable tokens, and transfer hooks relied upon by regulated issuers, and has passed external security audits. The foundation stated plans to add privacy features in the future to keep settlement information confidential.Catherine Gu, head of digital asset products at the Solana Foundation, stated that atomic settlement eliminates the counterparty risk inherent in traditional finance, providing institutions with a single open standard to achieve finality in seconds rather than days.Rhodel D'souza, head of market digital assets at JPMorgan, said that the shared atomic delivery versus payment open standard is exactly the infrastructure needed by institutional market participants. This release builds on Solana's rising institutional appeal in the tokenized asset space, with BlackRock launching a tokenized money market fund in August, and Kraken offering tokenized U.S. stocks to overseas clients through its xStocks product on Solana.

According to official news, the broker HyperLink, based on Hyperliquid, announced the completion of a $2.5 million financing round, with participation from Alliance, North Island Ventures, Reverie, Node Capital, Breed, and smartestmoney.hl.HyperLink stated that the routing transaction volume on the protocol reached $254 million last month, accounting for 0.1% of Hyperliquid's trading volume, with the next phase goal being to capture 10% of the trading volume.

According to a report by the Japan Economic News cited by Reference News, the Japanese government has decided to impose additional sanctions on Russia during a cabinet meeting. In principle, the Japanese government prohibits providing operational, maintenance, insurance, and financing services to 35 vessels in Russia's "shadow fleet," which secretly transports crude oil to evade Western sanctions.In addition to the sanctions against the "shadow fleet," the Japanese government has also added 33 Russian military-related groups and 9 individuals to the asset freeze list, including groups involved in using cryptocurrency to evade financial sanctions.

AI startup Tavus released a new model called Griffin on October 1, referring to it as the first "human interaction model" that can understand and generate face-to-face conversations, paying attention not only to wording but also to expressions and pauses. Tavus stated that in tests, after a one-minute video call with Griffin-Lite, 26 out of 54 participants (48%) believed the other party was a real person; its previous generation system only convinced 1 out of 41 participants.Participants were told they would have a one-minute video call with another person to discuss things they were looking forward to this year, and only at the end of the call were they asked if they suspected the other party was not a real person. Tavus noted that those who became suspicious typically noticed within 20 seconds. This result comes from Tavus's own research page, where participants were recruited through a channel they call an independent research platform. Community comments on X pointed out that these results have not been independently verified and do not meet standard protocols.In the NVIDIA VideoFDB benchmark, Tavus claimed Griffin-Lite ranked first, with a generation dimension score of 3.83, the next best system scoring 2.8, and human reference scoring 3.92; the perception dimension score was 3.73, with the strongest baseline at 3.44 and human reference at 4.2. Tavus stated that NVIDIA independently conducted this evaluation. Griffin supports full duplex, allowing it to listen, see, and speak simultaneously, with an average audio-video delay of 0.43 seconds on the NVIDIA H100 chip. Tavus completed a $40 million Series B funding round led by CRV in November 2025.

The employment participation rate in the United States for September was 61.8%, higher than the expected 61.6%, and the previous value was 61.6%.

According to Finbold, the AI perpetual trading platform PERPTools developed by DEXTools has raised a total of 8 million dollars through two rounds of token financing, including 3 million dollars in the pre-seed round and 5 million dollars in the seed round. Investors include BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion, and Shima Capital.The platform plans to conduct its Token Generation Event (TGE) in the fourth quarter of 2026.

AI native cloud platform GMI Cloud announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $668 million, including $223 million in Series B equity financing and $445 million in credit financing, led by the investment company ARCHIV, with participation from NVIDIA.The company stated that its inference platform processes approximately 40 trillion tokens per week, with clients including Fireworks, Nous Research, OpenRouter, Trend Micro, and others.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will lead the Pentagon's "Meridian Project" alongside Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to study the future of warfare and next-generation military capabilities. The project is expected to deliver final results within 120 days.

According to CNBC, cryptocurrency trading company Raven has completed a new round of financing with a valuation of 90 million, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global.Raven co-founder Petar Kostov stated that Raven was established in 2023 to provide liquidity for cryptocurrency trading and has expanded into prediction markets since the second quarter of 2025.

According to Techcrunch, AI security startup Reco announced the completion of a new round of financing of $55 million, which is an extension round based on its $30 million Series B financing in February, with participation from AT&T Ventures, Forestay, and Quadrille Capital.After this round of financing, the company's total funding amount has reached $140 million. Reco co-founder and CEO Ofer Klein stated that since the initial announcement of the Series B round, the company's valuation has "more than doubled."