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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Legacy vs PARIVISION - Thunderpick World Championship Group B," the "Legacy" option in the sub-market "Map 2 Winner" has experienced significant fluctuations in win rate, soaring from 62.5% an hour ago to the current 78.3% (a fluctuation of 15.8%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "Counter-Strike: Team Falcons vs NIP - Thunderpick World Championship Group A", the option "Team Falcons" in the sub-market "Map 1 Winner" experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 65.5% an hour ago to the current 87.5% (a fluctuation of 22%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

AI Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced the addition of local bank transfer payments in Chile, allowing users to enter amounts in Chilean Pesos (CLP) and complete payments using cryptocurrency assets. AEON is responsible for asset conversion and settling with merchants through local banks. This integration further expands AEON's local settlement network in Latin America, enabling AI Agents to make real-world purchases using familiar banking payment systems in the future, providing broader real purchasing power for the AI economy. AEON is currently operational in several Latin American countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia.

The stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace announced a joint initiative with multiple industry partners, including OSL, AllScale, Stable, Hetu, Cregis, WIDTH, KEM, and KTX, to launch the white paper titled Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure: From On-Chain Settlement to Real-World Payments. As stablecoins evolve from crypto-native financial instruments into global financial infrastructure, stablecoin payment activity is also growing rapidly. In Q1 2026, stablecoin transaction volume exceeded $28 trillion, while stablecoin B2B payments reached $226 billion in 2025, representing a 733% year-over-year increase. However, as stablecoin payments expand into real-world commercial use cases, the industry still lacks a systematic framework for defining the capabilities covered by stablecoin payment infrastructure and how on-chain assets can be connected with real-world commerce. The white paper will focus on this gap, covering key topics such as stablecoin payment infrastructure, end-to-end costs, compliance and risk management, and enterprise-scale adoption. Drawing on industry data, practical experience, and real-world cases, it will further explore the development path of stablecoin payment infrastructure. The full white paper is expected to be officially released within the next 1-2 months.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform stating that Bloomberg ETF analyst @JSeyff disclosed that despite BlackRock executives preparing to launch a Bitcoin ETF, Larry Fink has remained skeptical about Bitcoin.Due to internal board discussions and events such as the FTX collapse, the project has reportedly been on the verge of being halted multiple times. Currently, BlackRock operates the world's largest spot Bitcoin ETF.

On November 12, from 15:30 to 16:30 (UTC), Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han will be invited to attend an event at The Oxford Union and take the stage to share. The event will be held at The Oxford Union located on St Michael's Street in Oxford, UK.The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 and is an independent student debating society with a history of over 200 years, regularly inviting political and business leaders, renowned actors, and Nobel Prize winners to engage in discussions. Historically, it has welcomed notable figures such as Albert Einstein.Gate was founded by Dr. Han in 2013 and has provided asset management, trading, payment, and other services to over 61 million users worldwide, connecting digital assets, fiat currencies, and payment services through Gate Money. This appearance will promote Gate's exchange with global thought leaders and the new generation of talent, expanding the connection between digital assets and traditional finance.

On October 13, 2026, the real-world asset market HyperDex announced the launch of a spot and perpetual contract aggregator, placing spot routing, cross-chain transfers, and the newly announced perpetual aggregation on the same interface. The announcement did not disclose the trading volume upon launch, and the perpetual section did not specify the venue, supported contracts, collateral rules, or liquidation mechanisms; the product is currently labeled as beta.The interface provides quotes for each exchange and cross-chain transaction between exchanges, cross-chain bridges, and intent resolvers; users sign with their own addresses, and funds are routed through audited contracts to the selected target, with the platform not holding custody. The team claims to have integrated with LI.FI, RIFT, Enso, Ravn, and specifically mentions Relay, Across, NEAR Intents, Chainflip, among others, totaling over 70 venues and more than 19,000 tokens, including tokenized stocks, gold, government bonds, and credit issued by Ondo, Backpack, Coinbase, Robinhood, etc. The supporting chain documentation states that routing covers 69 mainnets, 36 bridges, and 39 exchanges, including EVM, Bitcoin, Solana, Sui, and Zcash.After selecting tokens, chains, and quantities, the system requests quotes and sorts them by the best price or fastest completion, refreshing quotes every 20 seconds. Before signing, it displays the minimum received amount, network fees, HyperDex fees, and estimated completion time; standard transfer fees are 0.50%, private exchanges are 0.75%, and protocol fees are deducted from the sent tokens. On-chain settlements are reportedly completed atomically, and any slippage beyond the limit will roll back; if a cross-chain bridge is completed but the target chain exchange fails, users will receive the bridged assets on the target chain. The routing contracts are claimed to be audited, open-source, and have a bug bounty program.

On October 13, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated on social media platform X: Once China masters the manufacturing methods for a certain type of product, its ability to scale production often exceeds that of the rest of the world combined. He cited lithium batteries and solar energy as examples, claiming that China has demonstrated this characteristic in these fields. This statement was in response to a discussion about memory manufacturer Changxin Storage.The poster Melvin believes that Changxin is already a competitor that cannot be ignored, but whether new technology can stably achieve large-scale mass production still depends on yield, cost, and reliability. He also noted that memory demand is still growing, and an increase in production capacity does not mean that the market will immediately experience oversupply. Regarding memory, Musk mentioned that about three years ago, memory was still a low-margin commodity, with LPDDR5 and LPDDR6 designed according to common standards, and China seems to be rapidly solving related technical issues.Musk also pointed out that the new generation of high-bandwidth memory architecture is more difficult to tackle. Another challenge is placing a layer of SRAM beneath the logic chip and stacking RAM in three dimensions above it while addressing the heat dissipation issues of the logic chip. Phoenix Technology cited public information stating that on September 7, Changxin Storage announced that LPDDR6 has entered mass production and was first commercially used in the Xiaomi 18 Fold, with a capacity of 16 GB, compliant with JEDEC's LPDDR6 standard. Subsequently, Changxin announced that its fifth-generation DRAM process platform has achieved mass production and launched two LPDDR5X products based on this platform, aimed at smartphones and portable consumer electronics, with a single bare chip capacity increased by 50% compared to the previous generation of similar products.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank annual meetings are being held this week in Bangkok, gathering central bank governors from multiple countries. Federal Reserve Chair Waller will deliver a speech on Friday, with key topics including economic growth, debt, and geopolitics. IMF President Kristalina Georgieva hinted that the new edition of the World Economic Outlook is not optimistic due to high energy prices, record global public debt, and tensions in the bond market. Conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, as well as AI regulation, will also be focal points of attention.

At the 2026 Wonderful and Marvelous Night co-hosted by Douyin and Beijing Satellite TV, the founder of Film Hurricane, Pan Tianhong, demonstrated a world model. This model can generate an explorable virtual environment based on text descriptions, allowing users on-site to roam within the generated scenes and continue inputting commands to modify the visuals.Bloomberg reported in September this year that ByteDance is developing a real-time spatial video model based on the video generation model Seedance, supervised by founder Zhang Yiming, with a potential launch as early as October. Related directions include cloud generation, Pico headsets, and Douyin creator tools. ByteDance has not officially confirmed whether this demonstration is the same product as the project, nor has it disclosed the product name, launch time, or detailed performance data.

U.S. President Trump announced an agreement with Russian President Putin, under which Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel to the United States and global markets, with an additional 500,000 tons supplied in November, followed by an extra 1 million tons, and a total supply of 3 million tons in the short term.This move will lead to a rapid decline in global diesel prices.

Bitcoin Treasuries posted on platform X that the tokenized stock Stretch (STRCx) under Strategy has a circulating market value of 158 million dollars, making it the largest tokenized stock in the world, surpassing the tokenized equity of SpaceX under Elon Musk.

BRT.Fit will jointly hold a real-world treasure hunt event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with Jagat, one of Southeast Asia's leading LBS social platforms, with an expected BRT fund of 1 million USD. The event is driven by location services, exploring the real world to find treasures and earn BRT rewards.The event will also be gradually launched in more markets such as Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

On the evening of October 6, HTX DAO's "Night of the Future" was held in Singapore. HTX DAO core supporter Sun Yuchen stated via video that the cryptocurrency industry is deepening its connection with traditional finance, promoting the continuous digitization of global financial infrastructure; AI is changing the way wealth is created, while Crypto and digital finance are altering the ways wealth is held and flows.Sun Yuchen pointed out that stablecoins are expected to play a more important role in global payments and settlements, and the on-chain applications of traditional assets such as bonds, funds, and gold will continue to be explored. After AI Agents enter economic activities, there will be further demand for identity, accounts, and independent trading capabilities. He emphasized that the long-term value of technology lies in its transformation into real productivity, and "the free flow of value in the digital world" is the trend he is most concerned about for the next decade, hoping that blockchain will enhance the accessibility, convenience, and efficiency of financial services.This event further strengthened the communication between HTX DAO and global communities and industry builders. HTX Ventures will appear at TOKEN2049 from October 7 to 8, with a booth located at PB5-47&48. From October 6 to 8, HTX DAO will also host several invitation-only events such as reunions and VIP private dinners.

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral claims that its model ranks among the best open-weight models in the world, trained using approximately 4,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs.

On October 1, Nasdaq-listed company OpenWorld, Inc. (stock ticker: OPNW) announced in Las Vegas its intention to acquire Blocksight Holdings Co. The transaction is subject to final approval by the OpenWorld board and the signing of final documents, with both parties finalizing the relevant documents. The company stated that it does not guarantee that the documents will be signed or that the transaction will be completed.Blocksight builds an artificial intelligence agent platform for putting real-world assets on-chain and continuously providing investor reports. The agent covers trade construction, asset data verification, investor introduction, daily reports, and ongoing services, operating across multiple chains and directly connecting to distribution platforms, with key decisions requiring human approval. The proposed acquisition aims to support the still-in-development OpenWorld Enterprise, allowing institutions to access, verify, and hold tokenized real-world asset opportunities, with OpenWorld potentially acting as a co-principal and co-architect.If the transaction is completed, Blocksight co-founders Patrick Kim and Peter Hong are expected to join OpenWorld to assist with technology integration. OpenWorld co-founder and CEO Matthew Shaw stated that the proposed acquisition is an important step for the company as it begins its journey as a publicly listed company and may strengthen its institutional-facing tokenized real-world asset platform foundation. The announcement was made in conjunction with the company and VerifyMe, Inc.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "LoL Solary vs T1 Academy World Star Challenge Playoffs" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, rising from 25% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 25%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.