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Mona El Isa, co-founder of Enzyme, announced that after ten years in the industry, she has decided to exit the sector and close the on-chain asset management company Avantgarde. She stated that Avantgarde was established during the bear market in 2019, served as the core development team for Enzyme, and helped Enzyme achieve self-sustainability after several version iterations. Enzyme has now grown to become one of the fastest-growing fund tokenization platforms.Mona El Isa also mentioned that Avantgarde subsequently provided curation and fund management services for Compound, Gitcoin, SuperRare, NEAR, Decentraland, The Graph, and others, handling transactions worth hundreds of millions and TVL, while ensuring the safety of client assets during a year of severe DeFi security challenges. She plans to take a break before deciding on her next steps and welcomes staying in touch, and she can provide recruitment referrals for team members.

According to the official blog of Avalanche, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) court has announced the adoption of Avalanche blockchain technology to provide globally verifiable digital authenticity certificates for its court orders and hearing records.The system binds encrypted hashes of documents to unique NFT certificates on the Avalanche C-Chain, allowing any institution to verify document authenticity within seconds without contacting the court, while the document content and confidential information are not stored on-chain, maintaining complete privacy.Avalanche's settlement speed is less than one second, and records are non-reversible. In addition, the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) of the UAE is also collaborating with Ava Labs to integrate Avalanche technology into the Digital Vault blockchain layer of the national digital identity platform UAE PASS, which serves over 12.5 million users, further promoting the construction of a credible verification system for government documents on-chain in the UAE.

Robinhood announced that its social trading network is now open to all eligible users in the United States. CEO Vlad Tenev stated on October 13 that this feature is built into the app's information feed, centered around users' trades and performance. Users can follow other traders, view shared account activities, and initiate eligible trades directly from posts through the Quick trade feature. Tenev mentioned that Robinhood Social is now available to everyone, allowing users to share charts, profits and losses, and portfolio allocations, as well as receive news and company updates.This feature was previously tested starting on March 18, initially for 1,000 customers who attended the HOOD Summit, followed by an additional 10,000 in the subsequent weeks. The early version provided verified trading posts, daily and yearly profit and loss statistics, and the ability to place orders manually from the information feed; news feeds are part of future planning. Sharing is selective: trades will not be automatically published, and customers can choose which eligible trades to publish, as well as disable trading statistics in their profiles.Access and publishable content are restricted. Social is only available in the United States, and Robinhood excludes licensed securities professionals, individuals associated with regulated financial institutions, and the company's own employees. Its help page indicates that futures and multi-leg options trades currently do not meet publishing criteria. Tenev stated that Social will be coming to Robinhood's desktop trading platform Legend in the coming weeks.

Avalanche announced on October 13 that the Korean Securities Depository (KSD) is "building infrastructure connections based on Avalanche" for the Korean securities tokenization market. KSD's technical guidelines confirm that Avalanche is one of several ledger technologies supported by its platform plan; Avalanche's post states that the plan covers issuance, trading, clearing, settlement, and investor rights, ultimately achieving on-chain settlement.KSD's distributed ledger guidelines (reflecting development as of July 2026) place Avalanche alongside Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric, committing to support multiple ledger technologies rather than positioning Avalanche as the sole option for Korean securities infrastructure. The project has transitioned from a testing ground to the construction phase of a production platform, with Samsung SDS winning the bid to build it, aiming to convert the technology testing platform into a system that supports real transactions and stable operations, with a target completion date of February 2027.The roadmap released by the Korean Financial Services Commission in September shows that the revised terms for recognizing tokenized securities will take effect on February 4, 2027, with the first phase launching in the same month, initially covering private money market funds and bonds aimed at institutional investors, non-listed stocks held through trust structures, and publicly issued fractional investment securities. The second phase will expand to all publicly issued securities. On-chain payments related to stablecoins belong to the final phase, and the commission remains flexible on the timing for the second and third phases, setting November 11 as the deadline for public consultation on the implementation regulations.

Google has started to roll out Gemini 4 Argon to Google AI subscription users, applicable on platforms including Google Antigravity, the Gemini app, and the AI mode in Google Search. Gemini 4 Argon is launched at a promotional price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

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.

Travala stated that it has completed the strategic reserve buyback for this month and matched the monthly buyback of the AVA Foundation, adding 228,600 AVA to the AVA strategic reserve.Travala indicated that this portion of AVA will be permanently retained and will not be sold or transferred. After this increase, the balance of the AVA strategic reserve has risen to 598,500 AVA.

On October 7, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the "Wall Street Tycoon × Monopoly" event. Users can sign up to receive dice, complete tasks such as trading real-time U.S. stocks, contract trading, consuming stock tokens, and inviting friends to earn more dice; rolling the dice to move on the board will unlock random rewards such as BTC / ETH / USDT / WXT / stock tokens / bonuses / deductions / position airdrops / points / dice, and users can also participate in U.S. stock prediction contests daily to win more points and share a prize pool of one million USDT. Event duration: October 7, 00:00 to November 3, 23:59 (UTC+8).Among them, from October 7 to 11 is the TOKEN2049 themed phase. Users who sign up to participate in the event on-site at TOKEN2049 Singapore can receive a limited VIP experience card. In addition, participants can also visit the WEEX Alpha Suite to join roundtable forums, AMAs, AI trading experiences, and Mini Trading House interactions, receiving exquisite merchandise and custom souvenirs.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.18%, the S&P 500 index up 0.67%, and the Nasdaq up 1.05%, reaching a new high. Nvidia rose 2%, Novavax Pharmaceuticals increased by 20%, Qualcomm fell 2%, and SpaceX rose over 7%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up 1.7%, with Alibaba rising 4%.

Driven by Securitize, Avalanche's tokenized stock market value increased by $246 million in September, the highest growth among all blockchains.

On September 30, the B.AI platform announced the official launch of OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol, with API and Web Chat both open for simultaneous experience. As an upgraded version of GPT-6 Sol, this model is aimed at complex software engineering, computer operations, and professional workflows, officially positioned to be close to GPT-6 Astra in intelligent agent programming, computer usage, and professional work, with the standard input/output token price being about 1/5 of Astra.The model supports 1.05M token ultra-long context and a maximum output of 128K, providing 5 adjustable reasoning strengths, and supports prompt caching and Responses API multi-agent delegation (Beta). From now on, developers and users can directly call GPT-6.1 Sol through the B.AI platform. You are welcome to log in to chat.b.ai/chat to experience it immediately.

On September 29, B.AI announced that Anthropic's latest Sonnet model, Claude Sonnet 5.5, has officially launched on the platform. As a faster and lower-cost supplement to Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 boasts an output speed increase of over 30%, with a maximum reduction in single-task costs of about 30%, aimed at clearly defined software engineering, everyday agent workflows, and professional document creation scenarios.This model supports image and PDF comprehension, can generate reports, presentations, spreadsheets, and UIs, and offers five adjustable reasoning intensities with a 1 million token context window, with no additional charges for long contexts. Currently, both the B.AI API and Web Chat have been synchronized and opened, allowing developers and users to directly access this new generation Sonnet model that balances speed, cost, and long context capabilities.

Binance Wallet announced that Binance Alpha has launched Doppler Finance (XDP). Users holding at least 230 Binance Alpha points can claim 1666 XDP airdrops on the Alpha event page, on a first-come, first-served basis, until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event ends.If the event has not ended, the point threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points, and users must confirm their claim on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, or it will be considered forfeited.

According to Chainwire, the crypto travel booking platform Travala and AVA Foundation announced a matching buyback arrangement. Travala will fund the buyback independently and in addition to the existing rewards supplementary buyback from AVA Foundation, increasing the monthly open market buyback amount from 1 times the member rewards to 2 times. The matched AVA purchased will be transferred to a new Travala AVA strategic reserve wallet, which is multi-sig custodial, and Travala commits that the AVA in it will never be sold or transferred out.Under the existing mechanism, AVA Foundation repurchases an amount of AVA each month equivalent to the amount of AVA distributed to AVA Smart members in the previous month and transfers it back to the ecological incentive wallet, with a historical total of 4,824,722 AVA repurchased. The first matched buyback has been completed: the Foundation repurchased 369,881.04 AVA in September, corresponding to the member rewards in August; Travala independently matched and purchased another 369,881.04 AVA, totaling 739,762.08 AVA. The Travala portion has been transferred to address 0x7bed1889c21d9eb3560463c14cd74fe29f2d03b6, and both buybacks can be verified on-chain separately.The AVA transferred to this wallet is permanently locked, with the monthly portion removed from the circulating supply and excluded from the official circulating supply through the AVA circulating supply interface. Travala will submit the reserve wallet address to CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko, and both parties will publicly report the numbers of the two buybacks each month.

B.AI platform announces the official launch of two efficient models in the OpenAI GPT-6 series, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, with API and Web Chat available simultaneously.The entire series supports 1.05M ultra-long context and 128K output, natively supports image understanding and Computer Use, and provides 6 adjustable inference strengths. Among them, GPT-6 Sol is aimed at complex software engineering and Agent workflows, scoring 68.8% on DeepSWE v1.1, with single-task costs reduced by about 80%; GPT-6 Luna focuses on high-frequency large-batch loads, scoring 66.6% on DeepSWE v1.1, with input as low as $0.10/1M Tokens.Starting today, developers and users can directly call the two models through the B.AI platform.

On September 23, the B.AI platform announced that the first model of Anthropic's newly released Claude 5.5 series, Claude Opus 5.5, is officially online, with API and Web Chat both open for simultaneous experience. This model is designed for long-cycle Agent programming and complex knowledge work, achieving Claude Fable 5.1 levels in most tasks, while reducing operating costs by about 40% compared to Opus 5.The model supports 1M Token ultra-long context and up to 128K output, demonstrating leading capabilities in Computer Use and multi-step automation scenarios. From today, developers and users can directly access Claude Opus 5.5 through the B.AI platform. You are welcome to log in to chat.b.ai/chat to experience it immediately.

The B.AI platform announces that the latest preview model of Moonshot AI, Kimi K2.8 Preview, is officially launched, providing developers with simultaneous access to API and Web Chat dual-end experiences.This model is specifically designed for programming and Agent workflows, supporting 1M (1,048,576 Tokens) ultra-long context and multimodal inputs of text, images, and videos. Its overall performance closely approaches the flagship Kimi K3, with further improvements in thinking efficiency and coding capabilities compared to K2.7 Code, and it supports three adjustable reasoning intensity levels: Low/High/Max.Starting today, developers can directly invoke Kimi K2.8 Preview through the B.AI platform.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. LUNA has dropped 16.44% in the last 24 hours, AVA has decreased by 7.2%, and LSK has fallen by 12.21%.At the same time, MASK has declined by 9.5%, SKL has dropped 13.62%, STRAX has decreased by 5.6%, XNO has fallen by 10.13%, and SYN has dropped by 6.1%.On the other hand, STG is in a "bottoming rebound" state, with a 24-hour increase of 7.37%, and KNC has reached a new high today, with an increase of 5.21%.

According to The Block, Charley Cooper, President of Ava Labs, stated that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been testing Avalanche technology over the past year and is collaborating with Ava Labs to explore how it can be integrated with the exchange's existing systems.Cooper mentioned that a close working relationship has been established between the two parties, but it has not yet been confirmed whether the NYSE will ultimately choose Avalanche as the blockchain for its tokenized securities platform. The NYSE announced in January this year that it is developing a platform for the tokenization of U.S. stocks and ETF trading and on-chain settlement.

During an interview with The Block at the New York Avalanche Summit, Bart Smith, CEO of Avalanche Treasury Co., stated that the view that block space is not infinite will be tested as AI agents enter the financial market. He pointed out that as long as AI agent activities reach the lower end of market expectations, relevant activities will occur on the blockchain, "there is not enough block space, and block space is no longer infinite."Smith believes that the expected demand for block space will make the technical differences between Layer 1 networks like Avalanche, Solana, and Ethereum even more important. He stated that theoretically, there are many subtle differences between these L1s, which users currently do not need to pay much attention to due to sufficient capacity, but "these differences will become important." The former executive, who worked at Susquehanna for nearly 14 years, also believes that Avalanche is best suited for business applications involving privacy and security.Smith expects that by mid-2027, traditional financial markets will shift to trading five days a week, 24 hours a day, and existing financial infrastructure will be unable to cope with round-the-clock trading. He stated that new infrastructure must be created, and it will not be built in the old way, "but rather built on the blockchain."