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LinX HK, an AI recruitment technology brand targeting the Asian market, announced that it has completed a $4 million Pre-A round of financing, with institutional investors including Aipollo and Lingfeng Innovation Fund investing a total of $3 million, and individual investors contributing a total of $1 million. The funds will focus on the product and AI technology development of LinX HK's flagship product, Luminpath.Shuo Shan, co-founder of LinX HK, stated: "This round of financing provides LinX HK with support to further refine our product and technological capabilities. We hope to continue advancing the development of the AI job-seeking agent for Luminpath, helping users discover opportunities more efficiently, understand positions and companies, and face career choices with better preparation."According to reports, LinX HK is an AI recruitment technology brand aimed at the Asian market, with its flagship product being Luminpath. Luminpath is currently in the gray testing phase, providing AI-driven job-seeking support for users in scenarios such as job discovery, resume optimization, customized application materials, and application assistance within authorized scopes.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "FC Barcelona vs. Real Madrid CF - More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option in the sub-market "2nd Half O/U 4.5" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 5% an hour ago to the current 40.5% (a fluctuation of 35.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the "Q3 2026 Report" released by Gate, the platform's institutional business continues to grow, with cross-market trading, asset custody, and professional fund services further expanding.Among them, CrossEx has seen significant improvements in several core indicators, with quarterly trading volume increasing by 63% month-on-month, asset custody increasing by 902% month-on-month, the number of trading users growing by approximately 315% compared to Q2, and the number of fund users increasing by 95%.In terms of products and infrastructure, CrossEx has added mainstream exchanges, Lighter contracts, real stocks, and ETF trading scenarios, and launched features such as RPI Orders and arbitrage opportunity displays. CrossEx Colo services have officially launched, with order placement concurrency and multiple transaction reporting delays optimized by about 50%, and the highest fees for certain trading scenarios reduced by 50%. During the same period, Gate's institutional cumulative borrowing volume increased by 412.02% month-on-month.In addition, the Gate SuperLink ecosystem has added two banking partners, ABN AMRO and Pave Bank, and deepened cooperation with custodians such as Copper and BitGo. OES clients can now access CrossEx, participating in trading across multiple exchanges through a unified margin pool under an isolated custody model, further expanding institutional clients' cross-market asset allocation and trading options.

According to The Defiant, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has canceled the questionnaire requirement for Monero withdrawals, and XMR remains listed on the platform.Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that asking customers how they will use the withdrawn tokens is unacceptable. The exchange will still retain the review of the source of funds.Previously, Kraken required some users withdrawing XMR to answer enhanced due diligence questions, including explaining the reason for the transaction and the expected use of XMR after withdrawal.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Derrick White: Points O/U 14.5" for the "Knicks vs. Celtics" event on the prediction market Polymarket has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 54.5% an hour ago to the current 37.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Market news reports that U.S. President Trump is expected to cancel some tariffs on Canada.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Jalen Brunson: Points O/U 25.5" for the "Knicks vs. Celtics" event on the Polymarket has experienced significant fluctuations, rising from 26.5% an hour ago to the current 44.5% (a fluctuation of 18%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to community reports, on October 23, crypto influencer kimchi posted an image containing a QR code, which points to the meme coin kimchi. Relevant information indicates that the kimchi address holds over 50% of the token, and it is different from the previously mentioned "speedrun 30 million dollars" token. The co-founder of the meme coin issuance platform pump.fun, alon, subsequently retweeted the post.The new kimchi token briefly surged to a market value of about 10 million dollars. Afterward, alon canceled the retweet, kimchi deleted the post, and removed the mention of pump.fun from his personal profile, leading to a rapid decline in the token's value, which was then about 190,000 dollars. According to GMGN market data, the previous Kimchi token also accelerated its decline that morning, with a market value of about 12.81 million dollars at that time.These actions have sparked dissatisfaction within the community, with some crypto investors accusing kimchi and alon of potentially illegal behavior. Kimchi has frequently flaunted wealth on social media and claimed to have profited significantly from investing in the TRUMP token. Recently, alon stated that Kimchi is the first person to truly bridge the gap between the crypto industry and pop culture, and is the first case of a trader becoming a public figure.

Market news reports that SpaceX is negotiating to connect 80,000 cellular sites to build a new network.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) stated in the frequently asked questions document regarding retail payment regulation conclusions that the removal of surcharges for the designated card networks eftpos, Mastercard, and Visa starting from October 1, 2026, is in the public interest. The RBA will lift the ban on the "no surcharge" rule for the aforementioned networks from that date, with the changes based on Standard No. 3 of 2016 and the revisions to the merchant card payment costs and surcharge standards in 2026. eftpos, Mastercard, and Visa have all decided to implement the no surcharge rule from that date, generally applicable to their credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including cards issued overseas.American Express, UnionPay, and PayPal have also decided to eliminate surcharges, but are currently not formally regulated by the RBA. American Express and UnionPay will withdraw from their existing commitments with the RBA on October 1, 2026, while PayPal's no surcharge rule will take effect on October 5, 2026. This scope is limited to fees charged due to customer card payments and does not include surcharges for weekends, public holidays, booking fees, or service fees. Merchants must comply with the new card organization rules unless exceptions apply; businesses, non-profit organizations, and inter-business card payments do not receive a general exemption.The reforms will be implemented in phases. Starting from October 1, 2026, a lower interchange fee cap will apply to domestic card transactions; from October 30, designated card networks and large acquirers must publish the specified card payment fee information on their websites. From January 30, 2027, large acquirers must disclose how the decrease in interchange fees is passed on to merchant service fees; starting April 1, the interchange fee cap will apply to transactions involving overseas-issued cards acquired in Australia, and acquirers must also provide merchants with more detailed statements. The RBA stated that businesses can still factor the costs of accepting card payments into their overall pricing and may offer discounts for specific payment methods.

According to EU-Startups, the Barcelona venture capital platform Masia has announced the completion of a €18 million first-phase fundraise, which will invest in early-stage AI and cutting-edge technology companies associated with Barcelona. The fund has the support of over 70 limited partners, including tech founders, corporate executives, and seasoned investors, with two institutional investors also participating.Masia has also opened Masia House in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, covering an area of 1,000 square meters, consisting of four floors, providing office space, meeting rooms, accommodation for visiting investors, and a terrace event space.

According to information from GitHub, a core protocol draft named "Decoupled Consensus" has appeared in the Ethereum EIP repository. It proposes to separate the beacon chain's head voting from the finality proof voting to enhance fork choice security, shorten finality time, and lay the groundwork for a subsequent transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQ).The proposal is co-authored by Francesco D'Amato, Roberto Saltini, Yann Vonlanthen, Mikhail Kalinin, and Ben Edgington, and is currently still in the early draft stage, with multiple details yet to be determined. The submitters primarily hope to obtain an EIP number at this stage. The proposal is pending further review and has not yet been merged.

NVIDIA launched the DSX POD artificial intelligence factory to accelerate infrastructure deployment in Europe. The DSX Pod module can reduce deployment time to as fast as 14 days.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the storage chip manufacturer SK Hynix completed a large-scale stock buyback on the 21st, following Samsung Electronics in completing the related operation. The company stated that it completed a stock buyback worth 40 trillion won on the Korea Exchange, which lasted for two months.Previously, SK Hynix announced that it would invest 40.0434 trillion won to buy back 24.07 million shares, all of which would be canceled after the buyback, accounting for approximately 3.3% of the total issued shares, and stated that this is the largest stock cancellation operation by a listed company in South Korea. The original buyback period was set from August 20 to November 19, but it was completed about a month ahead of schedule.

The blockchain data acceleration network Optimum has launched the data propagation tool mump2p on the Ethereum mainnet. This tool reduces redundant data transmission through random linear network coding, helping validators receive and propagate block and proof messages more quickly.According to official information from Optimum, mump2p can run in parallel with existing Ethereum clients without the need to modify consensus rules or change hardware. Optimum claims that its mainnet block propagation speed can reach 2 to 4 times the GossipSub benchmark.

Elon Musk revealed that ASML and other semiconductor equipment suppliers are accelerating the delivery of equipment for Tesla and SpaceX's Terafab chip project. Musk stated during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call that he appreciates the suppliers for speeding up equipment delivery to help achieve the goals.The Terafab project aims to meet the demand for AI processors and other chips from Tesla and SpaceX, with plans to achieve large-scale chip production by 2028.

According to The Defiant, the modular data availability network Celestia has announced the activation of Fibre services, opening a channel for Rollups to upload data directly to validators. Fibre is a data publishing protocol launched by Celestia that allows clients to upload blob data shards to Fibre servers operated by validators and download data from these servers, bypassing traditional relay transmission paths.According to Celestia's documentation, Fibre encodes each blob with erasure coding, enabling readers to recover complete data from partial encoded lines. The consensus layer only records payment information and blob commitments, while the data payload is transmitted directly between the client and the Fibre servers. The storage budget for each server is determined by the staking amount of its corresponding validator, and starting from application version 10, each bound validator is expected to run a Fibre server.Celestia stated that the design of separating data from commitments allows the chain to only handle commitments and validator signatures on-chain, without carrying the data itself, thus supporting higher throughput. In an end-to-end benchmark test involving 120 validators, Fibre achieved a throughput of 3.07 Tb/s. This feature provides a more efficient data publishing path for Rollups built on Celestia.

According to official news from Bitget, the platform announced the acquisition of the digital asset exchange and brokerage GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand) Co., Ltd., headquartered in Bangkok. This acquisition involves the complete shares of the target company held by GMO Internet and its related subsidiaries.GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand) holds licenses for digital asset exchange and brokerage business in Thailand. This acquisition will leverage its existing compliance foundation and local market experience to strengthen Bitget's localized operational capabilities in Thailand and further improve the strategic layout in the Southeast Asian market.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that Thailand is an important digital asset market in Southeast Asia, and this acquisition will help Bitget establish a localized operational system, gradually expanding its global trading service capabilities in the Thai market while complying with local regulatory requirements.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market event "Paris Saint-Germain vs. Barcelona" on Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "Paris Saint-Germain first half over/under 1.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 24.5% an hour ago to the current 40% (a fluctuation of 15.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Goldman Sachs stated that the speed at which hedge funds are selling off technology stocks is the fastest in ten years.