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According to Fortune, the tokenized fund liquidity platform Fission announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing round, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital, and Ari Rubenstein. This round of financing was completed in September, and the company did not disclose its valuation.Fission aims to solve the problem of tokenized fund shares being difficult to quickly liquidate. The platform acts as a buyer, allowing investors to sell their shares without having to wait for the fund to process redemptions. Users connect their digital wallets and submit sale requests, while Fission handles the backend legal and transaction processes. CEO Jonathan Shaffer stated that for products that typically take about 200 days to sell, investors can pay a fee to sell immediately and complete settlement in 90 seconds or less.Fission was founded in 2024, and the founding team includes former employees of Point72 and Securitize. Currently, the clients are mainly institutional investors and organizations holding on-chain assets, including hedge funds holding tokenized private credit or equity assets, crypto institutions managing treasury, and stablecoin issuers allocating reserves to interest-bearing tokenized investment products.

DeepSeek API Platform has released a notification regarding service recovery and compensation, stating that between 8:11 and 13:04 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, its service system experienced a failure, resulting in the API service being unavailable during that period. The platform apologizes for this and has stated that a comprehensive investigation and rectification regarding service stability has been initiated, with efforts to streamline and eliminate single point dependencies to prevent similar issues from occurring again.As compensation, the platform will fully refund the consumption amount of user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to October 14) in the form of bonus credits, which will be automatically credited to the accounts. API billing deductions will first be taken from the bonus account.

According to reports from Strait News, in March 2025, Zheng Mouyi, Zou Moumou, and others exploited the weak regulation and difficulty of evidence collection in offline USDT over-the-counter trading to plan a "black eat black" robbery crime under the guise of virtual currency offline trading.The gang raised over 340,000 yuan and invited virtual currency merchants for offline transactions. During the transaction, after the merchant transferred over 40,000 USDT into the virtual wallet controlled by the gang, Zheng Mouyi sprayed the victim's eyes with chili water on the spot and, along with others, violently seized all the transaction funds. After the incident, six involved individuals divided the stolen money. The day after the incident, the public security authorities quickly arrested all involved individuals, recovering most of the stolen funds and returning them to the victim.The Jin'an District Prosecutor's Office legally prosecuted Zheng Mouyi, Zou Moumou, and four others for robbery. In 2026, the court heard the case and sentenced the five defendants to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from five years and seven months to ten years and four months for the crime of robbery.

Early-stage venture capital firm Pear VC co-founder Pejman Nozad announced the fifth fund, Pear Fund V, with Mar on October 14, 2026, with a scale of $333 million, bringing Pear's managed assets to over $1.1 billion. Arash Afrakhteh, Ajay Kamat, and Shravan Reddy were appointed as general partners at the same time. The two discussed founding a venture capital firm about 13 years ago at Coupa Café in Palo Alto, believing in meeting founders before they are recognized as exceptional by the outside world.Pear has supported DoorDash, Gusto, Guardant Health, Vanta, and Listen Labs, seeing thousands of opportunities each year through pre-seed and seed-stage businesses, and has built PearX, university programs, hackathons, a founder community, two studios, an engineering team, and a founder services team. Arash Afrakhteh joined in 2020, investing in enterprise and B2B, covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, and data infrastructure, and co-founded Cariden Technologies, which was acquired by Cisco in 2012.Ajay Kamat joined in 2015, investing in consumer, fintech, and healthcare, and co-founded Wedding Party, serving as CEO. The company was supported by Pear and later acquired by Instacart.

Cathie Wood posted on the X platform that the ARK Venture Fund has launched on-chain through Securitize, with the fund's portfolio, liquidity, and minimum investment threshold remaining unchanged.She stated that based on ARK's research, tokenization has the potential to fundamentally change the way investors participate in private and public financial markets; the on-chain launch of the ARK Venture Fund is an extension of its mission to expand investor access to technology-driven innovation opportunities.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that the White House is exploring acquiring Bitcoin through existing federal government funding to expand the United States' strategic Bitcoin reserves. Patrick Witt, the Executive Director of the President's Advisory Council on Digital Assets, told Lark Davis that purchasing Bitcoin on the open market requires congressional authorization, and the government is currently researching ways to receive or convert existing federal funds into Bitcoin.The plan aims to follow President Trump's executive order to expand the United States' strategic Bitcoin reserves without increasing taxpayer spending.

The on-chain data analysis platform Bubblemaps accused that wallets associated with Anglio traded in advance before recommendations were published on Pump.fun, estimating a profit of about $50,000 from trades and approximately $80,000 in recommendation rewards. Bubblemaps presents the relationships between on-chain wallets through visual bubble charts, used to identify the connections between token holders and the flow of funds.This accusation points to the recommendation behavior on Pump.fun, where certain accounts built positions before the tokens were publicly recommended. Meanwhile, Pump.fun is shifting its reward payment mechanism to focus on the earnings of followers, distributing rewards based on the returns of followers.

The Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission has completed the rule-making for Bitcoin ETFs, and the new regulations will take effect on October 16. Bitcoin has been included as a qualified asset in the first phase.According to the rules, the average net exposure of the relevant funds for each accounting year must reach at least 80% of the net asset value. The custodian must be licensed by the Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission, and fund shares can only be traded on the Thailand Stock Exchange. Securities companies are not allowed to provide margin financing. Thai mutual funds and private funds will be permitted to invest in locally listed cryptocurrency ETFs, but initially, the issuance and provision of depositary receipts related to overseas cryptocurrency ETFs are prohibited.

According to Decrypt, the controversial promoter Sahil Arora, who launched a series of celebrity meme coins in 2024, is back at it again. His latest issuance, the Floyd Money Mayweather token, has been launched on the Solana trading platform Fomo, and Mayweather's social media account once promoted it. The token's market cap peaked at $1 million, but then plummeted 96% within three hours on Wednesday. According to information from various social media accounts, before Mayweather's account deleted the promotional post, the deployer's wallet had only cashed out about $5,000 in profit, and the token subsequently surged to a market cap peak of $1 million.Arora told Decrypt that the entire scheme was carefully planned, and the narrative of Mayweather missing out on profits actually drove up the token price. Fomo integrates social media elements, allowing users to see who is buying and selling, making it easy to create viral spread. Arora claims to have made seven figures in profit on the Mayweather token through other wallets, but on-chain analysis firm Bubblemaps believes this is unrealistic: the largest associated wallet cluster made about $105,000 in profit, and the top 100 traders collectively made only $306,000 in profit.Arora stated that he will replicate all his operations from 2024 on Pump.fun on Fomo, but with better strategies to allow participants to profit as well. He claims to have close relationships with all collaborating celebrities, making it very easy to persuade them to participate.

Mark Newton, an analyst at Tom Lee's fund, stated in an interview that he expects global stock markets to consolidate in the short term before experiencing a stronger rally; the global stock market is expected to perform well from November to April, while a weakening dollar will also benefit emerging markets. Mark Newton believes that now is not the time to panic, and the pullback from mid to late October to November could create the best buying opportunity of this cycle.

CoreWeave, an AI cloud service provider supported by NVIDIA, is seeking to attract funding from insurance companies to reduce the financing costs of purchasing AI chips and building infrastructure. Co-founder Branning McBee stated that the company plans to raise funds through methods such as chip-backed loans, with financing exceeding $35 billion this year.

Pump.fun announced that since the launch of the BOOST model about three months ago, it has injected $106 million into its ecosystem.The model aims to reinvest liquidity that may be idle during the token migration process back into graduated tokens.

Recently, the police in Binhai City, Shandong, China received a report from a citizen named Xie, stating that 1,300 USDC stablecoins and NFTs worth tens of thousands of yuan had mysteriously disappeared from his digital wallet. There were no obvious transfer alerts or signs of phishing links in the wallet. The police began an on-chain investigation into the virtual currency transfer records and actively sought cooperation with enterprises to analyze the suspect's account.After extensive work, a major suspect named Chen (30 years old, from Fengyang County, Chuzhou, Anhui) was identified. On October 9, technical police officers went to Fengyang County to arrest him. Upon arrival, Chen initially denied the allegations. However, the police utilized the immutable and traceable characteristics of blockchain evidence to gradually break down his psychological defenses. Chen ultimately confessed to the theft. Chen has now been criminally detained in accordance with the law, and his family has actively compensated the victim for the losses. This case marks the first instance of virtual currency theft in Binhai City.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated on the X platform yesterday, "We hope that Robinhood will have the best builders on-chain, and we are investing to make this a reality. More details will be announced soon." This news subsequently continued to ferment within the community, with crypto KOL @rickytheirish claiming that the Robinhood chain will launch a funding program exceeding $100 million, aimed at ecological builders.According to GMGN market data, possibly influenced by the above news, the Robinhood chain's ecological tokens experienced a rebound: PONS is currently priced at $0.324, with a 24-hour increase of 16.4%; Artificial Inu is currently priced at $0.101, with a 24-hour increase of 20.7%; BUN is currently priced at $0.0563, with a 24-hour increase of 17.38%; some small-cap varieties, including PRIORS and Index, also showed significant rebounds. ChainCatcher reminds users that the related rumors have not been officially confirmed, and the prices of on-chain tokens are highly volatile, so users should invest cautiously.

According to a report by The Paper, the case of Qian Zhimin, involving over 40 billion yuan in illegal fundraising and more than 60,000 bitcoins, has seen new developments in domestic judicial procedures. The Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court announced that it has accepted the Tianjin People's Procuratorate Second Branch's application to confiscate the illegal gains of the suspect Qian Zhimin as of September 28.According to the property confiscation list published by the Tianjin Second Intermediate Court, in addition to bitcoins, the involved virtual currencies also include 72,745.79502 bitcoins cash, 72,745.78555 bitcoins gold, 72,745.7845 bitcoins Satoshi Vision, 3,605,989.9995 ripples, and 70,081,208.62553222 dogecoins (which have been converted and deposited into an interest-bearing account by British judicial authorities). Additionally, the confiscated assets also include cash in US dollars, euros, and British pounds, jewelry, as well as bank balances and investment portfolios.The Tianjin People's Procuratorate Second Branch believes that Qian Zhimin is suspected of fundraising fraud, and after fleeing, he has been wanted for a year without appearing in court. There is evidence proving that over 61,800 bitcoins and other assets seized in the UK belong to illegal gains and their proceeds, and should be recovered along with the transformed and converted properties and proceeds, except for those legally returned to the harmed fundraising participants, which should be confiscated.

Dework founder Lonis Hamaili announced on X the launch of the AI hedge fund Cambrian, with seed funding of approximately 70 million USD. The fund's supporters include the Japanese listed company Metaplanet and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn.Lonis Hamaili also stated: General artificial intelligence is on the way, and the current trading multiples of hundreds of AI supply chain oligarchs are only 1 to 5 times revenue and 5 to 15 times profit. He believes that the shorter AI development timeline may weaken the moat in the software field, but key bottlenecks in physical processes still exist.

According to CoinDesk, asset management company Federated Hermes, with a management scale of 911 billion dollars, plans to launch its first batch of on-chain fund shares early next year, further participating in Wall Street's push to bring traditional assets on-chain.Federated Hermes has partnered with digital securities infrastructure company Prometheum to introduce blockchain-based fund shares into traditional brokerage accounts and financial advisor channels. The company has not yet disclosed the specific types of tokenized funds and the blockchain network used, but its head of digital asset products and platforms, Kevin Barr, stated that money market funds may become the first tokenized products.

The Hyperliquid Assistance Fund has accumulated over 48 million HYPE tokens, with a total expenditure of approximately 1.365 billion USD. Currently, the market value of these tokens has risen to about 3.953 billion USD.The Hyperliquid Assistance Fund primarily continues to repurchase HYPE from the open market through protocol trading fee income, serving as the core mechanism for returning value to token holders. Recently, Hyperliquid has also injected part of the USDC reserve earnings into the Assistance Fund through the AQAv2 framework to further expand the sources of repurchase funds, making the repurchase no longer completely reliant on trading fees.

According to Bloomberg, European venture capital firm Sprints has completed the fundraising for its fifth fund, totaling 725 million euros (approximately 810 million dollars). Henrik Persson, co-founder and managing partner of the firm, stated that the fundraising took about a year, and more than half of the funds have already been deployed for investments in new companies and the existing portfolio, with investors including endowment funds, foundations, pension funds, and family offices.Sprints made early investments in Revolut and is the largest shareholder of the second-hand trading app Vinted, as well as investing in Flightradar24 and payment company Checkout.com. Its invested AI customer service company Fin was acquired by Salesforce this year for 3.6 billion dollars. Persson mentioned that the firm has not invested in any foundational AI companies, as most of these companies have not yet developed a business model.

Catherine Chen, the head of VIP and institutional business at Binance, stated in an interview with The Block during Token2049 that traditional hedge funds, which previously took a wait-and-see approach, are now showing a stronger interest due to the emergence of arbitrage opportunities related to traditional financial instruments such as cash stocks and perpetual contracts on crypto platforms.She pointed out that the improvement in market depth, combined with 24/7 trading and weekend price discovery mechanisms, makes these opportunities more realistic. She also mentioned that when the same tools are offered on second- and third-tier platforms or in DeFi venues, liquidity often falls short of hedge funds' needs. However, she emphasized that this process is still in its early stages and does not expect a surge in capital inflows overnight, with the next 12 to 18 months being worth close attention.Similar changes are happening on the other side of the market. Chen indicated that their crypto-native clients are incorporating more tools linked to traditional financial products to build hybrid investment portfolios. The data she cited showed that the scale of Binance's cash stock assets has increased from about $800 million to $900 million to $1.4 billion, while the trading volume of traditional financial perpetual contracts has risen from about $20 billion to $30 billion per month when launched at the beginning of this year to about $400 billion every 30 days. She believes that tokenization and cross-asset trading are still in their early stages, and regulatory clarity will determine the ultimate integration of traditional and crypto trading more than the product offerings of a single platform.