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According to the Aster page, the Predict.fun token PREDICT is now available for inquiry in the trading list, supporting up to 5 times leverage. Related trading is expected to officially launch tonight at 8 PM.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, in the past 15 hours, 2 whales went long on a total of 29,798 ZEC with 10x leverage, worth 37.57 million USD.

Bitget CFD has launched 8 new trading products including XALUSD (Aluminum/US Dollar), GASOIL (Low Sulfur Diesel), HSTECH (Hang Seng Tech Index), and TWRICC (Taiwan RIC Index), covering metals, energy, and index categories.The aforementioned metal and energy contracts support up to 20 times leverage, while index contracts support up to 50 times leverage.

Solana ecosystem leverage and yield infrastructure protocol Hylo announced the completion of a $1 million strategic financing round, led by Solana Ventures, with participation from Colosseum.Hylo stated that this is Solana Ventures' second investment in Hylo and Colosseum's third investment. Hylo noted that this round of financing reflects the continued support from both institutions for its vision of expanding leverage and yield infrastructure on Solana.

According to on-chain analysis platform Glassnode, the leverage level in the altcoin market remains high. Since the leverage rate peaked earlier this month, the prices of related cryptocurrencies have experienced a pullback, but over 40% of large-cap altcoins still have leverage rates close to the highest levels of the year.The proportion of mid-cap altcoins in a high-leverage state has risen to a year-to-date high. Glassnode points out that if prices continue to decline, a large number of long positions in the market may face the risk of being liquidated.

The cryptocurrency market data agency Kaiko stated that one year after the largest liquidation event in the crypto market, the market has not fully recovered.Kaiko noted that in terms of Bitcoin, the open interest of Bitcoin perpetual contracts is still about 16% lower than pre-crash levels, while the spot depth in USD is down 27%. The decline in leverage is faster than the decline in liquidity, with leverage corresponding to each dollar of market depth being 20% lower than before October 10.

On October 19, Wu Qing, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, stated at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference that they will adhere to a steady approach, fully maintain the safety and stability of the capital market, closely monitor domestic and international market dynamics, and strengthen risk assessment and policy tool reserves.Wu Qing also stated that they will consolidate and improve the mechanisms for stabilizing the market, focus on strengthening the prevention of risks in new types of businesses, remain highly vigilant against new risk points such as leveraged products linked to A-shares from abroad, and continuously build a solid risk defense wall for the capital market.

According to reports from South Korean media, on October 19, during the National Assembly's inspection of state affairs in South Korea, when asked whether the launch of single-stock leveraged ETFs affected the volatility of the South Korean stock market, the head of the Financial Supervisory Service, Lee Chan-jin, stated that he believes it has had an impact to some extent. He expressed deep regret over criticisms for not actively preventing the listing of related products.On the same day, during the National Assembly's Administrative Committee's inspection of the Financial Supervisory Service, a member of the People Power Party stated that searching for news related to the listing of single-stock leveraged ETFs would reveal that there were occurrences from "Black Monday" to "Black Friday," turning an entire week into a black one, and asked Lee Chan-jin whether he believed the listing of this product had an impact on this. Lee Chan-jin responded that he believes it has had an impact to some extent. When asked about other reasons for stock market volatility, Lee Chan-jin added that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have experienced severe volatility.

According to Bloomberg, storage chip manufacturer Kioxia Holdings (TSE code 285A) is facing further downward pressure on its stock price. Investors previously borrowed funds to bet on a rise in the stock price and accumulated positions, which may now need to be sold at a loss.As of October 15, the company's outstanding leveraged long positions amount to approximately 920 billion yen (5.8 billion USD), the largest among all listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, according to data from the exchange. Trading activity has decreased as the stock price has fallen, with transaction volume dropping by 84% from its peak, falling to 766 billion yen on Friday, and some credit traders face the risk of being forced to close positions at prices below their purchase price.

A trader holds 1205.30865 Bitcoin long positions on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid, with a nominal value of approximately 97.87 million USD, using 40x isolated leverage. The average opening price of this position is 81913.8 USD, and the estimated liquidation price is 79828 USD.As of the Bitstamp quote of 81117 USD, this price is 1.59% higher than the liquidation price of the position. The unrealized loss for this position is approximately 866.5 thousand USD, with funding fee expenses of about 87 thousand USD, and the available margin has dropped to zero. The account has accumulated a loss of approximately 9.7793 million USD over the past 7 days, with a maximum drawdown of 78.77%. It has recorded a total of 3763 trades, with a win rate of 16.67%, and currently holds a 100% exposure in Bitcoin long positions, with no short positions.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, in the past month, ZEC has retraced more than 24%, but trader solanadoomer (@Boomer) still maintains a long position and has now become the fourth largest long holder of ZEC.He has gone long on 10,000 ZEC with 10x leverage, with a position value of approximately 11.36 million USD, an opening average price of 1146.86 USD, and a current unrealized loss of about 85,000 USD; at the same time, he has also gone long on 2,000 ETH with 25x leverage, with a position value of approximately 4.82 million USD, an opening average price of 2376.18 USD, and a current unrealized gain of about 68,000 USD.

According to Arkham monitoring, the whale trader 0x9c6 is long on SOL with 20x leverage on Hyperliquid, currently holding a position worth approximately 57.5 million USD, with an opening price of 80.86 USD.Based on the current SOL price of 104.43 USD, this position has an unrealized profit of about 13 million USD. The trader opened the position about a month ago and has not closed it yet. Their Hyperliquid account is currently valued at approximately 24.2 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale opened a long position in BTC and ETH worth $187 million with maximum leverage 4 hours ago. Among them, the BTC long position was 1,822 coins, worth $150 million, with an opening price of $82,409 and a liquidation price of $80,634; the ETH long position was 15,270 coins, worth $37.33 million, with an opening price of $2,455 and a liquidation price of $2,406.The whale's most successful trade previously made a profit of $14.8 million: going long on NEAR at $2.14 at the end of August and taking profit at $4.88 at the end of September.

According to The Defiant, Jupiter has launched a beta trading product called YOLO, which supports up to 1000 times leverage, and this product has not yet been audited.According to the official statement, users trade against the platform's capital pool (house) in this product. When the capital pool is insufficient, users' profits will be queued for processing, and there is no guaranteed payment time.

J.P. Morgan strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou pointed out that the AI stock sell-off in October may be difficult to replicate the rapid rebound seen in July. Compared to before, the current market's willingness to buy on dips has weakened, short positions are insufficient to provide potential short-covering buying, corporate buyback funds are also decreasing, and at the same time, leveraged exposure in ETFs is being rebuilt, which may further amplify market volatility. J.P. Morgan believes that, based on investor positioning and capital flows, AI infrastructure stocks do not yet appear to be in an oversold state.This round of sell-off has spread from South Korean memory chip stocks to the U.S. semiconductor sector. SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics have both seen their stock prices drop by nearly one-third over the past month, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has fallen 10% over the last five trading days. Additionally, the combined $40 billion stock buyback plan previously announced by the two companies was completed ahead of schedule in mid-October, which may have caused the market to lose some of the buying support brought by corporate buybacks.Meanwhile, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that if the U.S. halts data center construction, the economy could fall into recession. He stated that a significant portion of U.S. economic growth is related to capital expenditures in AI infrastructure. As market concerns deepen regarding the return on AI investments and corporate profitability, price adjustments in the AI supply chain could also impact data center construction, energy infrastructure, and related employment sectors.

Today, "Brother Ma Ji" Huang Li Cheng's address has been thoroughly liquidated, currently only remaining with 320 ETH long positions at 25 times leverage, with a current floating profit of 6,500 USD, an opening price of 2,355.52 USD, and a liquidation price of 2,334.84 USD.In the past 4 months, he has turned 56,000 USD into 12.25 million USD through trading. After today's liquidation, the address once only had 21,800 USD remaining, and the latest balance of the address is now 42,000 USD.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the October "Global Financial Stability Report," which for the first time discusses the tokenized market in a dedicated chapter. The report shows that as of the end of July, the public market size of tokenized Real World Assets (RWA), excluding repos and stablecoins, is approximately $65 billion, with credit accounting for about $30.4 billion, money market funds about $17.5 billion, and stocks about $2.3 billion. The average daily trading volume of tokenized repos over 30 days reached $303 billion.The report states that the issuance of tokenized stocks is highly concentrated, with Ondo Finance and Backed Finance (xStocks) together accounting for over 70%. More than 50% of trades occur outside regular trading hours for U.S. stocks, with about 80% of trade sizes being less than one share, volatility being about 1.5 times that of traditional markets, and liquidity being significantly lower.The IMF believes that while the scale of tokenized assets is small, it may bring efficiency improvements in multiple areas, but it could also create new channels for leverage accumulation and liquidity and maturity mismatches, exacerbating technological and infrastructure risks, with current systemic risks remaining limited. The IMF also pointed out that in the absence of interoperable central bank currencies, stablecoins and tokenized deposits may become the main settlement tools in the tokenized capital market, leading to issuer credit risk and concentration risk.

The cryptocurrency financial service institution BIT (formerly Matrixport) has increased its positions at addresses 0xbd1c...ff0e and 0x2371...0883 this morning, each buying 12,000 ETH, totaling 24,000 ETH, with average purchase prices of approximately $2,420 and $2,422 respectively.The ETH long positions held by the two addresses are all using 20x full leverage, with a position value of approximately $60.29 million and a total floating profit of about $2.19 million. The current price of ETH is reported at approximately $2,512, an increase of about 3.8% compared to the average purchase price of the two addresses.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has upgraded its CFD products, further optimizing the tiered leverage and margin mechanism for gold (XAUUSD). When the exposure of XAUUSD and its related contracts (XAUUSD.p, XAUUSD.s, XAUUSD.pro) is below $100,000, the maximum leverage has been upgraded from 800 times to 2,000 times, with the corresponding margin requirement reduced to 0.05%. For positions exceeding this range, the platform will continue to adopt a tiered margin calculation mechanism, and the margin rate will be dynamically adjusted as the nominal value of the position increases.This upgrade enhances the efficiency of capital use and strategy flexibility in CFD trading through a more flexible leverage and margin tiering mechanism, providing professional traders with more options for strategy allocation in different market environments.

According to Lookonchain data, the trader AguilaTrades, who had previously accumulated losses of 38 million dollars, established a short position in BTC worth 10.14 million dollars (a total of 124.24 BTC) with 40x leverage 4 hours ago. Currently, the unrealized profit of this position is 165,000 dollars.The liquidation price of the position is 83,432.22 dollars.