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On October 15, a staff member from the public relations department of CK Hutchison Holdings told reporters that Li Ka-shing currently has no plans to make a public appearance to respond. Recently, rumors circulating online claiming "Li Ka-shing has passed away" have attracted attention.CK Hutchison Holdings issued a statement on the same day, stating that the related rumors are completely unfounded. The accompanying image in the report is a recent photo of Li Ka-shing published by the Li Ka-shing Foundation in May, and the text also includes the statement issued by CK Hutchison Holdings regarding the death rumors and a stern statement from the Ta Kung Pao.

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.

On-chain analyst Murphy stated that as of October 11, the current cycle's new Bitcoin buyers (First Buyers, FB) have accumulated 4.27 million coins, returning to levels seen in mid-August 2023. Compared to before the market started in August this year, new buyers have increased their holdings by approximately 400,000 BTC over the past two months, accounting for about 2% of the total circulation, with an average monthly increase of about 200,000 coins.In contrast, from January to August 2023, new buyers accumulated approximately 340,000 BTC over about seven months. Murphy pointed out that the current BTC price is about 2.6 times that of the same period in 2023, indicating that the capital required for new buyers to increase their holdings this round is significantly higher than in the previous cycle, reflecting stronger new demand. Additionally, the market in September saw the emergence of new momentum buyers (Momentum Buyers, MB) for the first time since January this year, which are investors who continue to increase their positions above their own cost basis. Murphy believes that the appearance of such buyers helps to enhance market confidence and drive upward trends, whereas significant increases in momentum buyers are usually rare during bear market rebounds.

According to Wu's Blockchain report, the /coins/perps interface of the Pump.fun front-end API has displayed data related to Hyperliquid perpetual contracts, covering cryptocurrency assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, as well as stock and commodity contracts like Nvidia, Tesla, gold, and crude oil.The interface returns information including contract prices, funding rates, open interest, 24-hour trading volume, and maximum leverage, with some assets coming from the Hyperliquid HIP-3 market. Wu stated that it is currently unclear whether Pump.fun plans to launch perpetual contract trading features, and the official has not yet announced related product plans.

WEEX Exchange announced that the platform will appear as a platinum sponsor at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 from October 7 to 8, marking WEEX's third consecutive year participating in this top industry event. At the event, WEEX showcased its AI Trading features and set up interactive experiences such as the Trading MBTI trading personality test; during the live broadcast segment, they connected with the Dubai team to introduce the Trading House plan aimed at traders and content creators. In addition, WEEX collaborated with the Pudgy Penguins community to launch TOKEN2049 limited co-branded merchandise and participated in hosting the "Inside the Igloo" community event.

Four-time F1 World Champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen participated in a roundtable discussion on the main stage of TOKEN2049 in Singapore. Following this, at the invitation of Gate, he joined platform founder and CEO Dr. Han and teammate Isack Hadjar for an exclusive handprint ceremony. Previously, Max Verstappen engaged with the guests on topics related to racing performance, on-the-spot adjustments, and competition. The subsequent handprint ceremony extended the stage interaction to the Gate on-site event, becoming a special memento left by the three during TOKEN2049. After the handprint ceremony, Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar also went to the Gate Lounge to participate in a driver meet-and-greet, where they signed autographs, took photos, and interacted with guests.As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate continues to bring top-tier racing culture into the Web3 industry through various forms such as stage discussions, handprint commemorations, booth interactions, and driver meet-and-greets. This handprint ceremony also became a special segment in the series of interactions between Gate and the F1 Red Bull Racing team during TOKEN2049. Gate will leverage this collaboration to further expand the connection between digital assets and global sports as well as mainstream culture.

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.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Products and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), Star stated that large global financial institutions from sectors such as exchanges, banks, stablecoins, payments, and quantitative finance are making equity investments in OKX, including ICE, the New York Stock Exchange, Standard Chartered Bank, Ripple, Circle, and others.He believes that the significance of this matter goes far beyond the funds themselves, "The future will not be a confrontation between crypto finance and traditional finance; every crypto company will expand into traditional finance, and every traditional finance company will invest in the crypto space. These two worlds are becoming one financial system."

Variant Fund investment partner Alana Levin stated in her market thoughts for Q4 2026 that the bottom of the crypto market likely occurred at some point in July. She wrote in early July that the bottom seemed close, with Bitcoin at $59,000, Ethereum at $1,600, and ZEC at $420. She mentioned that the question has shifted to whether the bull market is genuinely starting or if it's a false rally, and which projects will benefit the most in the early bull market, assuming the market is in the early stages of a new crypto bull market.Levin indicated that the increasingly formed consensus is that marginal funds are most likely to flow into value storage protocols as currency and protocols that can generate income. She believes Bitcoin is the dominant asset for digital value storage currently, while other competing assets may be valued based on their market capitalization relative to Bitcoin's market cap and its changes. For income-generating protocols, she expects investors to examine whether the income comes from crypto-native activities (like Pump) or traditional financial activities (like Hyperliquid), whether it persists during market downturns, and profit margins; projects with exposure to real-world assets and stablecoin growth, which are expected to attract institutional users and are still led by founders after surviving a bear market, are more likely to achieve higher multiples.She also categorized on-chain projects that can benchmark against non-crypto businesses as a third category, believing that most belong to narrative trading rather than long-term investment. Themes include routing, reasoning, computing power, data collection, and interface-related directions in artificial intelligence, and she is skeptical about whether most scenarios require blockchain; if such projects significantly outperform, she would view it as a signal of nearing the top.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX's global investment department HTX Ventures will appear at the world's top cryptocurrency summit TOKEN2049 at booth PB5-47&48 from October 7 to 8.In addition, from October 6 to 8, HTX DAO will host several private, invitation-only peripheral events such as Future Night, HTX DAO Friends Reunion, and VIP Private Dinner, allowing for close dialogue with community members and builders in the cryptocurrency industry, injecting new vitality into the healthy development of the HTX DAO ecosystem.

The trading platform Pear announced that the token PEAR will open the migration portal on October 12, allowing users to exchange PEAR on Arbitrum for new tokens on HyperEVM at a 1:1 ratio within the Pear app. The migration is a one-way operation; once completed, the old tokens will be locked and cannot be transferred back to Arbitrum. Users need to prepare a small amount of ETH on Arbitrum to pay for Gas and cross-chain fees. After migration, the tokens can be transferred between HyperEVM and Hyperliquid spot, with liquidity subsequently launched in both locations.Pear stated that users holding stPEAR do not need to take any action, as staking will be automatically rebuilt on HyperEVM; holders still in the vesting period can claim and migrate their tokens after they are unlocked. The portal will remain open until September 28, 2027, with a buffer period. Currently, the PEAR listed on Hyperliquid spot is unrelated to the official platform; users can only migrate through the official Pear website and should only trust the contract addresses published through official channels.PEAR will begin trading on September 27, 2024. Pear claims that the platform has expanded from a paired trading terminal to institutional trading desks, AI trading agents, and vaults, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $2 billion and cumulative fees of $1.3 million. In January of this year, token holders passed PIP-3 with over 99% support, stipulating that 70% of Pear's total revenue will be used for repurchasing and burning PEAR and supporting liquidity, while 30% will go to the team.

HIP-3 Market Deployers Entropy spent 500 HYPE (approximately $45,000) to acquire the code Pearl (PRL), and Entropy is about to launch its perpetual contract.Pearl (PRL) is an independent public chain set to launch in April 2026, positioning itself as the "AI version of Bitcoin." Miners use GPUs for large model matrix calculations, producing verifiable AI computations while generating blocks, with a total supply of approximately 2.1 billion coins.

According to a report by TASS, Bogdan Shablya, head of the financial monitoring and foreign exchange regulation department of the Central Bank of Russia, stated that the Central Bank of Russia expects that after the implementation of laws related to digital currencies, the issue of illegal cryptocurrency exchanges will be resolved, and the related "gray area" should disappear before July 1, 2027.After that, the market will be clearly divided into "white" and "black" parts, with corresponding penalties implemented.

Cryptocurrency analyst tedpillows stated: Bitcoin looks set to ultimately close above the 50-week moving average.He mentioned that Bitcoin only needs to break through $83,000 to confirm that the bottom has been reached.

Investor Mike Vernal stated on X that the software industry may repeat the barbell phenomenon seen in the newspaper industry of the 1990s. After the internet brought distribution costs to zero, The New York Times' subscriptions increased from a print circulation of 1.113 million in 2002 to about 13.4 million, while the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Dallas Morning News saw declines of 73% to 91%, with the middle tier disappearing.Vernal believes that AI is driving the costs of copying, migrating, and integrating software close to zero, eroding traditional moats, and reducing the importance of switching costs and network effects, while economies of scale and branding are rising. In the future, each procurement center for enterprise software will have one AI-native system, small and medium-sized enterprises will lean towards integrated systems, and medium-sized point solutions may be consolidated or disappear. He suggests that venture capital-supported software companies "go all in," with the moat being the extreme replication cost of building massive software daily and reinvesting. At the same time, a large number of small software solutions may emerge, similar to the Shopify ecosystem of the D2C era.

The central banks of the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom will announce their monetary policy decisions this week, with the market focusing on whether the Federal Reserve will initiate its first interest rate hike in three years.Iran and Gulf countries are negotiating shipping management in the Strait of Hormuz to address high crude oil prices.

According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin formed a golden cross earlier this week (the 50-day moving average crossing above the 200-day moving average), but subsequently did not experience a sustained increase, instead retreating from around $80,000 to about $77,000. It is noteworthy that most of the recent rise occurred before the golden cross—Bitcoin had previously risen from $62,000 to $82,000.The article points out that similar situations have historically repeated multiple times: after the golden cross in 2021, BTC fell from $52,000 to $40,000; after the golden cross in February 2023, it retreated from $23,000 to $20,000; after the golden cross in October 2024, it slid from $70,000 to $67,000; and after the golden cross in May 2025, it corrected from $110,000 to $100,000. Analysts believe that while the golden cross is seen as a long-term bullish signal, it may essentially be a lagging indicator, as a significant portion of the gains often have already been realized by the time the signal appears.