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According to the official announcement, Gate has released the latest reserve report. As of October 18, 2026, the total reserve size of the platform has risen to $8.688 billion, an increase of 5.7% compared to the previous period; the overall reserve coverage rate has reached 118.49%, consistently above the industry safety benchmark of 100%. This report covers 500 cryptocurrencies, demonstrating Gate's ample excess reserves, providing solid support for the platform to cope with market fluctuations, maintain liquidity, and buffer risks.In terms of core asset reserves, BTC user assets have grown to 21,156 coins, with the platform's reserve amount increasing to 25,727 coins, and the reserve coverage rate rising from 120.32% to 121.60%; ETH user assets have increased to 362,785 coins, with the platform's reserve amount growing to 449,042 coins, and the reserve coverage rate rising from 123.59% to 123.78%.Regarding stablecoins, the total user assets of USDT, USD1, GUSD, and USDC amount to approximately $1.497 billion, corresponding to a platform reserve of $1.746 billion, with a comprehensive reserve rate of 116.59%. Additionally, the reserve rates for major assets such as DOGE, GT, and SOL have reached 106.76%, 129.00%, and 102.51%, respectively, all exceeding the 100% safety line. From overall reserves to various core assets, Gate consistently maintains sufficient safety margins, providing robust protection for the safety of global user assets.

Grayscale Research Director Zach Pandl stated in "The Stack" published on October 20, 2026: AI computing infrastructure stocks have recently declined due to investors' concerns about rising borrowing costs, while the financing needs of related companies are high. The stock index, which includes AI cloud service providers CoreWeave and Nebius, has fallen by approximately 27% since the end of September, according to data from Bloomberg and Grayscale Investments, based on the Indxx High-Performance Computing Index, as of October 19, 2026.Pandl noted: Most of these companies are in early stages and capital-intensive, with some neocloud capital expenditures being several times their current revenue. The top five holdings in the index have a capital expenditure to sales ratio exceeding 230% over the past 12 months, with data as of October 19, 2026. He believes that while stock prices are correcting, the demand and prices for computing power remain stable, with demand for computing power increasing rather than decreasing.He also anticipates: The decline in token prices and the increase in AI agent usage will lead to higher inference demand, thereby supporting the growth of computing power demand; if demand increases and computing power prices remain high, these companies may benefit. He also mentioned the slowdown in GPU depreciation, as well as the overlap between AI computing power and the Bitcoin mining industry, with the possibility of rising Bitcoin prices. Pandl believes: Higher borrowing costs have suppressed computing infrastructure stocks, but the fundamental trend of rising computing power demand remains valid, and this correction should be seen as an opportunity to increase exposure to the energized compute layer.

Elon Musk stated that as GrokBot continues to improve, user adoption is increasing. SpaceX will deploy GrokBot on a large scale to businesses within weeks.

Cryptocurrency asset management company Grayscale posted on X: Bitcoin's volatility has decreased over the past decade as the asset has matured, with relevant background including deeper liquidity, institutional participation, and regulation.Grayscale stated that over the past year, Bitcoin's volatility has dropped to 43%, down from 81% five years ago, and is now within the volatility range of S&P 500 constituents. The company also mentioned that for investors who are already accustomed to holding highly volatile stocks, Bitcoin's price fluctuations may not be as daunting as previously assumed.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, AI cloud computing company Nscale, supported by Nvidia, is in talks with Anthropic to sell computing power, with a deal value potentially around 45 billion dollars.According to the plan, Nscale will build a second facility at its Monarch data center campus located in West Virginia, USA, providing 460 megawatts of computing power, using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips. Anthropic also holds a priority purchase right for a third facility. Informed sources said the deal could be finalized in the coming days, but details may still change. According to Nscale's IPO application documents, Anthropic had previously signed an infrastructure agreement worth approximately 44.6 billion dollars with them.

According to on-chain analysis platform Arkham, Grayscale's HYPG has net purchased 7.8 million dollars of HYPE in the past 20 days, during which there were 3 days of capital inflow.During the same period, THYP recorded a capital outflow of 20.9 million dollars. The current price of HYPE is 79.38 dollars.

Castle Labs released a research report stating that over the past year, the scale of Real World Assets (RWA) on the Solana chain increased from 700 million dollars to 4.3 billion dollars, a growth of over 600%; during the same period, the scale of RWA on Ethereum increased from 15.5 billion dollars to 16.6 billion dollars, only growing by 7%. The proportion of Solana's RWA scale compared to Ethereum rose from about 4.5% a year ago to 26%.In addition, Solana's application revenue in the past 30 days reached 193.1 million dollars, ranking first among all chains, approximately twice that of the second place Hyperliquid (86.5 million dollars), with Ethereum (53.8 million dollars) and Robinhood Chain (34.6 million dollars) following behind, of which about 80% came from consumer applications such as launch platforms and trading terminals.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, Nscale, an AI data center developer supported by Nvidia, initially sought an IPO valuation of about $30 billion, but some investors recently advocated for a valuation between $16 billion and $19 billion to attract buyers.Nscale is addressing comments from the U.S. SEC regarding its listing application documents and plans to initiate a roadshow after resolving these issues. Relevant discussions are still ongoing, and no final decision has been made. Previously, Microsoft withdrew from its collaboration with Nscale on a data center project in the UK due to project delays caused by limited power supply.

OpenCode stated that a security incident related to a large-scale model distillation attack occurred, affecting approximately 1.4% of OpenCode Console users.The affected range mainly involves some users connected to external model providers. OpenCode has notified all affected accounts via email; users who did not receive a notification are not included in this impact.

Strive announced that the SATS IPO issuance scale has been expanded to 700 million dollars, with an issuance price of 90 dollars per share. The CEO of Strive stated that relevant details will be discussed in the next episode of HurdleRatePod, which will be released after the IPO settles next Tuesday.

Patrick Collison, co-founder of Stripe, stated that since Privy joined Stripe more than a year ago, the asset scale in its wallet has increased to about 25 times, the number of monthly active developers has grown to about 3 times, and revenue has increased to about 9 times, currently facilitating nearly $25 billion in transactions each month.Companies like Ramp, Deel, Klarna, and Hyperliquid are building embedded banking features based on Privy. Stripe is deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, Link, and Connect to accelerate global expansion and feature development, and plans to launch the Link balance feature. Privy's wallet infrastructure also supports AI agents to conduct transactions and earn revenue, with related applications including Merit Systems and Nevermined. Collison expects the agent economy to continue to grow rapidly. The two parties are building a unified API to support holding stablecoin balances and earning yields, fiat fund transfers in and out, and arranging expenditures via bank cards. Collison also mentioned that there is still a lot of work to be done on the integration between Privy, Bridge, and other Stripe businesses.

Grayscale announced a partnership with the investment platform Republic to offer Grayscale's investment products to qualified investors, including the Grayscale DeFi Fund, Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund, and Grayscale Data Network Trust.Among them, the DeFi Fund covers tokens such as UNI, AAVE, ONDO, ENA, CRV, and LDO; the Decentralized AI Fund covers tokens such as NEAR, TAO, RENDER, and FIL; the Data Network Trust provides investment exposure to the native token DATA of the DATA Network.

According to CoinDesk, BlackRock's digital asset management scale surged from $48.8 billion to $79.6 billion in the third quarter, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 63%. During this period, there was a net inflow of $7.9 billion, reversing the net outflow of $2.2 billion in the first half of the year.This round of growth was primarily driven by rising market prices, with market capitalization gains contributing $22.9 billion and new investor funds contributing $7.9 billion. Nevertheless, the current scale is still 23% lower than the peak of approximately $104 billion in the same period last year, with a market value shrinkage of $30.6 billion over the past 12 months.During the quarter, BlackRock's digital asset products (including the iShares Bitcoin Trust IBIT) recorded a total of $39 million in fees and securities lending income.

In a post on platform X, Saifedean Ammous, the author of the 2018 academic work "The Bitcoin Standard," stated that Bitcoin already possesses monetary functions. Holding Bitcoin is equivalent to using Bitcoin as currency. Its limited use as a payment method does not prove that its monetization process will not continue to advance. He believes that as Bitcoin matures, its volatility will be lower than that of gold, and its market capitalization will surpass that of this largest precious metal globally.Ammous's viewpoint is a response to the relevant discussions in the work "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?" by American economist Lawrence H. White. White cited content from Chapter 6 of that book on platform X, stating that Bitcoin's supply is fixed and cannot respond to changes in demand, resulting in excessive price volatility, making it difficult to become the reliable medium of exchange that people need. This is also the reason why stablecoins have surpassed Bitcoin in trading volume.Similar judgments have been made in the industry previously. In May 2025, André Dragosch, the European research director at Bitwise, told Cointelegraph that their internal forecast predicts Bitcoin will reach $1 million by 2029, at which point its market capitalization could be comparable to gold. However, Bitcoin's current market capitalization of approximately $1.6 trillion needs to grow at least 18 times to exceed gold's nearly $29 trillion market capitalization and become the largest asset in the world.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs yesterday was $24.8394 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a single-day net inflow of $16.7278 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETH has reached $2.026 billion.Next is Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net inflow of $8.1117 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of FETH has reached $2.342 billion. As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $15.827 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.16%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.199 billion.

Binance announced that the asset management scale of bStocks has exceeded 888 million USD. Users can use eligible bStocks stock tokens for full-margin leverage accounts and unified margin accounts, enriching collateral options and enhancing the flexibility of fund usage. As of the time of reporting, bStocks has supported 95 types of stock tokens as collateral, with applications extending from asset holding to scenarios such as collateral and leveraged trading.Starting from September 21, the bStocks collateral and related leveraged trading functions will be further opened to regular, VIP 1, and VIP 2 accounts, which were previously only available to VIP 3 and above users. More users must meet requirements such as suitability assessments before they can use these features. For regular users, VIP 1, and VIP 2, Binance has introduced additional risk control measures, requiring users to pass a suitability assessment questionnaire before using bStocks as collateral or engaging in related leveraged trading.

Ondo Finance posted on platform X that its tokenized U.S. Treasury scale has reached 3 billion USD, covering USDY, OUSG, and tokenized U.S. Treasury ETFs, ranking first in the RWA.xyz tokenized U.S. Treasury platform. Among them, USDY has a scale of over 2.3 billion USD, surpassing BlackRock's BUIDL.RWA.xyz data shows that currently, USDY has a scale of approximately 2.328 billion USD, BUIDL approximately 2.204 billion USD, and OUSG approximately 319 million USD; the total scale of tokenized U.S. Treasuries is about 14.91 billion USD, with Circle's USYC ranking first among single products at approximately 2.384 billion USD.

According to monitoring by Arkham, Grayscale's GSOL has accumulated $20.2 million in SOL over the past 20 days, with only 1 day of outflows during this period.In addition, VanEck's VSOL sold $700,000 in SOL yesterday, while Grayscale did not make any sales yesterday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) pointed out in Chapter 3 of the October 2026 "Global Financial Stability Report" that as of July 31, excluding repurchase agreements and stablecoins, the scale of tokenized real-world assets reached approximately $65.1 billion, including tokenized credit of $30.4 billion, money market funds of $17.5 billion, and tokenized equities of $2.3 billion.The report indicated that automatic clearing, instant settlement, continuous trading, and programmable collateral could accelerate forced liquidations and amplify financial shocks during market stress. Cross-platform reuse of collateral could also increase leverage, allowing risks to transmit more quickly to different institutions and markets. The IMF identified four obstacles to the expanded application of the tokenized market: legal certainty, regulatory clarity, blockchain network interoperability, and reliable settlement assets, and recommended adopting technology-neutral regulation, strengthening supervision, establishing circuit breakers, and preventing instability in automatic clearing.

Recently, there have been reports that Ant Group's AI product "Lingguang" has launched a new version for a small-scale internal test, which is comparable to Meta Muse. In response, Ant Group stated: Lingguang has recently undergone a functional upgrade and is currently still in a very limited internal testing phase.