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According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened lower, with the Dow Jones down 0.04%, the S&P 500 index down 0.22%, and the Nasdaq down 0.49%. SK Hynix fell 3%, SanDisk fell 1.7%, Micron Technology fell 1.9%, Western Digital fell 0.9%, Apple fell 0.8%, and General Motors fell 6%.

BlockBeats published an in-depth article titled "All in One is the Only Way Out," focusing on the industry trend of cryptocurrency trading platforms transforming into comprehensive financial services, using Gate Money as an example to analyze the development potential of integrated global asset trading, daily payments, and wealth management.The article points out that as user demands extend from cryptocurrency trading to multi-asset allocation, cross-border consumption, and idle fund management, All in One is becoming an important direction for trading platforms to explore business growth. Gate currently supports over 5,400 digital assets and 12,800 stock assets, while Gate Money further integrates multi-currency accounts, exchanges, payments, and wealth management functions, supporting over 60 currencies and planning to expand services for stocks, ETFs, and gold. At the same time, the platform connects eligible stock assets with consumption scenarios through an automatic recharge feature, with Money Earn offering an annualized yield of up to 3.6%.BlockBeats believes that as financial demands become increasingly diversified, the ability to allow assets to flow freely between investment, management, and payment, while continuously meeting users' actual needs, will become an important direction for cryptocurrency platforms to build long-term competitiveness. Gate Money not only integrates product functions but also connects global assets with real financial needs, promoting cryptocurrency platforms to extend into broader and more frequent financial service scenarios, opening new space for the evolution of the global financial service landscape and long-term industry growth.

According to Gate market data, European stocks opened lower, with the Italy FTSE MIB Index, Germany DAX Index, UK FTSE 100 Index, and France CAC40 Index all dropping over 1%, and the Europe STOXX 50 Index falling by 0.96%.

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

Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 4 popular stocks: CSTOCK (Citibank), MDT (Medtronic), BP (British Petroleum), and VLO (Valero Energy). The above contracts are settled in USDT, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 368 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

The token issuance platform Pump.fun announced on X that PreStocks has launched on Pump.fun. Users can now issue tokens paired with OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Neuralink, Figure AI, Kalshi, Polymarket, and Oura.Pump.fun stated that users can trade pre-IPO tokens on the platform and pair the newly issued tokens with these tokens. This feature is supported by PreStocks.

According to PR Newswire, Cboe Global Markets, the parent company of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), announced that Cboe has expanded the trading hours for certain U.S. stock individual stocks and exchange-traded fund (ETF) options.The newly added pre-market and after-hours trading periods for the relevant options are from 7:30 to 9:25 AM ET Monday to Friday for pre-market trading, and from 4:00 to 4:15 PM for after-hours trading. This covers popular individual stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Robinhood, Intel, as well as major ETFs like SPY, QQQ, and GLD, currently involving a total of 29 underlying assets.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched 108 stock spot rTokens including rTCEHY (Tencent Holdings ADR), rBYDDY (BYD ADR), rXIACY (Xiaomi Group ADR), rVWAGY (Volkswagen ADR), covering multiple popular fields such as globally recognized ADRs, space technology, and new energy. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 3,035 rTokens.It is reported that the rTokens identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, Nvidia is rNVDA) are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and are directly connected to global liquidity pools such as NASDAQ and NYSE through cooperation with the compliant brokerage Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets managed by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form 1:1, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations) mapped in real-time, and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

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 Gate market data, on October 19, Jinshi Data reported that U.S. stocks are expected to open higher, with Nasdaq 100 index futures up 1.3% and S&P 500 index futures up 0.8%.Previously, U.S. stocks experienced the largest weekly decline since April of last year. Analysts pointed out that easing market sentiment supported Asian markets, with the South Korean KOSPI index rising 0.5%.

According to Bloomberg, Asian semiconductor stocks continued to weaken on Monday. The Bloomberg Asia Chip Index fell more than 2%, reaching its lowest level since July, with TSMC, SK Hynix, and Advantest being the main drags. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index recorded its largest weekly decline since October 2008 last week, dropping more than 3% at one point on Monday before recovering some ground; the Nikkei 225 index fell 2.3% at one point, and the Taiwan Weighted Index dropped 2%.Market concerns stem from two aspects. First, the pressure on financing for AI infrastructure in the United States continues to ferment, with CoreWeave's financing capabilities being questioned and the IPO expectations for Anthropic and Nscale cooling. Second, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a new model update over the weekend, claiming faster operation speeds and lower resource consumption, raising concerns about the potential decrease in storage capacity required for AI models and the possible impact on chip demand.Kang DaeKwun, CEO of Life Asset Management, stated that the market uncertainty is too high, making it difficult to determine when the Korean stock market will bottom out. Financing for U.S. corporate AI projects is one of the main risks, and the profitability of Korean chip companies still heavily relies on continuous investment in AI infrastructure by U.S. companies. This week, the earnings reports from tech giants like Meta and Tesla will be an important window to observe the growth momentum of AI capital expenditures.

According to EmberCN monitoring, a certain whale's previously opened $110 million BTC long position market stop-loss at $80,500 failed to trigger, and after closing the BTC long position at 5 AM today, it shifted to open a long position in US stocks.At 4 AM today, BTC dropped to a low of $80,684, just $184 away from its $80,500 market stop-loss, but it did not continue to drop to trigger that sell order. The whale closed the long position at $80,949, ultimately incurring a loss of $3.26 million, and then opened long contracts in US stocks worth $45.8 million, including TSLA, DRAM, SOXL.

The trading execution platform Tread.fi CEO DYJ published an analysis of the flash crash of AI concept stocks' perpetual contracts in the US stock market early in the morning, stating that the sell-off began at Binance. A trader liquidated approximately 2 million dollars of SanDisk long positions, triggering a sharp decline in other markets due to the thin depth of the order book.According to the transaction timeline listed, a large amount of active selling first appeared on SNDK at Binance, with a transaction amount of about 407,000 dollars in the first second, followed by about 1,030,000 dollars in the next second, and MU also began to see selling in the same second. Hyperliquid then saw sweeping orders, with about 10 addresses submitting IOC sell orders concentrated on SNDK, SOXL, DRAM, SKHX, SKHY, and MU within 1.8 seconds, followed by a second round of synchronized selling. These orders were all used to open new short positions, rather than just reducing positions.In the minute of the first concentrated selling, the transaction amounts for SNDK and MU on Binance were approximately 21.9 million dollars and 5.1 million dollars, respectively, while the corresponding transaction amounts on Trade.xyz were about 3.1 million dollars and 300,000 dollars. The transaction amount for MU on Hyperliquid subsequently expanded to 10.8 million dollars and 9.5 million dollars within the next two minutes, which DYJ attributed to chain liquidation.

Mark Newton, an analyst at Tom Lee's fund, stated in an interview with CNBC that it is currently suitable to buy technology stocks on dips, but investors need to maintain diversified allocations and be prepared for sector rotations.In the past month, cross-asset volatility has significantly increased, with the S&P 500 index recently falling about 6%, and the technology sector also experiencing notable adjustments over the past week. However, compared to the gains in September, he believes the damage to technology stocks has been relatively limited.This year, the market has consistently shown characteristics of sector rotation, initially with the energy sector rising nearly 40%, then the momentum spreading to the technology sector, and now shifting towards the healthcare sector, which has reached an all-time high. Investors need to be prepared for sector switches and maintain diversified allocations.Steve Sosnick, Chief Strategist at Interactive Brokers, reminds that even if investors do not actively allocate to AI, they may still hold a high exposure to technology stocks through S&P 500 index funds. Currently, the market remains focused on sector rotation, but he is concerned about the continued decline of technology stocks and that investors are beginning to question the return on AI investments.

According to The Block, nine companies including CoreWeave, Broadcom, Verizon, and UnitedHealth have expressed opposition to the tokenized version of their stocks being traded on OKXICE. OKXICE is a joint venture platform established by the cryptocurrency trading platform OKX and the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).Nasdaq also stated that it will opt out and will not tokenize its own stocks under the relevant framework of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Approximately half of the market value of the tokenized stocks issued by Coinbase has been deployed in DeFi protocols on the Base network, involving fractional shares of large companies such as Apple and Nvidia, and is open to eligible non-U.S. users on the Base platform. As of the time of reporting, approximately $262.4 million of such assets have been deployed in DeFi protocols, an increase of about 18 times compared to $14.66 million at the beginning of 2026.Related assets can be traded on decentralized exchanges and used as collateral for lending. Coinbase previously disclosed that the trading volume of tokenized U.S. stocks on Base reached $1.5 billion on DEX in the past 30 days, an increase of 313% compared to the previous 30 days.

According to Hong Kong media HK01, Hong Kong BBB Group (Chinese name: Hao Hao Hao Group) claims to invest in the agarwood industry in Malaysia and sell over-the-counter stocks and digital assets, suspected to be a scam. The company states that it will convert OTC stocks into "digital asset" cryptocurrency by February 2027 or earlier.It is reported that the Hong Kong police have received reports from 21 individuals, involving an investment project amounting to 14 million Hong Kong dollars. The Commercial Crime Bureau is investigating for "conspiracy to defraud," and so far, four people have been arrested. Additionally, according to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's official website, "Malaysia Agarwood Plantation Investment, Agarwood Tree Program, Agarwood Potted Trees, APT4" have been listed as suspicious investment products.

Tom Lee, Chairman of the Ethereum treasury company BitMine, stated in an interview with CNBC yesterday that if the fundamentals remain stable, cryptocurrencies, chip stocks, and neocloud company will be "a trigger-ready opportunity." They have all "pulled back to support levels."Tom Lee believes that when the fundamentals remain stable and the market becomes fearful, "this is actually a pretty good risk-reward scenario."