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Digital bank Revolut posted on platform X that it is currently experiencing service interruptions affecting multiple services. The company confirmed that all customer funds and data are secure.Revolut stated that since the issue was discovered on the morning of the same day, the team has been working on a fix and apologized to affected users for the inconvenience caused.

According to Beating reports, Tencent announced the opening of Yuanbao Search to developers through Tencent Cloud, supporting API, MCP, and Skill access. Tencent disclosed that this search service has an index of hundreds of billions, with an average daily call volume of hundreds of millions, and has supported over 50 internal businesses including WorkBuddy, ima, and Tencent Video. The underlying technology of Yuanbao Search comes from Sogou Search, integrates Tencent's content ecosystem, and connects to 157 authoritative sources across 13 industries including finance, healthcare, and law.Records from the Tencent Cloud Internet Search API show that this service went live on July 1, 2025. Alibaba Cloud launched its independent Internet Search API on March 20 of the same year; Volcano Engine upgraded its existing service to Doubao Search in June this year and officially released it to the public in July; DeepSeek opened its self-developed search engine's Search and Fetch API on October 17. The prices for Yuanbao Search's Express, Standard, and Premium versions are 14 yuan, 20 yuan, and 26 yuan per thousand calls, respectively, with an additional monthly free quota of 2,000 calls; the Express version only supports public web sources. The price for DeepSeek Search API is 5 yuan per thousand successful requests, Alibaba Cloud OpenSearch Lite is 12 yuan, and the Pro version was reduced to 18 yuan on October 15.

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.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced plans for new investments in Agile Robots, Avelios Medical, Mirelo, and Reflex Aerospace in Germany.

According to the summary from the Arbitrum Foundation governance forum, the Arbitrum DAO currently has 4 temperature check votes ending on October 22, involving the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade adaptation, L1 governance recovery mechanism, treasury ETH transfer, and USDG strategic plan.Among them, the Entropy proposal suggests setting USDG as one of the core strategic plans of the Arbitrum DAO and additionally allocating 100 million ARB from the DAO treasury to the DRIP budget, while adjusting the project cycle and allowed uses. Furthermore, it is proposed to direct the net fees from AEP into ATMC and convert them into USDG to support the growth of USDG on Arbitrum.

According to Bloomberg, Spencer Applebaum, General Partner and Co-Head of Venture Capital at Multicoin Capital, stated that unlike institutions such as Paradigm, Framework Ventures, and Haun Ventures, which are expanding their investment scope beyond the crypto space, Multicoin will not extend its investment scope to pure AI projects, as its strengths lie in the crypto field, and believes that many investors are "forcing" a search for intersections between crypto and AI.The $422 million venture capital fund raised by Multicoin in 2022 has been deployed slowly due to the decline in valuations of startup projects following the collapse of FTX. Spencer Applebaum also mentioned that HYPE remains the largest position in Multicoin's hedge fund. Currently, Multicoin's assets under management stand at $2.7 billion.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a new wallet (0xb15b) has encountered multiple liquidations in the past 10 hours, with a total of 8,163 ETH liquidated, worth 19.78 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, Sun Yuchen's address 0x176...0a132 received 72 trillion PEPE from the Poloniex multi-signature address 22 hours ago, worth approximately 28.44 million USD. This is the first on-chain operation of PEPE from this address since June 2024.

On October 16, VerityAI, an AI trust and reputation network, received investment from AURUMX Capital. AURUMX Capital possesses compliance resources in traditional finance and digital assets, holding Hong Kong SFC license number 4/9 and MSB qualification. The project has previously received investments from Titan Foundation USA and BlockX.VerityAI is dedicated to transforming market research and predictive signals into on-chain verifiable reputation assets, building a credibility assessment system for contributors in the digital market. AURUMX Capital will leverage its institutional resources to promote the application of VerityAI's verifiable reputation infrastructure in institutional scenarios. Its core product, Signal Explorer, now supports Morph Mainnet and BNB Chain, having generated nearly 20,000+ on-chain signals as of October 16, 2026.

Franklin Templeton's digital asset account FTDA posted job openings on X, publicly announcing multiple positions related to digital assets and cryptocurrency business, and stated that private messaging communication is now open.Specific positions include Head of Digital Asset Product Strategy, Head of Capital Formation for Franklin Crypto, Head of Private Credit for Franklin Crypto, Digital Audience Engagement Project Manager, and Vice President of Business Development for the Cryptocurrency Market.

Blue Origin aims to increase the launch frequency of the New Glenn heavy rocket to multiple times a week by 2030, challenging SpaceX's market position. The company has invested over $3 billion in Florida and plans to add another $330 million to expand its facilities.

According to CryptoSlate, Microsoft and the cybersecurity organization Health-ISAC have obtained a court order in the United States to seize and redirect the domains supporting three services: YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. These three services sell stolen accounts and phishing tools to fraudsters. Since January of this year, they have assisted in sending over 1 billion phishing messages, targeting more than 75,000 institutions across over 150 countries, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for the operators.Microsoft has disabled over 20,000 accounts associated with YAM Store and continues to block more than 100,000 counterfeit and fraudulent domains. According to Microsoft's investigation, these services accept payments in USDT (Tron network) and ETH, and Cloudflare stated that buyers can also use USDC for payments. Blockchain analytics company TRM Labs assisted investigators in locating and freezing related assets, but the amount frozen has not been disclosed.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow in the past 24 hours are as follows:FTR (DFMt....ump): Net inflow of $10,000, with a 24-hour increase of 5703.3%, currently priced at $0.0054.PUMP (pump....Dfn): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour decrease of -0.9%, currently priced at $0.0046.Normie (DzMw....ump): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour increase of 16.5%, currently priced at $0.0009.RL (BEFJ....A7L): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1221%, currently priced at $0.0001.ASSBOY (Eq9G....i6i): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 159.4%, currently priced at $0.0001.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Bitcoin treasury company Hut 8 holds 10,300 Bitcoins, valued at 846 million dollars, and is currently suspected of selling Bitcoin.The wallet associated with Hut 8 (bc1q...xqka) has deposited 1,589 Bitcoins, valued at 130 million dollars, to multiple exchanges in the past two days.

According to The Block, the developer of the tokenized asset settlement platform Multiliquid, Uniform Labs, has raised a total of $8 million in seed and pre-seed funding rounds, with the latest seed round led by Polychain, and participation from Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures, Generative Ventures, and Circle Ventures.Multiliquid supports institutions in converting between tokenized assets and stablecoins through single atomic transactions, and is currently deployed on Ethereum and Solana.

Multiverse Computing has partnered with NVIDIA to launch Comet 60B.

According to The Block, Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of the cryptocurrency asset management company Bitwise, stated that regardless of whether artificial intelligence drives economic prosperity, investment bubbles burst, or growth remains moderate, Bitcoin will ultimately benefit.Hougan mentioned that if the artificial intelligence-related market crashes, Bitcoin may initially decline. He anticipates that subsequent government bailouts and monetary expansion will drive Bitcoin prices up.

In an interview video published by Bitcoin Magazine, philosopher Troy Cross provided answers on whether Bitcoin can truly achieve "the separation of money and state." He stated that he does not expect governments to abandon printing money anytime soon, but believes that Bitcoin serves as a check against endless monetary expansion, as people will choose to seek refuge in Bitcoin.Cross believes that academia will be the last group to understand Bitcoin, following innovators, financial practitioners, and journalists. He mentioned that the "Getting Bitcoin" initiative has made it to The Wall Street Journal, with related Bitcoin articles receiving 4 to 6 times the normal click rates. He also cited a survey from the Nakamoto Project, indicating that Bitcoin is moving towards normalization, while also increasingly showing signs of partisanship and polarization.In the interview, Cross also discussed the branding issues Bitcoin faces, as it is often confused with the broader category of crypto assets, and why price trends, education, and "Number Go Up" have become a universal language. He mentioned the need to bridge the gap and reach the 82% of people who do not yet hold Bitcoin, and explained how Bitcoin can keep governments honest. The video chapters also touched on the setbacks of the Clarity Act and why Bitcoin continues to move forward.

Stripe announced a collaboration with Plasma to develop a multi-currency stablecoin card, aimed at allowing individuals and businesses to spend the currencies they already hold in their accounts, reducing unnecessary currency conversion and foreign exchange costs. Plasma will serve as the design partner, integrating with Stripe's stablecoin card infrastructure, enabling customer account balances to be used for payments through the multi-currency card.The expanded infrastructure will support US dollars, Brazilian reais, euros, Mexican pesos, and Colombian pesos; stablecoins include USDC, OUSD, and qualified stablecoins that meet the requirements of the GENIUS Act. The Stripe stablecoin card service currently covers over 30 countries, with plans to expand to over 100 countries by 2027.For example, users holding euros will be able to spend directly in euros in the future, without needing to convert to US dollars first; businesses can issue currency cards that match their spending needs. Stripe also plans to support cardholders in spending from multiple account balances and automatically selecting the appropriate currency at the time of purchase.