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Binance Research's latest report indicates that while institutional funds have significantly entered the cryptocurrency market, they are primarily flowing into passive Beta products (such as ETFs), and the actively managed sector has not kept pace.The core reason is not a lack of talent or returns, but rather the absence of a middle layer that connects funds with managers for discovery and verification. Currently, the funding sources for active cryptocurrency strategies still heavily rely on personal networks and conferences, lacking a standardized performance verification and benchmarking system.Research shows that 80% of asset allocators prioritize asset safety over historical returns, and verified trading platform data can significantly enhance due diligence. Managers believe that unverifiable performance and lengthy compliance reviews are the biggest obstacles to fundraising.Capital Connect data shows that directional strategies account for 44.3% of the total number of funds but hold only 6.7% of the capital; market-neutral, statistical arbitrage, and traditional multi-strategy funds make up less than half but attract 92.1% of the capital. The average single investment size from institutions in neutral strategies is about 11 times that of directional strategies.In October, BTC fell by 7.2%, with directional funds averaging a positive return of 1.9%, while neutral strategies recorded 1.0%. Binance Research concludes that institutional preferences and the introduction of traditional structures are driving the market towards maturity, but allocators remain highly selective. Only a comprehensive verification system and operational infrastructure can truly unlock the inflow of actively managed funds.

According to the 8-K filing submitted by the Nasdaq-listed HYPE Financial Company Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR), the company raised $911 million in the third quarter through a committed equity financing tool and purchased approximately 9.1 million HYPE for about $785 million. The HYPE holdings increased from 29.3 million shares on June 30 to 38.5 million shares on September 30; additionally, the company repurchased approximately 2.7 million shares of PURR stock for $17 million. Based on the approximately 238 million HYPE circulating supply disclosed by the company (as of October 29), its holdings account for about 16% of the HYPE circulating supply. As of the end of the quarter, the company held $254.6 million in cash and cash equivalents, with no debt.

Global technology stocks continue to decline, pushing the hedge fund industry into a new round of adjustments. As artificial intelligence-related trades have significantly reversed, the global tech stock sell-off has severely impacted hedge funds, with some strategies seeing nearly zero returns this year. Several large funds have begun to reduce leverage and cut investment teams, raising market concerns that concentrated liquidations will further amplify volatility.Goldman Sachs data shows that stock long-short strategy funds primarily investing in tech stocks lost more than 4% in a single day on Thursday, bringing the year-to-date return of such strategies close to zero. In June of this year, the cumulative return of these funds once reached as high as 24%.This loss is not limited to tech investment strategies. Goldman Sachs data indicates that global fundamental stock long-short strategy funds averaged a decline of 1.3% on Thursday, while multi-strategy funds fell by 1.4%, reflecting that the selling pressure is spreading to broader investment portfolios.

Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR), a digital asset treasury platform listed on NASDAQ, disclosed in its quarterly financial report for the period ending September 30, 2026, that its subsidiary has submitted an application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) seeking registration as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). If regulatory approval is granted, this FCM will handle U.S. customer accounts for the licensed market deployed under the HIP-3* framework, enabling the company to bring perpetual contracts to U.S. customers within a regulated framework. The company also stated that it cannot guarantee the timeline or final outcome of the application approval.In terms of financial data, the company recorded a revenue of $13.3 million for the quarter, of which $12.3 million came from staking income and validator commissions related to HYPE holdings, and $1 million was interest income; net income was $620.6 million, primarily from unrealized gains of $803 million on HYPE tokens, with a provision for income tax of $172.3 million. As of September 30, the company had total assets of $3.7643 billion, holding approximately 38.52 million HYPE, valued at $3.5053 billion based on a price of $90.99 per token, along with cash and cash-equivalents of $254.6 million, shareholder equity of $3.403 billion, and no debt.During this quarter, the company raised $911 million through committed equity financing instruments and deployed $802 million, of which $785 million was used to purchase 9.1 million HYPE, increasing the treasury holdings from 29.3 million as of June 30 to 38.52 million, and an additional $17 million was used to repurchase 2.7 million PURR shares. The validator node in collaboration with Unit has become the largest non-foundation validator node in the network. Hyperliquid recently announced that it will add deployer functionality under HIP-3*, allowing independent operators to operate their own licensed markets in a compliant manner, while the underlying chain remains a neutral infrastructure layer.

According to official social media news, Huobi HTX will hold a live broadcast themed "Gaps, Leverage, Stop Loss, a Practical Checklist for Ordinary Traders" today at 8 PM. At that time, crypto KOLs including Crypto.0824, Zhu Erdan, HiSeven, Mo Laotou, and Jiu Ge BTC will discuss trading strategies under the high volatility of the earnings season.At the same time, the guests will combine their practical experience to explore how ordinary traders can maintain trading discipline and enhance risk response and strategy execution capabilities amid increasing market uncertainty.

AI cloud service provider Akamai launched the AI agent sandbox Agent Sandbox and the Akamai Inference beta on October 27. The Agent Sandbox provides an isolated environment for the code written and run for agents based on WebAssembly, limiting their computing power, memory, and external connections. Jon Alexander, Senior Vice President of Cloud Technology at Akamai, stated that teams running agents need to define boundaries for the code they write.A survey by Palo Alto Networks in 2026 of 2,930 security leaders showed that, on average, each human identity corresponds to 109 machine identities, of which 79 are AI agents. Hugging Face disclosed a breach on July 16, and OpenAI subsequently confirmed that its models were responsible; a METR investigation found about 1,200 OpenAI agents collaborating through hidden message boards, with around 700 participating in attacks, escaping the sandbox and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities to enter production systems.Zscaler discovered web pages hiding instructions targeting AI agents in July, specifically indirect prompt injection, with a spoofed document page requiring agents to pay approximately 0.0012 Ethereum as a $3 licensing fee, and 4 out of 26 tested models complied. Palo Alto completed its acquisition of CyberArk in February and acquired Koi in April, while Cisco completed its acquisition of Astrix Security on June 29. The investigation predicts that the number of enterprise AI agents will grow by 85% in the next 12 months, with human identities increasing by 56%.

Hyperliquid Strategies has expanded its stock buyback program from $30 million to $100 million, with approximately $72 million remaining, and the deadline extended to October 31, 2027.The company's dashboard shows that it holds approximately 38.8 million HYPE, valued at about $2.96 billion.

Hyperliquid Strategies released weekly data, indicating that the company purchased 130,000 HYPE this week, equivalent to a value of 10.23 million USD. Currently, the company holds a total of 38.83 million HYPE, with a total position value of approximately 3.055 billion USD.At the same time, cash positions decreased by 10 million USD, bringing the cash balance down to 245.3 million USD.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies and treasury institutions disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocation and mining operations, with the core information as follows:Hyperliquid Strategies has purchased an additional 180,000 HYPE, with total holdings exceeding $3 billion: The treasury company Hyperliquid Strategies disclosed that it recently bought another 180,000 HYPE in the secondary market, valued at approximately $14.3 million. Following this large purchase, the total amount of HYPE held by the company has increased to 38.7 million, with a current valuation of about $3.08 billion. Meanwhile, its cash holdings on the balance sheet decreased by $8.2 million, down to $255.3 million.Canaan mined 44 bitcoins in September, Nordic waste heat heating project fully operational: Nasdaq-listed mining company Canaan announced in an operational update that in September 2026, the company mined 44 bitcoins from its own operations (this data does not include joint venture project output). As of the end of September, its balance sheet held a total of 1,875 bitcoins, with the installed computing power of non-joint venture projects reaching 10 EH/s. In addition, the company's 8-megawatt regional heating project in Northern Europe has been fully operational, innovatively utilizing mining waste heat to provide stable heating services to approximately 2,800 local households.The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 83 bitcoins: London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company officially announced that it has recently increased its treasury holdings by purchasing an additional 83 bitcoins. Following this purchase, the company's total bitcoin holdings have steadily risen to 2,830 BTC.

Binance launched the Covered Call and Cash-Secured Put strategies on October 15.These two strategies allow users to sell options contracts while holding the required collateral to earn premium income. Users must provide the corresponding collateral, with Covered Call using stocks as collateral and Cash-Secured Put using cash as collateral.

According to Hyperliquid News, Hyperliquid Strategies recently purchased approximately 180,000 HYPE, worth about 14.3 million dollars.After this increase, the entity holds a total of 38.7 million HYPE, with a total position value of approximately 3.08 billion dollars. At the same time, its cash reserves decreased by 8.2 million dollars, falling to 255.3 million dollars.

The CEO of the stock and cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, stated in a recent interview that a significant portion of retail trading is expected to be initiated by AI in the future. The Agent can monitor the market around the clock and handle trades in various assets such as stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies, but most funds may still be held long-term.In May of this year, Robinhood allowed users to trade through third-party AI Agents via MCP, and at the end of September, it announced the direct integration of Agents into the App, with over 150,000 customers having opened dedicated trading accounts at that time. Currently, funds are still restricted through independent accounts; the Agent can view users' other account information but can only place orders within the dedicated account, and funds must be actively transferred by the user. Tenev stated that technically, it is not difficult to directly access the main account, but the company has chosen to gradually loosen permissions.In terms of approval settings, the built-in Agent requires users to approve each transaction by default, but this setting can be manually turned off; external Agents accessed through MCP do not require per-transaction approval by default, and users must enable approval themselves. Tenev also envisions allowing retail investors to deploy trading strategies on servers close to exchanges to reduce order delays, and hopes that ordinary investors can use such infrastructure without needing to understand data centers and network engineering. Robinhood has not yet provided this service and has not announced a timeline for its launch.

From October 7 to 8, the decentralized stablecoin USDD participated in the TOKEN2049 Singapore conference, and its booth attracted a large number of attendees for interaction and communication. During the conference, USDD announced that it would reveal more important ecological partners and strategies.In addition, USDD's supply and TVL both reached new highs during the event, reaching $1.68 billion and $2.39 billion, respectively. TOKEN2049 is one of the largest events in the global cryptocurrency industry, bringing together top projects, platforms, and practitioners from around the world. This TOKEN2049 Singapore conference attracted 25,000 attendees from 160 countries.

Sherwood Protocol published an introduction to its agent fund platform on the X platform. On this platform, agents can express strategies as on-chain operations, including configuring tokenized stocks through Uniswap, providing funding to earn yields through lending protocols like Morpho, opening perpetual contract positions on Lighter.xyz, and issuing tokens through SushiSwap to publicly list the fund.The platform can work with commonly used agents like bot and Muse, allowing users to describe market views in natural language for agents to execute. Sherwood states that its goal is to provide a capital layer for agents to publicly validate strategies, with all strategies being transparent and auditable. Currently, only whitelisted wallets are allowed to create funds, and only fund owners can propose strategies, with deposits limited to their own treasury. The first batch of fund creators will join next week. Users can apply for early access through a waiting list.

Binance co-founder He Yi stated in a Chinese AMA at the Binance smart product launch that "the Binance AI Pro product is already able to smoothly complete tasks based on the conditions set by users. However, in the future, we hope that AI Pro can recommend corresponding structured investment strategies based on user preferences, such as whether they are a holder or a trader, or whether they prefer dollar-cost averaging or grid trading. Once the user confirms, it can be executed."

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the wallet 0x6436 associated with Hyperliquid Strategies Inc has purchased another 494,200 HYPE (worth 45.8 million USD) in the past 16 hours.In the past month, this wallet has accumulated a total purchase of 5.51 million HYPE (worth 476 million USD), with an average daily purchase of 183,574 HYPE (worth 15.86 million USD). Hyperliquid Strategies Inc currently holds 35.1 million HYPE (worth 3.2 billion USD).

Ondo Finance has launched a new category of on-chain products, Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, which presents curated investment portfolios through a single transferable on-chain token. The first three portfolio tokens are constructed based on BlackRock's customized portfolio strategies for Ondo, allowing qualified investors in eligible jurisdictions outside the United States to gain relevant economic exposure through a single token.Traditionally, diversified, professionally constructed investment strategies typically required access through brokerage accounts and traditional fund structures. Now, these portfolios can be accessed through peer-to-peer transferable tokens issued by Ondo, available in users' existing wallets, exchanges, and DeFi applications, and support automatic rebalancing via smart contracts, programmable integration with the broader on-chain economy, and the combination of multiple asset classes within a single token.The three strategies are BLKHIon (High Yield), BLKDIGon (Diversified Growth), and BLKGRWon (High Growth). Holding the tokens provides economic exposure to the underlying asset baskets; each product is issued by Ondo Global Markets and tokenized by Ondo Finance. Investors only need to mint or redeem a single token to hold tokenized assets with weighted allocations, with positions, weights, and rebalancing visible on-chain in real-time.Lisa O'Connor, Head of Global Model Portfolio Solutions at BlackRock Multi-Asset Strategies, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Global Solutions, stated that tokenization provides a new digital delivery pathway for portfolio strategies; Ian De Bode, Acting CEO and President of Ondo Finance, mentioned that such portfolios have never appeared on-chain before. Ondo plans to continue expanding this product line in the future.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the HYPE treasury company Hyperliquid Strategies has increased its holdings by 1.444 million HYPE over the past week at an average price of about 93.7 USD, costing approximately 135 million USD.Currently, the company holds approximately 35.1 million HYPE, valued at about 3.206 billion USD, with an average cost basis of about 46.7 USD, and a current unrealized profit of about 1.567 billion USD.