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The latest monitoring report released by Morgan Stanley's prime brokerage team on Tuesday shows that global equity hedge funds staged the most intense de-risking action in over a decade during the first week of November, with a widespread wave of liquidations spreading across global markets.In the Asian market, hedge funds are controlling risk exposure through a dual strategy of reducing long positions and increasing short positions, a phenomenon particularly pronounced in the tech-heavy South Korean market. The selling pressure is mainly driven by fundamental stock-picking funds, while multi-strategy, macro, and quantitative funds are taking the opportunity to close out previous short positions, indicating a clear divergence in institutional strategies.Goldman Sachs data shows that the total leverage of U.S. fundamental long-short funds plummeted by 8.7 percentage points in a single week, marking the largest decline since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020; however, from the perspective of all-inclusive PB clients, the overall total leverage remains as high as 314.2%, placing it in the 85th percentile over the past year. Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, Global Market Strategy Chief at JPMorgan, believes that this round of adjustment is essentially a concentrated deleveraging by momentum traders, with capitulation-style selling already quite deep, and technical indicators suggest that short-term oversold and bottoming signals are accumulating.

According to official news, Morgan Stanley has reached an agreement to acquire Vinyl Equity. Vinyl Equity is a digital equity transfer agency and shareholder record management platform registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).This acquisition will add equity transfer agency services to Morgan Stanley's Morgan Stanley at Work, integrating equity structure management, equity incentive management, share transfer, and wealth management services, providing integrated services for enterprises and shareholders covering both private and public markets. Morgan Stanley stated that this acquisition will also strengthen its digital asset ecosystem, providing critical infrastructure for future asset tokenization plans. Vinyl's digital technology is expected to drive upgrades in the recording, transfer, and management of equity ownership, aligning with the development of blockchain technology, atomic settlement, and asset tokenization. The transaction is still subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2027.

SRTD Biotech, a German mRNA therapy company, has completed an oversubscribed seed round financing of 31.5 million euros, led by Mérieux Equity Partners, with NRW.BANK and Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund co-leading.The funds will be used to advance the seRNA platform that expresses only in diseased cells and LNP delivery.

According to a letter to investors from Walleye Capital, the hedge fund will streamline its internal long/short equity business, replace the leadership of this business along with a significant portion of the investment team, and plans to return some capital to investors, with specific amounts, timing, and methods to be announced separately.Walleye lost 5.9% in October, marking its worst monthly performance since March 2020. The company stated that the internal long/short equity business has performed the weakest since 2023, and will subsequently focus more on volatility, quantitative, and external management strategies, but will still retain stock investments through external managers and high-conviction internal managers.The financial research community Special Situations also summarized that internal teams from Axebrook, Engineers Gate, Lone Pine, Millennium, and Verition, along with Samlyn, have experienced liquidations, large redemptions, or team adjustments this week. Some of this information has not yet been officially confirmed and should not be interpreted as all related funds having been liquidated.

According to CoinDesk, the stablecoin OpenUSD (OUSD), initiated by Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and Shopify, will charge a management fee of 0.1 basis points based on payment volume, with a maximum fee of $0.01 per transaction. The document shows that payments of $1,000 and above are subject to the $0.01 cap, while smaller payments are charged at 0.1 basis points of the amount.Unlike USDT and USDC issuers who retain reserve interest, OUSD distributes reserve earnings to partners, deducting only the management fee. Open Standard also provides partners with opportunities to gain equity in projects based on OUSD holdings and cash flow, requiring partners to hold at least $50 million to participate in the equity pool, with a maximum ownership percentage of 5% for a single partner. Additionally, Visa has released a technical implementation and user guide of over 100 pages for partners to integrate OUSD through the Visa stablecoin platform.

According to PR Newswire, Luda Technology Group Limited (NYSE American: LUD) announced that the company signed a share purchase agreement on October 29, intending to acquire 55% of Asia AI Data Centre & Quantum Technology for $935,000, officially laying out its operations management business in computing power infrastructure.

The fitness protocol BRT.Fit, developed from smart wearable hardware, stated on the official X platform that it will disclose the detailed equity structure of the founding team.BRT.Fit indicated that many blockchain projects have limited disclosure of actual team holdings, making it difficult for the community to understand the equity distribution among founders and core members. The project has chosen to publicly disclose the actual equity structure of the team for community verification.BRT.Fit founder Kevin Huang stated that the majority of the company's equity has been shared with the team. The official statement emphasized that the project should not belong solely to the founders but to the builders who invest time, energy, and passion, and hopes that team members will share in the achievements of the construction.The official also mentioned that during the transition from a smart wearable hardware company to a fitness and health protocol, the project experienced pressure, uncertain decisions, technical challenges, and multiple product iterations, and the team continues to push forward.BRT.Fit claims that its goal is to help people develop long-term exercise habits and promote transparency in the industry. The official also stated that the project is not just built for a token generation event but is aimed at advancing over the next 10, 20 years, and beyond.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that Blackstone Group plans to sell the office portion of the Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho complex for approximately 300 billion yen (about 1.9 billion USD) and is currently negotiating with potential buyers. Blackstone is also considering packaging some of the trust beneficiary rights of the property as digital securities to sell to individual investors in smaller shares. Blackstone Group has not commented on this matter.The complex is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and includes office buildings, hotels, residences, and commercial facilities. Blackstone acquired the complex in 2024 for about 400 billion yen, setting the record for the largest real estate investment by foreign investors in Japan at that time. The proposed sale involves only part of the property, and the related transaction and digital securities issuance plans have not yet been finalized.

According to Jinshi News, Nvidia will invest 3 billion dollars in equity issuance to Meta, and both parties will also expand their cooperation in AI infrastructure and models.Both sides will consider collaboration around the OpenShell reference architecture and Nvidia Sentry, and will expand the deployment scale of Nvidia's products such as Vera Rubin, Vera CPU, Spectrum-X, and BlueField-4, while further deepening cooperation in MUSE and the MUSE series of models.

According to CoinDesk, XRP treasury company Evernorth plans to raise approximately $80.7 million through a committed equity financing arrangement with a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, with funds intended for general corporate purposes, including the purchase of XRP. The company currently holds approximately 473 million XRP.Evernorth's SEC filing submitted on October 23 shows that the company has the right to sell up to approximately 5.219 million shares of newly issued common stock in batches to CF Principal Investments after meeting certain conditions. Based on the closing price of $15.46 per share on October 22, this corresponds to approximately $80.7 million; the actual financing amount depends on the number of shares sold and the transaction price, and does not represent completed financing or coin purchases.

The tokenized Pre-IPO platform OpenStocks has launched on the BNB Chain, offering tokenized economic exposure products for four private companies, including Anthropic (oANTHROPIC), Figure AI (oFIGUREAI), Neuralink (oNEURALINK), and Anduril (oANDURIL). These products are BEP-20 tokens on the BNB Chain mainnet, supporting 24/7 trading with no minimum amount restrictions. Transactions settle on-chain within seconds, using a self-custody model where users trade by connecting their own BNB Chain wallets, and OpenStocks does not act as a custodian.The platform clearly states that these tokens provide only economic exposure to the private stock prices of the companies and do not represent equity, granting holders no ownership, voting rights, dividend rights, or information rights, and OpenStocks has no affiliation with the aforementioned companies. The token prices are set by the on-chain DEX liquidity pools, with PancakeSwap Infinity as the primary trading venue. Tokens are traded against USDT, and the price users pay depends on the quotes in the pool at the time of transaction. The trading page simultaneously displays the latest on-chain token price and the reference price of the underlying company, as well as the implied company valuation based on that price.The platform is not open to individuals within the United States, U.S. citizens, and other ineligible persons, with Singapore being a prohibited jurisdiction. OpenStocks states that it is not a broker-dealer, investment advisor, exchange, transfer agent, or custodian, does not provide investment advice, and has no affiliation with the companies involved.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, SoftBank is considering acquiring Allied Universal, the largest security services company in the United States, with a potential equity valuation of up to $18 billion. The company also has about $12 billion in publicly traded loans and bonds, and including related debts, the total transaction value could approach $30 billion.Masayoshi Son is exploring the application of AI robots across various industries. The report indicates that SoftBank hopes to have robots undertake some security tasks for Allied in the future, but the deployment of humanoid security robots may take longer. Relevant discussions are still in the early stages, and matters including pricing have not been finalized.

According to The Defiant, Hong Kong company L2 Capital has signed a contract to join the tokenization platform Newton, planning to tokenize equity in a pre-IPO artificial intelligence company valued at $500 million. L2 Capital thus becomes the first partner on this platform being built by Newton Labs.The platform is designed to embed compliance rules directly into each token and verify them before each transfer settlement, thereby implementing regulatory requirements in on-chain transactions. Currently, Newton Labs' platform is still under construction, with L2 Capital being the first partner to connect.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market and leading investment institutions disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocation, equity tokenization, and mixed financial innovations in real estate. The core information is as follows:Strategy (NASDAQ: $MSTR) increased its holdings by 250 BTC last week, raising its dollar reserves to $5.5 billion: The world's largest corporate Bitcoin treasury publicly listed company, Strategy, disclosed its latest ledger. Last week, the company increased its holdings by another 250 Bitcoins in the secondary market, while spending $192 million to repurchase its STRC preferred shares. As of October 11, 2026, the total amount of Bitcoin held by Strategy has risen to 848,250 BTC, and the balance of dollar reserves in the balance sheet has increased to $5.5 billion.Zhibao Technology (NASDAQ: $ZBAO) plans to explore stock tokenization and evaluate re-staking 2,380 BTC for liquidity: Nasdaq-listed insurtech company Zhibao Technology announced the signing of a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the liquidity re-staking protocol Bedrock. Both parties will establish a joint working group to explore the tokenization of its Class A common stock registered with the U.S. SEC at the transfer agent level (retaining full voting and dividend rights) and explore integration with compliant DeFi applications; at the same time, Zhibao Technology is evaluating the possibility of putting part of its treasury holdings of 2,380 Bitcoins into Bedrock's uniBTC infrastructure. This agreement is currently non-binding and still needs to go through due diligence, compliance review between China and the U.S., and complete restructuring if necessary, with a formal agreement expected to be signed within the next 12 months.BitMine (NASDAQ: $BMNR) increased its holdings by over 12,000 ETH last week, raising its total holdings to 6.028 million: Nasdaq-listed mining company BitMine disclosed that it increased its holdings by another 12,532 Ethereum last week. As of October 11, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 6,028,946 ETH (approximately 4.9% of the total supply on the network). Currently, BitMine's total asset value is approximately $16.2 billion (including $612 million in cash and securities, 214 Bitcoins, $180 million in Beast Industries equity, and $85 million in Eightco investments). Of these, the staked Ethereum remains at 5,067,309 (accounting for 84% of total holdings), valued at approximately $12.9 billion, with current annualized staking income of about $336 million.DeFi Development (NASDAQ: $DFDV) increased its holdings by over 22,000 SOL last week, bringing total holdings close to 2.59 million: Solana treasury company DeFi Development announced that in the past week, its holdings of SOL and SOL equivalents increased by 22,070. The cumulative holdings on the balance sheet have reached approximately 2,586,282 SOL, continuously promoting on-chain staking and validator node operations.Cardone Capital disclosed a $1 billion mixed real estate and Bitcoin platform, planning to refinance to increase holdings by 500 BTC: Real estate investment firm Cardone Capital's founder Grant Cardone revealed that its mixed investment model in real estate and Bitcoin has attracted about 3,000 investors over the past 18 months, with a cumulative transaction scale of $1 billion. Its first project cost $72 million to acquire property and allocated $17 million in Bitcoin, with the property currently generating about $360,000 in monthly rental cash flow, all of which is used for continuous Bitcoin purchases. The project is planning to refinance the underlying property to use the loan to buy back 500 Bitcoins, which will increase the project's holdings to about 700 Bitcoins. Cardone also revealed that Bitcoin currently accounts for about 20% of his personal investment portfolio.

The Malaysian hardware wallet distributor CryptoBilis has been revealed to have changed ownership during the investigation into a suspected supply chain attack on Ledger devices. Newly disclosed company records show that an individual named Jiaming, with a registered address in Heilongjiang Province, China, has held 100% of the company's shares since August 3.The former co-founder of CryptoBilis confirmed that the company was acquired in March of this year, and the original shareholders subsequently withdrew from all operational, management, and administrative positions. The founding team has been unable to understand the actual operations of the company after the handover, only continuing to assist with some activity coordination, and stated that they are no longer part of the company, urging the current management to handle the matter transparently.As the change in ownership was exposed, CryptoBilis has come under scrutiny for its alleged involvement in the supply chain attack on Ledger hardware wallets, with related devices reportedly implanted with hidden modules capable of stealing recovery phrases. There is currently no conclusive evidence linking the change in ownership to the wallet theft incident. CryptoBilis has temporarily suspended sales and shipments of all brand hardware wallets at its stores and online channels in Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, and has closed offline stores until further notice.

Ostium has released a design update on the second phase of the compensation plan for liquidity providers (OLP). This plan offers two compensation mechanisms for users who have losses exceeding 1,000 USDC and have not opted for Convenience Allocation:Default Plan A (USDC Installment Payment): Funding sources include recovered and future recovered funds (distributed proportionally after deducting the first phase portion), a specific share of revenue from the Ostium protocol and Gateway (initially 50% of Ostium opening fees), and potential partner incentives or revenue sharing.Optional Plan B (Ostium Labs Equity Conversion): Users who meet securities regulation requirements can convert part of their unrecovered losses into Ostium Labs equity at the valuation of the next round of financing, with the same class of shares as the team, and a total holding percentage for participating users subject to a fully diluted cap.The second phase portal is scheduled to launch on October 30, and eligible users can proportionally claim the allocated funds from Plan A; if they choose equity conversion, the portion of losses converted to equity will no longer be eligible for subsequent installment payments under Plan A, thereby helping to accelerate the repayment process for the remaining unconverted funds.Ostium emphasizes that this compensation plan is voluntarily initiated by the official and does not guarantee the full recovery of lost funds; specific implementation details and parameter scales are still being refined.

Hong Kong Cyberport personnel clearly stated to RootData that, after internal verification, Cyberport is not an investor in Metafyed and does not hold any equity in the company.According to RootData, Metafyed is a blockchain-based real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform, involved in private credit and project financing. The project previously disclosed completing a $5.5 million financing round and stated in the financing press release that it received "incubation and support" from Hong Kong Cyberport, Draper, and the Stellar Development Foundation.RootData marked this financing as "questionable" in March of this year. RootData reminds users to pay attention to the risks associated with the project, to prudently assess the relevant financing information, and welcomes users to provide verifiable information and correction leads to jointly supervise the platform's data quality, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of the data.

Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs have launched the real-world asset market NUVA with the HOME token, providing qualified non-U.S. investors exposure to U.S. home equity lines of credit (HELOC) with a minimum participation of 1 USDC. This ERC-20 token aims for an annualized yield of 7%, resetting monthly, with interest income and loan performance reflected in the net asset value of the fund pool, which in turn determines the token price. The product has no lock-up period and features a first-loss tranche that accounts for approximately 5% of the fund pool's value, designed to absorb losses from defaults or forced sales before they affect HOME holders.The underlying assets of HOME are the HELOC pools initiated by Figure Technology Solutions. According to Federal Reserve economic data, the size of U.S. HELOCs rose to $460 billion in the second quarter. Nuva Labs CEO Anthony Moro stated that traditional securitization primarily targets institutional investors, making it difficult for individual investors to access such structures. HOME does not attempt to create residential credit demand from scratch but presents an asset class with existing institutional demand in a more accessible on-chain structure. HOME holders do not directly own the underlying loans but hold tokens corresponding to the exposure of the fund pool.HOME is only available to qualified non-U.S. users, with the UK, Hong Kong, China, the British Virgin Islands, and sanctioned jurisdictions also excluded. NUVA will enforce these restrictions through wallet screening and IP address blocking.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Sky Protocol has been granted a B3 long-term counterparty risk rating by the credit rating agency Moody's, with a stable outlook. This is the first time Moody's has rated a stablecoin protocol.As of September, Sky Protocol holds approximately $90 million in tangible common equity, corresponding to about $10 billion in tangible managed assets. Moody's describes its capital position as a "significant credit weakness." Sky Protocol, formerly known as MakerDAO, is responsible for managing the USDS and DAI, which are pegged to the US dollar. Moody's noted that approximately 45% to 50% of Sky Protocol's assets consist of stablecoins and tokenized money market funds, with another approximately 25% in cryptocurrency collateralized loans. Its rating is also constrained by low capital adequacy ratios, confidence-sensitive stablecoin liabilities, and risks associated with the DAO structure.

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."