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According to "Du Jia," Xiaohongshu is currently testing an independent app called "Dada," positioned as an AI partner community platform. Users can create and share domain agents (referred to as "partners") through a low-code approach. Currently, dozens of partners have been launched in areas such as design aesthetics and job hunting, supporting text and image conversations.Unlike products that focus on autonomous cross-application task execution, Dada downplays the AI's autonomous action capabilities and instead enhances the transmission of experience between people: AI serves as a container, with the underlying professional logic encapsulated by the creator. Users can transform their personal methodologies into reusable, deliverable AI personas. The product also opens up group chat capabilities, allowing users to pull partners into conversations as group members, participate in multi-person discussions, and supports one-click sharing of invitation links to WeChat. After binding their Xiaohongshu account, partners can read public profile information to provide answers that better align with personal preferences. The product is still in the testing phase, and its specific form will be subject to official announcements.

According to The Block, banking giant BNY will adopt the validator infrastructure of staking service provider Figment to support its staking business. Eligible institutional clients can stake assets within the platform through BNY's existing digital asset custody services.Figment stated that BNY's staking clients include asset management companies, ETF issuers, corporations, and wealth management institutions. Qualified clients can earn staking rewards on supported assets on the platform. A Figment spokesperson told The Block that ETH will be supported initially, followed by an expansion to SOL, although no specific launch date has been announced.Ralf Roth, head of BNY's digital asset custody, stated that as institutional participation in staking increases, the focus is shifting from whether staking can be accessed to how staking is delivered. Providing staking services in a trusted custody framework with Figment allows institutions to have more confidence in their participation methods and meets their standards for security, oversight, and accountability.Josh Deems, head of revenue at Figment, stated that Figment is bringing its validator infrastructure and staking experience to BNY's digital asset custody platform, providing institutional clients with another way to participate in staking within existing platforms and service processes.BNY launched its digital asset custody services in October 2022, initially accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum from a limited number of clients. Last month, BNY expanded its custody agreement with Ripple to cover XRP and RLUSD, and plans to allow BNY clients to mint and redeem RLUSD through the bank.Coinbase Prime integrated Figment's Ethereum staking services in early 2024, and when the two announced an expansion to networks such as Solana, Cardano, and Sui in October 2025, they stated that the partnership had facilitated over $2 billion in asset staking. Figment claims it has provided staking services to over 1,500 institutions, including asset management companies, custodians, exchanges, and wallets.

Nick Tomaino, a partner at 1confirmation, stated that 1confirmation has participated in all rounds of financing for Polymarket to date and has decided to increase its investment again. Although the fund focuses on seed-stage investments and typically does not participate in later-stage financing, it believes that Polymarket is worth breaking this investment convention.Nick Tomaino mentioned that there has been a demand for prediction markets for over a century, as users wish to place bets on events in politics, culture, and more. In the age of AI, one of the biggest challenges faced by young people is discerning the truth of information, and prediction markets can transform users' trading and investment enthusiasm into more accurate information.He emphasized that the long-term value of Polymarket is not just in sports betting, but in providing a more effective information discovery mechanism for political, geopolitical, and cultural events. Currently, while the U.S. market is primarily focused on sports trading, the accuracy of information is what gives prediction markets their more enduring value.Additionally, he believes that Polymarket's business is continuously upgrading, with the current management team performing excellently, and the products in the U.S. market are at an industry-leading level, with revenue consistently reaching new highs. Regarding the token program, he stated that while he did not fully agree with some of the related promotional methods previously, it is unreasonable to assert that the token program has lost its potential.Finally, Nick Tomaino stated that Polymarket founder Shayne has a strong desire for success and is one of the most direct and transparent people he knows.

According to official news, Circle announced a multi-year partnership with the nonprofit organization Global Citizen, which will begin in 2027 by providing USDC payment options for suppliers participating in the Move Afrika music tour project starting in Rwanda. Circle will also provide financial education and technical training to local entrepreneurs and production staff to help them safely use digital payment tools.In addition, both parties will explore putting Global Citizen's community engagement and rewards program on-chain. Circle will also provide USDC funding to eligible charitable organizations through a new award established by both parties.

Anthropic has reached agreements with partners such as AMD, Broadcom, Google, Micron, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and TSMC.

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.

NeoSoul and Brevis announced a technical collaboration to explore how to protect sensitive data in AI trading.As AI Agents take on more specific trading tasks, users' trading methods, preferences, and related data will also enter the product workflow. For individual users and platforms, clear data usage boundaries and explicit computational verification methods are important considerations in the design of such products.Brevis is a verifiable computing platform based on zero-knowledge proofs, with related technology supporting the processing of historical data from the supported chain, executing specified computations, and verifying computation results through proofs. This collaborative exploration will combine the practical needs of AI trading to study applicable scenarios for the relevant technology.NeoSoul continues to advance product development around Agentic Trading, refining the AI trading experience for individual users through NeoTrade, and promoting capability openness for platforms and other Agents. The collaboration with Brevis is a progress in NeoSoul's expansion of professional technical cooperation in this direction.NeoSoul's co-founder stated: "In the future, more and more AI Agents will directly participate in financial markets on behalf of individuals and platforms, and financial infrastructure needs to adapt to a new batch of market participants. Protecting trading strategies and computational verification will become crucial issues that restrict the scaling of Agentic Trading. Our collaboration with Brevis aims to provide the necessary technical foundation for the development of this trend."

Jeff Park, a partner at ParaFi Capital and an advisor to Bitwise and Solana, stated that the artificial intelligence company Anthropic is facing failure due to extreme asset-liability mismatches in its business model, requiring substantial equity support to maintain credit and cover massive non-cancelable computing power commitments.Jeff Park cited the example of the "confidence game" in the cryptocurrency market, pointing out that if the company's stock price does not rise significantly after its IPO, it will fall into a death spiral. He believes the best outcome is for the company to fail and be acquired, or for the U.S. government to collaborate with sovereign funds from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and others for an international bailout to restore market confidence.

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.

The spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, hosted a regular press conference. A reporter asked, according to the Financial Times, Nvidia requires some data center partners to provide at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese companies, which may restrict Chinese companies from accessing key artificial intelligence technologies. What is China's response to this?In response, Mao Ning stated that she is not familiar with the specific situation. We have always believed that all parties should cooperate based on the principles of fairness, transparency, and non-discrimination.

On October 31, Kyle Harrison, a general partner at the venture capital firm Contrary, stated that venture capital is experiencing a McDonaldization, where efficiency, measurability, predictability, and control lead to outcomes that are not intended by all parties. He believes the symptoms are scale combined with consensus, and the industry has split into different forms that share the same name. Harrison previously worked at Index Ventures, Coatue, and TCV, and founded the research platform Contrary Research. The article was published on the same day in his column.He cited PitchBook data indicating that in the first three quarters of 2026, a16z has raised $23.8 billion, accounting for over 20% of U.S. venture capital fundraising during the same period. During this time, U.S. venture capital funds raised a total of $108.5 billion, which is about 39% higher than the total for 2025. The number of first-time funds decreased from 479 in 2022 to 195 in 2025, with 81 so far this year; funds in their fourth round and beyond accounted for 88.2% of all fundraising, the highest share recorded by PitchBook.Harrison also wrote that the proportion of U.S. venture capital funding attributed to artificial intelligence rose from 39% in 2023 to 51% in 2024, 65% in 2025, and 82.7% so far in 2026. In the first quarter of this year, five companies—OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Waymo, and Databricks—captured 73.2% of U.S. deal value. Since 2023, non-AI venture capital in the U.S. has roughly maintained an annual range of $100 billion to $120 billion. He stated that once fund size dominates decision-making, every deal must fit the fund's scale.

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit officially announced the digital asset holdings of its parent company Dunamu's investment subsidiary Dunamu&Partners as of October 2026. The announcement shows that the institution currently holds 2,081.84950412 BTC, with a total selling quantity of zero and no trading records.According to the announcement, Dunamu&Partners stated that if the projects it invests in are listed for trading on Upbit, it will not sell the related digital assets within three months from the date of the first listing, and will disclose changes in holdings at the end of each month through announcements on Upbit.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi stated that after Binance experienced a hacker attack exceeding $6 billion, the market reaction was completely different from the FTX collapse back in the day.Although the scale of funds involved in this incident is only about 25% lower than the funding gap left by FTX, the overall decline in Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market was only a few percentage points, and market sentiment remained relatively calm, with bottom-fishing funds gradually entering the market; even with macro market pressures, capital outflows were relatively mild, and the directly affected tokens also showed some resilience.Haseeb believes that the market has strong confidence in Binance as a company, and with various industry parties quickly collaborating and providing mutual support, there is a general expectation that Binance will be able to repurchase related assets and make up for the losses. He stated that this incident reflects the maturity and progress of the cryptocurrency industry.

Chainlink announced that Chainlink 24/7 is now live, providing round-the-clock market data for traditional assets such as stocks and commodities to the on-chain market, covering weekends and holidays, filling the pricing gaps for U.S. stocks from Friday evening to Sunday night and on market holidays. This service is delivered through Data Feeds and Data Streams, using 24/5 session data during market hours, and aggregating quotes from multiple perpetual contract platforms after traditional market close to form a single continuous price reference.Official launch partner Aave is utilizing the 24/7 Data Feeds for its institutional lending platform Horizon, providing round-the-clock pricing for tokenized RWA collateral, initially covering high-volume U.S. stocks. Chainlink stated that 24/5 has already provided delayed pricing for nearly half of the tokenized stocks, supporting over $1.6 billion in tokenized stock pricing across six chains for Ondo, xStocks, Robinhood, and Coinbase.

The founder of Trade.xyz, @sershokunin, published a lengthy article stating that Trade.xyz partnered with ICE 381 days after launching its first market on Hyperliquid. He mentioned that after CFTC approval, a dedicated U.S. market will be established, offering 24/7 perpetual contracts based on Hyperliquid, covering stocks, indices, commodities, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrencies. Previously, Americans could not directly trade these markets, but now they will gain access to innovative products and U.S. regulatory protection. ICE is making a strategic investment and inviting participants like Stan Druckenmiller.In the lengthy article, @sershokunin reiterated that the vision of the protocol is to create a universal exchange where any asset can be traded anytime and anywhere. Ultimately, it aims to achieve synergy between owned assets and traded assets, such as using tokenized stocks as collateral, hedging indices, trading pre-IPO companies, etc., all completed within a single account.