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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Dota 2: Team Liquid vs Astra Invicta - PARI Universe Playoffs" on Polymarket, the "Team Liquid" option in the sub-market "Game 2 Winner" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 61.5% an hour ago to the current 89.5% (a fluctuation of 28%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

On October 29, KR1 plc, a company listed on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, announced the launch of its technical infrastructure operations on the decentralized artificial intelligence network Bittensor. The company stated that it has recently acquired 5,000 network-native assets TAO and has initiated staking as part of its technical infrastructure strategy. Based on the reward rate observed on October 28, the company estimates that the annualized infrastructure income is approximately equivalent to 6.6% of the current value of the deployed TAO holdings.The announcement stated that Bittensor is a layer blockchain that supports subnets, covering services such as AI inference, computing power, training, and prediction, where independent suppliers compete for network rewards based on performance. KR1 supports the assessment of service provider performance through staking and receives a portion of the network rewards. There is no mandatory unbonding period for TAO unstaking, allowing the company to retrieve its holdings immediately after unstaking. Rewards can be retained to expand the scale of productive assets or can be liquidated for subsequent investments and operational costs. The company will also disclose its TAO holdings and related infrastructure income in monthly unaudited updates.Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, stated: "As artificial intelligence enables more complex tasks to be performed by software, the demand for infrastructure related to supply-side intelligence is expected to grow significantly. Bittensor introduces open competition for the supply of AI services, and the company is focused on how its incentives are forming services that lead to continuous customer payments, as well as how to deploy TAO holdings to enhance the value and income potential of productive digital assets per share." KR1 claims to be the only publicly listed company on the main board of the London Stock Exchange that focuses on on-chain infrastructure, holding and operating productive digital assets on the relevant network.

According to the Digital Currency Research Society, on October 27, Beijing Bank released a public tender announcement for the procurement project of firewall equipment for digital currency business in 2026 through the official centralized procurement management system. Along with the previously announced procurement projects for IPS, encryption machines, WAF, SSL, signature devices, etc., the bank has officially launched a centralized upgrade of the full-chain security infrastructure for digital renminbi business, covering core security nodes such as intrusion defense, encrypted transmission, web application protection, and identity signing.In April of this year, Beijing Bank became a newly added operational institution for digital renminbi business and connected to the central bank's digital renminbi system. In August, the central bank added 8 more operational institutions, expanding the total to 30. Previously, several newly added operational institutions, such as Huishang Bank, Hangzhou Bank, and Guangxi Beibu Gulf Bank, had initiated tenders for core digital currency systems worth tens of millions. The report pointed out that Beijing Bank's inclusion of various security devices such as firewalls and encryption machines in centralized procurement is a proactive security layout to adapt to the new features of digital renminbi, such as high-concurrency transactions and programmable smart contracts.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Astralis vs fnatic (BO3) - Stake Ranked Episode 5 Playoffs," the "Match Winner" sub-market's "Astralis" option has experienced significant fluctuations in win rate, soaring from 38.5% an hour ago to the current 55.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Coinbase Institutional Co-CEO Brett Tejpaul stated that large banks in the United States are increasingly relying on Coinbase to provide digital asset service infrastructure.PNC private banking clients can directly buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin through its platform; JPMorgan is integrating Chase accounts, debit cards, and rewards with Coinbase, but will not offer Bitcoin trading within the banking app; Citibank is collaborating with Coinbase to provide stablecoin payment services for businesses.

AI-driven on-chain infrastructure project Bullshot announced that it has completed a $7.7 million financing round. The project stated that this round of financing received support from investors, partners, and strategic supporters.Bullshot claims that it is building the next generation of AI-driven on-chain infrastructure, integrating token creation, trading, and autonomous AI agents within the same ecosystem. The project stated that this financing will strengthen its plans for ongoing construction and expansion on-chain.

CITIC Securities research report points out that GPT-6 Astra is being applied in robot control, reducing reliance on specialized strategy training. Institutions such as NVIDIA and Stanford are exploring its applications in visual understanding, spatial reasoning, and task planning.CITIC Securities expects that by 2027, the entry of general models into embodied task domains will become the next investment direction in the AI industry.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Dota 2: Astra Invicta vs LEGION - PARI Universe Group B," the sub-market option "Astra Invicta" for "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, dropping from 73.5% an hour ago to the current 40% (a fluctuation of 33.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Dota 2: BetBoom Team vs Astra Invicta (BO3) - PARI Universe Group B", the sub-market "Game Handicap: AI (-1.5) vs BetBoom Team (+1.5)" for the "Astra Invicta" option has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 53% an hour ago to the current 94% (a fluctuation of 41%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

AI prediction market infrastructure project InsightX announced the completion of a strategic round of financing, with investors including Aurumx Capital and Becker Ventures. The project previously secured Series A financing with participation from Infinite Alliance, UZ Capital, and Gemhead, bringing the total financing scale to 7.4 million USD.InsightX positions itself as the AI infrastructure layer for the intelligent economy, dedicated to transforming data, information, and collective consensus into programmable on-chain value. The first benchmark product is an AI-native prediction market, which now supports Mantle and Morph networks. As of October 20, the platform has over 40,000 registered users, with more than 540,000 on-chain interactions, and the cumulative platform trading volume has surpassed 1.157 billion USD.This round of strategic investors will introduce institutional market-making resources and industry networks to InsightX, helping to iterate the order depth engine, improve cross-market liquidity mechanisms, and promote the implementation of underlying infrastructure for the intelligent economy.

Research institution Tiger Research researcher Ryan Yoon released the final report of the prediction market series, discussing whether prediction markets have practical utility. The report states that participants bear the judgment results with funds, and prices are updated in real-time with new information, forming probability distributions comparable to traditional polls, expert surveys, and economic forecasts; prediction markets have expanded from sports and election predictions to macroeconomic and geopolitical data infrastructure.The report lists that Google Finance, CNBC, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal have displayed prediction market probabilities, and the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, along with the electronic bond trading platform Tradeweb, distributes relevant data to institutional clients. A working paper from the Federal Reserve Board describes the prediction market Kalshi as a high-frequency, continuously updated benchmark with rich information distribution. The paper states that Kalshi's median and mode predictions for the federal funds rate recorded perfectly the day before the FOMC meeting and significantly outperformed federal funds futures during that period; compared to Bloomberg consensus, it is more accurate for overall CPI and statistically similar for core CPI and unemployment rate.The report also cites research from the Iowa Electronic Markets: in five U.S. presidential elections from 1988 to 2004, and in a comparison of 964 polls, it was more accurate in 74% of cases; the average voting share error one week before the election was 1.5 percentage points, lower than Gallup's final poll of 2.1 percentage points. The report suggests that the platform needs to deepen liquidity to resist manipulation, communicate with regulatory agencies, and position itself as a monitoring tool while maintaining open transparency and data supported by independent research.

AI video startup Higgsfield Inc. announced that it has received investments from NVIDIA and TCV. This round of financing will be used to support global infrastructure development and talent recruitment. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with its engineering team primarily located in Kazakhstan.This financing is a follow-up extension to the Series B funding in August, during which it raised $400 million, bringing the company's valuation to $5.4 billion.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Dota 2 PARIVISION vs Astra Invicta," the "Over" option in the sub-market "Total Kills Over/Under 55.5" has experienced significant fluctuations in win rate, soaring from 25.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 24.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Financewire, payment infrastructure provider X Pay, aimed at AI entities and APIs, announced the completion of a $1 million financing round, with investors including DCI, Credit Scend, Skyland Ventures, Zerra Ventures, and 5 other institutions.The funds from this round will be used to expand the supported blockchain networks, conduct independent security audits, launch an API marketplace, and prepare for EU compliance requirements, including MiCA.

According to Business Insider, AI infrastructure company Fireworks AI is in the preliminary negotiation stage for a new round of financing, with a target valuation of $30 billion to $40 billion, representing a potential increase of up to 10 times from its $4 billion valuation during the C round financing in October 2025. Related negotiations are still in the early stages, and the target valuation may change; the company declined to comment, and the report did not disclose the scale of this round of financing.Fireworks AI was founded in 2022 by engineers from the PyTorch team, an open-source AI framework under Meta, providing services for enterprises to customize and deploy open-source models based on their own data. The company announced in July 2026 that it had completed a $1.505 billion D round financing, reaching a valuation of $17.5 billion, and stated that its annualized revenue had surpassed $1 billion, with the daily processing volume of tokens increasing from 150 trillion during the previous round of financing to over 400 trillion.

The blockchain infrastructure layer Espresso announced the completion of its mainnet upgrade. Benchmark tests show that its data throughput reaches 181 MB/s, which translates to approximately 1 million stablecoin transfers per second, based on an average of 180 bytes per transaction.The average final confirmation time for transactions is 337 milliseconds, and under peak load of 1 million transactions per second, it is 778 milliseconds.

HUMAIN Both parties plan to collaborate on the deployment of up to 84 megawatts of AI computing infrastructure, approximately equivalent to 27,000 NVIDIA GPUs. The deployment of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra chips is set to begin in the fourth quarter of 2026, with plans to deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin series chips in 2027.