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According to The Block, the decentralized trading protocol Curve Finance has launched StableSwap on the Stellar mainnet, marking its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem.Users can now create liquidity pools, exchange assets, and provide liquidity on Stellar without permission.

According to an official tweet from Gaea Foundation, the decentralized AI ecosystem project GAEA announced the completion of a $3.6 million strategic round of financing on September 19, with investors including MH Venture, CGV FOF, K24 Ventures, and M2M Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of GAEA's Emotional Layer, expand the global community, and promote the implementation of AI entities with emotional perception capabilities.According to the official introduction, GAEA is committed to building a decentralized ecosystem that connects humans, AI entities, data, and computing resources, with the number of users in the ecosystem exceeding 850,000.

According to a report from the Beijing Daily client, the Market Supervision Administration of Haidian District, Beijing, investigated and handled the city's first illegal case of assisting pyramid schemes using blockchain and virtual currency technology, resulting in a technology company being fined and confiscated a total of over 930,000 yuan.The technology company involved is an outsourcing service provider for a certain public blockchain, offering support such as operations, market services, publicity and promotion, exchange docking, and maintenance. This public blockchain launched the "Atomic Plan" and "Hathaway Plan," which are centered around recruiting people for rebates, using the number of recruited individuals as the basis for rebates, and requiring participants to invest funds to obtain membership qualifications. Despite being aware of the pyramid scheme applications associated with this public blockchain, the involved company continued to provide technical operations, external publicity, and maintenance of virtual currency trading channels, facilitating the flow of funds and the spread of activities related to the pyramid scheme.Ultimately, the pyramid scheme activities of this public blockchain were investigated by public security authorities, the organizers were criminally detained, and the involved technology company was administratively punished with a total fine and confiscation of over 930,000 yuan for providing facilitative conditions.

Google's parent company Alphabet released its third-quarter financial report early this morning, and its stock price fell nearly 10% in after-hours trading.Possibly influenced by market fluctuations, according to CoinGlass data, the total open interest for GOOGL contracts across the network increased by 64.32% in the past 24 hours, with the current open interest valued at approximately $637 million; among them, the open interest for Bitget GOOGL contracts reached $52.6894 million, with a 24-hour increase of over 69%.

HSBC assesses that, combined with the previous financing of 35 billion dollars corresponding to over 1 gigawatt, this transaction roughly supports the deployment of 1.7 to 1.8 gigawatts, which still falls short of the management's target of 5 gigawatts by 2027. Future attention needs to be paid to the continuation of funding.

According to an official report from Cointelegraph, the competition among cryptocurrency exchanges is undergoing transformation, with the industry's focus gradually shifting from trading data to users' broader daily financial needs. During TOKEN2049, Gate officially launched a one-stop financial service application, Gate Money, to lead this new competitive landscape.Dr. Han, the founder and CEO of Gate, pointed out that Gate Money aims to break down the barriers between traditional investments and daily consumption. It integrates users' named bank accounts, fiat currencies, cryptocurrency assets, and traditional financial holdings such as stocks and gold into the same account system, combined with the Gate Card that supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as a Visa co-branded card, granting assets instant consumption capabilities. It also integrates various fiat currency deposits and withdrawals, on-chain transfers, instant exchanges, and up to 3.6% annualized wealth management, achieving a one-stop experience for asset management, appreciation, and payments.While expanding its business, Gate always places compliance and transparency at its core. Currently, the platform has obtained compliance qualifications in Malta, Dubai, Australia, and the United States; the platform's total reserves amount to $8.688 billion, with a comprehensive reserve ratio of 118.49%. The launch of Gate Money marks Gate's acceleration towards upgrading into a comprehensive financial ecosystem that encompasses daily payments and comprehensive asset management.

Key hardware manufacturer Foundry Robotics founder and CEO Adarsh Kulkarni announced that the company has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Marlinspike VC, with continued participation from Khosla Ventures.Kulkarni stated that the company will build a 130,000 square foot factory in Emeryville, California, to produce critical hardware domestically in the United States. The company has delivered products to paying customers in the energy, telecommunications, autonomous driving, and defense sectors.

According to on-chain researcher Spreek, the DeFi protocol Hifi Finance has encountered a DAO governance takeover. The attacker gained control through four last-minute votes funded by Tornado Cash, subsequently minting 25 million governance tokens and transferring users' staked assets, with a total value of approximately 1 million dollars, most of which were RWA tokens.

According to on-chain researcher Spreek, the DeFi lending protocol Hifi Finance is suspected of experiencing a DAO governance attack. An address funded by Tornado Cash cast 4 votes just before the governance vote was about to end, taking control of the protocol's governance.This address subsequently minted 25 million HIFI tokens and transferred all user collateral assets within the protocol, valued at approximately 1 million dollars, most of which were RWA tokens.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced its third-quarter financial report for 2026 in the early hours of October 29, Beijing time. The quarterly revenue was $127.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 25%, achieving double-digit growth for the 13th consecutive quarter, with an annualized revenue run rate of $500 billion. Revenue slightly missed Wall Street expectations, and net profit declined year-on-year, overall falling short of market expectations.Google Cloud revenue grew 103% year-on-year to $30.7 billion, a record increase, mainly driven by demand for enterprise AI infrastructure, AI solutions, and TPU-related needs. Google Services revenue increased by 11% to $96.3 billion, with search and other advertising revenue growing by 12% year-on-year, and YouTube advertising revenue increasing by about 9% to $11.2 billion. The company stated that the year-on-year growth rate of search queries was the highest in nearly five years, with AI-related features contributing to increased usage.Net profit attributable to common shareholders was $26.2 billion, a year-on-year decrease of about 25%, with earnings per share of $2.12. The profit decline was mainly affected by losses from equity securities investments, with related losses for the quarter amounting to about $8.7 billion, whereas this item had contributed significantly to profits in the same period last year. Operating profit increased by 30% year-on-year to $40.6 billion, with an operating margin rising to 31.8%. The free cash flow for the quarter was negative, and the full-year capital expenditure guidance remained at $195 billion to $205 billion. After the financial report was released, Alphabet's stock price fell by 9.84% in after-hours trading.

According to Bloomberg, South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI announced the completion of a $620 million Series D funding round, raising its valuation to $2.9 billion, approximately four times the previous round's valuation of $735 million.Investors include U.S. Infinitum Partners, South Korea's National Growth Fund (which contributed $280 million), Jericho Capital, Worldline Capital, Singapore's QUDA Capital, Abu Dhabi's NeoFort Holding, and existing shareholders Naver, Korea Development Bank, DSC Investment, Nextrans, and Kakao Investment also participated. The Export-Import Bank of Korea made its first direct investment in a startup.FuriosaAI was founded in 2017 and began mass production of its RNGD inference chips in January of this year, collaborating with Broadcom to develop the third-generation accelerator. TSMC will produce 20,000 RNGD chips for it this year, with plans to increase to over 40,000 by 2027.

According to a report by Investing.com, the Nasdaq-listed company IREN Limited (IREN) has completed a $363 million equipment financing deal with Wingspire Equipment Finance for refinancing GPU servers and network systems deployed in data centers.Wingspire completed the transaction in conjunction with six lending institutions, with Eldridge Capital Management and Silver Point Capital as the main investors. The financing is secured by the related equipment and supported by long-term customer contracts, allowing IREN to recover a certain percentage of the original cost of the equipment, although the specific percentage has not been disclosed.

According to PR Newswire, the on-chain credit platform Ibis announced on October 28 that it has emerged from stealth mode and secured a $250 million credit facility from FalconX to provide structured credit to eligible crypto trading companies.Ibis also completed its pre-seed funding round, led by FalconX, with participation from executives at Anchorage Digital, Innovating Capital, as well as Erebor, Revolut, Injective Foundation, Selini, Pyth, and others. The specific amount of funding has not been disclosed. Among them, Anchorage Digital Bank will serve as the custodian, banking, and design partner, with collateral held by its regulated custody system.Ibis is responsible for initiating, tokenizing, managing risks, and servicing structured credit financing, initially focusing on crypto and prediction markets, with plans to expand into emerging fields such as GPU, robotics, and venture capital in the future.

According to PR Newswire, AI training environment company Plato announced the completion of a $16 million Series A funding round, led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform, and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Freddie Martignetti, founder of Nava Ventures, will join the board.After this round of financing, Plato's total funding has reached $19 million, previously led by Gradient Ventures in the seed round.

According to Decrypt, asset tokenization issuer Birch Hill announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing, led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from ParaFi Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and Nascent. To date, the company has raised a total of $6.5 million.Birch Hill currently serves as the treasury manager for the on-chain lending protocol Morpho, responsible for assessing credit risk and setting related risk parameters. At the same time, the company has applied for broker-dealer qualifications with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to sell private credit products to qualified investors, planning to package and securitize U.S. multifamily residential, agricultural, and energy loans for on-chain introduction.