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Japan Tax Free, a Japanese duty-free service provider, announced that it will officially launch the yen stablecoin JPYC tax refund service in collaboration with UPBOND on November 1, providing an on-chain tax refund channel for foreign tourists visiting Japan.According to the new duty-free system implemented in Japan on the same day, tourists must first purchase goods at tax-included prices and then receive the tax refund after customs confirmation upon departure. The new service will issue JPYC to tourists using the wallet infrastructure provided by UPBOND, utilizing the Avalanche C-Chain.

According to BBX data, the global capital markets revealed the latest developments in direct investment in Bitcoin and the performance of brokerage digital asset businesses yesterday. The core information is as follows:Japan Bitcoin Industry has completed a capital increase of 840 million yen, fully paid in physical Bitcoin: The Web3 infrastructure developer Japan Bitcoin Industry announced the implementation of a third-party share allocation capital increase, successfully issuing shares to two institutions, Fulgur LLC and ANAP Lightning Capital (ALC), raising a total of 840 million yen (approximately 5.07 million USD). Notably, this capital increase will be fully funded in physical Bitcoin, with on-chain delivery expected to be completed on November 2. At the same time, the company signed a basic agreement for cooperation in Lightning Network routing business with ALC, which will use the Bitcoin held by ALC as the underlying liquidity for the company's operational channels. The raised funds will be specifically used for the research and development of the infrastructure "aurora" (supporting enterprises to access Lightning payments via API), talent recruitment, and local routing network infrastructure.Robinhood (NASDAQ: $HOOD) Q3 crypto revenue plummets 55%, causing overall profits to fall short of expectations: American internet brokerage giant Robinhood released its third-quarter financial report. The data shows that due to a slowdown in cryptocurrency trading activity and increased operating expenses, overshadowing its strong performance in options and prediction markets, the quarterly profits fell below Wall Street expectations. In the third quarter, its cryptocurrency trading revenue decreased significantly by 55% year-on-year to 120 million USD. Although options trading revenue grew by 31% and event contract revenue surged more than sixfold, driving overall trading revenue up 19% year-on-year to 867 million USD, total operating expenses also increased by 16% year-on-year to 739 million USD. The company's earnings per share for the quarter were 0.51 USD, falling short of analysts' expectations of 0.55 USD, leading to a drop of over 7% in its stock price in after-hours trading.

The Solana-based token issuance platform Pump.fun announced on X that it has partnered with the on-chain perpetual contract protocol Hyperliquid to launch perpetual contract features within the Pump.fun application.Pump.fun stated that users can directly use their USDC balance within the app to go long or short on cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities without the need for cross-chain bridging. This feature is powered by Hyperliquid's on-chain perpetual contract engine for trading.

Alex Witt, founding partner of the venture capital firm focused on stablecoin infrastructure, Verda Ventures, announced that he and partner Amit will join Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer. Tether was previously one of the limited partners of Verda Ventures.With the two joining Tether, Verda Ventures, which has been operating for three years, will enter the investment recovery phase and cease investing in new companies to avoid potential conflicts of interest. The fund will continue to manage and support its existing 28 portfolio companies and selectively participate in follow-on financing.

The target lower limit of the federal funds rate in the United States for October is 3.75%, expected to be 3.75%, previous value 3.75%

The target upper limit of the federal funds rate in the United States for October is 4%, expected to be 4%, previous value 4%.

The Cosmos ecosystem decentralized exchange Osmosis has restored the reserve support for Alloyed BTC asset allBTC through a governance proposal. Previously, the Nomic cross-chain bridge minted 40.650602 nBTC on June 25 without Bitcoin reserve backing, of which 39.839746 was counted as collateral for allBTC, causing the support rate of allBTC to drop to 63.97%. After Nomic suspended operations on September 7, Osmosis validators froze 22.650608 allBTC held by the attacker through an emergency upgrade.According to the passed proposal, Osmosis will transfer the frozen attacker assets to the liquidity sub-DAO and utilize 12.4838 allBTC held in the community pool, as well as approximately 4.7 BTC released from the canceled USDC liquidity deployment, to fill a gap of about 39.84 BTC. The subsequent v32 software upgrade will mark the contaminated nBTC as invalid, withdraw it from the allBTC alloy, and destroy it, allowing allBTC holders to restore full support.The proposal indicates that approximately 18 BTC has been transferred out of Osmosis and laundered through Tornado Cash, making it impossible to recover directly. Osmosis stated that it will continue to track the remaining funds and restore the deposit and withdrawal functions of allBTC after the allBTC balance reaches zero and nBTC is removed from the alloy.

Pump.fun announced on October 28 that it will launch Elysium trading in its app on November 9, adding support for this network focused on Hyperliquid to its multi-chain trading business. Pump.fun posted on its official X account stating "Pumpfun App x @Enter_Elysium," and added "Trading starts November 9," with Kinetiq also announcing Pump.fun's entry into Elysium.Elysium is a Layer 2 built by Kinetiq based on Arbitrum Orbit, with transaction settlements occurring in the Hyperliquid smart contract environment HyperEVM, and network fees paid in HYPE. Its mainnet is scheduled to launch on November 9, 2026, coinciding with Pump.fun's trading start date; the chain will be rolled out in phases, with native HyperCore market data access and fast order submission paths expected to be provided in an upgrade approximately four weeks after the mainnet launch. The announcement only mentioned the Pump.fun app and did not disclose plans to migrate the company's Solana Meme coin issuance platform or its liquidity to Elysium.This plan is independent of another Hyperliquid integration announced earlier on the same day. Pump.fun stated that perpetual contract trading is now live within the app, allowing users to go long or short on cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities using USDC balances without cross-chain transactions; the service charges a fee of 0.05% per transaction, reduced to 0.04% with a referral code, plus standard Hyperliquid fees. The Elysium announcement did not specify its funding channels and trading fee terms.

The funding scale of the Zcash development grant program continues to expand, with the current net funding estimated at approximately 125 million USD, far exceeding current expenditure needs. Sean Bowe, co-founder of Zcash and current head of Tachyon, has proposed a draft suggesting the termination of the current 8% block reward allocated to ZCG in a future network upgrade.There are currently four proposals in the community regarding the development funding mechanism, which involve terminating ZCG grants, canceling the entire development fund grant mechanism, or gradually reducing the grant proportion to zero. Supporters believe that the current mechanism allows funds to accumulate as the price of ZEC rises, but ZCG is not directly controlled by holders; opponents worry that cutting development funds without alternative solutions may impact the subsequent development and maintenance of the protocol. All proposals are still in the discussion stage and have not yet been finalized.

According to Fortune, financial AI startup Casap announced on Wednesday that it has completed a $56 million Series B funding round, led by Base10 Partners, with Synchrony and Experian participating as strategic investors. The company's total funding has reached $90 million.Founded in 2023, Casap's AI tools are used to help banks and credit card companies handle disputes and chargebacks. According to the company, its clients have reduced first-party fraud losses by up to 51%, with chargeback win rates increasing to 96%, compared to the industry average of 60%; the average dispute resolution time has been shortened to 8 days, while traditional methods can take up to 90 days. The company did not disclose the valuation for this round.

According to CoinDesk, XRP Ledger developers are testing a new feature that aims to allow the creation of blockchain accounts with an initial balance of zero, with existing accounts bearing the reserve required for new accounts, thereby lowering the financial threshold for payment applications and automated software to create wallets on a large scale. This proposal was submitted on October 15 in the form of a SponsoredAccountCreate transaction proposal.According to current XRP Ledger rules, each account must reserve at least 1 XRP as a reserve, meaning that creating 100,000 independent accounts would require locking up 100,000 XRP. The new proposal intends for sponsored accounts to bear this reserve requirement, and a broader fee sponsorship mechanism in the future could also allow applications to pay transaction fees on behalf of users, but the overall reserve requirement for the network will not be eliminated. This feature is expected to lower the usage threshold for scenarios such as embedded wallets, RLUSD stablecoin payments, and AI agent automated payments.However, the related code is still under review, and the sponsorship mechanism it relies on has not yet gone live on the mainnet. As of October 19, the mechanism has only received 11 votes out of the 35 required validator votes, still falling short of the 29 votes needed for approval.

According to the RootData Launchpad rankings, Pump.Fun launched 52,847 memes in the last 24 hours, an increase of 12.59% compared to the 7-day average. Among them, 174 memes successfully graduated, an increase of 19.76% compared to the 7-day average.In terms of transaction fees in the last 24 hours, Pump.Fun maintained a lead with $1.96 million. Pons' transaction fees were $332,300, an increase of 5.35% compared to the previous day's $315,400. Stonk's transaction fees in the last 24 hours were $200,600, a decrease of 26.46% compared to the previous day's $272,800.

At the same time, the company signed a basic cooperation agreement for lightning network routing business with ALC, using the BTC held by ALC as the liquidity for the channels operated by the company, jointly building local routing infrastructure in Japan. The raised funds will be used to pay for infrastructure development, talent recruitment, routing business, and research and development, with a focus on promoting the lightning payment service "aurora" that can be accessed through the existing payment systems of merchants via API.

Initia officially stated that, with the support of the Initia Foundation, the 1:1 asset backing of the affected assets in the security incident on October 23 will be fully restored when the chain resumes operation.The Initia Foundation has approved funding to cover the reserve shortfall of Noble USDC, WETH, and AUSD0 used as collateral for iUSD, involving up to 1.08 million USDC, 105 ETH, and 1.4 million AUSD0 respectively. The specific amounts still need to be verified and receive final transfer approval.

According to Crunchbase data, global venture capital investment in robotics startups reached $9.9 billion in the third quarter of 2026, more than doubling from $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2025, with a year-on-year growth of approximately 185%. In the first three quarters of 2026, financing in the robotics sector grew by about 185% year-on-year, with several consecutive quarters approaching or exceeding $10 billion.This year's robotics financing is largely concentrated in China and the United States, with China receiving $13.2 billion and the United States $12.1 billion, while Germany ranks third with $1.7 billion. The largest financing in China includes $900 million for Guangzhou Xiaopeng Robotics and $736 million in Series C funding for Shenzhen AI² Robotics. In the United States, Travis Kalanick's Atoms and Pittsburgh's Skild AI both completed billion-dollar financing, with Skild AI raising $1.4 billion for its robotics foundation model Skild Brain. Germany's Neura Robotics raised $1.4 billion for cognitive robotics.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Vitalik Buterin (0xfEB...03B2) transferred 1 million USDC to his charitable project Kanro Fund, equivalent to approximately 1 million dollars.

The Hong Kong Investor and Financial Education Committee issued a notice highlighting the risks of trading tokenized funds in the secondary market, including price discrepancies and trading risks, liquidity risks, price fragmentation risks, and reliance on market makers risks. The Committee stated that tokenized funds traded on virtual asset trading platforms may experience significant premiums or discounts compared to their net asset value.The Committee pointed out that investors should understand the investment objectives, strategies, characteristics, operations, and related investment risks of the underlying funds, as well as the tokenization arrangements, including whether transactions are ultimately settled on-chain or off-chain and the associated risks. Investors should also pay attention to trading channel information, market maker arrangements, applicable fees, potential trading suspensions, secondary market trading risks, and the options and related impacts of purchasing or redeeming tokenized fund units at net asset value.

According to SolanaFloor, Solflare stated that its staking service provider experienced a security incident that affected the keys held for its validators, which are no longer generating staking rewards. Solflare claimed that user funds were not affected, and the delegated SOL remains in the users' own staking accounts, controlled by their keys.Solflare will guide users to migrate to new validators through an app update, and rewards will resume once staking is activated, with plans to compensate migrating users.

The prediction market platform Myriad announced that due to the administrator wallet being compromised, 10 prediction markets have been voided. According to the official statement, the holders on both sides of the affected markets will receive automatic refunds calculated at the price before the attack, but bonuses already received will be deducted.Myriad is a prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events. After the administrator wallet was compromised, the platform decided to void the related markets and promised automatic refunds to the holders. The refunds will be calculated based on the price before the attack, and bonuses already received will be deducted from the refunds.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn stated that the 13F holdings report for Bitcoin ETFs is still in the early stages, and most large asset management companies and registered investment advisors (RIA) typically submit their filings just before the November 16 deadline.However, some long-term funds have already increased their holdings in Bitcoin ETFs in the third quarter. Wealth management advisory firm SIGFIG Wealth Management submitted its related filing for the first time, indicating that its clients increased their investments in Bitcoin ETFs by approximately $73 million in the third quarter. A significant portion of the assets managed by the firm comes from retail client accounts at banks such as Wells Fargo, Citizens, Santander, and UBS.