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According to Bitcoin News, the UAE company Standard Asset Company (abbreviated as SAC) has established its headquarters in Abu Dhabi and announced a $1.5 billion investment strategy in Bitcoin and real estate.The company plans to acquire income-generating real estate in the UAE while establishing a Bitcoin reserve exclusively managed by Coinbase Asset Management. This strategy aims to generate income through real estate and obtain additional returns from the managed Bitcoin holdings.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the new AI model Carbon is being launched first to cybersecurity partners.

According to official data from Bitget, the platform's "Peer Program" has completed the final batch of reward distributions. As of now, the program has distributed a total of 8,936,975 USDT in rewards, with a total of 7,308,958 participants receiving rewards. Users can visit the relevant event page to claim their corresponding rewards.

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 official news, the cryptocurrency company Ripple announced a partnership with Coinbase to expand the access of RLUSD in the U.S. market.RLUSD will be launched on Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange, and the retail application, supporting 1:1 conversion with U.S. dollars and dollar-pegged stablecoins, and plans to support collateral features on Coinbase Global Exchange.

According to Bloomberg, AI cloud security company Upwind announced the completion of a $400 million financing round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors such as Greylock Partners and Craft Ventures, bringing its valuation to $3.8 billion.Upwind primarily provides security protection for enterprise cloud infrastructure, capable of detecting malware and suspicious activities, and this year expanded its platform to address AI-related security risks. The new funds are intended for engineering research and development as well as building sales and marketing teams.

The managing partner of the cryptocurrency venture capital firm Dragonfly, Haseeb Qureshi, stated that Rob Hadick and Tom Schmidt have been promoted to managing partners.In the future, the two will co-lead Dragonfly with Haseeb Qureshi and Bo, forming a four-person management structure.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents show that Broadcom (AVGO.O) arranged for financial partners to purchase AI racks based on custom AI accelerators.

Recently, the cryptocurrency exchange Echobit has partnered with the stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace to launch a customized ceramic stablecoin card, combining stablecoin payment functionality with personalized card designs, further enriching VIP customer benefits and expanding service scenarios beyond trading.As competition among digital asset platforms becomes increasingly diversified, enriching user scenarios and shaping differentiated VIP services have become the core of customer operations. In this collaboration, Echobit leverages Interlace's ceramic card solution to integrate stablecoin payments with everyday consumption scenarios, and through unique materials and exclusive designs, creates a cardholder experience that differs from traditional cards, providing VIP customers with more recognizable exclusive benefits.As a stablecoin infrastructure platform, Interlace focuses on issuing card infrastructure, helping exchanges, wallets, fintech platforms, and financial institutions quickly launch their own branded card projects through API and white-label solutions, supporting virtual cards, physical cards, and customized card designs. As of now, Interlace has issued over 10 million cards, continuously assisting global partners in accelerating the implementation of stablecoin payments.

Cryptocurrency investment firm Placeholder partner Chris Burniske tweeted that although the current market is volatile, while Bitcoin is declining, long-tail assets are showing potential upward momentum, and the market has not lost its risk appetite.He stated that long-term oriented investors are still accumulating positions in what they believe to be valuable. Currently, there is a strong "wall of worry," and if it can be successfully crossed, this situation is likely to occur after the midterm elections, and the results will be remarkable.

According to The Block, BlackRock Financial Management, BlackRock Japan, and Japan's financial group SBI Holdings, along with Startale Group, have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore connecting tokenized money market funds with the yen stablecoin JPYSC, and to study the related technological infrastructure, business models, distribution channels, and regulatory requirements.The four companies stated that the collaboration aims to promote interoperability between tokenized assets and stablecoins, and to open up cooperation opportunities for financial institutions and businesses in Japan and internationally. The collaboration is still in the exploratory stage, and a specific implementation timeline has not yet been announced.BlackRock launched the tokenized fund BUIDL in 2024, managing approximately $2.17 billion in assets at the time of the report. SBI Holdings will launch JPYSC with Startale in June 2026, issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank, with SBI VC Trade responsible for distribution.

According to Polygon, the Miden partner mainnet is now live and connected to Polygon's cross-chain aggregation layer Agglayer, which can access the liquidity of the entire blockchain ecosystem.Miden officials also announced that the network is operational on the partner mainnet.

According to official news from Bitget, the platform announced a collaboration with the structured product liquidity service provider VETA Finance to upgrade its stock dual-currency investment products. This upgrade expands the product pool on top of existing popular targets such as NVIDIA (rNVDA), Google (rGOOGL), and AMD (rAMD), enriching the investment duration options; relying on deeper liquidity support, it offers more competitive annualized returns while optimizing product structure and settlement mechanisms, bringing users a better trading experience and more diverse income opportunities.Currently, Bitget's stock dual-currency investment supports two strategies: "buy low" and "sell high." Users can use USDT or eligible U.S. stock tokens for subscription, and based on preset target prices and investment durations, complete corresponding asset conversions according to the settlement price at maturity and receive corresponding interest income.In addition, Bitget also plans to launch structured products such as accumulation purchase and accumulation sale options (AQ) with VETA Finance based on the rToken ecosystem, expanding the product layout from standardized wealth management to customized solutions, further enriching multi-asset wealth management options under the panoramic exchange (UEX) ecosystem.

According to official data from Bitget, the ninth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed. As of now, the total amount in the reward pool has reached 8,499,468 USDT, with a total of 6,651,305 participants.In addition, after users enter the event page to claim their rewards, they will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery.

Dragonfly partner Haseeb Qureshi published a response to DFINITY founder Dominic Williams regarding the accusation of unauthorized use of threshold ECDSA signature technology by NEAR Intents. He shared screenshots of the relevant patent application, showing that the patent was not approved until the end of July this year and had been in "patent application" status prior to that. NEAR Intents modified the relevant algorithm in September this year. Haseeb Qureshi added that if what Dominic Williams claims is true, the so-called patent infringement may only involve about a month of time, and the relevant algorithm was originally published in an academic paper licensed under CC BY, which NEAR also cited in its implementation.

According to official data from Bitget, the eighth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 7,657,537 USDT awarded to 5,946,778 participants.In addition, after users enter the event page to claim their rewards, they will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box lottery. The event will last until October 26.

a16z Frontier founding partner Chris Dixon stated that early Web2 platforms were built on fragile tacit agreements: independent creators, bloggers, news media, and community volunteers contributed high-quality content for free, while platforms provided traffic distribution, audience accumulation, and commercial revenue opportunities.He pointed out that after forming a monopoly through network effects, platforms continuously tightened algorithms, forcing creators to pay for traffic. With the advent of the generative AI era, large model companies collect long-accumulated content from the entire internet through crawlers and directly provide answers in search and Q&A interfaces, no longer diverting traffic to the original websites, thus severing the economic cycle of independent creators.Dixon believes that if this trend continues, high-quality original content may be depleted, and the internet could be flooded with low-quality machine-generated content. He proposed that verifiable data ownership could be established through blockchain protocols, allowing data calls, reasoning, and training to be traceable and automatically receive economic returns. Reshaping this contract is one of the important missions of the Frontier fund.

a16z crypto partner Ali Yahya posted on X that he has decided to leave a16z, move to San Francisco, and start a company. He stated that he has been with the company for nearly 10 years, and when he met Chris Dixon, Ben Horowitz, and Marc Andreessen in 2017, he was an engineer at Google Brain working on robotics research, with a strong interest in open source but no knowledge of investing.Ali Yahya mentioned that at that time, Chris Dixon had already laid the groundwork for a16z in the early crypto space by investing in companies like Coinbase, but the company's crypto team consisted of only Chris Dixon, and he hoped to expand the team. Chris Dixon invited him to leave Google to help build the company's crypto business. He expressed that forming the team together and supporting founders' work has been the most meaningful experience of his life, and he thanked Chris, Ben, Marc, and the team.Regarding his entrepreneurial direction, Ali Yahya stated that he is still in the early stages and is most focused on infrastructure that can support an open software ecosystem. He made two observations: current AI is mostly a technology for individual use, but in the future, it will shift towards collaboration among multiple people and multiple intelligent agents, potentially leading to large-scale open networks; the cost of software development has significantly decreased, allowing for on-demand generation and disposal after single use, which will change the software stack and may give rise to new operating systems mediated by AI and an AI-native developer ecosystem. He invited those working in related fields, especially those in the Bay Area, to communicate with him.