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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.

According to CoinDesk, Google has announced a crypto asset custody security product called Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC) aimed at banks and other financial institutions. This product is currently in private preview, with several large financial institutions participating in testing, and it is planned to be commercially available in early 2027.The system decentralizes control of private keys across multiple independent systems, reducing the risk of single-point theft through collaborative signing. Google's parent company Alphabet has used this technology to protect its digital assets on Ethereum and Solana, but the specific types of assets and the list of financial institutions participating in the testing have not been disclosed.

According to reports from Lei Feng Network · Whale Rhino, the AI prediction engine company Prophetlab has completed tens of millions in seed round financing, jointly invested by institutions including Ivy Capital. The company was established less than four months ago, and its prediction engine, Prophet Engine, has topped the overall list of FutureX released by ByteDance Seed, receiving millions in commercial orders.Prophetlab's early project utilized AI large models to predict World Cup outcomes, successfully forecasting the final results and the top four teams, with some models achieving an accuracy rate of about 75%. The team consists of AI PhDs and FinTech Masters from domestic and international universities. Founding members have participated in the training of billion-scale models such as Alibaba's Qianwen and Tencent's Hunyuan, and have collaborated with Professor Yan Junchi's team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in industry-academia-research cooperation. The company is about to release the Investor's Last Exam list, focusing on commercial predictions.

FORT Robotics, Inc., dedicated to developing a "Physical Artificial Intelligence Trust Layer" security platform, announced that existing investors have committed to an additional investment of approximately 20 million dollars. Among them, Tiger Global led a financing round of about 10 million dollars (Mark Cuban Companies also participated), and this round of financing is expected to be completed this week.In addition, Tiger Global has also committed to invest 10 million dollars in the previously announced common stock PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity); this PIPE is expected to be completed concurrently with the proposed business combination of FORT and Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: NTWO). Including the previously announced PIPE commitments, as of today, the total committed capital related to the proposed business combination with FORT has exceeded 50 million dollars.

According to TheEnergyMag, AI cloud service provider Nebius Group N.V. has secured a $3.5 billion Senior Secured Financing Facility from Citibank, which will be used to support its global AI cloud computing expansion.

According to Bloomberg's report on October 22, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has secured a loan of 15 billion yuan (approximately 2.25 billion USD), amid a significant increase in chip spending for artificial intelligence-related projects. A knowledgeable source stated that this seven-year offshore yuan loan was provided by six Chinese lending institutions, including Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and the funds will be used for general corporate purposes. The source requested anonymity as the discussion pertains to non-public matters.According to Moneycontrol, which reprinted the content attributed to Bloomberg, this transaction illustrates the role of domestic lending institutions in Huawei's offshore financing since the United States imposed restrictions on Huawei in 2019. Before finalizing, Huawei had exploratory contacts with international banks. Huawei, Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China did not immediately respond to requests for comment.The report states that Huawei's research and development expenditure increased to 121 billion yuan in the first half of this year, while stockpiling due to soaring memory costs led to a negative cash flow of 39.9 billion yuan, eroding current profits. According to compiled data from Bloomberg, this is Huawei's first offshore syndicated loan since raising 11.8 billion Hong Kong dollars (approximately 1.5 billion USD) in 2020.

Cryptocurrency data provider Kaiko announced on Twitter that S&P Global led its strategic investment and expanded its Series B funding to $110 million.Kaiko's CEO stated that traditional financial information and digital asset infrastructure are beginning to work together in real-time products.

The lending protocol Secured Finance announced that it has completed recovery and reopened on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Filecoin. The official statement indicated that users did not lose funds, assets have been replenished, and contracts, balances, positions, and order books have all been repaired and verified.The Secured Finance lending market was attacked on September 5, resulting in a loss of approximately $104,000.

Binance launched the Covered Call and Cash-Secured Put strategies on October 15.These two strategies allow users to sell options contracts while holding the required collateral to earn premium income. Users must provide the corresponding collateral, with Covered Call using stocks as collateral and Cash-Secured Put using cash as collateral.

According to South Korea's "Daily Economy," JB Financial Group's Jeonbuk Bank has launched the first Korean banking loan project linked to digital assets. Initially, it is aimed at corporate clients, using Bitcoin as the sole collateral, with the loan purpose limited to business operating funds.The bank does not directly hold or manage Bitcoin; instead, it is stored by qualified virtual asset service providers. In the event of default, the bank does not acquire ownership of the virtual assets but recovers its claims by liquidating the collateral through court auction and other procedures, according to the revised "Civil Execution Rules." Currently, Jeonbuk Bank has completed stress testing and established a valuation system based on the weighted average prices from multiple global exchanges.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain address's old wallet has been safely running for 8 years. After being dormant for more than 4 years, it transferred to a new wallet one month ago, and then CryptoBillis Ledger Drainer stole all 59 ETH from that wallet, worth $146,800.

Starknet published an article introducing the Quantum Secure Bitcoin solution (QSB), stating that StarkWare researchers have verified a quantum secure locking mechanism on the Bitcoin mainnet that does not require a soft fork, new opcodes, or modifications to consensus rules. The first QSB output was completed on August 26, 2026, in Bitcoin mainnet block 964,199, with related GPU computing costs dropping from approximately $320 to about $50.QSB constructs the locking mechanism through hash calculations, but each transaction still requires significant computation, and assets transferred into this solution still need to undergo traditional transactions that are subject to quantum risks. This transaction does not comply with the default relay rules of Bitcoin Core, and currently, there are no accompanying wallets, address formats, or recovery processes. StarkWare stated that QSB is an emergency research solution, and a long-term solution will still need to introduce post-quantum signature mechanisms through a soft fork. The comprehensive quantum security of Starknet also depends on the progress of Ethereum's underlying upgrades.

Anyflo, a stablecoin payment orchestration service for enterprises, announced its public launch on October 8, 2026, in Singapore during TOKEN2049 at the Sui Basecamp. The company was incubated internally by Mysten Labs, the original contributors to Sui, and its founder and CEO, Lola Oyelayo-Pearson, previously served as the product manager at Mysten and has also worked at Shopify and Capital One.Anyflo acquired Native through a talent acquisition. Before the acquisition, Native had raised just under $2 million and had launched a marketable Bitcoin lending platform on Sui, ranking in the top five among 630 projects at Sui Overflow 2025. Co-founder Robert Zaremba and his team will join Anyflo.Anyflo positions itself as an orchestration layer, providing multi-chain stablecoin access and handling the complexities related to blockchain networks, liquidity, and routing. The company plans to enter private alpha in October 2026, including a production preview and liquidity access, with a beta launch scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. In addition to incubation, Mysten Labs has also invested $1 million in the company.

According to BBX data, yesterday global digital asset institutions disclosed the latest developments in capital operations, top venture capital layouts, and privacy infrastructure expansion. The core information is as follows:First Digital has reached a merger agreement with a SPAC, valuing at $250 million, aiming for a Nasdaq listing: The issuer of the dollar stablecoin FDUSD, First Digital, officially announced the signing of a final business merger agreement with the special purpose acquisition company CSLM Digital Asset Acquisition Corp III. The pre-transaction equity valuation for this deal is $250 million. Upon completion of the merger, First Digital will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of a newly established Cayman holding company, with its existing shareholders fully exchanged for Class A common stock of the holding company. The newly merged entity is expected to officially list on Nasdaq in the first half of 2027.AI trading agent startup Catalyst completes $30 million seed round financing, led by Sequoia Capital: AI trading agent startup Catalyst announced the completion of a $30 million seed round financing. This round was led by the world’s top venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, with participation from Wall Street high-frequency quantitative firm Jump Trading, Peak XV, Lux Capital, AntiFund, cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase, and Premji Invest, among other well-known institutions. The funds will be used to advance the development of the next-generation on-chain smart trading agent protocol.Blockchain privacy infrastructure Soda Labs receives exclusive $3 million seed round investment from NextBlock: Blockchain privacy infrastructure developer Soda Labs announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, exclusively invested by NextBlock. This funding will be specifically used for global market expansion, expanding the verification node network and blockchain support coverage, core team building, and accelerating the integration of its underlying protocol with commercial banks, traditional payment companies, and real-world asset (RWA) platforms. Soda Labs disclosed that its core privacy layer Bubble currently supports Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, and COTI, and is fully expanding to high-performance networks like Solana.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Matador Technologies announced that it has issued a total principal amount of $10.5 million in senior secured convertible bonds and currently holds approximately 168 bitcoins. The company funds its bitcoin treasury through common stock and secured convertible bonds.This issuance is part of its $100 million secured convertible bond program, with a remaining $89.5 million available for withdrawal in batches upon meeting regulatory approvals and other conditions. The company's average monthly cash operating expenses are currently about CAD 125,000, and it plans to further reduce this to approximately CAD 100,000. The company's shareholders will vote on the establishment of a new class of preferred stock on October 14.

BitBT Ventures posted on platform X that it has provided $5 million in early financing to the social finance platform KIVO. KIVO is building a social finance ecosystem that connects social, trading, payment, digital assets, and emerging financial products through a single consumer-grade application.BitBT Ventures stated that it supports KIVO in building a social layer and a full-stack SocialFi infrastructure for the next generation of users. The related content was published by its social media account and mentioned KIVO account KivoSocialLayer.

Verona announced the launch of verUSD on X, positioning it as the first stablecoin aimed at AI agents. The project claims that verUSD has secured over $100 million in institutional launch commitments.Participating institutions include Animoca Ventures, Figment Capital, Sfermion, Pentos Ventures, ArkStream, and others. Verona is a company providing on-chain payment and settlement infrastructure for AI agents, and verUSD is intended to serve as a stablecoin tool for value transfer and settlement between AI agents.

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 announced that it has secured a $1.07 billion senior secured revolving credit facility, with a term of four years. The funds will be used to support the company's liquidity needs and energy and digital infrastructure projects.