according to Bloomberg's senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, 21Shares is applying for a 2x HYPE exchange-traded fund. Balchunas said that these types of applications may seem very niche, but could reach tens of billions of dollars in size in 3-4 years. He pointed out that we are currently in a complete "land grab" phase....

overnight reverse repurchase agreement (RRP) usage scale of the Federal Reserve on Thursday was $6.96 billion, up from $5.484 billion the previous trading day....

 yield on the 10-year US Treasury bonds fell below the 4% integer psychological barrier for the first time since April....

recent weakness in Bitcoin seems to have dampened market enthusiasm, with Google search interest hitting a multi-month low. The latest market sentiment index reflects typical bear market characteristics, with cautious sentiment dominating the entire crypto market. The crypto fear and greed index has dropped to 24, in the "fear" level, the lowest point in the past year, a significant decrease from last week's 71. This decline is similar to the sentiment when Bitcoin briefly fell below $74,000 in April this year, and also echoes the market fatigue cycles of 2018 and 2022....

according to CCTV News, on October 16th local time, US President Trump posted on his social platform "Real Social" that he had just finished a phone call with Russian President Putin, and the call was very productive. Trump said he is still committed to helping resolve the conflict in Ukraine, and the two sides spent a lot of time discussing trade issues between Russia and the US after the end of the Ukraine conflict. Trump announced that US Secretary of State Pompeo will represent the US at the upcoming meeting with Russia. The meeting location and delegation members are yet to be determined. Trump said he will meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary after the advisor meeting to discuss whether it is possible to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine....

On October 17th, it was reported that executives from Mellon Bank in New York stated during a recent financial report discussion on Thursday that the bank has advanced multiple blockchain-related investments to 2025—including investments supporting real-world asset settlement and tokenized payments. The executives attributed this acceleration to a more "positive" regulatory environment and improved market conditions....

 according to crypto analyst Emmett Gallic's monitoring, Coinbase is converting its holdings of MATIC tokens into POL tokens. MATIC tokens have been upgraded to POL tokens in September 2024. In the past 48 hours, Coinbase has converted $160 million worth of MATIC tokens into POL tokens....

Bloomberg News said Ripple Labs is leading a $1 billion financing round to stockpile XRP....

the yen fell to its lowest level since March against the dollar; the latest USD/JPY rose 0.4% to 150.935....

 Musk stated that xAI will release an AI-generated game by the end of 2026....

 market shows that the Meme coin "Binance Life" briefly broke through $0.19, now reported at $0.1425, with a market value exceeding $140 million. The market is fluctuating greatly, please manage risks....

 Standard Chartered Bank estimates that stablecoins may attract $1 trillion in funds from emerging market banks in the next three years....

Mary Daly, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, recently stated that the potential artificial intelligence (AI) bubble in the stock market may not threaten overall financial stability. Daly emphasized: "We should be wary of the idea that all bubbles are financial bubbles, and there is currently little evidence to suggest that the AI bubble belongs to this category." She pointed out that from a research and economic perspective, investments in the field of AI are more like a "beneficial bubble" - even if investors do not receive all the returns expected by early enthusiasts, they can still leave behind productive results rather than nothing. Specifically, Daly gave three reasons: first, the AI capital expenditure boom is driven by financially sound larg...

according to Lookonchain monitoring, an address (0x8844) spent 5 BNB (about $5756) two days ago to purchase 11.15 million Meme coins "Binance Life", which are now worth over $1.6 million....

 according to CoinGecko data, BNB's market value has risen to $178.35 billion, surpassing XRP ($178.22 billion) to rise to third place in the global cryptocurrency market value....

Jeffrey Jaensubhakij, former Group Chief Investment Officer of the Singapore government investment company (GIC), said that if risk assets such as US stocks collapse, the Federal Reserve may take quantitative easing (QE) measures. Jaensubhakij said, "If they are indeed in a bubble state, and they break - will the Federal Reserve really implement an index-level enhanced version of quantitative easing? I think the likelihood of this happening is high," which will provide a cushion for commodities. "In the coming months, the market will increasingly realize that significant volatility is on the horizon, as such a state cannot be sustained," he said. Jaensubhakij stated that investors need to consider whether they can achieve the same return from artificial intelligence bets...

according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is close to reaching an agreement to invest $2 billion in Polymarket. This investment is expected to value Polymarket between $8 billion and $10 billion....

 according to the official page, Binance Alpha has launched KLINK....

Hyperscale Data, a company listed on NYSE American under the New York Stock Exchange, announced that it will expand its Bitcoin treasury allocation to $41 million, including the current holdings and funds allocated to committed Bitcoin purchases. Currently, its wholly-owned subsidiary Sentinum holds a total of 90.6144 Bitcoins (including 64.9118 Bitcoins acquired on the open market and approximately 25.7026 Bitcoins obtained from its Bitcoin mining business), and also allocates $29.8 million in cash for purchasing Bitcoins on the open market....

the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced at around 5:45 pm Beijing time on October 7th. American scientists John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis were awarded for their "discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in circuits." Among them, the Google team led by John Martinis announced the achievement of "quantum supremacy" in 2019, developing the "Sycamore" quantum processor. It is worth noting that members of the Google DeepMind team had already won the Nobel Prize in 2024. John Martinis is currently no longer with Google. The individual prize money for the 2025 Nobel Prize is 11 million Swedish Krona, the same as in 2024, equivalent to 8.34526 million RMB....