according to The Block, the decentralized oracle network APRO announced the completion of a new round of strategic financing, led by EASY Residency, a incubation project under YZi Labs, with participation from Gate Labs, WAGMI Venture, TPC Ventures, and other institutions. The amount of financing has not been disclosed. This round of financing will be used to advance APRO's oracle infrastructure in prediction markets, AI, and Real World Assets (RWA). APRO had previously received investments from Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton, and currently provides oracle services for BNB Chain and the Bitcoin ecosystem.

the Shenzhen Component Index fell by more than 2%, the ChiNext Index fell by 2.2%, and the number of stocks in the entire market that fell exceeded 3,900.

 according to 8marketcap data, gold has become the first asset in history to reach a market value of $30 trillion.

the Trump family's encrypted project WLFI posted on social media that the project recently sold tokens to Hut8 at a price of 0.25 US dollars as its treasury reserve. The locked tokens transferred from the WLFI fund pool are only used to complete the transaction - neither newly issued nor causing dilution.

 according to TraderT monitoring, the net inflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was $475.27 million yesterday.

 according to Trader T monitoring, the net outflow of $56.76 million from the US spot Ethereum ETF yesterday.

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) released an investigation on the 17th, stating that the hacker organization UNC5324 related to North Korea is using a new technology called "Ether Hiding" to conduct cryptocurrency theft and sensitive information collection.

 Binance has launched USD deposit and withdrawal services through BPay Global licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain, while also offering a limited 1:1 USD to USDC exchange activity.

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according to The Data Nerd monitoring, within 12 hours, Galaxy Digital deposited 9.57 million ASTER tokens (approximately $12.53 million) into Binance again.

 according to the official announcement, Upbit will list ZORA Korean won, BTC, and USDT trading pairs.

according to court documents, Melania Trump, the wife of former President Trump, launched the Meme coin MELANIA in January. Executives of Meteora, the issuer of MELANIA, are accused of organizing the token issuance knowing that a sharp drop would occur. On January 19, the day before Trump took office as President of the United States, the Meme coin MELANIA was issued at a low price of a few cents per coin, then soared to $13.73, currently trading at less than one percent of its peak price. Investors accuse executives of Meteora, the initial platform for the Meme coin MELANIA, of planning a scheme to sell off and make huge profits while causing the price to plummet.

On October 22nd, according to an official announcement, Keycard announced the early access of its AI-driven Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform, and completed a $38 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Acrew Capital, Boldstart Ventures, with participation from Mantis VC, Tapestry Ventures, Essence Ventures, Exceptional Capital, Modern Technical Fund, Vermillion Cliffs Ventures, and several angel investors.

according to Caixin, the US Nasdaq-listed company QMMM Holdings (NASDAQ:QMMM) announced on September 9, 2025, that it plans to establish a $100 million cryptocurrency reserve, with the stock price rising 9.6 times in three weeks. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at the end of September believed that the company was suspected of manipulating stock prices through social platforms and ordered it to halt trading from September 29. The company has been suspended from trading since then.

according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation's DeFi participation multi-signature wallet sold 1,000 ETH for 4.508 million DAI in the past 7 hours, at a selling price of $4,508.

 according to TraderT monitoring, the net inflow of $141 million into the US spot Ethereum ETF yesterday.

 MANTRA, a blockchain project focusing on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), has announced a new Layer 2 blockchain in collaboration with decentralized data infrastructure provider Inveniam Capital Partners. Inveniam and MANTRA stated that this new Layer 2 blockchain is specifically designed to "drive the management and utilization of private real estate assets." This Layer 2 blockchain aims to target AI and DeFi ecosystems and will provide underlying technical support for the management and utilization of commercial real estate data. Currently, the commercial real estate industry is one of the asset classes with the lowest transaction frequency globally, but with one of the richest data contents.

 according to Trader T monitoring, the net outflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF yesterday was 530.71 million US dollars.

 Coinbase published an article on October 16th stating that they are optimistic about the cryptocurrency market in the fourth quarter, but the leverage flash crash on October 11th has made us cautious. Nevertheless, we expect strong liquidity, a good macroeconomic environment, and encouraging regulatory developments to continue to support it. Especially with the support of favorable macroeconomic factors, Bitcoin may be able to exceed market expectations. In terms of policy, we expect the Fed to cut interest rates twice this quarter, which may encourage investors to put some of the $7 trillion currently held in money market funds into the cryptocurrency market.