Odaily reports that AI-native security platform Rein Security has completed a $25 million Series A funding round, co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle, and RNP Capital Advisors.
Rein Security primarily provides AI agent security protection for enterprises, helping them defend against AI-driven attacks, and can monitor the code executed and resources accessed by AI agents to achieve real-time governance and control. The new funds from this round will be used to accelerate product development, expand intelligent AI security research, and support global hiring. (Pulse 2.0)
Odaily News: Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said in an interview that negotiations between Iran and the U.S. are still ongoing. Iran is still evaluating the U.S. response to the proposal to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days" and will reply within a few days. (Xinhua News Agency)
Odaily News: Strategy has announced that it will release its third-quarter financial results after the U.S. stock market closes on October 29, 2026, and will hold a video webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time that day to discuss the results. About two hours after the webcast ends, a replay will be uploaded to Strategy's Investor Relations website, and the video webcast will also be available simultaneously.
Odaily reports: NUVA, a real-world asset (RWA) platform launched by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has introduced the HOME token, offering eligible overseas investors exposure to U.S. residential home equity line of credit (HELOC) yields, with a minimum investment of 1 USDC.
The HOME token corresponds to an investment vault that will initially hold home equity lines of credit originated by Figure Technology Solutions. NUVA targets an annualized yield of 7%, with the yield target adjusted monthly. Loan interest income and asset performance will be credited to the vault's net asset value and reflected in the HOME token price.
NUVA stated that HOME holders do not directly own individual loans but instead gain overall exposure to the loan portfolio through the token. The product seeks to bring U.S. residential credit assets—typically available only to institutional investors—into decentralized finance (DeFi) through an on-chain format compliant with the Ethereum ERC-20 standard. HOME is currently only available to eligible non-U.S. users, and NUVA will enforce regional restrictions through wallet screening and IP address blocking. (CoinDesk)
Odaily reports that Four.Meme, a Meme issuance platform in the BNB Chain ecosystem, has announced an upgrade to its Stock Meme feature, adding 76 new bStock assets that can be used as pool assets and optimizing its token issuance mechanism.
It is reported that Four.Meme will abolish the previous model of setting fixed amounts for different bStocks. All bStock pools will now adopt a unified fundraising target of $10,000 equivalent, regardless of the underlying stock asset. Meanwhile, the platform will support more stock-type assets as the basis for creating Stock Memes. Popular stocks will be displayed by default, and users can also view all supported bStocks through the search function.
In addition, Four.Meme has lowered the fundraising threshold for BNB, USDT, USD1, and UUSD to $10,000, aiming to provide Stock Meme creators with more asset options and a more flexible issuance method.
Odaily reports: Crypto travel booking platform Travala has announced the launch of a native AI travel agent, allowing users to search for and book hotels through the AI agent and complete payments using USDT on BNB Smart Chain. The service is jointly supported by BNB Chain, Travala, and Binance Pay. BNB Chain provides the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) SDK and agent framework, while Binance Pay handles the payment settlement infrastructure. Users do not need to install additional apps or configure developer tools — they simply select a hotel through the AI agent on the Travala website and authorize payment using a self-custodial BSC wallet.
Odaily News: Chainlink has launched CCIP Vault Adapters, enabling DeFi vaults to directly accept user deposits from more than 80 blockchains without needing to redeploy the vault on each chain. The product is now live, with protocols including Aave, Lombard, United Stables, Veda, and Venus already beginning to adopt it. The relevant vaults cover areas such as stablecoins, lending, yield strategies, digital credit, and tokenized assets.
Odaily News: The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has released its Securities Industry Financial Review Report, disclosing that Hong Kong's securities industry recorded solid growth in the first half of this year, with net profits increasing 21% to HK$51.7 billion. Total net commission income from securities trading, futures and options trading, leveraged foreign exchange trading, and virtual asset trading, along with interest income, rose 13% from HK$40.1 billion in the second half of 2025 to HK$45.4 billion in the first half of 2026. In addition, the total commission income from virtual asset trading reported in the first half of 2026 was HK$99.3 million, a decrease of HK$15.5 million from HK$114.8 million in the second half of 2025, representing a quarter-on-quarter decline of 13.5%.
Odaily News — Catalyst, a startup focused on building AI trading agents for everyday investors, has completed a $30 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Jump Trading, PeakXV, Lux Capital, AntiFund, Coinbase, and Premji Invest. Founded in 2025, the company is dedicated to building AI trading agents for retail investors that can convert natural language into trading strategies and execute them, with human confirmation required in the process. Earlier pilot tests generated hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume within weeks. Catalyst says its pilot program generated hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume within weeks, and it is gradually opening up its waitlist, with the product expected to launch broadly. (Fortune)
Odaily News: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated that Tesla and SpaceX will build and operate the Terafab AI chip factory in Texas themselves, and TSMC may at most sublease part of the space.
Musk said last week that the two sides had discussed potential cooperation on the Terafab project, but in his latest response on the X platform to the claim that "the most likely outcome is that TSMC will own and operate the factory," he said: "No, we will build and operate this factory, there should be no doubt about that." Musk added that TSMC "may be able to sublease part of Terafab, but that's it." (Reuters)
Odaily News: Trader Killa posted on X that the same group of traders who previously shorted Bitcoin all the way from $67,000 down to $87,000 are now celebrating due to a minor price pullback.
Killa stated that these traders believe they are simply waiting for a "bullish retest" of the uptrend by the market, but in reality, they are just hoping to recoup their previous losses with a single trade, and their inability to control greed is precisely what caused their earlier failures. He believes that if traders do not change their mindset and strategy, similar situations may occur again in the future.
Odaily News: In response to some payment platforms that are only registered as fintech companies without obtaining any financial category license, Hong Kong's Acting Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Joseph Chan, stated that appropriate enforcement action will be taken as needed under the relevant statutory regulatory framework to maintain financial stability and protect the rights and interests of customers and the public.
According to Hong Kong's Payment Systems and Stored Value Facilities Ordinance, unless a statutory exemption is obtained, it is illegal for anyone to issue or operate a stored value facility in Hong Kong without a license. If cases of suspected unlicensed operation or violation of the Payment Ordinance are identified, the HKMA will intervene directly, collaborate with other relevant regulators depending on the nature of the case, and refer cases to law enforcement agencies when necessary. (Mobile Payment Network)
Odaily reports that Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley stated that AI and crypto "come from the same root," and the company plans to do more business in the AI sector. Currently, Bitwise has two AI ETF applications pending approval: the Bitwise AI Cyber Defense ETF and the Bitwise AI Bond ETF. In addition, the company launched the first spot NEAR ETF in the United States last week. (TheBlock)
Odaily reports that crypto trader Killa posted on X platform that Bitcoin once again failed to break through $87,000, and the 10x long position previously established based on the expectation of a breakout after a second test of the highs has been stopped out at breakeven. Due to the failed breakout and the price returning to the entry level, he is now focusing on the $80,000 to $82,000 range and considering rebuilding a 10x long position.
Killa stated that he still holds BTC long positions at $62,600 and $76,400, and there is no reason to rush into establishing new long positions for now. However, he remains bullish and expects prices to move higher. The current market conditions represent low-timeframe consolidation, while he primarily trades on higher timeframes, and he emphasized the importance of risk management.
Odaily News: Strive CEO Matt Cole stated that large institutions restricted by equity investment mandates cannot directly purchase Bitcoin or Bitcoin ETFs, and are therefore turning to buy shares of Bitcoin treasury companies to gain indirect BTC exposure.
Matt Cole noted that without Strive and MicroStrategy, portfolio managers would be unable to gain Bitcoin exposure within this $500 billion capital pool. He added: "We are pushing BTC onto the rails of the traditional financial system." (Bitcoin Treasuries)
Odaily News: According to Hypberbot data, Machi Big Brother Huang Licheng's HYPE long position has just been fully liquidated, with a loss of approximately $26,000. He is still "holding on for dear life" to a 25x leveraged Ethereum long position, which holds 31,500 ETH, with a position value of approximately $79.839 million. The current unrealized loss is $3.506 million, with a return on investment of negative 109%.
