Odaily: Bybit today added three new stock perpetual contracts — Procter & Gamble (PGUSDT), Lockheed Martin (LMTUSDT), and MaxLinear (MXLUSDT) — with up to 20x leverage. A limited-time trading fee promotion is available during the launch period: 0% for limit orders and 50% off for market orders.

Odaily reports, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale was liquidated for 121.33 BTC, worth $9.91 million, during the market downturn.

Odaily Report: According to official sources, Gate Live will host a themed AMA on October 22 at 20:00 (UTC+8), focusing on the BTC rebound, the surge in Meme coins, and institutional capital movements. The livestream will be hosted by @JoeyJia11, with three guests invited to participate: @Rocky_Bitcoin, @Meta8Mate, and @Godot_gate.

This AMA will focus on whether BTC's current rebound can be sustained, whether the Meme coin surge still has room to continue, and how moves by institutions such as BlackRock will affect market expectations. Amid the market rebound and rotating hot narratives, the guests will analyze market trends, emerging opportunities, and potential risks, interpreting the key signals worth watching in the current market.

Odaily reports that according to an official announcement, Huobi HTX listed CMCSA/USDT and IOST/USDT perpetual contracts on October 22, supporting 1-20x long and short positions. Meanwhile, from now until October 29 at 15:00 (UTC+8), Huobi HTX is launching a new contract token trading competition. Users who complete registration, participate in trading the designated event tokens' contracts, and reach the specified threshold will have the opportunity to share in a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX and 5,000 USDT in contract trial funds.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two addresses went long on 1.5 million MAGMA with 2x leverage on Aster DEX, investing $775,000. They currently have an unrealized profit of $340,000, with a peak return of 105.84%. MAGMA is up over 70% today.

Odaily reports: According to the "X Layer Q3 2026 Fundamental Report" released by Principia Labs, X Layer saw significant growth in on-chain activity and DeFi ecosystem scale in the third quarter. Among these, TradeZone cumulatively processed approximately 287 million transactions, 2.6 times the EVM transaction volume during the same period; average daily EVM transactions grew 262% quarter-over-quarter to 1.22 million, total value locked (TVL) in DeFi grew 100% quarter-over-quarter to $173.4 million, and fee revenue from ecosystem applications grew 490% quarter-over-quarter to $1.86 million.

Additionally, the report shows that OKB market capitalization grew 53.8% quarter-over-quarter to $2.54 billion. Principia Labs believes that with the development of Exchange OS, X Layer is gradually forming a full-stack trading system covering on-chain trading and DeFi applications.

Odaily reports: Blockworks researcher Kunal Doshi posted on X platform that the gap between Pump.fun and the fomo app on mobile is rapidly narrowing. Currently, the former's trading volume has reached nearly 50% of fomo's, and the number of daily active traders is essentially on par as well. With the addition of perpetual contracts and gacha mechanics, Pump.fun's competitiveness as a one-stop trading application is steadily increasing.

Earlier reports indicated that Pump.fun was revealed to be paying a fixed fee of $30,000 per month to attract FOMO users to migrate to its app.

Odaily reports: According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale sold 246.25 BTC today, worth $20.64 million, and then bought 8,286 ETH, worth $20.64 million. Over the past 11 days, this whale has cumulatively sold 1,917.7 BTC, worth $159 million, and bought 64,545 ETH, worth $155 million.

Odaily Report: According to ZachXBT monitoring, after the July 2025 security incident at Indian exchange CoinDCX, its deposit address TQKJQ was still used by a liquidity provider (LP) for 10 months. Until April and May 2026, this address was still consolidating user deposits to CoinDCX's current public hot wallet and receiving gas fees. Based on this, ZachXBT believes that the CoinDCX team has $15.8 million in user deposits untracked. CoinDCX previously responded that user funds are safe, the related claims are misleading, and the transactions involved came from old wallet addresses created in January 2025, which were compromised in July 2025.

Odaily reports that according to Gate data, the Euro Stoxx 50 (EUSTX50) has fallen to 6,100 points, currently at 6,098.61 points, with a 24-hour decline of 0.8%.

Odaily reports that predict.fun posted on X stating that Anthropic may report a net loss of $80 billion, but its likelihood of completing an IPO before year-end appears to be increasing. Prediction market data shows that Anthropic's probability of going public before 2027 rose overnight from 74% to 86%.

Odaily reports: JPMorgan strategists believe that market concerns over financing the AI buildout are overdone, and given that investors have already significantly reduced related positions, the recent selloff in AI-related stocks may gradually lose momentum.

The strategist team led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote that investors' previous heavy bets on semiconductor stocks have largely been unwound, including those of hedge funds and trend-following investors. Their gauge of overall equity positioning has also fallen significantly from its mid-September peak, which may limit the scope for further declines.

Odaily: Publicly listed fintech company Alpha Modus has announced its first purchase of 3,170 BTC through a PIPE transaction, ranking 27th on the Bitcoin 100 list.

According to MSX.COM data, US cloud infrastructure companies' pre-market share prices fell, with Nebius (NBIS.O) down 5.6% and Coreweave (CRWV.O) down 5.2%.