Odaily reports that OpenAI is accelerating a funding round of approximately $30 billion, after which the company's valuation could exceed $1.4 trillion.

Reports indicate that OpenAI aims to complete this funding round before competitor Anthropic's anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in mid-November. The funding has not yet been officially finalized, and specific terms remain uncertain. (Cointelegraph)

1. Pump.fun launches Pre-IPO token trading, supporting 8 companies including OpenAI and Anthropic;

2. Papertrade keeps PAPER token non-transferable due to perpetual contract attack risks, and has not yet announced when trading will open;

3. The U.S. Blockchain Association supports the Treasury Department's GENIUS Act implementation rules and calls for clear regulatory requirements for stablecoin issuance and sales;

4. Mastercard launches stablecoin security tools to support payment fraud and sanctions risk screening;

5. Strive's holdings increase to 36,818 bitcoins, with 1,223 purchased from last Wednesday to Friday;

6. Micron Technology will hold a technical webinar on October 21, during which it will introduce the company's multi-generation technology roadmap, customer co-design, and long-term research layout;

7. Managing $2.7 billion in assets, Multicoin Capital remains committed to crypto investing and holds its largest position in HYPE;

8. With about 100% of votes in favor but not yet reaching the quorum, ENS DAO initiates voting on the ENSv2 mainnet activation proposal;

9. Echo Protocol will gradually shut down the protocol, and core businesses such as lending and strategies have stopped accepting new funds;

10. Sophon officially confirms that the mainnet will be shut down on November 30, and users need to withdraw assets before November 25.

According to Odaily monitoring, this address achieved a 100% win rate (12 rounds) on BTC trades between September 18 and October 13, 2026. From 01:04 to 09:20 on October 20, it increased its BTC short position from approximately $680,000 to approximately $2.11 million, adding about $1.43 million.

Address: 0xf517639a8872e756ac98d3c65507d2ebc25cc032

BTC trading rounds: 12; Win rate: 100.00%

Statistics period: 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-13

Odaily reports: According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (October 19, U.S. Eastern Time), U.S. ZEC spot ETFs recorded a total single-day net outflow of $10.4472 million, while NEAR spot ETFs recorded a total single-day net inflow of $5.4184 million.

On the ZEC side, only the Zcash ETF (ZCSH) recorded a net outflow on the day, amounting to $10.4472 million, with cumulative historical net inflows of $152 million. As of press time, the total net asset value of ZEC spot ETFs stands at $602 million, with a net asset ratio of 3.15% and cumulative historical net inflows of $152 million.

On the NEAR side, only the Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR) recorded a net inflow on the day, amounting to $5.4184 million, with cumulative historical net inflows for the fund of $88.4653 million. As of press time, the total net asset value of NEAR spot ETFs stands at $86.9531 million, with a net asset ratio of 1.35% and cumulative historical net inflows of $88.4653 million.

Odaily: According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (October 19, U.S. Eastern Time), SOL spot ETFs recorded a total single-day net outflow of $6.7215 million.

The SOL spot ETF with the largest net outflow yesterday was Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), with a single-day net outflow of $4.8816 million; its cumulative historical net inflow currently stands at $1.175 billion.

Next was Fidelity Solana Fund ETF (FSOL), with a single-day net outflow of $1.8399 million; its cumulative historical net inflow currently stands at $230 million.

As of press time, the total net asset value of SOL spot ETFs is $1.625 billion, the SOL net asset ratio is 0.00%, and cumulative historical net inflows have reached $1.551 billion.

Odaily reports: The Blockchain Association has submitted comments on the U.S. Treasury Department's proposed implementation rules for Section 3 of the GENIUS Act. This provision primarily governs the eligibility of entities issuing and selling payment stablecoins within the United States.

The Blockchain Association stated that it supports the core regulatory framework proposed by the Treasury Department in principle, but calls for further clarification of the definition of digital asset service providers, the criteria for determining "knowing participation" conduct, and the compliance requirements for foreign stablecoin issuers, in order to reduce uncertainty during the rule implementation process. (The Block)

Odaily: BNB Chain has opened a dedicated community forum section for its new Layer 1 network NewL1. The section went live in July 2026 and was promoted on October 17 and 19. NewL1 is EVM-compatible and targets trading, payments, and AI use cases, including support for AI agents to trade autonomously. Its target performance metrics include pre-confirmation of under 50 milliseconds, over 100,000 TPS, and sub-second finality. NewL1 will not issue a new token; BNB is the sole gas token. It will introduce the TxStream structure to reduce front-running risk, add privacy-enhancing features, and build a native cross-chain bridge connecting to BSC. The forum will discuss technical topics such as token economics, consensus protocols, and privacy, while price speculation is prohibited.

Odaily reports: Papertrade, a synthetic perpetual contract protocol built on Hyperliquid, has announced that due to concerns over attack risks related to perpetual contracts, its platform token PAPER will remain non-transferable, and no specific timeline has been announced for opening transfers or secondary market trading.

Papertrade stated that PAPER tokens obtained by users through realized trading losses can still be used for staking to earn USDC yield distributed by the protocol.

It is understood that Papertrade is a fully on-chain, user-owned synthetic perpetual contract protocol that supports up to 1000x leverage and claims that trading will not cause market impact.

According to Gate data, South Korea's KOSPI index has fallen 4.00%, currently at 5,536.97 points.

Odaily: Payment giant Mastercard has launched the Stablecoin Security tool, aimed at helping financial institutions and payment service providers identify fraud and sanctions compliance risks in stablecoin payment processes.

The tool is primarily designed for stablecoin payment scenarios, supporting relevant institutions in conducting risk screening during transaction processing. Currently, Mastercard has not disclosed the specific technical parameters or launch scope of the tool.

Odaily: Coinbase Assets announced on X that it has added Axis Labs (AXIS), Pearl (PEARL), and Stable (STABLE) to its listing roadmap, with AXIS being a Base network token.

Coinbase stated that the official trading launch of the aforementioned assets still depends on whether market-making support and technical infrastructure meet the requirements, and the specific launch time will be announced separately once the relevant conditions are met.

Odaily Report: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino posted on X, responding to a report on Tether's sanctions enforcement released by US Senator Richard Blumenthal.

Ardoino stated that the report ignores Tether's proactive actions in freezing sanctioned addresses. Since 2023, Tether has on average frozen relevant addresses 4 weeks ahead of formal designations by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF), and in 99% of cases, the relevant addresses were frozen before being flagged by Chainalysis.

Odaily reports: Pump.fun announced on X that it has partnered with PreStocks to launch a Pre-IPO token trading service. Users can now trade tokens related to private companies on Pump.fun and use these tokens as trading pair assets to issue new tokens.

The first batch of supported companies includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Neuralink, Figure AI, Kalshi, Polymarket, and Oura, totaling 8 companies.

This feature is powered by PreStocks. The related tokens are not equivalent to holding actual equity in the corresponding companies.

Odaily: Layer 1 blockchain Aptos has announced that its Encrypted Mempool feature is now live on mainnet, designed to mitigate maximal extractable value (MEV)-related risks, including front-running and sandwich attacks.

The feature is an opt-in mechanism. Once enabled by users, pending transactions remain encrypted until block transaction ordering is finalized, preventing bots from accessing information such as transaction assets, amounts, and smart contract interactions in advance and using that information to execute targeted trades.

Aptos stated that the feature is primarily aimed at institutions executing large on-chain transactions, traders looking to reduce MEV risk, AI agents, and developers.

According to Cointelegraph, citing EigenPhi data, Ethereum traders lost approximately $60 million to sandwich attacks in the 12 months ending October 2025. Separately, according to Bitquery statistics, Solana experienced nearly 6.9 million sandwich attacks during an 11-month observation period, involving approximately 2.2 million wallets and generating about $29.7 million in profits for the bots involved. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports: Modular blockchain Sophon posted on X that it had previously announced a phased shutdown plan for Sophon Chain, and now plans to permanently shut down the Sophon mainnet on November 30, 2026. November 25 is the deadline for asset withdrawals; after that, key infrastructure and related websites will begin to close sequentially, and assets remaining on Sophon Chain after the deadline may face the risk of permanent inaccessibility.

Sophon reminds users to withdraw liquid assets such as SOPH, ETH, and USDC through official channels, and to claim any unclaimed staking rewards or Guardian rewards; users holding unclaimed Sophon farm assets also need to withdraw those as well.

Officials emphasize that users should act by November 25 rather than November 30, and should not wait until the last day. They also advise using only official Sophon links and to beware of fraudulent migration websites.

Odaily reports: According to the latest Gate data, the gold price fell to $4,131.35/oz, down 0.26% intraday. Silver fell to $56.815/oz, up 0.25% intraday.

In forex, USD/CNH fell 0.01% intraday, with the current rate at 6.6809. USD/JPY rose 0.06% intraday, with the current rate at 158.581.

In global stock indices, the Europe 50 Index (EUSTX50) fell 1.44% intraday to 6,101.95 points; the UK FTSE 100 Index (UK100) rose 0.01% intraday to 10,724 points; the Germany DAX40 Index (GER40) fell 0.02% intraday to 25,189.5 points.

In commodities, WTI crude oil rose 0.37% intraday to $99.67/barrel. Brent crude oil rose 0.33% intraday to $111.08/barrel.

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