Odaily reports: Michael Saylor, founder of bitcoin treasury company Strategy, responded in an interview with Bloomberg to the possibility that MSCI's new index rules could remove MSTR. He stated that the move does not matter much to Strategy, as the amount of capital they control is relatively small, but he is disappointed with MSCI's stance to date. Oil, natural gas, land, and machinery all count as capital, yet bitcoin does not—this is a value judgment and in fact a bias against digital assets. They are like unregistered financial advisors, setting a "bad precedent" for the entire industry, and he hopes they will reconsider. Digital assets represent the future; MSCI may not want to participate in this future, but investors will not agree, and the United States will not agree either. If MSCI abandons its proposal to remove MSTR, it would benefit the entire industry.

Regarding the core dispute over whether Strategy is a company with actual operating business, Michael Saylor compared it to banks and insurance companies. He argued that these financial institutions sell credit and policies, while Strategy uses bitcoin to support digital credit products, so Strategy is an operating enterprise and should be viewed like other financial companies.

Odaily reports: Crypto trader Ansem shared his recent investment views, stating that the crypto market is gradually shifting toward a phase that places greater emphasis on individual project fundamentals, capital inflows, and actual business performance. As a result, identifying mispriced assets and determining which teams are truly driving project development will become increasingly important, rather than relying entirely on the price action of major assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Ansem believes that the investment approach to altcoins in this cycle differs from the past. Assets such as HYPE and ZEC have, even during periods of overall market weakness, decoupled from Bitcoin and Ethereum and charted independent price movements.

Odaily reports: Nvidia Senior Vice President of PC Jeff Fisher stated in an interview that the RTX 5090 graphics card has not been discontinued. He emphasized that the RTX 5090 is an extremely important core product for Nvidia, and the company will continue to supply it. Fisher also acknowledged that supply chain capacity remains constrained, but said Nvidia is making every effort to ensure the product can be successfully brought to market.

Odaily reports: Crypto analyst Darkfost posted that after Bitcoin encountered resistance near approximately $87,000, the MVRV metric has fallen back below the historical 30th percentile (25.7%), indicating the market has re-entered a transitional phase following a capitulation-style sell-off.

Darkfost further noted that this metric does not merely measure the ratio of Bitcoin's market value to realized value, but rather places the current MVRV level in the context of historical evolution for comparison. The historical time proportion corresponding to the current valuation level is only about 25%, which still aligns with the characteristics of a market accumulation zone. However, Bitcoin has already exited the extreme undervaluation range, which has historically coincided with market bottoms.

(Note: MVRV is an on-chain metric used to gauge Bitcoin's market valuation, short for Market Value to Realized Value, i.e., the ratio of market value to realized value.)

According to monitoring by the PPP prediction market tool, in the "VALORANT Champions 2026 Grand Finals LOUD vs. Vitality" prediction event, an account with $47,000 in profit

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Odaily: Enterprise AI agent infrastructure company AIsa has announced the completion of a seed extension round, with stablecoin issuer Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors. This round brings its cumulative funding to over $9 million.

Tether and HIVEN join the existing investor lineup that includes Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital. AIsa founder and CEO Jordan Liu stated that the company will build infrastructure to support global discovery, access, and payment for resources by AI agents.

AIsa's network integrates resource discovery, access, and transactions, connecting enterprise AI agents with external data, AI search, models, APIs, software tools, and industry services, while providing permission management, usage metering, billing, and settlement. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports that on October 16, GasFree announced its user base has reached 500,871, with cumulative support for over 500,000 transfers. With GasFree, users can pay transaction fees directly using USDT without needing to hold TRX for Gas; this experience has now been extended to USDD, and Binance Web3 Wallet also supports GasFree-powered TRC-20 token transfers. No need to prepare extra TRX, and no need to worry about Gas fees—GasFree is making on-chain transfers lighter and smoother.

Odaily Report: DeepSeek has officially launched a new version of its large model, V4.1 Flash-1017. At a time when domestic AI large models are generally in a critical iteration phase, this version has taken the lead in completing its upgrade, achieving a significant leap in overall performance. While public data on its technical metrics had been previously available, this time DeepSeek has for the first time independently published a Pareto frontier curve, visually presenting the model's comprehensive performance across efficiency and cost dimensions. V4.1 Flash-1017 reaches industry-leading levels on this curve: its comprehensive cost per unit task is only one-hundredth to one-twentieth that of comparable models such as Fable and Astra, delivering a cost-effectiveness advantage of more than forty to fifty times. Although the newly released 1017 version maintains the existing API pricing structure, it has completed a deep restructuring of Token usage efficiency—through task-aware compression, dynamic context trimming, and adaptive decoding strategies, significantly reducing the actual Token consumption of various types of requests. Empirical testing shows that in most scenarios, Token usage has dropped by over 50% compared with the previous version, and the corresponding TCO level will likewise see a new round of substantial reduction in tandem. (Sina Finance)

1. US stock AI concept perpetual contracts collectively crashed in the early morning, with Western Digital falling over 7% at one point, while Micron and SK Hynix dropped over 6%;

2. The South Korean government plans to convene the five major crypto exchanges on October 20 to hear opinions on the 22% crypto tax to be imposed in 2027;

3. The French National Assembly passed a tax amendment on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions by a one-vote margin, planned for implementation in 2027;

4. Papertrade perpetual contracts may soon launch, with Paragon winning the PAPER ticker for approximately $45,000;

5. South Korea's five major crypto exchanges plan to push for a fourth delay of the 22% crypto tax, with the ruling party proposing an extension to 2029;

6. Ledger CEO fires back at former Mt. Gox CEO: You are no white knight, stop making reckless speculations;

7. South Korean Finance Minister: The semiconductor market boom will last at least until next year;

8. pump.fun has launched perpetual contract trading services based on Hyperliquid, charging a Builder Fee of up to 0.1% per order;

9. Last week's "manual" opportunity? Variational is suspected to activate its trading API next Friday;

10. Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley view tokenization as a growth opportunity, but none provided revenue expectations.

Odaily reports that South Korea's five major cryptocurrency exchanges plan to hold a meeting with the government on October 20 to push for a fourth delay of the 22% cryptocurrency tax originally scheduled to take effect in January 2027.

South Korea's cryptocurrency taxation policy has already been postponed three times, and the related bill currently proposed by the ruling party aims to further delay implementation to 2029. The upcoming meeting will gather industry opinions on cryptocurrency taxation arrangements, and whether another delay will be granted remains undetermined. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a Hyperliquid trader had two short positions liquidated, losing $47,900. Among them, the BTC short position was worth $4.29 million, with a loss of $46,070; the ZEC short position was worth $61,880, with a loss of $1,800. Hours earlier, the trader had deposited $200,000 USDC in an attempt to save the positions. Currently, the trader still holds $17.36 million in open short positions, with an unrealized loss of $149,900.

Odaily reports: According to Arkham monitoring, whale 0xf82 withdrew 1 million PancakeSwap (CAKE) tokens from Bybit, worth $2.16 million. In addition, the whale also withdrew 800 BNB, worth approximately $576,000.

The PancakeSwap core team previously proposed a governance proposal called "The Flip," which plans to increase the proportion of trading fees from v3 and Infinity liquidity pools distributed to liquidity providers (LPs) to 88%, covering all 11 supported blockchains, while reducing CAKE's daily effective emissions from 22,500 to 7,000, a decrease of approximately 69%.

Odaily reports that HIP-3 market deployer Paragon spent 570.98 HYPE (approximately $45,000) to win the PAPER ticker at auction, and may soon launch Papertrade (PAPER) perpetual contracts. Papertrade is an on-chain synthetic perpetual contract trading platform deployed on HyperEVM, offering leverage of up to 1000x. Its token PAPER is minted through users' realized trading losses, with no pre-mine, team, or VC allocations.

Odaily: London Stock Exchange-listed blockchain infrastructure company KR1 plc has launched its own Ethereum validators, operated by P2P.org within Lido V3's stVaults. KR1 recently plans to stake up to 6,000 ETH, with the first batch of 10 validators going live, and the specific rollout pace depends on the Ethereum validator entry queue. KR1 retains control over deposits and withdrawals, validator fee arrangements, and vault role permissions, and has the option to mint stETH for liquidity. Lido stated that stVaults resolve the trade-off between native staking and liquid staking, allowing stakers to both select validators and retain ownership while maintaining liquidity through stETH. Lido disclosed that the stVaults smart contracts have been audited by firms including Certora, MixBytes, Consensys Diligence, Ackee Blockchain, and Sigma Prime, and offer a bug bounty of up to $2 million.

According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, an address lost $9.05 million on long positions over the course of a week but continued to add to its position. At the end of September this year, the address's Hyperliquid account was once up $19.7 million in profit, after which the account's returns declined. Its most recent BTC 40x long position was opened in the early hours of October 16, with the position at one point increased to $187 million; 5 hours ago, its ETH long position worth $11.74 million was fully liquidated, with a loss of $1.08 million. As of now, the address's ETH and BTC trades have realized a combined loss of $4.5 million. It currently has a remaining $110 million BTC long position totaling 1,355.6 BTC, with an unrealized loss of $287,000, and plans to stop out of the entire position if the price falls below $80,500.