Odaily News: New York City Comptroller Mark Levine said in an interview that he has sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, calling on the company to pause its planned initial public offering (IPO). The letter urges Anthropic to suspend its IPO plans until it has fully and transparently addressed concerns related to AI safety, governance, and development that the company itself has raised. Levine wrote that the company should focus on resolving these risks rather than moving forward with an IPO. New York City currently holds less than $10 million in investment exposure to Anthropic through private markets. (CNBC)

Odaily reports that trader Bonk Guy posted on the Fomo platform stating that despite the continued decline in the crypto market over the past few days, PONS has still demonstrated strong price resilience and is expected to see a significant rebound once the market re-enters an uptrend.

Bonk Guy believes that PONS is one of the key indicators for measuring the activity level of the Robinhood chain ecosystem, and if its price strengthens first, it could drive other tokens within the ecosystem to follow suit.

He predicts that the Robinhood chain ecosystem is about to usher in a new round of active trading, and the magnitude of the rally could exceed any previous round.

Odaily News — On October 15, Tether's independent investment arm Tether Capital announced a strategic investment in AIsa. AIsa provides a platform for AI agents to access and pay for data, software, and computing services. Developers can connect to AI models, data, APIs, software tools, and computing resources through a single interface, with fees settleable in fiat or stablecoins.

AIsa stated that its platform has already run over 250,000 agents, processed more than 100 million cumulative transactions, and provides access to over 5,000 APIs, skills, and models through a single key, with pay-per-call pricing. Enterprises can procure resources on demand, and service providers can integrate their services into automated workflows.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said that as AI agents take on more work, users need to provide agents with service access while controlling spending. This investment continues Tether's support for agent payment infrastructure. It previously invested in NEURA Robotics and plans to integrate WDK and QVAC into robotic systems. (Tether News)

Odaily News: Crypto hardware wallet company Ledger will launch the Atom in mid-2027. The device supports running apps such as WhatsApp and Instagram, and can switch between smartphone functionality and a protected digital asset management mode.

The Atom will feature a tamper-resistant casing, sensors, and specialized packaging, which can help prevent supply chain attacks like the recent CryptoBilis vulnerability even when the device is powered off.

Ledger initially plans to sell the Atom exclusively through its official website to reduce third-party distribution risks, but will not offer trade-in services for customers affected by the vulnerability. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Hyperliquid Labs CEO and co-founder Jeff Yan gave a rare interview, detailing the platform's operating mechanism and future plans.

Hyperliquid entered the spotlight of global traders and market observers earlier this year—after the Iran war broke out, speculators used the markets built on it to trade crude oil, with the platform offering 24/7 markets on the blockchain. In August, U.S. President Trump said the CFTC is pushing to allow Hyperliquid to "enter the United States in a fully compliant and legal manner." Hyperliquid currently operates outside the United States, but that has not hindered its rapid expansion over the past year.

In the interview, Jeff Yan introduced the protocol he built with his co-founder, the ecosystem of participants and assets tied to Hyperliquid (such as the platform's cryptocurrency HYPE), how perpetual contracts are bought and sold on the platform, and explained what a blockchain oracle is, as well as the conditions Hyperliquid needs to meet to conduct business in the United States. (Bloomberg)

Odaily reports that the AI Agent project NeoSoul's token DNA will be listed on October 16 on exchanges including Binance, OKX, Bitget, Gate, and KuCoin. DNA airdrop inquiries are now open. According to Binance Wallet, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to list DNA, and eligible users can use Binance Alpha Points to claim the DNA airdrop.

Odaily News: The Seoul Southern District Court recently issued a first-instance verdict in a fraud case involving approximately $253 million in POD and ATT tokens, acquitting Park, known as Jonber Kim. The court found that the defendant did indeed make misleading claims regarding the project's actual progress, business prospects, and use of funds, but prosecutors failed to prove that any specific investors purchased tokens based on this false information, and therefore the fraud charge did not stand; the related breach of trust charge was also acquitted due to insufficient evidence.

In addition, two co-defendants were sentenced to imprisonment with a suspended execution for submitting false materials during the maintenance review process for listing on Coinone. (DigitalassetWorks)

Odaily News: Multiple banks are competing to participate in a $4.25 billion debt financing to support Curium's acquisition of radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings. The financing is planned to be syndicated to investors next year.

People familiar with the matter revealed that JPMorgan, one of Curium's financial advisors, is leading the arrangement of this financing, and another financial advisor, Jefferies Financial Group, has also joined. According to the sources, several other lenders are in negotiations to join the financing, and a larger banking consortium is expected to form soon. Banks are competing for leveraged buyout financing business because such deals typically generate some of the highest fee income in investment banking. (Jinshi)

Odaily reports that Taiwan, China has blocked the websites of Coinbase and prediction market platform Kalshi. It is reported that the New Taipei District Court has authorized Taiwan's communications regulator and internet registration authorities to restrict local users' access to the relevant platforms. Taiwan had previously blocked Polymarket, Kalshi's main competitor. (Bloomberg)

According to an official announcement, Binance Alpha will list NeoSoul (DNA) on October 16. Eligible users can use Binance Alpha Points to claim airdrops on the Alpha event page after trading opens.

Odaily reports, according to Gate data, the UK FTSE 100 (UK100) has risen above 10,800 points, now at 10,802.82 points, with a 24-hour gain of 1.1%.

1. CK Hutchison issues statement regarding rumors of "Li Ka-shing's death";

2. Cumulative profits exceed $331 million, Abraxas Capital's two hedge accounts hold over $1.45 billion in short positions;

3. Korean financial column warns: memory chip market may face overcapacity by 2029, South Korea has only 2 to 3 years of transition window remaining;

4. StandX announces it will not issue a token, perpetual contracts will enter reduce-only mode starting October 20;

5. Total holdings reach 2,830 BTC, The Smarter Web Company adds 83 BTC;

6. TSMC Q3 net profit up 69% year-over-year, beating expectations, raises full-year revenue growth forecast to 44%;

7. StandX founder: Forcing a token launch goes against our values, will personally contribute funds during airdrop;

8. Musk: If Grok Bot leaks card information or makes shopping errors, SpaceX will provide compensation;

9. Holding $3.08 billion worth of HYPE, Hyperliquid Strategies purchases 180,000 HYPE;

10. Starknet initiates community vote to explore transition to an independent quantum-resistant L1, STRK will continue as the native token.

Odaily News: Fission has announced the completion of a $10 million Series A funding round, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Circle Ventures, Borderless Capital, and Ari Rubenstein, among others. The round was completed in September, with the valuation undisclosed. Fission primarily provides liquidity services for tokenized funds, acting as a buyer to help investors sell their fund shares without waiting for the fund to process redemptions; after users connect their digital wallets and submit sell requests, Fission handles the relevant legal and transaction processes. CEO Jonathan Shaffer stated that for products that typically take around 200 days to sell, investors can sell immediately after paying a fee, with settlement times reduced to 90 seconds or less. Fission was founded in 2024, with a founding team that includes former employees of Point72 and Securitize. Its clients are mainly institutional investors and organizations holding on-chain assets, such as hedge funds holding tokenized private credit or equity assets, crypto institutions managing treasuries, and stablecoin issuers allocating reserves to yield-bearing tokenized investment products.

Odaily News — On October 15, Binance announced that its tokenized stock product bStocks has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management (AUM), making it the fastest tokenized stock product globally to reach this scale. Since its launch on June 11, 2026, bStocks achieved this milestone in just about four months.

As of now, bStocks' cumulative trading volume has exceeded $40 billion, with average daily trading volume surpassing $300 million and nearly 100 assets listed. Since launch, the 1:1 conversion volume between directly held stocks and bStocks has reached $6 billion. Binance stated that bStocks can be used as collateral in eligible scenarios and supports 24/7 trading, on-chain settlement, and wallet-to-wallet transfers. As asset scale, trading volume, and use cases continue to expand, bStocks is driving tokenized stocks from a single trading asset toward collateral and broader crypto financial applications, further exploring the integration of traditional equity assets with on-chain financial infrastructure.

Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitoring, PUMP has dropped 16% over the past 24 hours, and one address may have contributed to today's PUMP decline. Seven hours ago, this address sold 1.264 billion PUMP in a single on-chain transaction in exchange for 5.483 million USDC, at a sale price of $0.0043. Due to selling all at once, the address incurred 5% slippage; had the sale been split into multiple transactions, it was estimated that $5.78 million could have been obtained, whereas the single transaction yielded only $5.483 million — roughly $300K less.

Odaily reports that AllianceDAO co-founder QwQiao posted on X, jokingly discussing the valuation logic behind Anthropic's potential IPO. He said that when calculating Anthropic's expected value, investors should also consider the probability of AI bringing about either extreme prosperity or catastrophic consequences.

QwQiao argues that if AI propels humanity into an era of extreme material abundance, money will lose its meaning; if AI leads to human extinction, money will likewise no longer matter. He jokingly put the combined probability of these two scenarios at 50%, with the remaining 50% being the scenario where humans continue to work and money remains important.

Based on this assumption, QwQiao joked that all target valuations for Anthropic should simply be cut in half.