Goldman Sachs raises its December Brent crude oil price forecast to $90 per barrel, while maintaining its 2027 average price forecast at $80 per barrel.

Beating AI News (Dongcha) — Mosi Intelligence, founded by Fudan University professor Qiu Xipeng, announced the completion of over RMB 1 billion in Pre-A round financing, led by Huake Fund, with participation from Guokai Science and Technology Innovation and Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, among others. Founded at the end of 2024, the company is led by Li Shimin, a student of Qiu Xipeng, as its CEO. The proceeds from this round will be used for research and development of full-modal real-time interactive technology and global commercialization. Mosi aims to build AI that not only understands human speech but also grasps users' emotions and surrounding context. For example, if a user says "It's a bit cold" in a car, the AI will adjust the air conditioning based on in-vehicle temperature, the speaker's identity, and past preferences. It also needs to know when to respond and when to remain silent. Technically, the team has open-sourced models including MOSS-Audio and MOSS-VL-Realtime. The former can analyze emotions in speech, identify different speakers, and recognize ambient sounds. The latter can continuously process video, answer questions in real time while viewing, and revise responses based on changes in the visual feed. Currently, Mosi is integrating voice, vision, memory, and tool calling capabilities into the MOSS Live real-time interaction system, targeting use cases such as smart cockpits and AI hardware. The company said it has already delivered products to some enterprise clients, with a long-term goal of building an AI assistant like the one in the movie *Her*, capable of continuously understanding the user's context.

According to official announcements from Solana, Hong Kong will launch its second spot Solana ETF. The Pando Solana ETF (2831.HK) is scheduled to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13. Solana noted that the total net asset value of global spot SOL ETFs currently stands at $1.9 billion, with cumulative net inflows reaching $1.61 billion.

Beating AI Express News: Tsinghua-backed AI infrastructure firm Wuwei Xinqiong has secured 2.3 billion yuan in Series C financing, bringing its total funding to 4.3 billion yuan. Founded in 2023, Wuwei Xinqiong does not develop chips or build its own data centers. Instead, it integrates computing power from chips including Huawei Ascend, NVIDIA, and AMD via software, offering large language model (LLM) training and inference services to clients. Developers can also directly call models through APIs without self-deployment. Bloomberg reported on October 1, citing people familiar with the matter, that Wuwei Xinqiong has secretly submitted an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with an expected listing as early as the first half of 2027. Its pre-IPO valuation is said to be around 14.3 billion yuan.

The Compound Foundation has released its September progress report, announcing that Compound V4 has completed core product and technical specification development, with preliminary smart contract development and code review now underway. The institutional market went live on September 8; as of September 25, total deposits and collateral supplies exceeded $60 million, while outstanding USDC borrowings surpassed $18 million. The report notes that the institutional market is a research and development deployment designed to test select V4 features and gather real-world feedback. A September 29 update further showed that weekly borrowing demand rose nearly 10% that week, with USDC suppliers’ base rate standing at 6.35% at the time. Additionally, Compound has expanded its institutional market distribution channel via Gate Earn; old-version COMP rewards opened for claiming via Merkl on September 10, with over 106,900 COMP tokens available. On the operational front, the Compound Foundation stated that the annual cost of renewing its Cactus contract has been reduced by roughly one-third, while the comparable annual service cost for its security provider’s renewal dropped by 17%. The overall progress of V4 remains on schedule; in October, work will continue on development, code review and testing, alongside advancing the security review of the Integration Kit and preparing for the launch of partial liquidation functions.

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong said on the 12th at the National Assembly’s Finance and Economy Committee state audit meeting: “We failed to issue sufficient warnings about single-stock leveraged ETFs, and we apologize to the public for this. At the end of May, I did not fully grasp the volatility in South Korea’s domestic stock market and the memory chip sector.” Additionally, regarding the Bank of Korea’s June Financial Stability Report, which had judged that single-stock leveraged ETFs “are expected to prevent domestic investment funds from flowing overseas and help expand foreign capital inflows,” Rhee also admitted the judgment was wrong, stating: “In hindsight, this assessment was inappropriate.”

According to HTX market data, tokens in the cross-chain interoperability sector have rallied sharply, with Wormhole (W) leading the surge, gaining over 60% in 24 hours and briefly breaking $0.03. LayerZero (ZRO) also strengthened, surpassing $2.2 with a 24-hour increase of more than 12%. Axelar (AXL) crossed $0.06, rising 9.7% in 24 hours; Stargate (STG) broke $0.2, up 23.7% in 24 hours. On the news front: Wormhole is advancing W 2.0 tokenomics, introducing reserves, staking yields and a bi-weekly unlock mechanism, and has completed multi-chain deployments for Hyperliquid HYPE as well as institutional-grade integrations including Ripple RLUSD. LayerZero has seen a sharp recent growth in TVL, launched the Bridge Sentinel security solution in partnership with Blockaid, and completed the integration of Stargate (STG) tokens into the ZRO ecosystem while carrying out ongoing buybacks. Axelar is expanding multi-chain connections, actively participating in the XRP ecosystem as a bridge for the XRPL EVM sidechain. Stargate is finalizing its token merger and migration to the LayerZero ecosystem, with multiple major trading platforms supporting STG-to-ZRO conversions.