Tether CEO responds to Iran-related sanctions concerns: Relevant freezes were implemented 4 weeks ahead of official sanctions, while Iran-linked stablecoin trading volume has fallen by 94%.

According to Farside's monitoring, yesterday, the total net inflow of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs reached $23.2 million. Among them, IBIT saw a net inflow of $29.9 million, FBTC a net inflow of $3.6 million, BITB a net outflow of $10.3 million, while all other products recorded zero capital flows. For U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs, total net outflows stood at $26.1 million. Specifically, ETHA posted a net outflow of $33 million, FETH a net inflow of $3.6 million, Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust (ETH) a net inflow of $3.3 million, with all other products registering zero capital movement.

Beating AI News (Dongcha): Today AI, founded by Junyuan Qi—founder of Teambition and former head of Doubao PC—announced it has raised over $200 million in total financing. Investors include IDG Capital, Tencent, Source Code Capital, Ant Group, Sequoia China, Transsion Holdings, Singulariteam, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Hanyuan Asset. Today AI originally planned to develop software first, then hardware, and finally train its own models. Now, the R&D sequence has been adjusted to advance software and model development in parallel, with an early experimental model version already available. The reason is that while existing large language models (LLMs) have grown increasingly proficient in programming, their ability to communicate naturally with users and understand personal preferences has not improved in tandem. Today AI aims to train models specifically tailored for personal assistants, with hardware development planned in collaboration with partners. However, the product still falls short of the team’s vision for a personal AI assistant. In a prior interview with LatePost, the Today AI team admitted that the system’s ability to proactively understand and adapt to users is only at a “20-30 out of 100” level. A 10-day trial by GeekPark also found that Today AI can complete game mod localization in 15 minutes, but consecutive incorrect installation suggestions left the reporter struggling for an hour. How to prioritize tasks and determine when to take proactive action remains an unresolved challenge for such personal AI agents.

According to Nansen’s *NEAR Q3 2026 Report*, NEAR Intents recorded a trading volume of approximately $10.4 billion in the third quarter, with cumulative fees exceeding $52 million, of which NEAR captured over $8 million. Confidential Intents opened developer access on July 7, and its total value locked (TVL) stood at around $160 million at the end of the third quarter, marking a sequential increase of roughly 463%.

USD1 traders are going long on $SPCX on @Aster_DEX! 5 wallets deposited USD1 into @Aster_DEX and opened 5x longs on a total of 16,287 SPCXUSD1 ($2.63M), now sitting on $223K in unrealized profit.

USD1 traders are going long on $SPCX on @Aster_DEX! 5 wallets deposited USD1 into @Aster_DEX and opened 5x longs on a total of 16,287 SPCXUSD1 ($2.63M), now sitting on $223K in unrealized profit.

According to an official announcement, Binance will add five bStocks tokenized securities as eligible collateral assets at 20:00 UTC+8 on October 21. The assets include RoboStrategy (BOTB), Berkshire Hathaway (BRKBB), KraneShares STAR Market 50 ETF (KSTRB), Direxion Daily 20 Year Treasury Bull 3X ETF (TMFB), and Vistra Corp (VSTB). Corresponding trading pairs will also support margin trading. The announcement notes that these assets are only allowed as collateral for designated margin accounts, with lending not currently supported. Eligible regular users, VIP 1, and VIP 2 users must first complete a suitability assessment questionnaire, and the related functions are not available to users in restricted regions.