1confirmation Founder: Expanded beyond its seed-stage investment scope to add to its Polymarket stake, arguing the claim that "tokens are dead" is unfounded.

Tether has launched the open-weight model QVAC BotPsy, an 800-million-parameter system built on Alibaba’s open-source Qwen 3.5 architecture, which converts user daily requests into local tool calls on personal devices. In internal tests, Tether said the model set a new benchmark for tool call performance among models with fewer than 1 billion parameters, and outperformed all tested models with up to 1.2 billion parameters. Across four key tests—BFCL v4, ACEBench, τ-bench, and ToolSandbox—its results roughly doubled those of the base model Qwen 3.5-0.8B-Think, and outperformed Qwen 3.5-2B-Think, which has 2.5 times more parameters. Specifically, it scored 46.1 points in BFCL’s multi-turn tool call test, nearly double the 23.8 points of the 2B model. Tether added that BotPsy reduces the need to send personal data like emails and calendars to centralized service providers, and can detect when no suitable tool is available to avoid generating false tool calls. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that users should decide for themselves what content the assistant can access and which external services it can connect to. The model’s weights have been published on Hugging Face.

AI sales company Rox has closed a $100 million Series B funding round, lifting its valuation to $1.3 billion. The round was co-led by General Catalyst and March Capital, with follow-on investments from Sequoia and GV, and new participation from Prosperity7. Rox develops AI agents for sales use cases, designed to research customer accounts, identify priority leads, and prepare outreach content. The firm aims to reduce sales teams’ administrative work, shifting customer relationship management (CRM) from passive information storage to actionable execution. Co-founder Ishan Mukherjee previously founded Pixie Labs, which was acquired by New Relic, and served as its chief growth officer. The founding team also includes Shriram Sridharan, a founding member of AWS Amazon Aurora, former Google employee Diogo Ribeiro, and Stanford AI Lab professor Christopher Ré. Early clients include Ramp, New Relic, Trafigura, MongoDB, and Groq. The company noted that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown more than tenfold in its first year since launch. Proceeds from the round will be allocated to AI research and product development, with plans to expand its U.S. sales, marketing, and business teams fivefold next year.

According to market sources, Anthropic’s blockbuster IPO is reported to have been oversubscribed several times over. Yesterday, Anthropic officials announced that the company plans to reach a valuation of around $1 trillion in its IPO, and is targeting a fully diluted valuation of $1.4 trillion for the offering. The company is expected to set its IPO price next Wednesday, with trading set to commence the following Thursday.

OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, announced their joint venture OKXICE will officially launch its Tokenized Securities Venue (TSV) on November 23, becoming one of the first projects to roll out under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) five-year "innovation exemption" framework. OKXICE has confirmed 70 tokenized assets, including those from issuers such as Coinbase, Circle, and Robinhood, as well as 59 ETFs. U.S. users must use its CeDeFi wallet and complete onboarding to trade. However, OKXICE is facing strong pushback from traditional industry giants. As of November 5, 67 companies including Meta, Tesla, Netflix, and Costco have exercised their exemption rights, explicitly refusing to tokenize and trade their stocks on OKXICE. Some firms (such as Applied Optoelectronics) worry tokenization will cause investor confusion over their involvement and impact stock prices and liquidity. Additionally, Nasdaq has publicly opposed the exemption framework. Its chief legal officer noted that allowing tokenized securities to trade outside regulated National Market Systems (NMS) would undermine market data and transparency frameworks and could lead to market fragmentation. In response, Nasdaq has decided to exclude its own stocks from the venue.

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Trader 0xDa44 deposited $380K into @Aster_DEX yesterday and opened a 9x long on 3.11M $GRAM ($3.86M). He's now sitting on $404.8K(+94.34%) in unrealized profit.