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The video-generation spinoff is reportedly targeting an early 2027 listing after raising approximately $2.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation Kuaishou Technology’s AI video unit wants its own ticker. Kling AI plans a Hong …

The video-generation spinoff is reportedly targeting an early 2027 listing after raising approximately $2.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation Kuaishou Technology’s AI video unit wants its own ticker. Kling AI plans a Hong Kong initial public offering that would raise at least $1 billion. Reports from October 6, 2026, indicate the unit has brought on CICC, Goldman Sachs and UBS as underwriters. The target is an early 2027 listing. For a business that only launched in 2024, that is a fast trip from product demo to public markets. The deal on the table The IPO would carve Kling AI out of its parent, Kuaishou Technology, which trades in Hong Kong under the ticker 1024. Kling is also known as Keling AI, or 可灵AI in Chinese. The listing comes on the heels of a large private round. In July 2026, Kling AI raised approximately $2.8 billion, with the round capped at $3 billion. That financing reportedly valued the unit at around $18 billion post-money. Advertisement Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu all participated in the round. Kuaishou’s ownership is expected to shrink as a result. The parent’s stake in Kling is anticipated to be diluted to about 68%. The numbers behind the pitch In the second quarter of 2026, the unit’s revenue topped RMB 850 million. That reflects growth of more than 200% year on year. AI, tech, and the markets they move—in one daily briefing. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Kling’s ARR reached roughly $500 million by March 2026. That was up from about $240 million in December 2025. On September 28, 2026, Kling unveiled Kling 4.0. The update supports video clips of up to 30 seconds, adds enhanced controls, and accepts multiple reference inputs. Kling 4.0 is positioned against ByteDance’s Seedance, another Chinese AI video tool. How Kuaishou got here In May 2026, Kuaishou filed a restructuring plan that consolidated Kling’s assets into an entity called Beijing Keling. That restructuring came with investor protections tied to a future listing. If Kling does not go public by October 30, 2031, investors hold repurchase rights. What this means For Kuaishou shareholders, the spinoff is a way to put a visible price on an asset that has been buried inside a larger company. A standalone listing gives the market a direct read on what Kling is worth, since Kuaishou is expected to keep about 68% of the unit. An $18 billion private valuation sits at many multiples of a roughly $500 million revenue run rate. Public market buyers will need to believe the 200%-plus growth pace can hold, at least for a while. Seeking at least $1 billion against an $18 billion valuation means the IPO would float a relatively modest slice of the company. The presence of Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu means Kling’s biggest shareholders include companies with their own AI ambitions, which could complicate strategic decisions down the road.

Crypto exchange OKX launched a standalone app on Tuesday that lets users convert more than 50 local currencies into U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins, as the company tries to expand its offerings beyond just being an …

Crypto exchange OKX launched a standalone app on Tuesday that lets users convert more than 50 local currencies into U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins, as the company tries to expand its offerings beyond just being an exchange. OKX Money, which went live at the c… Crypto exchange OKX launched a standalone app on Tuesday that lets users convert more than 50 local currencies into U.S. dollar-backed stablecoins, as the company tries to expand its offerings beyond…

The prediction market is retiring the Gnosis framework it has relied on since 2019 in favor of a unified, modular, audited system Polymarket has begun rolling out Protocol V2, a rebuild of its prediction …

The prediction market is retiring the Gnosis framework it has relied on since 2019 in favor of a unified, modular, audited system Polymarket has begun rolling out Protocol V2, a rebuild of its prediction market infrastructure designed to replace the collection of smart contracts and adapters that underpin its current system. The new architecture uses a single ERC-1155 positions contract, one collateral asset called pUSD, one exchange supporting multiple market types and a unified router. Polymarket said its existing infrastructure was built around Gnosis’ Conditional Tokens Framework from 2019, forcing the platform to add separate contracts and adapters as it introduced new products. Protocol V2 is intended to consolidate those components and make future upgrades easier. The system initially supports binary markets, Atomic Neg-risk, Incremental Neg-risk and combinatorial markets. Position IDs encode the market type, market and outcome directly, allowing the protocol to identify a position without relying on additional contracts. Advertisement Resolution is also being redesigned through a new OracleAggregator that can connect to multiple oracle providers, including UMA and Chainlink, while leaving room for additional sources in the future. Protocol V2 also introduces native support for eventually bridging positions, collateral and market resolutions across networks. Polymarket said those capabilities are intended to support a future multichain expansion but will not be activated immediately. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Unlike the current contracts, the new system is upgradeable through a governance process, allowing Polymarket to add features without requiring users and integrators to migrate to entirely new contracts each time. The company said the architecture also lays the groundwork for features currently in development, including scalar resolution and directional collateral return. Polymarket plans to run several canary markets using Protocol V2 from Oct. 5 through Oct. 30. The platform is tentatively targeting Nov. 2 to begin routing newly created markets through the new protocol. Alongside the smart contract upgrade, Polymarket is launching Data API V2, a Rust-based service powered by its internal onchain indexer. The new API supports Protocol V2, standardizes response formats and adds cursor-based pagination for trade and activity feeds. Polymarket said Protocol V2 has been audited by Cantina, Certora, Quantstamp, Sigma Prime, Zellic and Pashov, while Certora also formally verified the code. The protocol carries a bug bounty of up to $5 million for critical vulnerabilities.

NYSE’s Parent Just Filed to Tokenize 63 US Stocks on a Crypto-Native Exchange — And the SEC Already Gave It Permission The most conservative institution in US market infrastructure just filed to tokenize 63 …

NYSE’s Parent Just Filed to Tokenize 63 US Stocks on a Crypto-Native Exchange — And the SEC Already Gave It Permission The most conservative institution in US market infrastructure just filed to tokenize 63 of America's most recognizable stocks on a crypto-na… NYSEs Parent Just Filed to Tokenize 63 US Stocks on a Crypto-Native Exchange And the SEC Already Gave It PermissionThe most conservative institution in US market infrastructure just filed to tokenize…

Google will delete all remaining nodes and RPC endpoints on December 15, 2026, and is pointing users to Quicknode as the place to migrate Google Cloud is getting out of the blockchain node business. …

Google will delete all remaining nodes and RPC endpoints on December 15, 2026, and is pointing users to Quicknode as the place to migrate Google Cloud is getting out of the blockchain node business. The company will fully shut down its Blockchain Node Engine and Blockchain RPC services on December 15, 2026. Customers are being pointed to Quicknode, which Google has named its officially recommended RPC infrastructure provider. Teams that miss the date will find their infrastructure deleted. What’s changing and when The wind-down is happening in two stages. The first is already in effect: since June 15, 2026, Google Cloud has disabled new node creation and stopped provisioning new Blockchain RPC endpoints. Between that date and the final cutoff, current nodes and endpoints stay online with limited support. Google says it will keep shipping critical updates, but customers should expect the product to stay where it is rather than gain new features. The second stage is the shutdown itself. On December 15, 2026, every remaining node and endpoint will be deleted. Google’s migration documentation lays out a fairly standard checklist: Advertisement Provision replacement infrastructure Update RPC URLs and application configurations Validate workloads on the new setup Delete legacy Blockchain Node Engine nodes There is one asymmetry worth noting. Google will automatically delete any remaining RPC endpoints at shutdown. Dedicated nodes, however, are on the customer’s list to clean up. Where Quicknode fits in Google is not leaving customers to find a replacement on their own. It has partnered with Quicknode as the recommended destination for teams that need to migrate and provision nodes. AI, tech, and the markets they move—in one daily briefing. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. There are two ways to make the switch. Customers can provision through the Quicknode listing on Google Cloud Marketplace, which comes with Google Cloud incentives. Or they can sign up directly on Quicknode’s own platform. What Blockchain Node Engine actually did Every blockchain app has to talk to a blockchain. It does that through a node, a computer that keeps a copy of the chain and answers questions about it. Running your own node is tedious. You have to sync the chain, keep up with client upgrades, monitor uptime and pay for storage. Blockchain Node Engine was Google’s managed answer to that headache. The service offered dedicated full nodes and archive nodes. A full node tracks the current state of the chain. An archive node keeps the complete history of past states, which matters for analytics, indexing and some auditing tasks. Support focused mainly on Ethereum Mainnet and its testnets, along with Polygon and Solana. Alongside the dedicated nodes, Google ran a shared Blockchain RPC service, limited to Ethereum Mainnet and the Holesky testnet. What this means for builders and the infrastructure market The immediate impact lands on engineering teams. Anyone running production workloads on Blockchain Node Engine now has a project on the roadmap whether they wanted one or not. Archive node users should pay particular attention. Historical data queries are often the hardest to replicate cleanly, so teams relying on them have extra reason to test early rather than in December. On the competitive side, the arrangement is a clear win for Quicknode. Being named the official recommended provider by a hyperscaler, with a migration path built into Google’s own documentation, is the sort of distribution infrastructure companies usually have to fight for. The date to watch is December 15, 2026. Teams that treat it like a real deadline will be fine. Teams that treat it like a suggestion will learn what deletion means.

The Hangzhou AI lab that spent three years living off its founder's hedge fund is now lining up serious outside money before going public DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion in …

The Hangzhou AI lab that spent three years living off its founder's hedge fund is now lining up serious outside money before going public DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion in fresh funding before it goes public in 2027, according to Bloomberg. The Hangzhou-based AI lab is preparing for a potential listing on Shanghai’s STAR Market. The capital raise would arrive as the company builds out the financial plumbing a public offering requires. The details The money is coming in layers. DeepSeek closed its first external funding round in June 2026, raising approximately $7.4 billion. That round gave the company a post-money valuation of over $50 billion. Founder Liang Wenfeng put in approximately $3 billion of his own assets. DeepSeek is now finalizing talks on another round. It is valued at around 50 billion yuan, roughly $7.4 to $7.5 billion. Advertisement The pricing on that second round is the eye-catcher. It reportedly values DeepSeek at about 500 billion yuan before the new money goes in, or roughly $74 to $75 billion. The revenue story helps explain why. As of September 2026, DeepSeek reported an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, more than double its previous figures. AI, tech, and the markets they move—in one daily briefing. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. Much of that growth came from DeepSeek’s API business, which lets developers plug its models into their own products. Those price increases ranged from 2.3x to 4.5x, and the API unit posted an 82.9% gross margin. From hedge fund side project to IPO candidate DeepSeek was founded in 2023 as a spin-off from High-Flyer, the hedge fund run by Liang. High-Flyer bankrolled the lab on its own for three years, with outside investors only let in during 2026. The company has brought on CITIC Securities as lead underwriter and appointed a new chief financial officer. DeepSeek’s models have gained traction that rivals US labs, despite American export restrictions on semiconductor technology. The company’s response has been to run its models on domestic Huawei hardware. The company has also leaned into open-source releases and research. What this means For investors, DeepSeek is shaping up as a test case for how public markets will price Chinese AI. A $1 billion run rate and an 82.9% API margin give it real numbers to sell. Moving from a post-money valuation above $50 billion to a pre-money figure around $74 to $75 billion is a big step in a short window. Running on Huawei chips insulates DeepSeek from further US export curbs. That same positioning ties DeepSeek’s fortunes to the state of US-China tech relations. The things to watch between now and 2027 are straightforward: does the second round close at the reported valuation, does the $1 billion run rate keep climbing, and does the API business hold its margins once the price increases fully settle in.

is trading around the $85,000 sell wall as leverage cools and new on-chain money arrives, according to Glassnode. That mix could put $96.7K in play. The same report shows profit-taking running well above its …

is trading around the $85,000 sell wall as leverage cools and new on-chain money arrives, according to Glassnode. That mix could put $96.7K in play. The same report shows profit-taking running well above its normal range. Here is what each signal measures and… is trading around the $85,000 sell wall as leverage cools and new on-chain money arrives, according to Glassnode. That mix could put $96.7K in play.The same report shows profit-taking running well ab…

IBIT keeps absorbing institutional demand as US spot Bitcoin ETF flows recover from a rough mid-2026 stretch BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF clients went shopping again. This time, the receipt came to $69.85 million worth of …

IBIT keeps absorbing institutional demand as US spot Bitcoin ETF flows recover from a rough mid-2026 stretch BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF clients went shopping again. This time, the receipt came to $69.85 million worth of Bitcoin. How the buying works When investors put money into a spot Bitcoin ETF, the fund doesn’t park that cash. It buys actual Bitcoin to back the new shares. The $69.85 million figure reflects exactly that conversion. Gloria One app, one screen — every morning, Gloria Finance briefs you on what happened and how it affected your portfolio. Read your brief → For scale, this purchase sits below some of IBIT’s bigger days this year. The trust took in $195.6 million on October 1 and logged a $183.41 million inflow in July. The bigger backdrop is a nine-day inflow streak that wrapped up in late September 2026. Over that stretch, US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in approximately $3 billion, their strongest run of inflows since October 2025. Advertisement IBIT grabbed a hefty slice of that pie. In one strong week in September, the fund captured approximately $1.2 billion, while rivals including Fidelity’s FBTC and ARK 21Shares’ ARKB also drew money. From a $5.8 billion hole to positive territory During the mid-2026 downturn, cumulative flows were heading toward a potential loss of approximately $5.8 billion. By late September, institutional buying had flipped that tally to modestly positive. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. On certain days, IBIT’s inflows actually exceeded the net inflows for the entire category, meaning money was leaving other funds while still arriving at BlackRock’s door. All of this played out while Bitcoin hovered around the mid-$80,000s during trading periods. The fund that ate the category BlackRock launched IBIT in January 2024 after securing SEC approval, among the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs to reach the market. The fund quickly climbed to the top in both assets under management and inflows, offering regulated Bitcoin exposure in a familiar brokerage product, with no private keys to misplace. Throughout 2026, IBIT has frequently accounted for the majority of net category flows, even as Bitcoin’s price turned choppy. What this means for Bitcoin and investors Concentration is one notable feature of this market structure. With so much institutional money funneling through one product, IBIT’s performance and reputation carry outsized influence. On days when IBIT’s inflows exceeded total category net inflows, competitors like Fidelity and ARK 21Shares were experiencing net outflows even as BlackRock continued to attract capital.

A single day of flows on October 5 ran against the weekly trend, with Ethereum funds attracting money while Bitcoin and Solana products saw it leave On October 5, US spot crypto ETFs did …

A single day of flows on October 5 ran against the weekly trend, with Ethereum funds attracting money while Bitcoin and Solana products saw it leave On October 5, US spot crypto ETFs did something slightly awkward. Bitcoin and Solana funds posted net outflows. Ethereum funds posted net inflows. XRP products, meanwhile, recorded no net flow at all. The single-day snapshot is notable because it runs almost exactly opposite to the weekly picture. In the broader data, Bitcoin had been the clear favorite and Ethereum the one getting left on read. The daily flip versus the weekly trend Start with the daily numbers. Bitcoin and Solana spot ETFs both ended October 5 with more money leaving than arriving. Ethereum ETFs went the other way, pulling in net new capital. XRP funds broke even, with zero net flow for the day. Now zoom out. Data from SoSoValue, reported on October 5, showed US spot Bitcoin ETFs collected $241.09 million in weekly net inflows for the week ending in early October. Advertisement That marked the third straight positive week for Bitcoin funds. It also lifted cumulative inflows since the products launched in 2024 to around $57.8 billion. Ethereum’s weekly picture looked far less cheerful. Spot Ethereum ETFs shed $138.02 million in net outflows over the same period. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. That reversed the prior week, when Ethereum funds had taken in $690 million. The swing brought Ethereum ETF inflows for the year down to approximately $1.5 billion. The smaller players: Solana, XRP and Zcash According to the SoSoValue data, Solana spot ETFs gained around $2.43 million in weekly net inflows. XRP spot ETFs brought in $4.74 million for the week. Both figures extended existing inflow streaks for those products. That context makes the October 5 Solana outflow more interesting. A fund on an inflow run posted a red day, even as its weekly tally stayed positive. Then there is Zcash. Zcash ETFs recorded their first weekly outflow, totaling approximately $94 million, per the research covering late September through early October. The backdrop: Bitcoin’s pull on capital Bitcoin was trading near $85,000 to $86,000 during the period covered by the data. The research framed the recent weekly pattern as a shift in investor sentiment, with capital appearing to favor Bitcoin over Ethereum as Bitcoin’s market dominance continued to build. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have now accumulated around $57.8 billion in net inflows since their 2024 debut. Ethereum’s year-to-date total of approximately $1.5 billion is a much smaller figure by comparison. What this means for investors The weekly trend, per SoSoValue, still favored Bitcoin. Three consecutive weeks of inflows suggests steady demand rather than a sudden spike. The research flagged that Ethereum’s outflows could raise concerns about its market position as it competes with Bitcoin for investor attention. If Ethereum funds string together several positive days, the weekly narrative could change quickly, much as the $690 million prior week showed demand can return fast. For altcoin products more broadly, Solana and XRP kept their weekly inflow streaks, while Zcash posted its first outflow of approximately $94 million. The research warned that continued rotation toward Bitcoin and other established assets could bring more volatility to the broader crypto market in the near term.

One-week 25-delta positioning tilts toward calls as Bitcoin options markets show growing appetite for upside convexity Bitcoin options traders are paying up for the right to profit if prices rise. At the one-week, 25-delta …

One-week 25-delta positioning tilts toward calls as Bitcoin options markets show growing appetite for upside convexity Bitcoin options traders are paying up for the right to profit if prices rise. At the one-week, 25-delta level, demand for calls is now running ahead of demand for puts. What the options market is signaling A call option pays off if Bitcoin rises, and a put pays off if it falls. The “25-delta” label refers to options that sit a moderate distance from the current price. Traders compare the implied volatility of 25-delta calls against 25-delta puts. The gap is called the risk reversal, or skew. When puts cost more, the market is paying for crash protection. When calls cost more, traders are paying for exposure to a rally. The broader 25-delta skew turned positive on August 20, 2026. That was the first bullish tilt in roughly 12 months. Advertisement The numbers behind the shift By mid-September 2026, calls made up approximately 61.4% of total Bitcoin options open interest, with puts accounting for 38.6%. Data from Derive put call open interest at around 305,530 BTC. In the 24-hour volume figures around the initial bullish signal, calls led puts. The news moving money, markets, and the world—before your day starts. Daily. Free. Join 34,000+ readers across crypto, finance, and policy. Email address Subscribe free We respect your privacy. Unsubscribe anytime. In late September, a Derivasys snapshot showed the one-week 25-delta risk reversal rising 1.07 vol points to -0.24. That reading moved from clearly favoring downside protection to roughly neutral within a single snapshot. Further out on the curve, traders have stacked larger call open interest at the $80,000, $85,000, and $100,000 strikes for December expiries. Spot price, futures, and ETF flows Bitcoin spot was trading near $78,000 when the skew flipped positive. In the following weeks, spot consolidated in a range of $82,000 to $85,000. By early October, prices hovered between $80,000 and $85,000, supported by strong inflows into Bitcoin ETFs. Futures open interest reached about $52.6 billion around the time of the skew flip. What this means for traders and investors Large open interest at $80,000 and $85,000 sits close to where spot has been trading, which means those levels could attract attention as expiry approaches. When dealers who sold those calls hedge their exposure, their buying and selling around popular strikes can influence short-term price action. When calls become more expensive relative to puts, buying upside exposure gets pricier, while protection gets relatively cheaper. For holders who want to hedge, a market leaning toward calls can make downside protection more affordable than it was during the long put-heavy stretch. The Derivasys reading of -0.24 is a reminder that near-term skew was hovering around neutral rather than screaming bullish. With futures open interest at about $52.6 billion, a crowded market can unwind abruptly if macro conditions sour.