Huang Renxun has left Beijing, and NVIDIA has not disclosed whether Huang Renxun met with the DeepSeek founder.

On October 22nd, Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNBX), a biotechnology company concentrating on advancing a revenue-generating BNB digital asset treasury strategy and commercializing nucleic acid production solutions, announced today the successful accomplishment of the previously declared Public Investment in Private Equity (PIPE) financing, which was led by institutional DeFi and TradFi investors. This PIPE financing round brought approximately $27 million in total receipts to the company (after deducting underwriting and related expenses), and there is the potential for an additional $31 million in total receipts through the exercise of warrants. The total proceeds from this PIPE round consist of: $15.3 million in cash and stablecoins; and $11.71 million in OBNB Trust Units (units of the OBNB trust). The company received 0.126 OBNB Trust Units for each prefunded warrant and common warrant, totaling 435,638 trust units, representing an indirect ownership stake in 10,647 BNB

On October 22nd, as reported by CNBC, Greer, a U.S. Trade Representative official, when referring to trade with China, stated that "We have a good landing zone that can lead to a more balanced relationship."

October 22nd: The Aave community has put forward a proposal aiming to institutionalize AAVE's long-term buyback plan, which is supported by protocol revenue. This plan will set an annual budget of $50 million. It will utilize flexible execution parameters to enable the Aave DAO to make strategic allocations of funds for continuous buybacks and the accumulation of AAVE tokens, thereby extending the existing buyback initiative indefinitely. Plan Structure: Annual Budget: $50,000,000; Responsible Entities: Tokenlogic and the Aave Finance Committee (AFC); Weekly Execution Range: Weekly purchases of AAVE worth between $250,000 and $1,750,000. The AFC will have the power to adjust the weekly buyback amount within a 75% fluctuation range based on factors such as market conditions and liquidity, token price volatility, strategic timing considerations, and the availability of protocol revenue.

On October 22nd, the subsidiary Valour of NASDAQ-listed company DeFi Technologies announced that it has listed its 100th exchange-traded product on the Swedish Spotlight stock market. This is also a cryptocurrency exchange-traded product called "Valour Sky (SKY) SEK ETP", which is designed to track the market performance of the native token SKY of the Sky (formerly MakerDAO) ecosystem.

On October 22nd, as monitored by OnchainLens, the wallet address of the hacked mining pool Lubian witnessed a large-scale transfer again. A total of 15,959 bitcoins were sent to 4 different addresses, with an approximate value of $1.83 billion. Specific transfer details are as follows: 4,999 BTC (approximately $539.76 million) were sent to the address bc1qs8. 4,999 BTC (approximately $539.76 million) were sent to the address 3JX2dH. 3,424 BTC (approximately $369.7 million) were sent to the address 1cpnxU. 2,535 BTC (approximately $274.36 million) were sent to the address 1G9FZS.

On October 22nd, according to an official announcement, Bitget has declared the commencement of U-based CPOOL perpetual contracts, with the leverage ranging from 1 to 20. The contract trading BOT will be opened simultaneously as well.