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Mars Finance news, September 3: Market news: The Bank of Japan is reportedly inclined to raise interest rates by 25 basis points and plans to adopt flexible policy measures going forward.

Mars Finance reports that a whale made a “contrarian move,” buying 7.6 million WLD at an average price of $0.57 over the past 14 days, worth approximately $4.32 million. The position is now sitting on an unrealized loss of more than $780,000, approaching $1 million.

According to DefiLlama data, Papertrade’s revenue fell to $890,000 on October 17, down 83% from the previous day. It had briefly surpassed Circle to rank second across all networks. On a UTC-day basis, trading volume was approximately $54.23 billion on October 17, down 43% from October 16 and 90% from the all-time high on October 10. There were 135,227 transactions and 622 new accounts, down 40% and 53%, respectively, from the previous day.

DeepSeek has released version V4.1-Flash-1017, offering improved performance and output efficiency at a lower cost. Harness 0.2.1 has also been updated to support the new model and optimize self-feedback RL, improving its ability to build complete projects from scratch and support “wishful” programming. DeepSeek has also opened access to its in-house search API, with Search/Fetch endpoints priced at 5 yuan per 1,000 calls. The API is available for free trial in Harness, Claude Code, and Codex until November 1, and first-time users can receive a 6-yuan bonus.

Mars Finance news, Oct. 18: According to CME FedWatch data, the probability that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged in October is currently 84.5%, while the probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike is 15.5%.

Mars Finance reported that embodied AI company Gewu Tongzhi has completed an angel round worth nearly RMB 100 million. Investors include Peak Investment, Hongfu Asset Management, Hangzhou Capital, Hangzhou Talent Group, a provincial-level embodied AI investment fund, and several leading publicly listed companies. The funds will primarily be used for large-scale pretraining and technical iteration of its physical inverse world model, as well as hardware and robot development. They will also accelerate talent recruitment and team expansion, and support PoC validation and real-world data collection across multiple scenarios. Maple Pledge Capital served as the exclusive private equity financing advisor for the round.

Mars Finance reports that on October 18, HIP-3 market deployer Paragon spent 570.98 HYPE (approximately $45,000) to secure the ticker PAPER, and may soon launch Papertrade (PAPER) perpetuals. Papertrade is an onchain synthetic perpetuals trading platform deployed on HyperEVM, offering up to 1,000x leverage. Its PAPER token is minted from users’ realized trading losses, with no premine or allocations to the team or venture capitalists.

Mars Finance reports that Bitcoin Magazine, citing Fidelity Global Macro Director Jurrien Timmer, said Bitcoin may be entering a new bull market. Jurrien Timmer said that, based on the power-law model, a new four-year-cycle bull market may already be underway. There does not yet seem to be a clear narrative, but bull markets rarely start with a clear narrative.

Mars Finance reports that OpenCode disclosed a security incident related to a large-scale model distillation attack, affecting approximately 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. The impact was primarily limited to some users connected to external model providers. OpenCode has notified all affected accounts by email; users who did not receive a notification were not affected.

According to CNBC, U.S. stocks closed lower on Friday, with the Nasdaq down 2.14%, the S&P 500 down 1.09%, and the Dow down 0.34%. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed below their 50-day moving averages, while the VIX rose above 22 for the first time in four months. Technology stocks continued to slide this week, with semiconductor companies and AI cloud service providers under pressure. SMH fell 3% on the day and 10% for the week, while CoreWeave dropped nearly 12% on the day and 25% for the week, with debt exceeding $51 billion. Geopolitical tensions drove oil prices higher, and energy stocks helped the market partially recover.

On October 18, from 05:22 to 05:32 Beijing time, perpetual contracts for several U.S.-listed AI stocks plunged briefly. Liquidations across the related AI stocks and semiconductor ETF perpetual contracts totaled approximately $51.596 million, including $38.0622 million in long positions and $13.5338 million in short positions. The assets with the largest liquidations included SOXL at approximately $12.7301 million, SNDK at approximately $10.8450 million, SK Hynix at approximately $10.7152 million, SOXS at approximately $9.0721 million, and MU at approximately $4.4044 million.

Mars Finance reports that on October 18, according to Lookonchain, the long positions held by “Machi Big Brother” Huang Licheng were fully liquidated again four hours ago. The 250,000 USDC he deposited just two days ago has now also been almost completely wiped out. A year ago, he made $44.84 million on Hyperliquid. Now he has not only given back all of those profits but also lost an additional $36.85 million.

At CCF HPC 2026, Sugon unveiled ten cutting-edge applications of Dawning 8000, spanning astronomy, Earth sciences, life sciences, materials, and high-end equipment. Several research achievements are “world firsts” and have already been integrated into real-world business operations and R&D workflows. Dawning 8000 is China’s first natively integrated supercomputing and intelligent computing system, breaking down siloed partitions by natively integrating high-precision scientific computing with AI computing.

South Korean Finance Minister Lee Hyeong-il said the semiconductor industry boom will last at least through 2027, with growth expectations likely to hold through next year, as the supply-demand gap remains vast and supply continues to expand. He noted that chip stocks amplify volatility in South Korea’s stock market, but semiconductors account for a large share of the economy, and the fundamentals remain solid.

Mars Finance reports that, according to order book intelligence platform Liquid247.xyz, Coinbase spot BTC has approximately 61.22 BTC in sell orders at $81,887, with a notional value of about $5.01 million. This is approximately 0.39% above the mid-price at the time of $81,566. Near-term bids on the exchange total about $18.1075 million, while asks total about $25.3446 million, leaving approximately $7.2372 million more on the sell side, or 16.66% of total depth.

Mars Finance News, October 18: According to Alternative data, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index stood at 53 today, down from 55 yesterday, with market sentiment shifting from “Greed” to “Neutral.”
Note: The Fear & Greed Index ranges from 0 to 100 and includes the following indicators: volatility (25%) + market trading volume (25%) + social media activity (15%) + market surveys (15%) + Bitcoin’s share of the overall market (10%) + Google Trends analysis (10%).

The Second International Conference of AI Scientists (ICAIS 2026) opened under the theme “Tracing AI’s Original Mission and Expanding the Frontiers of Scientific Exploration.” Guided by relevant Beijing authorities and organized by the Beijing Zhongguancun Academy and other institutions, the conference brought together Nobel and Turing Prize laureates, academicians from China and abroad, and young scholars from around the world. The International AI Scientists Community was launched at the event, initiated by representatives of AI-native youth researchers to build a global collaboration platform. The conference was also part of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum series.