AI agent startup Manus raised over $500M in a round led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund joining. Bloomberg put the valuation at $4B.

Meta agreed to buy Manus for about $2B in December 2025, but China’s National Development and Reform Commission unwound the deal in April amid worries about losing AI talent to the West. Manus, now based in Singapore, passed $100M in annual recurring revenue eight months after its March 2025 launch.

The money goes to hiring in China and abroad. Manus agents run tasks on their own, from building apps to Cue, which gives agents their own email, phone and wallets.

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Robinhood is exploring a Stock Token tied to an actively managed ETF on Robinhood Chain with T. Rowe Price Digital Assets. If it ships, it would be the first token of its kind.

T. Rowe Price manages $1.9T in assets. Robinhood already lists over 190 Stock Tokens on Robinhood Chain, its Ethereum L2 built on Arbitrum, including NVIDIA, Apple and Invesco QQQ. They are debt securities backed 1:1 by the underlying shares, carry no voting rights and are not offered in the US, Canada, the UK or Switzerland.

Nothing is final yet: the product still needs legal due diligence, issuer board approval, final terms and regulatory clearance.

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Seven teams have officially pointed to Q4: Fables (TGE on Oct 20), Variational, Saturn, Strato, AlloX, infiniFi and Catapult. All 35 are on our upcoming TGEs tracker.

Strong signals: Jumper closed its Legion sale on Oct 2, Predict.fun opened pre-market trading on Oct 9, Cambria's $RSGP follows its sold-out Charter mint, and Extended's final points season ends Nov 2. Multipli.fi, Byzanlink and Cashmere Labs have finished their sales or presales, and the XDAO airdrop checker is live.

No official date yet for Ritual, Ink, MagicBlock, Hibachi, Vest or Theo, though Polymarket gives most of them 34-55% odds of a token by Dec 31. Dates may shift.

Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia, with Jump Trading, Peak XV, Lux Capital, AntiFund, Selini Capital, SF1, Coinbase and Premji Invest.

Users describe a trade idea in plain English, like a bet on a super El Niño forecast. Catalyst researches it, builds a visual workflow, watches prices, news and social signals, and places the trades across spot tokens, perps, tokenized stocks and prediction markets. The company was founded in 2025 by Justin Zheng, formerly at Worldcoin, and Dylan Iskandar.

Its pilot with power traders did hundreds of millions in volume in a couple of weeks, per Fortune. Catalyst is now letting users in from its waitlist.

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DWF Labs affiliates sued BitGo for $141M in London’s High Court, claiming it sold locked FF and ESPORTS tokens ahead of schedule.

According to the claim by DWF Maas and Falcon Digital, BitGo bought the tokens over the counter at a discount in exchange for a three-month lock-up and staged releases. It then allegedly moved them to exchanges about two months before the first unlock, adding supply to thin markets and pushing prices lower.

ESPORTS slid from about $0.28 in mid-March to $0.07 by early June. BitGo declined to comment, and the court has not ruled on the claims.

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Anthropic launched Claude Dashboards and Motion in beta: one turns company data into live charts, the other turns prompts into animated explainers.

Dashboards (paid plans) connects to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, ClickHouse and Salesforce, shows the query behind every chart and refreshes as the data changes. Motion (Team and Enterprise) writes code-based animations and exports MP4s with no AI-generated footage or people.

Claude Docs, Slides and Design are now out of beta on every plan, Free included, after 45M+ files made since launch. The standalone Claude Design site closes on December 14.

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ESMA gave crypto platforms three months to stop serving EU clients in stablecoins without MiCA authorization, setting a January 8, 2027 deadline.

In a formal opinion to national regulators, ESMA says platforms should not let EU clients buy, trade, swap or add to such tokens, and that warnings or disclosures are not enough. Only a time-limited wind-down is allowed: selling, converting, withdrawing, transferring or holding existing tokens. The opinion names no tokens, but CoinDesk points to Tether’s USDT and PayPal’s PYUSD as prominent examples.

The rule covers every MiCA service, from trading and exchange to custody, transfers and portfolio management.

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Four of this year’s Nobel Prizes are out: the Nobel committees named seven laureates. Peace Prize follows on Oct 9 at 9:00 UTC.

Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.

Physics: Francis Halzen, for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and high-energy neutrinos from space.

Chemistry: Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai, for non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis.

Literature: Anne Carson, for an oeuvre that builds new forms in dialogue with the classical tradition.

On Polymarket, Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms lead the Peace Prize market at about 16%, while Donald Trump sits below 1%.

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Pyth DAO approved the 100% Rule: every dollar it receives from Pyth products now buys PYTH on the open market, up from a third of its treasury balance each month.

Under OP-PIP-136, one standing authorization replaces the monthly votes. The DAO gets 60% of revenue from Pyth Pro, Indices, Listing as a Service and the Data Marketplace. Pyth ended Q3 at $11.5M in active ARR, up 86% quarter over quarter, and Pyth-powered venues handled 94% of the $2.09T RWA perp volume.

The PYTH Reserve already holds 42M PYTH, and the token is up about 16% in the past 24 hours, per CoinGecko.

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Securitize launched Securitize Stocks: tokenized US equities for eligible investors in the US, EU and beyond, starting with 12 names on Solana, settled in USDC.

Unlike price-tracking wrappers, each token is a security entitlement backed 1:1 by a real share, with dividends and voting rights where they apply, and the shares are never lent out. The first names include AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, CRCL and MSTR. Jump Trading makes markets, trading starts in extended hours with 24/7 planned, and the tokens are also expected on the NYSE’s upcoming 24/7 venue.

Ripple Prime and Aave plan to bring the tokens into institutional trading and DeFi collateral.

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