A group photo posted by Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, with the caption: HRT interns reunited again! The three people in the photo were all interns at the Wall Street quant firm HRT back then. Alexandr Wang: Dropped out of MIT to found Scale AI, which was invested in by Meta for $14.3 billion, now Meta's Chief AI Officer. Scott Wu: Three-time IOI gold medalist, created AI programmer Devin, company valued at $48 billion. Jeff Yan: First heard about Bitcoin during his HRT internship, l

PANews October 19 news, according to The Block report, Solana treasury company SkyAI (formerly Sharps Technology) has sold all its Solana assets, reducing its holdings from over 2 million SOL in September to zero as of October 16. The company currently holds $223.8 million in cash and has launched a buyback plan with a maximum total buyback amount of $201.3 million, at a buyback price of $3 per share (or per warrant).

Written by: Xiao Bing On October 19, 2026, Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang posted a selfie on X with a caption of only seven words: got the HRT gang back together! The comment section exploded. This seemingly casual group photo hides one of the most astonishing facts in today's tech world: the three people in the photo, along with several absent old classmates, all participated in the first intern program of Wall Street quantitative trading giant Hudson River Trading in the winter of 2015

PANews October 19 report, according to PR Newswire, BitMine increased its holdings by 12,535 ETH last week. As of October 18, the total holdings reached 6,041,481 ETH, accounting for about 4.9% of the total ETH supply. Currently, the total value of cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $15.1 billion, including $582 million in cash and securities, 215 bitcoins, $180 million in Beast Industries equity assets, and a $74 million investment in Eightco Ho

Compiled & Edited by: Foresight News Guest: based16z In October 2026, threadguy's podcast interviewed a highly influential crypto trader on Twitter, based16z. At the end of 2023, when Hyperliquid was still under the radar, he recognized it as a big opportunity from just one call with founder Jeff Yan. He then spent a whole year trading volume on Hyperliquid to earn the airdrop, ultimately receiving one of the most profitable airdrops in crypto history and completing his personal initial accumula

PANews October 19 news, according to Bitcoin Treasuries monitoring, Strive increased its Bitcoin holdings by 1,223 last week, currently holding a total of 36,818 BTC. Since the beginning of this year, Strive's Bitcoin holdings have grown by more than 380%.

PANews October 19 news, Strategy published an article stating that in the past week it has repurchased STRC worth 193 million USD and acquired 267 Bitcoin (BTC). As of October 18, 2026, it holds a total of 848,517 Bitcoin and 5.3 billion USD in dollar assets. In addition, Strategy has expanded the scale of the "Digital Credit Securities Repurchase Program" from 2 billion USD to 3 billion USD.

Written by: Ma He, Foresight News On October 16, modular blockchain Celestia announced the launch of a new high-performance EVM chain, Eden. Officially positioned as an experimental sandbox for AI agentic commerce, AI agents have already begun transacting on-chain. As the scale expands, it will demand higher block space, and Eden is used to test the transaction environment required by AI agents and their actual behavior on-chain. Among so many L1 and L2 chains, what makes this new chain differe

Author: Alana Levin (Variant Investment Partner) Translated by: ShenChao TechFlow **ShenChao Introduction:** As the crypto market completed a key bottoming phase in the summer of 2026, investors' core questions have shifted from "When will the bottom be reached?" to "Where is the bull market momentum coming from?" Variant Investment Partner Alana Levin points out that the current market is forming a profound institutional consensus: marginal dollars will mainly flow into two camps—assets that th

PANews October 19 report: CryptoQuant's latest analysis points out that although Bitcoin has support, the recovery process is uneven. First, regarding exchange reserves, they rose from about 2.67 million BTC at the beginning of October to about 2.68 million BTC, still far below the January level. Low reserves do not necessarily mean a continuous supply contraction; transfers or custody changes may be reflected, and the increase itself does not prove selling. Second, the spot demand recovery has