Author: Zen, PANews
In mid-October 2025, the NEAR Foundation, at a critical turning point in its ecological development, made one of the most significant senior personnel adjustments in recent years, appointing five senior industry professionals at once to oversee key areas such as product, business, marketing, technology, and human resources.
A management layer replacement covering multiple key areas is partly due to the scarce attention of developers and funding, as well as increasingly fierce competition among peers; on the other hand, it is also closely related to NEAR shifting its strategic focus towards products and ecosystems of "user-owned AI," attempting to truly bring years of technological reserves into scalable applications.
As Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of the NEAR protocol, stated, the addition of five new executives will help transform technology into products, move beyond the Web3 circle, and promote the global implementation and popularization of AI-native products focused on privacy protection.

Recently, gold prices have strongly broken through $4300/ounce, with analysts believing this is mainly driven by factors such as de-dollarization, heavy Central Bank purchases, and increased physical demand. Bitcoin has fallen relative to gold, but this may be beneficial for its development in the future. Gold is seen as a safe-haven asset, and there is still room for a rise in the future.

Written by: Byron Gilliam
Compiled by: Saoirse, Foresight News
Editor’s Note: On October 18, 2025, according to Fortune, the payment-focused blockchain project Tempo, developed by Stripe and blockchain venture capital firm Paradigm, completed a $500 million Series A funding round, led by venture capital giants Greenoaks and Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner. This round of financing valued Tempo at $5 billion. A source familiar with the matter revealed that Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Ron Conway’s SV Angel also participated in this round of financing. Paradigm and Stripe did not participate.

Author: Lucas Kiely
Compiled by: Felix, PANews
The biggest problem with cryptocurrencies is the lack of the quantifiable value that traditional stocks possess, making them completely speculative. In addition, investors can leverage their trades in some way, which could lead to the market losing billions of dollars overnight.
Industry diehards behind blockchain technology believe that the innovative infrastructure of blockchain gives it value. However, there is little evidence that this can bring real, tangible benefits to token holders.
Professional investors from traditional finance often find it difficult to adapt to this situation. For tokens, there are no price-to-earnings ratios to refer to, no supply chains to trace, and in fact, there is nothing tangible at all. This is precisely what makes cryptocurrency unique compared to all other asset classes: it is entirely driven by sentiment – and often by sentiment that is extremely difficult to predict.
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The heat of RWA continues, as real assets are being rapidly moved onto the blockchain, from government bonds to real estate, from gold to artworks. Meanwhile, DATs are sweeping across multiple countries and regions around the world, attracting a lot of follow.
Institutions are accelerating their entry, while retail investors remain on the sidelines—how much further does the "democratization" of crypto finance have to go? Are RWA and DAT new gateways for capital, or the ultimate narrative of the crypto world?
We interviewed several guests, let's listen to their answers.

The head of BlackRock's U.S. equity ETF business stated on CNBC that digital asset ETFs are triggering a global influx of funds, revealing that its iShares ETF business set new records in the first half of this year and the third quarter. Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs entered the top five of major capital flows, while traditional index funds saw net outflows. Compliance opening will enhance the accessibility of digital assets.

Author: Mars\_DeFi
Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow
For a long time, Pump.fun has been regarded as a powerful engine for memecoins.
But this is just part of the truth.
PumpFun has indeed dominated the market, but only within the Solana ecosystem.
If you zoom out, you will find that BSC (through @four\_meme\_) is quietly devouring the entire field.
According to the infographic data (taking the market status in the last 24 hours as an example):
PumpFun drives the issuance of about 11,000 tokens every day, a figure that exceeds the total of all other Solana platforms combined. (1)
Daily income usually exceeds $500,000 to $600,000, making it the most profitable platform on Solana. (2)
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In the world of Web3, open source has almost become a form of "political correctness". Decentralization, transparency, verifiability—these concepts are inherently tied to "public code". A blockchain project that is not open source often struggles to gain the trust of the community. Investors will also question: since it claims to be decentralized, why is it hiding things?
This concept did not arise out of thin air. It is a continuation of the internet's "Open Source Movement."
From the Linux of the 1990s to Apache and MySQL in the 2000s, and then to Android in the era of mobile internet, Open Source software has gradually established a new consensus: code should belong to all humanity, not to any one company.
In 2009, when Bitcoin was born, Satoshi Nakamoto directly opened the source code on SourceForge. There was no auditing company endorsement, no government permission, and the only trust came from anyone being able to download the tokens.

Famous venture capitalist Tim Draper predicts that by October next year, the price of Bitcoin will exceed $250,000, believing that Bitcoin is superior to fiat and warning individuals and businesses relying on fiat to hold Bitcoin as a hedge. He emphasized that the dollar will depreciate and eventually become extinct, while Bitcoin will go to infinity.