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Odaily Report: Bitget, in collaboration with Reality and Keyring, has published a research report exploring the synergies between tokenized stocks, perpetual contracts, and decentralized lending, while assessing the potential returns and risks of related strategies through simulated calculations. The report notes that the application of tokenized stocks is expanding from traditional stock trading to collateralized lending, asset management, and systematic investment strategies.The research is based on Reality's rToken, combined with stock perpetual contract hedging and onchain lending mechanisms, to explore stock basis yield strategies. Historical simulation data shows that from December 15, 2025, to October 19, 2026, the strategy index achieved annualized net returns of approximately 7% and 4% in-sample and out-of-sample, respectively, with a gross funding rate premium of approximately 11%–14%. The report also notes that financing costs, trade execution fees, market liquidity, and risk management are key factors affecting the strategy's actual returns.It is understood that Bitget and Keyring plan to jointly develop a stock basis index and build an onchain lending market based on Reality's rToken. Reality will provide exposure to tokenized stock assets, while Keyring will be responsible for developing the index methodology and building the related lending market. The index aims to capture funding rate and basis yield opportunities by combining rToken holdings with hedged positions in corresponding stock perpetual contracts, providing a new strategic pathway for the application of tokenized stocks in onchain financial scenarios.
According to TechCrunch, US AI wearable device startup Nirva announced on October 22 the completion of a $25 million Pre-A funding round, bringing its cumulative funding to $33 million. Specific investor details were not disclosed. Founded in 2025, Nirva was co-founded by former Meta Reality Labs employees Wei Lyu, Jason Chen, and Hanying Hu, focusing on an AI pendant that can continuously listen to the wearer's conversations. The device uses sound samples collected during a setup phase to identify the wearer and filter out voices from other speakers nearby. The company states that audio and transcribed text are automatically deleted after processing, but it remains unclear whether voice processing is performed locally or in the cloud.
Odaily News: Bitget Wallet has announced its integration with RWA protocol Reality, opening trading access to over 1,700 rToken tokenized US stocks. Through this integration, users can trade tokenized US stocks 24/7 on Arbitrum and Morph without needing to open an overseas brokerage account, submit KYC, complete a W-8BEN form, or arrange a wire transfer. Dividends generated by the corresponding underlying assets will be credited to Bitget Wallet in USDT at a 1:1 ratio.Reality is a compliant tokenized asset issuance platform, licensed under El Salvador's digital asset issuance law framework. Its issued rTokens are backed 1:1 by real US stocks, currently supporting over 1,700 tokenized US stocks including rTSM, rNVDA, rAAPL, and rQQQ, covering approximately 95% of US market trading volume. rTokens can connect directly to liquidity across all US markets including Nasdaq and the NYSE, with underlying assets compliantly custodied by FINRA-licensed broker-dealer Alpaca Securities, maintaining a reserve ratio exceeding 100%, with third-party CPA firms issuing daily real-time Proof of Reserve (PoR). This integration will further advance Bitget Wallet's Everyday Finance strategy, aiming to enable users to seamlessly conduct everyday transactions of traditional financial assets through an on-chain wallet.
Meta disclosed in its quarterly securities filing that it has approximately $278.99 billion in operating and finance leases that have not yet commenced and are not recorded on the balance sheet, primarily related to AI data centers. These leases cover data centers, colocation facilities, and some network infrastructure, with leases scheduled to begin from the remainder of this year through 2036, with terms ranging from over one year to 30 years.This figure represents an increase of about 53% compared to the $182.88 billion in future leasing obligations Meta disclosed in its first-quarter filing three months ago. Meta also disclosed that in July, after the quarter ended, the company added approximately $68 billion in new data center lease commitments, expected to commence in 2027 and 2028, with lease terms of 18 to 20 years.Earlier this month, Meta announced the expansion of its Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana, targeting a computing capacity of 5 gigawatts, with the project's expected cost exceeding $50 billion. During the second-quarter earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that a significant portion of the company's computing power will be used to train AI models, power AI agents, and support core business operations.In addition to future leasing obligations, Meta disclosed $349.31 billion in non-cancellable contract commitments, covering both short-term and long-term arrangements. The company stated that these commitments primarily involve third-party cloud capacity arrangements, as well as investments in servers, network infrastructure, data centers, and Reality Labs consumer hardware products. Of this amount, $53.52 billion and $81.65 billion are due in 2026 and 2027, respectively.
Crypto KOL Phyrex published a systematic analysis of rToken issued by Reality under Bitget, arguing that rToken should not be merely understood as "tokenized stocks." Its core value lies in achieving asset composability upon integration with a unified account, breaking the limitations of RWA liquidity silos. Phyrex provided an in-depth breakdown of three directly implementable trading strategies: amplifying US stock directional exposure, Delta Neutral arbitrage, and staking-borrowing loops. For institutions, the core value of rToken lies in three major mechanisms: direct order connection to the US stock order book to eliminate de-pegging risk, UTA unified account cross-margining to improve asset efficiency, and weekend collateral valuation pegged to Friday's closing price to ensure controllable risk. This ultimately enables managing Crypto, stock tokens, and derivative positions within a single account, reducing costs associated with multi-platform rebalancing and fund transfers.
Odaily, Reality, the compliant RWA issuance platform under Bitget, has announced a partnership with Alpaca, a US-registered broker and self-clearing firm. Under the terms of the collaboration, Alpaca will provide Reality with broker infrastructure support, assisting it in integrating tokenized US stocks and ETF products within a regulated market framework, covering key areas such as clearing, custody, and trade execution.Founded in 2015, Alpaca is a developer-first broker infrastructure company. Its subsidiary, Alpaca Clearing, is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer and SIPC member, specializing in the custody and clearing of underlying assets. Through this partnership, Reality will further enhance its underlying infrastructure capabilities for tokenized US stocks and ETF products, offering eligible global users a more regulated and transparent access method.Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, stated that Reality is a key component of Bitget's UEX panoramic exchange strategy, with the goal of bridging traditional financial assets and on-chain infrastructure in a more practical manner. Yoshi Yokokawa, co-founder and CEO of Alpaca, expressed enthusiasm for the partnership with Reality, noting it will jointly advance the development of tokenized stock infrastructure and further enhance the accessibility of global financial services.
Odaily reports: Bitget has announced the launch of Reality, a licensed financial protocol focused on the tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA). The issued tokenized stocks (rTokens) are strictly pegged 1:1 to the underlying US stocks, with assets custodied at a US securities broker-dealer that is FINRA-registered and SIPC-protected. Real-time proof of reserves is provided through third-party independent audits. By directly accessing liquidity pools from Nasdaq, NYSE, and other US stock exchanges, Reality's stock tokens can achieve liquidity on par with traditional brokerages. Meanwhile, stock dividends will be distributed 1:1 to user accounts in token form, cash dividends will be automatically converted into USDT for distribution, and stock splits and reverse splits will be mapped to on-chain tokens in real-time, offering an experience highly consistent with holding US stocks.Furthermore, the US stock tokens launched by Reality are deeply integrated with the Bitget ecosystem. They can be used, for example, as margin for unified accounts and are compatible with core product lines such as grid trading, copy trading systems, and staking/lending.Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, previously proposed the "10% Vision": Currently, tokenized stocks represent only 0.1% of the $125 trillion global stock market. She predicts this proportion will rise to nearly 10% by 2030. Reality is built on this trend. In its initial phase, it will focus on US stocks, and will later expand asset classes, driving the extension of Bitget's UEX strategy into a broader access layer for global financial assets.