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China orders national blockchain network in 19-measure policy directive
China's Central Committee and State Council issued a directive on October 9 ordering a national blockchain network that builds on the token-free BSN and extends digital yuan capabilities, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Nvidia revenue per employee hits about $7 million, Crypto Briefing estimates
Crypto Briefing estimates Nvidia now brings in roughly $7.2 million in revenue per employee, up from about $1 million three years ago, while profit per worker rose 11.6 times to about $4.6 million.
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Ledger probes CryptoBilis wallet loss reports; Bitcoin insurer Meanwhile raises $37.5M
Ledger told Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis to pause sales while it investigates reported wallet losses. Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million, and ESMA opened a review of tokenized collateral.
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Bitcoin ETFs post $681M weekly outflow, ending three-week inflow streak
Bitcoin ETFs saw about $681.10 million in net outflows in the trading week ending October 9, 2026, according to U.Today, ending a three-week inflow streak as Fidelity and ARK 21Shares led withdrawals.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana beat stocks, commodities over 3 months: Coin Bureau
Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana outperformed traditional equities and commodities over three months, per Coin Bureau data reported by Crypto Briefing, while prediction markets priced ETH at $3,000 by end-2026 at 42%.
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Aerodrome's AERO gains 48% in 30 days ahead of Oct. 21 Velodrome merger
Aerodrome's AERO token rose about 48% over 30 days, ahead of Bitcoin and Ether per The Defiant, as the Base DEX nears an October 21 merger with Velodrome into a new multichain protocol called Aero.
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Bitcoin's $200,000 odds sit at 2% on Kalshi as traders trim rally bets
Kalshi priced Bitcoin's chance of topping $200,000 by January 1, 2027, at 2% as of October 2026, while Polymarket odds ran from under 1% to 2%, down from about 4%, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Fed minutes show officials split on what would rule out another rate hike
Minutes released Oct. 7 show Fed officials raised rates to 3.75%-4% unanimously in September. Most expected another hike by year-end but didn't agree on conditions that would rule one out.
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Robinhood Chain fees fall 97% from peak as memecoin trading cools
Robinhood Chain's daily fees fell 97% from an early-September peak of about $8 million, CoinDesk reported via Crypto Briefing, while DEX volume and roughly $1 billion in TVL held up better.
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BlackRock's IBIT logs $22.4 million net inflow on October 9, Farside data shows
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust recorded a $22.4 million net inflow on October 9, 2026, per Farside Investors data reported by Crypto Briefing, after a $207.7 million outflow on October 7.
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XRP Ledger patches 2015-era bug that could have created new XRP from nothing
A flaw in the XRP Ledger's payment system, believed to date to 2015, could have let an attacker create new XRP without paying for it, according to a security report. RippleX said it found no evidence of exploitation.
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Ledger theft-linked wallet swaps 14.7M USDT to USDD, beyond Tether's freeze reach
A wallet tied to thefts from Ledger hardware wallet users swapped roughly 14.7 million USDT into USDD on October 9, according to on-chain investigators, moving the funds outside Tether's freeze controls.
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Ethereum wallet holding 12,746 ETH moves after 10.2 years dormant, Whale Alert says
An Ethereum address holding 12,746 ETH moved for the first time in roughly 10.2 years, according to Whale Alert data reported by Crypto Briefing, though where the coins went hasn't been publicly reported.
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Kalshi probes three bets on Katie Zacharia placed before press secretary pick
Kalshi is investigating three bets on Katie Zacharia placed shortly before she was named White House press secretary, the WSJ reported. The stakes totaled under $175, with potential payouts above $9,500.
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Solana activates 200ms slots on mainnet, halving block time ahead of Alpenglow
Solana activated 200-millisecond slots on mainnet on Oct. 9, doubling targeted block frequency and cutting epochs to about 24 hours, though per-second execution capacity is roughly unchanged.
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NEAR, XRP and SHIB test key moving averages after pullbacks, U.Today says
A U.Today technical analysis published October 10 put NEAR near $4.79, XRP near $1.38 and SHIB near $0.00000536, with each token sitting on or near a key moving average after a pullback.
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EU's Virkkunen says AI Act offers robust protection against rogue AI risks
EU Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said on October 9 that the AI Act protects against rogue AI risks by covering models across their whole life cycle, Crypto Briefing reported. Some high-risk rules have been delayed to 2027 and 2028.
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Tether blocklist freezes four THORChain TRON vaults before swaps resume
Researcher Khal reported a USDT blocklist hit four of THORChain's six TRON vaults on Oct. 9, freezing about 1.45 million USDT by his estimate and halting TRON trading until swaps resumed that afternoon.
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Bitcoin holders realize $1.03 billion in profits on Oct. 8, Santiment data shows
Bitcoin holders realized about $1.03 billion in profits on October 8 after BTC climbed above $87,000, the second-highest daily total of the year, according to Santiment data reported by Crypto Briefing.
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Sabi raises $50M for EEG beanie that turns thoughts into AI prompts
Palo Alto startup Sabi raised $50 million from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized Capital and DST Global to build a non-invasive EEG beanie it says decodes thoughts into text prompts.
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Drone strikes hit two Yandex data centres, knocking YandexGPT training site offline
Drones struck Yandex data centres in Sasovo and Kaluga on October 8 and 9, Crypto Briefing reported, shutting down the site used to train YandexGPT, disrupting Yandex Cloud and pushing shares down about 4%.
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New York AG secures up to $35M settlement from ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky
New York AG Letitia James announced a settlement on October 8 requiring former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky to pay up to $35 million and barring him from trading securities or crypto.
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Dragonfly's Qureshi calls 'bunker mode' doomerism, pitches cryptographic recovery plan
Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi called Justin Drake's "bunker mode" warning "cryptographic doomerism," saying fresh-address migration won't protect users if AI breaks signatures, and urged proactive blockchain measures.
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XRP holds $1.39 as Bitcoin hits October low after $1.48B US transfer
Bitcoin bounced off an October low of $80,420 to trade near $83,000 after U.Today reported a 17,733 BTC U.S. government transfer to Coinbase Prime, while XRP held a tight $1.39–$1.40 range.