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Circle defends USDC economics as Coinbase backs rival Open USD network
Circle said it kept about 7 cents of net profit per dollar of revenue in the first half of 2026, CoinDesk reported, while Coinbase, its largest USDC partner, backs Open USD, a rival that passes reserve income to participants.
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Shiba Inu exchange reserves dip to 87.06 trillion SHIB, U.Today reports
Shiba Inu exchange reserves fell 0.1% in 24 hours to about 87.06 trillion SHIB with a negative netflow of 33.94 billion, U.Today reported, citing data from an unnamed analytics platform.
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Anthropic draft proposal would let courts order shutdowns of high-risk AI models
Anthropic sent U.S. lawmakers a draft proposal that would let the Commerce Department seek federal court orders to shut down AI models posing major risks, Crypto Briefing reported. It hasn't been adopted.
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Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted two Houthi missiles aimed at Khamis Mushait
The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed two Houthi ballistic missiles fired toward Khamis Mushait, with Saudi authorities reporting no casualties, according to Crypto Briefing.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs log $228.6M weekly outflows as October redemptions near $615M
US spot Bitcoin ETFs had $228.6 million in net outflows in the week to October 16, Crypto Briefing reported, led by BlackRock's IBIT. Month-to-date outflows reached about $615 million, though some tallies put the figure near $618 million.
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OpenCode says distillation attack hit 1.4% of Console users via stolen API keys
OpenCode disclosed on October 17, 2026 that attackers exploited a legacy system to steal API keys linked to Anthropic, OpenAI and Google models, affecting about 1.4% of Console users, Crypto Briefing reported.
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AI data centers save water on-site but push demand to power plants: Bloomberg
AI data centers are adopting cooling systems that save water on-site. Bloomberg reported that the shift is raising water use at the power plants that supply their electricity, according to Crypto Briefing.
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CIA's Michael Ellis called Bitcoin an intelligence collection tool in 2025 podcast
CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said in a May 1, 2025 podcast interview, as reported by Crypto Briefing, that Bitcoin is pseudonymous rather than anonymous and that US intelligence uses it to collect information on adversaries.
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Ethereum sets Glamsterdam's Hoodi testnet activation for Oct. 26 with 200M gas target
The Ethereum Foundation scheduled Glamsterdam for the Hoodi testnet on Oct. 26, 2026, pairing block production changes with a 200 million gas target. Mainnet timing remains undecided.
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Goldman, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley frame tokenization as growth on Q3 calls
Executives at Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley described tokenization as an opportunity on third-quarter earnings calls, CoinDesk reported, but said activity is still small and gave no revenue figures.
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Bitwise XRP ETF net assets top $541 million, SosoValue data shows
The Bitwise XRP ETF held more than half a billion dollars' worth of XRP as of October 17, with $541.12 million in net assets and $684.73 million in net inflows since launch, per SosoValue data reported by U.Today.
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Meta drops AI training language from its commercial terms after publisher backlash
Meta removed language from its Commercial Terms that appeared to let it scrape outside websites, including news sites, to train its AI, Crypto Briefing reported, after criticism from publishers.
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Angel investor Zach Frankel's bets on rival AI startups draw scrutiny
Crypto Briefing reports that Miami-based solo angel Zach Frankel, an investor in Ramp and Cognition, also backs competing AI startups in a portfolio the outlet values at more than $185 billion combined.
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Visa reports 160+ stablecoin card programs; who earns on each swipe?
Visa reported more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs on Oct. 1, with volume up nearly 200%. A CryptoSlate explainer shows how fees split among Bridge, Wirex, Rain, issuers and Visa.
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Shibburn labels 152.3 million SHIB burns to Coinbase over past 30 days
Shibburn data cited by U.Today attributes 152,307,330 SHIB sent to dead wallets across nine transactions to Coinbase over 30 days, putting the exchange second among top burners.
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Russia's Dmitriev floats nuclear-powered data centers in joint projects with US
Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's RDIF, said Russia and the US could discuss joint data centers powered by Russian nuclear plants, though nothing has been signed, Crypto Briefing reported.
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CoreWeave bond yields top 15% as ~$50B debt load raises bankruptcy concerns
Nvidia-backed AI cloud provider CoreWeave carries roughly $50 billion in debt and saw bond yields climb above 15%, according to Bloomberg as reported by Crypto Briefing, as markets price in higher default risk.
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Bitget to end services for a subset of users in one-off move, says funds safe
Bitget said Saturday it will end services for a subset of users as a one-off exercise, weeks after a reported $387.5 million hack, and told affected users their funds remain safe.
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Binance Pool shuts Nov. 10 at 07:00 UTC, with records access ending Nov. 24
Binance will shut its mining pool at 07:00 UTC on Nov. 10, 2026 and stop crediting new work. Pool pages stay open for records and payout status until 07:00 UTC on Nov. 24, CryptoSlate reported.
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Ripple's David Schwartz warns of SecuX-branded Android alert seeking recovery phrases
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz said an Android notification that appeared to come from the SecuX wallet app linked to a scam page asking for 12- or 24-word phrases. Its origin is unknown.
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Fidelity report finds Solana resilient but flags stake, hosting and client concentration
Fidelity's Center for Applied Technology said Solana has had no reported mainnet outages in two years, but warned that concentrations in stake, hosting and client software could threaten that record, Cointelegraph reported.
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Eclair v0.14.4 blocks webpages from sending commands to Lightning nodes
ACINQ's Eclair v0.14.4, released Oct. 15, rejects API requests that carry an Origin header. The change closes a route that let malicious webpages send authenticated commands to Lightning nodes using cached browser credentials.
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Hoskinson says Cardano will be complete after Leios, its last major milestone
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said in an X reply that Cardano will have everything he wanted once the Leios scaling upgrade arrives, while its public testnet enters its Fire phase.
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Vitalik Buterin contrasts Bitcoin mining and AI inference cost structures
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Bitcoin mining costs split almost evenly between hardware and electricity, while AI inference costs are almost entirely hardware, U.Today reported.