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Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP enter October on ETF inflows, U.Today outlook says
Bitcoin and Ethereum each gained about 7% in September, according to U.Today's October outlook, which points to ETF flows, Ethereum's Oct. 6 Glamsterdam testnet and elevated bond yields as the month's key factors.
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India's local crypto exchanges received just 0.7% of inflows, Chainalysis estimates
Chainalysis estimates India's domestic exchanges received 0.7% of exchange value from Indian users, down from around 7%, while Brazil-based platforms rose to 12.5% of inflows, CryptoSlate reported.
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Drift Protocol opens DFX redemptions at about one cent per USDT of verified loss
Drift Protocol opened DFX claims and redemptions on Oct. 1. Its launch rate was about 0.0104 USDT per token from a roughly 3.1 million USDT pool, which CryptoSlate calculates at near 1% of verified losses.
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Grok 4.7 ties MiMo-V2.6-Pro for first on Artificial Analysis Cyber Index
Grok 4.7 and MiMo-V2.6-Pro tied for first on Artificial Analysis's new Cyber Index with scores of 56, Crypto Briefing reported. Grok's $11.67 per-task cost was called high against cheaper rival models.
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs draw $134.4 million in first two days of October
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $134.4 million in net inflows over October's first two days, according to Decrypt's tracker, reversing a $148.7 million outflow on Sept. 30.
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Vitalik Buterin tests three-layer privacy setup for querying frontier AI
Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin said in an X post he used a local AI model, zkAPI and Tor to get diet and exercise advice from frontier models without leaking his private data.
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SEC approves Cboe rule to list Volatility Shares' 3x Bitcoin, Ether funds
The SEC on Oct. 2 approved Cboe BZX's rule change to list VS Trust's 3x Bitcoin and 3x Ether futures funds, but registration effectiveness and a first trading date remained unconfirmed as of Oct. 4.
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Tempo stablecoin supply jumps 161% in a week after Open USD launch
Stablecoin supply on Tempo, the Stripe- and Paradigm-incubated Layer 1, rose about $450 million (161%) in one week to roughly $729 million after Open USD launched, per DefiLlama data.
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Fed hike to 3.75%-4% can help stablecoin issuers, squeeze Bitcoin borrowers: analysis
A CryptoSlate analysis says the Fed's Sept. 16 hike to 3.75%-4% can lift reserve income for stablecoin issuers like Circle while raising interest costs for companies that borrow to buy Bitcoin.
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Japan adds Russian crypto exchange Garantex to asset-freeze list in Russia sanctions
Japan placed Russian crypto exchange Garantex on its asset-freeze list on Friday as part of expanded Russia sanctions that also cover 33 organizations, nine individuals and 35 shadow-fleet vessels.
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Michael Burry says AI bubble could burst within a year, swaps shorts for puts
Investor Michael Burry wrote in late-September Substack posts that a serious AI correction could arrive within a year, and has swapped Micron and Nebius shorts for 2027 put options, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Binance to require Brazil users to disclose purpose of cross-border crypto transfers
Starting Nov. 1, Binance will ask Brazilian users to state the purpose and counterparty type of international crypto transfers. Withdrawals stay blocked, and deposits can be held, until users answer.
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US regulators push tokenization measures after CLARITY Act fails in Senate
U.S. regulators have kept advancing crypto and tokenization initiatives under existing authority after the CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, Crypto Briefing reported, citing an SEC exemption for tokenized stocks.
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Stellar takes 37% of a single day's $96.5M RWA inflow, Token Terminal data shows
Stellar drew $36.4 million of a $96.5 million 24-hour rise in tokenized real-world asset market cap across the top 10 chains, per Token Terminal data posted by RWA Foundation.
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Rural data center tax breaks draw mixed reactions as Louisiana comes into focus
New federal tax benefits for rural data centers, which stem from the 2025 tax law, drew mixed reactions from experts and lawmakers, and moratorium dynamics in Louisiana and Oklahoma are shaping market sentiment.
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Hyperliquid's top-earning traders tilt $60M net short as smaller wallets stay long
Hyperliquid wallets with more than $1 million in profit held about $60 million more in shorts than longs, U.Today reported, while every smaller profit cohort stayed heavily long.
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son voices concern over AI safety risks, Bloomberg reports
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has voiced concern about AI safety risks as machines grow more capable, Bloomberg reported via Crypto Briefing; LeoDex News couldn't independently verify the report.
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Anthropic asks Claude users to opt in to sharing voice chats for training, report says
Anthropic asked Claude users to voluntarily share voice conversations to help improve its AI models, Crypto Briefing reported. The request builds on an August 2025 terms change that first let consumer chats feed training.
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Russia's Finance Ministry pays some staff wages in digital rubles for first time
Russia's Finance Ministry said some employees received wages in the central bank's digital ruble for the first time, a voluntary scheme that began Oct. 1, though it didn't disclose participants or payroll totals.
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Cerebras' 5nm wafer-scale chips skirt HBM and CoWoS supply bottlenecks, analysis says
Cerebras' WSE-3 chips skip HBM, CoWoS packaging and 3nm capacity, according to a Crypto Briefing analysis, which also flags execution risk on the company's $25.4 billion backlog.
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Cathie Wood rebuts Bill Ackman's warning that AI demand could fuel inflation
ARK Invest's Cathie Wood pushed back on Bill Ackman's warning that the Fed's September rate hike could backfire. She argued AI is driving "benign deflation," not an inflationary spiral, Crypto Briefing reported.
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VIS weighs second Singapore fab as AI demand books out its first plant
Vanguard International Semiconductor is evaluating a second Singapore wafer fab through VSMC, its joint venture with NXP, after demand fully booked the first plant's initial capacity before production, Crypto Briefing reported.
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US Super Intelligence Force given 120 days to report on AI risks
A US Super Intelligence Force has 120 days to report on AI risks, Crypto Briefing said, citing Bloomberg. The deadline follows an executive order renaming AI and a voluntary accord signed by six tech firms.
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Meta, Duke and UC Davis researchers detail branching method for AI agent harnesses
Researchers affiliated with Meta, Duke and UC Davis report in an arXiv preprint that splitting harness optimization into self-improving branches raised Gemini 3 Flash's Olympiad math accuracy from 46.0% to 62.0%.