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Microsoft's MXC SDK for containing AI agents remains in early preview at v0.8.0
Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a policy-driven SDK unveiled at Build 2026 to stop AI agents from reaching data they shouldn't, remains in early preview, with version 0.8.0 current as of September 2026.
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Bitcoin gained 84% since January 2024 as 10-year Treasury yields rose, CryptoSlate finds
Bitcoin rose 84.2% from Jan. 10, 2024, through Oct. 5, 2026, while 10-year nominal and real Treasury yields climbed, according to a CryptoSlate analysis that found weak daily links between the two.
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Polygon adds TRON support to Open Money Stack for USDT payments and transfers
Polygon Labs added TRON to its Open Money Stack, saying businesses can move USDT between TRON and supported EVM networks without separate wallet, bridge or fiat-ramp providers.
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Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake proposes 'bunker mode', warning AI could break ECDSA
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged crypto holders on X to move assets to fresh addresses, warning AI could break ECDSA 'months not years' before quantum computers, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Bitcoin drops as much as 3.2% as Brent tops $101 and 30-year yield hits 5.70%
Bitcoin fell as much as 3.2% to a low of $82,776.30 before trading at $83,178.54, according to Decrypt, as Brent crude topped $101, the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2002 and about $969 million in crypto positions were liquidated.
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Bitmine to halt Ethereum buying at 5% supply cap, Tom Lee says at Token2049
Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said at Token2049 the company is roughly 100,000 ETH from its 5% supply cap, after which the world's largest Ethereum treasury will stop its weekly buying.
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Robinhood adds $25 million of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet
Robinhood has put $25 million of Bitcoin on its own balance sheet, executive Johann Kerbrat said on X. The amount is under 0.5% of its $5.362 billion cash pile and follows earlier internal debate over the move.
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Europol says quantum computers threaten exposed crypto wallets, not blockchains
Europol's cybercrime center said in a report published Wednesday that crypto wallets with exposed public keys, not blockchains themselves, are the main point of exposure to future quantum-computing attacks.
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MIT CSAIL paper says minimalist JAZ agent beat Letta and ACE on two benchmarks
MIT CSAIL researchers say JAZ, a one-primitive agent framework, scored 70% vs Letta's 62% on StuLife and beat ACE by 4 points on AppWorld at lower cost, per Crypto Briefing.
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Tether signs MoU with Kazakhstan's central bank to explore tenge stablecoin pilot
Tether said it's working with Kazakhstan's National Bank and the Alatau City Authority under a new MoU to explore a potential tenge-backed stablecoin pilot, real-world asset tokenization and DeFi.
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Apple study finds minimal coding agent matches or beats multi-agent ML systems
An Apple Machine Learning Research paper reports that a single coding agent with basic shell access matched or outperformed four multi-agent harnesses on ML engineering benchmarks, scoring 62.5% versus 47.1%.
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CoreWeave signs 240 MW AdaniConneX deal for its first India data center
CoreWeave agreed to use 240 MW of capacity at AdaniConneX's Taloja campus in Navi Mumbai, its first data center project in India, with an option to scale to 480 MW, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Tangem launches physical Visa card, says crypto card access lags demand
Swiss wallet provider Tangem announced its first physical Visa card on Wednesday. It told Cointelegraph that where crypto cards are available doesn't match where its payment demand comes from.
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Stellar's XLM drops 10% in a week, slides back toward $0.20 support
Stellar's XLM lost about 10% in seven days and traded near $0.2031, U.Today reported on October 7, weakening its September recovery and pushing price toward key moving-average support.
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Crypto trader Frogman says two wallets drained of about $4M during TOKEN2049
Crypto trader Frogman said two of his wallets were compromised while he attended TOKEN2049 in Singapore, with approximately $4 million in digital assets taken, according to Crypto Briefing.
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Europol flags crypto wallets as weak point for future quantum attacks
Europol's cybercrime centre published two reports on October 7 naming crypto wallets as the main weak point if quantum computing becomes a practical attack tool, and urged a move to quantum-resistant cryptography now.
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Unnamed coalition launches National Compute Grid to pool AI computing power
A coalition has launched the National Compute Grid to pool AI computing capacity and ease supply shortages, per an Axios report cited by Crypto Briefing. The group's name, members and capacity weren't disclosed.
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SBI Holdings, Mesh and Money Forward plan Japanese crypto payments joint venture
SBI Holdings, Mesh Connect and Money Forward reached a basic agreement on a Japanese joint venture for digital asset transfers and payments. Mesh would own 60%, and the companies plan to launch in 2026.
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Stablecoin firm Rain applies for OCC trust bank charter to cut third-party reliance
Stablecoin payments company Rain has applied for an OCC trust-bank charter for a proposed New York subsidiary that would hold digital assets and dollars and issue and redeem stablecoins, CoinDesk reported.
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BitMine's Tom Lee sets 5% hard cap on Ether holdings as target nears
BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said at Token2049 in Singapore that the company won't hold more than 5% of Ether's supply, citing roughly 6 million ETH held and about 100,000 ETH left to buy.
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Ripple treasury mints 30 million RLUSD in a single transaction, tracker shows
Ripple's stablecoin treasury minted 30 million RLUSD in one transaction, according to the Ripple Stablecoin Tracker cited by U.Today. RLUSD's market cap was about $2.53 billion as of Oct. 7, per CoinGecko.
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Kalshi prices California Prop 40 billionaire wealth tax at 32% despite poll support
Kalshi traders put the odds of California's Proposition 40, a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' net worth, passing in 2026 at 32%, Crypto Briefing reported, even as two unnamed polls showed more voters in favor than opposed.
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Bitcoin slips to $84,200 but holds its range, keeping stair-step pattern intact
Bitcoin fell more than 2% to $84,200 on Wednesday, according to CoinDesk data, but stayed inside its two-week range, which analysts say keeps a months-long stair-step uptrend intact.
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AMD ramps HBM4-based Helios rack production as memory supply stays tight, report says
AMD has increased production of its HBM4-based Helios AI rack systems, Crypto Briefing reported, with mass production under way since July 2026 and significant volume increases expected in Q4 2026 despite tight HBM4 supply.