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COMP jumps 27% in a day while Compound's TVL stays below September
Compound's COMP token jumped 27.3% on October 20, beating Bitcoin and Ether, while protocol TVL stayed 8.7% below its September 21 level.
Wed, Oct 21
Super Micro sees up to $19.5B quarterly revenue as AI demand jumps
Super Micro Computer (SMCI) expects its quarterly revenue to hit $18.5 billion to $19.5 billion, about $4 billion above the midpoint of its previous guidance. This stronger outlook led to a surge of almost 16% in after-hours trading, with demand for AI data center infrastructure driving even more growth. Beat measured in billions, not percentages...
Wed, Oct 21
SpaceX posts $4.4B profit as AI revenue jumps ninefold
SpaceX (SPCX) reported $14.58 billion in third-quarter revenue, but its reported $19.6 billion spending spree has raised questions about the cost of its aggressive expansion into artificial intelligence. According to the earnings report, revenue jumped 161% from last year, helped by rapid growth in its AI operations and satellite internet business. The company also reported...
Wed, Oct 21
Meta Muse hits 10.2M US downloads as privacy concerns grow
Meta’s Muse reached 10.2 million downloads in the US in just 40 days, which makes it among the 12 apps that reached that milestone. However, launching fast does not mean getting sustainable users and revenue, especially because of Meta’s heavy investments in advertisement and new concerns about privacy. A download record bought partly with marketing...
Wed, Oct 21
Ethereum staking yield slips to 2.63% as staked ETH hits 43.8 million
Ethereum staking yield fell to 2.63% from 2.81% in Q3 as staked ETH hit a record 43.8 million, Bitwise's quarterly staking report shows.
Wed, Oct 21
SpaceX investors press Musk on Tesla merger as AI costs climb
Even though neither company has confirmed any deal, talks of merging SpaceX and Tesla continues to gain ground. The speculations come against the backdrop of new earnings reports from SpaceX as Tesla prepares for its own earnings report on October 21. A merger question climbs the upvote list According to an article published by Reuters...
Wed, Oct 21
Mastercard AI agent pays two merchants nine times inside one approved budget
Mastercard's AI agent made nine payments to two merchants on one budget at Cloudflare Connect as Agent Pay for Machines opened early access.
Wed, Oct 21
Resetting a forgotten ChatGPT PIN permanently deletes every locked chat
ChatGPT's new locked chats sit behind a four-digit PIN, but resetting a forgotten PIN permanently deletes them and OpenAI Support cannot recover them.
Tue, Oct 20
Webull sets November US perpetual futures launch to challenge offshore venues
Webull will introduce Bitcoin and selected crypto perpetual futures offerings to qualified U.S. customers in November 2026, thereby providing those traders with a regulated option compared to offshore trading venues. As mentioned by Webull, broader accessibility should come within a few months. However, the biggest question is whether this popular brokerage will be able to...
Tue, Oct 20
Drift hack recovery faces hurdles as $61.5M enters Tornado Cash
An address linked to the $295 million Drift Protocol heist in April deposited 25,700 Ether (ETH) into the Tornado Cash mixing service on Tuesday, continuing a laundering process investigators have traced back to a state-sponsored organization in North Korea. This is important for the thousands of Drift users who are yet to be paid. Two...
Tue, Oct 20
Fifth 500 BTC batch of 2026 leaves Clifton Collins-linked wallets for Coinbase
Wallets tied to Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins sent 500 BTC to Coinbase on Tuesday, the fifth such batch of 2026, leaving about 3,500 BTC in place.
Tue, Oct 20
Injective and BDACS strike deal to settle tokenized assets in won
Injective and South Korean custody firm BDACS have agreed to make the won-backed stablecoin KRW1 the only won settlement asset for tokenized real-world assets on Injective’s network. The two firms announced the deal on October 20, 2026. It gives Korean institutions a way to trade tokenized assets in won instead of relying on dollar stablecoins. ...
Tue, Oct 20
Amazon takes Nvidia racks early as power gaps strain AWS cash
Amazon has started controlling Nvidia GB300 server racks before some AWS data centers are equipped with sufficient power to operate them. This is leaving the hardware worth billions of dollars idle as the company is hurrying to boost its AI capabilities. According to Business Insider, internal emails from August revealed initial rack receipts of about...
Tue, Oct 20
Zcash bug costs 18 THORChain node operators about 140 RUNE while users lose nothing
A Zcash matching bug slashed about 140 RUNE from 18 THORChain node operators' bonds. No funds were lost, and ZEC swaps stay halted until v3.21.
Tue, Oct 20
1inch shuts its crypto card but keeps leftover balances claimable for six years
1inch Card holders who miss the Dec. 18 withdrawal date can still redeem leftover e-wallet funds for up to six years after their accounts close.
Tue, Oct 20
BlackRock's IBIT pulls $665 million, more than all Bitcoin ETFs combined
BlackRock's IBIT drew $665.16 million on Oct. 19, more than the $526.6 million all US spot Bitcoin ETFs netted as Fidelity and Grayscale funds bled.
Tue, Oct 20
Apple commits up to $100 million to Pennsylvania's Perryman for iPhone Duo titanium
Apple will commit up to $100 million over three years to Pennsylvania's Perryman Company for grade 5 titanium in the iPhone Duo, its first foldable.
Tue, Oct 20
MEXC to close Russian and Belarusian accounts, citing “international requirements”
An end has come to the relationship between MEXC and its users in Russia and Belarus. MEXC announced it will no longer serve customers in those countries due to global compliance. Moreover, the EU recently handed itself the power to ban crypto firms from select countries. What MEXC said to its users The decision of...
Tue, Oct 20
Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs join objections to OKXICE tokenized stocks
More US-listed companies have joined the increasing list of those that have invoked an SEC objection right to prevent tokenized versions of their shares from being traded on OKXICE. Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Microsoft (MSFT) are the latest to voice their objection to the joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and NYSE...
Tue, Oct 20
Strive lists 15% SATS preferred, raising $630M to chase No. 2 bitcoin spot
Strive, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASST) has raised about $630 million by selling a new preferred stock that pays a 15% yield, The company has shared that it plans to use some of the money to buy bitcoin as it pushes to become the second-largest corporate holder of the asset. How much does SATS pay? Strive has...
Tue, Oct 20