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Robinhood Adds $25 Million in Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet
Robinhood now holds Bitcoin on its own books and is among a growing list of BTC treasury companies. News that the trading platform had bought $25 million worth of BTC for its corporate balance sheet, its first such purchase, came out today when Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, Johann...
Wed, Oct 7
The year of shutdowns: which networks are winding down in 2026?
High-profile networks shut down in 2026, with Abstract and Blast winding down in October. Low activity, hacks, or community stagnation were the main reasons behind the decisions to sunset networks.
Wed, Oct 7
Anthropic asks cyber program members to accept data retention in exchange for looser safeguards
Security teams joining Anthropic's expanded Cyber Verification Program must let the company retain their data so it can monitor for cyber misuse.
Wed, Oct 7
Grayscale finds a handful of trading days drove most of bitcoin's 225% three-year gain
Fewer than 0.5% of trading days carried over half of bitcoin's 225% three-year gain, Grayscale says. Without its 15 best days, BTC shows an 11% loss.
Wed, Oct 7
Onchain Positions on Stocks and Commodities Push RWA Perps Open Interest to $5.78 Billion
Open interest (OI) on onchain real-world assets (RWA) perpetual futures hit new highs of $5.78 billion, according to the latest data from DefiLlama. RWA OI has grown from near zero a year ago and a staggering 25.6x increase year to date. When looking at the composition of this market, most of that OI resides on...
Wed, Oct 7
Arthur Hayes warns AI spending boom could trigger financial crisis
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes says the AI gold rush is headed straight for a cliff, followed by a government bailout that could push crypto prices higher. He claims the AI investment boom is unsustainable and will eventually collapse, adding that multi-trillion dollars are being wasted on AI data centers. The Maelstrom co-founder further argued...
Wed, Oct 7
SpaceX seeks $40 billion for Nvidia chips as orbital AI race heats up
SpaceX is trying to raise around $40 billion with the help of Apollo Global Management to acquire AI chips from Nvidia, as per Financial Times. The importance of this deal lies in the fact that these chips can be used to power SpaceXAI’s data centers on the planet, as well as its planned AI infrastructure...
Wed, Oct 7
Ethereum Economic Zone's debut atomic L1-to-L2 transfer carries only 0.001 ETH
The Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) ran its first atomic L1-to-L2 call on mainnet with 0.001 ETH, a demo with two-way calls still on the 2027 roadmap.
Wed, Oct 7
FICO cuts 15% of workforce in AI-driven restructuring
Fair Isaac, the credit-scoring firm behind FICO, is reducing its workforce by almost 15% as part of a bigger restructuring focused on AI. The move could affect roughly 570 employees. FICO told Reuters the changes should help it “operate and bring innovations to market faster.” The moment is remarkable. Corporations are investing a lot in...
Wed, Oct 7
Erebor rebuilds crypto banking on $7 billion in deposits, lends only $78 million
Erebor, the crypto-focused national bank backed by Palmer Luckey, has raised more than $7 billion in deposits and attracted over 500 customers since its opening, according to the Financial Times on October 6. This returns technology and cryptocurrency deposits to a specialized bank just three years after Silvergate’s demise. The main question now is whether...
Wed, Oct 7
Tim Cook's 2023 Apple award pays out at 171% after a 76th-percentile return
Tim Cook's 2023 Apple stock award vested at about 171% of target after Apple's 90.67% three-year return ranked 115th of 480 S&P 500 companies.
Wed, Oct 7
UK names 6 banks to lead DIGIT as tokenized Treasuries boom
HM Treasury has designated Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest, and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers for DIGIT, UK’s first digitally-native government bond. The designation marks the end of the procurement phase ahead of the upcoming test issuance, which is likely to be done in the first quarter of 2027. The timing is...
Wed, Oct 7
DeFi flash loan attacks shifted to protocol logic flaws, which caused 55% of losses by 2024
Logic exploits took 55% of DeFi flash loan losses from February 2022 to July 2024, up from 28%, a Journal of Financial Crime study found.
Wed, Oct 7
Pudgy Penguins' Abstract L2 sets a Dec. 15 bridge-out deadline and skips a rescue token
Abstract L2 users must bridge assets out before the chain shuts on Dec. 15, 2026, after Igloo chose not to launch a token to keep it alive.
Wed, Oct 7
CertiK to audit Sui's live bid to break its own 6-million TPS record
Blockchain security firm CertiK will act as the independent auditor when Sui tries to beat its own throughput record of 6,086,766 transactions per second (TPS) in a live test on October 7. Sui is pitching raw speed as the feature that an economy of autonomous AI agents will demand. What is CertiK verifying for Sui?...
Wed, Oct 7
Insurers pull back from rogue-AI risk as liability questions mount
Insurers are bracing for the likelihood of many claims related to AI agents behaving in ways they weren’t supposed to, while lawyers are working to see whether executives such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei may be held personally liable, the Financial Times (FT) reported. An even more serious issue comes up with...
Tue, Oct 6
Economists push back on Silicon Valley's AI job-loss warnings
Silicon Valley has been busy alerting workers about the risk of layoffs during the AI boom. However, empirical evidence collected by Stanford University, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Dallas Fed, and the London School of Economics (LSE) illustrates that the effect of AI has not been as drastic as expected. The Financial Times pointed out...
Tue, Oct 6
Zcash ETF fee war: Winklevoss undercuts Grayscale with ETF filing
The Winklevoss Asset Services filed a preliminary S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday, October 6, for a spot Zcash (ZEC) exchange-traded fund (ETF). It states that it would charge a 0.25% annual sponsor fee, which is one-tenth of what market leader Grayscale charges on the only live U.S. Zcash ETF....
Tue, Oct 6
Conduit sues Tether over $2.76 million USDT freeze as challenges mount
Conduit, a cross-border payments firm, has sued Tether over a $2.76 million USDT freeze it says has locked up its main operating account for more than a year. Tether’s motives for freezing wallets have come under increased scrutiny as firms and individuals drag the issuer to court regarding their assets. Why is Conduit suing Tether? ...
Tue, Oct 6
Reflection AI opens early access to Beam ahead of an October open-weight release
Reflection AI opened early access to Beam, its 501B open-weight model, and plans to release the weights under Apache 2.0 later in October.
Tue, Oct 6