2026/10/18
Today's Newsletter
📰 News
• MicroStrategy to be removed from MSCI indexes
• Visa brings USDC payouts to Visa Direct across 180+ countries
• Brokerage giant Charles Schwab opens Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to 40 million clients
• Deutsche Bank to launch Bitcoin custody for its 28 million clients
• Balaji’s Network School acquires Farcaster
• @Lighter_xyz teases options season
• Anthropic proposes AI safety law letting the government block dangerous models
• Some Anthropic investors push to cut the IPO valuation from $2T to $1.5T
• DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017 with better agentic coding and open MIT weights
👍 Good Reads
• @a16zcrypto - Fast post-quantum signature aggregation with lattice SNARKs
• @JayaGup10 - From Inference to Execution: AI’s Next Economy
🔔 New Protocols
• @QuestHarness
• @routr_network
💰 Crypto Fundraising
• @multiliquid_xyz (Exchange) - 8m Seed led by @polychain
• @SpoutFi (DeFi) - 2m Strategic
💵 Airdrops
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🖥 Videos & Podcasts
• @Bankless - The Crypto Bull Market Just Got a Reality Check
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chungdailynote.com ❤️
Today's Newsletter
📰 News
• MicroStrategy to be removed from MSCI indexes
• Visa brings USDC payouts to Visa Direct across 180+ countries
• Brokerage giant Charles Schwab opens Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to 40 million clients
• Deutsche Bank to launch Bitcoin custody for its 28 million clients
• Balaji’s Network School acquires Farcaster
• @Lighter_xyz teases options season
• Anthropic proposes AI safety law letting the government block dangerous models
• Some Anthropic investors push to cut the IPO valuation from $2T to $1.5T
• DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017 with better agentic coding and open MIT weights
👍 Good Reads
• @a16zcrypto - Fast post-quantum signature aggregation with lattice SNARKs
• @JayaGup10 - From Inference to Execution: AI’s Next Economy
🔔 New Protocols
• @QuestHarness
• @routr_network
💰 Crypto Fundraising
• @multiliquid_xyz (Exchange) - 8m Seed led by @polychain
• @SpoutFi (DeFi) - 2m Strategic
💵 Airdrops
-
🖥 Videos & Podcasts
• @Bankless - The Crypto Bull Market Just Got a Reality Check
—
chungdailynote.com ❤️