Is Ethereum going to collapse? BlackRock goes crazy buying $1 billion worth of ETH, and FTX somehow withdrew $75 million in chips!
1⃣ OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol/Luna, rolling GPT-6 capabilities down to cheaper two-tier models. The Sol API costs $2 per million tokens for input and $10 per million tokens for output. AutomationBench scores 33.2% with an estimated cost per question of about $0.27.
2⃣ Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 and cuts API pricing to $4 per million tokens for input and $20 per million tokens for output, continuing to drive down enterprise model usage costs and strengthen competition in the commercial market.
3⃣ BlackRock’s two ETH ETF together bought $1.01 billion worth of Ethereum over nearly 20 trading days. Of that, ETHA purchased $787.2 million and ETHB purchased $221.2 million.
4⃣ The asset liquidation team at FTX/Alameda transferred 27,372 ETH via six wallets to Wintermute, worth approximately $75.32 million. Market commentary suggests it may involve a delegated sell-off.
5⃣ Lane, the chief economist at the European Central Bank, said the second wave of energy price increases may keep inflation above target for longer, with expectations that it won’t ease until mid-2027.
6⃣ U.S.-Iran officials held about a three-hour meeting during the UN General Assembly in New York. Trump said the talks were “very productive” and noted that both sides have arranged another point of contact soon.
7⃣ a16z and the DeFi Education Fund urged the SEC to establish safe-harbor rules for DEXs and called for a registration framework for centralized crypto trading platforms, referencing the ATS rules.
8⃣ The U.S. Treasury sanctions Iran’s BitBank, saying it handled bitcoin payments related to vessels connected to the Hormuz security insurance program and helped transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in BTC.
9⃣ The CFTC extends its review of CBOE/NVIDIA GPU leasing price futures. The AI computing futures contracts originally planned for launch by the CME in early October may not be approved on time.
🔟 Bernstein’s latest research note says market expectations for the Federal Reserve have shifted from rate cuts earlier in the year to the possibility of 2 to 3 rate hikes before 2027, but it still believes gold has upside potential in an environment where real interest rates rise slowly.
1⃣ OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol/Luna, rolling GPT-6 capabilities down to cheaper two-tier models. The Sol API costs $2 per million tokens for input and $10 per million tokens for output. AutomationBench scores 33.2% with an estimated cost per question of about $0.27.
2⃣ Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 and cuts API pricing to $4 per million tokens for input and $20 per million tokens for output, continuing to drive down enterprise model usage costs and strengthen competition in the commercial market.
3⃣ BlackRock’s two ETH ETF together bought $1.01 billion worth of Ethereum over nearly 20 trading days. Of that, ETHA purchased $787.2 million and ETHB purchased $221.2 million.
4⃣ The asset liquidation team at FTX/Alameda transferred 27,372 ETH via six wallets to Wintermute, worth approximately $75.32 million. Market commentary suggests it may involve a delegated sell-off.
5⃣ Lane, the chief economist at the European Central Bank, said the second wave of energy price increases may keep inflation above target for longer, with expectations that it won’t ease until mid-2027.
6⃣ U.S.-Iran officials held about a three-hour meeting during the UN General Assembly in New York. Trump said the talks were “very productive” and noted that both sides have arranged another point of contact soon.
7⃣ a16z and the DeFi Education Fund urged the SEC to establish safe-harbor rules for DEXs and called for a registration framework for centralized crypto trading platforms, referencing the ATS rules.
8⃣ The U.S. Treasury sanctions Iran’s BitBank, saying it handled bitcoin payments related to vessels connected to the Hormuz security insurance program and helped transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in BTC.
9⃣ The CFTC extends its review of CBOE/NVIDIA GPU leasing price futures. The AI computing futures contracts originally planned for launch by the CME in early October may not be approved on time.
🔟 Bernstein’s latest research note says market expectations for the Federal Reserve have shifted from rate cuts earlier in the year to the possibility of 2 to 3 rate hikes before 2027, but it still believes gold has upside potential in an environment where real interest rates rise slowly.