Crypto Newsletter

  • Circle Foundation announces small-business grants

  • Bitmine reaches 5.98M ETH after a $75.29M buy

  • Tokenized-stock venues could file as early as next quarter

  • BlackRock said AI agents will need machine-native settlement rails in a whitepaper called The Machine-Native Economy

  • SOL's biggest upgrade Alpenglow hits testnet

  • The SEC sent a crypto custody proposal to OMB covering broker-dealers and investment companies.

  • Most altcoin holders still in loss: Glassnode

  • Coinbase and Microsoft disrupt EvilTokens

  • A single repeating trade size near $5,499 made up 57% of Kalshi’s sampled ETH perp volume, with $2,500 and $5,000 clips accounting for 54% of bitcoin perps, which Kalshi attributes to its market maker incentive program but others are calling obvious wash trading

  • Stonkfun tops Pumpfun/Pons 24hr revenue

  • BTC Lightning gets first quantum-proof defence

  • Blockchain to power AI agent payments: Blackrock

  • Lummis said Democrats chose “visceral hatred” for Trump over passing the Clarity Act, while crediting Gillibrand and Alsobrooks as honest brokers in negotiations that grew the bill from 300 pages to over 600

  • Jupiter stays #1 DEX aggregator across all chains

  • The CFTC warned that “mention markets” carry heightened manipulation risk and can only be offered in limited circumstances

  • Coinbase adds USDC loans backed by cbBTC

  • Coinbase is building post-quantum custody for its roughly $250 billion in assets, designed to support whatever signature scheme Bitcoin adopts, using programmable HSMs

  • Predictions volume to hit $10T by 2035: Bernstein

  • 21Shares launches Europe's first Zcash ETP

  • CME will launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures October 19 pending regulatory review

  • IcoBeast apologizes and denies incentivizing wash trading

  • TylerD reports 28 CryptoPunk sales; floor hits 32 ETH

  • Tether rejects EU MiCA license over reserve rules

AI & Tech

  • OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna

  • GPT-6 up to 93% cheaper than Claude: OpenAI

  • Jack Butcher intros Credits NFT through X Money

  • Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw

  • NFT leaders were green led by Punks again; Punks +6% at 34 ETH, BAYC +3% at 6.85 ETH, Pudgy +3% at 3.52 ETH

  • CryptoPunks saw 37 sales in the past day as the floor moved up to 34 ETH

  • Irresponsible AI leaders are scaring people: Jensen

  • Big banks uneasy about people shopping via AI

  • Jack Butcher’s Credits debuted at a 0.03 ETH floor with 760 ETH volume (120k supply)

  • Qualcomm releases AI chip for Android

  • China probes DeepSeek, MoonShot AI

  • Identity MD (+13%) and Milady (+20%) led top movers; FWAIR PFPs +70% to 3.7 ETH

  • Apple could rival Whoop with new fitness tracker

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