Solana’s Tokenized Asset Market Grows More Than Sixfold In A Year
TL;DR: Research attributed to Castle Labs puts Solana’s real-world asset market at about $4.3 billion, versus $700 million a year…
Macron calls for ‘calm and order’ after riots across France
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a national address after widespread disorder and as some looting continued in Paris.
Block’s Proto Mining Hardware Gets A Smaller Entry Point With Sazmining
TL;DR: Sazmining is offering individual Proto immersion hashboards at $4,187 each, with financing and managed hosting. The arrangement lowers the…
Bessent warns Zelenskyy to ‘be very careful’ about claims U.S. is throttling Starlink
Starlink, high-speed satellite internet provided by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is critical to Ukraine’s defense.
TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a…
BitTorrent Ushers in Next-Gen Web3 Infrastructure with Strategic Rebrand and Inaugural BTT Burn
The first round of BTT repurchased with decentralized service revenue has been completely burned, as BitTorrent leverages its reimagined architecture…
Fidelity Sees A Stronger Solana Network, With Concentration Risks Still In View
TL;DR: Fidelity’s technology research team says Solana has operated for more than two years without a major mainnet outage, while…
Tokenized Stocks Reach $262 Million In DeFi, But The Growth Is Not All On Base
TL;DR: Stock-linked tokens deployed in DeFi reached an estimated $262.4 million across blockchains at the end of September, up nearly…
Aave’s Native Bitcoin Plan Moves Forward, But Governance Has Questions
TL;DR: Babylon Labs has advanced a proposal to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Aave V4 without requiring wrapped BTC or…
Binance Pool To Close November 10, Giving Bitcoin Miners Weeks To Move
TL;DR: Binance will discontinue its mining pool and related services at 07:00 UTC on November 10, 2026. Miners must redirect…
Robinhood Chain Now Accounts For More Than Half Of Uniswap Revenue
TL;DR: Uniswap generated approximately $14.81 million in protocol revenue during September, with Robinhood Chain contributing about 53% of the total.…
Iran says it has a ‘new operational plan’ if the U.S. resumes attacks, as shipping vessels report strikes
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the country’s military has prepared a response to any new…
Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem
“Always switch” is true for one particular host. Watch a few episodes and you can work out which host you’ve…
Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Slips To $7.68 Billion As Traders Keep Funding Positive
TL;DR: A Saturday derivatives snapshot showed Bitcoin open interest at $7.68 billion, down 0.69% in 24 hours. Funding remained positive,…
XRP ETFs End 13-Week Inflow Run With $1.84 Million In Withdrawals
TL;DR: US spot XRP ETFs recorded a $1.84 million net weekly outflow, ending 13 consecutive positive weeks. The reversal was…
Both Charts Are Right. So Why Do They Disagree?
The statistical paradox that shows how combining data can reverse the story. The post Both Charts Are Right. So Why…
Ethereum ETFs Lose $320 Million In A Week As Bitcoin Outflows Slow
TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs lost $320.1 million in the week ending October 16, more than the $228.4 million withdrawn…
Burnt out cars and shattered glass on Paris streets after protests turn to riots and looting
Around 1,800 people were arrested after nationwide protests saw outbreaks of violence and vandalism.
Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework
Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced Harness². It is a recursive agent harnessing framework that improves the code and files…
Why hedge funds could be making a bond market shock more likely
The Bank of England’s deputy governor has warned that hedge funds’ activities could raise the risk of a global bond…
How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models
In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind…
Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI
Voxel51 has released Voxel51 3.0, a very important update to its data platform. Voxel51 3.0 is an end-to-end multimodal data…
Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world
In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would…
Pantera Leads $10 Million Fission Funding Round To Solve Tokenized Fund Liquidity Problem
TL;DR: Tokenization infrastructure firm Fission has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital. It wants to…
Strive Bitcoin Holdings Reach 35,595 BTC As Wall Street Raises Price Target 27%
TL;DR: TD Cowen reportedly raised its Strive share-price target from $44 to $56 after the Bitcoin treasury company expanded its…
Strategy Declares Daily STRC Dividends As Saylor Targets $100 Share Price
TL;DR: Strategy has conditionally declared daily STRC preferred-stock dividends for November 2026. The new cadence remains subject to shareholder approval…
Violent clashes, looting and buildings ablaze as hundreds arrested after France protests
Disorder broke out in cities across the country on a day in which more than half a million joined cost…
Charles Schwab Opens Bitcoin And Ethereum Transfers As Crypto Rollout Expands
TL;DR: Charles Schwab is expanding its direct Bitcoin and Ethereum services, including phased external wallet transfers. The move brings digital…
Circle Reveals $819 Million USDC Payouts As Stablecoin Economics Come Under Scrutiny
TL;DR: Circle says it generated roughly $1.4 billion in first-half 2026 revenue while spending $819 million on distribution partners and…
Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation
Kyutai, with Inria and École des Ponts, has released REKI, a 2.4B vision-language-action model (VLA) for robot manipulation. The REKI…
Binance.US Seeks $100 Million Funding Round At $1 Billion Valuation
TL;DR: Binance.US is reportedly seeking up to $100 million from private investors at a proposed valuation of approximately $1 billion.…
Crypto Giants Feature In $210 Million Political Donations Report As Regulatory Scrutiny Grows
TL;DR: An October 8 Public Citizen report links corporations and individuals benefiting from cancelled federal enforcement actions to approximately $210.5…
Grayscale Opens DeFi And AI Crypto Funds To Investors With Just $2,500
TL;DR: Grayscale and investment platform Republic are offering three specialised crypto funds with minimum commitments starting at $2,500. The products…
Arbitrum Courts European Investors Managing €800 Billion With New Revenue Pitch
TL;DR: Arbitrum representatives have presented the network’s infrastructure and revenue model to European financial institutions managing substantial assets. The meetings…
Deutsche Bank Nears Bitcoin Custody Launch As Crypto Push Expands Beyond Europe
TL;DR: Deutsche Bank is preparing to introduce institutional digital asset custody services, initially targeting professional clients in Germany. The planned…
The Number Your Quantization Gate Doesn’t Have
Ten quantization guides, and not one threshold-dependent metric between them — what that gap hides, and the two numbers that…
Bitcoin ETFs Lose $82 Million As BlackRock Leads Friday’s Withdrawals
TL;DR: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately $82.4 million in net outflows on October 16. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for $71.8…
Binance bStocks Hits $1 Billion As Tokenized Stock Trading Accelerates
TL;DR: Binance says its bStocks tokenized-equity offering has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management, four months after launch. The…
When EEG Models See the Same People in Training and Testing
How participant-aware evaluation changed performance across three machine-learning models The post When EEG Models See the Same People in Training…
Judge Rejects Gemini And CFTC Bid To Overturn $5 Million Settlement
TL;DR: A federal judge has rejected a joint attempt by Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to overturn the…
Circle Targets 40 New Markets As USDC Push Moves Beyond Crypto Trading
TL;DR: Circle plans to expand USDC infrastructure into approximately 40 developing and emerging markets. The company is targeting international payments…
Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions and tariffs under Graham Act, citing national interest
Trump signed the Graham Bill, which targeted Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, into law in September.
MSCI Tightens Index Rules As Strategy And Other Bitcoin Treasury Firms Face Fresh Scrutiny
TL;DR: MSCI has revised its methodology for classifying non-operating companies, putting Bitcoin-heavy treasury businesses under closer index scrutiny. Any possible…
Trump waives several Russia sanctions as row with Zelensky intensifies
The US president temporarily ends many restrictions on Moscow recently passed by Congress over “national security” concerns.
DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API
DeepSeek has just released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, a new checkpoint of its V4.1-Flash model. It is live on the DeepSeek website, app…
Trump’s Russia diesel deal may offer Putin more than money — and spell trouble for Ukraine
Trump’s diesel deal may do little for Russia’s finances, but it raises bigger questions about Ukraine’s leverage, U.S. support and…
Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms
The Amazon rainforest is a crucial buffer against climate change – but deforestation had expanded under former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
Perplexity has open-sourced SPACE, the sandbox platform behind every task in Perplexity Computer. The Perplexity SPACE sandbox gives each agent…
Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
The North Star Every organization racing to deploy AI agents faces the same reckoning: an agent that demos beautifully can…
Brent oil touches $110 as Iran escalates Hormuz attacks, Ukraine vows to hit Russian refineries
U.S. crude oil prices rose sharply Friday as Iran escalated attacks in the Strait of Hormuz this week.