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Bitcoin Holds $81K as Whale Withdrawals and ETF Custody Moves Collide

Large Wintermute outflows and ETF-linked wallet activity dominated October 24 on-chain chatter while BTC traded near $80,800 amid oil-driven macro caution.

Oct 24, 2026

web3

Mastercard Tests Agentic Payments With x402 and USDC on Base

Coinbase Base will settle USDC payments for agent-driven commerce under Mastercard's x402 experiment, linking card-network trust to on-chain automation.

Oct 24, 2026

cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits a Seven-Month High as Miners Pivot Toward AI

Network hashrate climbed above one zettahash despite public miners redirecting capacity to AI workloads and rising difficulty.

Oct 23, 2026

web3

Starknet Voters Back Post-Quantum L1 Research in Landslide Governance Poll

A non-binding Snapshot poll ended October 22 with 93.52% support for researching Starknet as an independent, post-quantum layer 1.

Oct 23, 2026

blockchain

Ethereum Postpones Glamsterdam on Hoodi After Gas-Accounting Security Findings

Core developers delayed Hoodi's Glamsterdam fork to study how EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 interact with live mainnet contracts.

Oct 23, 2026

machine-learning

DINOv2 Vision Models Explained for Builders

What Meta’s DINOv2 family does, how self-supervised training works, and when to use DINOv2 embeddings in search, robotics, and ML pipelines.

Oct 23, 2026

web3

Solana Alpenglow Is Live: Finality Falls From 12.8 Seconds to About 150 Milliseconds

Anza's Alpenglow consensus upgrade activated on Solana mainnet October 21, 2026, replacing TowerBFT while leaving execution and programs unchanged.

Oct 22, 2026

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cryptocurrency

OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule as Industry Parses the Yield Gray Zone

The U.S. OCC issued its first final GENIUS Act rule for payment stablecoins, effective January 2027, with case-by-case review of exchange reward programs.

Oct 22, 2026

cryptocurrency

Switzerland Approves FINMA's First Retail Spot Bitcoin ETF on SIX

FINMA approved BIT Asset Management's Bitcoin Fund ETF (BBIT), a Swiss collective scheme holding spot BTC, expected to list on SIX in November 2026.

Oct 21, 2026

web3

Mastercard Stablecoin Security Brings Card-Network Fraud Scores to On-Chain Payments

At Money20/20, Mastercard launched Stablecoin Security to score blockchain payment risk before settlement, with Borderless.xyz and Keyrails as launch partners.

Oct 21, 2026

artificial-intelligence

How ReAct Agents Combine Reasoning and Tool Use in LLM Apps

Learn how ReAct agents loop through thoughts, tool calls, and observations—and how to ship them safely in production LLM apps.

Oct 21, 2026

business

How to Streamline Package Deliveries to Your Business

Oct 20, 2026

cryptocurrency

JPMorgan Brings JPM Coin Deposit Token to Ethereum for Institutions

After launching on Base, JPMorgan's Kinexys unit extended its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum mainnet for institutional clients, atop $4T in cumulative Kinexys volume.

Oct 20, 2026

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Bitcoin Holds $81K as Whale Withdrawals and ETF Custody Moves Collide

Mastercard Tests Agentic Payments With x402 and USDC on Base

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits a Seven-Month High as Miners Pivot Toward AI

Starknet Voters Back Post-Quantum L1 Research in Landslide Governance Poll

Ethereum Postpones Glamsterdam on Hoodi After Gas-Accounting Security Findings

DINOv2 Vision Models Explained for Builders

Solana Alpenglow Is Live: Finality Falls From 12.8 Seconds to About 150 Milliseconds

Latest Posts

OCC Finalizes GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule as Industry Parses the Yield Gray Zone

Switzerland Approves FINMA's First Retail Spot Bitcoin ETF on SIX

Mastercard Stablecoin Security Brings Card-Network Fraud Scores to On-Chain Payments

How ReAct Agents Combine Reasoning and Tool Use in LLM Apps

How to Streamline Package Deliveries to Your Business

JPMorgan Brings JPM Coin Deposit Token to Ethereum for Institutions

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