During a painful night for short sellers, Bitcoin gained 5%, reclaimed $80,000, and briefly reached $81,600.

After the CLARITY Act failed, $613.7 million in crypto positions were liquidated in 24 hours, including $536 million in shorts, with attention on $82,000.

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🚩 Linera Halts Operations

Linera is immediately shutting down due to a lack of funds. Its token sale on Sonar attracted nearly $900,000 in commitments but missed the minimum threshold, so all contributions were refunded. Emergency funding efforts also failed.

The team still hopes to complete the protocol and launch applications, but gave no timeline. Founded by former Meta researcher Mathieu Baudet, Linera raised about $12 million in two rounds in 2022 and 2023, with a16z participating in both.

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👍 Anthropic Eyes November IPO

Anthropic may publish listing documents in the coming weeks and begin trading in November at a valuation of up to $2 trillion, according to The New York Times. It could become the largest IPO in history.

Revenue is expected to exceed $100 billion by year-end, versus $65 billion in July. Computing capacity will reach about 5 gigawatts by year-end and double next year.

OpenAI has postponed its IPO until 2027.

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Last cycle punished people for believing too much.

This cycle will punish people for not believing enough.

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🔸 Binance Wallet Pre-IPO Access

Binance Wallet has launched Pre-Access, tokenized access to companies before their IPOs, in partnership with PancakeSwap.

Users get indirect exposure through bStocks. Quotas increase with Alpha Points and on-chain trading volume. Token holders receive no direct rights to shares, voting, or underlying assets. The first project will be disclosed later.

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Hyperliquid became crypto market’s main money vacuum.

Since the start of the year, Hyperliquid earned $429 million, ahead of Pump.fun at $322 million and Axiom Pro at $132 million. The top 15 took 56% of sector revenue.

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🎉 Trump Announces AI Force

Trump said he is forming an “Artificial Intelligence Force”, modeled on the previously created Space Force. He did not say who will lead it or how it will operate.

Trump said the US must maintain its leadership over China. The future “AI czar” must meet one requirement: “Only candidates with a high IQ.”

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🇮🇷 Iran-US Talks at UN

Iran and the US held talks for the first time in a long time on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The meeting lasted about three hours, according to Trump and The Hill. Rubio confirmed openness to dialogue, but no new meeting date was set.

An Iranian official said Tehran is ready to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week if the US takes reciprocal steps to ease military and economic pressure.

At the UN General Assembly, Trump said he could “destroy Iran or help it become a great country,” and expects a deal immediately after the US midterm elections.

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21Shares launched Europe’s first ETP on Zcash, listed on Euronext in Paris and Amsterdam.

It also launched an ETP on ETHFI, Etherfi’s governance token.

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💲 Tether Rejects MiCA License

Tether declined to apply for a MiCA license in the EU over reserve rules.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the rules require 60% of significant stablecoin issuers’ reserves in commercial bank deposits, making stablecoins less protected. EU deposit insurance covers only €100,000.

“When MiCA becomes safer for consumers and stablecoin issuers, we may reconsider the decision,” Ardoino said.

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🔥 BitMEX Ends Operations

As of today, BitMEX has halted trading and exchange services after 11 years. Withdrawals remain available, but fees apply to remaining account balances.

BitMEX helped shape crypto derivatives and created perpetual futures contracts. It was founded by Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed.

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🇺🇸 CFTC Warns on Tokenization

CFTC Chair Michael Selig told a US Treasury market conference organized by the New York Fed that markets must prepare for mass tokenization, on-chain finance and 24/7 trading.

“The next decade will likely bring more change to financial markets than the previous several decades combined,” Selig said.

In February 2026, CFTC expanded eligible collateral to include stablecoins from national trust banks and sought comments on 24/7 energy derivatives trading. Crypto legislation is “stuck in the Senate,” so CFTC and SEC are advancing the agenda independently.

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📈 Binance Research on RWA Use

About 12% of tokenized assets are used in DeFi, says Binance Research. Tokenized stocks and bonds can enter liquidity pools, serve as collateral, or be borrowed against.

The CAR measures about $12 deployed per $100 invested in RWA. Private credit leads at 49.67%. Equities rose from 1.95% to 7.54% at the start of the year.

Since January, RWA grew 85.2% to $34.18 billion, and equities 390.4% to $4.43 billion, or 0.0029% of global public-company market capitalization.

Analysts say token use could become as important as issuance. By 2030, tokenized equities could reach ~$349 billion. Raising CAR from 10% to 20% would double deployed capital to $69.87 billion without new tokens.

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😺 NEAR Launches Private Stock Trading

NEAR and Ondo launched private trading in US stocks. At launch, users can access Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and ETFs including SPY and QQQ.

Crypto from 30+ networks can be used through a single nearcom account, without external brokers, via solver-based routing to Ondo Stocks. NEAR’s private shard settles trades without linking them to user identities or exposing them on the public blockchain.

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🤓 OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Models

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. In AutomationBench, Sol outperformed Claude Opus 5 with 33.2% versus 26.9%, and Fable 5.1 at 31.4%, while costing roughly 11 times less than Opus 5.

In internal testing, Sol had 50% fewer factual errors than GPT-5.6 Sol, approaching Astra in reliability at a lower price. API pricing fell 50% for Sol to $2/$10 per million tokens, and 50-58% for Luna.

Sol targets complex coding and agent tasks. Luna is designed for mass-market tasks such as summarization and data extraction.

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‼️ Zcash Echoes Ethereum’s Path

David Hoffman of Bankless compared Zcash in 2026 with Ethereum in 2021. He said ZEC has become a major destination for Bitcoin holders moving part of their capital.

Bitcoin’s market cap is about $1.7 trillion, versus $26 billion for Zcash. Hoffman said even a small capital shift could significantly affect ZEC, citing privacy and investment diversification as reasons for interest.

He also highlighted NEAR as an alternative to major smart-contract platforms that could attract capital from ecosystems including Ethereum and Solana.

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🙄 ARK Tokenizes Venture Fund

ARK Invest and Securitize are putting ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on the blockchain. The actively managed fund holds stakes in private and public companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks.

The underlying assets remain private. Only the investor’s stake becomes liquid. Cathie Wood called it “a natural continuation of the mission to democratize access to innovation.”

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💵 Bitget Reports $351.6M Losses

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen confirmed $351.6 million in losses. Outflows stopped, and cold wallets were unaffected.

Attackers breached the internal wallet-management system and falsified transfer data. Bitget rules out leaked private keys. North Korean hackers are preliminary suspects based on IP and VPN overlaps. Some funds were recovered, but the amount is undisclosed.

Withdrawals remain suspended with no restart date. Deposits and trading work. Bitget’s protection fund, worth over $464 million, is expected to cover losses. In March 2025, Chen warned Hyperliquid could become “FTX 2.0.” That comparison now applies to Bitget.

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