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On October 8, 2026, Meanwhile, a Bitcoin-denominated life insurance company backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, announced that it had raised an additional $37.5 million from existing investors, bringing its total funding to more than $180 million.The latest funding round was led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Haun Ventures, Framework Ventures, Pantera Capital, Apollo, and several other investment firms. The announcement comes as Meanwhile reports growing demand for Bitcoin-denomina

On October 10, 2026, Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, announced that the blockchain had deployed post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technology on its testnet and was ready to introduce the solution to its mainnet when necessary.According to Sun, TRON is closely monitoring advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence to prepare for future security risks. He expects TRON to become one of the few major blockchains capable of resisting quantum attacks before Q-Day arrives.The announcement

I. Macro and Market Sentiment· Market data: BTC $82,363.00（-1.52%）｜ETH $2,461.46（-3.16%）｜SOL $105.24（-5.73%）· Market sentiment: Funding rate +0.0024%｜Fear & Greed Index 57（Greed）· Rates and energy: Brent crude rose to $107.25/barrel, while the long-bond term premium stands at around 0.98%, tightening energy-driven inflation and financing conditions simultaneously. Read more· Data preview: September headline CPI is expected to come in close to 3.7% year over year, with this week's CPI and PPI

All three major indexes closed higher on Friday, October 9: the Dow at 51,654.95 for a 0.83% gain, the Nasdaq at 27,366.17 for 0.64% and the S&P 500 at 7,811.54 for 0.59%, taking back Thursday's selloff on AI valuation concerns. Rates, though, reached their highest since April 2002: the 10-year closed at 5.27%, up 3.8 basis points, after touching 5.3645% intraday, while WTI settled at $91.85. The stock in focus is Lumentum (LITE), which closed at $1,103.36 for a 5.22% gain, adding about $4.3B of

All three major indexes closed higher on Friday, October 9: the Dow at 51,654.95 for a 0.83% gain, the Nasdaq at 27,366.17 for 0.64% and the S&P 500 at 7,811.54 for 0.59%, taking back Thursday's selloff on AI valuation concerns. Rates, though, reached their highest since April 2002: the 10-year closed at 5.27%, up 3.8 basis points, after touching 5.3645% intraday, while WTI settled at $91.85. The stock in focus is Lumentum (LITE), which closed at $1,103.36 for a 5.22% gain, adding about $4.3B of

Overview TSMC holds its third-quarter earnings call on October 15, but revenue is no longer the question. The company's 2026 monthly revenue disclosures show July, August and September sales of NT$467.58 billion, NT$514.81 billion and NT$511.86 billion, for a quarterly total near NT$1.494 trillion. Against the same three months of 2025, which totaled roughly NT$989.9 billion, that is growth of about 50.9%. Revenue for the first nine months stands at NT$3.899 trillion, up 41.1%. With the top line

Overview The US consumer price index for September lands on October 14 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, which is 8:30 p.m. in Singapore. The print matters more than the past several releases, not because of the number itself but because of where it sits in the policy calendar. The Federal Reserve delivered its first hike in more than three years on September 16, the next meeting falls on October 27 and 28, and whether a second hike arrives in December remains an open trade. Current pricing is split in

The Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network as the project prepares to move its operations onto the Sui blockchain. The partnership also brings decentralized storage platform Walrus into the picture, with a shared goal of making AI training data easier to verify, manage, and license. 1.Sui Foundation Commits $30 Million to DATA NetworkThe Sui Foundation announced a strategic investment in DATA Network, a project focused on managing data used to train artificial intelligence model

Key TakeawaysThe XRP Ledger's payment engine contained an integer overflow bug, dating back to code written in 2015, that could have let an attacker create XRP from nothing in a single transaction. Developers disclosed it on Friday, October 9, 2026.Researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported the flaw through the XRPL bug bounty program on September 22. RippleX merged a fix the next day and shipped xrpld 3.4.1 on September 25, when more than 80% of default UNL validators were already running it.

Key TakeawaysLedger confirmed on Saturday, October 10, 2026, that "one of the impacted users' devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant," after buyers who purchased devices from Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis reported drained wallets.Onchain estimates of the losses range from more than $72 million to about $93 million. Blockchain analytics firm Bitquery counts more than 300 victim wallets, most on TRON and Bitcoin, drained within hours on October 9. Ledger has not confirme