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Overview On-chain realized profit reached roughly $1.03 billion in a single day on October 8, the second-highest daily figure of 2026 and only narrowly below the year's $1.04 billion peak. According to DailyCoin, citing Santiment data, that burst of selling landed after bitcoin pushed to about $87,000, and the price promptly slid back toward $81,000 for a weekly loss of 5%, alongside roughly $520 million in long liquidations and more than $702 million in US spot bitcoin ETF outflows. Fortune's p

Overview Sending bitcoin on-chain and sending it over the Lightning Network are two different cost structures, not two speeds of the same thing. On-chain fees are charged by transaction size in bytes and are indifferent to the amount being moved, so sending $50 costs roughly what sending $500,000 costs. Lightning fees are charged as a proportion of the amount and are indifferent to byte size, so small payments cost almost nothing while large ones run into routing limits. Grasping that single asy

The window for this issue runs from the full 2026/10/13 US trading day through after-hours to 2026/10/14 03:20 UTC, with 7 items covering all six layers. The headline is the 1.6GW linear generator purchase agreement between Mainspring and AEP, the only completed downstream contract this issue that states a capacity. Countable deal value is $62.5M, with another $6.3B excluded under our rules. The AI Supply Chain in Six Layers Today's AI BriefsLayer 1 Models & Apps ｜ 2 itemsAI security firm Pluto

Overview Two wallets each hold 0.1 BTC. At the same moment, at the same fee rate, sending the same payment, one of them can pay more than five times what the other pays. The difference is not the amount. It is whether that 0.1 BTC sits in a single unspent output or is scattered across dozens of small ones. The question is worth examining now because the network is in a cheap window. According to ChainQuery's fee pressure report, as of mid-October the fastest tier sits at 2 sat/vB while the half-

1. Today's Market: Three Indexes a Little Lower, Memory Chips Down a Second DayUnit: %, single-day change on October 13; all three fell, so the zero line sits on the right and every bar runs leftward. The Dow fell furthest at 0.35%, with the Nasdaq at 0.15% and the S&P 500 at 0.02%, close to flat. Three indexes moving the same way by very small amounts says this was a drift lower with no single driver, not one sector pulling the market down. The story sits in the constituents: memory chips fell

Overview CoreWeave is trying to move its funding base away from banks and private credit and toward the longer, cheaper money held by insurance companies. The Financial Times published an interview with co-founder Brannin McBee on October 14, and according to Traders Union's account of that report, McBee described the insurance industry's capital pool as effectively unlimited and said the company is working to get its Nvidia GPU-backed loans rated investment grade as a class. The same report put

Overview The Census Bureau releases September retail sales on October 15 at 08:30 ET, which is 20:30 in Singapore. According to investinglive's calendar for the week, consensus looks for a 0.3% monthly gain in the headline and 0.5% excluding autos, against August prints of 1.2% and 1.4%. Moving from 1.2% to 0.3% is a sizable step down in expectations. The number itself is not the interesting part. What makes this release worth watching is the contradiction sitting behind it. The University of Mi

Overview Four token unlocks land within the next 72 hours. BeInCrypto's roundup of this week's schedule puts Starknet at roughly 127 million STRK on October 15, Arbitrum at roughly 92.65 million ARB on October 16, and Cronos at roughly 1.17 billion CRO on October 17. PANews' list of the same window adds Sei with about 55.56 million SEI, also on October 15. Priced at October 14 levels, the four events total roughly $102 million. Unlocks earn calendar space not because prices reliably fall on the

ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) reported €11.66 billion in Q3 2026 revenue, a record 57.5% gross margin, and €4.96 billion in net income on October 14. The Dutch semiconductor equipment maker also raised its full-year revenue guidance as AI-driven demand for advanced chipmaking capacity continued to accelerate.But the earnings story extends beyond headline growth. ASML's installed-base upgrade business exceeded expectations, customers are discussing equipment demand through 2029 and 2030, and manage

Citigroup (NYSE: C) shares fell 5.60% to $124.53 on October 13, 2026, despite reporting third-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations. The bank posted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.85 versus an estimated $2.66, while net income jumped 40% year over year to $5.2 billion.The selloff reflected a different concern: Citigroup's trading and investment banking businesses slowed from the second quarter, and management warned that fourth-quarter Markets revenue could decline approximatel