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Spot gold declined 2.0% intraday today (October 14), trading at $4,075.30 per ounce.

Senator Cynthia Lummis criticized Democrats for voting against the CLARITY Act on Oct 14, legislation designed to establish regulatory framework for digital commodities while protecting historically underserved communities. According to Lummis, the rejection could hinder regulatory progress in the digital asset space and limit innovation and investment opportunities in the U.S. market.

According to regional reporting, Iranian security official Mohsen Rezaei threatened on October 11 that over $2 trillion worth of digital infrastructure across the Middle East could become military targets if hostilities with the United States resume. Rezaei specifically identified data centers, AI facilities and submarine communications cables as potential targets, though this valuation has not been independently verified. Amazon Web Services confirmed in March that drone strikes directly hit tw

NEAR Protocol announced a strategic partnership with SilentSwap to provide confidential crosschain access, now live in SilentSwap's application and SDK. The collaboration unifies liquidity across more than 30 networks and features SilentSwap's privacy technology for secure transactions, supporting both crypto and stablecoin transfers. The integration aims to enhance user experience and attract additional participants to both platforms.

Shanghai silver main contract declined 6.00% intraday on October 14, trading at 13,563 yuan per kilogram.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Katti, OpenAI's head of infrastructure, will depart the company in November.

According to Polygon's official blog, Polygon Labs completed its acquisition of cryptocurrency payment company Coinme today, granting its Polygon Open Money Stack (OMS) platform U.S. compliant payment service capabilities. The platform now operates across 48 U.S. states, holds 37 state-level money transmitter licenses and 11 exemptions, and is registered with FinCEN as a money services business.

According to Odaily, David Sacks criticized Anthropic's latest research on small-model AI risks, arguing that the reported experiments relied on pre-configured debug ports and external servers rather than proving real-world autonomous AI propagation threats. Sacks noted that traditional malware already exploits similar vulnerabilities without small models significantly changing threat patterns. Sacks highlighted that Coinbase recently fine-tuned Qwen-3.5-9B using proprietary fraud-detection data

According to Sui, the blockchain network achieved a transaction throughput of 40.68 million TPS during on-site testing at Sui Basecamp 2026 and earned CertiK certification. Sui stated it can now process one day of Visa's transaction volume in 20 seconds.

According to GMGN data, VRAX, a Meme coin on the Robinhood chain, surged over 143% today, with market cap briefly hitting $8 million before settling at $7.68 million. The token was initially launched following discussions at the Robinhood summit and had previously experienced a sharp 99% decline before today's recovery.

According to EmberCats monitoring, a whale closed a 20,000 ETH long position today (Oct 14) for a $8.93 million profit following the market decline triggered by U.S. CPI data. The address opened the long position on August 19 at $1,936 per ETH and closed it today at $2,421.6 per ETH, capturing gains over the two-month period.

According to Standard Chartered's report released on Wednesday, the bank delayed its forecast for the stablecoin market reaching $2 trillion from 2028 to 2030. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital asset research, maintained the $2 trillion estimate but noted the market would require two additional years to reach the target. Stablecoin supply has remained in the $300-320 billion range over the past 12 months, currently at approximately $309 billion. Despite supply growth stalling,

According to Jim Swartz, Chevron's General Manager for Nigeria and Central Africa, the company's offshore Aseng natural gas project in Equatorial Guinea is expected to deliver first gas in 2028. Swartz told reporters at an energy conference in Cape Town that Chevron made a final investment decision on the $690 million project earlier this year and expressed satisfaction with project progress.

According to FinanceFeeds, DriveWealth is integrating Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin this week to fund collateral accounts outside traditional banking hours, initially launching the service in Europe with plans to expand to the United States. The Brokerage-as-a-Service provider will use RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for near-real-time cash conversion, allowing clients to avoid delays from conventional bank wires. The companies are also exploring equity financing through Ripple Prime's Delta One business, w

According to Bloomberg, Brooklyn prosecutors dismantled a transnational cryptocurrency fraud network centered in Eastern Europe on October 14. The operation shut down 241 websites related to crypto fraud and seized 112 servers controlled by the network. The scheme defrauded American victims of tens of millions of dollars over several years.

According to Osmosis official announcement, the community has initiated a proposal to terminate OSMO inflation on October 20. The proposal aims to stop daily minting of new OSMO tokens, with staking rewards derived entirely from protocol revenue. At the current burn rate, approximately 2% of OSMO supply will be destroyed annually without new issuance to offset it. The proposal will also suspend daily developer vesting, with approximately 51.9 million OSMO remaining in the vesting module subject

According to CoinMarketCap, top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap showed mixed performance today (October 14), with Venice Token (VVV) leading gainers at +3.79% to $22.61, followed by Monero (XMR) up 3.74% to $549.81 and Pyth Network (PYTH) up 2.39% to $0.08195. Starknet (STRK) was among the biggest losers, down 9.65% to $0.07829, followed by Canton (CC) down 9.33% to $0.1173 and KuCoin Token (KCS) down 8.52% to $7.24.

According to Sentient, the company launched an open benchmark to verify AI model provenance by embedding up to 24,576 fingerprints per model. The benchmark enables researchers to test whether AI models can prove their origin. Sentient has actively attempted to crack the model fingerprints, including its own system, to validate robustness before opening the benchmark to the research community.

According to its official X account, Manus announced the launch of Manus for Business, comprising Manus for Teams and Enterprise editions. The company stated that team workflows are undergoing fundamental transformation, with product managers and marketing teams becoming truly AI-native, and aims to embed accumulated experience into the product. Specific details including pricing, feature differentiation, availability regions, and launch timing were not disclosed.

According to Chainalysis' latest report, AI agents have completed over 138 million cryptocurrency transactions through the x402 payment protocol on the Base blockchain, purchasing data, computing power, and access to AI models. Among geographically identifiable AI model inference payments, wallets associated with the U.S. represent 88.1% of transactions, while those linked to China account for just 0.1%. Chainalysis research director Eric Jardine noted that one possible explanation is Chinese de