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According to ChainCatcher, on Thursday, Balaji Srinivasan's Network School acquired Farcaster from Neynar in the platform's second ownership change this year. Neynar co-founders Rish and Manan will depart, while the remaining team joins Network School to continue development. The platform will rebrand as Network State Protocol, aiming to build a network of voluntary digital societies with eventual physical-world presence. Users must accept or reject an on-chain 'social smart contract' to receive

The dollar index (DXY) fell 0.45% to 101.99 on Thursday, October 15, retreating from an 18-month high as investors shifted focus from stronger-than-expected U.S. inflation and consumer spending data to concerns over AI data center operators' bond sales. U.S. September producer prices rose at the fastest pace in four-and-a-half years, with both commodity and service costs increasing. Retail sales growth also exceeded expectations, though initial jobless claims ticked slightly higher, indicating r

In the past 30 minutes, KEEP surged 24.9% to $0.028122, representing a 15.79% increase over the past 24 hours. The token rose from $0.02251593 to $0.02812247 during the rapid upswing. KEEP's market cap currently stands at $21,776,177, with 24-hour trading volume reaching $4,150.16.

On Thursday (Oct 15), U.S. stock index futures closed higher during New York's final session. The S&P 500 futures rose 0.24%, Dow Jones futures gained 1.08%, and Nasdaq-100 futures fell 0.30%. Russell 2000 futures climbed 1.38%.

On October 15, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield fell 12.74 basis points to 5.0580% following the previous day's CPI data release. The 2-year Treasury yield declined 6.13 basis points to 4.7382%. Both contracts experienced sharp intraday swings following the release of U.S. PPI data.

According to ChainCatcher, Aave V4's Arc Markets introduced dollar and euro lending with shared liquidity on Sept 16, deploying four reserve assets. The Forex market allows borrowers to stake EURC, which is not an eligible collateral in Arc's Main market, enabling both markets to share the same liquidity source.

Ripple Prime has expanded its institutional derivatives offering with perpetual swaps referencing more than 100 traditional-market assets, including equities, indexes, ETFs, metals, energy and foreign exchange. Contracts reference perpetual futures listed by Trade.xyz on Hyperliquid, and eligible institutional clients can settle trades 24/7 using Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin as collateral. The over-the-counter swaps allow institutions to consolidate exposures across digital assets, FX and derivativ

According to KeyBanc analysts, Intel has reportedly secured foundry orders from six major clients including Apple, Nvidia, Broadcom, Google, AMD, and Microsoft, as of October 15. Apple's contracts are expected to involve multiple generations of A-series and M-series chips using the 14A process, with potential volumes around 600,000 wafers and estimated revenue of $15-20 billion, KeyBanc said. The announcement follows the analysts' Asia trip; specific contract terms and shipment timelines remain

According to ChangeNOW, on October 15, the platform resolved a website integration vulnerability discovered with help from independent security researchers. The company stated it has no evidence the vulnerability was exploited, but warned that customer email addresses and transaction details could potentially have been exposed. ChangeNOW emphasized its transaction infrastructure was not affected and customer funds were never at risk. In response, the platform is launching NOW AI, a dedicated sec

MSCI announced it will exclude non-operating companies from its global investable indices effective November 30, 2026. The exclusion will be determined through one core screening and five non-industry-specific financial ratio tests; securities triggering four or more of the five ratio thresholds will be ineligible for index inclusion. To reduce index turnover, MSCI implemented buffer arrangements for both inclusion and exclusion decisions. The company also said it will terminate temporary measur

According to sources, Anthropic's valuation expectations for its November IPO are being reconsidered downward following the AI company's latest financial disclosures. Investors at a San Francisco investor day on Wednesday discussed a valuation of approximately $1.5 trillion, down significantly from prior expectations of around $2 billion, amid concerns over rising AI development costs.

OpenAI recently launched the Rosalind academic program, providing free access to GPT-Rosalind for qualifying university research labs in the United States. Data generated through the program will not be used for model training. The program offers up to 30 free Business Standard seats per institution with a 12-month validity period. Initial Rosalind academic access does not include API permissions.

According to Citizen Lab research, at least 45 Al Jazeera devices were infected via targeted online advertisements during 2024-2025 without users needing to click or download. The campaign, dubbed "AdFection," involved Israeli ad company Discover-Tech and spyware vendor Candiru, allowing malicious code to execute upon ad load. Discover-Tech's ads appeared across approximately 200,000 websites and applications globally before the company was removed from major ad networks including Google.

MSCI Emerging Markets Index fell 3.1% to a record low since July, while South Korea's KOSPI index dropped 7.6%, marking the second bear market entry this year. The Emerging Markets FX index declined 0.3%.

According to Bloomberg data, US 10-year municipal bond yields fell 16 basis points to 3.74% on Thursday afternoon, marking the largest single-day decline in 18 months. The 30-year benchmark yield dropped 15 basis points to 4.97%, the biggest decline since April 2025. The rally came as traders shifted away from artificial intelligence-related equities, moving into safe-haven assets in line with the broader US Treasury market.

According to MSCI, the index provider will implement an immediate freeze on certain index-related changes for Turkish stock securities due to market integrity concerns. The freeze takes effect immediately and will remain in place until further notice. If the situation does not improve by June 2027, MSCI may reclassify Turkey's indices from emerging market status to frontier market or standalone market status.

According to VettaFi data, over the past three trading days, the $72 billion VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) attracted $430 million in inflows, with weekly flows on track to reach their highest level since early September. Investors have also poured approximately $3.8 billion into the 3x leveraged Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X ETF (SOXL), setting a single-week record despite the fund declining nearly 21% this week. The Semiconductor Index fell 12% over the past six trading days, wiping out

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Secretary Hegasse and UK Defence Secretary Streeting discussed the concept of NATO 3.0 on October 15. The proposal aims to rebalance power within the NATO alliance. Under NATO 3.0, the United States would reduce its military presence in Europe.

According to the U.S. Treasury Department, on October 15, a reopened 10-20 year Treasury buyback auction received $40.836 billion in bids against a $6 billion purchase target, achieving a bid-to-cover ratio of 6.80x. This marked the third consecutive time the auction reached its maximum target since Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's surprise expansion announcement in mid-August. Following the auction results, the 10-year Treasury yield declined approximately 1 basis point to around 5.09%.

According to Meta's press statement, the company on Thursday announced Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter AI model featuring a 1-million-token context window, developed in collaboration with Apple to enable on-device execution. The model is optimized with Apple's open-source MLX machine learning framework, allowing developers to run the frontier AI model entirely on Mac Studio hardware powered by dual M5 Ultra chips without relying on cloud infrastructure. Model weights are available via