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Jack Yi, founder of Liquid Capital, stated on Oct. 14 that Bitcoin had broken below the $81,000 support level and urged investors to identify attractive entry points for buying the dip. Yi made the comments on X following Bitcoin's recent price decline. Yi has previously advocated buying dips

According to data released by GMGN on October 8, the Solana Wallet Address tagged as belonging to frank, a Fomo platform user (account @frankdegods), generated $863,301 in Profit over 30 days, with a monthly return rate of 16.6%. During this period, it completed 702 buys and 736 sells, with total buy volume of $4.46 million and total sell volume of $6.06 million. GMGN Data: frank Wallet’s 30-Day and 7-Day On-Chain Performance According to GMGN data as of October 8, 2026, the frank wallet (Solana

Oh Nam-gyo, a partner at Samil Accounting Firm, raised concerns on October 14 about potential enforcement gaps in the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). Speaking at the Korean Tax Law Society's autumn conference held at the firm's office in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Oh warned that taxpayers seeking t

XRP (Ripple) stood at $1.48 as of October 14, while monthly ETF inflows fell from $121 million in September to $12.09 million, a decline of approximately 90%. Analyst Popeye posted on X that both election cycles overlapped with bear markets during Bitcoin halving cycles. In 2018, XRP fell to $0.32, a decline of approximately 43%; in 2022, it fell again to $0.31. XRP Midterm Election Historical Data: Both 2018 and 2022 Saw Declines of Over 30% According to TradingView data, XRP recorded declines

Korean banks saw household loan growth slow in September, with loans increasing 600 billion won compared to 3.5 trillion won in August, according to the Bank of Korea's financial market trends report released on the 15th. The deceleration was driven by a 2.3 trillion won decrease in other loans,

Vanguard Global Chief Economist Joe Davis stated that financial markets and the broader economy show resilience despite concerns over additional Federal Reserve rate hikes following the overnight US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data release. Davis noted that rates would need to exceed 5% to enter a ra

WEMIX announced on Oct. 14 that it had relaunched its bug bounty program in partnership with CertiK. The program now operates on the CertiK Hunt security platform, offering CertiK-approved security researchers a maximum bounty of $10k for discovering a single critical vulnerability in the WEMIX3.0 blockchain or its governance smart contracts. Bounties are denominated in USD and paid in USDT via the Ethereum network. Bounty Structure: Tiered Rewards for WEMIX3.0 Blockchain and Smart Contract Vuln

BingX EU (MEGE zweite GmbH) recently obtained a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA). The license enables BingX to offer regulated broker services across 29 countries in the European Economic Area (EEA), significantly broadening its

Japanese stocks opened sharply lower on the morning of October 15, with the Nikkei 225 index falling 2,147.15 points (3.17%) to 65,597.14 at 9:16 AM, according to Yonhap Infomax World Stock Index. The decline followed a sharp sell-off in US semiconductor stocks overnight after September US

SK Hynix's US subsidiary Solidigm requested US government approval on October 14 to expand semiconductor production at its Dalian, China plant by importing additional US-made equipment, proposing to link the approval to plans for a new NAND flash factory in the US, according to Reuters citing

Anthropic is counting down to its initial public offering (IPO), holding a closed-door investor day at its San Francisco headquarters on October 14 to disclose its third-quarter financial results to invited institutional investors: quarterly revenue reached $16.8 billion, up approximately 46% from $11.5 billion in the second quarter; adjusted profit turned positive for the first time, and quarterly cash flow was also positive. Q1–Q3 Totaled $33 Billion: More Than 500 Enterprise Customers Pay Ove

The Direxion Daily South Korea Bull 3X ETF (KORU) plunged more than 18% overnight late Wednesday as South Korea's benchmark KOSPI dipped below 6,000 intraday Wednesday for the first time since late July, driven by sharp declines in semiconductor giants Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The selloff w

On October 14, Netflix announced plans to cut approximately 6% of its workforce, affecting around 1,000 positions worldwide—the company’s largest round of layoffs since 2022. The cuts mainly affect the product, technology, legal, and human resources departments. In the first half of 2026, members worldwide watched a total of 97 billion hours of content, just 2% more than during the same period last year, while movie viewing hours fell 3.1%. Layoff Details: 6% of Employees Affected, Largest Round

In US Stock Market News, the S&P 500 fell 1.1% to 7,718.94 points on Wednesday, October 16, 2026 (4:00 PM ET / 1:30 AM IST next day), while the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.9% to end at 26,692.87 points, reflecting broad selling pressure across US equities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average

SOXL, a leveraged exchange-traded fund tracking the US semiconductor index threefold, plummeted 13.35% on October 14 local time in US Stock Market News activity, closing at $110.54. The sharp decline in the semiconductor-focused ETF followed a 4.30% drop in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index on th

Polygon Labs announced on October 15 that it had officially completed its acquisition of Coinme, enabling its stablecoin payment platform to exchange USD for digital assets, and vice versa, in a regulated manner across 48 U.S. states. The acquisition provided Polygon’s U.S. payments business with 37 money transmission licenses and exemptions in 11 states, covering the entire United States. The business is also registered with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network as a money services business.

An Ethereum whale closed a long position for a profit of $8.93 million after holding it for 56 days. The position, consisting of 20,000 ETH, was opened on August 19 and initially represented a $48.4 million investment. The whale's profit-taking occurred after the position reached a peak unrealized p

DeepSeek experienced a partial outage of its web and API services on October 15, affecting three components: the V4 Pro API, V4.1 Flash API, and chat service. The official status page was updated to “Identified,” indicating that the cause had been determined and fixes were being implemented, but the services remained completely unavailable, with no recovery time announced. DeepSeek October 15 Service Outage: Recovery Time Not Announced According to DeepSeek’s official status page, the services e

Asset manager VanEck Digital Assets filed a Form RW with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Oct. 14, withdrawing the S-1 registration statement for its Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. VanEck stated in the filing that it did not intend to proceed with the planned distribution of fund shares, but it did not provide a reason for the withdrawal or announce any alternative product. Withdrawal Details: S-1 Never Became Effective, No Securities Were Issued According to the Form RW withdrawa

According to a paper released on Oct. 14, researchers from the Data Science and Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University introduced two AI scientific research tools: SRHarness and MechBench. SRHarness achieved a 93.69% symbolic recovery rate on the LSR-Transform benchmark, even surpassing the combination of Codex and GPT-5.5. SRHarness Performance: LSR-Transform Reaches 93.69%, Remaining at 72.97% After Background Removal According to the paper’s