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If the White House accord's audits are going to be worth anything, auditors should be able to choose what they test, writes Samuel Vance-Law, head of research at the Decentralization Research Center. Last week, six of the most powerful AI companies in the world promised the White House they would let outsiders check their work. On Sept. 29, Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and xAI signed an accord on the.

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Your day-ahead look for Oct. 16, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. While traders spent this week watching bitcoin BTC$82,513.33 gyrate above $80,000 amid key U.S. inflation data, a decision from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission got far less attention. The (SEC) approved the listing of binary options tied to key performance indicators (KPIs) of 23 U.S. publicly traded.

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The stablecoin issuer’s CEO Jerermy Allaire told Reuters demand for digital dollars is growing across Asia, Africa and Latin America as banks and payment firms. Circle CRCL, the company behind the world's second-largest stablecoin, USDC, plans to expand into about 50 emerging and developing markets as demand for digital dollars increases. CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters in an interview Friday that businesses and individuals across Southeast Asia, Latin America and.

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Nine crypto companies launched the Quantum Alliance to jointly prepare for quantum attacks, but they disagree on when the threat will arrive and whether vulnerable BTC should be frozen. Who gets Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1 million bitcoin, and, for that matter, millions more that are at risk if quantum computers become powerful enough to break the security protecting it, has been a topic of intense debate for quite some time. Christopher.

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Volume in Hyperliquid’s Tesla contract hit $47 million in one hour after Elon Musk’s flying Roadster demo, up from $2.8 million, with U.S. stocks closed. Traders rushed into Tesla-linked crypto markets overnight after Elon Musk unveiled a flying version of the Roadster, with trading on Hyperliquid jumping while U.S. stock markets were closed. The surge shows how crypto exchanges that never close are becoming the first place investors react to.

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Celestia jumped 16%, injective rose 7.7% and layerzero added 7.3% while bitcoin held little changed near $82,100 and Fed Chair Warsh gave no sign on interest rates. Bitcoin BTC$82,071.33 was little changed since midnight UTC, trading around $82,100 after bouncing from a dip to about $81,600 at around 03:30 UTC. It’s comfortably above Thursday’s brief break below $80,000, its first in a month. Altcoins edged ahead, with ether ETH$2,465.25 adding.