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More →Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>said</a> Sunday it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund. On Monday, Elon Musk answered by promising one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year. “The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations,” Anthropic said. The company has already committed $200 million to studying that. Americans are uneasy about how fast AI is moving: an AP-NORC poll in late September found that 64% of U.S. adults say the technology is developing too fast, and 8% say too slow. Anthropic is preparing an IPO, meaning it would sell its shares to the public on the stock market, as soon as November at a reported valuation of around $2 trillion. At that price, 5% of the company would be worth about $100 billion on paper, though that is the value of the shares, not cash sitting in an account. The fund is set up as a wholly owned LLC rather than a nonprofit, which Anthropic says gives it room to switch between types of giving. The board can add another 2% of shares each time the company's value rises 50% above a baseline that has not been disclosed, and none of the fund's equity can be used for lobbying or political donations. The co-founders' pledge to donate 80% of their equity and a matching program for employee donations, and Anthropic says roughly 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the public good. The company has not said how the fund will be taxed or what it will disclose publicly, as a traditional charity must. Musk, never one to leave the spotlight to someone else, <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2112093799694372952?s=20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>pushed</a> for Universal High Income (as opposed to Universal Basic Income) writing on X that he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "This will be the first of many," he added. His first reply to Anthropic, recommending "giving the shares directly to the public" instead of routing them through a fund, came Sunday night, and the pledge for kids followed early Monday, less than a day after Anthropic's announcement. Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2112089556615123114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" rel="nofollow external noopener" target="_blank">October 19, 2026</a> With roughly 72 million children in the country, the pledge comes to about $10.5 billion at SpaceX's price of roughly $147 a share. That is just over 1% of the 6.42 billion shares Musk held as of June 30, p
Tesla partners with Alipay on in-car assistant project
Tesla and Alipay have officially signed a cooperation agreement for an in-vehicle assistant project, according to BiJie.com. Tesla China's in-car system plans to launch Alipay's in-vehicle assistant smart parking service, allowing owners to make quick and secure parking fee payments on the in-car screen through a subsequent software upgrade. Tesla said more convenience features for in-vehicle lifestyle scenarios are under development.
QQQ off-exchange short sale volume reported at 55.63%
CoinWorld US stock data: QQQ's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 55.63% of the total that day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, this is down 13.7193 percentage points.
DEX 24-hour trading volume stands at 7.284 billion USD.
CoinWorld data: Within the scope, DEX 24-hour trading volume was 7.284 billion USD, an increase of 2.56% compared with the previous statistical period under the same methodology. Among them, the DEX trading volumes of the five monitored public chains were: Ethereum 1.043 billion USD; Solana 1.611 billion USD; BSC 883 million USD; Base 807 million USD; Arbitrum 170 million USD.
US ETF options volume was 3,609,487 contracts.
CoinWorld US stock data: US ETF options volume was 3,609,487 contracts, of which 2,095,390 were calls and 1,514,097 were puts.
drift protocol攻击者将2.57万枚ETH存入Tornado Cash
According to Bijie news, after two months of silence, the Drift Protocol attacker has begun transferring the stolen funds to Tornado Cash. Over the past two hours, the attacker has deposited 25,700 ETH (worth approximately $61.56 million) into Tornado Cash and still holds 81,900 ETH (worth approximately $195 million).
The Dacheng Nasdaq 100 ETF will be suspended from trading on October 21.
According to CoinWorld news, Nasdaq 100 ETF Dacheng announced that the fund will be suspended from trading starting at market open on October 21, 2026, and will resume trading at 10:30 that day; redemption services will continue to be processed as usual during the suspension period.
SPY off-exchange short sale volume ratio reported at 45.43%
CoinWorld US stock data: SPY's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 45.43% of the total that day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it fell by 12.6851 percentage points.
Hourly snapshot of key U.S. stock market indicators
According to CoinWorld news, Yahoo Finance has released an hourly snapshot of key U.S. stock market indicators: the S&P 500 is currently at 7,690.73 points, up 0.41% from the previous close; the Nasdaq Composite is at 26,430.89 points, up 1.11% from the previous close; the Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 51,966.03 points, down 0.07% from the previous close; the Russell 2000 is at 2,728.30 points, up 0.25% from the previous close; the VIX fear index is at 18.64 points, up 1.08% from the previous close; and the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is 5.136%, up 0.75% from the previous close. These figures only describe the latest market performance and do not infer future direction.
BlackRock files for "buffered" Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $6.65 million in a single day
According to data from Bijie.com: BlackRock has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a Bitcoin ETF called "Buffer," which will limit investors' gains in exchange for downside protection. The ETF will trade under the ticker PBIT and aims to provide investors with upside exposure to the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) and similar Bitcoin assets while offering a certain degree of downside protection. The fund will not directly hold Bitcoin or Bitcoin ETFs; instead, it will cover costs by purchasing call options on IBIT and selling higher-priced call options. According to Bijie.com data: BlackRock's IBIT is the largest spot Bitcoin ETF, with assets under management of $66.37 billion, and it attracted $6.652 million in net inflows on Monday.