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<span class="">By <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold" href="/author/jose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jose Antonio Lanz</a></span></span></span> <span class="">Edited by <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold " href="/author/guillermo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guillermo Jimenez</a></span></span></span> <span class="whitespace-nowrap">Oct 17, 2026Oct 17, 2026</span> Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tokenmaxxing-as-a-weird-new-trend/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>estimated the tab</a> at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she <a href="https://wtop.com/news/2026/07/a-flex-in-corporate-america-ai-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-workplaces-look-to-cut-tech-spending/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>told the Associated Press</a> this summer, referring to Anthropic's high-end models. If you do the same thing, you're hiring Albert Einstein to calculate your change at a MacDonald’s. Every word you type into ChatGPT or Claude, and every word it writes back, is metered in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>tokens</a>, chunks of text that average about three-quarters of a word. On a $20 subscription that meter decides how fast you hit your usage limit. On the API, the pay-per-token access developers use to plug models into their own apps, it decides the bill. Here's Anthropic's current <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>price list</a>, per million tokens: Haiku's rate applies to prompts under 100,000 tokens; longer prompts cost five times as much. The top model costs 100 times more than the smallest, and OpenAI's <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>own lineup</a> runs the same spread, from $10 to $0.10 per million input tokens. Those per-token prices add up fast for the labs—and you: Anthropic's revenue run rate went from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$47 billion</a> by May, while OpenAI is fighting a <a href="https://decry
The XRP Ledger has activated a vulnerability fix upgrade, and the lending protocol requires 10 votes of support before it can go live.
Coin World news: XRP Ledger activated a bug-fix upgrade on Friday to patch the upcoming lending system. However, the lending protocol still needs 10 out of 29 votes to go live.
Changes in the relationship between Bitcoin miners and AI infrastructure financing
CoinWorld data: A 10xResearch report points out that over the past 12 months, Bitcoin miners' trading has been tied to CoreWeave's credit, with Oracle and CoreWeave shares each falling about 55%. During this period, Oracle's 2032 bonds lost 14 points, and CoreWeave's 2031 bonds lost 21 points. Although the latest selloff in CoreWeave bonds was rapid and severe, it is not a default story but rather a broader AI infrastructure financing problem. Since September 22, Oracle and CoreWeave have lost comparable equity value, while Bitcoin has fallen 5%. The report also notes that the share prices of tracked Bitcoin miners fell by between 28% and 53%, and MARA shares also dropped 45%. After miners shifted to AI hosting, the drivers of their share prices changed, and their correlation with Bitcoin has fallen to 0.29 since July. The report will explain when and why the link to Bitcoin broke, what miners are now trading on, why financing matters more than tenant quality, and at what credit level it is safe to buy.
Charles Schwab, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America restrict third-party AI agents from executing fund transfers.
Coin World news: Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said the company has blocked multiple AI agents; external models can query balances and information through dedicated MCP servers but cannot execute fund transfers. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said third-party agents are not allowed to access the system, and agents using bank credentials are rejected. Bank of America also prohibits agents from executing fund transfers. In addition, Delta Air Lines stopped allowing users to book flights through agents, and Yelp only opens access to paid agent service providers. Amazon accused Muse of violating website rules, and XAI's Grok and OpenAI's Dots cannot operate properly on Amazon.
SPY off-exchange short sale volume ratio reported at 56.74%
CoinWorld US stock data: SPY's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 56.74% of the total that day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days earlier, it fell by 1.3691 percentage points.
Revolut's crypto entity has obtained a Gibraltar DLT license.
Revolut's crypto entity Revolut Global Digital Assets Limited has obtained a distributed ledger technology (DLT) license issued by Gibraltar, which will support the expansion of its international cryptocurrency business. Currently, Revolut has more than 80 million retail customers, of whom 16 million are cryptocurrency users.
Analyst: Galxe reminds users to complete G staking unbonding and withdrawal before October 26.
CoinWorld news: Galxe reminds users to complete G staking unbonding and withdrawal before October 26, 2026. Galxe stated that the Gravity Alpha mainnet has been taken offline, and core services have migrated to the Gravity Layer 1 (L1) network. Since staking unbonding and fund withdrawal require a 7-day waiting period, users holding G token stakes or Smart Savings balances need to complete their operations before 11:00 (UTC+8) on October 26, 2026. At that time, the G staking page will be taken offline. Smart Savings users who have not manually withdrawn or migrated their funds before the deadline will have their remaining assets automatically transferred to Smart Balance and will be unable to withdraw them.
Nasdaq ETF Huaan will be suspended from trading on October 20.
BiJie Network News: Nasdaq ETF Huaan announced that it will suspend trading from the market open on October 20, 2026, and resume trading at 10:30 the same day. Redemption services for the fund will continue as normal during the suspension period.
initia提议将USDC.n迁移至Injective的USDC.inj
CoinWorld news: Initia has put forward a governance proposal. Because Circle will gradually end its support for USDC on Noble, Initia plans to migrate the current Noble-based USDC.n to native USDC on Injective (USDC.inj). The proposal intends to establish a USDC.inj redemption pool so that USDC.n holders on Initia L1 and Rollups can, in the future, exchange their holdings for USDC.inj at any time at a 1:1 ratio, without requiring users to take action before Noble stops its support.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Step up efforts to advance the development of the AI industry and empower the manufacturing sector.
According to a news release from Bijie.com, Wei Wei, Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated at a press conference on October 19 that China's core artificial intelligence industry is expected to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan in scale by 2025. To promote the upgrading of commodity consumption, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will step up efforts to advance the development of the artificial intelligence industry, focusing on strengthening technology supply, accelerating product renewal, and facilitating the connection between production and sales. Specific measures include tackling key technologies through channels such as the "open competition mechanism to select the best candidates," promoting the popularity of AI computers, smartphones, and other products, and cultivating high-quality artificial intelligence application service providers to facilitate the market circulation of smart products.