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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
The long-to-short account ratio for BTC contracts (October 20, 2026, 04:00) is 1.62.
CoinWorld data: The BTCUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 1.62, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it fell by 0.2117; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.1295.
Cboe launches pre-market trading for single-stock options, with first-day volume exceeding 16,000 contracts.
Cboe Global Markets Inc. has launched pre-market trading for single-stock options, with volume exceeding 16,000 contracts during the first trading session from 7:30 to 9:25 a.m. ET on Monday. The exchange said the most actively traded contracts were options on the Invesco QQQ Trust ETF and the iShares Russell 2000 ETF, followed by options on Tesla. The scale remains small compared with the roughly 71 million contracts traded daily in the U.S. stock options market. Henry Schwartz, vice president of market intelligence at Cboe, said the exchange wants to observe how volume and execution during the early session compare with a normal trading day.
Jordi Visser: Bitcoin's future valuation could reach $50 trillion.
Benzinga reports that macro investor Jordi Visser said Bitcoin could reach a valuation of $50 trillion in the future. He believes tokenization can unlock a larger global capital pool, and Bitcoin's recent resilience suggests investors may already view it as a safer place to park funds.
The 4-hour trading volume ratio of SOL contracts to spot is 6.43.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 full hours, SOLUSDT perpetual contract trading volume was 6.43 times spot trading volume. Compared with the same-metric snapshot 24 hours ago, it fell by 2.2753; compared with the same-metric snapshot 7 days ago, it fell by 3.3729.
The 4-hour trading volume ratio of ETH contracts to spot is 15.27.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 full hours, ETHUSDT perpetual contract trading volume was 15.27 times spot trading volume. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 2.764; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it fell by 2.6166.
Bitcoin short-term holders take profits, capital outflows fall back to annual average level
BiJie Network data: Recently, short-term Bitcoin holders took profits, causing capital outflows to fall back to the annual average level. The profit-taking behavior of short-term holders has put some pressure on Bitcoin's price, especially two weeks ago when they transferred the largest share of profitable tokens in a year to exchanges.
The 4-hour trading volume ratio of BTC contracts to spot is 7.35.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 complete hours, BTCUSDT perpetual contract trading volume was 7.35 times spot trading volume. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours earlier, it decreased by 2.8369; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days earlier, it decreased by 7.4533.
Solana's trading volume grew 104% in the third quarter.
CoinWorld data: Solana (SOL) processed 8.92 billion non-vote transactions in the third quarter of 2026, a 104% increase from 4.38 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko commented on this milestone: "Put cryptography into the computer." In addition, Solana processed 7.54 billion and 7.19 billion transactions in the first and second quarters of 2026, respectively, with third-quarter growth of about 24% quarter over quarter. According to Solana Compass data, the chain completed approximately 3.18 billion non-vote transactions in September, marking the third consecutive month of records. Despite the growth in transaction volume, this does not necessarily mean a corresponding increase in the number of users, as automated trading bots may account for a considerable share of on-chain activity.
New Bitcoin ETF filing offers downside protection
According to a report by JSeyff on CoinWorld, another Bitcoin ETF application has just been submitted. This ETF will be a "buffer" Bitcoin ETF, meaning it will provide downside protection, but investors will give up some upside potential in exchange for that protection. The ETF's ticker is $PBIT.