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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
South Korea launches 2 trillion won in trade financing to support SK Hynix supply chain companies.
According to a report by Bihaiwang, the South Korean government, together with SK Hynix and the four major commercial banks, launched a symbiotic trade finance program worth 2 trillion Korean won, aimed at reducing financing costs for semiconductor suppliers and promoting expansion investment by small and medium-sized enterprises. The signing ceremony for the project was held on the 19th at the SK Hynix semiconductor industry cluster in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, with Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Kim Jung-kwan in attendance. The South Korean government plans to expand the total scale of symbiotic trade finance in the semiconductor sector to at least 5 trillion Korean won, continuously increasing financial support for suppliers and promoting the transmission of industry benefits from large chipmakers to small and medium-sized enterprises. After this signing, the total scale of symbiotic trade finance across all industries, including semiconductors, has reached 4.4 trillion Korean won, covering sectors such as automobiles, shipbuilding, and steel. The South Korean government also plans to expand the program to the defense, nuclear power, and biotechnology fields, striving to reach an overall scale of 10 trillion Korean won this year.
BTC liquidations totaled $65.8335 million over the past 24 hours.
According to BiJie.com data: BTC's rolling 24-hour liquidation amount is approximately 65.8335 million USD, involving about 4,043 liquidated accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 128.28%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 35%.
JPMorgan brings its deposit token JPM Coin to Ethereum
JPMorgan has announced that it is bringing its deposit token JPM Coin to Ethereum to serve institutional clients. The move marks a further expansion by JPMorgan in the crypto space, aimed at serving institutional clients.
PopDEX opens its public beta, with a prize pool of 150,000 USDT on the first day.
CoinWorld news: popdex has announced the opening of its public beta, allowing users to trade without an invitation code, and has launched an on-chain trading lottery mechanism called megapop. The first-day prize pool is funded by the official team with 150,000 USDT, and will subsequently be continuously injected with 40% of the platform's net trading fees. Undrawn prizes roll over weekly, and rewards are paid out in stablecoins. The draw results are generated based on public Bitcoin block data. popdex was incubated by Foresight Ventures, which also invested $30 million. It adopts a fully on-chain CLOB order book and supports unified accounts and multi-asset trading.
The IoTeX mainnet has completed the Zanzibar hard fork, and staking rewards are now distributed on-chain.
According to CoinWorld news, the IoTeX mainnet has completed the Zanzibar hard fork. Under proposal IIP-59, staking rewards for voters will be calculated and distributed directly on-chain by the protocol in each reward cycle, without the need for off-chain services or intermediaries, and anyone can verify each payment directly from the chain. The first on-chain distribution will take place tomorrow. Zanzibar strengthens the consensus mechanism through proof-of-possession checks on delegated keys, preparing for subsequent BLS signature aggregation.
mgbx will list the DENAUSDT perpetual contract.
According to CoinWorld news, mgbx will officially launch the DNAUSDT perpetual contract trading pair at 18:00 SGT on October 19, 2026, to meet the needs of a broad range of traders. Trading will open at 18:00 on October 19, 2026, and the trading pair details are DNA/USDT.
Five major events this week could affect Bitcoin's price.
CoinWorld data: CryptoNews reports that Bitcoin is trading near $82,500 this week, with five U.S. economic and corporate developments set to draw attention, especially ahead of the Federal Reserve's next interest rate decision. According to CoinWorld data: Bitcoin is currently trading at about $82,800, up 1% over the past 24 hours, but still down about 1.1% over the past week. Key events this week include: 1. September pending home sales data (Tuesday) 2. SpaceX reports earnings (Tuesday) 3. Tesla and Meta report earnings (Wednesday) 4. Initial jobless claims data (Thursday) 5. October consumer confidence data (Friday). Tesla and Meta's earnings will focus on AI infrastructure spending versus revenue growth.
Mirae Asset Securities plans to launch tokenized products in the first quarter of 2027.
Mirae Asset Securities plans to launch tokenized products in the first quarter of 2027, with the first batch of products including tokenized money market funds and private bonds.
JPMorgan strategists: Stabilizing bond yields will support the stock market
JPMorgan strategists led by Mislav Matejka said that if bond yields continue to stabilize, it would provide substantial support for the stock market. They noted that the end of the bond selloff would help make the stock market cycle look more sustainable, ease pressure on AI financing and consumer finances, and curb the trend of P/E compression. The strategists expect the third-quarter earnings season to be reassuring, with most companies so far beating expectations and raising their outlooks. Even for mixed results, share price reactions have not been overly negative, especially in Europe.