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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 VXN Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index stands at 27.13 points.
CoinWorld US stock market data: The VXN Nasdaq 100 Volatility Index closed at 27.13 points. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 6.29 points.
Bitget lists perpetual contracts for 8 popular Taiwan stocks, including TSMC and Delta Electronics.
Bitget announces the listing of perpetual contracts for 8 popular Taiwan stocks, including TSMC (twtsm), Delta Electronics (twdelta), ASE Technology Holding (twasx), and UMC (twumc). These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 364 stock contract underlying assets.
Rising expectations of Federal Reserve rate hikes and mounting inflationary pressure
On the dollar front, Barclays expects the Federal Reserve to raise rates by 25 basis points each in December and January next year, compared with its previous forecast of a December hike this year. Driven by overseas wars pushing up oil prices, prices in several areas in the United States, including airfares, delivery services and trucking, rose sharply last month. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said the U.S. energy crisis persists and inflation will slow once the war ends. On the euro front, European Central Bank President Lagarde pointed out that the bond selloff is dragging on economic growth and will curb inflation, stressing the importance of keeping public finances sound. On the yen front, Bank of Japan Governor Ueda said underlying inflation is "very close" to the price target, and that if policy rates are not adjusted in a timely manner, market concerns about the risk of inflation overshooting could push up long-term interest rates. Elsewhere, data from China's National Bureau of Statistics showed that GDP grew 4.6% year on year in the first three quarters of 2026.
Gate launches PAPERUSDT perpetual contract pre-market trading
According to CoinWorld news, Gate has announced the launch of pre-market trading for the PAPERUSDT perpetual contract, settled in USDT with support for 1-10x leverage. PAPER is the native token of Papertrade, a synthetic perpetual contract platform on Hyperevm.
Qubic hacked, $1.4 million in tokens frozen
CoinWorld data: The Qubic team announced that approximately 2.94 trillion QUC tokens (worth about $1.4 million) were stolen after hackers exploited a wallet security vulnerability, causing its Layer-1 blockchain to be suspended. Between October 17 and 18, the attackers targeted 1,404 wallets with insufficient randomness in generating recovery seeds, resulting in massive fund losses. Qubic stated that 87.1% of the stolen funds remain within the network, while the remaining 12.9% has been transferred to the MEXC exchange, which froze the receiving accounts within about an hour. The project has not yet announced when blockchain operations will resume and is awaiting a decision from network operators.
The total market capitalization of the crypto market stands at $2.77 trillion.
According to Bijie.com data, the total market capitalization of the crypto market is $2.77 trillion, with a trading volume of $62.246 billion over the past 24 hours.
Qubic network suspends service after attacker exploits weak wallet seeds, losing approximately $1.4 million.
CoinWorld news, according to Cointelegraph, the Qubic network has suspended services after an attacker exploited weak wallet seeds, resulting in the theft of approximately $1.4 million from more than 1,400 accounts.
BTC DVOL指数报38.77点
CoinWorld data: The latest reading of the BTC DVOL index is 38.77 points.
The VIX volatility index daily change is reported at 21.45%.
CoinWorld US stock data: The VIX volatility index rose 21.45% compared with the previous trading day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it was up 18.9527 percentage points.