The global crypto market cap fell 1.1% to $2.87 trillion over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin traded at $82,847.56, down 0.8% on the day and 3.2% over the past week. Ethereum changed hands at $2,491.92, down 2.0% in 24 hours and 8.0% over seven days. BNB fell 1.4% to $740.52, down 5.4% weekly. XRP dropped 2.7% to $1.36, down 9.0% over the week. Solana fell 4.2% to $106.77, also down 11.5% over seven days. USDT and USDC both held close to their dollar peg.
Claudia led trending searches, up 66.5% to $0.01992. Crawlerpad followed, up 899.7% to $0.026338, and Bunker Mode fell 11.6% to $0.023181. Among top gainers, Crawlerpad topped the list at 899.7%, Identity.md 6900 climbed 98.9% to $0.021131, and Hood Sword Inu rose 81.3% to $0.09078.
BlackRock downgraded US equities from overweight to neutral while turning bullish on Treasuries, upgrading short-term bonds to overweight and long-term bonds from underweight to neutral.
The IMF raised its 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1% from 3.0%, crediting AI investment with cushioning energy price shocks, while projecting global inflation to rise to 4.7% before easing to 4.1% in 2027.
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team found that small AI models may need only a few months to achieve self-replication using cheap IoT devices without relying on data centers. In testing, a 9-billion-parameter model successfully set up inference services on 8 of 9 hardware categories, and a Gemma4-26B-A4B model ran distributed across 15 Android TV boxes costing roughly $55 each.
Crypto sectors fell broadly, with the RWA sector down 6.94% and the AI sector down 6.25%, according to SoSoValue data; Bitcoin briefly dipped toward $81,000 before recovering above $82,000, while Ethereum broke below $2,500.
STRK fell nearly 29% over 24 hours, with LIT, ENA, NEAR and W each down roughly 15%. Machi Big Brother’s $12.3 million in accumulated ETH long profits were nearly wiped out as his account fell to just $290,000, with a 3,500 ETH position facing liquidation risk below $2,393.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});SOL treasury company SkyAI confirmed it has sold roughly 1 million SOL, about 50% of its original holdings, with proceeds directed toward a cash tender offer to repurchase shares and warrants; on-chain data shows $175 million transferred out this month against an average purchase price of about $194, implying losses exceeding $160 million.
BitMine held 6,028,946 ETH as of October 11, representing 4.9% of total ETH supply and just 76,000 ETH short of its “5% Alchemy” target, with management saying purchases are essentially complete; annualized staking income could reach $400 million if fully staked.
