Bitcoin (BTC) Hash Rate Reaches Highest Level Since May 29
The seven-day average reached 1,031.61 EH/s on Oct. 17, while miners held 1,192,622 BTC, up 379 BTC for the week. Daily issuance value was slightly below its 365-day average.
Day: October 18, 2026
The crypto privacy rule Trump’s Treasury proposed, and Trump’s Treasury buried
On Dec. 18, 2020, with Christmas a week away and Donald Trump preparing to leave the White House, Steven Mnuchin’s Treasury Department announced a plan that would require crypto exchanges and other financial institutions to collect more information about transactions involving wallets people controlled themselves. The public was given just 15 days to comment, with… […]
Banks Outline RLUSD Services as Ripple Adds Swaps and XRP Falls to $1.27
Standard Chartered announced an RLUSD custody service, and Cross River Bank outlined planned settlement support. Evernorth began Nasdaq trading under XRPN on Oct. 12.
Bitcoin and Ether Rates Were Neutral as Some Venues Show Bearish Readings
Weighted funding rates ranged from 0.0053% to 0.0057%, below the 0.01% bullish threshold and above the 0.005% bearish threshold.
S&P 500 Trades Above Fair-Value Range as AI Supports Stocks
The index’s current price-to-earnings multiple is 22.4, above the estimated fair-value range of 17.1 to 22.1.
Anthropic Employees Expect AI to Handle 75% of Their Work on Average by 2030
Employed U.S. respondents put AI’s expected capacity for their current work at 28% on average; 5% thought it could handle at least 80% of their jobs.
Bitcoin Price Prediction: Bitcoin Tracks Treasury Real Rates, Fidelity Finds
Bitcoin trades at $82,374 as Fidelity reports a record correlation with 10-year Treasury real rates. Key BTC levels, risks and catalysts. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Bitcoin Tracks Treasury Real Rates, Fidelity Finds appeared first on Cryptonews.
Anthropic staff expect AI to handle 75% of their work by 2030
The disparity in AI expectations highlights potential challenges in workforce adaptation, economic planning, and policy-making by 2030. The post Anthropic staff expect AI to handle 75% of their work by 2030 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Ripple and XRP Weekly Wrap: Institutional Wins, Nasdaq Debut, and Price Struggles
It was a packed week for Ripple and XRP, with Evernorth making its long-anticipated Nasdaq debut after a major merger, Standard Chartered and Cross River expanding RLUSD access, and Ripple Prime pushing further into Wall Street. None of those developments helped the company’s native asset mark any gains – just the opposite. Wall Street and […]
China Built a Battery Out of Iron That Could Last 16 Years, and Iron Costs 80 Times Less Than Lithium
Researchers at the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a redesigned electrolyte for an alkaline all-iron flow battery that ran for more than 6,000 charge-discharge cycles with no measurable capacity loss, roughly 16 years of daily use. The 2026 Advanced Energy Materials paper points to grid-scale stationary storage, with […]
