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Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate owner of bitcoin BTC$115,224.33, appeared to miss out on capitalizing on last week’s market rout to purchase the dip in prices.According to Monday’s press release, the firm bought 220 BTC at an average price of $123,561. The company used the proceeds of selling its various preferred stocks (STRF, STRK, STRD), raising $27.3 million. That purchase price was well above the prices the largest crypto changed hands in the second half of the week. Bitcoin nosedived from above $123,000 on Thursday to as low as $103,000 on late Friday during one, if not the worst…

XRP fell about 15 percent intraday on Friday during the tariff scare tied to White House remarks, then recovered about 9 percent on Monday as risk appetite stabilized, providing a live read on how the token tracks Bitcoin in macro stress and relief.The Monday bounce saw Bitcoin up about 3.7 percent, Ethereum up about 9 percent, and Solana up about 8.2 percent, with XRP outpacing Bitcoin on the rebound. Friday’s selloff arrived alongside one of the largest derivatives liquidations this year, with about $19 billion in positions wiped out across crypto.XRP vs Bitcoin betaDaily price tables for Oct. 10 through…

Alvin Lang Oct 13, 2025 15:41 Explore how agentic primitives and context engineering can transform AI workflows into reliable engineering practices with GitHub Copilot CLI. In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving, the need for reliable and repeatable AI workflows is more crucial than ever. GitHub has introduced a comprehensive framework aimed at transforming AI experimentation into a systematic engineering practice, according to GitHub Blog. Framework for Reliable AI Workflows The framework is built on three core components: agentic primitives, context engineering, and markdown prompt engineering. These components work together…

Norwegian officials have reportedly launched an investigation into prediction platforms’ bets on 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado as potential espionage.According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the entity that assists the Nobel Committee in selecting the peace prize recipient, began investigating reports that bets on the prediction platform Polymarket surged in the hours before the announcement of Machado as the winner. Officials are reportedly still in the process of investigating whether someone “managed to steal information and made a lot of money from it,” according to the institute’s director, Kristian Berg Harpviken. Data from…

Market Recovery: XLM Leads with 6% Daily GainStellar’s XLM surged 6% over the past 24 hours, closing at $0.35 after weathering bouts of volatility. The asset traded within a $0.02 range between $0.33 and $0.35, briefly dipping to $0.34 before buyers regained control. The recovery underscores growing bullish sentiment across major crypto assets following October’s selloff.Institutional Buying SignalsThe final hour of trading showcased strong institutional accumulation. XLM opened at $0.35 before slipping to $0.34 by 13:29. In a sharp three-minute rally from 13:31 to 13:33, bulls propelled prices back to $0.35 on a surge of 15 million tokens traded —…

Binance has voluntarily announced compensation for users who incurred losses due to platform’s disruptions late Friday that triggered a significant price crash in wrapped beacon ether (wBETH), Binance Staked SOL (BNSOL), and Ethereum’s synthetic dollar USDe.”Due to significant market fluctuations over the past 16 hours and a substantial influx of users, some users have encountered issues with their transactions. I deeply apologize for this. If you have incurred losses attributable to Binance, please contact our customer service to register your case,” Yi He, co-founder and chief customer officer at Binance, said on X.He added that the exchange will review account…

In brief A new study shows LLMs can mimic human purchase intent by mapping free-text answers to Likert ratings through semantic similarity. Method achieved 90% of human test–retest reliability on 9,300 real survey responses. The study raises questions about bias, generalization, and how far “synthetic consumers” can stand in for real people. Forget focus groups: A new study found that large language models can forecast whether you want to buy something with striking accuracy, dramatically outperforming traditional marketing tools.Researchers at the University of Mannheim and ETH Zürich have found that large language models can replicate human purchase intent—the “How likely…

The Pentagon isn’t usually in the business of commodity speculation, but when national security is at stake, expect the old rules to bend. The Financial Times reports that the U.S. Defense Department has kicked off a $1 billion spree to stockpile critical minerals like rare earths.This includes everything from rare earths to strategic metals needed for electric vehicles, fighter jets, and semiconductors. The goal? Build domestic resilience. Break dependency on a Chinese supply chain that’s proven anything but dependable.​The move to procure up to $1 billion worth of critical minerals is part of a global stockpiling effort aimed at countering…

Key takeawaysSome altcoins, including Cosmos’s ATOM token, briefly fell near zero on Binance during Friday’s crypto market crash.The same altcoins held real market value on other centralized crypto exchanges.On Oct. 10, the cryptocurrency suffered its most severe downturn since the FTX collapse, with the total market capitalization dropping by approximately $850 billion within hours.Bitcoin (BTC) fell around 10–15%, from highs near $124,000 to lows of $105,000. However, altcoins fared far worse, especially those traded on Binance, with many plunging 99.99-100% in minutes.That includes tokens like Cosmos (ATOM), IoTeX (IOTX), and Enjin (ENJ), whose prices on Binance briefly hit zero. ATOM/USDT,…

Friday’s crypto sell-off was a fast, leverage-driven cascade that crushed altcoins while bitcoin held up comparatively better — and the next phase hinges on a handful of signals, according to Wiston Capital Founder Charlie Erith.In a Sunday post titled “Crypto Crumble,” Erith said the market excluding bitcoin, ether and stablecoins fell about 33% in roughly 25 minutes on Oct. 10 before bouncing to a loss of around 10.6%. He added that about $560 billion, or 13.1%, has been erased from total crypto market value since Oct. 6 and cited $18.7 billion in liquidations during the episode. He linked the immediate…