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In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $137.9 million on Friday but ended the week up about $301 million, snapping a two-week losing streak. The funds remain down about $314 million for October, while Ethereum ETFs are down roughly $1.18 billion for the month. Bitcoin slipped 1.1% to about $80,490, and Myriad traders raised the odds of a drop to $77,500 this month to 43%. Bitcoin ETFs ended a choppy week in the green, but only just.U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $137.9 million on Friday, according to Decrypt’s ETF tracker, their second straight day of outflows. The two-day slide totaled…

In brief Prosecutors in Tianjin have applied to confiscate 61,896 BTC and other assets linked to Zhimin Qian, and a local court has accepted the case. Qian allegedly raised more than 40 billion yuan from the public between 2014 and 2017, leaving more than 102,000 investors with losses. The assets are held in the UK, where the High Court ruled this month that Chinese law should govern victims’ claims to the Bitcoin. Prosecutors in China have applied to confiscate the 61,896 BTC seized from Zhimin Qian in the UK, and a court in Tianjin has agreed to hear the case,…

In brief Read it. Trade it. All on Decrypt. Decrypt is partnering with Jupiter, Solana’s leading trading platform, to bring seamless, on-site trading directly to its readers. With Decrypt Money Accounts, users will be able to go from discovering an opportunity to trading it in seconds, without ever leaving Decrypt. One destination. Virtually every asset. Starting with crypto, Decrypt will expand to the full universe of Solana tokens, tokenized stocks, commodities and real-world assets (RWAs), bringing an ever-growing range of markets into a single experience. Trading is just the beginning. The partnership will encompass additional Jupiter products including Earn, as…

In brief Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts—often logging in with the customer’s own credentials—with some taking actions that appear independent of user instructions, Axios reported.. Morgan Stanley is blocking outside agents while JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi restrict them; executives called the situation “horrifying.” Rather than banning AI outright, most banks are leaning toward read-only access. Some of the biggest U.S. banks have discovered an uninvited presence inside their customers’ accounts: autonomous AI agents logging in, sometimes with the customer’s own credentials, and occasionally taking actions that appear to go beyond what…

In brief Neoclouds are specialist cloud providers, such as CoreWeave and Nebius, that rent clusters of Nvidia GPUs to AI labs, startups and Big Tech firms. Many have crypto roots: CoreWeave started out mining Ethereum, and Bitcoin miners have signed AI hosting deals worth billions with Microsoft, Amazon and Anthropic. Neocloud shares sold off in October 2026 after Gartner predicted that more than 80% of providers will stop operating independently by 2030. Training and running modern AI models takes a huge amount of computing power, almost all of it from graphics processing units (GPUs). For most of the past decade,…

In brief Heatbit has unveiled Bitwater, a water heater element with 20 Bitcoin mining chips that screws into existing electric tanks in the U.S. and Canada. The element produces up to 34 TH/s on up to 600 watts, and the first batch costs $899 to preorder, with later batches priced at up to $1,299. Heatbit pitches it as a way to decentralize Bitcoin mining, saying homes use more electricity heating water than the whole Bitcoin network does. Heatbit, which makes space heaters with built-in Bitcoin miners, has unveiled a water heater element that mines Bitcoin while it heats water, the…

Firedancer, Jump Crypto’s independent validator software for Solana, requires researchers to burn 1 SOL to qualify for a bug bounty under terms effective Oct. 18. The burn is non-refundable even when a report identifies a real vulnerability that someone else submitted first.The change narrows the route to payment for later finders compared with Firedancer’s spring audit contest. In an Oct. 16 retrospective for Jump Crypto, Ishan Bhatt partly attributes the duplicate-report problem to the team’s own review delays: researchers kept finding bugs while earlier reports waited for action.The current terms generally award the first submission about the same issue or…

In brief Google revised its privacy policy, effective Oct. 16, to let content from Gmail, Drive and Google Photos personalize ads “unless you choose to make data from these services available to other Google services that support personalized ads.” The exception hinges on Personal Intelligence, which lets AI Mode and Gemini draw on connected apps; opting into those conveniences can now also feed ad targeting, though it’s off by default and advertisers don’t see the underlying content. Users can opt out via Connected Content apps settings. Google has carved out an exception to its long-standing promise not to use Gmail,…