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In brief J.P. Morgan Asset Management projected a 10% compound annual return for Bitcoin over 10 to 15 years, its first long-term forecast for the asset. That tops its forecasts for U.S. large-cap stocks (7.5%) and gold (5.5%), but comes with 55% annualized volatility. The firm left Bitcoin out of its main portfolio models, citing volatility and unstable correlations, and called the currency debasement bull case “wide of the mark.” Bitcoin just earned a spot in one of Wall Street’s most closely watched return forecasts, and it landed at the top of the table.J.P. Morgan Asset Management projected a 10%…

In brief OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup whose AI agents track drug development programs, and will merge its team and platform into the Rosalind life sciences suite. Terms were not disclosed. Orchestra’s agents map how setbacks like a failed manufacturing batch ripple through a drug program and compare possible responses, while scientists keep the final decision. The deal follows Anthropic’s roughly $400 million purchase of Coefficient Bio in April, as rival AI labs race to own the workflow behind new medicines. OpenAI has bought Orchestra Bio, a San Francisco startup whose AI agents help drug companies keep sprawling development…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Attackers are exploiting a chain of Plex Media Server vulnerabilities to install unauthorised cryptocurrency miners and a Linux proxy backdoor on vulnerable systems. The latest cryptojacking warning comes from an unexpected direction: home and business media servers. Security researchers have observed attackers chaining multiple weaknesses in Plex Media Server to run software on machines they do not own. The technique, dubbed Plex2Shell, involves four vulnerabilities that can be combined to reach remote code execution under certain conditions. The attacks described this week installed an XMRig cryptocurrency…

In brief A developer used Claude Code to disable 25 Xiaomi packages on his parents’ TV, and his open-source cleanyourtv project now lists tested setups for 107 TV models from 37 brands. The tools use Android’s built-in debugging bridge to switch apps off rather than delete them, so a restore script can undo every change. TV makers earn money from ads and viewing data, a practice Texas challenged in December 2025 lawsuits against Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL. Smart TV owners are pointing AI agents at their living-room sets and ordering them to rip out the sponsored ads, the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Zakura has proposed assigning a separate viewing key to each Zcash swap made through NEAR Intents, reducing how much transaction history a future attacker might be able to link. Zcash’s privacy model is built around shielding transaction details, but cross-chain swaps introduce awkward points where information can become public. A new proposal from Zcash software developer Zakura focuses on one of those points: the refund addresses involved when shielded ZEC moves through NEAR Intents. A publicly visible address can be linked to a wallet’s viewing-key structure.…

JP Morgan Asset Management sees Bitcoin potentially reaching $215,000 within a decade, despite CEO Jamie Dimon’s longstanding criticism of the cryptocurrency.The Wall Street firm’s 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions, released Oct. 19, outlined three scenarios for Bitcoin’s performance over the next decade, ranging from a collapse toward $25,000 to a rally approaching $386,000.Its base case assumes BTC generates compound annual returns of 10%, implying a price of about $215,300 from the report’s $83,000 reference price.The bullish scenario projects annualized returns of 16.6%, taking Bitcoin toward $385,500, while the bearish case assumes yearly losses of 11.2%, reducing its value to roughly…

In brief Microsoft, Alphabet, Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald’s and Western Digital have objected to trading of their shares on OKXICE TSV, according to its Oct. 19 notice. That brings the total to 16 issuers, up from nine in the venue’s Oct. 15 notice, though neither notice explains their reasons. The updated notice also says the venue may offer stocks tokenized by the issuers themselves, not just by third parties. The corporate backlash against tokenized stocks is snowballing.Seven more companies, including Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs, have objected to having their shares traded on OKXICE TSV, according to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Technical documentation for the proposed LendingProtocolV1_1 amendment describes closed-ended vaults with defined subscription and redemption dates on the XRP Ledger. XRP Ledger developers have outlined a more structured approach to lending vaults, adding a design that would let some pools run for a fixed period rather than remain permanently open to deposits and withdrawals. The LendingProtocolV1_1 documentation introduces a VaultKind setting in the VaultCreate transaction. An open-ended vault remains the default, while a second value would identify a closed-ended vault with additional dates controlling when new…

In brief Zcash rose 8.5% in 24 hours to $1,215.85, the best performer among the largest tokens. Total crypto market cap climbed 1.68% to $2.78 trillion, while the Fear & Greed Index sits at a neutral 51. Oil near $110 a barrel and Treasury yields above 5% remain the main threat to the rebound. Crypto markets bounced on Tuesday, and Zcash led the rebound. The privacy coin rose 8.5% in 24 hours to $1,215.85, lifting its market capitalization to $20.57 billion.Bitcoin gained 1.57% to $83,195, and Ethereum climbed 2.90% to $2,463.35. Nearly every major crypto asset that isn’t a stablecoin…