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<strong>[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, October 20th, 2026]</strong> <strong>The discretionary buyback represents close to 1% of circulating supply and precedes four planned product milestones culminating in Grvt 2.0.</strong> <a href="https://grvt.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>Grvt</a>, a self-custodial trading platform built on its own zero-knowledge (ZK) chain, announced that the Foundation’s token issuer has completed its first GRVT token buyback, purchasing and burning 1.1 million GRVT tokens on the open market. The transaction permanently removed close to 1% of GRVT’s circulating supply at the time of purchase. It marks the first of five milestones ahead of the planned launch of Grvt 2.0 at the end of November 2026. <strong>A Discretionary Buyback with On-Chain Verification</strong> The Foundation’s token issuer intends to conduct further buybacks on a monthly basis. Each transaction remains entirely at the issuer’s discretion, with no predetermined purchase amount or guaranteed schedule. Buybacks are executed through an independent execution partner, with purchased tokens transferred to a designated burn address and permanently removed from circulation. The transactions can be independently verified through the <a href="https://grvt.io/exchange/buybacks" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">>public buyback dashboard</a>, which records the number of tokens purchased and burned, the percentage of circulating supply represented, cumulative burns and on-chain transaction hashes. “The GRVT token is an important part of the ecosystem we are building,” said <strong>Hong, co-founder and CEO of Grvt</strong>. “We welcome the issuer’s buybacks as a demonstration of its long-term commitment to the ecosystem and community. Grvt is expanding its products and markets, and the issuer’s buybacks sit alongside that as a supportive mechanism aimed at reducing circulating token supply.” <strong>Grvt Outlines Four Product Milestones</strong> The announcement follows GRVT’s token generation event in July 2026 and precedes a series of planned launches. <strong>Grvt Earn, scheduled for the End of October,</strong> will introduce yield opportunities backed by tokenized assets, with target yields of up to 11%. Potential returns are expected to derive from underlying asset cash flows, including interest, premiums and invoice-related income. Asset-supplying partners will be announced at launch. Target yields are not guaranteed. <strong>Stable Funding Perps, scheduled for November,</strong> will introduce perpetual futures linked to commodities, stocks, foreign exchange and indices. The contracts are planned to carry zero trading fees and use once-daily funding. Grvt aims to list more than 1,000 markets by the end of December 2026. <strong>Yield as Margin, also scheduled for November,</strong> will allow eligible Grvt Earn balances to support trading positions while continuing to accrue yield, subject to applicable product terms
Anthropic Gives 5% of Itself to the Public. Musk Answers by Giving Away SpaceX Shares
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>said</a> Sunday it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund. On Monday, Elon Musk answered by promising one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year. “The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations,” Anthropic said. The company has already committed $200 million to studying that. Americans are uneasy about how fast AI is moving: an AP-NORC poll in late September found that 64% of U.S. adults say the technology is developing too fast, and 8% say too slow. Anthropic is preparing an IPO, meaning it would sell its shares to the public on the stock market, as soon as November at a reported valuation of around $2 trillion. At that price, 5% of the company would be worth about $100 billion on paper, though that is the value of the shares, not cash sitting in an account. The fund is set up as a wholly owned LLC rather than a nonprofit, which Anthropic says gives it room to switch between types of giving. The board can add another 2% of shares each time the company's value rises 50% above a baseline that has not been disclosed, and none of the fund's equity can be used for lobbying or political donations. The co-founders' pledge to donate 80% of their equity and a matching program for employee donations, and Anthropic says roughly 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the public good. The company has not said how the fund will be taxed or what it will disclose publicly, as a traditional charity must. Musk, never one to leave the spotlight to someone else, <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2112093799694372952?s=20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>pushed</a> for Universal High Income (as opposed to Universal Basic Income) writing on X that he will give one of his SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "This will be the first of many," he added. His first reply to Anthropic, recommending "giving the shares directly to the public" instead of routing them through a fund, came Sunday night, and the pledge for kids followed early Monday, less than a day after Anthropic's announcement. Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2112089556615123114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" rel="nofollow external noopener" target="_blank">October 19, 2026</a> With roughly 72 million children in the country, the pledge comes to about $10.5 billion at SpaceX's price of roughly $147 a share. That is just over 1% of the 6.42 billion shares Musk held as of June 30, p
CME Group launches Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, expanding crypto derivatives
Coin World News: CME Group announced that it is further expanding its crypto derivatives business by launching Bitcoin Cash (bitcoin-cash:native) and Uniswap ($UNI) futures. This move provides institutional investors with more regulated trading opportunities, including standard contracts and micro contracts. CME's crypto derivatives had already reached an average daily trading volume of $8.3 billion in the first half of 2026.
The S&P 500 Tail Risk Index stands at 161.86 points.
CoinWorld US stock data: The S&P 500 tail risk index closed at 161.86 points. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 6.8 points.
BTC liquidations over the past 24 hours totaled 34.9199 million USD.
CoinWorld data: BTC's rolling 24-hour liquidation amount is approximately $34.9199 million, involving about 2,762 liquidated accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it is down 43.17%; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it is down 79.93%.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange launches BCH and UNI futures.
CoinWorld data: CME Group has launched Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures, with FalconX and GSR completing the first block trade. CME Group's existing crypto asset futures product line now covers BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA, LINK, XLM, AVAX, SUI and other assets. So far in 2026, CME Group's cryptocurrency futures and options have averaged more than 242,000 contracts in daily trading volume, with a notional value of approximately $7.9 billion, while daily average open interest is close to 240,000 contracts, with a notional value of approximately $14.3 billion.
MrBeast's affiliated company has filed two financial trademarks covering services such as crypto trading.
According to CoinWorld news, two trademarks, mrbeast financial and beast financial, applied for by Beast Holdings, a company affiliated with YouTube creator MrBeast, received Notices of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 6. The applications cover services including cryptocurrency trading, DEXs, crypto payments, mobile banking, credit cards, and consumer lending, but the trademarks have not yet been formally registered, nor has a plan to launch a crypto exchange been confirmed. In January of this year, Ethereum treasury company Bitmine had already invested $200 million in MrBeast's Beast Industries, and the two parties previously stated they would explore integrating DeFi features into financial services platforms.
The long-to-short account ratio for BTC contracts was 1.81 as of 20:00 on October 20, 2026.
CoinWorld data: The BTCUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 1.81, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.365; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.6113.
Microsoft and six other publicly listed companies oppose OKXICE's tokenized stock trading.
Coin World news, according to Coindesk, seven listed companies including Microsoft, Alphabet (Google's parent company), and Goldman Sachs oppose the trading of tokenized versions of their shares on OKXICE, the joint venture platform between OKX and ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. According to an announcement updated by OKXICE on October 19, the newly added objectors also include Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald's, and Western Digital, bringing the total number of companies that have raised objections from 9 to 16. Previously, companies such as Broadcom, Verizon, and CoreWeave had also raised objections. OKXICE plans to launch round-the-clock tokenized stock trading under the U.S. SEC's "innovation exemption" framework, using stablecoin settlement and backing it 1:1 with actual shares. The framework allows issuers to object to the tokenized trading of their shares on specific platforms. The specific reasons for the companies' objections have not yet been disclosed.
Bitwise releases its 2026 Q4 staking report, with Ethereum staking volume hitting an all-time high.
BiJie Network data: Bitwise's 2026 Q4 staking report points out that Ethereum staking volume reached a record high of 43.8 million ETH, accounting for 35.9% of the total supply, growing for the sixth consecutive quarter. Meanwhile, Solana's staking volume was 69% of its supply, with total yield dropping from 6.38% to 5.99%; NEAR's staking volume was 46%, with a yield of 4.87%; Ethereum's yield dropped from 2.81% to 2.63%. The report also mentioned that tokenized stock trading volume on Solana reached 6.93 billion USD, up 45%, and the daily trading volume of stock tokens on Robinhood Chain grew 22-fold during the quarter.