News Square
Global Crypto News · Real-time Aggregation
📚 Deep Analysis
More →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
A whale sold 12,500 ETH for a profit of $8.99 million and transferred funds to HyperLiquid to open a long position in crude oil.
According to Wu Blockchain, on-chain analyst Yu Jin reported that a whale sold 12,468 ETH at an average price of $2,368, making a profit of about $8.99 million. The whale had previously used leverage to buy the dip on $30 million worth of ETH at an average price of $1,647. The whale transferred $20 million of $29.52 million in USDC to HyperLiquid and has now opened a long position worth $22.4 million in crude oil and continues to add to it.
The Central Bank of Russia restricts USDT cross-border arbitrage fund transfers.
Bits Media reports that the Russian central bank and some commercial banks have begun restricting fund transfers involving USDT cross-border arbitrage. Such transactions typically involve purchasing USDT through crypto exchanges in CIS countries such as Belarus, then selling it domestically in Russia through offline exchangers for cash, profiting from the spread between cash and non-cash exchange rates, with single-round arbitrage returns reaching over 2%. The Russian central bank believes such transactions may be used to launder funds of unknown origin. Some banks have begun blocking transfers initiated by clients to Belarusian crypto exchanges after depositing cash. Under the digital asset regulatory law passed in Russia this year, starting July 1, 2027, direct peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions between individuals will be prohibited, and such transactions must be conducted through compliant service providers.
The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is at 55, placing it in the greed zone.
CoinWorld data: The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index latest reading is 55 (Greed), previous value 59, a decrease of 4 points from the previous value.
Bitcoin's realized volatility has dropped to 43% over the past year.
CoinWorld data: According to data from Grayscale and Bloomberg as of October 6, 2026, Bitcoin's realized volatility over the past year has dropped to 43%, below the average levels of 64% over the past 10 years and 81% over the past 5 years. Currently, Bitcoin's volatility is lower than that of 19% of the constituent stocks in the S&P 500 index, and its price fluctuation characteristics are close to those of stocks such as Oracle and Coinbase.
An unknown wallet transferred 82.3147 million XRP, worth approximately 107 million USD.
CoinWorld data: According to Whale Alert monitoring, 82,314,668 XRP (approximately $106,558,099) was transferred from an unknown wallet to an unknown new wallet.
Amazon launches open-source tool TorchNeuron, enabling PyTorch code to run on Trainium chips.
CoinWorld news, Amazon announced on October 19 the launch of an open-source tool called TorchNeuron, allowing PyTorch code written by developers to run natively on Amazon's self-developed Trainium chips with just a single configuration change and no rewriting required. TorchNeuron will be officially released on October 20 at the North America PyTorch Conference in San Jose, California. Amazon stated that TorchNeuron brings a truly viable option to the AI industry, enabling developers to freely switch between different chips without incurring additional costs.
BTC price is 0.46% below the 20-hour average price.
CoinWorld data: As of 08:00 Beijing time on 2026-10-20, the Binance BTC price is 81,938.4 USDT, 0.46% below the average price over the past 20 hours.
BTC saw a net capital inflow of 1,152.4523 BTC over the past 24 hours.
BiJie.com data: BTC saw inflows of 7,738.2628 BTC and outflows of 6,585.8105 BTC over the past 24 hours, for a net inflow of 1,152.4523 BTC. This figure comes from the rolling 24-hour calculation of the same BTC fund distribution interface, with the net amount calculated as inflows minus outflows. It does not represent exchange net inflows, on-chain exchange flows, or institutional fund flows, and should not be conflated with deposit and withdrawal data from any single exchange. Compared with the same-calculation snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 56.59%; compared with the same-calculation snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 8,951.03%.
The U.S. Blockchain Association submitted formal comments to the Treasury Department regarding the GENIUS Act.
CoinWorld news, the U.S. Blockchain Association submitted formal comments to the U.S. Department of the Treasury on October 19 regarding the implementation rules for Section 3 of the GENIUS Act, requesting clarification of the regulatory boundaries for digital asset service providers (DASPs) to ensure that self-hosted software, blockchain validators, DeFi liquidity providers, and institutions engaged solely in proprietary trading are not brought under regulation due to such activities. The association also opposed directly classifying ordinary market making, token distribution, and secondary market trading as participation in illegal stablecoin issuance, arguing that liability should be premised on actual knowledge and the provision of substantial assistance in coordination with issuers.