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<span class="">By <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold" href="/author/jose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jose Antonio Lanz</a></span></span></span> <span class="">Edited by <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold " href="/author/guillermo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guillermo Jimenez</a></span></span></span> <span class="whitespace-nowrap">Oct 17, 2026Oct 17, 2026</span> Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tokenmaxxing-as-a-weird-new-trend/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>estimated the tab</a> at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she <a href="https://wtop.com/news/2026/07/a-flex-in-corporate-america-ai-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-workplaces-look-to-cut-tech-spending/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>told the Associated Press</a> this summer, referring to Anthropic's high-end models. If you do the same thing, you're hiring Albert Einstein to calculate your change at a MacDonald’s. Every word you type into ChatGPT or Claude, and every word it writes back, is metered in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>tokens</a>, chunks of text that average about three-quarters of a word. On a $20 subscription that meter decides how fast you hit your usage limit. On the API, the pay-per-token access developers use to plug models into their own apps, it decides the bill. Here's Anthropic's current <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>price list</a>, per million tokens: Haiku's rate applies to prompts under 100,000 tokens; longer prompts cost five times as much. The top model costs 100 times more than the smallest, and OpenAI's <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>own lineup</a> runs the same spread, from $10 to $0.10 per million input tokens. Those per-token prices add up fast for the labs—and you: Anthropic's revenue run rate went from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$47 billion</a> by May, while OpenAI is fighting a <a href="https://decry
The VVIX volatility index stands at 109.91 points.
CoinWorld US stock data: The VVIX volatility index closed at 109.91 points. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours earlier, it was unchanged; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days earlier, it rose 25.03 points.
Circle pushes back on rival stablecoins, saying it keeps only 7 cents per dollar
Circle stated that it retains only 7 cents per dollar, pushing back against rival stablecoin allegations, saying competitors claim issuers retain too much money and make redemption costly. Circle reported revenue of approximately $1.4 billion in the first half of 2026, of which 59 cents went to partners and transaction costs, another 34 cents went to licenses, banking, liquidity, and compliance, leaving only 7 cents in profit. Circle also said every customer can redeem USDC for free and warned that competitors' models could lead to "a stablecoin that distributes everything but provides no funding." Competitor Open USD is backed by Coinbase, Stripe, and BlackRock, passing reserve income to participants after deducting fees. Notably, Coinbase is Circle's largest partner, while BlackRock manages the fund holding USDC reserves.
Leapmotor congratulates Debise on winning 6 individual race championships.
CoinWorld news: Leapmotor congratulates Debus on winning 6 individual race championships. Leapmotor posted on Weibo: Congratulations to Debus, the first European owner of the Leapmotor Lafa5, on winning 6 individual race championships, leading the field in the number of individual race victories this season!
Nine Wall Street firms decline OKXICE token.
Coin World data: Crypto News Flash reports that nine U.S.-listed companies, including Broadcom, Verizon, UnitedHealth Group, and CoreWeave, have used a new option granted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to refuse to include their shares in OKXICE, a tokenized stock platform jointly operated by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. The list appeared in an update announcement on October 15, less than a month after the SEC opened a legal path for round-the-clock blockchain trading of U.S. stocks. The move makes OKXICE the first real test of how much control listed companies have over trading in digital copies of their shares.
Strive CEO hints at increasing Bitcoin holdings.
According to CoinWorld news, Strive's CEO hinted that the company will increase its Bitcoin holdings, stating that "we are now stacking Bitcoin with double the momentum."
The proportion of active buy trades in SOL contracts over the past 4 hours was 51.5%.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 full hours, the taker buy share of SOLUSDT perpetual contract trades was 51.5%, while the taker sell share was 48.5%, with taker buying dominating. Compared with the same-methodology snapshot 24 hours earlier, it rose by 8.8735 percentage points; compared with the same-methodology snapshot 7 days earlier, it rose by 1.3436 percentage points.
Over the past 4 hours, active buy trades accounted for 52.46% of ETH futures trading volume.
CoinWorld data: Over the most recent 4 complete hours, the taker buy share of ETHUSDT perpetual contract trades was 52.46%, while the taker sell share was 47.54%, with taker buying prevailing. Compared with the same-methodology snapshot 24 hours earlier, it rose by 3.2054 percentage points; compared with the same-methodology snapshot 7 days earlier, it rose by 2.689 percentage points.
Strive announces it will purchase more Bitcoin, targeting holdings of 50,000 coins.
Crypto news outlet reports that Strive, with $3 billion in assets under management, has announced it will purchase more Bitcoin, targeting holdings of 50,000 BTC.
BTC saw a net capital inflow of 785.5749 BTC over the past 24 hours.
BiJie.com data: BTC saw inflows of 5,177.5314 BTC and outflows of 4,391.9565 BTC over the past 24 hours, for a net inflow of 785.5749 BTC. This figure comes from the rolling 24-hour basis 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/withdrawal data from any single exchange. Compared with the same-basis snapshot 24 hours ago, it is up 152.53%; compared with the same-basis snapshot 7 days ago, it is up 387.37%.