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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
QQQ off-exchange short sale volume reported at 71.26%
Coin World US stock data: QQQ's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 71.26% that day. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 1.9182 percentage points.
CryptoQuant: Bitcoin recovery requires sustained positive demand
CryptoQuant says that Bitcoin's recovery requires sustained positive spot demand, buyers absorbing BTC returning to exchanges, and accumulation spreading among holder cohorts.
DEX 24-hour trading volume reported at 6.776 billion USD.
According to BiJie.com data: within the period, DEX 24-hour trading volume reached 6.776 billion USD, an increase of 25.17% compared with the previous statistical period under the same methodology. Among them, the DEX trading volumes of the five monitored public chains were: Ethereum 706 million USD; Solana 1.566 billion USD; BSC 875 million USD; Base 773 million USD; Arbitrum 134 million USD.
Total cryptocurrency vault deposits have increased to over $10 billion.
According to data from Bijie.com: As reported by the Financial Times, total deposits in cryptocurrency vaults have grown from $4 billion at the beginning of last year to over $10 billion, with major depositors including fintech companies, digital asset treasury management institutions, and hedge funds.
Bitget adds 108 spot stocks including BYD ADRs, now supporting over 3,000 rTokens in total.
Bitget has announced the addition of 108 stock spot offerings, including BYD ADRs, bringing its cumulative support to over 3,000 rTokens. The newly listed rTokens include rtcehy (Tencent Holdings ADR), rbyddy (BYD ADR), rxiacy (Xiaomi Group ADR), and rvwagy (Volkswagen ADR). The Bitget platform now supports a total of 3,035 rTokens, all of which are issued by Bitget's licensed RWA protocol Reality and connected directly to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and the NYSE through a partnership with compliant broker Alpaca. Its features include: underlying assets backed by 1:1 reserves and held in custody by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed 1:1 in token form, support for synchronized mapping of corporate actions (such as stock splits and reverse splits), and holdings that can serve as joint margin for unified accounts and USDT-margined contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage their funds while holding global stock assets.
Bybit adjusts the collateral asset tiers for staking loans and Pay Later
Bybit has announced that it will adjust the collateral tier structure and corresponding conversion rates for certain assets under Staking Borrowing, UTA Lending, Institutional Lending, and Bybit Pay Later, in order to better reflect current market conditions and strengthen risk management. The adjustment will take effect on October 22, 2026 at 8:00 (UTC), and affected assets include 1inch, AAVE, ADA, BNB, and others. Bybit advises users to review their positions and take necessary action before the adjustment takes effect to ensure trading safety.
The XRP Ledger has activated a vulnerability fix upgrade, and the lending protocol requires 10 votes of support before it can go live.
Coin World news: XRP Ledger activated a bug-fix upgrade on Friday to patch the upcoming lending system. However, the lending protocol still needs 10 out of 29 votes to go live.
Changes in the relationship between Bitcoin miners and AI infrastructure financing
CoinWorld data: A 10xResearch report points out that over the past 12 months, Bitcoin miners' trading has been tied to CoreWeave's credit, with Oracle and CoreWeave shares each falling about 55%. During this period, Oracle's 2032 bonds lost 14 points, and CoreWeave's 2031 bonds lost 21 points. Although the latest selloff in CoreWeave bonds was rapid and severe, it is not a default story but rather a broader AI infrastructure financing problem. Since September 22, Oracle and CoreWeave have lost comparable equity value, while Bitcoin has fallen 5%. The report also notes that the share prices of tracked Bitcoin miners fell by between 28% and 53%, and MARA shares also dropped 45%. After miners shifted to AI hosting, the drivers of their share prices changed, and their correlation with Bitcoin has fallen to 0.29 since July. The report will explain when and why the link to Bitcoin broke, what miners are now trading on, why financing matters more than tenant quality, and at what credit level it is safe to buy.
Charles Schwab, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America restrict third-party AI agents from executing fund transfers.
Coin World news: Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster said the company has blocked multiple AI agents; external models can query balances and information through dedicated MCP servers but cannot execute fund transfers. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said third-party agents are not allowed to access the system, and agents using bank credentials are rejected. Bank of America also prohibits agents from executing fund transfers. In addition, Delta Air Lines stopped allowing users to book flights through agents, and Yelp only opens access to paid agent service providers. Amazon accused Muse of violating website rules, and XAI's Grok and OpenAI's Dots cannot operate properly on Amazon.