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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
Global centralized exchange 24-hour net inflows: Binance and Gate lead.
According to data from Bijie.com, among global centralized exchanges, the top two platforms by 24-hour net inflow were Binance ($1.216 billion) and Gate ($37.17 million).
The global weekly AI large model API call rankings are out: StepFun's Step 5 enters the top three.
According to a report by Cailianshe on October 19, citing the latest data from OpenRouter, the total global AI large-model invocation volume last week (October 12–18) was 164 trillion tokens, down 4.65% week-on-week. Among this, China's AI large-model weekly invocation volume reached 79.18 trillion tokens, down 8.72% week-on-week, while the United States' AI large-model weekly invocation volume during the same period was 17.36 trillion tokens, down 8.49% week-on-week. China's large-model weekly invocation volume has exceeded that of the United States for 25 consecutive weeks, firmly ranking first globally. Last week, the top five in global invocation volume were all Chinese AI large models. Among them, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ranked first for two consecutive weeks, with a weekly invocation volume of 32.8 trillion tokens, down 20% week-on-week; Zhipu GLM 5.3 Flash ranked second, with a weekly invocation volume of 12.2 trillion tokens; and StepFun Step 5 Preview rose to third, with a weekly invocation volume of 11.5 trillion tokens, up 30% week-on-week.
BTC perpetual contract open interest totals 15.076 billion USD.
According to BiJie.com data: Under the statistical methodology of selected mainstream platforms, the total notional value of open positions in BTC USDT-margined perpetual contracts is 15.076 billion USD.
The number of declining stocks listed on the Nasdaq reported 3,902.
BiJie Network US stock market data: Nasdaq decliners for the day totaled 3,902 securities.
Michael Saylor: Bitcoin has returned to a bull market, and banks will accelerate the provision of custody services over the next 12 to 24 months.
According to data from Bijie.com: In a recent interview, Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy, stated that Bitcoin is returning to a bull market, and over the next 12 to 24 months, bank acceleration and securities tokenization will become important driving forces. He revealed that Strategy had previously repurchased approximately $1.5 billion worth of STRC in order to stabilize the STRC price, and currently holds cash reserves sufficient to cover about 3.5 years of dividends. Saylor also believes that in the future, there may emerge a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin pegged to the US dollar and offering an annualized yield of 6% to 8%, but he did not announce any specific issuance plans.
The long-to-short account ratio for SOL perpetual contracts is 2.57.
CoinWorld data: The SOLUSDT 4-hour long/short account ratio is 2.57, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.034; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.1891.
The long-to-short account ratio for ETH contracts is 3.4.
CoinWorld data: The ETHUSDT 4-hour long-short account ratio is 3.4, with more net long accounts than net short accounts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.3175; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.5245.
BTC/ETH/SOL 12-hour liquidation pain point update
CoinWorld data: BTC is currently priced at 82,466 USDT, with the downside long pain point at 80,345 (-2.57% from the current price, estimated strength 164 million USDT), and the upside short pain point at 82,753 (+0.35% from the current price, estimated strength 94.5478 million USDT); ETH is currently priced at 2,425.8 USDT, with the downside long pain point at 2,398.7 (-1.12% from the current price, estimated strength 38.7749 million USDT), and the upside short pain point at 2,435.1 (+0.38% from the current price, estimated strength 49.2028 million USDT); SOL is currently priced at 105 USDT, with the downside long pain point at 100 (-4.76% from the current price, estimated strength 12.9623 million USDT), and the upside short pain point at 106.2 (+1.14% from the current price, estimated strength 11.0362 million USDT). This data aggregates the strength at the same price levels from the public liquidation maps of Binance, OKX, and Bybit. It is not the actual account liquidation price, liquidations that have already occurred, whole-market statistics, or price predictions.
Deutsche Bank plans to expand its cryptocurrency custody services in Asia in 2027.
CoinWorld news: Deutsche Bank plans to expand its cryptocurrency custody services in Asia in 2027 and is about to launch related operations in Germany. The service will initially support Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the stablecoins USDC, EURC, and EURAU, with Deutsche Bank managing clients' wallets and private keys.