Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

CoinDesk reports:IT Home, October 15: OpenCode has just announced that DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available for free, with a tested context window of 200K, down from the 1M context window version.This free access is an additional step built upon the earlier "Operation Cheepseek" initiative. In Septe

CoinDesk reports:On Thursday, TSMC announced its third-quarter earnings. Driven by sustained global demand for AI chips, the company reported record quarterly profits, surpassing market expectations.Here is TSMC's third-quarter earnings report, compared to the LSEG Smart Consensus estimate (which we

CoinDesk reports:IT Home, October 15: Apple's Executive Chairman Tim Cook confirmed today during an interview with The Paper, Jiemian News, and other media in Shanghai that Apple Intelligence, along with Alibaba's Qwen large model, has received approval and will be released in a test version to user

Gold producers in BMO Capital Markets' coverage universe hold about $19.6 billion more cash than debt. Producers have their strongest balance sheets in two decades and are increasingly positioning for strategic acquisitions. Gold fell as much as 2% on Wednesday, touching $4,075 an ounce. The decline

Z.ai's flagship GLM-5.3 model may be sophisticated enough to fake compliance during safety tests, according to an Apollo Research report published Thursday. The model, launched in August, considered how its behaviour during safety evaluations might influence training of future versions, according to

According to ME News, on October 15 (UTC+8), multiple social media accounts used by Irish police appeared to have been hacked and used to promote cryptocurrencies.BBC reported that the @GardaTraffic account, with 600,000 followers, still claims to be the official account of Ireland’s national police

On the 15th of October, the crypto markets were hit by a $957.77 million wave of liquidations.Notably, long positions accounted for 91.7% of the total, reflecting widespread forced selling. Over the last 24 hours, $878.07 million in leveraged longs were wiped out amid concerns over hotter-than-expec

ChainCatcher report: Blockworks has released a report on the current state of crypto inference service providers, stating that global computing power investment is substantial, yet demand still exceeds supply. The market capitalization of liquid crypto AI is approximately $2.49 billion, below Crusoe

Australia's financial regulator proposed new standards for cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset custodians, setting out how companies must protect customer funds, execute trades and meet financial requirements under laws that take effect next year.The Australian Securities and Investments Comm

BlockBeats news: On October 15, according to DefiLlama data, Papertrade has generated a total revenue of $42.24 million since its launch six days ago, ranking second in daily protocol revenue across all networks, surpassing Circle and trailing only Tether. According to information from the Papertrad

According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), Jelitics, which previously loudly claimed it could accept all $SI tokens, sold half of its holdings at a loss today, offloading 21.38 million $SI tokens worth approximately $279,000. Its total investment in $SI amounted to $1.4 mil

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes urged traders on X to buy Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) rather than bet on an AI crash. Hayes paired the call with a chart showing CoreWeave's falling stock. Hayes said he would not bet on AI rising or falling. Instead, Hayes expects a multi-trillion-dollar bailout

Regulators signal banks are loosening digital asset limits, even as account closures persist across the industryNine major banks have been identified as restricting or blocking accounts connected to cryptocurrency activity, according to reporting on the matter. The practice has drawn renewed scrutin

Traders watch whether large holders will hold or trim positions added during the recent dip.Bitcoin dropped toward $80,000 after a hotter-than-expected consumer price index reading, BeInCrypto reported. The inflation data has reignited concerns about the pace of future interest rate cuts. Higher-tha

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that Blockworks’ latest report on the state of crypto inference service providers reveals massive global compute investments with demand still outstripping supply. The market capitalization of liquid crypto AI stands at approximately $2.49 billion, below Crusoe’s $3.09 bill