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Options market shows fear as traders pile into the $104,000–$108,000 Bitcoin puts expiring later this month. Bitcoin (BTC) traders are hedging heavily against further losses, with more than $1.15 billion in bearish options flooding the market in the past 24 hours, according to derivatives tracker Greeks.live. The data shows a sharp tilt toward downside protection, signaling that large players may be preparing for more volatility as BTC extends its slide through mid-October. Bracing for Impact In a post on X, Greeks.live noted that the options market was showing clear signs of fear. The activity is concentrated in shallow out-of-the-money…

Ant Group has entered the trillion-parameter AI model arena with Ling-1T, a newly open-sourced language model that the Chinese fintech giant positions as a breakthrough in balancing computational efficiency with advanced reasoning capabilities.The October 9 announcement marks a significant milestone for the Alipay operator, which has been rapidly building out its artificial intelligence infrastructure across multiple model architectures. The trillion-parameter AI model demonstrates competitive performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks, achieving 70.42% accuracy on the 2025 American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) benchmark—a standard used to evaluate AI systems’ problem-solving abilities.According to Ant Group’s technical specifications, Ling-1T maintains this performance level while consuming an…

OKX has strengthened its European footprint with Standard Chartered. OKX has announced the expansion of its partnership with Standard Chartered Bank into the European Economic Area (EEA), as it extended a collaboration that first began in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year. The move introduces OKX’s collateral mirroring programme to institutional clients across Europe, which allows users to hold their assets securely with Standard Chartered, a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB), while maintaining corresponding balances on OKX for trading purposes. The arrangement enables institutions to benefit from both bank-grade custody and direct access to digital asset markets, effectively…

Daylight, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project focused on creating a distributed solar energy grid, has raised $75 million to expand its network of solar coverage in the United States. Daylight offers solar power as a subscription-based service to customers, removing the high upfront cost of purchasing and installing panels and batteries, which can cost consumers over $30,000. The project’s testnet went live in 2024.The network generates revenue through its subscription-based energy service and by feeding excess energy back to the power grid. Customers share in the revenues by earning “sun points” for contributing to the decentralized solar grid, with…

Key points:Bitcoin’s recovery is facing selling at higher levels, indicating that the bears remain in control.Several altcoins have turned down from their overhead resistance levels, signaling selling on rallies.Bitcoin’s (BTC) recovery is facing selling on rallies, but a positive sign is that the bulls are trying to form a higher low near $109,500. Lower levels are attracting buyers as seen from the net inflows into US spot BTC and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Tuesday, following net outflows on Monday. According to SoSoValue data, BTC ETFs recorded $102.58 million in inflows while ETH ETFs attracted $236.22 million in net inflows.Even…

CEO of United Airline Scott Kirby speaks during the Semafor 2025 World Economy Summit at Conrad Washington on April 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said the federal government shutdown could hurt bookings if it continues.Despite the funding impasse, essential federal employees including Transportation Security Administration officers and air traffic controllers are required to work without pay. The shutdown started Oct. 1 as Congress failed to pass a funding bill.Speaking on an earnings call on Thursday, Kirby said the shutdown so far hasn’t impacted the carrier’s business.”I think that at least for…

Key takeaways:Rising demand for put options and miner BTC deposits highlights growing caution among traders despite price resilience near $108,000.Analysts at Bitwise argue that deep drops in market sentiment often precede rebounds, framing the correction as a “contrarian buying window”.Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $107,600 on Thursday, prompting traders to question whether Friday’s flash crash signaled the end of the bull run that peaked at an all-time high on Oct. 6. A warning signal in Bitcoin’s options market has put traders on edge, especially amid rising miner outflows, testing the strength of the $108,000 support level.Bitcoin 30-day options delta skew at…

Now that the bull run is dead, will Fed Chair Jerome Powell do further rate cuts? This crash proved two things : 1. Always DCA into bitcoin 2. Hold and assume it’s a lifetime investment Meanwhile, Powell signaled this week that the central bank could be nearing the end of its three-year effort to unwind the massive stimulus unleashed during the 2020 pandemic. Speaking before the National Association of Business Economics in Philadelphia, Powell said the Fed may soon conclude its balance-sheet reduction.” “We may approach that point in the coming months,” Powell said, noting that policymakers have adopted a…

A prototyping problem is emerging in today’s efforts to electrify everything. What works as a lab-bench mockup breaks in reality. Harnessing and safely storing energy at grid scale and in cars, trucks, and planes is a very hard problem that simplified models sometimes can’t touch. “In electrification, at its core, you have this combination of electromagnetic effects, heat transfer, and structural mechanics in a complicated interplay,” says Bjorn Sjodin, senior vice president of product management at the Stockholm-based software company COMSOL. COMSOL is an engineering R&D software company that seeks to simulate not just a single phenomenon—for instance, the electromagnetic…

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday, a smaller and significantly cheaper artificial intelligence model that matches the coding capabilities of systems that were considered cutting-edge just months ago, marking the latest salvo in an intensifying competition to dominate enterprise AI.The model costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens — roughly one-third the price of Anthropic's mid-sized Sonnet 4 model released in May, while operating more than twice as fast. In certain tasks, particularly operating computers autonomously, Haiku 4.5 actually surpasses its more expensive predecessor."Haiku 4.5 is a clear leap in performance and is now…