Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

According to PPP prediction market tool, an account (0x866056133a70de9282a080758858d1a0c8b393ed) purchased $41,000 worth of Vitality victory shares in the VALORANT Champions 2026 final against LOUD on October 18, at an opening price of 41 cents per share, acquiring 100,162.3 shares. The BO5 match be

According to crypto analyst Darkfost, Bitcoin's MVRV percentile fell below 30 on October 18 after being rejected near $87,000, entering a transition phase following market surrender. Darkfost explained that the MVRV metric compares Bitcoin's market value to its realized value, with the latter calcul

According to Bitcoin.com News, the European Union and eight countries—Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, and the United Kingdom—recently signed an additional protocol to the European Council's Warsaw Convention on money laundering and terrorist financing. The proto

According to China Central Television, the receiving-end converter station of the ultra-high-voltage DC transmission project connecting Gansu and Zhejiang has completed verification in Lin'an, Zhejiang, recently. This marks the first major component of the project's direct current system to pass ins

According to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, the organization's autumn annual meeting held in Bangkok yesterday (October 17) reached three core agreements. The discussions focused on global economic resilience, artificial intelligence development and its risks, and global economic diverg

On Sunday, Iran's President Pezeshkian urged parliament to approve Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi as defense minister. Pezeshkian stated that Iran's defensive power depends not only on missiles but also on public support and national unity.

According to ChainCatcher, on October 16, VerityAI secured investment from AURUMX Capital, which holds Hong Kong SFC licenses (4/9) and MSB qualification. The AI trust reputation network is developing on-chain verifiable reputation assets to evaluate contributor credibility in digital markets. Verit

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing whether Binance complied with its 2023 settlement agreement while investigating potential violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran, as confirmed by DOJ Criminal Division head Tysen Duva on October 9. The Manhattan federal prosecutor's o

According to AIsa's official statement released Friday, Tether and HIVEN have joined as strategic investors in the company's seed extension round, bringing AIsa's total funding to over $9 million. The new investors join existing backers including Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper

According to Russia's Saint Petersburg regional governor, Ukrainian drones attacked Saint Petersburg, resulting in 1 death and 5 injuries.

According to AP News and other foreign media, President Trump signed an executive order on October 17 suspending the implementation of Russia sanctions that Congress had passed. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a 60-day review period to assess the economic impact of the sanctions and tariffs

According to ECB President Christine Lagarde, in recent remarks, war is creating upward pressure on inflation, while economic growth faces downside risks. She emphasized that fiscal sustainability remains a critical pillar of overall economic stability, calling on governments to ensure fiscal measur

According to the People's Bank of China website, during the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings (October 14-16), PBoC Governor Pan Gongsheng met with central bank leaders from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Australia, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, and Georgia to exchange views on global economic conditi

According to BlockBeats, on October 18, Mark Newton, an analyst at Tom Lee's fund, recommended buying technology stocks on market dips while maintaining diversified exposure. The S&P 500 has declined approximately 6% recently, with the technology sector experiencing notable weakness over the past we

According to Yonhapinfomax, the Korean won fell to 1,328.90 against the U.S. dollar this week, reaching its lowest level in two years as foreign investors dumped stocks following a market downturn and tech sector selloff. The currency decline was partially offset by strong export hedging flows from

According to the Financial Times, as of October 18, Russian shadow tankers in the Black Sea are employing coordinated positioning system deception to hide navigation tracks and protect vessels from attacks. At least 12 sanctioned oil tankers appear to use identical equipment, transmitting false and

According to ChainCatcher, citing data platform Liquid247.xyz, Hyperliquid address 0xecb63c...2b00 currently holds 10,046.13 ETH short positions with a notional value of $24,232,300. At the time of reporting, ETH was trading at $2,412.10.

According to Coinglass data cited by PANews, over the past seven days ending October 18, centralized exchanges recorded net inflows of 8,237.43 BTC. Binance led with 6,463.61 BTC inflows, while OKX received 2,089.15 BTC. Coinbase Pro saw outflows of 1,399.39 BTC during the same period.

According to Odaily, DeepSeek today launched its new large language model version V4.1 Flash-1017. The model reduces Token consumption by over 50% across most scenarios compared to the previous version through optimized compression and adaptive decoding strategies. DeepSeek maintained the original A

NVIDIA launched RTX Spark laptops globally on October 16, featuring the Nemotron 3.5 Bolt model compressed from its original 148GB to 22.1GB, a reduction of 85 percent. The 74-billion-parameter model enables local AI agent deployment on devices with up to 128GB unified memory, allowing file operatio