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Moebius

Friday, October 16, 2026

Hermes

Hermes Agent v0.22.2: the patch that reopens the front door

Nous ships patch v0.22.2, opens an official plugin catalogue and measures Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on Hermes Bench: 63.44.
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Crypto

The 80,000-dollar wall

Bitcoin slips below 80,000 dollars on the Asian wave, MSCI tightens its index rules and stablecoins move into bank payments.

Venice.ai

Venice’s week of frontier models

Venice brings Muse Wonder, Gemini 4 Argon and Hy4 Preview onto its platform, adds private video and watches VVV climb back above 24 dollars.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Crypto

Europe tightens the ring: MiCA moves from rule to enforcement

The EBA labels USDC the first «significant» token, The Hague authorises Qivalis and Paris proposes a tax on stablecoin swaps.
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Hermes

The Hermes threshold: the agent that configures itself by talking

Hermes Agent v0.22 «The Threshold Release» introduces itself in chat and cuts a third of the codebase; the patch v0.22.1 lands the next day.

Venice.ai

Venice and frontier models: anonymous, not invisible

Venice brings Gemini 4 Argon and the whole Claude family onto its own API at list price, while VVV burns keep squeezing the supply.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Crypto

Crypto walks onto the balance sheet: from bitcoin at $84,000 to tokenized collateral

Bitcoin climbs back toward $84,000 while in Brussels and on Wall Street crypto moves into the rulebooks and into traditional financial plumbing.
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Venice.ai

Price down, usage up: Venice’s paradox in week 41

VVV loses 17% in a week while burns and subscriptions hit new highs: usage and price have come unstuck.

Hermes

The plugin as interface: the Hermes ecosystem grows at the edges of the core

Hermes Agent v0.21.7 consolidates the core, while the official catalog and community plugins become the real ground for growth.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Crypto

Bitcoin walks into banks and rulebooks: when regulation chases the market

A South Korean bank lends against bitcoin, the CFTC opens a rulemaking on leveraged trading and ESMA tightens the screws on non-compliant stablecoins.
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Hermes

Hermes: the ecosystem grows at the edges — connectors, skills and community projects

While v0.21.7 consolidates the stable releases, the Hermes ecosystem grows from the ground up: multi-account connectors, the Anatomy skill and projects such as Herald OS.

Venice.ai

Venice puts privacy first while large holders lighten up

Venice pushes privacy as a product and lays the staking exit queue out in the open, while a whale moves VVV to Coinbase.