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Monday, October 12, 2026

Crypto

Bitcoin holds above 84,000 dollars as Europe tightens the screws

October 12, 2026 3 min
Bitcoin holds 84,000 dollars despite 681 million in ETF outflows, while ESMA and France tighten the rules on stablecoins.
#bitcoin #etf #esma #mica #stablecoin #france #xrp-ledger #cftc
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Hermes

Hermes Agent v0.21.7 and the switch to tagged releases: the project grows up

Hermes Agent ships v0.21.7 and moves to tagged releases: the open source project from Nous Research chooses stability.

Venice.ai

VVV drops 17% in a week but burns hit a record: the two faces of Venice

VVV closes the week down 17.3% while credit burns hit a new record: price and platform usage are diverging.

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Crypto

Europe tightens the rules on stablecoins, Asia opens the door to ETFs: regulation accelerates

October 11, 2026 3 min
ESMA gives three months to exit non-compliant stablecoins, Thailand opens up to Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, the CFTC clarifies the line between swaps and betting.
#mica #esma #stablecoin #etf #thailand #cftc #vitalik-buterin #xrp-ledger
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Hermes

Nous Research is worth $1.5 billion: Hermes leaves open source for the enterprise

Nous Research closes a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation and launches Hermes for Businesses, while trial models arrive on the platform.

Venice.ai

VVV lands on Solana as emissions collapse: Venice’s deflationary bet

The VVV token reaches Solana through Sunrise while annual emissions fall to 2 million and monthly burns hit new highs.

Philosophy of AI

Who decides who dies, and who answers for it

The UN human rights chief calls for a ban on machines deciding who lives. In Ukraine they are designing an army of robots. Who answers for it?

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Hermes

A 600-billion-parameter model free inside the agent: the week Hermes reckons with its own scale

October 10, 2026 3 min
Step 5 Preview free for a week on Nous Portal, the stable v0.21.6 release and the tools for governing many agents at once.
#hermes-agent #stepfun #step-5-preview #nous-portal #kanban #v0.21.6
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Crypto

Regulation becomes infrastructure: Thailand, ESMA and the SEC redraw the crypto perimeter

Thailand opens the door to bitcoin and ether ETFs, ESMA tightens the screws on non-compliant stablecoins, the SEC modernises the cross-trading rule and Ledger investigates a reseller.

Venice.ai

Venice bets on the agent: multi-step chat, cheap frontier models and a token that shrinks

Agentic Chat becomes Venice’s default experience, Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives at low prices and the VVV token cuts its emissions.

Friday, October 9, 2026

Venice.ai

A wallet buys $15.97 million of VVV as Venice tightens the supply

October 9, 2026 3 min
A new wallet withdraws 703,667 VVV (~$15.97 million) from Coinbase while record burns and falling emissions tighten the supply.
#vvv #venice #burn #deflation #diem
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Crypto

Bitcoin back to $82,000 while the rules race across three continents

Bitcoin rebounds to $82,000 on the truce with Iran, while the CFTC, ESMA and Greece tighten the regulatory frame.