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Bitcoin has fallen below $81,000 before recovering some ground, bringing $80,000 back into focus as Benjamin Cowen warns that a daily close below its 50-day moving average could send prices toward the bull market support band. Summary Bitcoin’s daily low fell below $81,000, with CoinGecko later recording a recovery toward $81,300. Cowen tied his downside warning to a daily close below the 50-day simple moving average. Mr. Wall Street said he has buy orders between $72,000 and $76,000. A Polymarket screenshot showed 3% odds of Bitcoin reaching $130,000 during 2026. CoinGecko showed Bitcoin fell to $80,989 after reaching $84,788 over…

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of crypto’s most influential venture capital backers, is dropping “crypto” from the name of its investment arm and expanding into artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, becoming the latest major crypto investor to broaden its focus.The Silicon Valley firm is renaming its a16z Crypto fund to a16z Frontier, targeting startups developing technologies and markets that may take years to mature, general partner Chris Dixon said in a Thursday blog post.The move doesn’t mean a16z is abandoning digital assets. The firm will continue backing crypto companies and advocating for crypto regulation, Dixon said.”This is an expansion: we…

Insider Brief Researchers developed a new defense system, Wavelet-Based Adversarial Training (WBAD), to protect medical digital twins from cyberattacks. WBAD combines wavelet denoising with adversarial training to restore diagnostic accuracy after attacks that can manipulate input data and cause false predictions. Tested on a breast cancer digital twin, the system improved accuracy from 5% to 98% against common adversarial attacks, according to a study published in Information Fusion. PRESS RELEASE — Medical digital twins are virtual models of the human body that can help predict diseases with high accuracy. However, they are vulnerable to cyberattacks that can manipulate data and…

Off the Grid is a free-to-play cyberpunk battle royale from Gunzilla Games, with up to 60 players per match on a fictional place called Teardrop Island. Its crypto side is optional: you can play without a wallet, and the blockchain only comes in if you want to trade certain in-game items on the GUNZ network. Below are the seven things worth knowing before you download it, including where the game stands as its planned October 2026 full release comes due. Risk note: the GUN token and the tradable items in Off the Grid are speculative assets. GUN has lost most…

Bitcoin Magazine Three Companies Have Notified the SEC of Intention To Start Tokenized Stocks Trading Three companies have notified the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of their plans to operate tokenized securities venues following a new rule, according to the top regulator.  Tokenized Stock Venue, Perpetuals.com, and OKX have all submitted plans to operate by allowing trading of tokenized stocks, the SEC said in a Wednesday announcement.  Along with the Intercontinental Exchange, crypto exchange OKX was the first to file with the regulator to debut tokenized securities trading on a new platform, OKXICE.  The SEC in September said it was…

TL;DR: The upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade includes a set of gas repricings. EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 (both scheduled for inclusion) adjust the cost of creating and accessing state so that gas prices more accurately track the real work each operation takes.Replaying historical mainnet transactions under the new schedule shows that a small set of smart contracts rely on assumptions the new schedule shifts, which may lead to these contracts breaking or degrading without preventative updates.Most flagged issues are fixed with a gas-limit increase, and the large majority of smart contracts are unaffected. Direct outreach to the most-affected builders is already underway.Check whether…

Ledger announced the Ledger Atom on 15 October 2026 at its Op3n event in Paris. The Ledger Atom is a new device from Ledger that runs everyday Android apps and signs crypto transactions in a separate secure mode. The Founders Edition costs $849, and it will increase to $899 after launch. It ships in summer 2027, pending certification. Ledger does not call the Atom a hardware wallet or a phone. This article explains what the Atom does, what is new, and what Ledger has not shared yet.BitDegree was at the event. Ledger invited BitDegree to Op3n 2026 and covered travel;…

Dataline, a startup building a decentralized data network for AI agents, has raised $10.6 million. The round was disclosed on October 21, 2026.The part that matters if you trade new tokens comes next. Dataline plans a public token sale through Uniswap’s auction platform. That means a new AI-agent token could reach the open market, and the terms that decide whether early buyers get a fair price have not been published.Who Is Reported to Be Behind the RoundThe raise is reported as a seed round. Lattice and Dispersion Capital are reported to have co-led it. Symbolic Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Anagram and…

The British Virgin Islands, Road Town, October 2026 — Probly, an on-chain prediction market for sports, politics, crypto, finance, and global events, has concluded its participation as a Gold Sponsor of TOKEN2049 Singapore and co-host of the WHALE3RA Afterparty alongside BloFin, TxFlow, and other ecosystem partners.   Across TOKEN2049 week, Probly connected with traders, builders, infrastructure teams, partners, and Web3 communities around the growing role of prediction markets as a way to express views on real-world events. The week also gave Probly an opportunity to introduce its approach to prediction markets to a broader crypto-native audience: simple access, broad market…

Scientists make progress toward artificial goldWhy Bitcoin’s scarcity could be differentBitcoin may have a major advantage over gold that could become increasingly important as scientists make progress toward artificially producing the precious metal, according to market analyst Jesse Eckel.In an October 21 post on X, Eckel argued that technological breakthroughs could eventually undermine gold’s scarcity, while Bitcoin’s supply would remain mathematically constrained.”The reality is lab grown gold will eventually happen and be cheap just like diamonds,” Eckel wrote. Near Protocol (NEAR), Zcash (ZEC), Dogecoin (DOGE) and Ethereum (ETH) Price Analysis for October 22: Unexpected Wave of Bullishness Legendary Trader John…