🤑🤑 XRP or Stellar (XLM)? We asked AI which crypto is better positioned for 2027

“We asked two leading AI models whether XRP or Stellar (XLM) was better positioned for 2027, and the results were surprisingly similar,” — said Marko Marjanovic, Finbold staff.

🔜 ChatGPT pointed to XRP’s stronger institutional investment narrative and growing exposure to traditional financial markets as key advantages over Stellar.

🔜 Claude, declined to name a winner, claiming no one can reliably forecast the answer, but still admitted XRP has more concrete, near-term demand catalysts.

First, ChatGPT highlighted the potential impact of institutional investment products, including spot XRP ETFs, as another source of demand. It also pointed to Ripple’s expanding ecosystem, including its RLUSD stablecoin and efforts to establish the XRP Ledger as infrastructure for institutional settlement.

❗️However, the AI model acknowledged that Stellar could become a formidable competitor if its institutional partnerships translate into meaningful adoption. For instance, it singled out the planned integration with the DTCC, which could bring tokenized financial assets onto the blockchain.

👇For Stellar, Claude highlighted tokenization.

For example, the network attracted $757.5 million in tokenized funds over the 90 days to November 2. Recent milestones include a tokenized NASDAQ-100 fund launched by Janus Henderson and Centrifuge on October 27, and a cross-border stablecoin test by US Bank in September.

ChatGPT also highlighted Stellar’s growing stablecoin ecosystem and RWA tokenization activity, arguing that these developments give XLM a potentially compelling investment narrative heading into 2027. 🚀

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🤑 These Finland homes get free heat from bitcoin miners (as long as BTC stays above $70,000)

SunBit, a Finnish company, has installed 30 systems that use heat from Bitcoin mining to warm buildings, with mining revenue potentially covering electricity costs. The systems cost roughly $20,000 or more to install and use more electricity than heat pumps, making their financial advantage dependent on Bitcoin prices, power costs and mining competition.

Bitcoin’s expected 2028 halving will cut new coin rewards in half, potentially before homeowners recoup their investment, and is not included in SunBit’s payback calculations.

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💫 NASA unveils $10B moon base contract as SpaceX, Blue Origin join lunar gold rush

NASA announced that Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and six other aerospace companies are eligible to compete for up to $10 billion in lunar delivery contracts as the agency advances plans to establish a permanent base on the moon.

The announcement expands NASA's commercial lunar program, bringing together private companies to deliver scientific equipment, technology and infrastructure to the moon's south pole.

The new Commercial Lunar Payload Services framework has a maximum combined value of $10 billion over 10 years.

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🧠 Treatment developed by University of Oulu researchers boosts brain clearance and opens up new possibilities for preventing neurodegenerative diseases

The brain’s own clearance mechanisms are most active during sleep. Researchers have now shown that this natural clearance process can also be enhanced while people are awake.

A novel vasomechanical treatment increased the removal of harmful proteins from participants’ brains. The study, conducted by the University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital, examined the effects of the treatment in healthy adults.

According to the researchers, the findings open up an entirely new avenue of research into harnessing the brain’s clearance mechanisms for the early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases that cause dementia.

“Alzheimer’s disease and many other diseases that cause dementia are characterised by the gradual accumulation of harmful proteins in the brain over decades.

Now that we can safely enhance the brain’s own clearance system, which gradually becomes less effective with age, while people are still healthy, it may be possible in future to prevent these diseases, or at least slow their progression,” — says Professor Vesa Kiviniemi, head of the Functional Neuroimaging Research Group at the University of Oulu.

The research was published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications on 3 November.

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🤖 Microsoft files patent to rewrite what speakers say in live video

Microsoft filed a patent for a system that rewrites a speaker’s live words and redraws their mouth in video so the edits are hidden. The AI would remove filler, replace offensive or mispronounced words, or translate speech in near-real-time and sync lip movements to the new audio.

The filing (US 2026/0341309 A1 )says replacements could be based on a user profile and run on AR glasses, phones, or cameras. One dependent claim keeps the original recording as "ground truth."

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🇬🇧 Government 'looking seriously' at banning under-16s from Vinted and eBay

Vinted and eBay could be included in the list of platforms set to be banned for children aged under 16, the culture secretary has said.

Lisa Nandy said the government was "looking seriously" at including the retailing websites in the social media ban "to keep children safe".

The UK's social media ban for under-16s is set to come into force in March next year, with children barred from accessing platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

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🤖 SpaceX proposes a $24 billion Texas supercomputer and a gas plant

SpaceX, a bitcoin-holding company that went public in June in the largest IPO in history, wants to build and power its own supercomputer in Texas.

The company is planning a $24 billion project at Starbase, a Texas city in Cameron County built around SpaceX’s main rocket factory and launch site. The project would include a natural gas power plant and a data center that the City Notice calls a “super-compute facility.”

The proposed plant would reportedly run on 35 turbines and produce 748 megawatts of power. That is a sharp contrast to most AI data centers, which plug into the local power grid.

“SpaceX proposes to construct, own, and operate a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility,” — the City Notice says.

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🇰🇬🇸🇻 Kyrgyzstan is considering the creation of a state crypto reserve.

Kyrgyz authorities have held discussions with El Salvador on mechanisms for establishing a national digital asset reserve, including governance, secure storage, and asset protection.

Following the meeting, the two countries signed a memorandum of cooperation on cryptocurrency regulation and the exchange of expertise.

For now, Kyrgyzstan is only exploring El Salvador’s experience. No decision has been made yet on whether to establish a crypto reserve.

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🤑 Stellar Eyes XLM Tokenomics Overhaul to Give Rewards to Holders and Users, Chief Product Officer Reveals

This week, Stellar Network’s Chief Product Officer revealed a major development that could be huge for the protocol and XLM. Speaking at the Meridian 2026 conference on Thursday, Tomer Weller said the blockchain company is preparing to overhaul XLM’s tokenomics structure.

❗️Stellar setting the stage for major tokenomics upgrade

While addressing the audience at the Meridian event, Weller said Stellar is getting ready to reorganize XLM’s tokenomics. The tokenomics overhaul proposal aims to give value to XLM holders and reduce token supply. 🤯

👇At the event, the executive said that by quarter 1 2027, Stellar will unveil an important governance transformation related to tokenomics and fully implement it across the network.

He acknowledged that Stellar has had a fixed supply with no inflation or staking rewards since 2019. He therefore said the company is now exploring ways to roll out effective value-capture mechanisms to help generate real profit for XLM holders and users.

According to the executive, the upcoming overhaul plans to use Stellar’s existing network transaction fees to fund user rewards. The initiative is looking at ways to reward user on-chain activity and balances, a move that aims to encourage customers to hold and use XLM.

The upgrade is still under deliberation, and governance voting will begin soon, with implementation targeted for Q1 2027 if approved. 🚀

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⚡️🚀 Pavel Durov:

“700K+ self-custodial wallets created on Telegram in the last 48 hours alone.

Adoption spreads virally: a wallet activates the moment someone receives Grams.

The crypto revolution is going strong,” — Durov wrote on X.

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⚖️ Can the passage of time change how we judge an injustice?

An intriguing reflection from 🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌invites us to consider something we may not always recognize: do we judge what happened to someone by the facts of the past, or by the circumstances of their present life? 🤔

💭 Here are four thought-provoking passages worth pausing over:

1. “The facts of an event do not change merely because the life surrounding them has changed.”

2. “Continuing pain can seem to confirm the gravity of an injustice, while later happiness may quietly lead us to reconsider how serious it really was.”

3. “I find something troubling in the ease with which we confuse evidence of what happened with evidence of what continues to happen.”

4. “And I wonder what this reveals about our understanding of truth, responsibility, and the way we recognize another person's experience.”

⁉️ These reflections raise a fundamental question:

Does someone's ability to find happiness after an injustice make that injustice any less significant? Or should we learn to distinguish between the reality of what happened and the way a person's life has unfolded since?

A question worth exploring, a perspective worth considering, and a conversation worth having. 💫

💬 This is your opportunity to take part in the discussion!

Share your perspective, challenge assumptions, and exchange ideas with other members of our QSI community.

👉 Read Alexei's full reflection in the channel and join the conversation!

What do you think? We'd love to hear your thoughts! 💙

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🤖 Elon Musk predicts superintelligence will bring “universal extremely high income” and medical care better than today’s best.

“Superintelligence will saturate all human needs by far.

There will be universal high income, universal extremely high income, universal medical care that is better than the best medical care available on Earth today.

You could wish for a castle or whatever you want, basically, and digital superintelligence can make it for you as a side project,” — Musk said.

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🇯🇵🇻🇳 Japan, Vietnam Agree to Boost Economic Security, Energy Ties

Japan and Vietnam agreed to deepen cooperation in trade, technology, defense and energy security as their leaders met in Tokyo on Monday, seeking to strengthen economic and strategic ties amid rising regional geopolitical and trade tensions. 🤝

“This visit to Japan will serve as an opportunity for cooperation between our two countries to advance significantly and robustly under our comprehensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia and the world,” — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said after talks with Vietnamese President and General Secretary To Lam.

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⚡️🤖 Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns

Anthropic released new versions of its most advanced models on Monday, with the launch of Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2. The company says the new models “show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision” and communicate more clearly with users.

Testers have found that Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 communicate more clearly than past Fable and Mythos models. They generate outputs up to 30% faster than Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, and they’re available at a lower price.

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🤑 Around here, "on Stellar" means something. Trust isn't a feature you can ship. It's earned over time by the people who rely on you. 🤝

“So earlier this year, someone on my team asked an executive at one of the largest US banks why they build on Stellar. We expected them to say the speed or the cost, but that's not what they said. Instead they said, because people we trust, trust you. Now, that is not a feature that you could ship.

It's a reputation that you earn. And so then last month, it was actually on my birthday, September 9th, that same bank moved its own stable coin across the Atlantic. It's their dollar, issued under their name, settling in seconds on Stellar,” — Denelle Dixon said, opening Meridian 2026. 🚀

🔥 All Meridian 2026 sessions are now live on YouTube.

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