​​NEAR Protocol ($NEAR) is catching attention today.

I checked CoinMarketCap's market movements, and NEAR is among the tokens showing positive momentum.

An Anthropic AI model has cracked one of cryptography’s longest-running whodunits, tracing numbers the NSA handed to the U.S. government in the late 1990s, which were long suspected of hiding a backdoor, to an ordinary random-number program fed with timestamps from 1997 and 1998.

It took the model just about half an hour to come up with a solution — one that cryptographers had been chasing to answer for 25 years.

Venice Token [$VVV] continues to advance after a successful bounce off from the $21 support zone, which was previously the resistance level that acted as a barrier against bears. At the time of writing, $VVV surged by 10% in the past 24 hours.

The rise follows the addition of new products with AI technology, namely Hy4 Preview, Muse Spark, and Muse Wonder by Venice. At the same time, $VVV’s revenue growth has been aided by increased adoption of its AI solutions, with October generating the most revenue on the platform.

Nine Blockchain Organizations Unite as Quantum Threat Looms


Nearly one-third of Bitcoin’s supply could eventually become vulnerable to quantum computers, and a new industry coalition wants to get ahead of the threat. The Quantum Alliance, launched Oct. 15 in Lisbon, brings together nine blockchain organizations to establish common standards for protecting cryptocurrency networks, wallets, and infrastructure.

Its founding contributors estimate that roughly 6.4 million $BTC, including coins associated with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, have already exposed the public keys that sufficiently powerful quantum machines could exploit. There’s one important catch. Nobody has built a quantum computer capable of pulling off such an attack.

The mass retail investor has temporarily cooled toward $XRP, shifting into a deep wait-and-see mode. According to Google Trends, by mid-October 2026 global search interest in the coin had corrected by more than 90% on an annual scale compared with the historical peak of July 2025, when the price was storming the $3.65 mark.

The global popularity index for the query slid to 13 points out of 100, marking the sharpest shift in market sentiment.

​​One thing I like about Monero is that it doesn’t always need noise to get my attention.

Today, while most of the market was struggling to find direction, $XMR was moving in the opposite direction and finished as the top gainer among the top 100 on CoinMarketCap.

The Amount of Bitcoin Held by Whales Is at Its Highest Level Since April – This Might Mean Something

Cryptocurrency analytics company Santiment has shared new data on the remarkable accumulation of Bitcoin ($BTC) by large investors. According to the company, the total assets of Bitcoin whales have reached their highest level since April.

According to data shared by Santiment, wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 $BTC have accumulated approximately 88,987 $BTC since September 19th. These purchases over the past month have pushed the total Bitcoin holdings of this investor group to over 13.69 million $BTC, reaching their highest level in six months.

The analysis firm noted that this group of investors has shown a strong correlation with significant Bitcoin price movements in the past. Therefore, it was stated that the accumulation and selling behavior of large investors could provide important clues about the future direction of the market.

$XRP price is attracting bullish attention after transaction volume on the $XRP Ledger skyrocketed to nearly $50 billion. The XRPL transaction volume marked a dramatic increase from the levels recorded over the preceding days. Ali Martinez, an analyst, says that the market may be nearing a bottom and be ready to rally to $2 as on-chain activity surged alongside $XRP hitting the $1.25 support level.

U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds attracted $526.6 million on Monday, the largest daily net inflow in nearly a month, driven entirely by BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT).

IBIT pulled in $665.2 million, its biggest daily inflow since Oct. 7 last year, according to SoSoValue data. Combined, the bitcoin funds last drew more on Sept. 22, when they added $714.7 million.

Fidelity’s FBTC lost $83.6 million, while Grayscale’s GBTC shed $54.9 million in Monday’s trading session, while the remaining funds recorded no net flows, underscoring how concentrated buying was.

The inflow more than erased last week’s $228.5 million of withdrawals, though the funds remain about $90.5 million in the red for October, according to CoinDesk calculations using SoSoValue’s figures.

Ether funds moved in the opposite direction, losing $103.3 million in their fourth consecutive session of outflows. BlackRock’s ETHA accounted for $95.4 million of the withdrawals, according to SoSoValue.

Bitwise Research Head Ryan Rasmussen said that if the price of Bitcoin ($BTC) recovers, corporate cryptocurrency purchases could accelerate again from the end of the year. Rasmussen noted that there was a significant slowdown in Bitcoin purchases for corporate balance sheets in the third quarter.

According to data shared by Rasmussen, Strategy’s net Bitcoin holdings decreased from 83,901 $BTC in the second quarter to 1,666 $BTC in the third quarter.

Net Bitcoin purchases by other publicly traded companies also fell from 45,725 $BTC to 5,617 $BTC during the same period. The data indicated a significant slowdown in corporate Bitcoin accumulation activity compared to the previous quarter.