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The director behind Swedish rapper Yung Lean’s viral “Storm” video says AI almost drove him from filmmaking.In an interview with Vulture published on Tuesday, Romain Gavras said he was disheartened by the wave of AI-generated copies of the music video.Gavras directed the video for “Gener8ion,” an audiovisual project he runs with French producer Surkin.The video, which has amassed over 40 million views since its release in April, follows Lean as a bully at a boarding school before the boys he has been tormenting break into an elaborate dance sequence around him during a class photo.In September, social media users began using AI…

Singapore, Singapore, October 20th, 2026, Chainwire The discretionary buyback represents close to 1% of circulating supply and precedes four planned product milestones culminating in Grvt 2.0. Grvt, a self-custodial trading platform built on its own zero-knowledge (ZK) chain, announced that the Foundation’s token issuer has completed its first GRVT token buyback, purchasing and burning 1.1 million GRVT tokens on the open market. The transaction permanently removed close to 1% of GRVT’s circulating supply at the time of purchase. It marks the first of five milestones ahead of the planned launch of Grvt 2.0 at the end of November 2026. A…

Bitmine owns 4.9% of the total ETH coin supply of 122.1 million Bitmine is 99% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 15 months Bitmine released Chairman’s Message on October 7 titled “Crypto Bull Underway — This Cycle Likely the Largest” Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 5,067,309 staked ETH, representing $12 billion at $2,365 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors Bitmine owns $74…

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Zug, Switzerland, October 19th, 2026, Chainwire StakerX’s AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch StakerGPT trades crypto markets around the clock and publishes every trade it makes, as more than 8,200 users join the platform StakerX.ai, an agentic trading platform built by Switzerland-based StakerX Strategies AG, has passed $40 million in assets staked on Solana less than three months after its public launch on July 13, 2026. Users fund their stakes with more than 40 cryptocurrencies from most major blockchains, and StakerGPT, the platform’s agentic trading agent, puts that capital to work in…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 19th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has concluded the Mystery Box event held to celebrate its VVIP brand upgrade, featuring a 1 million USDT prize pool. In addition to the opportunity to win rewards from the prize pool, MEXC distributed exclusive privileges valued at 2 million USDT across all VVIP tiers, helping users accelerate their progression through the VVIP program. Event Recap: Participation, Rewards and Progression During the 48-hour Mystery Box Flash, users opened approximately 100,000 VVIP Mystery Boxes. The average earnings per box opened by Elite users were 32 times those…

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: The collaboration will expand Marqeta’s relationship with Coinbase, integrating with Coinbase’s stablecoin infrastructure so Marqeta customers can offer stablecoin-backed cards that allow users to turn stablecoin holdings into everyday spending power. Coinbase will power stablecoin-backed cards for Marqeta’s enterprise customers, providing custody, fiat conversion, and fast, low-cost settlement on Base, Coinbase’s blockchain. Through this collaboration, Marqeta will strengthen its ability to provide its customers a single platform for delivering end-to-end payment offerings that unlock meaningful value across both fiat and digital asset markets. Marqeta, Inc . (NASDAQ: MQ), the modern card issuing platform, today announced a collaboration with…

New York, New York, October 16th, 2026, Chainwire The three-month championship brings Hyperliquid and Decibel traders together for cash prizes and exclusive Ferrari Formula 1 experiences at Suzuka, as tokenization expands access to global financial markets. Tria, the self-custodial financial platform unifying trading, yield, and payments, today announced the launch of the Tria Grand Prix, a three-month global perpetual futures trading competition featuring $120,000 in prizes and an extraordinary grand prize: three-day Ferrari F1 Paddock Club experiences for the competition’s two top eligible traders at the 2027 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix. Running from October 16, 2026, through January 16,…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 16, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its October 2026 Proof of Reserves (PoR) report. Independently audited by Hacken, the report confirms that the platform’s reserves continue to fully cover user holdings across all major reserve assets. As part of its commitment to putting users first, MEXC publishes monthly reserve data that users can independently verify, reinforcing user trust through transparency. According to the audit report, MEXC’s reserve ratios stand at 294% for BTC, 122% for USDT, 115% for USDC and 111% for ETH. All four reserve ratios exceed the 100%…

An internal research model at OpenAI accessed a funded crypto wallet without authorization, using testnet Ether to deploy smart contracts on the Sepolia network and later omitting the spending from its final task summary. OpenAI said the model, which was part of its GPT-5.6 Sol family, was given the task of updating a crypto trading prototype and deploying compatible contracts. After failing to obtain testnet ETH through faucets, the model derived accounts from publicly known developer recovery phrases, checked 362 wallet addresses and selected one with enough funds to proceed. In its recorded reasoning, the model asked, “But using public known key/funds…