💰 OpenAI races to beat Anthropic IPO

OpenAI targets a massive new raise, a Solana DAT liquidates its holdings, and Papertrade spurns early adopters.

October 20, 2026

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BTC $81,404 (-1.1%) | ETH $2,382 (-1.5%) | SOL $104 (-0.7%)

  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management adds Bitcoin to long-term forecasts, projects 10% annual return

  • OpenAI races to raise $30B at a $1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic's IPO

  • SkyAI sells its entire Solana treasury and launches a $201M buyback at $3 per token

  • US spot bitcoin ETFs post $526.6M in net inflows

  • BlackRock files for iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF

  • Sparkasse lets its 40 million German customers buy Bitcoin

  • Tenstorrent raises $1.5B Series E, valuing the AI chip startup at $6.2B

  • Nine companies including Verizon and Broadcom reject tokenized shares

  • Binance launches AI Pro, an agent that builds and paper-tests trading strategies from plain language — BNB Chain completes its 37th quarterly Auto-Burn, removing about 1.65M BNB

  • Strategy buys 267 Bitcoin for $22M — Strive buys 1,223 Bitcoin

  • S&P 500 put options hit a record $3.37T single-day notional volume on Friday

  • A single Chinese-speaking hacker uses AI agents to breach 100+ entities

  • TRON settles about 73% of all stablecoin volume in Q3, leading every chain

  • Papertrade decides to keep their PAPER token non-transferrable and change tokenomics to allow for uncapped inflation