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Posted: October 14, 2025

Key Takeaways
How are macro conditions affecting Ethereum’s price outlook? 
Weak macro sentiment and rising credit spreads are signaling potential downside pressure for ETH.

What does recent ETH accumulation suggest about investor sentiment?
Large-scale ETH purchases and rising on-chain activity indicate growing bullish confidence despite market volatility.

Macro and institutional investors take diverging stances on Ethereum [ETH].

Despite a turbulent start to the week, marked by over $19 billion in liquidations, investors have not exited ETH. Although ETH recorded a modest 4% decline in the past 24 hours, mixed signals continue to cloud its next price direction.

Accumulation and broader macro sentiment appear to be diverging points for ETH, according to AMBCrypto analysis.

Macro sentiment weakens
Macro factors have shown strong correlations with major risk assets in the cryptocurrency market, including Bitcoin [BTC] rejection and Ethereum.

The Excess Credit Spread, an important macro indicator that measures deviations between high-yield bond spreads and their normal levels, has flashed a warning signal.

A high positive yield often suggests that financial market conditions remain unstable, compared to when it turns negative.

Source: Alphractal

This positive deviation has also affected the Russell 2000 index, implying that stock prices could face downward pressure. Notably, changes in the Russell 2000 have historically influenced cryptocurrencies such as ETH.

Crypto analyst Joao Wedson said the market is currently “in a 50-50 position, with some indicators pointing to a top and others showing neutrality.”

He added,

“I agree with what Elon Musk said: we could see a bear market at the end of 2025. Whether it starts now or in December is pure speculation.”

U.S.–China tensions trigger a market reset
A report from CryptoQuant suggested that the U.S.–China trade conflict acted as a catalyst for the shift in market sentiment.

The report, which examined multiple moving averages, found that ETH had closed below the EMA 96, SMA 240, and structural AVWAP (Anchored Volume Weighted Average Price) before President Donald Trump’s announcement. 

These technical indicators have historically signaled upcoming market declines.

After the announcement, ETH experienced a sharp drop but quickly rebounded as news of easing trade tensions surfaced, pushing prices back above those key indicators.

Source: CryptoQuant

While macro sentiment was deteriorating, on-chain activity told a different story.

Token Terminal reported that Ethereum transactions reached a new all-time high, confirming active blockchain usage that contributed to sustained ETH demand. Concurrently, gas fees dropped to multi-year lows—an uncommon occurrence during heightened network activity.

These dynamics suggest that demand for ETH remains strong, and a reversal from the recent price dip is still possible.

Ray Youssef, CEO of NoOnes, noted that the recent “leverage flush helped deep-pocketed buyers stay active on dips,” a trend he believes will continue to support ETH prices.

He added,

“A prolonged U.S. government shutdown or further escalation in global trade tensions could halt the Ether-led altcoin recovery rally and trigger a deeper retracement, possibly pushing ETH back to the $3,700 level.”

Investors continue to accumulate ETH
Spot market investors have continued accumulating ETH in large volumes.

In the past 48 hours alone, they have purchased roughly $376.57 million worth of ETH, transferring the tokens into private wallets.

This ongoing accumulation signals growing bullish sentiment and suggests that ETH could be poised for a rebound—reinforcing optimism among market participants.

Source: CoinGlass

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Bitcoin faces quantum computing threat within three years, analyst Charles Edwards warns

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For the first time in a long while, the Bitcoin community is staring at a problem that has nothing to do with ETF flows or the U.S.- China trade war, but rather with the raw math behind the network itself.

Charles Edwards, head of Capriole Investments, has been sounding the alarm that quantum computers may only need around 700 usable qubits to breach Bitcoin’s elliptic curve signatures, and if those machines arrive in 2-3 years as he expects, the entire crypto stack could be left wide open unless something changes — and fast.

We may only need 700 qubits to break Bitcoin! That's just 2-3 years away people. No one knows the exact number, but the threat is real and getting closer every day. Fix Bitcoin in 2026! https://t.co/pitzhxl29h

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— Charles Edwards (@caprioleio) October 14, 2025 What makes the warning sting is not only the small number but the speed. Studies cited by Edwards and others show that somewhere between 700 and 2,300 logical qubits could run Shor’s algorithm at the scale needed to reconstruct private keys from public ones. 

Google, IBM and Chinese state labs are already sprinting toward that zone with billions in funding, and the consensus inside quantum research circles is that the first dangerous breakthroughs do not belong to the 2040s anymore but to the late 2020s.

"Q-Day" for BitcoinResearchers call the moment it will become possible “Q-Day.” On Q-Day, every public key ever exposed turns into a target. And the quiet threat is worse — hackers can copy data today and wait to break it later. So the countdown has already begun as to whether the machines exist yet or not.

Fix Bitcoin in 2026 or forget about million-dollar price targets, says Edwards. Markets can digest volatility, miners can handle halvings, but math does not negotiate. When quantum machines cross the line, there is no undo button — only whoever migrated in time and whoever did not.

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Eligible NFT holders and active traders are among the recipients of Monad’s airdrop, as the project engages major crypto communities and ecosystems to drive early adoption ahead of mainnet.

Key Takeaways

Monad is launching an airdrop for traders and NFT owners ahead of its mainnet.
Eligibility includes users of Hyperliquid, Pump.fun, and holders of Phantom wallets, Mad Lads, SMB, and Pudgy Penguins.

Monad, a high-performance blockchain project preparing for mainnet launch, today announced airdrop eligibility targeting traders and NFT owners, including holders of Phantom wallets, MadLads, and other prominent collections.

The airdrop encompasses users of Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetuals exchange, and Pump.fun, a meme coin launchpad on Solana. NFT holders from Mad Lads, SMB (Solana Monkey Business), and Pudgy Penguins are also eligible for the distribution.

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Pepe Coin price has crashed by 75% from its highest point this year, and its risky chart pattern points to a prolonged crash that could push it to its lowest point since February last year.

Summary

Pepe Coin price has formed a giant head-and-shoulders pattern on the daily chart. 
This pattern points to more downside in the coming months.
The token has also formed a death cross pattern on the daily chart.

Pepe (PEPE), the popular memecoin, was trading at $0.00000713 today, Oct. 14, with 24-hour volume at $865 million.

Pepe Coin price has formed risky patterns
The daily time frame chart shows that the Pepe price has been forming a risky pattern since April last year. It has formed a head-and-shoulders pattern, which is made up of a head, two shoulders, and a neckline.

Its head represents the all-time high of $0.000028, while the right and left shoulders were at $0.00001638. These shoulders were the highest points in March last year and on May 23.

The neckline was at $0.000005, the lowest swing in August last year and on March 12. The price target in an H&S is estimated by measuring the distance between the head and the neckline, which, in this case, is about 80%.

Measuring the same distance from the neckline brings the target price to $0.0000105, which is about 85% below the current level. This target is its lowest level since February last year. Also, it has formed a death cross pattern as the 50-day and 200-day moving averages crossed.

The bearish Pepe Coin price outlook will become invalid if it jumps above the shoulder section at $0.00001638.

Pepe price chart | Source: crypto.news
Whales and smart money investors have dumped Pepe
The bearish Pepe price forecast likely explains why whales and smart money investors have continued selling their coins. Smart money investors now hold 1.67 trillion tokens, down by 47% in the last 30 days. 

Similarly, whales have dumped their tokens by over 22% in the last 30 days to 4.9 trillion. Public-figure investors have also scaled back their holdings by 16% to 92.54 billion tokens. These investors typically sell their assets when they anticipate them to plunge.

Pepe Coin price has also plunged as the correlation between Ethereum (ETH) and its memecoins has waned. While Ethereum recently jumped to a record high, top memes on the ecosystem like Shiba Inu, Baby Doge Coin, and Floki have all plunged.

Big buyers are back — Bitcoin price prediction points to a major rally as institutions quietly reload after the crash.

Bitcoin trades around $111,900 after a 10% weekly drop. Analysts eye $100K as sentiment hits lows and key support levels are tested.

Bitcoin is trading around $111,500 after falling 4% in the past 24 hours and 10% over the last week, based on CoinGecko data.

Price action remains stuck in a wide range, with no clear trend emerging. Volatility is high, but the market lacks strong momentum in either direction.

BTC Faces Resistance, Holds Support
Bitcoin was recently rejected from the $115,500–$116,000 zone, which had previously served as support but now acts as resistance. On the upside, $119,500 remains a key level that bulls need to break to test new highs. On the downside, buyers are watching $107,300 as support. A deeper zone of interest lies between $103,900 and $100,800.

Nothing special on todays correction of #Bitcoin.

Just some standard chop happening here, as likely, the volatility will remain high before there’s a clear new trend. pic.twitter.com/sH5rFw32St

— Michaël van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) October 14, 2025

Michaël van de Poppe commented on the current setup, saying there is “nothing special” about the recent price movement. He added that “volatility will remain high before there’s a clear new trend.” This suggests that the price may continue to swing within the current range for some time.

Volume remains steady, showing that traders are active. However, the market has not picked a clear direction.

$100K in Sight? Analyst Charts Path Lower
Ali Martinez posted a chart showing that Bitcoin could drop further if it fails to hold current support. His chart shows possible steps lower, with stops at $108,000 and $106,500. The lowest level on the chart points to $101,800.

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Martinez asked, “What are the odds Bitcoin revisits $100,000?” suggesting a deeper pullback could happen if sellers keep control.

Source: Ali Martinez/X
Another analyst, Ted, noted that BTC was rejected at $116,000. He pointed to the $110,000–$111,000 area as the next important level. This zone also holds a CME gap. He added,

“If Bitcoin holds this level, we could see a bounce back.”

If not, a move toward $107,000 may follow.

Sentiment Drops to Multi-Year Lows
Social data shows that Bitcoin sentiment has fallen sharply. Ali Martinez shared a chart showing a weighted sentiment reading of -1.55, the lowest level in several years. This follows the October 10 sell-off, when Bitcoin dropped immediately on news of trade tensions.

Despite the negative mood, some on-chain analysts say the structure remains intact. XWIN Research Japan reviewed five major liquidation events in Bitcoin’s history and found that each one was followed by a recovery.

“Mass liquidations are no longer signs of collapse but cleansing phases.”

Source: XWIN Research Japan/CryptoQuant
Bitcoin’s recent crash erased nearly $19 billion in open interest. Data now shows that leverage has reset, funding rates have normalized, and spot buying is returning.

Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Tests Key Support as Bullish Optimism FadesBitcoin steadies around $111,000 after a bruising sell-off, as derivatives and options data show mixed signals between cautious futures traders and bullish options buyers.Updated Oct 14, 2025, 12:48 p.m. Published Oct 14, 2025, 12:48 p.m.

Bitcoin is trading at $111,000 on Tuesday as it clings on to the critical level $110,000 level of support.

The world's largest cryptocurrency has struggled to to recover from a weekend sell-off that saw it tumble from $121,000 to $110,000, wiping out $500 billion in terms of overal crypto market cap.

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Altcoins have performed even worse of late; plasma XPL$0.4165 is down by 58% in a week while FET, OP and ETHFI all lost more than 35% of their value respectively.

Derivatives PositioningThe BTC futures market appears to be stabilizing following its recent volatility. Open interest has settled around $25.5 billion, showing no major change from yesterday after the weekend's significant drop. The 3-month annualized basis is now trading in a lower range of 5-6%, a drop from its earlier rebound and indicating a slight cooling of bullish sentiment. A key divergence remains in funding rates, with Bybit's rate turning negative at -5%, while Hyperliquid's remains positive at 10%. This suggests a mixed and complex market sentiment, with strong but isolated long and short conviction across different platforms.The BTC options market is showing a significant bullish acceleration. The 24-hour Put/Call Volume is now roughly balanced at a 50-50 split, a shift from being call-dominated, while the 1-week 25 Delta Skew has spiked dramatically to 12.62%. This high positive skew indicates a substantial premium for call options over puts, showing that traders are aggressively positioning for upside price action and are willing to pay a premium for bullish exposure.Coinglass data shows $627 million in 24 hour liquidations, with a 70-30 split between longs and shorts. ETH ($185 million), BTC ($125 million) and Others ($69 million) were the leaders in terms of notional liquidations. Binance liquidation heatmap indicates $110,600 as a core liquidation level to monitor, in case of a price drop.Token TalkBy Oliver Knight

Plasma XPL$0.4163 fell another 13.5% on Tuesday, extending its losses to 52% since debuting in late September.The stablecoin-focused layer-1 blockchain faces skepticism over its tokenomics and large “ecosystem & growth” allocations.Circulating supply stands at 1.8 billion against a total of 10 billion, pointing to years of potential sell pressure as vested tokens unlock.Tokens were sold in the public round at $0.05 each, leaving ICO buyers comfortably in profit at current prices of around $0.41.Investors who bought after exchange listings are facing steep losses amid weak market sentiment.Analysts expect continued downward pressure once early investor tokens become fully liquid, ICOdrops data shows a major unlock will occur in Q2 of 2026.More For You

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Bitcoin Miner IREN's AI Pivot Earns $100 Price Target at Cantor Fitzgerald

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Key NotesA ZeroHedge post recently discussed the rising prices of Bitcoin, gold, and silver.Citing the ongoing global AI arms race, the role of Bitcoin was highlighted.Musk has raised concerns about the US government printing money out of thin air.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has issued a major validation line towards Bitcoin

BTC
$111 086

24h volatility:
3.0%

Market cap:
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Vol. 24h:
$76.07 B

after Zero Hedge suggested that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new global arms race.

Musk’s praise of Bitcoin comes after a few years of being silent on the cryptocurrency. This is quite notable considering that the industry is recovering from a recent bloodbath triggered by the US-China trade war.

Bitcoin Is Based on Energy
Zero Hedge made a post on X, spotlighting the rising gold, silver, and Bitcoin prices amid the “debasement trade.”

The outfit claimed that trade surplus would be directed towards funding the AI arms race. The analysis platform went further to state that the world is in an AI global arms race, with capital expenditure that will eventually be funded by governments such as the U.S. and China.

In addition, Elon Musk said, “You can’t print energy,” highlighting Bitcoin and praising its foundation in real energy.

“Bitcoin is based on energy: You can issue fake fiat currency, and every government in history has done so, but it is impossible to fake energy.”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1977986775994843641

Immediately, traders responded to Musk’s Bitcoin endorsement, and this led to a rebound in BTC price. However, the coin has still not fully recovered as it is still fluctuating significantly. Bitcoin is currently trading at $110,198.99 with a 4.14% dip within the last 24 hours.

Musk’s statement further emphasizes concerns about the US government printing money out of thin air.

He had previously insinuated that the government has “magic money computers,” and to this end, he consistently issues dire warnings over the spiralling $37 trillion US national debt.

Impact of Musk’s Interest in a Coin
It is worth noting that Elon Musk has given much of his attention to Dogecoin

DOGE
$0.20

24h volatility:
4.9%

Market cap:
$29.69 B

Vol. 24h:
$4.76 B

for the longest time, and this interest has helped the meme coin go up in value.

Around mid-September, the electric car manufacturer made a deal with the US government that caused DOGE to gain 4%. It had to do with his Grok AI securing US government approval.

Just before this time, he turned his attention to Tesla, and this imposed short-term bearish sentiment on Dogecoin markets.

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Amundi’s plan: Europe’s largest asset manager is preparing a Bitcoin ETP for 2026, aiming to provide regulated exposure to the cryptocurrency.
Institutional demand: Rising interest from pension funds and asset managers is driving momentum for Bitcoin as a diversification and inflation hedge.
Market impact: A successful launch could reshape European finance, spurring competition and cementing Bitcoin’s role in institutional portfolios.

Europe’s largest asset manager, Amundi, is reportedly preparing to launch a Bitcoin ETP (exchange-traded product) by 2026, signaling a pivotal shift in institutional attitudes toward digital assets. The move reflects growing demand from professional investors seeking regulated exposure to Bitcoin within traditional financial structures.

Amundi’s Strategic Entry into Crypto
Amundi, which oversees more than $2 trillion in assets, is said to be developing a Bitcoin ETP that would provide investors with direct, regulated access to the cryptocurrency. This initiative aligns with the firm’s broader strategy of adapting to evolving market trends and catering to institutional clients who increasingly view Bitcoin as a legitimate asset class. Reports suggest the product could be structured to meet stringent European regulatory standards, ensuring compliance and investor protection.

Institutional Demand Driving Momentum
The decision comes amid a surge in institutional interest in digital assets. Pension funds, asset managers, and family offices are exploring Bitcoin as both a diversification tool and a hedge against inflation. Amundi’s potential entry is seen as a response to this demand, offering a product that bridges the gap between traditional finance and the crypto sector. Analysts note that such a move could accelerate mainstream adoption by providing a trusted gateway for large-scale investors.

Regulatory Landscape and Market Timing
Europe’s regulatory environment has been gradually clarifying, with frameworks like MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets) setting the stage for more transparent and secure investment vehicles. By targeting a 2026 launch, Amundi appears to be timing its entry to coincide with greater regulatory certainty and market maturity. This approach could help mitigate risks while positioning the firm as a leader in compliant crypto investment solutions.

Implications for the Broader Market
If realized, Amundi’s Bitcoin ETP would represent a milestone for Europe’s financial sector. It could encourage other asset managers to follow suit, intensifying competition and innovation in crypto-linked products. Moreover, the move underscores the growing recognition of Bitcoin as an institutional-grade asset, potentially reshaping portfolio strategies across the continent. For investors, it signals that digital assets are no longer peripheral but increasingly central to long-term financial planning.

HBAR trades at $0.187 after a 14% rebound, but Futures Open Interest remains stuck at $202 million, showing weak trader confidence post-crash.Spot inflows have strengthened, with CMF nearing the 0.20 mark, but saturation could slow momentum if investor sentiment softens.Holding $0.188 support is crucial; reclaiming $0.198–$0.205 may revive bullish momentum, while dropping below $0.180 risks renewed decline.HBAR is showing signs of a modest recovery following last week’s sharp market crash, largely driven by spot investors buying the dip. 

However, the Futures market tells a different story. Confidence among derivatives traders remains low, raising concerns about whether HBAR’s rebound can sustain its current momentum.

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Hedera Traders Remain SkepticalDespite the recovery in spot trading, HBAR’s Open Interest (OI) has yet to bounce back from the heavy losses seen during the crash. The Futures market experienced liquidations exceeding $200 million in a single day, pulling OI down to $202 million, where it continues to stagnate.

This stagnation reflects persistent skepticism among Futures traders about HBAR’s near-term prospects. Their hesitation to re-enter the market could hinder broader price recovery, as Futures activity often reinforces bullish momentum in volatile markets.

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HBAR Open Interest. Source: CoinglassOn the other hand, technical indicators show some encouraging signals. The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) has spiked significantly since the crash, indicating strong inflows from spot investors. 

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This suggests that long-term holders and opportunistic buyers are taking advantage of lower prices to accumulate positions, aiding HBAR’s partial recovery.

However, CMF is approaching the 0.20 saturation mark, historically a level where inflows begin to slow and reversals can occur. If this pattern repeats, HBAR could face short-term headwinds, especially if broader market sentiment fails to improve.

HBAR CMF. Source: TradingViewHBAR Price Finds SupportHBAR has gained 14% since the crash, currently trading at $0.187 while attempting to secure $0.188 as a support floor. Holding this level is essential for maintaining recovery momentum and preventing another pullback.

The altcoin dropped by 25% during the crash, and a full rebound would require reclaiming $0.219. This move depends on collaboration between spot buyers and Futures traders. Without Futures market support, HBAR risks slipping back to $0.180 or lower.

HBAR Price Analysis. Source: TradingViewHowever, if HBAR price receives renewed backing from investors, the altcoin could breach the $0.198 resistance. This would push the crypto token toward $0.205, signaling a return of bullish strength.

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used an October 13 livestream to sketch an expansive, two-track future for the web, arguing that accelerating AI automation will force a structural split between a bot-dominated “slop land” and an invitation-only “human internet” whose trust rails run on decentralized identity, NFTs and on-chain incentive systems. In that architecture, he said, Cardano’s stack—spanning DIDs, the Midnight data-protection network, and a planned decentralized social platform—would serve as foundational infrastructure.

Opening with a diagnosis that “the internet is dying,” Hoskinson framed the problem as a runaway rise in automated accounts and AI-generated media that he believes has already tipped major platforms away from authentic human interaction. “The majority of internet users today are bots,” he claimed, citing “credible 2025 research” that allegedly pegs the share of botlike X accounts at 45%–64%.

“Over the next five years, the slop will get so bad that there’s going to be a better than 75% chance that what you see is a bot.” His contention is that this trajectory effectively nullifies social discourse: “We are no longer interacting with humans… The probability that it’s actually Bob and not Robo Bob is going to approach zero by 2030.”

Cardano’s Role In Rebuilding The Human Internet
Hoskinson’s proposed remedy centers on cryptographic identity and attestations. He placed decentralized identifiers (DIDs) at the core, coupled with “proof-of-humanity” methods that bind a persistent identifier to a verified person without leaking private data. “What [DIDs] allow you to do is assign to a person an ID and then you can prove properties about that person,” he said, adding that humanity checks could draw on a variety of approaches—from existing “Proof of Humanity”-style mechanisms to more novel biometric signals. He even referenced experiments related to his Quantum Hosky gaming venture, suggesting “your brain actually has a unique fingerprint… and you can use your brain for proof of human.”

Once identity is anchored, the Cardano founder argued, content itself must carry provenance. He envisions authenticity NFTs attached to media artifacts, cryptographically signed by a DID that has passed a humanity test. “When you look at content you will have a marketplace for non-slop… ‘Verified made by human,’ a proof of humanity,” he said. That, in turn, would allow clients to filter feeds to human-originated material and restore high-signal social spaces.

The architectural consequence, in Hoskinson’s view, is a bifurcated web: one substrate optimized for autonomous agents and AI-to-AI commerce, and a separate, admission-controlled human layer. “We’re basically going to create an invitation-only second internet… the only place humans are allowed to go,” he said. Agents would still traverse the open web to execute tasks on a user’s behalf—shopping, research, negotiations—while the human layer preserves identity, privacy and discourse.

Blockchains, he argued, are indispensable to both halves. For the human layer, the chain becomes “the ledger for humanity… the place where the DIDs live… where the NFT[s] verifying [genuine] content are.” For the agentic layer, it provides coordination of model licensing, personalization data, and payments among swarms of bots. He described a coming marketplace of pre-parameterized, task-specific agents—“Uncle Bob’s magic hatbot” as a toy example—bought, tuned and composed much like today’s app economy, but transacted as digital goods on an “AI ledger.” “What if that marketplace lives on an AI ledger?” he asked. “This will be the next-gen browser as the interface.”

Privacy-preserving data sharing, Hoskinson said, is where Cardano’s Midnight fits. Framing it as a way to “share without sharing,” he positioned Midnight as a substrate that lets users lend the semantic value of their personal data to agents (for example, preferences that improve recommendations) while keeping raw information shielded. “That’s why we got Midnight,” he said.

Hoskinson Plans A Decentralized Social Platform
Beyond identity and provenance, the Cardano founder called for new truth-seeking primitives built into social applications: prediction markets, “veracity bonds” and what he termed an “epistemic funnel.” In his telling, users and institutions that assert facts could post economic stakes that are slashed if claims later prove false, while consumers would run claims through layered tests—automated AI checks, authenticity NFTs, reputational vouching—before conferring belief. “I think all the media has to be here,” he said, arguing that economic consequences would curb low-quality publishing. “There are lots of money to be made in building these applications that enforce epistemic hygiene.”

On the business side, he forecast an AdTech realignment as human attention slips and agents transact directly with paywalled content on a micro-licensing basis. “Humans aren’t there to watch [ads]… a whole multi-trillion-dollar industry is going to be disrupted,” he said, predicting protocols where agents “check out” articles or datasets for cents and negotiate usage and summarization rights through machine-readable contracts. He referenced emergent “402/ATA”-style access standards and “X.42”-type protocols in that context, while stressing the need for a neutral settlement layer.

Bots Bots Bots, AI Slop, and the Death of the Internet https://t.co/VBsLOOGXGQ

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) October 13, 2025

While much of the AMA surveyed the broader industry, Hoskinson repeatedly returned to Cardano’s roadmap and adjacent efforts. He suggested the ecosystem would move “after we get done with Midnight and get that out by RealFi and Quantum Hosky” to “some form of decentralized social network,” integrating proof-of-humanity credentials, authenticated content, and truth-market mechanisms. He also highlighted Lace as the prospective on-ramp: “We have the perfect interface for it… Lace is a great on and off ramp because it has the money there. It’s built right into the browser… and Lace is just about to go into mobile.”

The normative thread running through the session was a rejection of price fixation and a call to re-center crypto on coordination and civilizational resilience. “If you think it’s just token go up, token go down… you’re a useless person,” he said bluntly. He portrayed the industry’s purpose as “to liberate humanity’s economic, political, and social systems,” adding that blockchains “create a shared space for a synthetic objective reality… immutable, timestamped and auditable,” that lets societies bind rights and rules to accelerating technologies.

At press time, Cardano (ADA) traded at $0.69.

Cardano is now below the red resistance band again, 1-day chart | Source: ADAUSDT on TradingView.com
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Pengu price holds firm at $0.021 support as smart money inflows increase, hinting at a potential bullish reversal from the current trade zone.

Summary

Pengu price defends $0.021 daily support after a capitulation move.
Smart money inflows rise as accumulation builds since early October.
Reclaiming the value area high opens targets near $0.043 resistance.

Pengu (PENGU) price action has remained highly volatile in recent sessions, but the defense of the $0.021 support level has provided a critical foundation for potential recovery. After an intense bearish expansion and capitulation, the market found strong buying interest at the point of control (POC) aligned with daily support.

The NFT market is also showing early signs of stabilization after weeks of decline, supported by a broader crypto rebound, a sentiment that appears to aid Pengu’s recent recovery momentum. This technical confluence triggered a rebound, suggesting that buyers are beginning to absorb supply in this key region.

Pengu price key technical points

Support Level: Pengu price continues to respect the $0.021 support area, forming the current accumulation base.
Resistance Target: A reclaim of the value area high could open a move toward $0.043, the next key resistance.
Smart Money Divergence: Institutional inflows have increased since October 3, while price remains stable, signaling early accumulation.

PENGUUSDT (1D) Chart, Source: TradingView
From a technical standpoint, Pengu’s reaction at the Point of Control highlights the importance of this level in the broader market structure. The wick rejection and immediate rebound from the daily support zone indicate that sellers were exhausted at the lows, allowing buyers to regain short-term control.

Price is now consolidating just below the value area high, which remains the decisive trigger for a more extended bullish continuation.

Holding above $0.021 is essential for maintaining the current bullish structure. A loss of this level could invalidate the local bottoming setup and trigger another rotation lower. However, as long as the daily support remains defended, the probability of a rebound toward the $0.043 resistance zone remains strong. A daily close above the value area high would likely confirm a technical breakout, shifting momentum firmly in favor of the bulls.

Pengu Smart Money Inflows, Source: Nansen
On-chain data complements this setup, showing a consistent increase in smart money inflows even as Pengu trades within a narrow range. This rising inflow suggests that larger investors are accumulating quietly while retail participants remain uncertain.

Such divergences often precede strong moves, as smart money positioning tends to occur before visible price action confirms the shift in sentiment.

What to expect in the coming price action
If Pengu continues to hold the $0.021 support and reclaims the value area high, a short-term rally toward $0.043 becomes increasingly probable. Rising smart money inflows reinforce this bullish potential, suggesting that momentum is building beneath the surface.

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With the SEC set to decide on several spot XRP ETF applications this month, attention is turning to whether approvals could revive XRP’s sluggish price performance.

Summary

XRP ETFs await a decision from the SEC between October 18 and 25, 2025.
Issuers such as Grayscale and 21Shares have recently amended their applications, ready for approval once the SEC resumes operations.
A potential XRP ETF approval could unlock institutional investments, with price targets reaching $5, $10, or even $15.
XRP price has struggled recently, trading at $2.47 with a 6.1% daily drop and 17% weekly loss.

XRP ETFs are approaching a key moment as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares to rule on several spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications. The decisions are expected between October 18 and 25, 2025, marking a potential turning point for the token and broader market sentiment.

First in line for review is Grayscale’s application on October 18, followed by 21Shares, with other issuers including Bitwise, CoinShares, Canary Capital, and WisdomTree scheduled for decisions on October 24 and 25. Several of these applications have faced repeated delays over recent months, extending the wait for a final ruling and heightening market anticipation.

The process now faces another setback due to the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, which has temporarily paused the SEC’s review of ETF applications.

Despite the pause, issuers, including Grayscale, Bitwise, Canary, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, and WisdomTree, have recently filed amended S-1 registration statements, suggesting continued engagement and expectations of approval once the government reopens and SEC operations resume.

How XRP ETF approval could fuel a new price rally
The potential approval of XRP ETFs could mark a turning point for the token’s market performance. Historically, ETF launches have driven major waves of institutional participation by providing regulated access to crypto assets. If approved, XRP ETFs could attract similar inflows to those seen with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) spot ETFs, which helped fuel strong price recoveries and renewed investor confidence.

Market projections see XRP climbing toward $5 or higher, while more bullish targets project potential gains toward $10–$15 if institutional demand mirrors what followed Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF launches.

At present, however, XRP’s performance remains under pressure. The token trades at $2.47, down 6.1% on the day and 17.0% over the past week, according to data from crypto.news. The decline reflects broader market weakness and cautious sentiment ahead of the SEC’s decision window.

Still, the optimism surrounding potential XRP ETF approvals has kept hopes high for a price surge once the SEC clears the funds for launch. A green light from the regulatory commission could open the door to significant institutional inflows, potentially serving as the catalyst to reignite XRP’s upward momentum.

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1️⃣ Gemini’s AI model predicts Solana ($SOL) could hit $300 by the end of the year, driven by strong on-chain fundamentals and rising DEX volumes.
2️⃣ Solana leads all blockchains in real economic value ($223M in Q3) and posts over $138B in monthly DEX activity, surpassing Ethereum.
3️⃣ Developer growth and fee efficiency make Solana the core hub for DeFi and meme trading heading into 2026.
4️⃣ Snorter Token ($SNORT), a Telegram-native Solana bot with sub-second execution and 0.85% fees, has raised $4.68M as it nears the end of its presale.

Gemini AI sees $SOL hitting $300 before the end of the year. The forecast comes as Solana cements its lead across nearly every on-chain metric that matters.

According to ARK Invest’s latest DeFi report, Solana generated roughly $223M in real economic value during Q3, the highest of any blockchain and well ahead of Tron’s $160M. While total blockchain revenues have dropped 83% since their 2021 peak, Solana’s share keeps expanding.

Source: Ark Invest’s Q3 DeFi Report.
Its dominance shows up elsewhere, too. Solana now leads in 30-day decentralized exchange (DEX) activity with $138B in trading volume, outpacing even Ethereum. Transaction fees remain the lowest among major chains, driving higher user retention and reinforcing its position as the fastest-growing Layer-1 in crypto.

At around $193, $SOL trades near a key resistance zone after rallying from $150 earlier this quarter. If it breaks resistance, Gemini expects a massive move towards a new all-time high.

Source: @MrAtrader on X
Gemini’s AI model identifies DEX velocity, stablecoin inflows, and the recovery of maximum extractable value (MEV) revenues as key indicators that form the backbone of its bullish thesis.

If Solana maintains its month-on-month growth in volume, Gemini says $300 becomes a conservative estimate.

That conviction is why Gemini also highlights an emerging Solana-based project that could ride the same momentum – Snorter Token ($SNORT).

Solana’s DeFi Dominance Fuels New Narratives
Ark Invest’s data shows that Real Economic Value (REV) across all major blockchains has collapsed from $4.9B in late 2021 to just $655M today.

Yet Solana continues to lead the pack, generating over a third of that value on its own.

In plain terms, REV measures genuine on-chain activity – the fees and revenues tied to real usage, not speculative gas spikes.

Even as most networks struggle with thinning margins and lower transaction volumes, Solana’s throughput and fee efficiency keep users and developers active.

The chain’s momentum is clear: new tokens launch every day, growing cross-chain liquidity through various aggregators like Jupiter, and fresh talk of a Solana ETF decision is driving institutional attention.

So, while others slow down, Solana meme coin and trading apps are turning into the retail gateway this year. This is why Snorter Token ($SNORT) could be up next.

Snorter Token ($SNORT) – The Meme Utility That Defines Solana’s Next Phase
Snorter Token ($SNORT) is the presale token behind a Telegram-native trading bot designed for Solana and Ethereum traders who want to catch the best meme coin plays before they explode.

Instead of hopping between browser wallets and DEXs, Snorter Bot lets you swap, snipe, set stop-losses, and even copy trades all from within a single Telegram chat.

Its custom Solana RPC infrastructure allows sub-second trade execution. This gives you an edge in high-speed meme markets, where seconds often mean the difference between profit and exit liquidity.

Holding $SNORT cuts your trading fees from 1.5% to 0.85%; far lower than most major competitors.

Closed beta testing showed an 85% success rate in detecting rugs and honeypots, adding a rare safety layer into the degen territory.

Snorter isn’t stopping there. The team plans to expand to Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base soon, making it one of the few bots bridging top ecosystems.

With meme tokens evolving from ‘jokes’ to ‘tools,’ Snorter is ready to capture that shift by combining Solana’s speed with real trading functionality. It’s a meme coin that actually works for you.

The presale has already raised $4.69M, with tokens priced at $0.1079 and staking yields at 108% APY.

With just six days left of the presale, this is your last chance to get in on the ground floor of what Gemini describes as a ‘Solana-native utility token with meme-scale virality potential.

Buy Snorter Token before the presale window closes and the token hits exchanges.

As always, this article is not financial advice. Crypto and presales carry inherent risks. Please do your own research (DYOR) and never invest more than you can afford to lose.

Authored by Aidan Weeks, Bitcoinist — https://bitcoinist.com/gemini-300-solana-price-prediction-snorter-token

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Is the Korean Kimchi Premium still front-running Bitcoin price? Andjela Radmilac · 37 seconds ago · 3 min read

We back-test the signal across cycles and size its edge today.

Oct. 14, 2025 at 2:15 pm UTC

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Updated: Oct. 14, 2025 at 1:44 pm UTC

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For almost as long as Bitcoin has been trading, Korea’s “kimchi premium” has been one of the market’s favorite ghost signals.

When spot prices in South Korea climb faster than those in the US, traders interpret this as a sign of retail demand surging, capital trapped, and liquidity tilting East.

When the spread collapses, the story flips: global appetite cooling, arbitrage exhausted, sentiment souring. Every few cycles, someone proclaims the premium dead. Then it flares up again.

The kimchi premium (the difference between Bitcoin’s price on US and South Korean exchanges) has climbed to about 4%, while Bitcoin price itself has drifted down roughly 5% in a week.

That divergence raised an old question: Does this spread still front-run moves in BTC, or is it just noise amplified by volatility?

The short answer: it’s a rhythm, not a rule.Data shows that the premium’s directional flips, i.e., when Korean BTC trades shift from discount to premium or vice versa, tend to cluster around turning points. However, level alone, however spicy the name, doesn’t predict much.

After spending the summer grinding between $110,000 and $120,000 and finally breaking its $125,000 ATH, Bitcoin’s volatility snapped back last Friday as tariff headlines rattled global risk assets. Bitcoin ETF volumes almost reached $10 billion on Friday while Bitcoin lost 5% in a week.

Through it all, Korean exchanges began paying up again. The kimchi premium widened by 1.7 percentage points even as Coinbase and its premium barely budged, holding a wafer-thin 0.09% premium.

A spike in the kimchi premium while Coinbase’s US premium remains flat is a common combination. In 2021, Korea’s retail inflow cycle drove premiums north of 15%. I

n 2018, the same index swung to a discount as domestic traders rushed for exits. What makes 2025’s pattern interesting is timing: premiums are rising into weakness, not chasing strength. Historically, that setup often preceded rebounds.

Graph showing Bitcoin’s kimchi premium from Jan. 1 to Oct. 13, 2025 (Source: CryptoQuant)Looking at the data for 2025, the kimchi premium’s zero-crossing points, where the spread flips from negative to positive, were followed by +1.7% average returns after seven days and +6.2% after thirty, with win rates: 67% and 70%, respectively.

The correlation between the premium’s level and forward returns is slightly negative, about −0.06, meaning elevated premiums alone don’t guarantee upside.

What matters is the transition: when capital flow shifts direction. Coinbase’s premium, by contrast, doesn’t show the same signal. Its flips lead to roughly flat returns, with weaker win rates around 55%. The difference speaks to the nature of both markets.

Korea’s capital controls and limited arbitrage bandwidth turn the local premium into a proxy for marginal buying pressure. Coinbase’s spread, narrow and institutional, reflects flow friction, not crowd behavior.

This is because Korean fiat rails make it hard to move KRW in and out quickly. When domestic traders get aggressive, prices climb faster than arbitrageurs can offset them with cross-venue sales. That slippage shows up as a premium.

When sentiment sours, the process reverses.The premium’s zero point (when prices in Seoul match those in the US) is where that imbalance momentarily resolves. It’s the inflection traders care about. In effect, the kimchi premium behaves like a sentiment oscillator wrapped in regulatory friction. It lags global flows when capital is locked, then overcorrects once liquidity catches up. Its value isn’t that it predicts Bitcoin’s next move; it’s that it reveals who’s still buying when everyone else hesitates.

Last week’s crash fits that pattern. Global desks were deleveraging around tariff fears, while retail-heavy Korean exchanges were still seeing inflows. The premium widened even as the price fell: a small but telling divergence.

Whether that resolves into another relief rally will depend less on Korea itself than on how quickly US traders rotate back into spot exposure once macro pressure cools. However, given the spot market’s minuscule size compared to derivatives, it might take more than just a sentiment reversal to reach significant volumes.

The numbers also tell us that the effect of these spreads fades as the market matures. As arbitrage bandwidth improves and more institutions join the market, regional spreads lose some of their edge.

At 4%, the kimchi premium is far from a retail bubble waiting to burst. It’s elevated about 1.35 standard deviations above its 2025 average but still within the normal range of regional divergence. It tells us Korean traders are leaning into volatility, not retreating from it.

Local intensity can still matter at the margin in a market that’s become almost desensitized to billion-dollar ETF flows.

So does the kimchi premium still front-run Bitcoin?

Sometimes, yes, but only when it moves decisively.

The level isn’t the signal; the change is. For now, Korea is paying up while the rest of the world hesitates. Whether that spread closes through a rally or through exhaustion will reveal what kind of volatility phase Bitcoin is really in.

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Activision Blizzard adopts Oracle Database@Azure to accelerate agentic AI

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Powerful multicloud database services are now available in 28 Microsoft Azure regions globally

, /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle AI World – Activision Blizzard is among the organizations across the world that are adopting Oracle Database@Azure to power their cloud migrations. To support growing demand and give customers more options to bring AI to their data, Oracle Database@Azure is now available in 28 regions, with five more planned in the next 12 months, and new database services continue to be added. In addition, a new partner program will enable Microsoft and Oracle partners to resell Oracle Database@Azure for the first time.  

"We're seeing rapid adoption of Oracle Database@Azure as global organizations accelerate cloud migrations to leverage new AI capabilities," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "With AI embedded directly into the database layer at no additional cost, customers can analyze data where it resides—removing latency, avoiding expensive data movement, and enabling faster, more advanced insights. To meet this demand, we continue to expand Oracle Database@Azure with new regions and database services, while our new partner program gives customers even more choice to work with trusted partners on their multicloud and IT modernization initiatives."

"Oracle Database@Azure delivers the high performance of Oracle Exadata natively within Azure, empowering us to move our Oracle workloads to the cloud without compromise," said Mahesh Tyagi, vice president, finance engineering, Activision Blizzard. "We gained native, real-time access to our Oracle data from Azure and seamless integration with both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources. Paired now with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Copilot Studio, our team will be able to accelerate insight delivery to business stakeholders and build agentic workflows faster. It's a practical path to iterate on new features while keeping governance and security at the forefront."

"In today's AI-first era, Microsoft is trusted by organizations of all sizes looking to harness the power of their data with secure, intelligent, enterprise-grade cloud solutions," said Brett Tanzer, vice president, Azure product management, Microsoft. "Great AI innovation is built on the core data in customers' mission-critical line-of-business applications and databases. With Oracle Database@Azure, customers can bring their Oracle data to Azure, where they can tap into Microsoft's comprehensive data and AI portfolio, including Microsoft Fabric, Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry — with enterprise-grade security, performance, and reliability. Together with Oracle, we're enabling customers to analyze data where it resides, unlock new AI-driven insights, and confidently modernize their IT with the support of trusted partners."

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New database capabilities and additional regions are supporting growing demand from organizations across the world by providing customers with more options and locations to use Oracle Database@Azure: 

Oracle Base Database Service now generally available: Customers can now simplify database administration, accelerate application development, and lower costs with pay-as-you-go pricing. Oracle Base Database Service provides customers with flexible deployment options, featuring automated lifecycle management, a built-in low-code environment through Oracle APEX, and independently scalable compute and block storage.
Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse now generally available: Enables customers to deliver enterprise-wide AI and analytics by combining the best of the open-source Apache Iceberg open data tables format with Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle Autonomous AI Database. It also integrates with other data platforms, including Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, enabling Azure users to easily and securely apply AI models to their data regardless of where it's stored.
OCI GoldenGate now generally available: Helps customers move and synchronize their data quickly and reliably across different systems to help ensure they always have up-to-date information where they need it. This enables customers to make faster decisions and improve their operations without downtime or data loss.
Oracle Database@Azure new region  availability: Customers have more deployment options with Oracle Database@Azure now available in 28 regions—Australia East, Australia Southeast, Brazil South, Canada Central, Canada East, Central India, Central US, East US, East US 2, France Central, Germany North, Germany West Central, Italy North, Japan East, Japan West, North Europe, Southeast Asia, South Central US, Spain Central, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, UAE Central, UAE North, UK South, UK West, West US, West US 2, and West US 3. In addition, Oracle Database@Azure is planned to be available in five more regions in the next 12 months. This includes Brazil Southeast, France South, North Central US, South India, and West Europe.

Oracle Database@Azure Partner Program
Microsoft and Oracle partners can now purchase Oracle Database@Azure through the Microsoft Marketplace via a private offer, resell it to their customers, and integrate it into their solutions to support multicloud and IT modernization initiatives. The program is open to partners that belong to both the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner program and the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).

"As strategic partners for both Oracle and Microsoft, leading some of their largest client transformations, this partner-first approach will further enhance how we support the cloud migration and multicloud and AI needs of our clients," said Andy Tay, global lead, Accenture Cloud First. "By combining the performance and reliability of Oracle AI Database with Microsoft Azure's rich set of application development and AI services, Oracle Database@Azure will help our clients accelerate modernization, unlock new insights, and drive greater business value."

"To drive true innovation, enterprises must go beyond cloud migration and build a strategic foundation," said Dinesh Rao, executive vice president & chief delivery officer, Infosys. "As part of the new Oracle Database@Azure partner program, Infosys will combine its deep expertise in cloud and AI with the embedded AI vector capabilities of Oracle AI Database and Microsoft Azure's AI services. This empowers clients to accelerate their AI innovation and confidently embrace a multicloud future."

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PLEASANTON, CA / ACCESS Newswire / October 14, 2025 / The market always appreciates a great company story. The problem is that it often rewards the ones that sound big, not necessarily the ones that are big.

, /PRNewswire/ -- Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in transforming the way people bank and shop, will release third quarter 2025 financial results on Wednesday, Nov. 5, before trading begins on the New York Stock Exchange. Octavio Marquez, president and chief executive officer, and Tom Timko, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will discuss the results during a conference call and webcast that day beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET.

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Webcast: Diebold Nixdorf Q3 2025 Earnings Webcast

Prior to the call, Diebold Nixdorf will provide a press release summarizing business and financial results, and a presentation containing other highlights from the period. The press release and presentation will be accessible by visiting the Investor Relations section of Diebold Nixdorf's website located at http://www.dieboldnixdorf.com/earnings. Live access to the webcast of the conference call, as well as the replay, will also be available on this website.

Registration for the earnings call is available here. After registering, you will receive an individualized dial-in number and PIN. To avoid wait times, we suggest registering at least one day in advance. Registration will be open throughout the live call. We encourage participants to dial in approximately 10 minutes before the start of the earnings call.

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Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) automates, digitizes and transforms the way people bank and shop. As a partner to the majority of the world's top 100 financial institutions and top 25 global retailers, our integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels conveniently, securely and efficiently for millions of consumers each day. The company has a presence in more than 100 countries with approximately 21,000 employees worldwide. Visit www.DieboldNixdorf.com for more information.

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Verisk’s first-of-its-kind program offers insurers policy forms, rating rules and loss costs

October 14, 2025 08:15 ET

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JERSEY CITY, N.J., Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, today announced the launch of a pet health insurance program within its Core Lines business. The first-of-its-kind program offers U.S. insurers a robust suite of standardized tools and insights to support entry into or expansion within the rapidly growing pet insurance market.

Verisk’s new ISO Pet Insurance Line of Business program will offer insurers policy forms, rating rules and loss costs, marking the first standardized pet insurance program from an advisory organization.

“As more people have welcomed pets into their lives, the demand for pet insurance has surged in recent years along with veterinary costs,” said Ron Beiderman, chief product officer, Core Lines at Verisk. “With our new program, insurers have the tools and insights to support this growing market, reduce complexities and bring innovative coverage options to market faster, giving pet parents peace of mind.”

Meeting a Growing Market Need

The U.S. pet insurance market reached nearly $4.75 billion in gross written premiums in 2024, reflecting a 21.4 percent year-over-year increase, according to the 2025 NAPHIA State of the Industry Report. The number of insured pets also grew by 12.7 percent.

Verisk’s new Pet Line of Business Hub, available on its core.verisk.com platform, offers:

Actuarially sound advisory loss costs and territorial rating tools that incorporate geography, breed, age and other factors to access risk accurately and appropriately.An accident and illness policy form and related endorsements to help insurers provide adequate coverage. Monitoring and compliance updates via Verisk’s Pet Legislation Dashboard which provides state-specific legislation comparisons and NAIC Pet Insurance Model Law analysis. Driving Innovation and Accessibility

The lack of a standardized advisory program has been a barrier for many insurers, due to market complexities that lead to lower adoption rates and higher churn for policyholders as well as regulatory fragmentation. Verisk’s solution addresses this gap, enabling more carriers to offer pet insurance and contribute to a more competitive and accessible market.

Beiderman added: “Pet insurance is no longer a niche offering. Verisk’s new program helps insurers serve policyholders with empathy and precision, while helping protect the pets they cherish.”

To learn more, please visit Verisk’s Pet Line of Business hub.

Verisk’s Underwriting & Rating Solutions helps global insurers, reinsurers and other stakeholders modernize their processes, reduce operating costs and underwrite risks quickly and precisely. These solutions support (re)insurers across multiple lines of business, including personal & commercial property, personal & commercial auto, small commercial and general liability programming to streamline forms, rules, loss costs and rating-related information. 

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Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry. It empowers clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud and make informed decisions about global risks, including climate change, extreme events, sustainability and political issues. Through advanced data analytics, software, scientific research and deep industry knowledge, Verisk helps build global resilience for individuals, communities and businesses. With teams across more than 20 countries, Verisk consistently earns certification by Great Place to Work and fosters an inclusive culture where all team members feel they belong. For more, visit Verisk.com and the Verisk Newsroom. 

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Major release of Oracle's flagship database architects AI into its core, seamlessly integrating AI across all major data types and workloads

Enables customers to achieve breakthrough insights, innovations, and productivity across multicloud and on-premises environments

New Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse supports the Apache Iceberg open table format, enabling customers to use the power of Oracle AI Database for their data lake data

, /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle AI World -- Oracle AI Database 26ai architects AI into the core of data management, furthering Oracle's commitment to help customers securely bring AI to all their data, everywhere. This milestone advances Oracle's "AI for Data" vision of a next-generation AI-native database with use of AI across the entire data and development stack, including AI Vector Search, AI for Database Management, AI for Data Development, AI for Application Development, and AI for Analytics. Customers can now run dynamic agentic AI workflows to provide sophisticated answers and actions that combine private database data with public information.

"By architecting AI and data together, Oracle AI Database makes 'AI for Data' simple to learn and simple to use," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Oracle Database Technologies, Oracle. "We enable our customers to easily deliver trusted AI insights, innovations, and productivity for all their data, everywhere, including both operational systems and analytic data lakes."

Oracle's "AI for Data" strategy is open and ubiquitous. Oracle AI Database's built-in AI capabilities provide customers wide freedom of choice when building and deploying AI applications including support for: the Apache Iceberg open table format; Model Context Protocol (MCP); industry-leading LLMs; popular agentic AI frameworks; and Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) embedding models. Oracle AI Database's mission-critical functionality brings AI to data securely, efficiently, and reliably wherever it resides—Oracle Cloud, leading hyperscale clouds, private cloud, or on-premises.

Oracle AI Database implements NIST-approved quantum-resistant algorithms (ML-KEM) to encrypt data-in-flight. Combined with the existing support for quantum-resistant encryption for data-at-rest, Oracle AI Database's data protection approach is designed to prevent hackers from harvesting organizational data now and decrypting it using quantum computers later. Other vendors have implemented quantum-resistant algorithms either in their network and storage architectures or in their database services, but not both.

"Great AI needs great data. With Oracle AI Database 26ai, customers get both. It's the single place where their business data lives—current, consistent, and secure. And it's the best place to use AI on that data without moving it," said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst, Constellation Research. "To help simplify and accelerate AI adoption, AI Database 26ai includes impressive new AI features that go beyond AI Vector Search. A highlight is Oracle's architecting Agentic AI into the database, enabling customers to build, deploy, and manage their own in-database AI agents using a no-code visual platform that includes pre-built agents. As Oracle's converged database leadership in transaction processing goes unchallenged, its leadership position in the data and AI space continues to rise sharply as well."

Oracle AI Database 26ai is a long-term support release that replaces Oracle Database 23ai. Customers can simply apply the October 2025 release update to transition from 23ai to the currently available features of 26ai. Customers will receive the immediately available features and will be ready for additional features as they are released. There is no database upgrade or application re-certification required. Advanced AI features such as AI Vector Search are included at no additional charge.

Oracle AI Database 26ai features that are planned include:

Enterprise-wide AI and Analytics

Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse: Supports the Apache Iceberg open table format, enabling true, enterprise-wide AI and analytics. It is now available on all four major hyperscalers—Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud—and interoperable with Databricks and Snowflake on the same clouds. Autonomous AI Lakehouse enables customers to leverage their existing investments and gain the AI benefits of Autonomous AI Lakehouse for their business needs. Autonomous AI Lakehouse delivers Exadata-powered performance and pay-per-use serverless scaling. Learn more about Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse.

Foundational AI Technologies

Unified Hybrid Vector Search: Combines AI Vector Search with relational, text, JSON, knowledge graph, and spatial searches—allowing retrieval of related documents, images, videos, audio, and structured data. Customers can easily combine AI Vector Search with LLMs to search for private data that an LLM can combine with public data to answer business questions.
MCP Server Support: Enables AI Agents powered by LLMs to access an organization's database to answer questions using iterative reasoning. AI Agents can explore multiple solution paths and request additional data during their analysis to produce better and more accurate results.
Built-in Data Privacy Protection: Enforces sophisticated security, privacy, and compliance rules in the database. Measures include end-user-specific row, column, and cell-level data visibility as well as dynamic masking of unauthorized data. In addition, it helps AI to access the database directly using SQL or other APIs without exposing private data.
Oracle Exadata for AI: Accelerates AI at scale by delivering hardware and software engineered together for maximum performance and availability. Exadata can significantly accelerate AI vector queries by offloading them to Exadata intelligent storage. Vector offload also works with the new Exadata Exascale software architecture, which brings extreme elasticity and lower cost, extending Exadata benefits to smaller workloads and organizations. In addition, unique Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) algorithms further accelerate AI by enabling ultra low-latency and high-throughput data access from storage and across nodes in a cluster. Automatic data tiering delivers the low latency of memory, the high IOPS of flash, and the capacity of disk, while also reducing storage footprint using hybrid columnar compression (HCC). Finally, Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure supports Oracle Database 19c in OCI, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling a much broader range of workloads to leverage Exadata's superior performance and scale.
Private AI Services Container: Provides a prebuilt and tested environment for running private instances of AI models such as embedding models, open-weight LLMs, and Named Entity Recognizers. Use of this container helps enhance AI workload security since customers can avoid sharing data with third-party AI providers. The container can be deployed anywhere the customer chooses, within the customer's tenancy in the public cloud, on private clouds, or on-premises.
AI Database Acceleration with NVIDIA: Oracle AI Database 26ai APIs that enable integration with LLM providers also support integration with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever microservices. Using this feature, Oracle AI Database 26ai can run vector embedding models or implement RAG pipelines using previously provisioned NVIDIA NIM microservices. In addition, Oracle Private AI Services Container, which currently supports execution on CPU resources, has also been designed to support the future use of NVIDIA accelerated computing for vector embedding and index generation using CAGRA (CUDA ANN GRAph-based algorithm) in the NVIDIA cuVS (GPU-Accelerated Vector Search) library.

AI for Application Development

Data Annotations: Help explain the purpose, characteristics, and semantics of data to AI. This additional information helps AI generate better applications and provide more accurate responses to natural language questions.
Unified Data Model: The relational, JSON, and graph data models have been unified, providing massive simplification. This accelerates developer productivity by enabling applications to access the same data in relational format via SQL, as a JSON document, or as a graph.
Select AI Agent: Build, deploy, and manage AI agents within Oracle Autonomous AI Database with a simple, secure, and scalable in-database framework. It supports custom and pre-built in-database tools, external tools via REST, and MCP servers, enabling the automation of multi-step agentic workflows, accelerating innovation, and helping organizations keep their data safe.
AI Private Agent Factory: Provides a no-code AI agent builder and deployment framework. These agents benefit from the full power, performance, scalability, and security of the converged data architecture of Oracle AI Database. It runs as a container in any environment of the customers' choosing to enhance data security—without customers having to share data with agentic frameworks on third-party clouds.
APEX AI Application Generator: To boost developer productivity, Oracle plans to deliver next generation APEX development tools that use natural language interfaces to provide trusted answers to user questions and to generate enterprise-grade business applications.

Mission-critical Innovations

Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Cloud Protect: Protects on-premises Oracle databases from data loss and ransomware using Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Service running in OCI. This includes real-time protection of database changes and enables fast recovery to any point-in-time.
Globally Distributed Database: Supports ultra-scalability and data sovereignty by enabling a single logical database to be split into multiple parts and stored on different servers. Built-in RAFT-based replication enables multi-master, active-active distributed databases to fail over with zero data loss in less than three seconds.
True Cache: Provides a unique application-transparent middle-tier cache that automatically ensures transactional consistency. Developers don't need to write code to populate and manage the data in the cache. True Cache brings the rich functionality of Oracle AI Database to mid-tier caches. All Oracle SQL, Vector, JSON, Spatial, and Graph query capabilities are also available via True Cache.
SQL Firewall: Delivers in-database scalable protection against unauthorized SQL activity and injection attacks, enhancing security for all data in the database.

Additional Resources

Watch Juan Loaiza's keynote at Oracle AI World
Read the technical blog about Oracle AI Database 26ai
Read what industry analysts are saying about Oracle AI Database 26ai

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