Short answer: Binance listed RWUSD on October 13, 2026. You can trade RWUSD/USDT on spot, and trading is fee-free for now. You cannot deposit or withdraw RWUSD. Redeeming it pays out USDC, not the stablecoin you put in. Binance says nothing in the notice about a guaranteed rate. Read the redemption and withdrawal lines before…
Short answer: On October 23, 2026, OpenAI shuts down gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-3.5-turbo, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini in its API. Calls to those names will start returning errors. OpenAI’s deprecations page names a replacement for each one. Search your code for the old names this week. Fine-tuned models on the same bases die the same…
Short answer: Starknet opened a non-binding vote on October 15, 2026, asking STRK holders whether it should research becoming an independent, post-quantum layer-1 blockchain instead of an Ethereum L2. The poll closes October 22. A yes only supports research. It does not approve a move, and no timeline exists. STRK fell almost 50% in the…
Short answer: On Friday, October 16, 2026, the VIX jumped 21.5% to 19.99 while the S&P 500 fell 1.09%. In CoinDesk’s analysis of data since January 1990, the VIX fell the next Monday in 25 of 32 earlier Friday jumps of 20% or more. The typical Monday drop was 4.5%. Seven times it kept climbing,…
Short answer: Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility index, BVIV, was just under 40% on Friday, October 16, 2026. Divide by the square root of 365 and the options market is pricing a typical daily swing of about 2.1%, roughly $1,700 with BTC near $82,000. A 50x long has a liquidation price about one such swing away….
Short answer: On Saturday, October 17, 2026, about $51.6 million of leveraged chip-stock perpetual futures were force-closed in roughly ten minutes, between 21:22 and 21:32 UTC. US stock markets were shut. About $38 million of it was longs. No official share price existed to anchor the move. If you hold a stock perp over a…
Short answer: Beckett’s website went offline on September 9, 2026. Its October 15 update says Phase 1 of the restoration is underway and lists BGS certificate lookup among the restored services. So you can check a slab’s cert number again before buying. The price guide and marketplace are still waiting for Phase 2. Base and…
Short answer: Coinbase said on October 7, 2026 that its Deribit integration is complete. Eligible US institutions can onboard through Coinbase Prime now. Eligible retail traders outside the US are promised options in the coming weeks. US retail is planned for later in 2026 with no firm date. A new matching engine and updated Advanced…
Short answer: OKX stops accepting WebSocket connections on port 8443 on October 31, 2026 for the public internet. Colo connections follow on November 16. The fix is to delete :8443 from your WebSocket URLs. The host and path stay the same. REST calls are not affected. A separate ELP-to-RPI rename also hits its deadline on…
Short answer: Monad’s one-year lock-up ends on November 24, 2026. Team tokens worth about 10.7% of the initial supply start to release. That is close to the 11.83 billion MON already circulating. Investor tokens then unlock in 1/48 monthly slices. Aggregators disagree on the exact cliff-day total, from about 16.6 to 17.1 billion MON. None…