Clay weekly context brief for the Blockchain category (ISO week 2026-W44).

Clay tracks publications from the Blockchain feed list. Below are recent items from this category, each with its source and a short description of what the publication covers when one is available in the source feed.

Recent publications:
1. Grayscale Looks Beyond AI Tokens To The Data And Credit Behind Computing
   Source: NewsBTC
   Link: https://www.newsbtc.com/crypto-news/grayscale-ai-buildout-data-credit-compute-analysis/
   Grayscale's October 23 research note looks at a more specific crypto-and-AI proposition than a general bet on smarter software: who supplies training data, who finances hardware and who receives payment when computing capacity is used.
2. Bitcoins 7-Day Hashrate Returns to 1 ZH/s After Nearly 8 Months
   Source: Bitcoin News
   Link: https://news.bitcoin.com/mining/bitcoins-7-day-hashrate-returns-to-1-zh-s-after-nearly-8-months/
   Bitcoins computational firepower, measured by its network hashrate, has reclaimed the 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) threshold, with miners worldwide once again executing more than 1 sextillion calculations every second to safeguard the network and compete for newly minted bitcoin.
3. Jamie Dimon Hated Bitcoin: JPMorgan Now Expects BTC to Beat Stocks and Gold
   Source: CryptoPotato
   Link: https://cryptopotato.com/jamie-dimon-hated-bitcoin-jpmorgan-now-expects-btc-to-beat-stocks-and-gold/
   Few Wall Street institutions have had a more complicated relationship with BTC and crypto than JPMorgan.
4. Keystone customers say breach exposed data the hardware wallet maker promised to delete
   Source: The Block
   Link: https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-10-25-keystone-customers-say-breach-exposed-data-the-hardware-wallet-maker-promised-to-delete-431613
   Keystone has said it deletes customer information 180 days after their orders in most cases, though X users have cast doubt on that claim.
5. ECB official sees digital euro as key to protecting EU sovereignty
   Source: Cointelegraph
   Link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ecb-official-sees-digital-euro-tool-to-protect-eu-sovereignty?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
   Piero Cipollone said the bloc is on track to test real transactions in 2027 and roll out a digital euro as early as 2029, pending legislation this year.
6. Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
   Source: Decrypt
   Link: https://decrypt.co/381777/bitcoin-etfs-snap-two-week-losing-streak-despite-late-week-slide
   Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
7. HOOD Price Prediction: Futures Sit 21% Below JPMorgan's Floor as Stochastic Hits Single Digits
   Source: Blockchain News
   Link: https://Blockchain.News/news/20261025-price-prediction-hood-futures-sit-21-below-jpmorgans-floor
   Robinhood Markets (HOOD) futures on Binance are quoted at $94.88 as of October 25, 2026, trading below every tracked moving average and near the lower Bollinger Band, while three analyst actions is... (Read More)
8. CZ Says AI Wont Break Bitcoin, but Leaked Data Will Hurt Its Users: Can BTC Turn the $81,000 Floor Into a Bounce?
   Source: CoinSpeaker
   Link: https://www.coinspeaker.com/bitcoin-news-cz-ai-quantum-81000/
   Bitcoin news: CZ says AI wont break Bitcoins cryptography, but leaked data fuels phishing.
9. Cardano risks further losses as ADA drops below the $0.220 support
   Source: CoinJournal
   Link: https://coinjournal.net/news/cardano-risks-further-losses-as-ada-drops-below-the-0-220-support/
   Key takeaways Cardano trades below $0.22 after failing to sustain a move above its 50-day EMA.
10. Lido Puts Liquidity Buffers At The Center Of Ethereum ETP Yield Debate
   Source: NewsBTC
   Link: https://www.newsbtc.com/ethereum-news/lido-ethereum-etp-liquidity-buffers-staking-rewards/
   An Ethereum investment product can advertise staking exposure without putting every unit of its ETH to work. Lido's October 23 comparison of European exchange-traded products brings attention to the cash-management choices behind the reward figures investors see.
11. Evernorth Seeks to Register 5.2M Shares as It Plans More XRP Purchases
   Source: Bitcoin News
   Link: https://news.bitcoin.com/featured/evernorth-seeks-to-register-5-2m-shares-as-it-plans-more-xrp-purchases/
   Evernorths new share-sale arrangement could provide approximately $80.7 million in gross funding to support its XRP treasury.
12. CoinDCX Admits $16M Loss Just Days After CEO Denied Fresh Wallet Breach
   Source: CryptoPotato
   Link: https://cryptopotato.com/coindcx-admits-16m-loss-just-days-after-ceo-denied-fresh-wallet-breach/
   The exchange said the loss was absorbed by the company and customer funds remained unaffected.
13. Crypto longs lose $404 million in four hours as bitcoin briefly slips below $80,000
   Source: The Block
   Link: https://www.theblock.co/news/markets/2026-10-24-crypto-longs-lose-404-million-in-four-hours-as-bitcoin-briefly-slips-below-80000-431608
   Spot bitcoin ETFs lost $773 million on Thursday and Friday after three days of net inflows, per SoSoValue data.
14. Netanyahu floats use of blockchain as solution to potential financial sanctions
   Source: Cointelegraph
   Link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/netanyahu-floats-use-of-blockchain-as-solution-to-potential-financial-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
   Ahead of elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential international sanctions, to the dismay of opponents and the countrys central banker.
15. Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
   Source: Decrypt
   Link: https://decrypt.co/381775/google-quietly-updates-privacy-policy-gmail-photos-ads
   A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Googles long-standing pledgeletting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features.
16. COIN Price Prediction: Below Every Moving Average as Open Interest Collapses 18% and Stochastics Hit the Floor
   Source: Blockchain News
   Link: https://Blockchain.News/news/20261025-price-prediction-coin-below-every-moving-average-as-open
   The Binance tokenized stock of Coinbase Global printed $163.83 at the time of observation, sitting beneath all four tracked simple moving averages and both EMAs while a sharp 18% contraction in ope... (Read More)
17. CZ Warns Crypto Users to Be Extra Careful: PHP Vulnerabilities Hit the Code Behind 70% of Websites
   Source: CoinSpeaker
   Link: https://www.coinspeaker.com/php-vulnerabilities-cz-warning-crypto-users/
   PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and 109619 let hackers take over web servers.
18. DefiLlama report: nearly 90% of FXRP supply is locked in DeFi
   Source: CoinJournal
   Link: https://coinjournal.net/news/defillama-report-nearly-90-of-fxrp-supply-is-locked-in-defi/
   Nearly 90% of circulating FXRP supply is deployed across DeFi protocols.
19. Lido Opens Higher-Balance Ethereum Validators With A Deliberately Small Start
   Source: NewsBTC
   Link: https://www.newsbtc.com/ethereum-news/lido-0x02-csm-higher-balance-validators-launch/
   Lido has opened a permissionless route to Ethereum validators that can hold much larger effective balances, but the first allocation is deliberately limited.
20. Hackers Breach GMO Trading Cloud, Putting 26,739 Servers at Risk
   Source: Bitcoin News
   Link: https://news.bitcoin.com/security/hackers-breach-gmo-trading-cloud-putting-26739-servers-at-risk/
   Hackers infiltrated a Japanese cloud trading service, exposing as many as 26,739 servers to potential compromise and allegedly hijacking brokerage accounts to execute unauthorized trades.
21. Bitcoin vs Ethereum ETFs: The Gap Is Getting Hard to Ignore
   Source: CryptoPotato
   Link: https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-etfs-the-gap-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/
   The past week showed another interesting discrepancy between the funds tracking both asset.
22. Argentine judge clears Milei and 10 others in LIBRA case, finding no criminally relevant deception
   Source: The Block
   Link: https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-10-24-argentine-judge-clears-milei-and-10-others-in-libra-case-finding-no-criminally-relevant-deception-431606
   The judge's 60-page ruling concluded Argentine President Javier Milei's post promoting the LIBRA token did not, by itself, establish fraud.
23. Wells Fargo and five others object to OKX-ICE tokenized stock listings: Report
   Source: Cointelegraph
   Link: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nasdaq-companies-object-tokenized-stock-listings-okx-ice?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
   As of Friday, 22 companies had filed objections as part of the joint ventures proposed tokenized stock platform under the SECs innovation exemption.
24. Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
   Source: Decrypt
   Link: https://decrypt.co/381763/sweden-government-offices-block-chatgpt-claude
   Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security review.

Sources in this brief: Bitcoin News; Blockchain News; CoinJournal; CoinSpeaker; Cointelegraph; CryptoPotato; Decrypt; NewsBTC; The Block.
Selected 24 of 161 available items for this weekly brief.