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According to The Washington Post, based on U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) data, the top 50 donors in the 2026 midterm election cycle have cumulatively contributed approximately $2.39 billion, with roughly $1.54 billion going to Republican-aligned campaigns, $590 million to Democratic campaigns, and $259 million to special interest groups. The cryptocurrency industry holds multiple spots among the top contributors. Coinbase ranked 11th with approximately $57.7 million, while Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss contributed a combined $55.3 million to rank 12th; Ripple came in at approximately $49.6 million, and Foris Dax at approximately $38.6 million. Among individual donors, Elon Musk leads with approximately $369 million, with his contributions primarily directed toward super PACs and related organizations that support Republican candidates.
According to Bloomberg, Gemini founders the Winklevoss brothers and DCG founder Barry Silbert are expanding their presence in the Zcash ecosystem. The entities they back, Cypherpunk Technologies and Fortitude Mining, have emerged as leading ZEC miners and plan to invest tens of millions of dollars to further increase their hashrate. Currently, Cypherpunk accounts for approximately 20% of Zcash's total network hashrate; Fortitude stated that after its latest batch of equipment is deployed, its share will also reach roughly 20%.
According to CoinDesk, crypto infrastructure provider Zerohash has launched its AUTH service at the Money20/20 conference held in Las Vegas. When transferring crypto assets between linked exchange accounts and self-custody wallets, users no longer need to copy wallet addresses or select blockchain networks. The service supports cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and on-chain securities such as tokenized stocks, and can connect to more than 600 accounts and wallets, including Coinbase, Robinhood, Gemini, MetaMask, and Phantom, while Kraken remains in beta testing. Ryan Bordery, General Manager of AUTH, previously served as Executive Vice President of Open Finance Global Products and Operations at Mastercard.
Odaily News: New York federal district judge Alvin Hellerstein has denied the joint motion by Gemini and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to vacate a $5 million settlement agreement. Gemini and the CFTC had argued in May that the settlement reached in January 2025 violated fundamental principles of fair enforcement; the judge ruled that these grounds were insufficient to support vacating the settlement, noting that Gemini voluntarily signed the agreement three weeks before trial.
Google announced the release of its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, now available globally to developers and enterprises via the AI Studio and Gemini platform APIs, as well as to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers. The launch pricing is set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input tokens eligible for a 95% discount.
Blockchain.com is seeking approval in the U.S. market to launch prediction markets and crypto derivatives trading.
PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that on Polymarket, the probability of "Gemini 4.0 will be released before October 9" has fallen to 3%, down 47% in 24 hours.If Google officially releases Gemini 4.0 before the deadline and makes it available to the public, including a public beta or a rolling waitlist open for registration, the market will resolve to "Yes"; otherwise, it will resolve to "No".Gemini 4.0 must be explicitly released under that name, or officially recognized as the next-generation model after Gemini 3. Versions such as Gemini 3.0 Flash and Gemini 2.5 do not qualify.Closed testing, private access, and models that are not actually made available to the public do not count. If Google's official website clearly labels a qualifying version and the public can genuinely access it, this will also be considered a formal announcement.Resolution will primarily be based on official information from Google, with reference to the consensus of credible media reports.Join the PPP signal push community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
According to Cointelegraph, a Zcash ETF backed by the Winklevosses has filed for registration with the SEC, aiming to list on Nasdaq under the ticker WINK. The fund is slated to be custodied by Gemini Trust and carries no leverage risk.
Odaily reports: Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss said the current market hype around privacy coin Zcash is reminiscent of the 2019 crypto market, when Bitcoin had just emerged from the 2018 bear market and market attention shifted toward institutional infrastructure and custody.Zcash launched in 2016 and uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable private transactions. It has long faced regulatory scrutiny, and some exchanges have delisted it. According to CoinGecko data, the price of ZEC rose from about $511 in January 2026 to $1,335.51 on September 16. Since receiving approval from New York State in 2018, Gemini has become the first licensed exchange to offer Zcash trading and custody services.
Odaily News: Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has switched its Zcash system operating software from Zebra to Zakura, reducing the time required for nodes to catch up with the network state from nearly a day to just over 6 hours.The switch was made ahead of Zcash's planned NU7 upgrade. The upgrade aims to reduce block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, requiring network computers to process transactions at three times the previous frequency.Developers aim to implement the mainnet upgrade on November 5, but Gemini has not yet published performance test results for Zakura under the faster block production frequency. (CoinDesk)
According to TechStartups, Google plans to launch the first experimental satellite for Project Suncatcher on October 1 to test the feasibility of operating AI computing infrastructure in space. Approximately the size of a refrigerator, the satellite will carry four Google TPUs to run Gemini workloads in low Earth orbit hundreds of miles above Earth. It will be deployed on the Transporter-18 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Partnering with satellite company Planet, Google will deploy AI hardware on an existing satellite platform, advancing the first in-orbit hardware test originally scheduled for 2027 by several months. The satellite's solar array is expected to provide approximately 1 kilowatt of power. Due to thermal dissipation limitations in space, the TPUs can currently run Gemini workloads for only about 15 minutes per session before requiring a pause to allow the thermal management system to recover. Google has previously conducted vibration and radiation testing on the Trillium TPU, and plans to explore building large-scale space-based AI computing clusters in the future using solar-powered satellites, TPUs, and high-speed optical communications.
B.AI announced a major upgrade to its Responses API, now fully compatible with upstream standard protocols. Existing models on the platform can be uniformly accessed via the /v1/responses endpoint, provided the upstream supports the Responses API. Furthermore, any new models from already-integrated vendors added by B.AI will automatically achieve seamless compatibility within the Codex client without requiring additional configuration from developers. This update expands support in the official API full-access tier to include the MiMo, Qwen, and Hunyuan model series, while the Mix and OL Station custom-provider discounted tier now adds support for the OpenAI, Gemini, and Grok model series. By simply completing a minimal configuration of the API Key and Base URL, developers can seamlessly integrate the capabilities of major models into their daily workflows.
Google DeepMind has released two text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. According to the official description, the new models support designing voices from scratch using natural language prompts or cloning them with a 30-second sample. They also provide line-by-line performance guidance, long-form audio generation, and dual-speaker scenario orchestration, covering more than 100 languages.
X has announced the launch of the X Cashtag Partner Program in the United States, adding a "Trade" entry point to Cashtags. After users click on a supported stock, ETF, or cryptocurrency Cashtag, they can view asset price charts and related posts, and via "Trade" be redirected to partner brokerages to complete transactions. The first batch of partner brokerages includes Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase.
X announced the launch of the "Ticker Tag (Cashtag) Partnership Program" in the United States, with initial partners including Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase. Upon clicking a supported ticker tag, users can view price charts and discussions for the associated asset, and navigate to the partner platforms' apps or websites via a newly added "Trade" option to complete transactions after logging in or creating an account. Transactions are directly processed by the partner brokerages or platforms.
Odaily reports: Coinbase posted on X platform stating that it has become one of the first partners of the X Cashtag program. X announced the launch of the X Cashtag partner program in the United States, allowing users to click on stock, ETF, and cryptocurrency tickers in their timeline to view price charts and related posts, and through the "Trade" option, jump to participating brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase to complete transactions.
Odaily News: According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, last week's escalation of geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East combined with U.S. core inflation exceeding expectations significantly heightened global market volatility. Brent crude and WTI crude surged 8.33% and 9.36% respectively, returning above $100 per barrel; U.S. August core CPI rose 0.29% month-over-month, higher than expected, pushing the 10-year Treasury yield to 4.97%, with market-implied probability of a September rate hike rising to approximately 86%; spot gold fell 1.82% to $4,349.42 per ounce. U.S. stock indices — the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones — declined 0.80%, 0.66%, and 1.57% respectively; the crypto market weakened in tandem, with BTC and ETH dropping 4.4% and 1.5% respectively. Spot BTC ETFs saw net outflows of $462.7 million, while ETH ETFs recorded net inflows of $197.1 million. The fear index dropped from 71 to 57, indicating a cooling of market sentiment.On the industry front, India launched a $107 million tokenized corporate bond pilot program, further advancing institutional-grade RWA tokenization; Gemini obtained a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, further expanding its regulatory footprint in the Asia-Pacific region; and the Philippine central bank plans to suspend new payment system operator registrations for 12 months, tightening oversight of VASP-related payment activities.On the funding side, a total of 9 financing deals were completed last week, with disclosed total funding reaching $158.4 million, down 88% quarter-over-quarter. Overall, energy prices and inflation expectations remain the core variables driving short-term market trends, while interest in tokenized assets and institutional-grade crypto infrastructure development remains undiminished.
Odaily reports: Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), enabling it to provide digital payment token and cross-border transfer services.The license supports Gemini in offering spot trading, custody, and over-the-counter (OTC) services to both retail and institutional clients. Gemini has been serving customers in Singapore since 2020.Gemini co-founder and President Cameron Winklevoss stated that obtaining the license reflects the company's commitment to the Singapore market. Co-founder and CEO Tyler Winklevoss said Singapore will serve as the company's regional strategic hub. (Bitcoin.com News)
Google announced that its personal agent, Gemini Spark, can now manage your Google Photos library. The new feature supports editing images, curating albums, automatically creating shared albums, converting concert poster photos into calendar events, and running workflows. This feature will roll out to US subscribers of Gemini AI Pro and Ultra in English over the coming weeks. To use it, you need to connect Google Photos to Gemini and enable Spark in the app.
The B.AI platform has announced that Google DeepMind's latest Gemini 3.8 Flash model is now officially available via API. As the newest generation of core models in the Gemini 3 family, Gemini 3.8 Flash significantly enhances capabilities in software engineering, agent tasks, and multi-step reasoning across professional domains, while maintaining the Flash series' hallmark cost efficiency and low latency. It also delivers outstanding performance in specialized fields such as finance and law. The model supports a 1M token context window and native multimodal input, and is deeply optimized for complex reasoning and long-running agent workflows. Official API access is now open with exclusive discounts available.