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Overview Meta shares rallied on Monday, October 12. The Motley Fool's intraday record shows the stock up as much as 4.7% before settling at roughly $742.96, a gain of 3.38% at 2:56 p.m. Eastern, for a market capitalization near $1.9 trillion and a price close to the top of a 52-week range running from $520.26 to $779.82. The catalyst was specific: Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full that morning. What repriced was not a product launch so much as a question that has hung over the stock

Overview Ethereum's next mainnet upgrade has reached public testnets. According to Crypto Briefing, the Sepolia testnet activated Glamsterdam on October 6, 2026 at 13:53:36 UTC, at epoch 353,024, opening an optional block gas limit of 200,000,000 against a previous ceiling near 60 million, more than a threefold increase in block processing budget. The qualifier matters: that figure is a testnet parameter. Mainnet gas limits have not changed, and no mainnet activation date has been set. What draw

Overview Solana completed its most closely watched parameter change of the year on October 9. According to Solana's official upgrade page, the final step of SIMD-0525 took effect on mainnet at epoch 1053, around 14:35 UTC, cutting the target slot time from 400ms to 200ms. The network now has roughly five block production opportunities per second instead of about 2.5, and produces twice as many blocks per day. The reflexive reading is that Solana just doubled its throughput. That reading is wrong

Overview Bitcoin fell from roughly $84,200 to $81,382 on October 12. The Block, citing CoinGlass data, reported $771 million in market-wide liquidations over 24 hours, of which $685.6 million came from long positions. The same report noted US spot bitcoin ETFs saw $681.1 million in net outflows the prior week, their worst since late June. Prices recovered the next day, with Analytics Insight citing CoinGecko putting BTC at $83,749.87 on the morning of October 13 after an intraday dip toward $81,

Overview A mainstream 270 TH/s mining rig currently grosses about $10.5 a day. That figure comes straight off the live dashboard at Luxor's Hashrate Index, where hashprice sits at $39.05 per PH/s per day, network hashrate runs near 1,014 EH/s and projected difficulty stands at 132.72 T. Bitcoin itself traded around $83,750 on October 13 according to CoinGecko data, after dipping toward $81,000 intraday. Price is not far off its highs. Miner revenue per unit of hashrate is close to its lows. The

Overview As of roughly 07:00 UTC on October 13, with the chain at block 971,119, moving bitcoin on-chain costs almost nothing. The recommended fee endpoint at mempool.space puts the next-block tier at 6 sat/vB, the half-hour tier at 5, the hour tier at 4, the economy tier at 2 and the floor at 1. A standard single-input, two-output native SegWit payment occupies about 140.75 vB, so the fastest tier works out to roughly 844 satoshis, or under $0.70 with BTC near $83,368. The number that misleads

TSMC (TSM) reports third-quarter 2026 results on Thursday, October 15, with its earnings conference starting at 14:00 Taiwan time (02:00 ET).Unlike most companies, TSMC has already told the market its revenue: monthly sales put Q3 at a record NT$1.494 trillion, above the top of its own guidance.That shifts the focus of the call to three questions: whether margins held up through the 2nm ramp, how strong fourth-quarter guidance will be, and whether capital spending keeps rising. When does TSMC re

Lumentum (LITE) fell 9.78% to $995.41 on October 12, 2026, in a sector-wide selloff across AI optical networking stocks, with no company-specific bad news behind the move.Ciena (CIEN), one of Lumentum's long-standing customers, dropped 9.95% to $405.01 in the same session.The pressure carried past the close: MEXC's LITE perpetual futures, which trade around the clock, were still about 1.25% below the Nasdaq close during Asian hours on October 13.Why did Lumentum stock fall on October 12?The sell

VZ crashes 10.14% to $41.65 after SpaceX's $8B spectrum deal puts Starlink Mobile in direct competition with carriers Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) suffered its worst single-day decline in more than two decades, closing at $41.65, down $4.70, or 10.14%, on volume of 88.6 million shares, roughly 286% above its three-month average. The move was triggered by SpaceX's agreement to acquire Grain Management's nationwide 800 MHz low-band spectrum in a deal worth approximately $8 billion, positionin

IntroductionAmerican Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT), one of the world's largest cell tower REITs, just delivered its best single session in years. After grinding lower for most of September on rising bond yields, AMT stock ripped higher over six straight sessions, capped by a single-day gain of 9.3% that carried shares from a 52-week low near $160 to a close of $182.24 on Friday, October 9, 2026.That kind of move in a normally slow-moving REIT is unusual, and it raises the obvious question: is th