A daily brief · crypto + AI

TrustCore Media

Monday, October 5, 2026

Edition · 200 items · 4:30 AM ET

Calm signal from the crypto and AI firehoses — hand-picked from 14 sources, every morning. No commentary, just what moved.

Crypto · lede

Bitcoin ETFs notch third inflow week as Ether ETFs shed $138M

Bitcoin ETF inflows reached a third straight week, while Ether ETFs swung to outflows and Zcash funds posted their first weekly outflow.

CoinTelegraph · 30 minutes ago

AI · lede

Switched my local agent from Qwen3.8 27B to Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B on two 5070 Tis: about 180 tok/s vs 60, same scores on my tests

My setup is two RTX 5070 Ti 16GB cards (the second one is on an OCuLink dock) with 64GB of RAM, Ollama on Windows, and the agent runs on pi in WSL. Until last night the daily model was Qwen3.8 27B UD-

LocalLLaMA (Reddit) · 44 minutes ago

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