<p dir="ltr"><strong>The token behind ResearchHub</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">ResearchHub launched in 2019 to fix some long-standing problems in how science gets published and funded. Peer reviewers usually work for free, papers can take years to publish, much of the research sits behind paywalls, and grant money often goes to overhead instead of experiments.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On ResearchHub, research is published openly, reviewers are paid, and funders can back studies through a public marketplace. Researchers register their study design before they start, proposals go through open peer review, funders commit capital, and the results are linked back to the original proposal.</p>
<p dir="ltr">ResearchCoin (RSC) is an ERC20 token on Ethereum and is how the platform rewards funding, reviewing, replicating, and discussing the work that advances science.&nbsp;</p>
<p dir="ltr">$RSC powers:</p>
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<li><strong>Endowments: </strong>Allowing committed funds to continue earning to allow more dollars to go toward sceience over time.<strong> </strong>&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Bounties:</strong> Rewarding the work moving research forward. Researchers use RSC bounties to reward peer review, replication, data and useful discussion.&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Self-funding:</strong> Resarchers who earn RSC from their contributions can put it back into their own proposals and bounties.</li>
</ol>
<p dir="ltr">Whether you&rsquo;re new to crypto or already trading, $RSC is now available to trade in your Blockchain Trading Account.</p>
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RSC is now live in your Blockchain Trading Account. Trade the token behind ResearchHub, the open science platform that pays researchers for peer review.

Trade ResearchCoin (RSC) on Blockchain.com

ResearchCoin ($RSC) is now available in your Blockchain Trading Account. Trade the token behind ResearchHub, an open science platform that pays researchers for peer review and connects funders directly with research.

RSC now available on Blockchain

<h2><strong>Summary</strong></h2>
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<p>Blockchain welcomes Lisa Nelson, former Microsoft executive, and Luis Berruga, former Global X ETFs CEO, to its board of directors.</p>
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<p>Blockchain, a global leader in crypto services for retail and institutional users, today announced the appointments of former Microsoft executive, Lisa Nelson, and former Global X ETFs CEO, Luis Berruga, to its board of directors.</p>
<p>Nelson and Berruga&rsquo;s appointments add further diversity of background and expertise in scaling technology, traditional finance and digital assets growth companies to Blockchain's board.</p>
<p>With respective experience operating or serving on the boards of publicly traded companies like Microsoft and SOL Strategies, Nelson and Berruga strengthen the board&rsquo;s expertise in corporate governance, financial oversight, strategic growth and emerging technologies.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The exceptional caliber and strength of our board already stands out in the digital assets industry and reflects the ambition of Blockchain.com,&rdquo;<strong> said Peter Smith, Executive Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blockchain.com. </strong>&ldquo;Lisa and Luis bring complementary experience across global finance, technology and scaling growth companies. Their diverse perspectives will be invaluable as we continue to scale our own business."</p>
<p>&ldquo;Digital assets are moving from the margins of finance toward its core, and that shift will reward companies that earn trust at scale. Blockchain.com has done that for 15 years, across every market cycle,&rdquo; <strong>said Lisa Nelson, Board Director of Blockchain.com.</strong> &ldquo;I&rsquo;m honored to join the board and help guide its next chapter, building on that foundation with rigor and a relentless focus on customers seeking modern solutions to archaic, legacy financial services.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Sitting at the intersection of traditional finance and decentralized finance for much of my recent work, it&rsquo;s clear that more assets of all types are going to move onchain,&rdquo;<strong> said Luis Berruga, Board Director of Blockchain.com. </strong>&ldquo;Blockchain.com is perfectly positioned to help connect traditional financial markets with the growing onchain economy. I&rsquo;m very much looking forward to helping scale the business alongside the rest of the board and management team.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Nelson currently serves on the boards of Banqer Software, Spark New Zealand and Brooks Running. She also advises several venture funds and early-stage tech startups around the world. Nelson is an almost 15-year veteran of Microsoft, where she held executive positions in finance, investor relations, and business development. She also co-founded Microsoft&rsquo;s first venture fund, M12, and as its managing director, helped deploy hundreds of millions of dollars in funding across more than 80 startups globally. Nelson is a CPA and began her career at EY.</p>
<p>Berruga also serves as an independent director of Sol Strategies, lead independent trustee and audit committee chairman of the Tidal ETF platform, an independent trustee of KraneShares ETFs, and an independent director of the VistaOne Fund by Vista Equity Partners. He was also CEO and board chair of Global X ETFs, which he scaled from a startup into a leading ETF platform, with assets under management of $85 billion across more than 150 ETFs on four continents. Earlier in his career, Berruga spent time at Jefferies and Morgan Stanley.</p>

New appointments strengthen leadership expertise across finance, technology, and digital assets.

Blockchain Appoints Lisa Nelson and Luis Berruga to Board of Directors

<h2><strong>Summary</strong></h2>
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<p><strong>24/7 Trading:</strong> New institutional trading API provides direct access to deep principal liquidity across major cryptocurrencies, altcoins, stablecoins, and fiat currencies.</p>
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<p><strong>Seamless Execution:</strong> Automated trading through a single API that integrates with existing client trading systems and reduces operational complexity.</p>
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<p><strong>Flexible Trading Options:</strong> Transparent all-in pricing, executable quotes, and flexible settlement, including trading without pre-funding for eligible clients.</p>
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<p>As institutional crypto trading continues to evolve, so does the need for more tech-enabled, efficient ways to trade digital assets. That's why we're expanding our Institutional Prime Brokerage offering with the launch of <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/institutional/api-trading">API Trading</a>, giving clients direct access to our deep principal liquidity through a single API.</p>
<p>Built to integrate with existing trading systems, API Trading offers institutions a streamlined way to trade digital assets while maintaining flexibility and control over execution.</p>
<h2><strong>Institutional Trading, Simplified.&nbsp;</strong></h2>
<h2><strong>Here are the key benefits of API Trading:</strong></h2>
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<p>Access to deep principal liquidity across major cryptocurrencies, altcoins, stablecoins, and fiat currencies.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Automated 24/7 trading through a single API that integrates with existing trading systems.</p>
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<p>Transparent pricing that&rsquo;s competitive and all-in, along with executable quotes.</p>
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<p>Flexible settlement, including trading without pre-funding for eligible clients.</p>
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<p>The offering complements our existing high-touch OTC voice and chat services, giving institutions greater control over how they trade while maintaining access to personalized trading support when needed.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The launch also builds on our broader Institutional Prime Brokerage and <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/institutional/otc-trading">OTC trading</a> offerings, which include OTC spot and derivatives trading, custody, staking, and yield generation for hedge funds, family offices, corporations, and other institutions. With API Trading, clients can look forward to easier and more efficient access to a broad range of digital assets, all through one unified trading relationship.</p>
<p><strong>Interested in API Trading?</strong> Visit <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/institutional/api-trading">www.blockchain.com/institutional/api-trading</a> to learn more and request access to API documentation, or reach out to a sales representative for more information.</p>

New API Trading enables 24/7 automated execution with firm quotes, transparent pricing, and flexible settlement through a single API

Expanding Institutional Access to Deep Crypto Market Liquidity Through API-Powered Trading

<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Summary</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Open Network (TON) is now supported in the Blockchain DeFi Wallet, extending Blockchain&rsquo;s track record of partnering and supporting the TON ecosystem.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Customers can hold, send, and receive GRAM plus 75 supported tokens on the TON network, directly from their self-custody DeFi Wallet.</span></p>
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<h2 style="margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Why TON matters</span></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">For many in the industry, there are a small handful of protocols and tokens that have an opportunity to reach critical mass and become ubiquitous digital assets. BTC, ETH and SOL are the usual suspects, but there&rsquo;s one other flying stealthily just under the radar: TON.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://ton.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">The Open Network (TON)</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> is a layer-1 blockchain built for fast, scalable transactions that is closely tied to messaging app Telegram, which TON says has more than 1 billion active users globally. This year, the TON community approved renaming the network&rsquo;s native token from </span><a href="https://www.blockchain.com/learning-portal/tokens/toncoin-explained" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">Toncoin</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> to GRAM, and Telegram has made GRAM the exclusive non-fiat payment method across its apps and wallet, providing an unparalleled distribution channel in crypto.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">There&rsquo;s also the </span><a href="https://ton.foundation/en" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">TON Foundation</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">, a non-profit organization set up in 2023 to broadly grow the open source TON ecosystem inside and outside Telegram, along with </span><a href="https://www.tonstrat.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">TON Strategy Co.</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> (Nasdaq: TONX), a publicly traded digital asset treasury company that holds GRAM and stakes it to earn rewards.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Blockchain and TON go way back</span></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Our work with TON started years ago, and we&rsquo;ve had a number of significant milestones intertwined with the TON ecosystem.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">A large number of early TON investors counted on Blockchain for custodying and staking locked or <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/gram-vesting" rel="follow">vesting Toncoin</a>. In fact, Blockchain was one of the first institutional staking validators for TON.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">In 2023, Blockchain and the TON Foundation announced a collaboration to bring Toncoin to our users, with GBP, USD and EUR pairs. We were proud to be one of the first major crypto platforms &ndash; well ahead of many of our peers &ndash; to list TON.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Then, last year, as part of our </span><a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-launches-digital-asset-treasury-solutions" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">broader Digital Assets Treasury Solutions</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> strategy, Blockchain took part in the </span><a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/verb-technology-company-nasdaq-verb-announces-approximately-558-million-private" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">private placement</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> forming TON Strategy Co., the first public company to hold Toncoin (now GRAM) as its primary treasury asset. Nic Cary, our co-founder and vice chairman, now sits on the TON Strategy Co. board. You can hear Nic and Manuel Stotz, executive chairman of TON Strategy Co., talk all things TON </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRXSJ28KA84" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">on a podcast episode</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> recorded not long after the news.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Our CEO Peter Smith&rsquo;s quote at the time of the announcement still rings true today: </span><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">&ldquo;The TON ecosystem marks a major step in global crypto adoption, and I'm proud we&rsquo;re leading efforts to drive investment in the future of digital commerce.&rdquo;</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></em></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Fast-forward to present day, and we continue to serve as a key staking and custodial partner to institutional GRAM holders and supporters of TON. </span><a href="mailto:institutional.sales@blockchain.com" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">Get in touch</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> to learn more about GRAM staking.</span></p>
<h2 style="margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">What&rsquo;s new</span></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Now, we&rsquo;re pushing TON even further. TON has joined the </span><a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/robinhood-chain-now-in-your-defi-wallet" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">growing list of networks</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> in our DeFi Wallet, part of our commitment to expand multichain support.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">That means if you already hold assets on TON, you can now bring them into your Blockchain DeFi Wallet and manage them alongside the rest of your portfolio.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">At launch, TON network tokens can be held, sent, and received. That&rsquo;s full, self-custodied control over GRAM and 75 supported tokens on the TON network. Open your DeFi Wallet in the Blockchain app, and quickly and easily bring GRAM and other TON assets over today.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">TON has come a long way, and yet there&rsquo;s still strong potential for it to accelerate decentralized finance within Telegram, in emerging markets, and even in major geographies like the U.S. where TON is gradually making a name for itself. We&rsquo;re excited to continue unlocking that potential as close partners and supporters of everything happening across the TON ecosystem.</span></p>

Building on years of collaboration, Blockchain continues to expand access to the TON ecosystem and advance multichain adoption.

TON Comes to the DeFi Wallet, Extending Blockchain’s Leadership in the TON Ecosystem

Building on years of collaboration, Blockchain continues to expand access to TON and advance multichain adoption on its DeFi Wallet

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<h2 id="user-content-highlights">Highlights</h2>
<h3 id="user-content-voice-mode-oct-14">Voice mode (Oct 14)</h3>
<p>You can now talk to June out loud. With the composer empty, the Send button becomes the&nbsp;<strong>Voice mode</strong>&nbsp;button. There are two styles:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li><strong>Standard.</strong>&nbsp;June transcribes what you say, answers with your chat model, and reads the answer aloud. You pick the&nbsp;<strong>Listening</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Speaking</strong>&nbsp;models and a&nbsp;<strong>Voice</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Realtime.</strong>&nbsp;One speech-to-speech model, Gemini Live or Grok Voice, listens and answers directly, for faster and more natural back-and-forth. It hands harder questions to your chat model.</li>
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<p>You can interrupt June by speaking, mute yourself, or go full screen with live captions. Voice mode needs a signed-in account. Standard is billed per turn, like a normal message plus speech. Realtime is billed by the length of the session.</p>
<h3 id="user-content-speech-transcription-and-music-oct-14">Speech, transcription and music (Oct 14)</h3>
<p>The model selector has a new&nbsp;<strong>Audio</strong> tab, with three kinds of request:</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li><strong>Speech</strong>&nbsp;turns your text into spoken audio, in a voice you choose.</li>
<li><strong>Transcription</strong>&nbsp;turns a recording into text. Attach a video and June transcribes its soundtrack.</li>
<li><strong>Music</strong>&nbsp;turns a description of genre, mood, instruments and tempo into a track, as a&nbsp;<strong>Song</strong>&nbsp;with vocals or an&nbsp;<strong>Instrumental</strong>.</li>
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<h3 id="user-content-a-faster-june-oct-1629">A faster June (Oct 16&ndash;29)</h3>
<p>We spent the second half of the month making June quicker everywhere:</p>
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<li><strong>Replies start about twice as fast.</strong>&nbsp;The typical wait for the first word fell from 0.53 s to 0.29 s.</li>
<li><strong>The chat page loads faster.</strong> 75% of visits now look ready within 1.8 s, down from 3.2 s.</li>
<li><strong>Each message reaches the model sooner.</strong>&nbsp;The app keeps one connection open for the whole chat, instead of opening a new one for every message.</li>
<li><strong>Opening a saved chat downloads less</strong>&nbsp;before your messages appear.</li>
<li><strong>Typing stays smooth while a long reply streams</strong>, and the model menu opens faster.</li>
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<h2 id="user-content-model-catalogue">Model catalogue</h2>
<h3 id="user-content-chat-models">Chat models</h3>
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<th scope="col" data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;">Replaces</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="" style="width: 554.281px;">Notes</th>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">GPT 6.1 Sol</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;">GPT 6 Sol</td>
<td style="width: 554.281px;">Reasoning can no longer be turned off.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">Claude Haiku 5.5</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;">Claude Haiku 4.5</td>
<td style="width: 554.281px;">Much cheaper per message, and now supports reasoning.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 15</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">Gemini 4 Argon</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;">Gemini 3.1 Pro</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 15</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">Muse Wonder</td>
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<td style="width: 554.281px;">New. Meta's top model. Pro. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 15</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">Gemma 4 31B</td>
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<td style="width: 554.281px;">Removed. Qwen3.8 27B is smarter, faster and cheaper.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 20</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">June</td>
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<td style="width: 554.281px;">Moved to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's 17 Oct checkpoint. Reasoning can now be turned off.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 20</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">DeepSeek V4.1 Flash</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;"></td>
<td style="width: 554.281px;">Moved to the 17 Oct checkpoint. Reasoning can now be turned off.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 27</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">Kimi K3.1 Pro</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;">Kimi K3</td>
<td style="width: 554.281px;">Smarter and cheaper, but slower.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 27</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">MiniMax M3.1 Flash</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;">GLM 5.3 Flash</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 554.281px;">Faster.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 27</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">GPT 6.1 Terra</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 109.766px;"></td>
<td style="width: 554.281px;">New. Sits between GPT 6.1 Sol and GPT 6 Luna. First Terra model since GPT 5.6. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 44.1719px;">Oct 27</td>
<td data-short="" style="width: 134.828px;">Muse Spark 1.3</td>
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<td data-short="" style="width: 554.281px;">Removed.</td>
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<h4 id="user-content-price-changes">Price changes</h4>
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<li><strong>Oct 15.</strong>&nbsp;Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Haiku 5.5 cost fewer credits per message in longer chats. June now uses Anthropic's prompt caching, so the parts of a chat Claude has already read cost much less on the next message. Other models also reuse more of each chat than before.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 20.</strong>&nbsp;June and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost fewer credits per message, because the newer checkpoint is cheaper to run.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="user-content-image-models">Image models</h3>
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<th scope="col" data-short="">Model</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Replaces</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Notes</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Oct 21</td>
<td data-short="">Nano Banana 2.1</td>
<td data-short="">Nano Banana 2</td>
<td data-short="">Better and cheaper.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Oct 21</td>
<td data-short="">Qwen Image 2.1</td>
<td data-short="">Qwen Image 3</td>
<td>Open weights. Available in Privacy+.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Oct 21</td>
<td data-short="">Seedream 5 Pro</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td data-short="">Removed.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Oct 21</td>
<td data-short="">Grok Imagine 2</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>Removed. Grok Imagine 1 stays.</td>
</tr>
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<td data-short="">Oct 21</td>
<td data-short="">HiDream O1</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td data-short="">Removed.</td>
</tr>
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<th scope="col" data-short="">Notes</th>
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<td data-short="">Oct 27</td>
<td data-short="">Flux.3 Max</td>
<td data-short="">Flux.3</td>
<td>About six times faster.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 27</td>
<td>Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite</td>
<td data-short="">Veo 3.1 Lite</td>
<td>Our cheapest video model. Sound is always on.</td>
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<h4 id="user-content-other-changes">Other changes</h4>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li><strong>Oct 14.</strong>&nbsp;MiniMax H3 Max and PixVerse V6 can now&nbsp;<strong>Extend</strong>&nbsp;a video, adding new footage to its end. MiniMax H3, MiniMax H3 Max and Seedance 2.5 take short audio clips as references, such as a voice or music to guide the video's sound.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 27.</strong> Five new request types. <strong>Edit</strong>&nbsp;changes an uploaded video's own frames, for example "make it night" (Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, Kling O3 Standard, Seedance 2.5 and Wan 2.2 A14B).&nbsp;<strong>Audio</strong>&nbsp;makes a video timed to an uploaded soundtrack (LTX-2.5).&nbsp;<strong>Lip Sync</strong>&nbsp;makes a face in a photo speak an audio clip (MiniMax H3 Max and Wan 2.2 A14B).&nbsp;<strong>Recast</strong>&nbsp;swaps the person in a video for one from a photo, and&nbsp;<strong>Motion Transfer</strong>&nbsp;makes a character copy a video's motion (both Wan 2.2 A14B). Wan 2.2 A14B's versions work in Privacy+.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 27.</strong>&nbsp;<strong>First Frame</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>First &amp; Last Frames</strong>&nbsp;are now one request type,&nbsp;<strong>Frames</strong>, with an optional last frame. Reference images and reference videos are now one request type,&nbsp;<strong>References</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 27.</strong>&nbsp;MiniMax H3 Max references can take a first and last frame for the video to open and close on. Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 now takes up to 10 reference images, up from 3.</li>
</ul>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">Kokoro 82M</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Speech. Open weights.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">Eleven v4 Turbo</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td data-short="">New. Speech.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td>Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td data-short="">New. Speech.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">MAI-Transcribe-2</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td data-short="">New. Transcription.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td>Gemini 3.5 Transcribe</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Transcription. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td>Whisper Large v3 Turbo</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Transcription. Open weights.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">ACE-Step</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Music. Open weights.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td>Stable Audio 3 Medium</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Music, instrumentals only. Open weights.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">Lyria 3.5</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Music. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">Mureka V9.5</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Music. Pro. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 3.8 Live</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Realtime voice. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td>Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. Realtime voice. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 15</td>
<td data-short="">Grok Voice 3.0</td>
<td>Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0</td>
<td>xAI retired version 2.0.</td>
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</table>
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<li><strong>Oct 21. GPT Image 2.5 Flare, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Nano Banana 2 Lite are now for Pro users and above.</strong>&nbsp;We keep the most expensive models for Pro users and above, and these three are now in that group. On all plans, Muse Image, Qwen Image 2.1, Grok Imagine, Ideogram 4 and Flux.2 [dev] Turbo remain.</li>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-sol-latest</code>,&nbsp;<code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-terra-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Sol</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6.1 Sol</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 14</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">anthropic/claude-haiku-latest</code>,&nbsp;<code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">claude-haiku</code></td>
<td data-short="">Claude Haiku 4.5</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Haiku 5.5</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 15</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">google/gemini-pro-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 3.1 Pro</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 4 Argon</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 15</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">google/gemini-argon-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">New</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 4 Argon</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 15</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">meta/muse-wonder-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">New</td>
<td data-short="">Muse Wonder</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 27</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-terra-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6.1 Sol</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6.1 Terra</td>
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<td data-short="">Oct 27</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">meta/muse-spark-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">Muse Spark 1.3</td>
<td data-short="">Removed</td>
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<h2 id="user-content-everything-else">Everything else</h2>
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<li><strong>Oct 14. Send a message while June is still replying.</strong>&nbsp;It waits above the composer, where you can&nbsp;<strong>Send now</strong>, edit it or remove it.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 14. A stopped reply keeps its work.</strong>&nbsp;What June had written stays, and any step it was running is marked as stopped.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 15. Image, video and music generations now cost what they actually cost to run.</strong> The price shown before you send is an estimate, marked with ~. June takes those credits up front, then settles up against what the provider actually billed.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 16. AutoRouter picks a model faster.</strong>&nbsp;Auto now asks two fast decision models at once and takes the first answer. Typical routing time fell from about 0.6 s to 0.4 s, and the slowest from over 2 s to under 1 s.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 20. Compare image, video and audio models side by side.</strong>&nbsp;Turn on&nbsp;<strong>Multi-Model</strong>&nbsp;in the Image, Video or Audio tab and one prompt runs on each model you pick, with one card per model. Each card has its own&nbsp;<strong>Download</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Retry</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 20. Music, speech and transcription keep your points streak alive.</strong>&nbsp;Like images and video, they don't earn points of their own.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 20. Fewer failed images.</strong>&nbsp;A brief network problem while June checks on an image no longer fails the generation.</li>
<li><strong>Oct 29. AutoRouter uses the latest intelligence scores.</strong> It now ranks chat models on the newest version of Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index (v5.0).</li>
<li><strong>Oct 29. Fixed requests failing for some users.</strong>&nbsp;Certain cookies left by other sites made every request fail with an error. June now ignores cookies it doesn't use.</li>
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Voice mode, speech, transcription and music generation, a much faster June, and new models.

June Release Notes: October 2026

<h2 id="weve-added-robinhood-chain-to-the-blockchaincom-defi-wallet" data-lfile-container="daec010c-aa0c-425c-b5fb-4cc81c303dbe" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">We've added Robinhood Chain to the Blockchain.com DeFi Wallet</h2>
<p>We're expanding your options onchain. Starting today, Robinhood Chain is supported in the Blockchain DeFi Wallet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>This means you can now swap 190+ tokens on Robinhood Chain through our built-in DEX, and hold, send and receive them directly from your DeFi Wallet. They sit alongside the other networks you already use, like Ethereum, Solana and Bitcoin.</p>
<h2 id="why-robinhood-chain">Why Robinhood Chain?</h2>
<p>Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer 2 network built on Arbitrum technology. It was built to onboard traditional markets and real worlds assets onto a single network, facilitating continuous onchain trading for assets like equities and ETFs. Stock tokens are the focal point of this chain. The chain went live on public mainnet on 1 July 2026, after a public testnet that opened in February.</p>
<p>The network's differentiation from other layer-2s lies in its purpose for not just crypto activity, but for regulated financial assets, built to institution's standards. With fast block times and low-cost transactions that settle to Ethereum it has seen a spike in ecosystem growth of tokens and DeFi apps.&nbsp;</p>
<h2 id="whats-new-in-your-defi-wallet">What's new in your DeFi Wallet</h2>
<p>With this update, you can now:</p>
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<li>Swap 190+ tokens on Robinhood Chain through the integrated DEX, without leaving your wallet</li>
<li>Hold, send and receive tokens on Robinhood Chain</li>
<li>Stay in full control: the DeFi Wallet is self-custodial, so you hold the keys to your tokens</li>
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<p>No separate wallet needed.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<h2 id="the-future-is-multi-chain">The future is multi-chain</h2>
<p>We're committed to giving you access to the networks that matter, in one wallet you control. Adding Robinhood Chain is the next step toward a truly multi-chain DeFi experience.</p>
<p>Stay tuned. There's more on the way.</p>
<p><em></em></p>
<p><em>Important Note:<br>This information is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for obtaining accounting, tax or financial advice from a professional advisor. The purchase of crypto entails risk. The value of crypto can fluctuate and capital involved in a crypto transaction is subject to market volatility and loss. Digital currencies are not bank deposits, are not legal tender, and are not backed by the government. Blockchain.com&rsquo;s products and services are not subject to any governmental or government-backed deposit protection schemes. Legislative and regulatory changes or actions in any jurisdiction in which Blockchain.com&rsquo;s customers are located may adversely affect the use, transfer, exchange, and value of digital currencies.</em></p>

Robinhood Chain is now in the Blockchain.com DeFi Wallet. Swap 190+ tokens via our built-in DEX, and hold, send and receive them in one self-custody wallet.

Robinhood Chain: Available in your DeFi Wallet

Robinhood Chain is now supported in the Blockchain.com DeFi Wallet. Swap 190+ tokens on the network through our integrated DEX, and hold, send and receive them alongside your other assets, all while keeping full control of your keys.

Robinhood Chain: Now in your DeFi Wallet

<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">At Blockchain, we pride ourselves on giving our customers maximum freedom &ndash; freedom in what they trade, when they trade, and how they trade. Today, we&rsquo;re giving traders even more choice in how they invest by launching options in the Blockchain Trading Account.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Options let traders express a view on both price direction and timing&mdash;and we&rsquo;ve designed the experience to make that process more straightforward.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Choose an expiry date and target price for a digital asset, enter your trade amount, and review before confirming&mdash;simple as that. The app translates your view into the corresponding call or put option, so you can focus on the market rather than structuring the trade.</span></p>
<h2 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Many options for trading options</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">At launch, eligible users can buy call and put options on Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Avalanche (AVAX), XRP, and TRON (TRX). Live market prices appear in the trading experience for real-time visibility, and trades are funded upfront in USDC from your Trading Account.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Because you&rsquo;re buying options rather than trading on margin, the amount you pay upfront is your maximum potential loss. Options in the app will initially have expiries of up to one week and must be held through settlement.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Options follow our </span><a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-launches-perps-from-your-trading-wallet" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">introduction of perpetual futures trading</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;"> earlier this year. As with perps, the options product is available to eligible users in supported jurisdictions, though we look forward to expanding availability soon.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Important Note:</span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">This information is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for obtaining accounting, tax or financial advice from a professional advisor. The purchase of crypto entails risk. The value of crypto can fluctuate and capital involved in a crypto transaction is subject to market volatility and loss. Digital currencies are not bank deposits, are not legal tender, and are not backed by the government. Blockchain.com&rsquo;s products and services are not subject to any governmental or government-backed deposit protection schemes. Legislative and regulatory changes or actions in any jurisdiction in which Blockchain.com&rsquo;s customers are located may adversely affect the use, transfer, exchange, and value of digital currencies.</span></em></p>

A simpler way for eligible users to trade short-term crypto market views with defined risk.

Now Presenting Options Trading in the Blockchain App

<p>It&rsquo;s 2011. A small apartment in York, England. Inclement weather outside. Inside, a wild and fiery belief that a new thing called crypto was going to change the world. Amid these conditions, Blockchain was forged, with a vision toward greater human economic freedom.</p>
<p>Cut to 2026 and digital assets have indeed changed the financial world, and in the process, Blockchain has dramatically changed too. Today we&rsquo;re celebrating our fifteenth birthday &ndash; one of the very oldest in the industry &ndash; so it&rsquo;s a fitting occasion to look back on how far we&rsquo;ve come. Some of the highlights along the way:&nbsp;</p>
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<p><strong>2011</strong> &mdash; Blockchain.info launches the world&rsquo;s first Bitcoin explorer and quickly becomes the most visited crypto website in the world.</p>
<p><strong>2012</strong> &mdash; First hybrid cloud Bitcoin wallet launched.</p>
<p><strong>2013</strong> &mdash; Wallet surpasses 500,000 users.</p>
<p><strong>2014</strong> &mdash; 10 weeks later, 1M+ wallet milestone eclipsed.</p>
<p><strong>2015 </strong>&mdash; Wallet surpasses 5M users.</p>
<p><strong>2016</strong> &mdash; Wallet grows to 10M users.</p>
<p><strong>2017</strong> &mdash; $40M Series B raised.</p>
<p><strong>2018</strong> &mdash; Institutional OTC trading desk launched.</p>
<p><strong>2019</strong> &mdash; Blockchain.com Exchange launched.</p>
<p><strong>2020</strong> &mdash; Reward Accounts introduced.</p>
<p><strong>2021</strong> &mdash; $300M Series C completed.</p>
<p><strong>2022</strong> &mdash; First crypto company to partner with an NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys.</p>
<p><strong>2023</strong> &mdash; $110M Series E secured.</p>
<p><strong>2024</strong> &mdash; New web wallet launched.</p>
<p><strong>2025</strong> &mdash; MiCA authorisation secured in EU. Total wallets exceed 90M.</p>
<p><strong>2026</strong> &mdash; Perpetual futures, crypto-backed loans, fixed-term rewards, prediction markets, and Blockchain Wealth all launched.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>The Blockchain you see today is the work of an extraordinary team, past and present. Engineers, operators, compliance professionals, designers, and customer-facing colleagues in dozens of countries who have spent years of their lives dedicated to our mission. We&rsquo;re grateful for them every day, and proud of all that we&rsquo;ve built together.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For our customers, our work over the years has created safer places to store value and pass it on. For others, it means executing digital asset trades directly, with full visibility, instead of waiting on intermediaries who profit from that wait. For builders, it has meant infrastructure that lets a new crypto company become competitive in months or even weeks. The continued key to unlocking all of this potential is the same one we started with back in York, a decade and a half ago: Putting financial agency back in the hands of the person whose money it is.</p>
<p>We thank all our customers, partners and team members for supporting us and going on this amazing journey together. There is so much more to come in the next 15 years.</p>
<p>Onwards.</p>
<p></p>

Celebrating a decade and a half of innovation, growth, and milestones as Blockchain continues its mission to expand financial freedom around

Around the Block: 15 years of Blockchain

Celebrating a decade and a half of innovation, growth, and milestones as Blockchain continues its mission to expand financial freedom around the world.

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<p>Blockchain, a global leader in crypto services for retail and institutional users, today announced that it has filed applications for registration as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and designation as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).</p>
<p>If approved, the registrations would allow Blockchain to bring regulated crypto derivatives like futures and options as well as prediction market contracts to U.S. retail and institutional customers, expanding the range of markets accessible through its platform.</p>
<p>U.S. traders navigate an increasingly fragmented landscape, often using separate platforms to access crypto and prediction markets. Blockchain is seeking to change that by bringing these markets together through one integrated, simple app experience under CFTC regulatory oversight.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Blockchain announced self-custodied&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchain-partners-with-polymarket">prediction market offerings</a> and <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/blog/posts/blockchaincom-launches-global-self-custodied-perpetual-futures-trading">perpetual futures trading</a> for users in eligible markets around the world. The CFTC license applications are a step toward bringing similar prediction markets and regulated trading offerings directly to U.S. users in the Blockchain app.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Users should be able to manage their digital assets, trade derivatives, and take positions on real-world events easily, without jumping between different apps,&rdquo;<strong> said Peter Smith, Executive Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blockchain.com. </strong>&ldquo;Our DCM and FCM applications build toward that future in the U.S. through the appropriate regulatory frameworks. We want customers to be able to access a broader universe of markets through the Blockchain.com platform they already trust, with the compliance, security and transparency they expect.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The CFTC filings advance Blockchain's global regulatory strategy. As digital assets become more deeply integrated into financial markets worldwide, Blockchain has continued to invest in regulatory approvals and licensing across major jurisdictions.</p>
<p>Over the past year, the company has secured MiCA authorization through the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) in the EU, achieved Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) registration in the UK, and secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license in the Cayman Islands. Pursuing federal CFTC oversight reflects the same approach in the U.S., working within clear regulatory frameworks and with institutional-grade infrastructure.</p>

Applications for FCM and DCM licenses mark a major step toward offering regulated crypto derivatives like futures and options along with eve

Blockchain Files for CFTC Licenses to Offer Crypto Derivatives and Prediction Markets in the U.S.

Applications for FCM and DCM licenses mark a major step toward offering regulated crypto derivatives like futures and options along with event contracts to U.S. retail and institutional customers.

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Token from Hunter Biden&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">$LAPTOP, a memecoin launched by Hunter Biden to reclaim his story after the controversy around his laptop in 2019. The&nbsp; memecoin is built on Base (Ethereum's Layer-2) with tokenomics designed around real-world outcomes. The project was launched by Phoenix Veritas Ventures and the smart contract is audited by Hacken.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Of its 1 billion total supply, 30% is tied to live prediction markets covering politics, culture, crypto, and more. When those predictions come true, tokens are burned. When they don't, tokens are donated to charity.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">$LAPTOP powers:</span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Prediction-tied burns:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> 30% of supply linked to real-world prediction markets, where outcomes trigger burns from circulating supply</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Built-in charity:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> when predictions don't come true, tokens are donated to charity, with at least 5% of total supply committed from the start</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A community-majority supply:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> the token distribution is weighted toward community and airdrop participants, not insiders</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Verified by Hacken: the smart contract has been audited by Hacken, a well-known security firm in the crypto industry</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">Whether you're new to crypto or already trading, $LAPTOP is now available to trade in your Blockchain Trading Account.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

Trade Hunter Biden's Laptop ($LAPTOP), a memecoin with real tokenomics: predictions, burns, and charity built in.

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Hunter Biden's Laptop ($LAPTOP) is now available in your Blockchain Trading Account. Trade the memecoin that backs its meme with real tokenomics: predictions, burns, and charity built in.

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<h2 id="user-content-highlights">Highlights</h2>
<h3 id="user-content-replies-keep-going-when-you-leave-the-chat-sep-7">Replies keep going when you leave the chat (Sep 7)</h3>
<p>You can switch to another chat or page while June is still replying. The reply keeps going in the background and is there when you come back. So you can ask something in one chat, start another question in a new chat, and have several replies generating at once. A dot in the sidebar shows which chats are still working. This also applies to Multi-Model replies and to image and video generations. Only the stop button cancels a reply now. Closing or reloading the tab still ends a text reply.</p>
<h3 id="user-content-search-chat-history-has-been-rebuilt-sep-8">Search Chat History has been rebuilt (Sep 8)</h3>
<p>Search is faster, and it now looks through every message in every chat. Before, it looked at no more than 50 messages in each chat.</p>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li>Results match whole words, so "RAM" no longer finds "frame" or "program". The last word you type still matches as you type it.</li>
<li>Longer words still match if you make one typo.</li>
<li>Results are ranked by relevance. You can switch to sorting by&nbsp;<strong>Newest</strong>.</li>
<li>You can search&nbsp;<strong>All</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Titles</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>My messages</strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>Assistant messages</strong>.</li>
<li>Each result shows how many matches it has and highlights the words that matched.</li>
<li>Your chats are encrypted on your device, so search runs privately in your browser and nothing is sent to a server.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="user-content-models-remember-their-reasoning-across-turns-sep-29">Models remember their reasoning across turns (Sep 29)</h3>
<p>Reasoning models now get back the thinking from their earlier replies in the same conversation. Follow-up questions like "show me the steps you used" now get an answer, where before the model would say it couldn't see its earlier reasoning. It also makes follow-ups more consistent, and lets more of each long conversation be cached, so it's quicker to process. Messages from before this change are not affected.</p>
<h2 id="user-content-model-catalogue">Model catalogue</h2>
<h3 id="user-content-chat-models">Chat models</h3>
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<th scope="col" data-short="">Date</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Model</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Replaces</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Notes</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
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<td data-short="">Sep 1</td>
<td data-short="">GLM 5.3</td>
<td data-short="">GLM 5.2</td>
<td>Scores higher on our intelligence benchmarks and responds more than twice as fast.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 1</td>
<td data-short="">GLM 5.3 Flash</td>
<td data-short="">Minimax M3</td>
<td>A fast, low-cost GLM model for everyday chat, coding and image understanding. Available on all plans and in Privacy+.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 1</td>
<td data-short="">Qwen3.8 27B</td>
<td data-short="">Qwen3.6 27B</td>
<td>Smarter and faster, and can write much longer replies.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 3</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Fable 5.1</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Fable 5</td>
<td>Still a Pro model, and still not available in Privacy+.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 8</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 3.8 Flash</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 3.7 Flash</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 8</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Astra</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New. OpenAI's most capable model, built for agentic work, coding and deep research. Available on Pro.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Sol</td>
<td>GPT 5.6 Sol, GPT 5.6 Terra</td>
<td>Costs far fewer credits per message than GPT 5.6 Sol. OpenAI didn't release a GPT 6 Terra, so GPT 6 Sol replaces Terra too.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Luna</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 5.6 Luna</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Opus 5.5</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Opus 5</td>
<td>Smarter, and costs fewer credits per message.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">Grok 4.7</td>
<td data-short="">Grok 4.6</td>
<td data-short="">Slightly cheaper.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">DeepSeek V4.1 Flash</td>
<td data-short="">DeepSeek V4 Flash</td>
<td>Can now also understand images.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">MiMo V2.6 Pro</td>
<td data-short="">MiMo V2.5 Pro</td>
<td>A big jump in our intelligence scores, at the same price.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short="">Muse Spark 1.3</td>
<td data-short=""></td>
<td>New, from Meta, for agentic, coding and multimodal tasks. Not available in Privacy+.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 29</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Sonnet 5.5</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Sonnet 5</td>
<td>Much stronger on coding and bug fixing, and now thinks harder by default.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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</div>
<h3 id="user-content-image-models">Image models</h3>
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<th scope="col" data-short="">Date</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Model</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Replaces</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Notes</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 1</td>
<td data-short="">Muse Image</td>
<td data-short="">MAI Image 2.5</td>
<td>New, from Meta. Available on all plans.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 9</td>
<td data-short="">GPT Image 2.5 Flare</td>
<td data-short="">Reve 2.1</td>
<td>New from OpenAI, for creating and editing images. Available on all plans. Takes about 20 seconds. Reve 2.1 is no longer offered by our provider.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 9</td>
<td>GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst</td>
<td data-short="">GPT Image 2</td>
<td>Same price as Flare. Takes about twice as long and gives slightly better results. Available on all plans.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<h3 id="user-content-video-models">Video models</h3>
<div data-figure="">
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<table style="width: auto;">
<thead>
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<th scope="col" data-short="">Date</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Model</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Replaces</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Notes</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 1</td>
<td>Gemini Omni Flash 1.1</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini Omni Flash</td>
<td data-short="">Pro.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 1</td>
<td data-short="">MiniMax H3 Max</td>
<td data-short="">Happy Horse 1.1</td>
<td>Available on all plans.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<h4 id="user-content-other-changes">Other changes</h4>
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<li><strong>Sep 1.</strong>&nbsp;Seedance 2.5 can now make 1080p videos.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 8.</strong>&nbsp;MiniMax H3 Max can now make 1080p videos, up from a maximum of 768p. A 1080p video costs twice as many credits per second as 768p.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="user-content-plans-and-privacy">Plans and Privacy+</h3>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li><strong>Sep 1. Grok Imagine 2, Kling O3 Standard, PixVerse V6 and Veo 3.1 Lite are now available on all plans.</strong>&nbsp;We keep the most expensive models for Pro users and above. These four no longer fall into that group, so Free users can now use them too.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 8 to Sep 29. Gemini models were temporarily unavailable in Privacy+.</strong>&nbsp;This applied to Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Privacy+ only uses providers that keep none of your data. For Gemini, that zero-retention provider had to be switched off because of a technical incompatibility. We fixed the problem on Sep 29, and all three are available in Privacy+ again.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 29. Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT 6 Sol are now available on all plans.</strong>&nbsp;We keep the most expensive models for Pro users and above. These two no longer fall into that group, so Free users can now use them too.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="user-content-for-api-users-model-aliases">For API users: model aliases</h3>
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<th scope="col" data-short="">Date</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Alias</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">Before</th>
<th scope="col" data-short="">After</th>
</tr>
</thead>
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<td data-short="">Sep 3</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">anthropic/claude-fable-latest</code>,&nbsp;<code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">claude-fable</code></td>
<td data-short="">Claude Fable 5</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Fable 5.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 8</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">google/gemini-flash-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 3.7 Flash</td>
<td data-short="">Gemini 3.8 Flash</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 8</td>
<td data-short=""><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">GPT 5.6 Sol</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Astra</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 8</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-astra-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">New</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Astra</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">anthropic/claude-opus-latest</code>,&nbsp;<code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">claude-opus</code></td>
<td data-short="">Claude Opus 5</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Opus 5.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-sol-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">GPT 5.6 Sol</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Sol</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-terra-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">GPT 5.6 Terra</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Sol</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-luna-latest</code>,&nbsp;<code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">openai/gpt-mini-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">GPT 5.6 Luna</td>
<td data-short="">GPT 6 Luna</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td data-short=""><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">x-ai/grok-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">Grok 4.6</td>
<td data-short="">Grok 4.7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 28</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">meta/muse-spark-latest</code></td>
<td data-short="">New</td>
<td data-short="">Muse Spark 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td data-short="">Sep 29</td>
<td><code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">anthropic/claude-sonnet-latest</code>,&nbsp;<code dir="ltr" data-epitaxy-inline-code="">claude-sonnet</code></td>
<td data-short="">Claude Sonnet 5</td>
<td data-short="">Claude Sonnet 5.5</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<h2 id="user-content-everything-else">Everything else</h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li><strong>Sep 1. Link your X account.</strong>&nbsp;You can now connect your X account from your Profile. You need to follow&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/askjuneai" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@askjuneai</a>&nbsp;first. Linking completes the Connect X quest for 500 points, and if you're on the waitlist, it skips you past it.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 3. A new Saver preset in the AutoRouter.</strong>&nbsp;The AutoRouter now has a fourth preset next to Balanced, Fast and Quality. Saver picks the cheapest model that can reasonably handle your request, for when cost matters most. It's available when you're signed in.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 3. The AutoRouter now compares image models on the real cost of your request.</strong>&nbsp;Before, it compared prices for creating an image even when you were editing one. If you're editing, it now weighs what the edit will actually cost.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 3. Searching X posts now costs more.</strong>&nbsp;Each search is also charged for the author accounts it returns, at 10 credits per account, on top of 5 credits per post. X bills us for those accounts, so a typical search now costs about three times what it did.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 7. "Thought for&hellip;" times now stick.</strong>&nbsp;A reasoning model's thinking time stays the same when you switch chats or reload the page. Before, it started counting again.</li>
<li><strong>Sep 29. Updated OpenCode setup guide.</strong>&nbsp;The docs now cover OpenCode's desktop app ("Custom OpenAI-compatible provider") as well as the terminal.</li>
</ul>

Replies that keep going in the background, rebuilt chat search, models that remember their reasoning, and new models.

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