Thursday, October 8: Bitmine nears its ether finish line. Wolfspeed's $1.5B loan. Centinela on strike.

The Triple Tape — Thursday, October 8, 2026. Morning cross-asset open: stocks, crypto, and metals.

Takeaway: Bitmine says it stops buying ether about 100,000 ETH from now; Wolfspeed jumps ~16% premarket on a conditional $1.5B Department of War loan; 700+ workers strike at Antofagasta's Centinela copper mine — watch the $22B 30-year auction at 1:00 p.m. ET.

• Bitmine will stop buying ether at 5% of supply, about 100,000 ETH away
• Samsung Wallet adds USDC transfers on Solana for 82M U.S. Galaxy devices
• Wells Fargo in talks with Kraken parent Payward for crypto liquidity
• Kazakhstan's central bank signs MoU with Tether on a tenge stablecoin study
• Orca and Loopscale merge into Formation
• Tape: JUP +14.8%, RAY +14.1%, CRV +10.9%

• Wolfspeed gets a conditional $1.5B, 30-year Department of War loan commitment
• Broadcom seeks $50B+ in private debt for its custom OpenAI chip (WSJ)
• House China committee calls Webull a national-security risk
• Lululemon hires Athleta CEO Maggie Gauger as president and CPO
• Amazon cuts fewer than 1,000 corporate roles, mostly in retail (Reuters)
• Earnings: Levi Strauss beats on tariff refunds, raises EPS outlook; Applied Digital revenue +322%, Finland deal
• Tape: WOLF +16.1%, APLD +4.8%, COHR −3.1% premarket

• 700+ workers strike at Antofagasta's Centinela copper mine in Chile
• WGC: record $31B gold ETF inflows in Q3; holdings a record 4,256 t
• Dutch central bank moves 86 t of gold from New York and Ottawa to London
• Indonesia weighs moratorium on new semi-finished nickel plants
• Anglo American warns it may shut Brazil nickel if the EU blocks the MMG sale
• Tape: platinum +1.8%, palladium +1.7%, silver −1.2% (Kitco spot)

Today: PepsiCo before the open; jobless claims 8:30 a.m. ET; wholesale inventories 10:00; Kashkari 10:40; $22B 30-year auction 1:00 p.m.; Musalem 1:40 p.m.

Not investment advice. AI-generated audio.