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Microsoft has priced its new Decision-1 model at $0.042 per million input tokens and charges nothing for output. A price that low shows how quickly this category has stopped being a novelty and become a commodity.Decision models are designed for quick, structured calls rather than long-form answers. Microsoft has now joined the field, but it is arriving late. OpenAI and Cloudflare already offer their own versions, and both came after Jev, the startup that launched the trend. What Decision-1 is meant to handleAccording to Microsoft, Decision-1 is built for classifications, evaluations and routing decisions. The company added that the model has "the potential" to "guide and control agents through complex environments."That second claim comes with a qualifier. Microsoft is describing what the model might do with agents, not what it has actually shown it can do.A key rival is missing from the benchmarksDecision-1 uses Qwen3.5-9B as its base. Microsoft said it was the most accurate model the company tested across 36 benchmarks, which together cover nearly 150,000 questions.Microsoft also said Decision-1 runs 2.5 times faster than H2O-Lightning-4B, which came second. The comparison leaves out Cloudflare's open-source Clef models, though. Those are also built on Qwen, so they are the closest competitor Microsoft could have tested against. Anyone who wants that head-to-head will have to run it themselves.How to access itDecision-1 can be used through Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter. Because output tokens are free, the cost comes down almost entirely to how much context you send in.A tough stretch for the startup that started itJev started the decision model trend in mid-September, and the concept caught on fast. Bigger companies then took the idea and went further with it, using open small language models such as the Qwen base underneath Microsoft's model.In less than a month, Jev has gone from creating a category to competing in it against Microsoft, OpenAI and Cloudflare. On top of that, Microsoft is charging less than five cents per million input tokens.

In Brief: On October 11, 2026, Lighter destroyed 2,452,017 LIT tokens under its new buyback model. Repurchased tokens are no longer held. They are now taken out of circulation for good, which changes how the protocol treats its buybacks. Because the program links token supply directly to trading fees, it could become a reference point for tokenomics in web3 gaming. A sizable burn for Lighter According to an announcement dated October 11, 2026, Lighter has carried out its first programmatic token burn, taking 2,452,017 LIT tokens out of circulation. The burn lines up with the close of Q3 2026 and is part of the protocol's reworked approach to tokens it buys back. In the past, Lighter kept the tokens it repurchased. Under the new system they go to a burn address on the Ethereum mainnet, so they can never be used again. LIT's total supply is now below its starting cap of 1 billion tokens, which shows the new tokenomics strategy is already having an effect. Change in tokenomics Lighter first laid out the revised buyback model in a July 2026 tokenomics announcement, which said every repurchased token would be burned from then on. The October burn follows that plan and covers the full third-quarter repurchase. All of the program's funding comes from trading fee revenue, which keeps buybacks on a steady schedule tied to real market activity. By July, Lighter had already repurchased roughly 15.5 million LIT, or about 6.3% of its circulating supply. On the day of the announcement, LIT changed hands at around $1.92. That was a 7.1% gain over 24 hours, driven by renewed confidence in the tokenomics. Earnings and rewards structure Lighter has also set a 6% annualized reward rate for people who stake LIT. These rewards are not funded by the buyback program. They come from a dedicated 250 million LIT ecosystem pool that was set aside at launch. The July update showed about 125 million LIT staked, with roughly 3.72 million LIT paid out since staking began in January 2026. The ecosystem also rewards market makers who stake LIT with lower fees, which ties the token's utility directly to activity on the exchange. Exchange performance and project background Lighter is a perpetual futures exchange that runs on a zk rollup on Ethereum. It matches orders and checks margin off-chain, while user funds stay in smart contracts for security. Retail traders pay no trading fees. Lighter earns its revenue from premium trading tiers and liquidation costs. Over the last 30 days, Lighter handled close to $39 billion in volume, bringing its cumulative activity to more than $1.6 trillion. Open interest is around $766 million, a sign of a busy trading environment. Vladimir Novakovski founded Lighter, and the project has backing from prominent investors such as Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital. Token distribution insights LIT launched on December 30, 2025, with a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens. The supply was divided among community airdrops, ecosystem growth, team holdings, and investors. The team and investor allocations both have a one-year cliff, so that supply starts to unlock just as the quarterly burns begin. Implications for web3 gaming Lighter is not a gaming platform, but its model tackles a key problem for many web3 games: token supply that keeps growing without enough demand to match it. Plenty of games run into trouble when new tokens hit the market faster than players spend them. Lighter avoids that by funding open-market buybacks with real revenue, which makes its supply reduction transparent and verifiable. After this latest burn, Lighter's approach could serve as a template for other projects in the space. The next burn is expected after Q4 2026, and the coming months will show whether the model can stay balanced as upcoming token unlocks arrive.

Intel's LGA1700 socket looked like it had reached the end of the road. It arrived in 2021, has been home to three generations of Core processors and seemed set for retirement. Now it appears to be getting one more lease on life.Gigabyte has formally announced BIOS updates for its motherboards built on the B760 and H610 chipsets. According to the company, the updates enable support for "upcoming LGA1700 processors" that are expected to launch in early 2027. That moves this out of rumor territory, since a motherboard manufacturer has now committed to it in writing.Your current board and memory could carry overAccording to Gigabyte, every board in the B760 and H610 lineups will be able to run these new processors after a simple BIOS update, and that covers both the DDR4 and DDR5 versions. Owners of those boards may be able to move to whatever Intel has in the works without buying a new motherboard or new memory.The timing works in their favor. With DDR5 prices still high, holding on to an existing DDR4 kit and motherboard and replacing only the processor could be an appealing route.Gigabyte is putting that argument front and center. The company describes the update as a way to give older platforms a "new lease on life" without having to rebuild the whole system.What "Raptor Lake Next" could turn out to beThe announcement matches recent chatter about a new processor family that has been informally called "Raptor Lake Next." Reports say Intel is lining up another generation built on the well-known Raptor Lake design for the first half of 2027. It would be aimed mostly at budget machines that still run DDR4.Another leak pointed to a possible follow-up to the Core i5-14600K with eight Performance cores and eight Efficient cores. Intel has not officially confirmed any of this.Until Intel says something different, those core counts are only a leak. What has been confirmed is more limited: Gigabyte is getting its boards ready for new chips.More boards may be addedThe B760 and H610 may not be the only boards to get support. BIOS changelogs for some B660, Z690 and Z790 motherboards also reference "upcoming processor support" along with the same microcode revision.However, Gigabyte has not officially confirmed compatibility for those series. Z690 and Z790 owners should read that changelog entry as a hint and nothing more.A long run for an Intel socketLGA1700 launched alongside Alder Lake in 2021. It has since supported the 12th, 13th and 14th generations of Intel Core.If a new lineup does arrive in 2027, the socket will have been in active use for more than five years. That is an unusually long lifespan for an Intel socket.Names, specifications and pricing still haven't been announced, and those are the details buyers need to make a decision. They will determine whether this surprise revival is actually worth it for people already on the platform. If you have a B760 or H610 board running DDR4, don't replace it just yet. Keep your RAM and watch for Gigabyte's BIOS release.

In Brief: Founder Ben.ZZZ has announced that RSGP, the token for Cambria (official site), will go live on Base. The community expects the token to launch on October 13 or 14, and presale allocations will be fully unlocked. All of Cambria's Charter NFTs sold out, which added $570,000 to the in-game Crown Treasury. Token launch on Base Cambria has picked Base for its upcoming RSGP token. Founder Ben.ZZZ shared the news in a post on X that pointed to a “Cleared for landing” update from Aerodrome, one of Base's main liquidity providers. The post drew more than 32,000 views. The announcement comes shortly after the minting of Cambria's Charter NFTs on Ethereum. The game used to run on Ronin and Abstract. Abstract is due to shut down on December 15, and the move to Base points to a change in direction for the project. Launch speculation No official launch date has been confirmed yet. Even so, talk in the community suggests RSGP could arrive on October 13 or 14. Presale tokens are expected to be fully available at launch, with no vesting period. Odds on Polymarket currently put RSGP's initial Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) somewhere between $20 and $30 million. Charter NFTs sell out The latest Charter NFT drop included 512 Viceroys and 3,584 standard Citizen Charters. The whole collection sold out on October 8. The sale sent about $570,000 to the in-game Crown Treasury, which acts as a running prize pool for NFT holders. On the secondary market, Viceroys are trading at around 0.49 ETH. Citizen Charters have a floor price of 0.067 ETH, which is 12% above their original 0.06 ETH mint price. Further information available More details can be found on the Cambria website.

In Brief:On Sunday, World of Dypians (official site) announced that its on-chain transaction count has passed 1,200,000,000.The team had reported 1.14 billion transactions on July 29, which means roughly 60 million were added over about 10 weeks.The transaction count is still rising even though the WOD token sits well below one cent, following its Binance.US listing in May.In a Sunday post on its official X account, World of Dypians announced that it has gone past 1.2 billion on-chain transactions."1.2 BILLION. Let that sink in. 🌍🔥" the post read. "World of Dypians has officially crossed 1,200,000,000 on-chain transactions!" World of Dypians@worldofdypians1.2 BILLION. Let that sink in. 🌍🔥World of Dypians has officially crossed 1,200,000,000 on-chain transactions!Behind this number is something much bigger: a living, growing gaming ecosystem powered by real activity.While the GameFi narrative comes and goes, $WOD keeps growing, and we've never stopped building.And the craziest part? We're still just getting started.The numbers speak for themselves. 🚀@worldofdypiansView on X ↗ The announcement didn't explain how the transactions are spread across chains or define what qualifies as a transaction. It also didn't give any numbers for unique wallets or daily active users.Pace of growthThe team's previous milestone post went up 74 days before this one. On July 29, the account wrote: "1,140,000,000 transactions later... We never chased hype. We focused on building. The journey continues with $WOD ⚡"Since late July, then, the total has grown by about 60 million transactions.The project's own earlier figures show how quickly the tally has climbed. The team said it had recorded 174 million on-chain transactions when WOD debuted on Trust Wallet's Launchpool in late 2024. By the time the token launched on Binance Alpha in September 2025, the reported number was above 580 million.No outside party has audited any of these figures. Every one of them comes from the project itself or its announcements.Token pictureThe token's market performance looks far weaker than the activity figures. According to Bybit data, WOD traded at $0.00581952 on Oct. 4, with a market cap of $3.59 million and $783,560 in 24-hour trading volume.WOD launched on Nov. 27, 2024, through an initial exchange offering priced at $0.04249. It is a BEP-20 token on BNB Smart Chain, with a maximum supply of 1 billion.Even so, Sunday's post described the token as growing. "While the GameFi narrative comes and goes, $WOD keeps growing, and we've never stopped building," the project wrote.Exchange and payment movesOn May 28, 2026, Binance.US listed WOD with a WOD/USDT pair and support for deposits and withdrawals on BSC. That listing is limited to Binance.US, and WOD can't be traded on Binance's global exchange.The two companies paired the listing with a sign-up promotion. An 8,500 WOD pool was divided among new Binance.US users who made a deposit before Aug. 7, on a first-come, first-served basis.In September, the game integrated Binance Pay, which lets players use WOD to buy the Golden Pass.The project's ties with Binance go back to Aug. 31, 2025, the day WOD launched on Binance Alpha. Back then, users holding 220 or more Alpha Points could claim a 750 WOD airdrop.WOD is also available on KuCoin, Gate.io, MEXC, Phemex, BingX and PancakeSwap. In January 2026, CoinDCX added WOD/INR and WOD/USDT pairs.BackgroundWorld of Dypians is an MMORPG offered through the Epic Games Store, and its token went live in 2024. For the past two years, the team has treated transaction totals as its headline metric and announced a new milestone each time the count hits a round number.The Sunday post ended with a single line: "The numbers speak for themselves. 🚀"