THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE
Nicola Forrest gave A$520 million to her Coaxial Foundation.
Michael Jordan gave $10 million to the UNC School of Social Work.
The FCC approved a 15,000-satellite Starlink network for phones.
A hacker was convicted over a $50 million crypto theft.
Nolla Health says its AI can now write first prescriptions in Utah.
EAT's $1 million clipping fund reviews creator applications next week.
New here? WYDE turns attention into meals. A restaurant gives food. A creator shares it on camera. People eat.
CREATORS GET PAID TO END HUNGER
The $1 million clipping fund is filling up. EAT reviews applications next week.
Applicants have from 1,300 to 1.4 million followers.
Follower count does not decide it. EAT looks at views, engagement and how well your content clips.
Watch the first two videos. In both, the restaurant gave the food for free.
 Six pizzas, one skatepark. A creator asks STAT Pizza in Corona, California for 500 pizzas. The manager gives six, free. She hands them out at a skatepark. |  Lunch with a stranger. A creator partners with Crab Grabber in Pasadena, California. She invites a man she just met to lunch. The restaurant pays the bill. |
"I found this gig through the EAT app where I can get paid to create content that promotes restaurants and gives back to the community."
CREATORS AND TECH
The 50 highest-earning creators averaged about $20.4 million each. That is roughly 116 times the $176,110 median wage for a US dentist. Read the full story →
The 14 MHz SpaceX agreed to buy equals about 56% of the 25 MHz auction the FCC has proposed separately. Read the full story →
More in tech
Starlink waits on a proposed 5% spectrum charge in India. Urban India has 2.6 times the internet subscriptions per 100 people that rural India has.
OpenAI's math release reaches 719 manuscripts, and 58% lack Lean checks.
THE WEEK IN GIVING
The gift equals about 3.0% of her estimated A$17.32 billion fortune. Read the full story →
The gift equals about 61% of the $16,475,486 in contributions the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation reported. Read the full story →
His gifts to SAIT total $65 million across 2014, 2019 and 2026, by reported figures. Read the full story →
More in giving
Marymount Education Foundation committed $5.57 million to Loyola Marymount University. That is about 11% of its $49.18 million in net assets.
Tecsys pledged $5 million to a new Prisma Health behavioral health hospital in South Carolina.
Viterbo University landed $6.19 million in its two largest federal grants. That is more than the $5.68 million in contributions it reported for fiscal 2025.
Crypto gifts to charities topped $1 billion in 2024. The average gift was $10,978.28.
Is Elon Musk the greatest philanthropist alive? We ask the question.
FOR RESTAURANTS: GIVE MEALS, GET SEEN
A creator films at your restaurant and shares your food with the community.
Each clip shows your restaurant giving.
You can claim a food donation receipt from the WYDE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity.
HEALTH
The approval covers initial prescriptions. Utah's January 2026 pilot allowed AI to prescribe only refills. Read the full story →
Life Bio's ER-100 showed early vision signals in 2 of 3 glaucoma patients.
Abaloparatide cut new spinal fractures by 86% in a trial of 2,463 women. The absolute cut was 3.6 percentage points.
IMAGINE IF TRADES MATTERED
$EAT is the first token that funds creators to end hunger. All trades fund creators.
Every $EAT trade carries a 1 percent fee.
The fee is split into four equal parts: creators, hunger-relief charities, liquidity and the platform.
Run $1 billion of trading in a day through that model. Creators get $2.5 million that day.
Creators are paid for work. They do not need to buy, hold or promote the token.
This is a comparison, not a forecast. $EAT does not trade at that volume today.
FRAUD AND MONEY
The April 28, 2021 attack took about 38 times as much as the April 8 attack. Read the full story →
That is fewer than the more than 70 tokenized tickers OKX already lists offshore. Read the full story →
More in fraud and money
Adam Iza got 78 months for a $37 million Meta fraud. His $23.4 million restitution is about 64% of the $36.4 million he received.
The IMF released $138 million to El Salvador after it waived a bitcoin accumulation breach. That is about 9.9% of its $1.4 billion facility.
THE EAT CHALLENGES APP LAUNCHES SOON
Get ready to take to the streets. Founding creators start when the challenges app launches.
Get the EAT app.
Apply to the fund before the review next week.
Choose a local restaurant you want to film with.
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NEW ON THE SITE
$EAT BY THE NUMBERS
Meals funded: 73.4K. Next milestone: 100K. $EAT was near $0.000196 on October 9, down 1.78% on the day. ETH fell this week, and $EAT trades against ETH on Uniswap V4 on Base. This is not investment advice.
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Stories we want written
Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look (wanted by 2026-10-11)
Phil Knight and Ken Griffin gave billion dollar gifts; others gave big, too (wanted by 2026-10-11)
Cal AI's 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup (wanted by 2026-10-11)
Uranium Finance Hacker Who Bought Pokémon and Magic Cards Convicted Over $50M Theft (wanted by 2026-10-11)
A restaurant gives. A creator shares. People eat. Now it is your turn.
Onward,
The WYDE Team
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