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Bitcoin slips under $80,000 as traders de-risk ahead of Fed meeting
Ether and XRP led losses among the majors as the AI trade took another hit in Asia, where Goldman Sachs cut its Kospi target by 25%.
Ripple Swell Preview: The Evidence To Watch When Finance And Developers Meet
Ripple's Swell conference is scheduled for October 27–29 in New York, combining its institutional event with the Apex developer gathering. Ahead of the opening, the useful question…
Hong Kong names Nasdaq-listed Solana Company a strategic enterprise
The Nasdaq-listed firm said it plans to establish Solana validator operations in Hong Kong.
Elon Musk issues a warning for 'AI neoclouds' as SpaceX borrows $40 billion for chips
SpaceX has raised $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, while Musk predicts a major shakeout among smaller AI cloud providers.
World ID Brings Human Verification Into The Banking Fraud Debate
World launched its banking-and-finance offering on October 18. For a bank considering human verification, the useful question is narrower than whether an interaction looks authenti…
Keystone says website breach exposed hardware wallet buyers’ addresses
A security researcher warned that the leaked shipping details could expose crypto holders to targeted scams and physical attacks.
UNDP And Blockchain For Good Put Public-Service Security Ahead Of New Payment Rails
UNDP and the Blockchain for Good Alliance announced a two-year cybersecurity programme on October 19. The initiative brings a practical question into blockchain adoption by public…
A16z Frontier Broadens The Pitch For Crypto As Investors Look Across Technologies
Andreessen Horowitz is expanding its crypto team's investment brief. Chris Dixon's October 22 announcement renames a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier, with the new fund able to pursue a…
Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint says it’s not rushing retail stablecoin
The Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands joint venture previously targeted retail access as early as the end of 2026, but its CEO declined to reaffirm that timeline.
Robinhood Sets A 2027 Middle East Launch Target After DFSA Authorization
Robinhood announced DFSA authorization and a Dubai International Financial Centre headquarters on October 22, with a Middle East rollout planned for 2027. Regulatory permission pre…
Circle Match Gives USDC Desks A New Fee Trade-Off And A Separate Funding Balance
Circle's October 22 update on Match describes a service for connecting institutional USDC flows. A consequential detail sits in its funding documentation: money prepared for a mint…
AI agents help rescue ETH’s Glamsterdam fork, ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site: Hodler’s Digest
Similar to the Hugging Face hack, Ethereum researchers have set up an AI Agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork. ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site successfully hacked.
Grayscale Looks Beyond AI Tokens To The Data And Credit Behind Computing
Grayscale's October 23 research note looks at a more specific crypto-and-AI proposition than a general bet on smarter software: who supplies training data, who finances hardware an…
Lido Puts Liquidity Buffers At The Center Of Ethereum ETP Yield Debate
An Ethereum investment product can advertise staking exposure without putting every unit of its ETH to work. Lido's October 23 comparison of European exchange-traded products bring…
Lido Opens Higher-Balance Ethereum Validators With A Deliberately Small Start
Lido has opened a permissionless route to Ethereum validators that can hold much larger effective balances, but the first allocation is deliberately limited. Its October 23 launch…
CoinDCX confirms $16 million loss from retired wallets days after CEO called breach reports a ‘false alarm’
CEO Sumit Gupta had told X users on Wednesday that early reports of a breach sounded like "a false alarm."
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joine…
Keystone customers say breach exposed data the hardware wallet maker promised to delete
Keystone has said it deletes customer information 180 days after their orders in most cases, though X users have cast doubt on that claim.
ECB official sees digital euro as key to protecting EU ‘sovereignty’
Piero Cipollone said the bloc is on track to test real transactions in 2027 and roll out a digital euro as early as 2029, pending legislation this year.
Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus
Economics Minister Viktors Valainis says rules could arrive in the first half of next year, but an overdue assessment remains unfinished and no sovereign-bond issuance was identifi…
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
UK banks face 10,000 complaints in 3 months over crypto restrictions
The U.K. claims to aspire to become a global cryptocurrency hub, an ambition that would appear to be at odds with the attitude to crypto purchases of its major banks.
Netanyahu floats use of blockchain as solution to potential financial sanctions
Ahead of elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential international sanctions, to the dismay of opponents and the…
Crypto longs lose $404 million in four hours as bitcoin briefly slips below $80,000
Spot bitcoin ETFs lost $773 million on Thursday and Friday after three days of net inflows, per SoSoValue data.
Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Inte…
Argentine judge clears Milei and 10 others in LIBRA case, finding no ‘criminally relevant deception’
The judge's 60-page ruling concluded Argentine President Javier Milei's post promoting the LIBRA token did not, by itself, establish fraud.
Sweden's Government Offices Block ChatGPT and Claude, Keep Microsoft Copilot
Sweden's Government Offices will block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Monday, steering civil servants to Microsoft Copilot as the only AI that passed its security revie…
Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
The securities have financed purchases of nearly 136,000 bitcoin, opening a funding channel that analysts expect to complement the larger ETF market.
Block's new voice AI sounds eerily human, sparking awe and scam fears
Reactions split between amazement at how human it sounds and fears it could fuel scams and deception, with CZ eyeing uses in children’s education.
Crypto under weekend pressure, bitcoin slides below $80,000 on U.S. Middle East evacuations
Bitcoin has sunk to its weakest level in more than one month.
Game Publishers Have Pushed to Cut Discs Since 2007, Infinity Ward Veteran Says
Robert Bowling, who spent six years working on Call of Duty, told Decrypt that Activision suggested cutting discs nearly two decades ago.
Why McDonalds, Microsoft and Google saying no to tokenized stocks isn't a dealbreaker
Some of the world's biggest companies objected to being listed on the first tokenized securities trading venue under the SEC's innovation exemption. But the early pushback may say…
Argentina drops criminal probe into President Milei over crashed memecoin LIBRA
The judge found that Milei's promotion of LIBRA did not constitute fraud, despite the attention his support drew to the token.
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell among latest firms objecting to OKXICE's tokenized stock plan
Six more companies have objected to listing tokenized versions of their stock on the venue, Reuters reported, bringing the total to 22.
Bitcoin’s wealthy holders turning to loans and yield as investment habits mature: Xapo CEO
Borrowing against bitcoin and earning income to build their BTC holdings are becoming priorities for long-term investors, Xapo Bank CEO Seamus Rocca told CoinDesk.
Hong Kong’s Biggest Bank Puts a Stablecoin in 3 Million Wallets
HSBC switched on its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin inside PayMe on Friday, testing whether a bank-issued token can become everyday money.
U.S. Clarity Act failure gives Asia and Middle East a competitive edge, says Apex Group CEO
Apex Group CEO Peter Hughes warned that the failure of the U.S. Clarity Act will drive digital asset businesses toward faster-moving jurisdictions in Asia and the Middle East.
Franklin Templeton adds $150 million in fund shares to XRP Ledger, all in one wallet
Two subscriptions on Thursday nearly quadrupled the fund’s tokens on the network. The receiving wallet shares its authorized signers with the issuer.
Wells Fargo and five others object to OKX-ICE tokenized stock listings: Report
As of Friday, 22 companies had filed objections as part of the joint venture’s proposed tokenized stock platform under the SEC’s innovation exemption.
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