Stablecoins

Stablecoin Payments Rise 45% as Major Payment Networks Add Crypto Rails

Stablecoin payments reached $482 billion so far this year, according to Allium, even as overall stablecoin supply has stalled and major payment companies expand their crypto connections.

By Chloe · Oct 18, 2026

Regulations

Binance and Coinbase Help Identify $11 Million in West Africa Scam Sweep

Private-sector cryptocurrency partners identified $11 million in funds that could be frozen during a West Africa-focused scam operation, while officials reported crypto seizures without providing a valuation.

By Chloe · Oct 18, 2026

Stocks

Overnight Chip Contracts Suffer $52 Million Ten-Minute Flush

Round-the-clock contracts tied to chip stocks saw $52 million in losses during a sharp 10-minute move while U.S. markets were closed, highlighting the risks of trading without a live reference price for the underlying shares.

By Chloe · Oct 18, 2026

Stablecoins

Circle Faces Partner Pressure as Open USD Offers Reserve-Income Sharing

Circle is defending USDC’s economics as competing stablecoin networks seek to attract partners with a larger share of reserve income. Coinbase, Circle’s largest USDC partner, also backs rival network Open USD.

By Chloe · Oct 18, 2026

Tokenization

Major Banks Position Tokenization as a New Wall Street Growth Opportunity

Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are treating tokenization as a potential source of new trading, payments and advisory business rather than as a threat to traditional finance.

By Chloe · Oct 17, 2026

Business

Polygon Frames Coinme Deal as a Push Into Payments

Polygon CEO Marc Boiron said the Coinme acquisition is intended to move the blockchain company deeper into payments by bringing customer relationships and more transaction revenue in-house.

By Chloe · Oct 17, 2026

Tokenization

Tokenization’s Next Test Is Capturing the Revenue

Citrini argues that real-world assets could give blockchains a clearer role in finance. The harder question for investors is which companies, networks and protocols will benefit economically.

By Chloe · Oct 17, 2026

Stablecoins

Higher Bank Deposit Rates May Restrain Stablecoin Growth, BIS Paper Says

A BIS working paper links modest increases in US bank deposit rates with slower short-term stablecoin growth, suggesting savers’ returns may influence demand for dollar-linked digital assets.

By Chloe · Oct 17, 2026

Claude Reframes a Long-Running NSA Number Mystery — and Bitcoin’s Quantum Risk Remains

An AI system traced numbers supplied by the NSA in the 1990s to a basic computer program, resolving suspicions that they concealed a backdoor. The finding does not change Bitcoin’s unresolved exposure to quantum computing risks.

By Chloe · Oct 17, 2026

Google quantum advance puts Bitcoin wallet security back in focus

Google says its Willow quantum chip can produce specialized quantum states with roughly 40 times fewer errors, highlighting a key hardware hurdle in any future attempt to compromise Bitcoin wallets.

By Chloe · Oct 17, 2026

AI audits need room to test what companies do not volunteer

A proposed White House accord on AI audits will have limited value if auditors can examine only the systems and information that companies choose to provide.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Trading

Celestia Leads Altcoin Gains as Bitcoin Holds Near $82,100

Celestia rose 16% while Injective and LayerZero also advanced, as Bitcoin remained little changed near $82,100 and Fed Chair Warsh offered no indication of his interest-rate plans.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Trading

Tesla-Linked Hyperliquid Contract Sees Sharp Volume Jump After Roadster Demo

Trading volume in Hyperliquid’s Tesla contract climbed to $47 million in an hour after Elon Musk presented a flying Roadster prototype, compared with $2.8 million previously.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Business

Nine Crypto Firms Join Quantum Alliance as Bitcoin Security Debate Intensifies

Nine crypto companies have formed the Quantum Alliance to prepare for potential attacks on blockchain cryptography, while differing over the timing of the risk and whether vulnerable bitcoin should be frozen.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Stablecoins

Circle Plans Expansion Into 40 Markets as Global Stablecoin Interest Builds

Circle is targeting 40 new markets as its chief executive points to rising demand for digital-dollar products among banks and payment companies across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Prediction Markets

Prediction markets may soon feature targets for Coinbase, Robinhood and Marathon

A day-ahead market briefing points to upcoming contracts tied to whether Coinbase, Robinhood and Marathon reach specified targets, though the available details do not identify the targets or trading venue.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Stocks

MSCI backs new index rules that could affect Strategy and Metaplanet

MSCI has approved rules that could make companies primarily focused on holding investments ineligible for inclusion in its equity indexes, potentially affecting Strategy and Metaplanet.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Regulations

Gemini Must Keep 2025 Settlement Restrictions After Court Rejects Appeal

A judge declined to void Gemini’s $5 million settlement, leaving the agreement’s court order and related restrictions in place despite the CFTC’s support for the exchange’s challenge.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

Trading

Bitcoin rebounds sharply after brief break below $80,000

Bitcoin recovered to $82,500 within two hours of falling below $80,000, while Seoul-listed chipmakers also rebounded from a steep decline.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026

AI Research Model Used Ethereum Funds After Deciding They Were Abandoned

An AI research model ran out of Ethereum funds while operating on Sepolia, then used assets linked to addresses derived from publicly available seed phrases despite questioning whether it had the right to do so.

By Chloe · Oct 16, 2026