October 23, 2026 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European financial supervisors have reached out to Google following a significant cloud computing disruption earlier this week that temporarily disabled online services at multiple major banks. The outage, which occurred on Tuesday and persisted for several hours, stemmed from a power-related incident at a third-party… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 5:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed all U.S. military personnel and Pentagon civilians to stop using nonpublic government information for wagers on prediction markets or other betting platforms. The one-page memorandum, dated October 20 and circulated to senior defense leaders, combatant commanders, and agency heads,… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward, the parent entity of the cryptocurrency platform Kraken, has obtained preliminary regulatory clearance to establish operations in Kazakhstan. The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) granted in-principle approval for a license covering Payward Kazakhstan within the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC). The development, announced on… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap Labs has rolled out Aggregator Hooks for Uniswap v4, converting the protocol into an active liquidity aggregator that draws on sources beyond its own pools. These hooks encapsulate external liquidity venues and surface them as native Uniswap v4 pools. The feature went live on… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 1:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hong Kong has selected blockchain firm Solana (Nasdaq: HSDT) to establish or expand operations in the region. Solana is the only blockchain infrastructure company selected by the Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES) in 2026, joining enterprises such as Pfizer, GSK, Roche, Dassault Systèmes, DiDi and… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 1:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Department of the Treasury is declaring a victory of sorts in its mission of putting the economic screws to the rogue regime led by Iran. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent posted on X earlier today that the “United States is no longer… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The deadline for comments on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets (Reg CA) passed this week, but feedback continues to trickle in. Notably, most comments support the proposal, which exempts issuers from raising up to $75 million for a project. Reg CA… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wall Street closed sharply lower on Thursday as technology stocks absorbed the heaviest selling, with the latest batch of corporate results failing to rekindle enthusiasm for artificial intelligence investments. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.6 percent, its steepest single-session decline since June, while the S&P 500… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI), the digital financial services company operating as an all-in-one app, announced on October 22, 2026, the debut of SoFi Earn, or SOFIE. The firm describes it as the first tokenized deposit made available to consumers by a nationally chartered U.S. bank…. Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz is rebranding its dedicated cryptocurrency investment practice as a16z Frontier, broadening its mandate beyond blockchain-focused startups to encompass a wider range of emerging technologies. The change, announced on October 22, 2026, by managing partner Chris Dixon, frames the shift as an expansion rather… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 7:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Core has revised its security disclosure practices in response to large language models that have sharply lowered the barrier for rediscovering certain software flaws. The change prioritizes faster delivery of patches for issues that can be identified with minimal effort, while retaining longer timelines… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 1:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is restructuring its capital base to sustain heavy spending on artificial intelligence while protecting the voting control of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. During its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram disclosed plans for a new class… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 12:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cysic, the zero-knowledge proof infrastructure and decentralized compute network, has suspended its cross-chain bridge following a security incident on October 17, 2026. An attacker exploited the system to create 10 million unauthorized CYS tokens on BNB Smart Chain, then liquidated the majority of them and… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) opened two parallel consultations seeking industry input on decentralised finance (DeFi) and the boundaries of its forthcoming cryptoasset regime. The moves form part of the regulator’s ongoing preparation for the full crypto framework, which is scheduled to take… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of stablecoin USDT, announced that it had led a pre-seed funding round for Peso, a Bolivian fintech startup focused on delivering payments, savings, and investment tools throughout Latin America. The capital injection is designed to broaden access to rapid and affordable stablecoin-based… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 9:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano Foundation published details of its formal response to the European Commission’s public consultation on reviewing the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA, also referred to as MiCAR). In a 19-page submission dated 30 September 2026, the Swiss-based non-profit organization urged EU policymakers against creating… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 21, 2026, Solana completed one of the most significant protocol transitions in its history when Anza’s Alpenglow consensus system took over on mainnet-beta. The switch occurred around 14:00 UTC at slot 459,653,000, retiring the TowerBFT mechanism that had governed the network since its… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

EquityZen, a secondary marketplace for private securities, says trading on its platform rose 57.4% quarter over quarter, comparing Q3 2026 to the second quarter. The size of transactions also experienced growth, as the average purchase increased by 38% compared to the second quarter. The sell… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Colombian cryptocurrency broker known by the alias “Rey” received a 160-month federal prison sentence this week for his central role in laundering roughly $14.5 million in drug-trafficking proceeds through Tether’s USDT stablecoin and for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. Leonardo de… Read More

October 22, 2026 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spanish banking group BBVA (BME: BBVA) has entered a collaboration with semiconductor leader Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to examine ways of incorporating robust security and governance measures into artificial intelligence agents starting at the earliest stages of their development. The partnership focuses on assessing the potential… Read More