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Everyone keeps asking the SEC what a vault is. More useful question: what should a vault be, now that the constraints that produced the shared-vault container no longer exist? Billions sit in these things. Banks and fintechs are shopping. Regulators are circling. The industry is… Read More
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Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) shares have come under renewed pressure in early October 2026, sliding roughly 8 percent between the September 30 and October 7 closes and finishing the latter session at $18.54. The stock remains about 46 percent above its year-end 2025 level of… Read More
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Arthur Hayes, the founder and former chief executive of BitMEX and now chief investment officer at the crypto fund Maelstrom, argues that the current rush to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is repeating a familiar pattern from earlier technology waves. Speaking at the Gamma Prime Investing… Read More
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Samsung is preparing to place dollar-linked stablecoin transfers inside the digital wallet already installed on eligible Galaxy phones in the United States. The company said the capability will open in the final week of October and will begin with USDC, letting qualifying users move funds… Read More
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Monzo is accelerating efforts to attract private-equity capital after talks on a full sale to Brazil’s Nubank broke down over price. The eleven-year-old UK digital bank, which has spent the past year navigating boardroom friction while hunting growth funding, has held early discussions in recent… Read More
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Startale Japan has opened subscriptions for a digital corporate bond that settles both coupon payments and principal repayment in JPYSC, a yen-denominated stablecoin issued by SBI Shinsei Trust Bank. Announced on October 6, 2026, the offering is presented as the first Japanese digital corporate bond… Read More
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Bitwise’s chief investment officer argues that NEAR Protocol’s investment case no longer depends solely on its longer-term ambition to serve autonomous AI agents. In an October 7, 2026 memo and related comments, Matt Hougan described the network as an operating blockchain business whose present activity… Read More
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The chief executive of Revolut for Western Europe, Béatrice Cossa-Dumurgier, says the company will cover the cost of replacing identity documents for impacted users of the digital banks. This is according to French broadcaster BFM TV According to reports, in September, someone controlling an email… Read More
Securitize (NYSE: SECZ) has announced that tokenized stocks will trade on its broker-dealer platform, which uses Solana. Transactions will be settled using Circle’s dollar-based stablecoin USDC. According to a company statement, the digital securities will be available globally. Securitize said it will offer popular US… Read More
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Europol has warned that advances in quantum computing could eventually place crypto-assets at risk, and it is urging the industry, policymakers and technical operators to start preparing well before any such capability exists.On 7 October 2026 the EU law-enforcement agency released two studies examining how… Read More
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OpenAI’s recent release of hundreds of machine-generated mathematical results has prompted a senior blockchain researcher to urge the industry toward a cautious defensive posture. On October 7, 2026, Justin Drake, a researcher associated with the Ethereum Foundation whose work also addresses Bitcoin security assumptions, publicly… Read More
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Solana’s long-running decentralized exchange Orca and the credit platform Loopscale have combined into a single company called Formation, headquartered in New York. The October 7, 2026 announcement places Loopscale co-founder Luke Truitt in the chief executive role, with fellow Loopscale co-founder Mary Gooneratne as chief… Read More
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Grayscale is treating the climb of its Zcash fund past $1 billion in assets as a sign that listed crypto products are entering a more selective phase, one no longer defined only by bitcoin and ether. The firm said as much when it marked the… Read More
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Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is pushing further into everyday spending by wiring a travel booking portal into its app, and it is doing so with inventory and booking infrastructure from Duffel, the London travel-technology company that sells flights, stays, and related services through a single programming… Read More
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The Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) market continues to operate at a choppy pace. According to data from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA)/CCLEAR, September saw 48 new securities offerings, a 15.8% decline from August and a 40.7% decline versus the same month the prior year. Closed deals… Read More
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Yesterday, the bipartisan House Select Committee on China alleged that Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL), a regulated broker and alternative investment platform, is closely aligned with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its rulers, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Companies in China are well known to do the CCP’s bidding… Read More
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced Adam Iza, the 26-year-old self-described cryptocurrency figure who called himself “The Godfather,” to 78 months in prison and ordered him to pay $23,402,766 in restitution after he admitted using money from a large Meta (NASDAQ: META) advertising… Read More
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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’s newly formed asset management vehicle has asked US regulators for permission to list a fund that would hold the privacy coin Zcash outright, proposing a sponsor charge far below the fee already collected by the only live US product of its… Read More
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Bitcoin (BTC) is pressing against one of its densest clusters of recent buyer cost basis, according to analysts at Bitfinex. Roughly 1.72 million coins, representing about 8.6 percent of the total supply, changed hands between $84,000 and $86,500. That band now functions as a thick… Read More
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HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) is preparing substantial staff reductions inside its British wealth management operations, according to reports that first appeared in the FT on 7 October 2026. The changes form part of a wider effort to embed artificial intelligence more deeply into how the bank… Read More
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