October 8, 2026 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

October 8, 2026 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

October 8, 2026 @ 1:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quebec’s public pension manager is taking a firmer hand at FNZ, the London-based wealth technology group, after losing patience with how the business has been run. According to the FT, which cited four people familiar with the matter, La Caisse de dépôt et placement du… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:22 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-listed financial services firm IFS Capital Limited is set to securitise S$79 million of loans to micro, small and mid-sized enterprises, in a transaction that will allow the company to free up capital for new lending. Financial close for the group’s first loan securitisation programme… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 12:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash has moved Network Upgrade 7 onto public testnet, putting the privacy chain’s next consensus change under live conditions ahead of a November 2026 mainnet target. The Zcash Foundation shipped Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0, the first release candidate for NU7, on October 2, 2026. That build is… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 5:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Siebert Financial has suspended its Buy rating and price target on Webull Financial (NASDAQ:BULL) following the report issued by the House Select Committee on China, which claims Webull has ties to the Chinese government. Webull shares were down almost 20% today after the Committee’s report… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 4:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-border payments Fintech Conduit Technology has filed a federal lawsuit accusing stablecoin issuer Tether of locking roughly $2.76 million of the firm’s USDT and refusing either to release the balance or to explain the action. The complaint, lodged on October 5, 2026, in the US… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Addresses tracked as US government holdings moved bitcoin on Tuesday for the first time since August 26, sending a combined 833.6 BTC worth a little more than $71 million toward Coinbase Prime. On-chain attribution ties the coins to two separate forfeiture matters: the Potapenko-Turogin fraud… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) says the long-planned combination of its own markets with Deribit is finished, and that the result is a new venue it calls Coinbase Global Exchange. In a company blog post dated October 6, 2026, Coinbase said the completed integration will soon give… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, the House Select Committee on China reported that Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL), a regulated broker-dealer operating in the United States, has been deemed to be colluding with Chinese authorities. The Committee cautioned that Webull users may be putting personal information and data at risk… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founders Fund, the venture firm associated with Peter Thiel, has led a $5 million purchase of ANVL governance tokens in Anvil, an Ethereum protocol that treats locked digital assets as collateral for payments, credit, and deposits. The purchase was disclosed on October 6, 2026 alongside… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US Representative Don Davis of North Carolina has introduced legislation intended to stop people seeking federal office from buying, selling, or holding prediction market contracts that resolve based on their own campaigns. The measure, titled the No Betting on Your Own Race Act, was filed… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL) shares are dropping today after the House Select Committee on China declared that its ties to China pose a national security risk. Currently, shares are down by around 20%. The company has a market cap of around $3.1 billion. Webull was founded… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Montana Bankers Association has issued a statement supporting Stablecore as a provider of digital asset services for its members. MBA aims to ensure community banks remain strong. Stablecore helps banks to offer payments, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and digital assets from a single platform.  Stablecore is backed by… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The French securities regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), says it has completed a round of spot inspections of several securities crowdfunding platforms and now says more must be done to strengthen knowledge tests and assess an investor’s ability to understand and bear risk. The AMF… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Abstract, a consumer-oriented Ethereum layer-2 network backed by Pudgy Penguins parent Igloo Inc., will cease operations on December 15, 2026, after the company concluded that the project could not be sustained. The decision, announced on October 6, ends an effort to turn a well-known digital… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom has moved its first digitally native government bond closer to market by naming the banks that will lead the pilot sale. On 6 October 2026, HM Treasury appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) moved within striking distance of a valuation no public company has ever recorded, as its shares returned to record territory in early October 2026 and the chip designer’s market value climbed to roughly $5.8 trillion.  On October 5 the stock closed at… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has argued that XRP’s pull with certain institutional investors, especially financial advisors, rests on two plain considerations: confidence that the asset will still exist years from now, and a set of uses those advisors already recognize. The comments appear… Read More