October 21, 2026 @ 4:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger is preparing to activate the fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment around 09:34 UTC on October 23, 2026. This package, introduced in xrpld version 3.4.0 and released on September 17, bundles a series of amendment-gated corrections. It currently holds the minimum validator support required for activation… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 4:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United States closed fiscal year 2026 with interest payments on the national debt climbing at a pace that outstripped growth in overall spending, tax collections, and the broader economy. Treasury Department figures show net interest outlays rose 8 percent to $1.05 trillion, up from… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 3:30 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-based Genie Health has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform, which helps individuals make sense of their health information and enables clinics to provide more personalised care. The funding round was led by Nadathur Family Office, with participation from… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 2:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash developers are advancing a targeted privacy enhancement to shield ZEC swap activity from potential future quantum computing risks. The team behind Zakura, a full-node implementation of the Zcash network, has detailed an approach that assigns a unique incoming viewing key to every publicly exposed… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is mounting a direct challenge to Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) longstanding software dominance in artificial intelligence by preparing to open-source a new development tool called TorchNeuron. Set for public beta release on Tuesday, October 20, in conjunction with the PyTorch Conference North America,… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Department of Homeland Security has directed civilian federal agencies to purge Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek from their information technology environments and to halt all related purchasing. The action, detailed in a Federal Register notice published on October 20, 2026, implements Exclusion and… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 10:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) urged a federal court to dismiss CME Group’s lawsuit challenging the agency’s authorization of perpetual futures contracts on digital assets. The filing, submitted in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, contends that the exchange operator has… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether has pushed back against a recent Senate investigation that portrayed its USDT stablecoin as a major conduit for Iranian financial activity, arguing that the inquiry overlooked the company’s proactive compliance efforts and their measurable impact on reducing related transaction volumes. Last month, Democratic staff… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), the publicly traded firm that maintains the largest corporate treasury of Bitcoin, is approaching a technical development on its share-price chart that mirrors a signal Bitcoin itself produced several weeks earlier. The pattern under discussion is a golden cross, defined as the point… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 19, 2026, iShares Trust, advised by BlackRock Fund Advisors, filed a post-effective amendment to its registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed new series named the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF, intended to trade under the ticker… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has launched a new service designed to help banks and other financial institutions better evaluate the risks associated with stablecoin payments. Announced on October 19, 2026, during the Money20/20 USA conference in Las Vegas, the offering—called Stablecoin Security—combines traditional payment insights with… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cross River has announced an agreement to acquire Accrue, a Fintech company that offers a branded wallet that supports rewards and loyalty programs. The acquisition is described as another milestone in Cross River’s efforts to grow its embedded finance offerings. Terms of the deal were… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online investment platform Republic has inked a partnership with Grayscale to offer access to crypto funds. While Grayscale offers publicly listed digital asset funds these are private offerings. The partnership will see three Grayscale products available on Republic’s DeFi Fund (exposure to protocols like UNI,… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq:CSHR) says the affluent are investing in crypto. According to a CoinShares survey of 502 investors with net worth over $500,000, 70% say they already own digital assets, and 64% are “extremely likely” to increase their crypto exposure. Additionally, 93% want to increase their… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital and Securitize (NYSE:SECZ) have revealed a partnership regarding stablecoins. Anchorage Digital is a federally regulated bank. Securitize is a leading tokenization platform that enables digital securities. According to a release, Securitize will support the direct minting and redemption of stablecoins powered by Anchorage…. Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 1:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech funding for private ventures remains robust, but it is not immune to market shifts, especially as dollars compete for the hot artificial intelligence (AI) sector. So far, several reports indicate that global Fintech funding has dropped in 2026, and Crunchbase is now throwing its hat in… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Stablecoins are emerging as an alternative to traditional cross-border payment systems, according to a working paper by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) titled Competing Rails for Cross-Border Payments: Banks, Fintechs, and Stablecoins. The paper, written by researchers Wenxin Du, Catherine Huang, and David Scharfstein,… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

zerohash announced the launch of AUTH by zerohash, an onchain authentication and account-linking product. The tool is designed to improve the usability of moving digital assets—including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized securities—by allowing transfers between linked accounts without requiring users to copy alphanumeric wallet addresses or… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thai immigration authorities have taken a 37-year-old Chinese national into custody in Bangkok following a multi-year search linked to an alleged transnational criminal operation. Officers from Immigration Division 3 located and detained the man, identified in Thai media reports as Wu Chaoshuai, at a luxury… Read More

October 20, 2026 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of core market-infrastructure firms has formed a working group to push tokenized public stocks that stay legally tied to the companies that issue them. On September 24, 2026, Bullish and Equiniti announced the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition, with Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions, and… Read More