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Fidelity executive Matthew Horne stated that institutional adoption of tokenization is irreversible, citing structural advantages and new market access.
SALT Lending CEO Shawn Owen argues that Bitcoin’s superior portability and divisibility offer distinct advantages over gold and real estate for institutional investors.
Decrypt has activated self-custodial money accounts on Solana, enabling a single USDT balance to fund Earn, Swaps, Predictions, and Perps without bridging.
Netflix released a trailer for its eight-episode series on the FTX collapse, starring Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried and Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison.
A batch of 100.02 BTC mined in July 2010 moved on October 7 for the first time in 16 years, worth about $8.3 million at roughly $83,000 per Bitcoin.
Ethereum's Sepolia testnet activated Glamsterdam on October 6 at epoch 353,024, with a block gas limit of nearly 200 million, more than three times mainnet's 60 million.
AI agent startup Manus raised over $500 million led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, following China's order to unwind Meta's previous acquisition attempt.
Chainalysis reports a 43-fold increase in unique wallets sending peer-to-peer stablecoin transactions in China between Q1 2024 and Q2 2026.
Tokenization could free up tens of billions of dollars in capital tied up in assets used as collateral across the global financial system, Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said.
The Trump administration announced over $6 billion in science initiatives, featuring a $215 million quantum computing competition and $2.4 billion in industry commitments for artificial intelligence tools.
Ethereum client developer Nethermind and Bitcoin wallet ZEUS have applied to Anthropic’s new OSS Scanner program, seeking AI-generated security reports to identify vulnerabilities in their open-source code.
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission finalized rules allowing Bitcoin and Ether ETFs to list on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, effective October 16, 2026.