Summary: Bitcoin trades near $81,735 amid low volatility as investors await the Federal Reserve's October 28 rate decision. Analysts debate whether this 'wait and see' mode signals a coming bull market or reflects global risk-off sentiment.
Summary: HSBC launched RedCoin, a Hong Kong-dollar stablecoin, for retail use via its PayMe app, enabling over 3.3 million users to activate wallets. The asset is redeemable one-for-one against the HKD and follows HSBC's April licensing under Hong Kong's stablecoin framework.
Summary: ECB survey shows September inflation expectations rose to 3.1% while growth forecasts dropped to -1.5%. Unemployment expectations climbed to 11.3%, though long-term inflation views remained anchored at 2.5%.
Summary: US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $635 million on Thursday, the largest daily outflow since June, reversing October's gains to a net negative. Weekly inflows remained positive despite the drop, while altcoin funds saw mixed results with Ether losing $111 million.
Summary: Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand joined Singapore’s BLOOM initiative as policymaker members. The project, launched by MAS in October 2025, uses stablecoins and tokenized deposits to cut cross-border payment costs and speed up institutional service deployment.
Summary: Ethereum delays the Glamsterdam hard fork on Hoodi after ChainSecurity warns EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 may enable insufficient gas griefing attacks. The pause allows investigation into 13 identified real-world examples affecting smart contract reliability.
Summary: Bitcoin Core updated its security policy to accelerate fixes for vulnerabilities easily discovered by AI, abandoning lengthy embargoes for such flaws. Developer Antoine Poinsot stated that LLMs make secrecy ineffective, prompting immediate backports and concurrent advisories for "easily discoverable" bugs.
Summary: FINMA approves BIT Asset Management's BBIT, the first Swiss-law spot Bitcoin ETF for retail investors. Trading begins in November on SIX Swiss Exchange. Unlike debt-based ETPs, it uses a collective investment scheme with ring-fenced assets, though regulators warn of high volatility.
Summary: PHP issued emergency patches for the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 21, 2026. Cloudflare reported millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon detected attacks four days before disclosure. Governments confirmed no successful breaches yet, but hundreds of thousands of unpatched servers remain exposed.
Summary: US Treasury proposes blocking AI investments in China and allies, while DHS orders DeepSeek removal from federal systems. In Asia, Solana postponed a Shanghai event due to capacity limits, and South Korean firms advance yen and won stablecoin pilots.
Summary: Messi’s ChatGPT ad shows a swapped king/queen board and a losing opening, drawing 1.9M likes and online criticism. OpenAI previously made similar errors, raising questions about AI marketing accuracy despite 1.2B weekly users.
Summary: A Circle shareholder sued President Trump and World Liberty Financial over a $2 billion MGX-Binance deal using USD1. The filing alleges violations of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, claiming the transaction diverted business from USDC and harmed Circle’s competitive position.
Summary: Dune launches real-time data feeds for 200+ onchain venues, serving institutions with sub-second latency across 12 blockchains. The tool aids liquidity assessment amid rising tokenized stock values and ongoing issuer disputes.
Summary: UK regulators propose streamlining the Senior Managers and Certification Regime to cut administrative burdens, aiming to save firms £2 billion over ten years. Key roles retain pre-approval checks, while lower-level reporting thresholds rise to focus on serious misconduct.
Summary: Meta's board approved non-voting Class C stock to fund AI expansion without diluting Zuckerberg's control. The structure allows raising up to $700 billion before voting power drops below 50%, though CFO Susan Li stated no immediate financing plans exist.
Summary: Andreessen Horowitz renames its crypto fund to a16z Frontier, expanding its mandate to include AI and long-horizon tech. Partner Chris Dixon argues blockchains now serve as background infrastructure, though the firm maintains active crypto investments and regulatory advocacy.
Summary: Gemini co-founders' Digital Freedom Fund spent $81,000 supporting Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, marking its first expenditure there. The PAC also invested $7 million for Jon Husted in Ohio, aiming to influence crypto-friendly legislative outcomes ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Summary: Blockchain Association urges Congress to pass crypto tax bills amid legislative stalls. Current House and Senate drafts exclude key industry asks like mining deferrals, while regulatory uncertainty persists ahead of midterm recess.
Summary: Bitcoin ETFs flipped October positive with $1.07 billion in three-day inflows, yet prices fell 2.4% to $81,470. Ethereum ETFs saw minor recovery but remain down $1.07 billion for the month, amid mixed trader sentiment.
Summary: Tesla's Q3 net income dropped 43% to $787 million as spending on Optimus robots and Cybercabs surged. Production of humanoid bots began in Fremont, while driverless taxis face regulatory audits ahead of targeted 2026 customer deliveries.