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Aviva Investors, Ripple launch tokenized share class of $29 billion sterling fund on XRP Ledger
Aviva Investors has launched a tokenized share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund on the Ripple-backed XRP Ledger.
Israel's Central Bank Rebukes Netanyahu Plan to Use Crypto to Dodge Sanctions
Over 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, warned of deeper isolation ahead of Israel's October 27 national election.
Bitcoin holds near $80,000 as oil retreats and the Fed decision looms
Bitcoin was little changed near $80,400 since midnight UTC while the DeFi index was the only CoinDesk index to gain, with the Fed due to decide on Wednesday.
Live news: Bitcoin barely holding $80,000 ahead of Fed on Wednesday, tech earnings this week
Brazilian stocks are expected to plunge at the open as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva unexpectedly secured a fourth term in office.
BTC price risks $80K loss into FOMC, earnings: Three things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin bulls fought for $80,000 support over the weekend ahead of a heavy week of US tech earnings and inflation data.
Calpers pulls back from big tech as AI jitters deepen neocloud sell-off
California’s pension fund shifts toward private equity as investors question tech valuations and the payoff from soaring AI spending.
Securitize’s tokenized stock value halves as Circle widens lead
SECZ’s onchain market cap fell to $208.6 million as Circle-linked tokens reached a combined $383.6 million across several issuers in the $3.3 billion tokenized equities market.
South Korea weighs fourth delay of crypto gains tax, eyes 2029 start: report
The delay reportedly aims to align with the U.S. schedule of integrating CARF, the OECD's international tax framework for digital assets.
Fed, ECB and BOJ interest-rate decisions, Coinbase earnings: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 26.
Bitcoin ETFs break 2-week outflow streak with $301M comeback
US spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with $301 million in net inflows after a strong three-day start gave way to heavy withdrawals.
Over 11 million bitcoin has no known owner. Here's what it means
The large number of coins held in unidentified wallets shows that retail investors have been in this market for years, observers said. But this interpretation comes with a caveat.
LND Tests A Guardrail Against Extreme External Bitcoin Fee Estimates
LND's October 22 release candidate brings attention to a quiet source of wallet risk: outside fee estimates that software treats too generously. The 0.21.5 development notes descri…
Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
India's largest crypto exchange absorbs $16 million loss from internal process failure tied to retired wallet
The Mumbai-based exchange initially dismissed reports of suspicious outflows as a false alarm. It now says it lost $16 million and will absorb the loss.
Bitcoin wallet bug let rogue servers steal funds when users tried to speed up payments
Attackers replaced legitimate transactions with fake ones, then waited for users to approve higher fees. At least one person lost bitcoin before developers patched the flaw.
Musk warns over 200 AI neoclouds face ‘guppy-level death’
The warning comes as Gartner forecasts that more than 80% of specialist cloud providers will cease operating independently by 2030.
Reflect Makes Branded Token Issuance Easier While Leaving The Collateral In Charge
Reflect's Create launch, promoted by Solana on October 22, offers a fast route to issuing a branded yield-bearing token. The interface can simplify issuance, but the economics stil…
Bitcoin slips under $80,000 as traders de-risk ahead of Fed meeting
Ether and XRP led losses among the majors as the AI trade took another hit in Asia, where Goldman Sachs cut its Kospi target by 25%.
Ripple Swell Preview: The Evidence To Watch When Finance And Developers Meet
Ripple's Swell conference is scheduled for October 27–29 in New York, combining its institutional event with the Apex developer gathering. Ahead of the opening, the useful question…
Hong Kong names Nasdaq-listed Solana Company a strategic enterprise
The Nasdaq-listed firm said it plans to establish Solana validator operations in Hong Kong.
Elon Musk issues a warning for 'AI neoclouds' as SpaceX borrows $40 billion for chips
SpaceX has raised $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, while Musk predicts a major shakeout among smaller AI cloud providers.
World ID Brings Human Verification Into The Banking Fraud Debate
World launched its banking-and-finance offering on October 18. For a bank considering human verification, the useful question is narrower than whether an interaction looks authenti…
Keystone says website breach exposed hardware wallet buyers’ addresses
A security researcher warned that the leaked shipping details could expose crypto holders to targeted scams and physical attacks.
UNDP And Blockchain For Good Put Public-Service Security Ahead Of New Payment Rails
UNDP and the Blockchain for Good Alliance announced a two-year cybersecurity programme on October 19. The initiative brings a practical question into blockchain adoption by public…
A16z Frontier Broadens The Pitch For Crypto As Investors Look Across Technologies
Andreessen Horowitz is expanding its crypto team's investment brief. Chris Dixon's October 22 announcement renames a16z Crypto as a16z Frontier, with the new fund able to pursue a…
Standard Chartered-led Anchorpoint says it’s not rushing retail stablecoin
The Standard Chartered and Animoca Brands joint venture previously targeted retail access as early as the end of 2026, but its CEO declined to reaffirm that timeline.
Robinhood Sets A 2027 Middle East Launch Target After DFSA Authorization
Robinhood announced DFSA authorization and a Dubai International Financial Centre headquarters on October 22, with a Middle East rollout planned for 2027. Regulatory permission pre…
Circle Match Gives USDC Desks A New Fee Trade-Off And A Separate Funding Balance
Circle's October 22 update on Match describes a service for connecting institutional USDC flows. A consequential detail sits in its funding documentation: money prepared for a mint…
AI agents help rescue ETH’s Glamsterdam fork, ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site: Hodler’s Digest
Similar to the Hugging Face hack, Ethereum researchers have set up an AI Agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork. ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site successfully hacked.
Grayscale Looks Beyond AI Tokens To The Data And Credit Behind Computing
Grayscale's October 23 research note looks at a more specific crypto-and-AI proposition than a general bet on smarter software: who supplies training data, who finances hardware an…
Lido Puts Liquidity Buffers At The Center Of Ethereum ETP Yield Debate
An Ethereum investment product can advertise staking exposure without putting every unit of its ETH to work. Lido's October 23 comparison of European exchange-traded products bring…
CoinDCX confirms $16 million loss from retired wallets days after CEO called breach reports a ‘false alarm’
CEO Sumit Gupta had told X users on Wednesday that early reports of a breach sounded like "a false alarm."
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joine…
Keystone customers say breach exposed data the hardware wallet maker promised to delete
Keystone has said it deletes customer information 180 days after their orders in most cases, though X users have cast doubt on that claim.
ECB official sees digital euro as key to protecting EU ‘sovereignty’
Piero Cipollone said the bloc is on track to test real transactions in 2027 and roll out a digital euro as early as 2029, pending legislation this year.
Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus
Economics Minister Viktors Valainis says rules could arrive in the first half of next year, but an overdue assessment remains unfinished and no sovereign-bond issuance was identifi…
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Two-Week Losing Streak Despite Late-Week Slide
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
UK banks face 10,000 complaints in 3 months over crypto restrictions
The U.K. claims to aspire to become a global cryptocurrency hub, an ambition that would appear to be at odds with the attitude to crypto purchases of its major banks.
Netanyahu floats use of blockchain as solution to potential financial sanctions
Ahead of elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential international sanctions, to the dismay of opponents and the…
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