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Founded in 2018, Cryptopolitan has grown from a popular blog into a trusted source of news and analysis for millions of readers worldwide. Over the years, we have expanded our coverage to include a wide range of topics, from market trends and technological innovations to regulatory changes and industry events.
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Guardarian CEO eyes US and MENA expansion as crypto market splits into regional regimes
The global crypto market has broken from a single sector into an industry running on a patchwork of regional regulatory systems, according to Petr Sergeev, the chief executive of Estonian crypto-fiat gateway Guardarian. Sergeev made the observation during a Cryptopolitan interview, where the executive also noted that compliance work never stops, even after clearing...
Tue, Oct 27
Ripple Wins Final OCC Approval for National Trust Bank, Bringing RLUSD Under Federal Oversight
Ripple now has the green light to run a federally chartered trust bank and this comes after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted final approval to Ripple National Trust Bank on October 26. The full approval closes out a process the company kicked off with its application in July last...
Tue, Oct 27
Unconventional AI buys NeuReality to accelerate 1,000x chip ambitions
On October 26, startup company Unconventional AI, valued at $4.5 billion, announced that it has entered into an undisclosed cash-and-stock deal to acquire NeuReality, an Israeli chip manufacturing company. With this acquisition, the company now possesses something that its experimental chips alone are unable to offer: engineers who are capable of turning silicon into products...
Tue, Oct 27
Cadence lets chipmakers run AI models behind their own firewalls
Cadence launched Maestro on October 26, giving chipmakers AI models they can fine-tune using proprietary designs and run behind their own firewalls. The launch raises a bigger question in its rivalry with Synopsys: who controls the models, the data they handle, and the value they create? Two bets on where the models live Maestro brings...
Tue, Oct 27
Anthropic IPO filing reveals model theft fears and real-world cyber incidents
Anthropic’s October 26 IPO filing discloses two different security concerns. The company delayed the start of pre-training a frontier model for more than a month while improving defenses against theft of its model weights. Separately, four Claude models accessed systems of real organizations during cybersecurity evaluations. Two problems, one filing Anthropic has submitted its application...
Tue, Oct 27
Could $389M in US chip grants accelerate Bitcoin miners’ AI pivot?
The United States Department of Commerce has pledged $389 million towards four firms manufacturing the power semiconductors necessary for the development of commercial fusion and AI data centers. It’s an investment that has the potential to ultimately flow to Bitcoin miners switching to AI hosting in search of cheaper electricity. The link between the two...
Tue, Oct 27
Aviva commits £50M to XRP Ledger tokenized sterling fund share class
Aviva Investors has put £50 million ($66 million) of its own money into a tokenized share class of its Sterling Liquidity Fund, launched on the XRP Ledger on October 26, 2026. The fund holds £22 billion in total assets, but that is not the amount tokenized, as Aviva’s announcement makes clear. Combined with a US...
Tue, Oct 27
Can US community banks compete with crypto firms in stablecoins?
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is trying to persuade small US lenders to join the stablecoin industry by asking them publicly, in a statement released on Monday, to think about becoming a payment stablecoin issuer before the licensing framework takes effect. This is significant for community banks as they try to determine...
Tue, Oct 27
S&P Global completes its OpenZeppelin acquisition, first announced in September
S&P Global closed its OpenZeppelin acquisition on October 26. The firm's open-source Contracts library underpins over $38 trillion in value transferred.
Mon, Oct 26
Retail bias or thin liquidity? Polymarket’s Brazil odds face scrutiny
Polymarket predicted Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had about a 20% chance of winning the Brazilian election. However, Lula won on Sunday despite his low odds, a blow to the prediction market world that raises questions about the real determinants of prediction odds. The left-wing Lula managed to defeat his right-wing opponent Flávio Bolsonaro in...
Mon, Oct 26
Qwen's Beijing upload attempt could raise open-weight AI's cost
According to Cohere, Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to transmit a test string to a cloud storage bucket in Beijing as part of a security test, but was blocked by the sandbox. However, this incident may lead to the introduction of new audit and isolation costs for organizations making use of open-weight solutions, namely models with a...
Mon, Oct 26
Mochatrade raises $5.56M to bring US stock perpetuals to India
Mochatrade has raised $5.56 million to give Indian traders a way to bet on U.S. stock prices using rupees, without owning the shares. Its upcoming launch will pave the way for the entry of increased retail activity into round-the-clock equity derivatives. This will make it possible to trade at times when the U.S. markets are...
Mon, Oct 26
BNB Standard rings Nasdaq bell with ex-YZi Labs partner as CEO
BNB Standard Corporation (Nasdaq: BNC) rang the Nasdaq Opening Bell on Monday with Alex Odagiu, its new CEO. Odagiu has only occupied his new role for a week and previously served as a YZi Labs investment partner. Who is Alex Odagiu? Alex Odagiu, who became chief executive just a week ago, rang the NASDAQ opening...
Mon, Oct 26
Kalshi traders give Anthropic a 95% chance of announcing an IPO before 2027
Kalshi traders are putting 95% odds on Anthropic announcing an IPO before 2027, and the AI company’s latest paperwork gives them a pretty good reason to watch the calendar. As Cryptopolitan reported earlier, Anthropic released its Form S-1 on Monday, laying out plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. Anthropic eyes a November...
Mon, Oct 26
Deutsche Bank is using AI to cut some corporate lending decisions from weeks to minutes
Deutsche Bank wants artificial intelligence to handle more of its banking operations, and it’s starting by making corporate loans much faster to process. Some companies that would usually take weeks to receive a response on their loan applications now receive responses within minutes. The largest bank in Germany is also developing technology that may one...
Mon, Oct 26
Brazil's stock futures plunged nearly 15% after Lula won reelection
Brazil’s stock market is getting hammered, and the reason has plenty to do with politics. Investors rushed to sell Brazilian assets on Monday after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured another term in office. Bovespa futures dropped close to 15%, while the Brazilian real fell by as much as 12%. Trading had to be...
Mon, Oct 26
Microsoft launches large-scale voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees
About 60,000 Microsoft workers, equal to about a quarter of its global staff, are set to receive voluntary buyout offers from the company. This comes amid attempts to reduce costs while pouring money into AI spending. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman announced the program in a memo to employees on Monday. Microsoft calls the program...
Mon, Oct 26
The Fed to hold interest rates steady this week
Although the inflation rate has increased to 3.7% and people in America have been facing problems due to high living costs, the Federal Reserve is likely to maintain the same interest rates this week. This is because of the price hikes that have resulted from the war that the United States is waging against Iran,...
Mon, Oct 26
Meta says its chip suppliers could take up to $5 billion of new stock
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom showed non-binding interest in up to $5 billion of Meta's $22.5 billion common stock offering, part of a ~$35 billion raise.
Mon, Oct 26
Ripple launches a 24/7 AI-powered platform for corporate finance
Ripple has launched an AI-powered finance platform that lets businesses earn returns on unused money while managing payments and cash around the clock. The company announced the new features for Ripple Treasury on Monday, ahead of its Swell 2026 conference. According to Ripple, the system incorporates the use of AI, blockchain payments, and traditional treasury...
Mon, Oct 26