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CFTC and NBA sign MOU over prediction markets, NBA names Kalshi, Polymarket as "preferred" markets
The NBA sees Kalshi and Polymarket as its “preferred” prediction markets and has signed a memorandum of understanding with the CFTC to ensure all trading tied to its games are regulated, the league and the regulator have jointly announced. Two deals on the same day The announcements pair a commercial arrangement with a regulatory one....
Mon, Oct 26
Vanguard's VSS takes a $7.5 million stake in Bitcoin holder Metaplanet
Vanguard’s small-cap ETF has bought 4.5 million shares of Metaplanet, the Japanese company piling Bitcoin onto its balance sheet. The stake is worth about $7.5 million and marks the first disclosed Metaplanet purchase by the Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap ETF (VSS). Bitcoin Treasuries flagged the deal on X on October 26, setting off plenty...
Mon, Oct 26
Strive aggressively buys Bitcoin as broader crypto market faces pressure
Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive is buying Bitcoin like it has absolutely no interest in what the rest of the crypto market is doing. The company has added another 6,182 BTC to its balance sheet, bringing its total holdings to 43,000 Bitcoin. This is a massive increase from what the company used to have at the start...
Mon, Oct 26
How RWA Adoption is Spreading Across Crypto Markets
Crypto markets are becoming a place to manage a wider range of investments. Eligible investors can use tokenized products to earn Treasury income or hold exposure to a company or commodity through their wallets. These real-world assets, or RWAs, connect blockchain markets with claims on assets held outside the blockchain. They bring familiar financial choices...
Mon, Oct 26
Verizon signs $2 billion cloud infrastructure deal with AWS after lifting forecasts
Communications giant Verizon has signed an AI infrastructure agreement with Amazon Web Services worth over $2 billion while raising its 2026 outlook for a third straight quarter. The company cited record subscriber gains and an increasing demand for its fiber network, according to Quartz. What the Verizon AWS deal covers Verizon will provide fiber connections...
Mon, Oct 26
Trump threatens to ‘finish off’ Iran as US military buildup intensifies
US president Donald Trump says he could order another round of American attacks on Iran whenever he wants, but he is still weighing whether to hit Tehran or negotiate an agreement. The president made the threat during a Fox News interview on Sunday, with US military forces building up across the Middle East and tensions...
Mon, Oct 26
Strategy skips Bitcoin, spends $205M on STRC buybacks
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) did not buy any Bitcoin during the week between October 19 and 25, according to its October 26 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Instead, 100% of the money spent by the firm, led by founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor, last week went to buying back $204.9 million...
Mon, Oct 26
Musk raises AI alarm as SpaceX borrows $40 billion for AI chips
According to Elon Musk, SpaceX has completed a deal for $40 billion in debt financing to purchase Nvidia graphics chips. The transaction proves the strongest AI buyers can still raise money even though Musk warned that weaker companies are being increasingly denied access to the credit markets. Callable debt for GPUs drops in early 2027...
Mon, Oct 26
Researcher cracks an unpatched PHP server and takes its $2,000 Bitcoin prize in 19 hours
Hacker cracks a deliberately vulnerable PHP server and claims its $2,021 Bitcoin bounty in 19.28 hours, testing the new PHP2Shell flaws.
Mon, Oct 26
OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its IPO filing public as the race to dominate Wall Street’s AI trade heats up
Anthropic is officially preparing to go public, and Wall Street is about to get another major AI stock to trade. The five-year-old company behind Claude has published its IPO paperwork after secretly filing with the SEC in June. It plans to list on the Nasdaq under ANT, although its debut still isn’t guaranteed. AI stocks...
Mon, Oct 26
GMO Internet says it will not pay hackers $50 million after server breach
GMO Internet refused a $50 million demand from hackers who breached Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, where up to 26,739 servers may be affected.
Mon, Oct 26
USDC's $4.69 billion loss makes up most of the stablecoin market's monthly decline
USDC lost $4.69 billion in 30 days, about 80% of the net decline across 13 large stablecoins, as the market slid to $300.36 billion on October 25.
Mon, Oct 26
New York Gaming Commission Takes Kalshi to Court Over Unanswered Subpoenas
New York’s Gaming Commission has asked a state court to force the largest prediction market platform, Kalshi, to hand over documents that it had first asked three months ago. The regulator filed a verified petition in New York County Supreme Court naming Kalshi Inc. and KalshiEX LLC as respondents. The court logged it on October...
Mon, Oct 26
Keystone confirms a Shopify store breach exposed hardware wallet buyers' addresses
Keystone says a third party took buyers' names, contacts, shipping addresses and orders from its Shopify store. No keys or recovery phrases leaked.
Mon, Oct 26
Canada’s draft stablecoin rules shut out yield and route reserves through the banks
Canada has moved to give Canadian banks a prominent role in its latest draft stablecoin regulations, backing the banks’ push for bans on stablecoin yields, while mandating non-bank issuers to park their reserves inside those same banks. The document published in the Canada Gazette landed barely three days after the Office of the Comptroller of...
Mon, Oct 26
CoinDCX admits $16M USDT loss days after CEO dismissed hack alerts
On October 25, 2026, CoinDCX confirmed that it lost 15.99 million USDT from retired wallets. Before that, on October 22, CEO Sumit Gupta had dismissed the breach warnings as just a possible “false alarm.” The turnaround brings into doubt how the exchange kept track of those wallets and conveyed information to its customers. A sweeping...
Mon, Oct 26
Passport maker Foundation says compromised Cloudflare API keys sent phishing from its domains
Foundation says leaked Cloudflare API keys let scammers send emails from its domains. It revoked every key and says Passport funds and hardware are safe.
Mon, Oct 26
Chinese automakers overtake Japanese rivals in Europe for the first time
China’s carmakers have officially outsold their Japanese rivals in Europe over an entire quarter for the first time, and the numbers show just how quickly the market is changing. BYD and Chery, among others, are winning customers in a place where companies such as Toyota and Nissan have been operating for many years to date....
Mon, Oct 26
Moonshot resets Kimi K3.1 Pro quotas after rate-limit apology
Moonshot AI has apologized to Kimi K3.1 Pro users after their paid service was interrupted by a cap on its use and wasted quota. They have reset their counters and given users back 25% of their monthly quotas. The incident reveals a serious challenge in the area of autonomous AI agents: the responsibility of operating...
Mon, Oct 26
Dogecoin Foundation breakup forces House of Doge into a corporate rename
House of Doge and its US subsidiary must drop "Doge" from their corporate names before December 31 after ending an exclusive Dogecoin Foundation license.
Mon, Oct 26