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Anchorage wins distribution in back-to-back deals as Western Union and Securitize come onboard
Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, has secured two distribution wins in just two days. It can now settle international trades on Securitize with its stablecoins and also power a new Western Union cross-order payout service. The latest wins cement the bank’s role as an issuer for money-transfer and...
Wed, Oct 21
ARK’s Q3 DeFi report shows incentives propping up activity as Ethereum mainnet slips
ARK Invest’s DeFi Quarterly noted a broad recovery in the third quarter of 2026. The rebound was spurred largely by tokenized stocks, even though a large part of the activity is still reliant on brokerage distribution and token incentives. There was a drop in Ethereum’s mainnet revenue to ~$40.6 million from $63 million. Tokenized equities...
Wed, Oct 21
Bastion presses SkyAI board over $201M buyback paying insider-linked advisor
Bastion Trading demanded on October 21 that SkyAI’s (Nasdaq: SKYA) executive chairman and three directors explain why they liquidated SkyAI’s entire Solana (SOL) treasury. The fund is also asking why they signed off on a $201 million buyback, considering that up to $11.9 million of it could go to one of their director’s brothers. Why...
Wed, Oct 21
Global Conservation Capital Announces November 15 Presale Launch of Sloth Coin (SLOC), Connecting Rainforest Conservation With Environmental Credit Revenue
The security token initiative introduces an investment-backed conservation model designed to support rainforest protection while creating opportunities for potential investor distributions from verified environmental-credit sales. October 2026 — Global Conservation Capital, Inc. (GCC) has announced the upcoming presale of Sloth Coin (SLOC), scheduled to launch on November 15, 2026. The security token initiative is designed...
Wed, Oct 21
Grayscale introduces in-kind transfers and investinga cross crypto ETPs
DIgital asset investment platform, Grayscale, has announced a new feature which allows eligible investors to exchange their crypto directly for shares in 10 of its exchange-traded products (ETPs). The new in-kind transfers let investors use the crypto they already own to buy fund shares instead of selling their coins for cash before investing. How in-kind...
Wed, Oct 21
OCC's final stablecoin rule lands after Congress stalls on yield
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published its final GENIUS Act stablecoin rule on Wednesday. The OCC is officially the first federal regulator to go through with implementing regulations for stablecoins. Congress remains stuck on broader crypto legislation. Can crypto platforms still pay rewards on stablecoins? The GENIUS Act, enacted July 18,...
Wed, Oct 21
OpenAI's most powerful models weaken their own safeguards in latest incident
OpenAI has disclosed that its AI agents weakened or even totally turned off the internal systems set up to catch unsanctioned behavior during two coding tasks, a failure that means the oversight for AI agents can be undone by the agents themselves. Two coding tasks, two disabled monitors The company laid out both cases in...
Wed, Oct 21
Cryptopolitan Report: Apple Says Ditch The AI Meter. 39% Of Our Readers Agree
Apple wants companies to stop paying per token and buy a desk full of Macs instead for their AI work. In the same week as the new Macs dropped, OpenAI and Anthropic cut down their API prices. We asked our newsletter readers which approach they’d choose. The Pitch That Started This On September 22, Apple...
Wed, Oct 21
Qian Zhimin victims cleared to appeal UK ruling on 61,000 seized BTC
A group of about 16,000 Chinese victims that lost money investing in Qian Zhimin’s fraudulent crypto scheme were granted the permission to contest the October ruling that would have allowed the UK to pocket most of the gains on the roughly 61,000 BTC seized from the accused. The UK court decided on October 16 to...
Wed, Oct 21
Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China fabs to make advanced chips
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are both planning upgrades to their Chinese manufacturing plants to produce more advanced NAND flash memory as competition with domestic rival Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) ramps up. Both companies are also looking to meet the growing demand from AI data centers, Reuters reported. Inside the ‘Monami’ conversion at Xi’an Samsung...
Wed, Oct 21
Digital ruble usage is driven more by curiosity than by utility, poll finds
Mere curiosity is the main driver for opening a digital ruble account in Russia, shows a survey conducted less than a couple of months after the launch of the CBDC. The results also indicate holders would like to see more incentives and opportunities to spend the state-issued coin while Moscow is preparing to restrict its...
Wed, Oct 21
Amodei thanks critic Calvin as Anthropic rewrites AI safety bill
Dario Amodei thanked critic Nathan Calvin on Wednesday for scrutinizing Anthropic, days after Calvin helped drive a backlash against the company’s leaked AI safety bill. Anthropic is just weeks away from the launch of its planned IPO and has responded to the backlash by promising to rewrite parts of the bill. What is the AEGIS...
Wed, Oct 21
US Ether ETFs erase September gains after $1.08 billion in October outflows
US-listed Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen an outflow of $1.08 billion this October, marking the biggest-ever monthly outflow in 2026 so far and wiping out the gains made in September. This leaves the Ether ETFs with marginal yearly gains, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs face worst month since November This monthly outflow has come...
Wed, Oct 21
ZachXBT warns that FreedomXMR is now being used to launder funds from notable exploits
FreedomXMR has laundered $20M from several recent hacks and exploits, discovered on-chain researcher ZachXBT.
Wed, Oct 21
Solana Flips Robinhood in Tokenized Stock Holders for First Time Since July
Solana has overtaken Robinhood Chain in the number of tokenized equities holders according to the latest data from Blockworks. The network now accounts for over 1.5 million tokenized stock holders which puts it just ahead of Robinhood Chain at around 1.48 million and behind BNB chain, which still leads with 1.93 million holders. Robinhood took...
Wed, Oct 21
Qubic opens claims portal after wallet seed flaw exposes 1,404 accounts
Qubic is now officially live again. The team has initiated their recovery process following the recent seed vulnerability that drained $1.4M in QU across 1.4k wallets. To support affected users, the platform has introduced a claims portal where impacted wallet holders can submit their requests. According to Qubic Explorer, the blockchain resumed tick processing at...
Wed, Oct 21
Coinbase Wallet offers up to 50% fee rebates in USDC
Coinbase Wallet introduced a loyalty rewards program on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, that lets customers get back a whopping 50% of their eligible trading costs as USDC. The message behind it is clear: trade more, get more back. Whether this will lead to any long-term loyalty, however, remains to be seen. How the cashback tiers...
Wed, Oct 21
Utah sues Kalshi and Susquehanna firms over alleged illegal gambling
On October 20, Utah brought a lawsuit against Kalshi’s five companies and two trading companies that belong to Susquehanna, alleging illegal gambling and asking for restitution, injunctions and disgorgement in accordance with the complaint issued by the state. By going after companies that run the markets for Kalshi, Utah is expanding the legal battle beyond...
Wed, Oct 21
JPMorgan's first bitcoin forecast puts BTC's 10% ahead of stocks and gold
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's first bitcoin forecast projects a 10% annual return, above its 7.5% for U.S. large caps and 5.5% for gold.
Wed, Oct 21
Anthropic loses $80 billion net in first six months of 2026
Anthropic had a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first six months of 2026, according to a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The numbers are disclosed only weeks before the AI company is expected to go public at a valuation of almost $2 trillion, adding even more scrutiny to the...
Wed, Oct 21