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About 1.56 million SOL sat on a validator that stopped earning, and the wallet still hasn’t named the firm that held its keys.

Coming shortly is a key government inflation report; coming after the close on Thursday are quarterly earnings from the leading corporate bitcoin holder, Strategy.

Lazaro Campos takes the board role as the London-based company reports $300 million in assets locked and more than $1 billion in annual transaction volume.

A market at an inflection point could shape inflation trends and the prices of risk assets, from bitcoin to tech stocks.

Three flaws a language-model scan dug up are the first disclosed under Core’s new rules for bugs that are easy to find.

A key blunder at Indian certificate issuer eMudhra left some Teku and Besu setups trusting forged certificates. Default mainnet nodes weren’t exposed.

Utah has filed criminal charges against betting platform Kalshi and its co-founders.

Bitcoin fell below $80,000 as Samsung-driven tech weakness and a hawkish Fed hold triggered a broad risk-off move. Crypto futures saw $356 million in liquidations.

A full-page warning urging CEOs to opt out of tokenized stock trading drew a response from Securitize and questions over who paid for it.

Prospective borrowers face collateral liquidation risks if bitcoin prices drop, though APX said property and crypto collateral will be handled distinctly.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a forum in which the chairman, Mike Selig, suggested AI agents may usher in a financial revolution.

Treating crypto as a political battleground only makes it harder to build the secure, transparent, American-made financial system that most Americans say they want, argues DeFi Education Fund’s Jennifer Rosenthal.

A rate hike in December remains likely as the U.S. central bank continues to focus on inflation, which remains well above its 2% target.

Coinbase faces a key earnings test as analysts debate the strength of its trading rebound following a sharp drop in Robinhood’s crypto revenue.

The largest card networks now sit in the top governance tier of x402, the standard that AI agents use to pay for things online. Albert Castellana of GenLayer Labs explains why that standard has no way to dispute a charge, and what happens when the payment settles but the agent receives something wrong or useless.

DTCC’s tokenization service went live on Canton Network and private chain Besu, with JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley among 20 firms signed up.

Nearly half the companies on the venture’s original roster have now objected to their shares trading on the planned blockchain-based venue.

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 28, 2026

An experimental change would let companies cover the reserve for customer and AI-agent accounts, allowing users to start with stablecoins without first acquiring XRP.

Bitcoin rose above $81,400 as Asian chip stocks rallied, with frog-themed memecoin pepe adding 9%.

HYPE and ZEC led a broad bounce, with every top token in the green hours before the Federal Reserve’s rate call.

Google Multi-Party Compute is in private preview, with several major financial institutions testing the technology and parent company Alphabet using it to secure its own digital assets on Ethereum and Solana.

Stablecoins lead instruments in use or planned at 63%, ahead of tokenized deposits at 53% and tokenized money market funds at 52%.

Itaú Unibanco notified Brazil’s central bank of its crypto trading and custody operations on Tuesday, ahead of an Oct. 30 deadline.

South Korean chipmakers led a broader AI recovery after SK Hynix reported a sevenfold profit surge and announced another $45 billion in shareholder returns.

Both bitcoin and the S&P 500 have historically produced positive returns in a year after midterms. BTC’s pattern, however, could also be explained by the four-year halving cycles.

The firms announced the agreement at Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation’s annual conference in Portugal.

The company said the accounting correction will cut reported assets by $92.2 million at the end of 2025 after bitcoin held on Biconomy could not be withdrawn.

The breach hit an internal employee system that Bithumb says is separate from its trading platform, while the exchange is still determining whether customer information was exposed.

Majors outpaced bitcoin across the board as tech stocks extended a climb.