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A collaboration with payments-tech firm ACI Worldwide will pilot folding USDC settlement into Colombia’s instant-payments network.

Chuck Todd called markets a “fact checker” for journalism, as Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood pitched contracts well beyond elections.

A new OpenAI paper declares ETH false, a claim that hundreds of research papers lean on. Crypto Twitter degens and serious mathematicians are abuzz.

Crypto traders think the McRib’s return to McDonald’s means a Bitcoin pump is coming. Experts say there is “no correlation at all.”

The firm’s new head of investigations says its surveillance system flags hundreds of alerts a day, with at least two cases sent to the CFTC.

The CMT Digital-led round, which drew mining-hardware makers Canaan and MicroBT, will fund Luxor’s expansion into AI compute trading, hardware and derivatives.

One of crypto’s primary growth sectors for this upcoming cycle is under attack. Will Vlad Tenev speak up on today’s Robinhood earnings call?

NIP Group says Bitcoin mining has “earned its place” as the esports giant swaps 247 million shares for more machines.

The federally supervised bank will manage RLUSD’s reserves and offer custody, as banking groups fight crypto charters in court.

Ottawa opened a 60-day consultation on draft rules requiring one-to-one reserves and fast redemption from stablecoin issuers, while keeping the ban on paying holders interest.

OpenAI’s mid-tier model now operates apps and screens more like a person would, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and an error rate that OpenAI says fell sharply.

Unitree’s shares have jumped about 60% in under two weeks as investors bet OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra will give robots the brains they lack, turning the stock into an AI proxy.

The agreement, which follows similar deals with MLB and NHL, establishes information-sharing to guard against insider trading as sports betting migrates to CFTC-regulated venues.

Police in Seoul say a 32-year-old with no IT background used AI tools to break into about 90 hospitals, schools and companies, then pressed victims for roughly $270,000 combined.

Cathedral, a startup founded by ex-DOGE staffers, says its AI agents found paths into Anthropic’s sales, HR, and IT systems through third-party software.

Experts say Brazil’s prediction market ban left the odds in the hands of traders with little knowledge about the election.

Elon Musk says SpaceX closed a $40 billion chip deal with Apollo while lenders shut the door on smaller AI cloud firms, a split that could decide who controls computing.

A confirmed exploit let rogue servers replace Electrum’s pending transactions, tricking users into redirecting Bitcoin to attacker addresses.

The Mumbai-based exchange says 15.99 million USDT was drained from wallets it retired after last year’s $44 million hack, bringing its combined losses to nearly $60 million—and it’s absorbing the hit.

The iShares Brazil ETF fell as much as 26% after Lula da Silva beat Flávio Bolsonaro, who prediction markets had at 80%, while the dollar jumped as much as 12% against the real.

The firm added 10,452 ETH to reach 4.95% of supply, but its bigger move was repurchasing 2.04 million of its own shares—part of what it calls the largest equity buyback any crypto treasury company has run.

AI-powered reverse engineering could make it “easier and faster” for researchers to uncover and explain how devices collect and share data.

The S-1 shows revenue up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and a share structure that leaves a trust and the co-founders in control.

The Bitcoin treasury firm’s USD Cash balance fell to $242.4 million after its biggest weekly STRC buyback in more than a month.

Analysts point to a sell-off in AI stocks and ETF outflows, with HashKey’s Tim Sun flagging $75,000 as the next key support level.

Galaxy Research says Bitcoin’s bear market ended in June, pointing to a reclaimed 50-week moving average, fading selling pressure, and a strengthening debasement case.

Some relief is appearing this morning as oil and rates fall, with a big macro week ahead featuring major earnings, FOMC and key data drops.

Over 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, warned of deeper isolation ahead of Israel’s October 27 national election.

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 joined the list.

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.