IBM is linking Digital Asset Haven to Swift's blockchain ledger, letting banks move tokenized deposits using standard payment messages.

New York AG Letitia James has sued Polymarket, alleging it runs an unlicensed gambling operation and seeking to bar it from the state.

Stablecoin infrastructure firm HIFI raised $37M in its first priced round to expand tokenized markets tools after DTCC trades and a Visa deal.

onald Spektor has been sentenced to four to 12 years after admitting he stole nearly $16M from Coinbase users through impersonation.

Solana Foundation hires former Binance CMO Rachel Conlan and Polygon's Jamal Raees as it builds out its institutional and payments team.

Bitcoin price held above $84,000 after the 10-year Treasury yield hit a 2007 high on Wednesday, keeping the path toward Glassnode's $96,700 resistance open.

Litecoin price rose about 20% to its highest level since January as futures open interest climbed 26% and futures volume ran more than five times spot.

Bitcoin's break above $80,000 drew strong ETF and institutional demand, but analysts are split on whether thinning volume threatens the rally's durability.

StarkWare's Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method now costs under $67 to build after a weeklong optimization contest cut computing costs by 79%.

The US may back overseas stablecoin projects to widen dollar reach, boost Treasury demand, and counter rival digital currencies from other nations

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says the AI safety pause is really a price war with China, and that $1T of impaired AI debt means printing that lifts BTC.

NYSE and Blockchain.com signed an MoU to give Blockchain.com's 44M+ users access to tokenized US stocks and ETFs via NYSE's planned 24/7 digital trading platform.

Bitcoin price slipped to about $84,300 after $444 million in long positions were liquidated, the most since Sept. 15.

Gold took 54% of Gate's non-crypto volume this week, outpacing stocks, as tokenized gold booms and traders favor it over Bitcoin's higher volatility.

Bitcoin Cash surged up to 30% and Bitcoin SV gained roughly 20% after CME Group announced BCH futures for Oct. 19 and Grayscale filed to convert its BCH trust into a spot ETF.

Chainalysis found the global crypto economy fell 1.6% to $9.4T in the year ending June 2026, despite a 50% market-cap drop, as stablecoin cross-border flows surged 77.5%.

BlackRock's "Machine-Native Economy" paper argues AI agents making autonomous payments will accelerate stablecoin adoption and could create a tokenized compute asset class.

MoonPay agreed to acquire North Capital, an SEC-registered private-markets firm with $8.7B in transaction volume, in an all-stock deal worth over $60M.