Bastion, owner of 9.99% of SkyAI, won't tender into SkyAI's $3 offer unless terms improve, seeking at least $3.50 and details of the firm's SOL sales.

Payward, Kraken's parent, has agreed to acquire Lithuania-licensed Saldo Bank, extending its EU push into deposits, lending, and banking-as-a-service by 2027.

A Chainalysis report found AI agent wallets are topping up faster and spending sooner on x402, with US agents making 88.1% of model inference payments.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said core inflation held at 2.6% as oil jumped 9.1%, with futures markets pricing near-even odds of an October Fed hike.

Qivalis, backed by 37 European banks, won an e-money license from De Nederlandsche Bank and plans to issue its euro stablecoin within months under MiCA.

Standard Chartered will let eligible UAE clients trade Bitcoin and Ether directly through their bank accounts, under a VARA license and with Zodia Markets.

Nasdaq-listed Evernorth named Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo to start deploying its 473M XRP treasury in Q4, with XRP Ledger DeFi plans to follow.

K33 Research says Strategy would hold fewer Bitcoin without its STRC preferred stock, but the stock's new dividend costs erase that edge within seven months.

Turkish police and intelligence detained HEX founder Richard Heart in Istanbul on a Finland-requested Interpol red notice, media reported, as HEX fell 40%.

The US OCC's debanking review found all nine largest national banks had debanking policies from 2020 to Sept. 2025, with many restricting digital asset firms.

The European Banking Authority named Circle's USDC the first significant e-money token under MiCA, with its reserves under direct EBA oversight from Nov. 12.

Ethereum fell about 3.6% on Wednesday and broke its Oct. 8 low against Bitcoin, a day after US spot Ethereum ETFs ended a $783 million outflow streak.

Bitcoin fell about 2% after hot US inflation data lifted the odds of an October Fed rate hike to 47%, a smaller drop than the Bitwise CIO had expected.

Privy, the Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure firm, partnered with Ripple to bring embedded wallets to the XRP Ledger for apps built around XRP and RLUSD.

BTC climbed toward $84,000 and ZEC led a broader rally as traders weighed New York Fed President Williams's inflation outlook ahead of CPI data Thursday.

Starknet's Shadow Accounts give apps a public-to-private switch, separating DeFi positions from a user's main wallet while balances remain visible on-chain.

Aptos made an opt-in Encrypted Mempool and Confidential APT live on mainnet, letting users encrypt pending transactions until blocks finalize to cut MEV risk.

Federated Hermes, managing $911.6B, plans to issue tokenized funds via Prometheum's SEC-registered broker-dealers, with a first product expected in Q1 2027.