Bitcoin rose about 2.8% to near $83,700 on Wednesday as Nasdaq futures climbed on SpaceX's results, even with Brent crude holding above $110 a barrel.

Bank Negara Malaysia launched SSDS+, a new platform for tokenized bonds and sukuk that settles the matching bond payments in central bank money via RENTAS+.

The SEC's comment period on Regulation Crypto Assets closed Oct. 20, with SIFMA, Davis Polk, and crypto firms asking the agency to revise the proposal.

1inch is discontinuing its 1inch Card and has closed sign-ups, telling cardholders to withdraw or spend their balances by Dec. 18, 2026, at the latest.

MEXC will end services for users in Russia and Belarus to enhance compliance, with affected users to be notified individually of withdrawal timelines.

Bitcoin treasury firm Strive closed its upsized IPO of 7 million SATS preferred shares at $90 each and listed the 15% stock on Nasdaq under the ticker SATS.

France’s National Assembly voted 38-37 to tax crypto-to-stablecoin conversions as sales from 2027, ending deferral for USDC and EURC swaps.

A US federal court ordered EminiFX and founder Eddy Alexandre to pay over $288M after the court found the crypto and forex commodity pool was a Ponzi scheme.

: Kazakhstan’s AIFC Court barred Coinbase, BingX, HTX, BitMart and WEEX from offering unlicensed crypto services; Google and Apple ordered to restrict app access.

FINMA approved Switzerland’s first retail Bitcoin ETF, citing BTC’s trading history as its reason for granting a risk diversification exemption under Swiss law.

Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines, which lets AI agents pay for digital services via x402, after pilots with Coinbase, Base and BVNK.

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor says Bitcoin will retake $100,000 within 12 months, and that the bull run now beginning will run for four years.

Ramp applied to the OCC to form Ramp National Trust Bank, which would offer digital asset custody and fiduciary investment management but take no deposits.

MtGox’s rehabilitation trustee extended the creditor repayment deadline to Oct. 31, 2027, the fourth straight one-year postponement since 2023.

Sophon said its mainnet will shut down on Nov. 30, warning that any assets left after the Nov. 25 withdrawal deadline risk becoming permanently inaccessible.

OKXICE TSV, the tokenized stock venue from ICE and OKX, now faces objections from 16 public companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs.

FalconX and GSR executed the first block trade in CME Group's new Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures, taking its single-asset crypto futures to 11 tokens.

Bitget agreed to acquire GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand), a licensed Bangkok exchange and brokerage, from GMO Internet, subject to regulatory approval.