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SpaceX and Tesla hold 30,221 bitcoin as special committees weigh closer ties
SpaceX's quarterly filing puts its bitcoin at 18,712 units. Tesla holds 11,509, and special committees at both companies are studying closer ties.
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21Shares drops ARK from its spot bitcoin ETF, renaming it TBIT
A 21Shares filing says ARK's marketing and sub-advisory role on ARKB ends Dec. 22, and the fund is set to become the 21Shares Bitcoin ETF a week earlier. The filing gives no reason.
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Andreessen Horowitz drops crypto from its crypto fund unit's name
a16z says a16z Crypto is now a16z Frontier, widening its new fund to other early-stage technology while it keeps investing in crypto.
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CoinDCX says a deposit transfer failure cost it money, hours after denial
India's CoinDCX says it absorbed unquantified losses when a process for moving deposits out of old, compromised addresses failed, after first calling the reports misleading.
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SoFi puts a bank deposit on-chain and says it is no stablecoin
SoFi's product terms describe SOFIE as a deposit liability of SoFi Bank and keep it apart from SOFID, the bank's payment stablecoin, a line the new federal stablecoin rule also draws.
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Bitcoin funds pull in $1 billion in three days after a week of withdrawals
US spot bitcoin ETFs took in a net $1.07 billion from Oct. 19 to Oct. 21, according to Farside Investors, after investors pulled a net $228.4 million the week before.
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Most large crypto coins rose with bitcoin on Oct. 20 and 21
CoinMarketCap data show 62 of 88 large coins rose on Oct. 21 as bitcoin gained 1.29%, four days after 80 of them fell.
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Chart Desk: USDC Supply Falling, ETH Fees, and ETH Burns
Circle's USDC supply on Ethereum fell by about 570.1 million tokens in the week to Oct. 20, Ethereum's median base fee stayed below 0.1 gwei every day, and the network burned about 205 ETH in base fees.
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Securitize says Solana is now its largest network
The tokenization firm, which names BlackRock's BUIDL and VanEck's VBILL among its products, says it has $1.10B in tokenized assets on Solana, more than on any other network it uses.
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Noah says it will power Western Union's stablecoin payouts
Noah says it will convert and pay out Western Union's USDPT dollar token for the money-transfer giant's Receiver Redirect service, but neither company has given a start date or fees.
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Standard Chartered signs deal to fully own its crypto custodian
The bank will fold Zodia Custody into the business that safeguards securities for its institutional clients, pending regulatory approval. No price was disclosed.
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Companies have bought nearly 136,000 bitcoin with high-yield shares, Fidelity says
Fidelity Digital Assets counts 135,979 bitcoin bought with money raised from a new kind of income stock. The model works only while bitcoin outruns the payouts.
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Webull will let U.S. customers trade bitcoin contracts that never expire
Starting in November, the broker will offer leveraged, no-expiry crypto contracts listed and cleared by Kalshi, beginning with bitcoin.
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Mastercard lets AI agents pay for services within a set budget
In early access, Agent Pay for Machines puts Mastercard's permission layer on top of an open web payment protocol, with settlement on Base and through BVNK.
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More ether than ever is locked up, but the reward keeps shrinking
Bitwise counts a record 43.80 million ETH staked, 35.9% of supply, while the yield fell to 2.63%; Solana's slipped too.
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Tokenized gold has grown fivefold to about $6 billion, industry body says
A World Gold Council and BCG report sizes digital gold at $45 billion to $55 billion today and calls a $700 billion figure latent demand, not a forecast.
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JPMorgan's asset manager gives bitcoin a long-term forecast for the first time
The 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions add a bitcoin return forecast but keep it out of the main portfolio math, citing unstable correlations.
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BlackRock files for a bitcoin ETF built to limit losses
A new iShares filing describes a fund that would buy and sell options on BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF to cap both gains and losses; its fee, exchange and caps are not yet disclosed.
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Mesh partners with Visa to make wallet crypto spendable at checkout
Mesh says participating wallet apps will let users pay from crypto and stablecoin balances wherever Visa is accepted, with no card for the user to sign up for and nothing new for merchants to install.
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JPMorgan puts its JPM Coin deposit token on Ethereum's main network
JPMorgan's Kinexys page now lists Ethereum alongside Base as a home for its dollar deposit token, putting bank money on the same public chain as dollar stablecoins.
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Nine companies block tokenized copies of their shares before launch
The SEC's tokenized-stock exemption gives issuers 30 days to object, and the objection list at the ICE and OKX venue grew from one to nine in 11 days, the venue's notices show.
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Strategy raises its preferred stock buyback to $3 billion, filing shows
Strategy's board added $1 billion to its preferred stock buyback after a third straight week of more than $175 million in STRC repurchases, its Oct. 19 filing shows, leaving $1.16 billion of room.
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Higher deposit rates slow stablecoin growth, BIS paper finds
A BIS working paper finds stablecoin growth slows when US deposit rates rise, and that banks reprice more aggressively once the Fed's rate tops about 3%, ahead of the Fed's Oct. 27-28 meeting.
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Tron Inc. and BNB Standard say they will help run crypto networks
Tron Inc. says it won a seat among TRON's 27 block producers, and BNB Standard says it plans its own BNB Chain validator, turning token holders into network operators.
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Pump.fun opens Hyperliquid perpetual futures to its memecoin traders
Pump.fun's updated terms let users outside the U.S. and Ontario send leveraged futures orders to Hyperliquid through its app, for a builder fee of up to 0.10% of each order.
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Schwab opens crypto accounts to all eligible retail clients
Schwab says every eligible retail client can now open a Schwab Crypto account, a day after its earnings release cited plans to expand digital assets; New York and Louisiana residents remain excluded.
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MSCI adopts screen that could push Strategy out of its global indexes
MSCI will treat non-operating companies as ineligible for its global benchmarks from the November review. MSCI's current list of potentially affected members shows Strategy as a deletion, but the final list is not due until Nov. 11.
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Jack Henry plans to bring tokenized deposits to banks via Google's ledger
The core banking provider says it will be the first to integrate with Google Cloud Universal Ledger, giving community banks and credit unions a path to tokenized deposits. No launch date or client names were given.
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Marqeta and Coinbase team up on stablecoin-backed cards for businesses
Coinbase will hold the stablecoins, convert them to fiat and settle on Base, while Marqeta issues and processes the cards. Launch customers, coins, fees and timing are not disclosed.
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The Chart Desk: BitMine staking, miners selling, and stablecoin supply
BitMine has reported the same staked ETH in 10 straight weekly releases, Riot sold 9,665 bitcoin against 3,060 mined in the first half of 2026, and USDT and USDC supply on Ethereum fell from October 2025 to September 2026.
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Bitcoin's volatility fell to 43% over the past year, Grayscale says
Grayscale Research says bitcoin's realized volatility over the past year was below its 10-year average and well under its level five years ago, citing data from Artemis.
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Visa Direct takes USDC prefunding live, with Inyo Global first
Visa says its Visa Direct stablecoin capabilities are moving from pilot to commercial deployment, with payments processor Inyo Global the first to let businesses prefund cross-border payouts in USDC.
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Cross River Bank adds Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin as a payment rail
Cross River says fintechs will reach Ripple's dollar stablecoin on the XRP Ledger through the same API they use for ACH, wires and real-time payments, though no availability date, volumes or fees were given.
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Stripe expands stablecoin-backed cards to five currencies, Plasma signs on
Stripe says its stablecoin card infrastructure will support USD, BRL, EUR, MXN and COP, and that Plasma is moving to that infrastructure to co-develop multi-currency cards. No fees, issuer, card network or launch date were given.
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Solana Mobile names Ledger first hardware partner for $849 Ledger Atom
Ledger's Atom, an Android-based device built around a secure chip, will ship with Solana Mobile's Seeker app preinstalled, the companies say. Reservations take a $100 deposit, and Ledger estimates delivery in 2027.
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Tether invests in AIsa, a payments platform for AI agents
Tether Capital says it made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in AIsa, which lets AI agents pay for data, software and computing in fiat or stablecoins.
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Ripple Prime opens real-world-asset perpetual swaps to institutions, Virtu among clients
Ripple Prime, acting as principal, now offers swaps that reference Trade.xyz perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, traded around the clock with cross-margin and RLUSD collateral where available.
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Mastercard and BVNK launch a single platform for fiat and stablecoins
The Global Money Platform puts fiat and stablecoin accounts, conversion, stablecoin-linked cards and bank payouts behind one API, after Mastercard's August acquisition of BVNK.
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Tron Inc. sets up $200 million at-the-market stock sale with Clear Street
An 8-K accepted at 5:28 p.m. ET and a prospectus supplement at 5:30 p.m. ET let the TRX treasury company sell stock from time to time, mainly to buy more TRX.
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Metaplanet sells zero-coupon converts to shrink its bitcoin-backed loan
A ¥52 billion Euro-yen bond would repay ¥23.6 billion of BTC-collateralized borrowing and fund buybacks under a new ¥60 billion program. U.S. investors are excluded.
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VanEck withdraws filing for its Lido Staked Ethereum ETF
A Form RW accepted at 5:07 p.m. ET says VanEck does not intend to proceed with the fund, and confirms no shares were ever sold.
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Federated Hermes picks Prometheum broker-dealers to distribute tokenized funds
The plan routes custody, clearing and settlement through Prometheum's SEC-registered broker-dealer, but no fund or chain is named and the first product is targeted for Q1 2027.
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Riot Platforms moves crypto custody from NYDIG to BitGo Bank
An 8-K filed at 4:30 p.m. ET says BitGo Bank & Trust will hold Riot's digital assets and cash under a one-year deal Riot can exit on 14 days' notice.
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Hot September CPI lifts hike odds as bitcoin and ether slide
Consumer prices rose 0.6% in September on an energy jump, with core up 0.3%. Kalshi traders put a 31% chance, as of 2:16 p.m. ET, on an October rate hike, and bitcoin and ether are lower since the 8:30 a.m. ET release.
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Bank-backed Qivalis says it won Dutch e-money licence for euro stablecoin
Qivalis said on Oct. 14 that De Nederlandsche Bank has authorised it as an electronic money institution, a step it needs to issue a bank-backed euro token. Qivalis says issuance is planned to begin within the next months, subject to MiCA requirements and publication of its white paper.
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Bastion demands $3.50 SkyAI tender price, disclosure of solana sales
Bastion Trading, which says it holds about 9.99% of SkyAI, wants the planned $3.00 tender offer raised and the company's SOL sales fully disclosed before the offer begins. SkyAI's filings show its SOL holdings fell from more than two million to about 600,000 in under a month.
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Standard Chartered launches bitcoin and ether trading through UAE bank accounts
The bank said on Oct. 14 that eligible clients in the UAE will be able to buy and sell BTC and ETH through their existing accounts, with the bank managing custody and settlement in a closed loop. Dubai's VARA lists it as a licensed broker-dealer.
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DriveWealth taps Ripple's RLUSD for settlement, starting in Europe
DriveWealth and Ripple said on Oct. 14 they are partnering on stablecoin settlement, payments and custody, while an equity-financing tie-up through Ripple Prime remains only under exploration.
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Evernorth names Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo to deploy XRP treasury
Evernorth said on Oct. 14 it will both accumulate and deploy from its 473 million XRP treasury with four institutional partners starting in the fourth quarter, subject to closing conditions and approvals.
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Kraken parent Payward signs deal to buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank
Payward said Oct. 14 it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Saldo Finance Oy, owner of Lithuania-licensed Saldo Bank UAB. Closing is expected in 2027, subject to regulatory approvals; terms were not disclosed.
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Binance adds BlackBerry, MongoDB, Penguin and Ultra VIX bStocks to spot and margin collateral
Four more ADGM-prospectus bStocks, BBB, MDBB, PENGB and UVXYB, opened for Spot and Convert trading at 8:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 14 and were added the same hour as Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin collateral, extending Binance’s Oct. 7 tokenized-securities wave.
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Strive buys 2,822 bitcoin; warrant exercises expected to raise $369.2 million
In an 8-K filed Oct. 14, Strive said holders exercised all remaining PIPE traditional warrants for expected gross proceeds of $369.2 million, and that it bought 2,822 bitcoin at about $83,266 each, both from Oct. 12 through Oct. 13.
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Cipher Digital prices $850 million zero-coupon convertible notes at 35% premium
Cipher Digital priced $850 million of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2032 at an initial conversion price of about $15.31, a 35% premium, with settlement scheduled for Oct. 16, according to an 8-K filed Oct. 14.
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BlackRock digital-asset ETFs draw $7.9 billion in third-quarter net inflows
BlackRock's Q3 earnings release, filed as an 8-K exhibit Oct. 14, shows digital-asset AUM rising to $79.6 billion from $48.8 billion, on $7.9 billion of net inflows and $22.9 billion of market gains, all in ETFs.
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Wells Fargo helps form bank stablecoin venture as peers talk tokenized deposits
Wells Fargo said on its third-quarter call that it is establishing a new company with 20 other international financial institutions to issue stablecoins beginning in the first half of 2027, while Citi said stablecoins are 'a bit more clunky' than tokenized deposits.
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BitMine says it holds 4.9% of all ether, 84% of it staked
BitMine's weekly filing puts its ether at 6,028,946 tokens, which it says is 4.9% of supply, with 5,067,309 staked, the same staked figure it has reported in each of its last nine weekly filings.
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UK court rules Chinese law governs claims to more than 61,000 seized bitcoin
A London judge ruled on Oct. 12 that Chinese law governs whether victims of Zhimin Qian's fraud own any of the bitcoin police seized, and left the content of Chinese law, and so the outcome of the claims, to a later stage.
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Citi cuts Securitize to neutral, raises target to $14, The Fly reports
Citi moved Securitize from Buy to Neutral on Oct. 13 and lifted its price target from $10 to $14, The Fly reports. Neither Citi nor Securitize has confirmed the change, and Le Coin has not seen the note.
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Fidelity and ARK drove last week's $679 million bitcoin-fund outflow as BlackRock's fund ended flat, Farside data show
Two of the 12 US spot bitcoin ETFs accounted for 86.5% of last week's net outflow, according to Farside Investors' flow compilation, while BlackRock's fund took in $1.1 million net after swinging both ways.
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Bybit starts selling real US shares for a dollar stablecoin through Alpaca, exchange says
Bybit says eligible users outside the US and the other jurisdictions excluded by the product terms can now buy more than 1,000 US stocks and ETFs with USDC, routed through a Mauritius-licensed broker and held at Alpaca in that broker's name.
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ICE-backed venue details tokenized-stock trading as Samsung Wallet plans stablecoin transfers
A venue co-owned by NYSE's parent published its trading rules, Samsung set a late-October date for USDC transfers, and Securitize says its tokenized US stocks are live on Solana.
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Standard Chartered starts custody of Ripple's dollar stablecoin and plans an LMAX collateral link, bank says
Standard Chartered says custody of Ripple's RLUSD is live through its Dubai branch and that it plans to let the tokens back trades at LMAX without leaving the bank, subject to documentation, testing and approvals, with no date given.
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Securitize's new tokenized stocks are broker-held entitlements, by the company's own account
Securitize says its new tokenized stocks are security entitlements held at its broker-dealer; the terms come from the company's press release and product page, and no EDGAR filing describes them.
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Figure's loan marketplace volume rose 20% in Q3, by its preliminary count. YLDS outstanding fell 9%.
Figure's preliminary numbers put Q3 marketplace volume at $5.119 billion, which it calls "the high end" of its guidance, while the balance of its yield-bearing YLDS certificates fell over the quarter; four days before those numbers, Figure filed a shelf registration with no size attached.
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Strategy spent $176.3M buying back STRC last week, against $28.7M on bitcoin
The company added 334 BTC to reach 848,000, bought back its own preferred stock, and called a vote on daily dividends.
