CME Group ve 3. čtvrtletí 2026 meziročně zvýšila mezinárodní průměrný denní objem obchodů o 22 % na 9 milionů kontraktů, zejména díky energetickým produktům.
, /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it achieved international average daily volume (ADV) of 9 million contracts in Q3 2026, up 22% from a year earlier.
Reflecting all trading reported outside the United States, this volume was driven largely by growth in Energy products, up 40%, Agricultural products, up 28%, and Equity Index products, up 24%.
"Markets remained volatile in the third quarter, with geopolitical issues fueling uncertainty and stoking inflation globally," said Julie Winkler, Chief Commercial Officer at CME Group. "Against this backdrop, customers around the world turned to CME Group to manage their risk, and the growth of our international volumes was testament to that."
International trading volume expanded by at least 20% in the period in all regions including Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific (APAC), and Latin America.
EMEA ADV increased 20% to 6.5 million contracts driven by:-
Energy products ADV up 33% Agricultural products ADV up 28% Equity Index products ADV up 20% APAC ADV increased by 28% to 2.1 million contracts driven by:-
Energy products ADV up 68% Equity Index products ADV up 32% Agricultural products ADV up 26% Interest Rate products ADV up 24% Canada ADV increased by 21% to 194,000 contracts driven by:-
Energy products ADV up 34% Interest Rate products ADV up 23% Equity Index products ADV up 22% Latin America ADV increased 24% to 188,000 contracts driven by:-
Agricultural products ADV up 49% Equity Index products ADV up 44% Energy products ADV up 23% Globally, CME Group reported an ADV of 29.4 million contracts in Q3 2026, up 16% over the same period in 2025. Q3 volumes in 2026 exceeded the prior Q3 record set in 2024. The increase in Q3 2026 ADV was largely driven by growth in Equity Index products, up 23%, and Foreign Exchange products, up 19%.
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New contracts will be based on CME FutureSports Performance Indexes tracking Official League Data , /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced it will launch the world's first Baseball futures on October 12, pending regulatory review. The new contracts will track CME FutureSports Performance Indexes (CME FSPI) that include statistics on the 30 professional baseball teams, beginning with the 2026 Postseason and the four clubs in the League Championship Series.
"CME Group provides price discovery and risk management across every major investable asset class, and we see an opportunity to bring investing and hedging discipline to the business of professional baseball," said Tim McCourt, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Equities, FX and Alternative Products at CME Group. "The innovative contracts we're developing with FutureSports will be built on robust indexes using Official League Data, with the transparency and integrity that only regulated exchange-traded products deliver."
CME Group Baseball futures will be available in standard-sized contracts, valued at 10x the underlying CME FSPI MLB indexes, and micro-sized contracts that are 1/10 the value of those indexes. Participants can trade live around the clock, allowing for immediate positions on a regulated exchange with central clearing safeguards, transparent pricing and equal market access.
CME FSPI structure official sports statistics into rules-based, benchmark financial metrics. The performance of the indexes will be calculated using systematic methodologies where point allocations follow transparent statistical frameworks – adding points for positive actions and subtracting for negative plays or setbacks.
The CME FSPI methodologies align with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Principles for Financial Benchmarks and are supported by published governance and oversight procedures.
CME Group Baseball futures are listed on and subject to the rules of CME. For more information, visit cmegroup.com/fspi.
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.
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Gold attempts breakout after punishing decline since late August
Dollar's historically stretched rally shows signs of losing momentum
Treasury futures attempt bottom following extreme oversold conditions
Gold bulls eye $4,225–$4,235 as first major upside target
Gold is attempting to break out after a punishing bearish period since late August, just as two of the key markets that contributed to its weakness are showing signs of potentially reversing.
US 10-year Treasury note futures look to be establishing a bottom, having hit extreme oversold conditions earlier this month, while the US Dollar Index has broken its short-term uptrend after becoming unusually stretched to the upside.
The question now is: can gold make the breakout stick?
Gold's relationship with the dollar and Treasury futures
As the correlation matrix below demonstrates, the US dollar has maintained a strong inverse relationship with gold, particularly over longer timeframes, with the 120-session correlation sitting at -0.86, while the relationship over the past month remains firm at -0.80.
Source: TradingView
While less consistent than the relationship with the US dollar, 10-year Treasury note futures have also demonstrated a positive correlation with gold over the past week and fortnight, strengthening dramatically to +0.89 over the past month. Futures are used as the preferred measure given they're directly tradable, unlike Treasury yields.
US dollar rally showing signs of exhaustion
Given the strength and persistence of the inverse relationship with the dollar, the chart below makes for interesting viewing, not only for those trading FX, but also precious metals.
Source: TradingView
After becoming historically stretched to the upside, with RSI (14) reaching 76.8, placing it in the highest 1.5% of observations since 2013, and the ATR (50) stretch exceeding four, ranking in the highest 5% of the dataset, there are signs the big dollar is starting to roll over.
RSI (14) has moved back below overbought territory and is setting lower highs, while the uptrend in place since early September has cracked. That doesn't mean the break will stick, but if it does, it points to a potential change in the dollar's trend, at least over the short to medium term.
Treasury futures showing signs of a bottom
It's not just the dollar that looks like it may be approaching a turning point.
US 10-year Treasury note futures are also showing signs of trying to carve out a bottom following a punishing selloff that saw the price fall below the lows set in 2023.
Source: TradingView
RSI (14) fell to 19.7 in late September, ranking among the lowest 0.5% of observations since 2016, while the ATR (50) stretch reached -5.08, placing it among the most extreme 2% of readings.
Noticeable downside wicks suggest buyers have been stepping in at lower levels, coinciding with a significant increase in trading volumes. While this raises the possibility of a turning point over the short to medium term, it's far too early to declare a definitive bottom.
Gold breakout gathers momentum
Source: TradingView
The four-hourly chart highlights the punishing bearish trend gold has endured since late August, falling more than $600 per ounce from its high just shy of $4,700.
However, after breaking to fresh multi-month lows earlier this week, the price rebounded sharply from support around $4,070. A period of grinding price action followed before today's breakout above downtrend resistance during Asian trade, with gold subsequently clearing $4,184.43, the October 7 high.
That level now becomes the immediate downside focal point. A pullback and bounce could provide an opportunity to initiate longs with a tight stop beneath for protection, initially targeting former support between $4,225 and $4,235. Beyond that, $4,300, $4,333.58 and $4,400 are the levels to watch.
Alternatively, a reversal back beneath $4,184.43 could open the door to shorts, initially targeting the broken August downtrend, followed by $4,116.30, a level that has acted as both support and resistance previously this year.
Like the price action, the oscillators are becoming more positive for the bulls. RSI (14) has moved rapidly above 50, while MACD has staged a bullish crossover and flipped positive, suggesting upside momentum is building and improving the prospects of the breakout sticking.
Společnost 8x8 jmenovala Jamieho Snaddona novým senior viceprezidentem a strategickým ředitelem. Nerea Gandarias ho s okamžitou platností nahradí v čele regionu EMEA.
Nerea Gandarias replaces Snaddon to lead EMEA as leadership appointments sharpen focus on growth opportunities, strategic execution and long-term value creation
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading global business communications platform provider, has announced two leadership appointments designed to strengthen execution of the company’s strategy and sharpen its focus on growth opportunities. Jamie Snaddon has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Samuel Wilson, and Nerea Gandarias has been named Managing Director, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), succeeding Snaddon.
Advancing the CEO’s strategic plans
In the newly-created Chief Strategy Officer role, Snaddon will work with Wilson and the executive leadership team to advance 8x8’s strategy, evaluate growth opportunities, and help prioritize initiatives and investments across the business. His focus will include identifying opportunities where 8x8’s technology, global communications capabilities, customer base, and partner ecosystem can create additional value, and translating those opportunities into actionable priorities.
Snaddon brings broad operating and functional experience to the role from more than a decade at 8x8. Most recently, as Managing Director of EMEA, he was responsible for 8x8’s business across the region, with a focus on strategy, profitability, market share, and customer growth. Earlier in his 8x8 career, Snaddon led the company’s European legal team, giving him experience across commercial, regulatory, and operational matters.
“Jamie has proven he can turn strategy into results,” said Samuel Wilson, Chief Executive Officer at 8x8, Inc. “He understands our technology, our customers, and the markets in which we compete, and he’s been the lead on some really successful launches such as 8x8 Small Business and international expansions. As communications and AI reshape our industry, Jamie will work with me and our leadership team to see where 8x8 is best positioned to win, and help translate our strategy into growth and long-term value creation.”
“8x8 has meaningful opportunities ahead of us, and capturing them requires focus and disciplined execution,” said Snaddon. “I look forward to working with Sam and the leadership team to sharpen our priorities, evaluate opportunities across the business, and help ensure we are focusing our resources where we can create the greatest value for customers, partners, and shareholders.”
Nerea Gandarias Named Managing Director, EMEA
Gandarias brings extensive knowledge of 8x8’s customers, partners, and go-to-market organization to the position. During her time at 8x8, she has served as Global Vice President of Field and Channel Marketing and UK Country Lead, working closely with customers and partners across the region. Before joining 8x8, she spent 13 years at SS&C Advent.
“Nerea knows our business, our customers, and our partners, and brings deep go-to-market experience to the role,” said Wilson. “Her appointment also reflects the depth of leadership talent we have developed within 8x8. She is well positioned to build on the momentum Jamie and the EMEA team have created, while maintaining continuity for our customers and partners and continuing to grow the business across the region.”
Both appointments are effective immediately.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) connects people and organizations through seamless communication on one of the industry’s most integrated platforms for Customer Experience – combining Contact Center, Unified Communications and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration. As a business communications leader, the company helps customer experience and IT leaders around the world become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or follow 8x8 on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.
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HCA Healthcare výrazně snížila celoroční výhled zisku poté, co změna struktury plátců snížila čtvrtletní tržby přibližně o 400 milionů USD. Akcie 14. července 2026 klesly o 6,95 %.
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On July 14, 2026, HCA issued a press release reporting its preliminary financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2026. Among other items, HCA sharply lowered its full-2026 profit guidance, citing an unfavorable shift in the Company's payer mix, which impacted revenue by approximately $400 million in the quarter.
On this news, HCA's stock price fell $27.14 per share, or 6.95%, to close at $363.60 per share on July 14, 2026.
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Mercury Systems rozšířila výrobní závod ve Phoenixu o 50 000 čtverečních stop, aby zvýšila kapacitu pro klíčové obranné programy. Rozšířený závod má během příštího roku vytvořit více než 50 pracovních míst.
PHOENIX, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics, today celebrated the expansion of its Phoenix production facility, adding 50,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space that allows the company to increase production capacity and accelerate delivery timelines through vertical integration to support critical U.S. and international defense programs.
As the United States and its allies accelerate military hardware production across all battlefield domains, Mercury is taking steps to increase manufacturing capacity and efficiency in its operations. The company has invested to build out a new, highly automated manufacturing facility on the company’s existing Phoenix campus, which is expected to create more than 50 jobs in the next year, with significant capacity for future growth.
Mercury’s Phoenix campus is already the company’s largest manufacturing center, with more than 400 employees. The existing facility manufactures printed circuit board assemblies used across Mercury’s product lines and delivers cutting-edge memory solutions, high-performance space drives, and advanced packaging technologies built to operate in extreme environments. Operations in Mercury’s new building in Phoenix began in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 and will allow the company to ramp up production for a number of critical products and programs, including its Common Processing Architecture programs.
“We are excited to expand our presence in Phoenix and bring more capacity online to meet customer demand for high-performance processing capabilities that ensure mission dominance for the warfighter at the edge,” said Tod Brindlinger, Mercury’s Senior Vice President of Operations. “We see strong demand signals across our portfolio, ending fiscal year 2026 with record bookings and backlog that our expanded production facility will help us to execute against.”
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Mercury Systems is a global leader in aerospace and defense electronics, providing breakthrough capabilities in signal and data processing. With a four-decade legacy of innovation that spans silicon to systems and RF front ends to effectors, Mercury accelerates commercial technology adoption to deliver powerful and secure mission-critical processing solutions to the edge. Mercury is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has multiple locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com. (Nasdaq: MRCY)
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Společnost Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) integrovala zobrazovací systém Endeavor od společnosti Araceli Biosciences do své autonomní laboratoře Nebula pro vysokokapacitní zobrazování buněk a analýzu v reálném čase.
Mit dem Endeavor® wird die rund um die Uhr stattfindende Forschung bei Ginkgo um die schnellste Erzeugung von zellulären Hochdurchsatzdaten erweitert
, /PRNewswire/ -- Araceli Biosciences und Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) gaben heute die Integration des Endeavor®-High-Content-Imaging-Geräts von Araceli in „Nebula", das autonome Labor von Ginkgo in Boston, bekannt. Das Endeavor, das weltweit schnellste High-Content-Imaging-System, ergänzt die bestehenden Technologien von „Nebula" um zelluläre Bildgebung mit Echtzeitanalyse und stellt Forschern die umfangreichen, kuratierten Datensätze zur Verfügung, die für das Training und die Validierung von KI-Modellen zur Wirkstoffforschung erforderlich sind.
Nebula basiert auf den „Reconfigurable Automation Carts" (RACs) von Ginkgo. Jedes RAC ist eine modulare Einheit, die Roboterarme, automatisierten Probentransport und eine einheitliche Steuerungssoftware vereint, sodass Geräte je nach Änderung der Arbeitsabläufe hinzugefügt oder neu angeordnet werden können. Täglich nutzen Dutzende von Wissenschaftlern die über 100 RACs auf Nebula für echte Forschungsarbeiten, reichen Protokolle ein und erhalten ihre Daten bereits am nächsten Tag. Nebula erledigt die Arbeit vieler Wissenschaftler autonom und parallel, läuft Tag und Nacht und benötigt dabei nur etwa ein Drittel des Platzes, den ein herkömmlicher Labortisch für dieselbe Arbeit benötigen würde.
Das Endeavor-System, das eine 1536-Well-Platte in weniger als vier Minuten abtastet, ist in das RAC-basierte System von Nebula integriert und läuft kontinuierlich neben den ständig aktiven Experimenten. Mithilfe der ClaireRT™-Software von Araceli analysiert das Endeavor-System jede Vertiefung bereits während der Bildaufnahme. Wenn eine Vertiefung die festgelegten Kriterien nicht erfüllt, kann das System das Bedienpersonal oder Nebula benachrichtigen oder die Bildaufnahme unterbrechen, damit etwaige Probleme behoben werden können, bevor das Experiment fortgesetzt wird.
„Die nächste Generation der KI in der Wirkstoffforschung erfordert biologische Daten in einer völlig anderen Größenordnung", erklärte Matt Beaudet, President und CEO von Araceli Biosciences. „Das Labor selbst befindet sich im Wandel. Es generiert nun zelluläre Daten, interpretiert das Gesehene und reagiert in Echtzeit. Ginkgo setzt dies mit Nebula um, und Araceli integriert hochauflösende Bildgebung und Echtzeitanalyse in großem Maßstab in diesen Prozess."
„Ein autonomes Labor gewinnt jedes Mal an Wert, wenn man es um ein erstklassiges Gerät erweitert", sagte Jason Kelly, Mitbegründer und CEO von Ginkgo Bioworks. „Mit Ihrem eigenen autonomen Labor kann jeder Ihrer Wissenschaftler auf die branchenführende High-Content-Bildgebung von Endeavor zugreifen und diese mühelos mit all Ihren anderen Geräten verbinden. Genau das bietet Ihnen ein autonomes Labor: die besten Werkzeuge der Biologie, vereint in einem System mit einheitlicher Software, das Ihre Experimente rund um die Uhr durchführt."
Informationen zu Araceli Biosciences: Araceli Biosciences entwickelt die weltweit schnellsten High-Content-Imaging-Geräte sowie KI-gestützte Analysesoftware für automatisierte, KI-gesteuerte Labore. Die integrierten Lösungen des Unternehmens liefern zelluläre Erkenntnisse in Echtzeit, die es automatisierten Arbeitsabläufen ermöglichen, in jeder Phase eines Experiments die Qualität zu überprüfen und Entscheidungen zu treffen. Dadurch unterstützen sie Biotech- und Pharmaunternehmen dabei, ihre Forschungsergebnisse schneller und mit größerer Sicherheit zu skalieren. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter aracelibio.com.
Informationen zu Ginkgo Bioworks: Ginkgo Bioworks entwickelt Werkzeuge, die es jedem erleichtern, biologische Prozesse technisch zu gestalten. Das Unternehmen bietet autonome Labore an, die manuelle Laborarbeiten durch Robotik ersetzen und so die Produktivität von Wissenschaftlern erheblich steigern. Das firmeneigene autonome Labor von Ginkgo ist zudem als „Cloud-Labor" über unsere Auftragsforschungsdienste „Datapoints" und „Solutions" verfügbar. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter ginkgo.bio oder folgen Sie uns auf sozialen Medien wie X (@Ginkgo und @Ginkgo_Biosec), Instagram (@GinkgoBioworks), Threads (@GinkgoBioworks) oder LinkedIn. Ginkgo Bioworks entwickelt autonome Laborinfrastrukturen und Dienstleistungen zur Generierung biologischer Daten, um die experimentelle Wissenschaft skalierbarer und zugänglicher zu machen. Ginkgo Bioworks ist die führende horizontale Plattform für die Zellprogrammierung und bietet flexible, ganzheitliche Dienstleistungen, die Unternehmen in verschiedenen Märkten – von der Lebensmittel- und Agrarindustrie über die Pharmabranche bis hin zur Industrie- und Spezialchemie – bei der Bewältigung ihrer Herausforderungen unterstützen.
Zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen von Ginkgo Bioworks: Diese Mitteilung enthält bestimmte zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen im Sinne der US-amerikanischen Wertpapiergesetze, darunter Aussagen zu den Fähigkeiten und dem potenziellen Erfolg der Partnerschaft sowie zu den autonomen Labors von Ginkgo. Diese zukunftsgerichteten Aussagen sind in der Regel an Begriffen wie „glauben", „können", „prognostizieren", „potenziell", „erwarten", „voraussehen", „schätzen", „beabsichtigen", „Strategie", „Zukunft", „Chance", „planen", „könnte", „sollte", „wird", „würde", „wird sein", „wird fortbestehen", „wird wahrscheinlich dazu führen" und ähnliche Ausdrücke. Zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen sind Vorhersagen, Projektionen und andere Aussagen über zukünftige Ereignisse, die auf aktuellen Erwartungen und Annahmen beruhen und daher Risiken und Ungewissheiten unterworfen sind. Zahlreiche Faktoren könnten dazu führen, dass die tatsächlichen zukünftigen Ereignisse wesentlich von den zukunftsgerichteten Aussagen in dieser Mitteilung abweichen, darunter unter anderem: (i) unsere Fähigkeit, kurz- und langfristige Kosteneinsparungen im Zusammenhang mit unseren Standortkonsolidierungsplänen zu realisieren, einschließlich der Fähigkeit, Mietverträge zu kündigen oder Untermieter für ungenutzte Einrichtungen zu finden, (ii) Kursschwankungen der Ginkgo-Wertpapiere aufgrund verschiedener Faktoren, darunter Veränderungen in den wettbewerbsintensiven und stark regulierten Branchen, in denen Ginkgo tätig ist und tätig sein will, Leistungsschwankungen bei Wettbewerbern sowie Änderungen von Gesetzen und Vorschriften, die sich auf das Geschäft von Ginkgo auswirken, (iii) die Fähigkeit, Geschäftspläne, Prognosen und sonstige Erwartungen umzusetzen sowie zusätzliche Geschäftsmöglichkeiten zu identifizieren und zu realisieren, unter anderem im Hinblick auf unser Angebot an Lösungen und Tools, (iv) das Risiko eines Nachfragerückgangs bei Produkten, die synthetische Biologie nutzen, (v) die Unsicherheit hinsichtlich der Nachfrage nach passiven Überwachungsprogrammen und Biosicherheitsdienstleistungen, (vi) Veränderungen in der Biosicherheitsbranche, unter anderem aufgrund technologischer Fortschritte, neu auftretender Wettbewerber sowie der Weiterentwicklung von Branchenanforderungen, Standards und Vorschriften, (vii) der Ausgang etwaiger anhängiger oder potenzieller Gerichtsverfahren gegen Ginkgo, (viii) unsere Fähigkeit, die erwarteten Vorteile aus unseren Plattformprogrammen und Vermögenswerten zu realisieren und deren Erfolg sicherzustellen, (ix) unsere Fähigkeit, gentechnisch veränderte Zellen, Bioprozesse, Datenpakete oder andere Leistungen erfolgreich zu entwickeln, (x) der Erfolg unserer Kunden bei der Produktentwicklung, Produktion oder Fertigung, (xi) unsere Anfälligkeit gegenüber den Volatilitäts- und Liquiditätsrisiken, die mit dem Halten von Beteiligungen an anderen operativen Unternehmen und anderen nicht zahlungswirksamen Gegenleistungen, die wir für unsere Dienstleistungen erhalten können, verbunden sind, (xii) die potenziellen negativen Auswirkungen unserer Umstrukturierung auf unser Geschäft oder das Ausbleiben der damit verbundenen erwarteten Einsparungen, (xiii) die Unsicherheit hinsichtlich der Haushaltsprioritäten der Regierung und der den Regierungsbehörden zugewiesenen Mittel, einschließlich potenzieller nachteiliger Auswirkungen durch den Stillstand der US-Regierung, (xiv) unsere Fähigkeit, unser autonomes Labor (einschließlich Nebula) innerhalb der von uns vorgesehenen Zeitrahmen und in dem von uns erwarteten Umfang zu skalieren, dessen Kapazität zu erweitern und dessen Fähigkeiten weiterzuentwickeln, (xv) das Tempo und das Ausmaß, in dem die Infrastruktur für autonome Labore in den breiteren Märkten der Biowissenschaften und der industriellen Biotechnologie eingeführt wird und manuelle Laborarbeiten dort verdrängt, (xvi) die tatsächliche Größe, Zusammensetzung und das Wachstum der von uns angestrebten Zielmärkte, die erheblich von unseren Schätzungen abweichen können, (xvii) unsere Fähigkeit, unsere autonome Laborplattform mit KI-Modellen von Drittanbietern und anderen Technologien zu integrieren, sowie das Tempo der Entwicklung und Einführung solcher Technologien, und (xviii) unsere Fähigkeit, strategische Partnerschaften und Kundenbeziehungen aufrechtzuerhalten und auszubauen, einschließlich derjenigen mit den in dieser Mitteilung genannten Partnern. Die vorstehende Liste von Faktoren ist nicht erschöpfend. Sie sollten die vorstehenden Faktoren sowie die weiteren Risiken und Ungewissheiten, die im Abschnitt „Risikofaktoren" des Jahresberichts von Ginkgo auf dem Formular 10-K beschrieben sind, der am 26. Februar 2026 bei der US-Börsenaufsichtsbehörde (der „SEC") eingereicht wurde, sowie in anderen Dokumenten, die Ginkgo von Zeit zu Zeit bei der SEC einreicht, sorgfältig abwägen. In diesen Unterlagen werden weitere wichtige Risiken und Ungewissheiten aufgezeigt und erörtert, die dazu führen könnten, dass die tatsächlichen Ereignisse und Ergebnisse wesentlich von den in den zukunftsgerichteten Aussagen enthaltenen abweichen. Zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen gelten ausschließlich zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Veröffentlichung. Die Leser werden darauf hingewiesen, sich nicht in unangemessener Weise auf zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen zu verlassen, und Ginkgo übernimmt keine Verpflichtung und beabsichtigt nicht, diese zukunftsgerichteten Aussagen zu aktualisieren oder zu revidieren, sei es aufgrund neuer Informationen, künftiger Ereignisse oder aus anderen Gründen. Ginkgo gibt keine Zusicherung, dass das Unternehmen seine Erwartungen erfüllen wird.
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Proti společnosti Hims & Hers Health (HIMS) byla podána hromadná žaloba jménem investorů kvůli údajnému poskytování zdravotních údajů třetím stranám a zavádějícím informacím pro investory.
NEW YORK, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC, a nationally recognized investor-rights law firm, announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (NYSE: HIMS) and certain of its officers.
This lawsuit seeks to recover damages against Defendants for alleged violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Hims securities between August 4, 2025 and July 29, 2026, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”). Such investors are encouraged to join this case by visiting the firm’s site: bgandg.com/cases/hims-hers-health-inc-hims-class_action_lawsuit.
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The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:
Hims shared consumers’ health information with third-party advertising platforms; Hims charges consumers for prescriptions almost immediately after they submit an intake form, despite telling consumers that they will be able to consult with a medical provider to find a treatment that is “right for them;” the foregoing conduct subjected Hims to regulatory scrutiny; as a result of the foregoing, Hims was reasonably likely to incur fees and penalties; and as a result of the foregoing, defendants’ positive statements about Hims' business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
What's Next for Hims Investors?
A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to review a copy of the Complaint, you can visit the firm’s site: bgandg.com/cases/hims-hers-health-inc-hims-class_action_lawsuit. or you may contact Peretz Bronstein, Esq. or his Client Relations Manager, Nathan Miller, of Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC at 917-590-0911. If you suffered a loss in Hims you have until November 1, 2026, to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as lead plaintiff.
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Rubrik rozšířřil Project Hourglass o nástroj Code Guardian, který využívá Claude Mythos 5 k izolovanému testování zdrojového kódu na vícekrokové kybernetické hrozby.
Rubrik GSI Summit – October 9, 2026 – Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, today announced the expansion of Project Hourglass, broadening its partner alliance to deliver Rubrik Code Guardian alongside Rubrik Agent Cloud. Rubrik welcomed additional partners AHEAD, Trace3, and WWT into Project Hourglass, joining Cognizant, Deloitte, LTM, HCLTech, NTT DATA, and Wipro.
According to Rubrik Zero Labs, 86% of cybersecurity and IT leaders anticipate that the proliferation of AI agents will outpace their organization's security guardrails within the next year. Rubrik Code Guardian aims to provide partners the capability to proactively red-team client code within air-gapped environments, prioritize realistic attack chains, and maintain instant codebase recovery.
"Engineering teams are turning to AI models to accelerate software delivery, but speed cannot compromise security or architectural integrity," said Alok Agrawal, Chief Solutions Officer, Rubrik. "By incorporating Rubrik Code Guardian into Project Hourglass, we are ensuring engineering teams are able to conduct red-team analysis, prioritize business impact and reduce risk."
Securing Customer Source Code with Rubrik Code Guardian
Rubrik Code Guardian harnesses Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 through a specialized security harness to evaluate code repositories against sophisticated, multi-step threat scenarios. Rather than operating on live production environments, the system tests a cloned, air-gapped copy of customer repositories.
Key capabilities Rubrik aims to deliver to Project Hourglass partners include:
Isolated Red-Team Analysis: Claude Mythos 5 operates inside Rubrik's security harness.Attack Chain Discovery: The engine will reason across files, services, identity roles, and cloud perimeters to uncover chained vulnerabilities that conventional static tools miss.Business Impact Prioritization: To eliminate alert fatigue, findings are verified for actual exploitability and scored by business criticality.Equipping Our Partners with Agentic Cyber Resilience
Project Hourglass originally launched to operationalize Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropic's Claude Code, introducing runtime behavioral guardrails, prompt context protection, and Agent Rewind to reverse unintended actions.
By adding Rubrik Code Guardian, Project Hourglass offers an end-to-end security architecture. The program provides participating partners with joint go-to-market resources, dedicated technical certification tracks, and direct engineering access to accelerate client deployments.
AHEAD
“Customers want to adopt AI coding without inheriting AI-speed attack surface. By expanding our Rubrik partnership through Project Hourglass and Code Guardian, AHEAD helps clients close that gap, from architecture through deployment. Code is attacked, tested, and validated in a safe environment before it ships, so teams move faster with confidence, and Rubrik's recovery capabilities remain in place as the safety net.” – Steven Sorensen, Specialty Solutions Engineer, Cyber Resiliency at AHEAD
Trace3
“Our clients are moving quickly to adopt agentic AI, and securing those environments requires a new approach to resilience. At Trace3, we are not only using Rubrik Agent Cloud internally to help protect our own agentic AI initiatives, but we are also bringing that hands-on experience to our clients. Trace3’s Resiliency Practice and AI risk and Governance practice is ready to help clients secure, observe, protect, and recover their agentic AI environments as they scale. That perspective and experience, as both a user and a partner of Rubrik, gives us a unique understanding of what it takes to build more secure and resilient agentic AI environments.” – Sandy Salty, Chief Marketing Officer at Trace3
WWT
“WWT uses our Advanced Technology Center to test and validate innovative security solutions, making isolated threat testing a core part of our DNA. Integrating Rubrik Code Guardian through Project Hourglass perfectly complements this approach. The end-to-end security architecture ensures our clients achieve business resilience as they deploy new AI agents." – Chris Konrad, Vice President of Global Cyber at World Wide Technology
Rubrik Code Guardian is currently in private preview and accepting select design partners. It is provided "as is," is not currently generally available, and may change or be discontinued. Availability, features, and performance are not guaranteed.
To learn more, visit www.rubrik.com.
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Celková uzamčená hodnota (TVL) LayerZero vzrostla mezi 2. a 3. říjnem ze 7,85 mld. USD na 11,71 mld. USD, tedy téměř o 3,9 mld. USD; příčina tohoto nárůstu není potvrzena.
A Near-$4 Billion Overnight Jump@LayerZero_Core recorded one of the largest single-day total value locked (TVL) movements seen in DeFi this year. Between October 2 and October 3, the protocol's TVL climbed from $7.85 billion to $11.71 billion, an increase of roughly $3.9 billion, or just under 49%, according to data from DefiLlama.
The exact driver behind the move has not been confirmed, though the timing coincides with a broader period of renewed interest in the protocol.
A Challenging Year, but Momentum BuildingThe TVL spike is a welcome development for a protocol that has navigated a difficult stretch in 2026. Earlier in the year, a $292 million exploit on a LayerZero-connected application prompted the team to overhaul its security model, deprecating single-verifier configurations and moving to a minimum of multiple independent verifiers as a new default.
Beyond security, LayerZero has been building toward a broader expansion. In February 2026, LayerZero Labs unveiled Zero, a standalone Layer-1 blockchain targeting institutional financial markets, with a mainnet launch expected in fall 2026. The chain is designed to handle up to two million transactions per second per zone using zero-knowledge proofs, with horizontal scaling potentially pushing total throughput to five million TPS.
On the token side, $ZRO has recovered sharply from its lows. A recurring open-market buyback program, institutional partnerships, and growing ecosystem activity have helped the token gain over 100% across a 30-day window heading into early October, though a scheduled token unlock of 23.63 million ZRO on October 20 remains a near-term overhang for traders to watch.
The TVL reading, combined with the protocol's improving market position, suggests that confidence in LayerZero's infrastructure role is returning, even if the precise catalyst for the October 2 to 3 surge remains unclear.
Sources:
Phemex: LayerZero V2 TVL Surges 48.53% in 24 Hours to $11.7 Billion
DefiLlama: LayerZero TVL and Protocol Metrics
Crypto Briefing: LayerZero Announces Zero Layer-1 Blockchain
SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Thursday took a shot at Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, a day after he accused certain "oligarchs" of stalling the launch of his company's Starlink internet service in the country.
Musk said Starlink was not being allowed to launch in India despite having spent "five years complying with every single law and requirement" of the government.
"Is Ambani the real boss of India?" Musk questioned in a post, having blamed a day earlier "oligarchs" in the country for maintaining a "monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people."
Ambani's Jio is the largest telecom and internet service operator in India and, along with the other major operator, Airtel, controls about 80% of the market.
Musk's comment against Ambani caused a political stir in India, eliciting a response from India's leader of opposition, Rahul Gandhi, who has consistently alleged that the government is being influenced by powerful businessmen in India.
"Wait till you meet the other one," Gandhi said in a veiled reference to India's wealthiest businessman Gautam Adani, who has been a key target of the politician. "This is indeed troubling," Musk said in response to Gandhi.
Reliance Industries, Ambani's flagship company, did not respond to CNBC's request for comment.
Frozen approvalsIn March last year, Starlink signed pacts with Ambani's Jio Platforms and India's second-largest telecom company Airtel to explore cross-selling the products and services of the U.S. company in India.
Following the interim deals, Musk's satellite internet business in July last year got a license to launch its services in India.
But Starlink could not launch. Bloomberg reported earlier this year that New Delhi had frozen approvals for Starlink over concerns that its terminals could be used despite the service not being licensed.
Meanwhile, Akash Ambani, the son of Mukesh and managing director of Jio Platforms, told shareholders in June that his company was planning to roll out low-orbit satellite communications in the country.
Jio is looking to set up set up a satellite network of around 1,600 LEO satellites and 23 ground stations to expand connectivity across India, according to local media reports. Starlink, on the other hand, has 11,000 satellites in orbit that provide service to people in over 170 countries and territories.
Akash Ambani on Thursday told Moneycontrol, a platform owned by the Reliance Group, that the company believes "India needs its own indigenous stack of technologies."
Satellite communication is not the only space where Musk's business plans in India have failed to take off. Tesla, which was launched last year in the South Asian country, has received an underwhelming response, with the company reportedly selling just a little over 1,000 cars since launch.
Meta okamžitě zakázala reklamy společnosti ByteDance a kampaně třetích stran odkazující na TikTok na Facebooku a Instagramu v USA a dalších sedmi zemích.
Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has banned advertisements by ByteDance, the Chinese parent of TikTok, on its platforms in the United States and a handful of other countries, a company spokesperson said on Thursday.
The move marks an escalation in the long-running rivalry between Meta and ByteDance, whose video-sharing app TikTok has emerged as one of Meta’s most formidable competitors for user engagement, creators and advertising dollars.
Meta’s ban takes effect immediately in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam, and extends to third-party advertisers running campaigns that link to TikTok and other ByteDance properties in those countries, Meta said.
Meta has banned advertisements from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance on Facebook and Instagram in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Askar – stock.adobe.com “We don’t have to run ads from a competitor whose goal is to pull people off our apps,” Meta said.
“Declining promotional services to a competitor is a normal business practice across industries. We will continue to compete on product quality and user experience.”
TikTok and ByteDance did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment on Meta’s move.
TikTok’s website shows that it does not support links that open or log users into other social media apps.
However, users can still add links to their profiles that direct people to those platforms’ websites.
The controversial move comes amid a heated rivalry between Meta and ByteDance as TikTok is seen as one of Meta’s most formidable competitors to draw user engagement, influencers, and advertising money. chathuporn – stock.adobe.com Meta has been urging TikTok and YouTube to follow steps it agreed to take on teen safety in August following a settlement of up to $18 billion with US states over social media harms to children.
Meta in August agreed to impose daily usage limits and restrict nighttime usage by children who use Facebook and Instagram, and enhance measures to prevent children from accessing age-restricted content.
TikTok has not publicly commented on Meta’s campaign, but it reached a settlement with Alabama in September that requires the social media platform to impose new usage limits and enhance age-verification measures for users in the state, resolving claims that it endangered children and misled consumers about its safety.
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TikTok operates in the US as a majority American-owned joint venture after a deal aimed at safeguarding US user data and averting a US ban on an app used by more than 200 million users in the country.
Bloomberg News first reported Meta’s ban earlier on Thursday.
Zlato XAU/USD v ranním asijském obchodování vzrostlo o více než 0,9 % na zhruba 4 175 USD za unci, podpořeno slabším dolarem a nižšími výnosy státních dluhopisů.
Gold (XAU) and silver (XAG) prices rose in early Asian trading on Friday as the US dollar dropped to 102 and Treasury yields eased. Gold gained over 0.9% to around $4,175 an ounce while silver climbed over 1% to $60. A soft US dollar makes both metals cheaper for overseas buyers.
However, the market still expects the 82% chance of a rate hike by the Fed in December. This keeps the recovery in gold and silver vulnerable to fresh inflation concerns.
St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said on Thursday that further hikes in interest rates would be needed to bring inflation back to 2%. He left the October decision open. His comments suggest that the pause in the interest rates in October would not remove the risk of further tightening.
Meanwhile, President Trump described the talks with Iran as productive and ruled out US attacks before the elections in November. In my view, the drop in tensions between the US and Iran could ease energy inflation and reduce pressure for higher rates. But they could also weaken demand for gold as a safe haven and leave the outlook mixed in the near term.
Gold Price Forecast: $4,330 Breakout Could Target $4,530 The daily chart for spot gold shows that the price has been trading within a triangle pattern in 2026. The price formed a low at $4,066 on October 7, 2026, and initiated a rebound toward the $4,175 area.
The price must break at least the $4,330 level to open the way for a rally towards the $4,530 area. A break above $4,530 will likely confirm a breakout and push gold prices towards the $5,000 area. As long as the gold price remains between $4,000 and $4,500, the possibility of consolidation remains high.
The 4-hour chart for spot gold also shows strong consolidation between $4,100 and $4,300. A break of either of these levels will likely define the next move in the gold market. However, if the price remains below $4,300, the formation of bearish price patterns may limit the rallies in the gold market.
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Silver Price Forecast: $65 Breakout Could Put $72 in View The daily chart for spot silver also shows strong consolidation in the short term within the triangle pattern. The support of the triangle lies between $55 and $56, while the resistance remains at the $65 area. A break above $65 will likely open the way for a rally towards the 200-day SMA at the $72 level.
A break above $72 is required to open the way for a strong rally in the silver market. However, a break below $55 will likely push the price towards $50.
The 4-hour chart for spot silver also shows strong consolidation within the wedge pattern. The immediate resistance remains at $62. A break above $62 will likely open the way for a rally towards the $72 area. The short-term price action shows that a break below $55 will likely open the way for a drop towards the $50 area.
What to Watch Next Traders will watch the US dollar, Treasury yields and fresh comments by the Fed for the next move in gold and silver prices. A further drop in the dollar and yields could support a recovery in both metals. But renewed concerns about inflation may strengthen the expectations for another rate hike.
The developments in the relationship between the US and Iran may shift the oil prices and demand for gold as a safe haven. Gold needs to break above $4,330 to target $4,530. Silver must clear $65 to bring $72 into view. On the other hand, the key support for gold remains at $4,000, while a break below $55 in silver could trigger a drop towards $50.
Trumpova administrativa pozastavila pro Microsoft, Adobe a další firmy přijímání nových i vyřizování rozpracovaných žádostí v programu PERM, který je klíčový pro získání zaměstnaneckého imigračního víza.
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Business Insider dialed up immigration attorneys on Thursday to get their reaction to the Trump administration's latest move. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Trump administration's Thursday declaration that it was suspending Microsoft and Adobe from a federal visa sponsorship program is reverberating through the tech industry.
Immigration attorneys told Business Insider that employees on H-1B visas working at Microsoft, Adobe, and the other named tech companies should seek counsel and get clarity about their status in light of the suspensions.
Individual cases may vary, and the attorneys spoke in general terms about the advice they would give without knowing a client's specific circumstances or status.
"This is a time where immigrants, high-skilled immigrants, really need to pay attention to laws," said Tahmina Watson, a business immigration attorney at Watson Immigration Law in Seattle. "Things are changing on a dime," she added.
Business Insider spoke to eight immigration attorneys on Thursday in the wake of the announcement, as part of our ongoing series, "H-1B Fallout: 1 Year Later," which explores how foreign workers are navigating a rapidly changing US immigration landscape.
Some of the immigration attorneys said the suspensions were likely to be challenged in court. Others said they were the latest in a series of US measures targeting foreign workers. One attorney suggested they would only impact a relatively small group of workers.
"Most people will either be able to wait it out or have time to switch jobs," said Loren Locke, an attorney at Locke Immigration Law in Atlanta.
The Permanent Labor Certification, or PERM, program is an initial step that employers generally must complete before sponsoring a worker for an employment-based visa, requiring them to show that no qualified and available US workers could fill the role.
Vice President JD Vance said at a press conference on Thursday that Microsoft had "abused" this system by laying off American workers and using it to hire foreign ones, who he said were paid less. "If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants," Vance said.
A Microsoft spokesperson pointed Business Insider to a blog post the company published Thursday, which said "the vast majority of Microsoft employees in the United States are Americans." The company said it pays its H-1B employees "the same as any other employees doing comparable work."
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Donald Trump on Thursday — hours after Microsoft's suspension from a visa program. Win McNamee/Getty Images Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said at the press conference that the government would not accept any new PERM applications or process any pending ones for the named companies, which, in addition to Microsoft and Adobe, also include tech outsourcing firms Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Capgemini.
The importance of knowing your statusIn suspending new and pending PERM applications, the Trump administration left a very specific group of H-1B visa holders in limbo, said Matthew Maiona, an immigration attorney at Maiona Ward in Boston.
Maiona said that a hypothetical employee at Microsoft or Adobe, six years into an H-1B visa, could now, in theory, be ordered to appear in immigration court under this new suspension.
"You could be in trouble if you cannot qualify for another non-immigrant visa classification," Maiona said. "You may have to leave the United States."
But Locke said workers would only face potential removal if they exhausted their H-1B eligibility and could not secure an extension or another legal basis — of which there are several — to remain in the country.
Though H-1B visas have a statutory maximum of six years before expiring, they can be extended past that number if workers have made sufficient progress toward obtaining a green card, she said.
"If the goal is to crush H-1B workers, it's not great, but it's not really crushing them either," Locke said.
Todd Pomerleau, an immigration attorney based in Boston, said that with uncertainty around the extent and enforcement of the suspensions, "anybody who's concerned about their immigration status needs to seek competent counsel."
'We will start seeing lawsuits'Some immigration attorneys who spoke with Business Insider said they expected the Trump administration's move to be challenged in a lawsuit that would argue the suspensions are outside the Labor Department's legal authority.
"I assume, by next week, we will start seeing lawsuits," said Kripa Upadhyay, the co-chair of Buchalter's Immigration & Global Mobility Practice, a Seattle firm.
Ted Chiappari, the head of immigration law at Duane Morris LLP, said federal statute only allows the Department of Labor to unilaterally suspend an employer from using the PERM program for 180 days.
"That gives the employer notice that there's an investigation going on, and at the end of that investigation, if they find something inappropriate, they have six years to decide whether to debar an employer," he said.
And even then, Chiappari said, they can only debar an employer for up to three years.
Only the latest H-1B broadsideFew attorneys interviewed by Business Insider said they were surprised by the measure. Mostly, they saw it as another salvo in what they described as the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown on foreign workers.
Upadhyay said that just the day before, she had spoken with a Microsoft employee on an H-1B whose spouse also was on an H-1B.
The person's H-1B extension was running out, and they now faced the "impossible decision" of moving to their home country, leaving behind their spouse and two US citizen children.
"I have children to support," Upadhyay recalled the worker saying. "What happens now?"
Upadhyay expects to get more of these calls.
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On-chain analytics platform @OnchainLens has flagged a significant series of token movements by crypto investment firm Multicoin Capital, showing the firm has been steadily routing $HYPE tokens to the institutional trading platform @Coinbase Prime over the past month.
$63 Million in Transfers Over Four Weeks The transfers were presumably made with the intention of selling the tokens, though no official confirmation has been provided by the firm.
A Broader Pattern of Institutional Movements This latest wave of transfers is part of a longer-running trend.
The activity comes as $HYPE trades at elevated levels.
providing a structural demand offset to any institutional selling pressure.
For now, the market will be watching closely to see whether Multicoin's on-chain activity accelerates or slows as $HYPE tests the territory near its record highs.
Sources:
TokenPost: Multicoin Transfers $62.99 Million of HYPE to Coinbase Prime
Bitbase: Hyperliquid Strategies Buys $45.8M in HYPE as Whale Selling Fears Linger
Crypto Times: Hyperliquid Price Today, $340M Token Unlock Hits as HYPE Trades Near $93
Zakladatel Synthetix Kain Warwick varoval, že držitelé HYPE nemají právní nárok na příjmy protokolu Hyperliquid ani ochranu srovnatelnou s ochranou akcionářů.
Kain Warwick, the founder of Synthetix, has a blunt message for HYPE holders. The token, he says, comes with no investor protections, unlike traditional equities.
That critique lands on one of DeFi’s most closely watched assets. HYPE has been trading between $80 and $98, backed by a buyback machine that would make most public company CFOs jealous.
What Warwick is actually saying Warwick’s argument rests on a basic distinction. A share of stock is a legal claim on a company. A HYPE token is not.
HYPE holders have no legal claim on protocol revenue and none of the rights that come with traditional equity. The value they capture comes through code, not contracts.
Warwick also took aim at a specific piece of Hyperliquid’s economics. The exchange splits 50% of fees with external market builders, an arrangement he criticized as potentially unsustainable for revenue growth.
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His concern is that the split could weigh on the buyback strategy that supports HYPE. Fewer fees flowing to the protocol means fewer dollars available to buy tokens off the market.
How HYPE’s value engine works Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange. It runs on its own Layer-1 blockchain, HyperCore, with support for HyperEVM.
The protocol’s Assistance Fund directs 97–99% of trading fees toward buying back and burning HYPE. Burning removes tokens from circulation permanently.
Recent yield inputs from AQAv2 contributed around $14.5M to the fund in early October 2026. That gives the buyback program another source of fuel beyond fees alone.
Background: a launch built on community ownership HYPE launched on November 29, 2024, with a fixed supply of 1 billion tokens. Notably, there was no allocation for venture capital investors.
Approximately 31% of the supply went to around 94,000 early users through an airdrop at genesis.
The founding team at Hyperliquid Labs, led by Jeff Yan, kept 23.8% for core contributors. Those tokens follow a vesting schedule with a one-year cliff, then monthly releases running until 2028.
In early October 2026, core contributors moved 3.75 million HYPE, valued at approximately $330M, with part of that handled through OTC sales. The research also links some unlock management to regulatory scrutiny from Singapore’s MAS alongside broader market dynamics.
What this means for HYPE holders Warwick’s warning is less about whether HYPE has value and more about what kind of value it is. Holders are relying on a mechanism, not a legal right.
Warwick’s criticism carries extra weight given his position. As the founder of Synthetix, he has spent years building in the same derivatives corner of DeFi that Hyperliquid now dominates.
Token holders cannot count on courts, disclosure rules, or fiduciary duties to protect them if the rules of the game shift. Core contributor tokens continue vesting monthly until 2028, and the 3.75 million HYPE moved in early October 2026 shows those unlocks are not theoretical.
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Velryba za poslední týden vložila na Kraken 131 421 tokenů HYPE v hodnotě 11,77 milionu USD a realizovala zisk přes 23 milionů USD. Nadále drží 140 506 tokenů HYPE.
HYPE’s recent price action has sparked market attention as a major whale investor realized profits exceeding $23 million, intensifying debate over possible selling pressure and the next direction for the token.
Large Whale Capitalizes on HYPE GainsAs of the latest data, HYPE trades near $83.80, having recently rebounded by roughly 0.50% on the 4-hour TradingView chart. However, the token remains well below its recent peak between $94 and $95.
On-chain analytics platform Lookonchain identified significant whale activity driving the narrative. The whale, who accumulated 257,928 HYPE at an average price of $3.50 per token around two years ago—totaling approximately $902,000 at the time—has now secured over $23 million in profit.
In the past week, this wallet deposited 131,421 HYPE, valued at about $11.77 million, to the crypto exchange Kraken at an average price of $89.56. The same wallet still controls another 140,506 HYPE, estimated at $12.2 million based on current prices.
Despite these significant deposits, it is not confirmed whether all transferred tokens have been sold on the exchange. Nevertheless, market participants remain alert to further movements that could increase selling pressure if more tokens are sent to Kraken.
A whale who bought 257,928 HYPE at roughly $3.50 per token about two years ago has seen their position appreciate to over $23 million in profit, following recent deposits of more than $11.7 million worth of HYPE to Kraken. The wallet continues to hold over 140,000 HYPE valued at $12.2 million.
Technical Analysis: Support and Resistance LevelsRecent technical charts indicate that HYPE has pulled back from its $94-$95 high, now consolidating in the $83-$84 range. Buyers have attempted to stabilize the token at these levels, seen as a key support zone in the near term.
If HYPE remains above this region, further upside targets could include $88, followed by resistance at $90-$92. The prior high near $94-$95 continues to stand as a significant price ceiling for bulls.
Momentum indicators reflect a mixed picture. The 14-period Relative Strength Index (RSI) has fallen to 28.33, slipping below the traditional 30-point oversold threshold, which could indicate the recent decline has become overextended. The average RSI sits near 40.47, suggesting the majority of the recent move reflected strong selling enthusiasm.
However, the RSI remaining under 30 and a lack of immediate price recovery would signal that sellers retain control, potentially driving prices lower before a meaningful rebound develops.
The 14-period RSI is now at 28.33, signaling an oversold condition, though further selling cannot be ruled out without evidence of a sustained recovery above support.
The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator also points to ongoing bearish pressure. The MACD line remains below the signal line, with a negative histogram value, underscoring downside momentum. For bulls, a close above $88—coupled with a MACD crossover—would present a firmer case for a rebound.
Mini dictionary: MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence), a trend-following technical analysis tool that shows the relationship between two moving averages of a cryptocurrency’s price, is used to identify momentum shifts and potential reversals.
Derivatives and Volatility MetricsOpen interest in Hyperliquid derivatives remains above $3 billion according to CoinGlass, reflecting significant exposure among futures traders even as the HYPE spot price declines.
Trading volumes continue at elevated levels, with recent daily turnover reaching several billion dollars. The perpetual futures market for HYPE has seen repeated spikes in both long and short liquidations, contributing to pronounced price swings and underscoring heightened volatility as the token trades near its current support.
MetricCurrent ValueSpot Price$83.80Recent Peak$94-$95Whale Holdings (HYPE)140,506Open Interest>$3 billionRecent Daily VolumeSeveral billion USDRSI (14-period)28.33 (Oversold)Market Awaits Further Whale MovesMarket uncertainty centers on whether ongoing whale transfers will continue to drive selling or if stabilization at $83-$84 will allow bulls to retake control. For now, traders are closely monitoring both the technical signals and any additional movement of HYPE tokens to exchanges, as these factors could determine the next key price move.
Lyft zaplatí 272,5 milionu USD v rámci urovnání žaloby státu Kalifornie kvůli údajnému krácení mezd řidičů; přibližně 237 milionů USD z této částky má připadnout řidičům.
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims that it committed wage theft against California drivers in the six-year lawsuit the Golden State brought against the rideshare company.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco sued Lyft in 2020 on allegations the company misclassified drivers as independent contractors between 2016 and 2020, meaning drivers were paid well below minimum wage and denied other workplace protections required under state law.
The majority of the money Lyft has agreed to pay, around $237 million, will be put in a third-party fund to be allocated to drivers. Drivers' eligibility and compensation will be based on the hours and total miles driven between April 2016 and December 2020.
LYFT TO LAUNCH NATIONWIDE FUEL SAVINGS PROGRAM AS DRIVERS FEEL PINCH FROM RISING GAS PRICES
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle claims that it committed wage theft against California drivers. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
"We are proud to announce this landmark win for workers, the largest misclassification settlement in California’s history," Bonta said in a statement. "Rideshare companies like Lyft have enjoyed massive growth and profits on the backs of drivers over the past decade, many of whom are from immigrant communities and communities of color. Lyft’s success would not be possible without the drivers Lyft sought to unfairly short-change. Hard-working employees deserve full compensation for their labor."
Ticker Security Last Change Change % LYFT LYFT INC. 16.13 +0.53 +3.40% "We have not and will not stand by when companies attempt to shirk their legal responsibilities and deprive employees of their wages and benefits as required under California law," he continued. "We will continue to fight to empower workers, combat unfair and deceptive practices, and ensure all Californians can thrive from the fruits of their labor."
UBER ORDERED TO PAY $40M AFTER DRIVER LEAVES INTOXICATED WOMAN ON FREEWAY
The majority of the money Lyft has agreed to pay, around $237 million, will be put in a third-party fund to be allocated to drivers. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images / Getty Images)
The settlement still needs to be approved by the court.
Once the court approves the settlement and Lyft begins making payments to the settlement fund, eligible drivers will be notified through the third-party administrator about when they can send in their information for restitution.
"When companies misclassify their workers, they deny them critical protections and shift the burden onto taxpayers," Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said in a statement. "This historic settlement sends a clear message: companies must follow the law, pay their fair share and play by the rules."
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco sued Lyft in 2020. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Despite Lyft agreeing to pay the settlement to bring an end to the lawsuit, the rideshare giant still maintains it did not engage in any wrongdoing.
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Between 2016 and 2020, Lyft reported a total revenue of $9.5 billion. Most Lyft drivers take home between $11 and $18 an hour after expenses, according to data compiled by ShiftTracker.
Pump.fun nově umožňuje párovat nové tokeny s libovolným tokenem vydaným na platformě, který je stále na bonding curve nebo přešel na PumpSwap. Při nákupu nového tokenu se nejprve nakoupí párový token, čímž se zvýší jeho likvidita.
Pump.fun has announced an update to its Custom Pairs feature. Previously, new tokens could only be paired with tokenized stocks or whitelisted tokens, but now they can be paired with any token issued on the platform that is either still on a bonding curve or has graduated to PumpSwap. Tokens that have graduated to Raydium and are not on the whitelist are not currently supported, with exceptions for whitelisted projects like Fartcoin. The official stated that derivative trading of past popular tokens was siphoning attention and liquidity. Under the new mechanism, when purchasing a new token paired with an existing one, funds will first be converted into the paired token before buying the new token, thereby generating buy pressure and deeper liquidity for the original token pool. Currently, pairing depth is limited to one layer, and the pairing relationships of already listed tokens cannot be modified. The platform has also adjusted the fee calculation for multi-hop swaps to prevent fees from stacking up.
Strategy zveřejní výsledky za třetí čtvrtletí 2026 po uzavření amerických trhů 29. října; zároveň poskytne aktuální informace o svých bitcoinových rezervách a jejich financování.
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TL;DR: Strategy will report third-quarter 2026 results after US markets close on October 29 and hold a live webinar at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. The update will give investors the next full financial snapshot of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury.
The most closely watched corporate Bitcoin balance sheet has a date for its next full update.
Strategy said Thursday that it will report third-quarter 2026 financial results after US markets close on October 29, followed by a live video webinar at 5 p.m. Eastern Time.
Ordinarily, an earnings date is routine corporate housekeeping.
Strategy is no longer an ordinary corporate earnings story.
The company has built its identity around holding and financing Bitcoin at a scale no other listed operating company has matched. Its quarterly results now function as a window into how the corporate Bitcoin treasury model behaves through different market conditions.
Investors will be watching several things.
The obvious one is the size and value of Strategy‘s BTC position at the end of the quarter.
But the more important questions increasingly sit around the financing machinery used to build that position.
Strategy has used common equity, convertible debt and several classes of preferred securities to raise capital for Bitcoin purchases. That means its results are as much about capital structure as they are about the price of BTC.
The company has also promoted metrics intended to show whether its Bitcoin holdings are growing faster than the dilution required to finance them.
Those measures have become a central part of management’s argument that Strategy is not simply a passive holding vehicle.
October’s results will therefore give investors a chance to assess how the model performed during a quarter in which Bitcoin prices, funding conditions and institutional flows all moved considerably.
The call also matters beyond Strategy shareholders.
A growing number of public companies have copied parts of the Bitcoin treasury approach, often with much smaller balance sheets and less access to capital.
Strategy remains the benchmark against which those businesses are compared.
When its premium to underlying Bitcoin holdings expands, the company can often raise capital more efficiently. When that premium contracts, the economics become more challenging.
That feedback loop is one reason the quarterly balance sheet matters so much.
Michael Saylor‘s company has spent years arguing that Bitcoin can be used as the primary treasury reserve asset of a public corporation.
The market has largely moved past debating whether Strategy itself is committed to that idea.
The question is how the financial structure performs over time.
October 29 will provide the next detailed answer.
Strategy said a replay of the webinar will be available through its investor relations site shortly after the event.
For Bitcoin investors, it will be one of the few corporate earnings calls where the underlying cryptocurrency is likely to matter as much as the operating business.
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Bitcoin software company Breez reported a sharp increase in demand for its developer tools following the mainstream adoption of AI coding agents, with partnership inquiries rising approximately 14 times their previous level. Breez highlighted that this demand has accelerated as both human developers and AI agents seek to integrate bitcoin payments into a broad range of applications.
AI agents reshape developer landscapeThe company linked this spike in interest to the release of Claude Code, an AI code generation tool launched by Anthropic in early 2025. Initially rolled out as a research preview and then made widely available three months later, Claude Code has enabled both experienced and novice developers to incorporate bitcoin functionality more easily into products and services.
Prior to the launch of Claude Code, Breez noted that its typical partners were predominantly established bitcoin advocates, cryptocurrency developers, or fintech firms focused on digital assets. However, the recent wave of requests originates from a more diverse set of sectors, including fitness and travel apps, messaging platforms looking to enable peer-to-peer payments, and even a project focused on mushroom identification.
Breez described how many newcomers are attracted by the speed of bitcoin integration. Unlike traditional payment systems—which can require lengthy onboarding, bank setup, and regulatory procedures—Breez claims that developers can implement its software development kit (SDK) for bitcoin payments in just minutes.
Breez stated, “Bitcoin is agnostic about whether the code of its current owner and user is composed of DNA base pairs or weights in a neural net.”
A notable trend identified by Breez is the rising proportion of requests initiated directly by AI coding agents, which develop apps and seek payment integration on behalf of companies. The company explained that these agents prefer bitcoin due to its permissionless nature, enabling global app deployment without the barriers of traditional finance, such as opening a bank account or undergoing compliance checks.
Breez is a technology firm specializing in SDKs that allow developers to add bitcoin payments to their applications, with a focus on fast integration and user-friendly solutions.
Mini dictionary: Claude Code: A specialized AI coding agent developed by Anthropic, designed to generate, audit, and integrate code into a wide range of applications. Its widespread adoption since 2025 has enabled automation of complex software development tasks, including the integration of cryptocurrency payment systems.
Potential regulatory scrutinyAlthough this shift in the software development landscape has increased the accessibility of bitcoin payments, regulatory authorities have long voiced concerns regarding the lack of identity verification in permissionless systems. Financial regulators continue to emphasize the importance of customer verification in traditional payment systems, an area where bitcoin payment platforms operate differently.
Breez addressed the technical challenge of handling increased volume by highlighting its newest SDK, which leverages Spark, a scaling protocol aimed at facilitating higher transaction throughput on the Bitcoin network. The company reported that this implementation accommodated the recent influx of integration requests smoothly.
Mini dictionary: Spark: A protocol designed to scale the Bitcoin network by increasing transaction capacity and enabling more efficient, fast payment processing within bitcoin-integrated applications.
Broader industry implicationsBreez characterized this transition as an evolution of investor Marc Andreessen’s 2011 thesis that software would come to dominate traditional industries. According to the company, AI-driven software agents are now at the forefront, using bitcoin as a foundational infrastructure element comparable to electric sockets or subsea cables. This development could signal a new phase for digital payment adoption across multiple industries.
AspectBefore Claude Code (2024)After Claude Code (2025)Primary developersBitcoin/crypto enthusiasts, fintech firmsGeneral app developers, AI agentsTypical sectorsFinance, crypto-focused appsFitness, messaging, travel, specialty appsIntegration timeframeWeeks or monthsMinutes with Breez SDKNature of requestsMainly human-initiatedSignificant share from AI agents
Výzkumník z Ethereum Foundation Justin Drake vyzval k postupnému přesunu kryptoměn na nové adresy s nezveřejněným veřejným klíčem kvůli možnému prolomení ECDSA.
OpenAI’s recent release of hundreds of machine-generated mathematical results has prompted a senior blockchain researcher to urge the industry toward a cautious defensive posture.
On October 7, 2026, Justin Drake, a researcher associated with the Ethereum Foundation whose work also addresses Bitcoin security assumptions, publicly called on holders and institutions to begin planning what he termed “bunker mode.”
The trigger was OpenAI’s October 6 publication of a large batch of findings produced by an internal frontier model.
Reporting on the release described roughly 722 manuscripts spanning about 372 families of results, covering areas such as number theory, geometry, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science.
OpenAI indicated that the model had been evaluated on thousands of problems, that many proofs were accompanied by machine-checkable formalizations, and that the average result consumed compute comparable to a few hours of advanced reasoning time.
Earlier related work had included challenges to long-standing conjectures and rapid progress on difficult open problems.
Drake interpreted the pace as evidence that mathematical capabilities are advancing faster than many cryptographic timelines assumed.
In a public post, he recommended a controlled migration of assets toward fresh addresses whose public keys remain concealed behind a hash until they are used.
Large and sophisticated holders, he suggested, should move the bulk of funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction.
After any spend, remaining balances should be shifted again to a new unused address, potentially derived from the same seed.
He stressed that the step does not require new wallets or novel cryptography and should be carried out without haste or panic, because a rushed transfer could itself cause losses.
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large…
— Justin Drake (@drakefjustin) October 7, 2026
Drake argued it is now reasonable to prepare for the possibility that the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)—the scheme securing most Bitcoin and Ethereum transactions—could be broken before practical quantum computers arrive.
In his worst-case framing, fast private key recovery from an exposed public key, on the order of a week using available hardware such as a large GPU cluster, might occur in months rather than years.
He noted that elliptic curves contain algebraic structure that could, in principle, admit unexpected classical attacks, unlike hash functions designed to minimize such structure.
OpenAI’s materials did not claim any attack on ECDSA or RSA; the short timeline remains Drake’s conjecture, not a demonstrated break.
He pointed to trackers of already-exposed Bitcoin public keys and singled out major custodians as candidates to harden cold storage first.
Smaller wallets, he added, retain partial cover from the large set of early exposed addresses.
Critical signers such as oracles could rotate keys or combine signatures with hash-based schemes.
Longer term, he favored moving toward cryptography that relies on hashes rather than structured mathematical assumptions.
The episode fits a wider unease among security professionals.
As AI systems are adopted across research, operations, and infrastructure, assumptions about how long current digital platforms and financial services will remain safe are being reexamined ahead of 2027 and beyond.
Exposed keys, long-lived signatures, and reliance on algebraic hardness are receiving fresh scrutiny even where no immediate exploit has been shown. Drake’s call is therefore best read as a precautionary operational suggestion amid accelerating mathematical automation, not as confirmation that existing wallets have already been compromised.
PowerCompute použila 267,4 BTC ke splacení úvěru zajištěného bitcoinem, čímž snížila svůj zajištěný dluh z přibližně 23,7 milionu USD na 1,25 milionu USD.
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TL;DR: PowerCompute mined 8.1 BTC in September, up 37% from a year earlier. Its month-end Bitcoin holdings fell to 63.7 BTC after the company used 267.4 BTC to help retire a $22.45 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility, leaving most of its secured debt eliminated.
PowerCompute’s latest mining update is a useful reminder that a corporate Bitcoin treasury can serve more than one purpose.
The Nasdaq-listed miner produced 8.1 BTC in September, a 37% increase from the 5.9 BTC it mined in the same month last year and slightly above August production.
At the same time, its Bitcoin holdings fell sharply.
PowerCompute ended September with 63.7 BTC, down from 323.02 BTC at the end of August.
The reason was debt.
The company used 267.4 BTC to help settle principal and accrued interest on a Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Arch, eliminating approximately $22.45 million of obligations and releasing the collateral attached to the loan.
That reduced secured debt from roughly $23.7 million to $1.25 million.
The remaining borrowing is not secured by Bitcoin.
For public miners, that trade-off is significant.
Bitcoin holdings are often presented as a measure of financial strength, particularly when a company’s market value is compared with the BTC sitting on its balance sheet.
But debt changes the picture.
A large treasury that is pledged against borrowings is not as flexible as unencumbered Bitcoin, and leverage can become particularly painful when BTC prices or mining economics turn against the company.
PowerCompute chose to shrink the treasury substantially in exchange for removing most of that leverage.
Management has framed the decision as using Bitcoin to retire debt rather than carrying the financing cost.
The operational side of the update was more positive.
September production of 8.1 BTC was also up from 7.9 BTC in August.
The company operates 26 megawatts of interconnected power infrastructure across facilities in Oklahoma and Mississippi, while also exploring a broader shift toward high-performance computing and AI-related infrastructure.
PowerCompute also generated about $89,000 from selling electricity back to the grid during periods when seasonal heat made curtailment more attractive than mining.
That illustrates another part of modern mining economics.
A miner with access to flexible power is not always maximizing revenue by running machines continuously. At certain times, the electricity itself can be worth more than the Bitcoin the same power would produce.
PowerCompute said energy sales totaled roughly $312,000 across the three months ended September.
The company’s strategy therefore now sits across several moving pieces: Bitcoin production, power-market economics, debt reduction and potential data-center expansion.
None of them is as eye-catching as simply announcing another BTC purchase.
But the September figures show why balance-sheet quality matters.
PowerCompute owns far less Bitcoin than it did a month earlier.
It also owns that Bitcoin with dramatically less secured debt hanging over it.
EDX Markets zalistuje Verified Bitcoin (vBTC), token krytý nativními BTC v poměru 1:1, pro institucionální spotové obchodování a připojí se k síti VerifiedX jako validátor.
EDX Markets, the institution-only digital asset venue backed by Wall Street trading and venture capital firms, will list Verified Bitcoin (vBTC) for institutional spot trading, the company announced on October 8. Under the partnership with VerifiedX, EDX will also join the VerifiedX network as a validator, extending its role from trading venue into the infrastructure that secures the token. The move deepens Wall Street’s push into tokenized Bitcoin, letting institutions put BTC to work across trading, lending, and decentralized finance without surrendering the underlying asset.
A 1:1-Backed, Programmable Bitcoin vBTC is a tokenized form of Bitcoin built on VerifiedX‘s layer-2 protocol. Each token is collateralized one-to-one by native BTC, with Taproot addresses embedded in every token and a direct redemption path back to Bitcoin. VerifiedX positions vBTC as self-custodial and non-synthetic, targeting institutional workflows such as price discovery, cross-market arbitrage, treasury and balance-sheet mobility, and borrowing and lending. Rather than creating economic exposure to Bitcoin without a direct path to the underlying asset, vBTC is built around continuous ownership, utilization and redemption. A canonical EVM representation, vBTC.b, extends the same redemption path to supported Ethereum-compatible environments.
EDX Takes a Validator Role Rather than simply listing a new asset, EDX Markets will validate transactions and participate in governance on the VerifiedX network. The arrangement is designed to let institutions keep direct control over the threshold-signing environment securing their Bitcoin instead of relying on a public signing pool, while EDX’s central clearinghouse reduces bilateral counterparty exposure for institutional participants. “Institutional adoption of digital assets increasingly depends on giving sophisticated market participants greater flexibility in how they trade, move and deploy capital,” said David Olsson, Chief Commercial Officer of EDX Markets.
What Changes for Institutions “Bitcoin does not need another financial abstraction. It needs infrastructure that allows the asset itself to do more,” said Jay Pollak, Head of Strategy at the VerifiedX Foundation. For allocators, the listing bridges EDX’s institutional market structure with programmable Bitcoin infrastructure, preserving native ownership and a direct redemption path. EDX said additional details on vBTC availability will be announced in the coming weeks, and that its products remain available only to institutions in the U.S. and certain other jurisdictions.
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Společnost Bitwise zjistila, že pět velkých amerických platforem pro správu majetku omezuje přístup k bitcoinovým ETP, zatímco dalších 18 umožňuje obchodování pouze na výslovnou žádost klienta.
More than two years after US spot Bitcoin ETFs won regulatory approval, getting one through a financial advisor still depends heavily on where you bank.
A May 2026 analysis from crypto asset manager Bitwise finds that five major US wealth platforms restrict access to Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETPs). Another 18 allow only unsolicited trades.
Three tiers of access Bitwise sorted US wealth platforms into three buckets based on how they treat Bitcoin ETPs: Restricted, Unsolicited Only, and Solicited.
On a Solicited platform, advisors can actively recommend Bitcoin ETPs to clients. They can bring the idea up in a portfolio review, discuss allocation, and treat it like any other approved product.
According to Bitwise, firms in this group include Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Vanguard.
On an Unsolicited Only platform, advisors cannot pitch the product. They will execute a Bitcoin ETP trade only when the client asks for it. The burden of initiative sits entirely with the investor.
Bitwise places JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and UBS in this camp. In total, 18 platforms fall into the Unsolicited Only category.
Then there are the Restricted platforms. These five firms actively limit Bitcoin ETP investment opportunities for clients. Bitwise names HSBC, T. Rowe Price, and American Express among them.
A slow, uneven rollout since 2024 The backdrop here is the January 2024 approval of US spot Bitcoin ETFs. That decision gave traditional investors a regulated, brokerage-friendly way to hold Bitcoin exposure without managing wallets or private keys.
Bitwise’s findings show how unevenly that process has played out. Some firms have moved all the way to letting advisors make recommendations. Others have settled into a middle ground, while a handful remain closed off.
What this means for investors and the industry If an advisor cannot raise Bitcoin ETPs, a large share of clients may simply never consider them. Access technically exists, but distribution does not.
According to the research, the move toward broader solicited access could catalyze greater adoption and heightens the potential for significant capital inflows into Bitcoin ETPs.
The research also notes that full mainstream integration is contingent on further regulatory clarity and continued due diligence at wealth platforms. The prize, as the analysis frames it, is trillions of dollars in client assets currently under management that remain largely out of reach.
For investors, the practical takeaway is straightforward. If you want Bitcoin ETP exposure through an advisor, your platform’s policy shapes the conversation you can have. At a Solicited firm, your advisor can walk you through it. At an Unsolicited Only firm, you will need to request it yourself. At a Restricted firm, you may need to look elsewhere entirely.
For now, Bitwise’s map shows a wealth management industry that has accepted Bitcoin ETPs in principle. In practice, how freely clients can reach them still depends on which firm holds their account.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Kaye Quema. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Trading giant @RobinhoodApp has purchased $25 million worth of Bitcoin for its own corporate balance sheet, marking the first time the Nasdaq-listed brokerage has put company capital directly into the asset it has long offered to retail customers. The move was flagged by on-chain analytics platform @arkham and later confirmed by Robinhood executives.
A Signal, Not a Treasury Program The disclosure came from Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood's Senior Vice President and General Manager of Crypto and International, speaking at the Digital Asset Summit Asia on October 7, 2026.
Deep in Crypto, but Only Now Holding Bitcoin The purchase comes at a time when @RobinhoodApp has been making aggressive moves across the crypto landscape under CEO @vladtenev.
Despite this deep crypto integration, this $25 million purchase represents the very first time Robinhood has held $BTC on its own books.
Sources:
Bitcoin Treasuries: Robinhood Buys $25 Million of Bitcoin for Its Balance Sheet
Crypto.news: Robinhood adds Bitcoin to balance sheet with $25 million purchase
CoinDesk: Robinhood rolls out public blockchain as it expands deeper into crypto
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday finalized rules allowing crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to list on Thailand’s main stock exchange, limited initially to Bitcoin and Ether.
The regulator said the rules will take effect on Oct. 16, 2026. Crypto ETFs must be listed for trading exclusively on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Products linked to foreign crypto ETFs, such as depositary receipts, will not be permitted initially, while Thai brokers will remain barred from facilitating investments in overseas crypto ETFs for retail investors outside institutions and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
“We have previously seen examples in the United States where the launch of the Spot Bitcoin ETF and Spot Ethereum ETF created new avenues for institutional and retail investors to easily access digital assets,” Attakrit Chimphlapibul, co-founder of Bitkub Group, told Money and Banking on Thursday.
The framework opens a new route for Thai investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin and Ether through the stock market. The SEC also amended its rules to allow mutual funds and private funds to invest in Thai-established crypto ETFs, whereas previously they could invest only in foreign crypto ETFs.
The framework also prohibits brokers from providing margin loans to purchase crypto ETFs and requires fund assets to be held with SEC-regulated digital asset custodians. Investors must receive information about the products and confirm that they understand the risks before trading.
Crypto ETFs must be managed as a passive investment vehicle seeking to track the price of the crypto asset in which it invests. It must maintain net exposure to a single cryptocurrency averaging at least 80% of net asset value over each accounting year.
The SEC consulted on the proposed principles in April and May and on draft regulations in August and September. Most respondents supported the proposals, the regulator said.
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Neexistuje potvrzení, že Fidelity prodala bitcoiny za 197,09 milionu USD; označené převody byly podle Arkham interními přesuny v rámci Fidelity Custody.
A post on X made a short and alarming claim: Fidelity sold $197.09 million worth of Bitcoin.
Nothing in the available record confirms that a sale happened. Research into the claim points to a familiar culprit. On-chain transfers and ETF flow data were read as something they are not.
That distinction matters because Fidelity is not just another wallet on the blockchain. Through Fidelity Digital Assets, the firm provides institutional custody, and it also operates the Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, better known by its ticker FBTC.
What the on-chain data actually shows The biggest movement tied to this episode came on September 29, 2026. On-chain trackers flagged 12 transfers totaling 3,568 BTC, worth approximately $297 million, leaving wallets linked to Strategy, Michael Saylor’s company.
Arkham Intelligence later clarified that those transfers were internal operations within Fidelity Custody, not sales. They were standard reallocations, consistent with Fidelity managing client deposits.
Strategy’s own activity around that time also undercuts the sell-off story. The company bought 1,665 BTC, worth approximately $142.7 million, between September 21 and September 27, 2026.
That purchase lifted Strategy’s total holdings to 847,666 BTC at an average cost of $75,437 per coin.
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Where the $197 million figure may come from The ETF side of the ledger tells a separate story. US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $197.4 million in net inflows for the week ended July 11, 2026.
FBTC was among the funds that showed offsetting outflows during that same period. So the sector as a whole took in money, while some individual funds, including Fidelity’s, saw cash leave.
The $197.09 million figure in the X post and the $197.4 million inflow total are close neighbors. Whatever the origin of the claim, those two numbers describe very different things. One is money coming into ETFs, not coins leaving Fidelity’s balance sheet.
Then came early October 2026. FBTC posted $50.7 million in net outflows amid broader selling across Bitcoin ETFs.
Those outflows are attributed to investor redemptions. When ETF shareholders cash out, the fund shrinks because its clients want their money back, not because the fund manager decided to bail.
The research is direct on the core question: Fidelity has not executed a corporate-level sale of $197 million in Bitcoin.
Why custody keeps getting mistaken for selling Custodians hold assets on behalf of other people. Fidelity Digital Assets does this for institutional clients, which means large amounts of Bitcoin sit in wallets tied to Fidelity without belonging to Fidelity itself.
Public blockchains make every transfer visible. They do not, however, explain why a transfer happened or who asked for it.
In this case, the clarification from Arkham arrived after trackers had already flagged the Strategy-linked transfers. That gap between the raw data and the explanation is where rumors tend to take root.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs add another layer of confusion. Flow figures show how much money entered or left a fund, but those numbers reflect the choices of thousands of shareholders rather than a single decision made at headquarters.
What this means for investors The immediate takeaway is simple. There is no verified evidence that Fidelity, as a company, sold $197 million in Bitcoin.
What did happen is less dramatic. Strategy-linked coins were reshuffled inside Fidelity’s custody system, Strategy kept buying, and FBTC saw a mix of inflows and outflows driven by its own investors.
For anyone tracking institutional behavior, the more useful signal is the $50.7 million in FBTC outflows in early October. Those numbers reflect actual investor decisions amid broader ETF selling, which says something about how some holders were positioning at the time.
Strategy, sitting on 847,666 BTC, will keep drawing scrutiny every time its coins move through a custodian. A practical habit for traders: wait for attribution from an analytics firm such as Arkham, or from the companies involved, before reading a large transfer as a trade.
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Rozdíl mezi aktivitou velryb a drobných investorů při odlivech XRP z centralizovaných burz se mezi 30. zářím a 8. říjnem 2026 snížil ze 64 % na 46,7 %, zatímco aktivita drobných investorů vzrostla.
XRP has entered a correction alongside the broader crypto market, but retail activity has increased across exchanges as whale dominance declines.
Notably, XRP fell from a local high of $1.52 on Oct. 6 to around $1.39 at press time. Several factors have contributed to the decline, including broader market selling, higher US Treasury yields, and leveraged liquidations.
The US 30-year Treasury yield climbed toward 5.72% on Oct. 7, reaching a level not seen in about 24 years. This rise in yields has weighed on risk assets, and XRP has also felt the impact.
XRP Retail Activity Increases as Whale Dominance Falls Amid the decline in XRP’s price, exchange data shows a change in investor activity. Specifically, retail participation has increased across centralized exchanges, while the share of activity linked to larger holders has declined.
The main measure in this data is the Whale vs. Retail Spread (%). The metric assesses the difference between XRP exchange outflow activity from large holders and that from retail investors.
A falling spread does not necessarily mean whales are selling. What it does show is that the difference between whale and retail activity is becoming smaller.
Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 8, 2026, the All CEX Whale vs. Retail Spread fell from 64% to 46.7%. This represents a decline of 17.3 percentage points, or roughly 27% in eight days.
XRP Whale Vs Retail Spread | Source: CryptoQuant The sudden drop shows that retail investors have become a much larger part of XRP’s exchange outflow activity over the past week. This is important because it has happened while XRP’s price has dropped lower.
Binance Shows a Slower Change While Binance has followed the same general trend, the change has been less pronounced. Between Sept. 30 and Oct. 8, 2026, the Binance Whale vs. Retail Spread fell from 68% to 54.9%.
This marks a decline of 13.1 percentage points, or about 19.3%. While the drop is worth noting, it is smaller than the decline recorded across all centralized exchanges.
Also, at 54.9%, Binance’s current reading remains 8.2 percentage points above the 46.7% reading for all centralized exchanges.
This suggests that whale activity still has a stronger influence on Binance than it does across the wider exchange market. However, both readings have moved lower, confirming that retail activity has gained ground in both cases.
In addition, Binance’s XRP reserves provide further evidence of continued activity from large holders. The exchange’s XRP reserves fell from 2.704 billion XRP to 2.631 billion XRP between Sept. 26 and Oct. 4. Interestingly, whale-sized outflows drove much of this decline during the period.
XRP RSI Reaches Deeply Oversold Levels The recent price decline has also pushed XRP’s technical indicators toward extreme levels. According to a recent report from The Crypto Basic, the 4-hour XRP Relative Strength Index (RSI) has reached levels not seen since XRP traded at $1.05.
Similar oversold conditions can create room for a short-term rebound, but they do not guarantee one. Overall, the broader market remains under pressure, while higher Treasury yields and other macroeconomic factors could continue to limit demand for risk assets.
XRPL Emerges as a Leading Network for AI-Driven PaymentsThe XRP Ledger processed more than 8 million x402-based payments in a single 30-day period, according to @chandler_agi, co-founder of @t54ai and a former product lead at @Ripple. The figure places $XRP Ledger among the most active blockchains for autonomous, AI-driven transactions, surpassing nearly all other layer-1 networks on this measure.
The milestone is a product of rapidly accelerating momentum. The XRP Ledger crossed 10 million x402 payments in total by October 1, less than three months after recording its first million. More than 8 million payments in one month works out to an average of above 266,000 transactions per day. The live XRPL AI Hub now tracks more than 12.7 million transactions all-time alongside 164 registered merchants, with a latest seven-day average of around 350,460 payments per day.
What Is the x402 Protocol and Why Does It Matter? x402 is an HTTP-native payment protocol that revives the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" status code for instant blockchain payments. In practical terms, it lets software agents pay for digital services, such as API access or compute resources, without human involvement, account creation, or traditional API keys. On the XRP Ledger, the x402 protocol allows seamless, trust-minimized transfers in XRP and RLUSD for APIs and digital services.
The x402 facilitator, provided by Ripple partner t54, acts as a trust layer and mediator, enabling verification of agent payments and risk checks before settlement. Agent payments on the XRP Ledger also now support Mastercard's Verifiable Intent standard, which lets developers attach a cryptographic proof to each x402 payment confirming who authorized it, under what spending limits, and for which exact purchase, all screened before settlement.
The broader x402 ecosystem is growing quickly too. The Linux Foundation operationally launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, uniting Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Stripe, and 13 other premier members around one open standard for AI agents to pay for goods and services over HTTP.
For the XRP Ledger, the next test is expanding the merchant side. The XRPL AI Hub currently lists services spanning AI inference, crypto research, market intelligence, risk tools, and other paid APIs, with more than 160 addresses actively receiving x402 payments. As @chandler_agi noted, the focus is shifting from raw transaction counts toward bringing more merchants into XRPL's agentic economy.
Sources:
The Crypto Basic: XRP Handles 8M+ x402 Payments in 30 Days
Stablecoin Insider: XRP Ledger Adds Mastercard Verifiable Intent
Startup Fortune: XRP Ledger Agentic Payments Race Toward 10 Million
XRP whales have accelerated their withdrawal of assets from Binance, with the 30-day cumulative outflow surging from $600 million in early August to over $1.3 billion in September. The ongoing movement has drawn attention from traders and analysts, who are closely monitoring its possible impact on the market.
Whale outflows climb sharplyData from blockchain analytics platform CryptoQuant shows that large XRP holders have steadily increased their withdrawals from Binance over the past month. The 30-day rolling outflow volume, which measures the total value of assets withdrawn by major holders, exceeded $1.3 billion in September. This figure is more than double the $600 million recorded at the start of August.
Xaif, a widely followed cryptocurrency commentator, pointed to this trend on X (formerly Twitter), emphasizing that whale movements intensified dramatically during periods of price volatility.
Earlier in September, XRP posted a notable surge of over 50% within 65 hours, creating renewed optimism among investors. Analysts noted that the largest outflow spike coincided with this rally, suggesting that whales may have opted to take profits or transfer their holdings to secure storage solutions.
Whales are moving while retail is distracted, with 30-day XRP outflows jumping from $600 million to over $1.3 billion.
A similar wave of withdrawals accompanied another short-term price jump later in September, adding further weight to theories of strategic positioning by major holders ahead of or during periods of market volatility.
PeriodXRP 30-day Outflow from BinanceEarly August$600 millionSeptember$1.3 billionPrice volatility and flash crashThe discussion around whale withdrawals intensified further after a sharp price drop. Hours before publicizing the outflow figures, Xaif observed that XRP experienced a rapid decline from $1.49 to $1.45 within minutes, erasing a portion of its recent gains and cutting through previous support levels.
It remains uncertain whether this sudden drop directly resulted from whale withdrawals, but several analysts noted the alignment between extended outflow periods and heightened price swings.
Traders and market observers have weighed in across social platforms, largely agreeing with assertions that whales can significantly drive market sentiment and movement. One commenter argued that large holders typically accumulate or divest their assets quietly, while retail investors often miss the signals hidden in such on-chain activity.
Many market participants only recognize the significance of whale activity after a major shift, often wondering why they did not notice the underlying signals sooner.
Others, including experienced traders, advised monitoring whale actions closely. Several users revealed plans to buy the dip, indicating that portions of the retail community view these drops as potential entry points rather than exit signals.
Xaif, active in the cryptocurrency commentary space, has built a following for sharing on-chain data and market insights for assets including XRP.
Mini dictionary: CryptoQuant is a blockchain analytics platform offering real-time and historical data on cryptocurrency exchanges, on-chain activity, and market trends. It is widely used by investors and analysts to track large transactions and whale movements.
Ongoing trends and market impactSustained whale outflows from exchanges often precede significant price movements, though their intent—whether accumulation or profit taking—is subject to interpretation. The marked increase in 30-day outflows since August signals deliberate, ongoing realignment among major XRP holders.
While some investors remain cautious, others see the current conditions as a buying opportunity, with opinions split on whether the trend points to accumulation or an early warning sign of increased volatility ahead.
David Schwartz vystoupí na Ripple Swell 2026 poprvé od svého přechodu z pozice CTO na emeritního CTO a člena představenstva. XRP ve třetím čtvrtletí posílilo o 46 % na přibližně 1,53 USD.
David Schwartz, the influential architect behind XRP Ledger and a founding figure at Ripple, is set to return to the main stage at this year’s Ripple Swell 2026 conference in New York. The event, beginning on October 27 at The Shed cultural center, will mark Schwartz’s first public appearance since transitioning from Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer to his new role as CTO Emeritus and board member.
Schwartz’s keynote and leadership shiftSchwartz’s transition to the board of directors represented a step away from daily executive responsibilities. Nonetheless, his forthcoming keynote is drawing attention from both the crypto community and institutional partners, many of whom had not anticipated such a swift return to public thought leadership.
His participation underscores the strategic importance Ripple places on technological innovation within the XRP ecosystem. Schwartz is expected to focus on a critical question: whether the XRP Ledger, originally designed as an efficient, decentralized payment protocol, can compete with current market alternatives in speed, scalability, and security.
Schwartz returns to center stage to address the pressing question of whether XRPL can stand out as a leading payments network in today’s competitive landscape, following his shift to board-level oversight.
The conference’s agenda will reflect both continuity and change within Ripple’s leadership. Key stakeholders will observe how Schwartz’s vision as CTO Emeritus could shape Ripple’s next phase of blockchain development.
Swell 2026 speaker lineup and new partnershipsThe Swell 2026 conference introduces a new format by merging Ripple’s investor-focused Swell forum with the engineering event Apex and the academic partnership platform UBRI Connect. This convergence aims to foster collaboration among financial professionals, blockchain engineers, and university researchers, with attendance expected to reach 1,500 participants.
Speakers will include former NYSE President Tom Farley, BNY’s Head of Global Markets Laide Majiyagbe, and Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Matt Damon, known for his philanthropic work with Water.org, will join to outline how his foundation plans to leverage RLUSD, Ripple’s new dollar-pegged stablecoin, for microfinance operations in Asia and Africa.
Another highlight is the October 28 fireside chat titled “Building What’s Next for XRPL,” featuring Schwartz and Ayo Akinyele, RippleX’s head of engineering. Akinyele brings expertise in applied cryptography, private zk-transfers, and AI infrastructure, setting the stage for deep technical discussion.
Mini dictionary: RLUSD, a stablecoin designed by Ripple and pegged to the US dollar, is intended to support seamless, low-volatility transactions for businesses and development projects requiring stable value transfer across borders.
XRP performance and investor expectationsThe conference arrives at a pivotal time for Ripple, as XRP closed the third quarter with a 46% gain, trading at approximately $1.53 and reaching a market capitalization near $97 billion. This robust rally has heightened market expectations for concrete advancements, especially regarding the integration of financial markets onto XRPL’s blockchain infrastructure.
MetricQ3 2026XRP Price$1.53Market Cap$97 billionQ3 Price Growth46%Developers and institutional users are seeking assurances from Schwartz that the XRP Ledger’s architecture can support fully operational financial markets and meet the demands of a changing digital economy.
Many investors now expect actionable updates and a clear roadmap from Ripple’s top technical minds as the company pushes for greater adoption of its blockchain platform.
With its expanded lineup and renewed engineering focus, Swell 2026 is positioning Ripple to further its ambitions in blockchain-powered finance while affirming its commitment to technological leadership in the crypto sector.
Zakladatel Cyber Capital Justin Bons označil prezentování XRP jako decentralizovaného za podvod s poukazem na neveřejný kód XRP Ledger a vliv doporučených seznamů validátorů (UNL).
The XRP decentralization debate is heating up again, with Justin Bons, the founder of Cyber Capital, claiming that XRP advocates are duping retail investors ahead of a controversial XRP Ledger update.
"Selling XRP to retail as 'decentralized' is straight up fraud!" wrote Justin Bons in a recent X post.
The passionate cryptocurrency analyst cited the use of undocumented software code by the XRP Ledger in its recent development as an example showing major flaws in the network's governance and consensus system.
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Bons believes the XRP Ledger has been operating on closed-source code for around two weeks now and that the change is expected to become mandatory as of Friday, Oct. 9.
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XRP Ledger developers shipped an emergency software update on Sept. 25, version 3.4.1 for the XRP Ledger server software. It tackles security-sensitive problems and adds the fixBatchV1_2 amendment.
XRP Ledger developers confirmed that sensitive security fixes are currently not published in source code form, which they plan to release together with a technical retrospective.
Should the amendment remain adequately supported and be activated on Oct. 9, outdated software servers will be amendment-blocked and will be unable to stay in sync with the network.
Bons claims that keeping the source code undisclosed leads to unnecessary security concerns.
Is XRP really centralized?Regarding the whole debate over centralization, the key point is the Unique Node List (UNL) model of the XRP Ledger.
As opposed to Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work system, the XRP Ledger depends on validators that individual network participants must trust. Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation publish lists of recommended validators that are used by default in the server configurations.
Anyone can run a validator for the XRP Ledger, but that doesn't necessarily mean they have any say in consensus. The other participants need to include them in their trusted list.
Technically, node operators may use any validators they wish, but XRP Ledger documentation warns that inadequate shared lists may lead to a node diverging from the rest of the network.
In the eyes of Bons, the existence of recommended validator lists gives their publishers too much power over the network.
Paxos přidá XRP na svou regulovanou kryptomakléřskou platformu, která partnerům umožní zákazníkům toto aktivum nakupovat, prodávat, držet, vkládat a vybírat.
XRP’s growing market presence is now meeting broader access through regulated financial infrastructure. On the 7th of October, Paxos, a regulated blockchain infrastructure platform, announced that it would be adding Ripple [XRP] to their crypto brokerage platform.
XRP now spans over 8.1 million wallets utilizing XRP, while the total market value exceeds $95 billion. Moreover, all partners who utilize the platform can allow customers to buy, sell, hold, deposit, and withdraw XRP.
As a result, this eliminates the need for each partner to create their own unique custody and settlement platforms.
Source: X Paxos also runs the service through its regulated trust framework. That service provides an additional channel to the XRP ledger for institutions.
However, the success of this initiative is dependent upon the number of partners who choose to actively use XRP and facilitate customer engagement with the asset.
Ripple pushes into Wall Street That broader institutional push is now reaching deeper into traditional markets, where Ripple is targeting the financing layer behind leveraged ETFs. Through Ripple Prime, the firm finances swaps that ETF managers use to amplify daily stock returns.
As a result of the expansion of the size of this market, there are currently 593 leveraged ETFs listed in the United States, with over $256 billion in assets. Ripple’s ability to finance these swaps was acquired through their $1.25 billion purchase of Hidden Road, Inc.
Source: Wall Street Journal This added a comprehensive set of prime brokerage capabilities, including clearing, funding, and other financial services.
Moreover, it gives XRP an opening as banks face tighter capital constraints and newer ETF managers seek alternative financing. The revenue potential is also significant, with one fund paying roughly 8% annually.
On the other hand, there are risks related to extreme price movements that may lead to large losses for counterparties. In light of these risks, Ripple may be positioned to further enhance its footprint on Wall Street but simultaneously take on additional financial risk.
Can Paxos expand XRP adoption? That said, moving forward, the next test is whether the infrastructure will translate into reliable demand. This is simply because regulated access means little without measurable XRP activity. Paxos has only just enabled the asset, leaving no partner-level volume to assess yet.
Meanwhile, U.S. spot XRP ETFs hold about 1.18 billion XRP, worth roughly $1.7 billion. That provides an existing benchmark for regulated demand. Yet XRP Ledger activity remains concentrated, with daily transactions often exceeding two million while active addresses stay relatively low.
Source: SoSoValue Therefore, Paxos needs to expand participation rather than simply add another access route. Rising partner volumes, institutional holdings, and active addresses would show that easier access is creating broader XRP demand.
That would turn Paxos’ infrastructure upgrade into measurable adoption.
Final Summary Ripple gains regulated institutional access through Paxos, expanding its potential reach across financial platforms. XRP needs stronger partner adoption and on-chain activity to turn broader access into sustained demand.
Otevřený zájem o deriváty na ETH klesl o 11,7 % na 12,49 milionu ETH, což je nejnižší úroveň od března 2026, protože obchodníci uzavírají pákové pozice.
Ethereum traders are quietly heading for the exits. Open interest in ETH derivatives has fallen 11.7%, reaching its lowest level since June 2026.
Nobody is panic selling. Leveraged traders are simply closing positions, and the futures market is getting noticeably smaller as a result.
What the numbers show Measured in coins, ETH derivatives open interest has slipped to 12.49 million ETH as of late September to early October 2026. One dataset puts that as the lowest reading since March 1, 2026.
That figure reflects a drop of 1.46 million ETH from the levels recorded during the early July recovery.
The selloff in positioning also had a single dramatic day. Aggregate ETH contract open interest fell 7.53% in one session in early October, landing at approximately $31.8 billion.
Binance, which holds a large share of ETH derivatives activity, tells a similar story. Recent estimates place ETH open interest on the exchange somewhere between $3.25 billion and $6.2 billion.
Earlier this year, Binance ETH open interest fell to approximately $4.16 billion in late June. That marked its lowest point in over three months at the time.
Shorts are holding the wheel Funding rates on certain exchanges have now turned negative. That means bearish traders are paying to keep their positions open, which suggests they are currently in control of perpetuals.
All of this is happening while ETH trades in a fairly narrow band. Prices have been consolidating between $2,600 and $2,800, with spot market activity outweighing derivatives trading.
The bigger deleveraging picture Analytics providers Coinglass and CryptoQuant have both tracked the ongoing deleveraging across ETH markets. Their data points to a broad caution about holding leveraged positions right now.
The pattern is not unique to Ethereum. Bitcoin futures have shown similar behavior, where falling open interest tends to reflect weaker speculative demand.
What this means for ETH traders Lower open interest cuts both ways. On the positive side, less leverage in the system means fewer positions that can be forcibly liquidated if prices move sharply, as current leverage levels remain subdued compared to previous peaks.
The negative funding rates complicate that picture. They show that active traders expect further declines and are positioning accordingly.
There is also a contrarian wrinkle. When shorts crowd into a trade and pay to stay there, a sudden move higher can force them to buy back positions quickly, which can amplify any upside.
A few indicators are worth tracking from here. The first is whether open interest stabilizes near 12.49 million ETH or keeps sliding. The second is funding. A return to positive rates would suggest long traders are regaining confidence, while deeper negative rates would signal growing conviction among bears. The third is the price range itself. A move outside $2,600 to $2,800 would likely pull sidelined traders back in, in whichever direction the break occurs.
Exchange-level data also deserves attention. Binance figures, given the platform’s share of ETH derivatives, could offer an early read on whether leverage is returning or still draining.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Vivian Nguyen. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
A closely watched signal in the Ethereum ecosystem is flashing caution. The gap between $ETH waiting to enter staking and $ETH waiting to exit has been narrowing steadily since early May, and the latest figures show the spread continuing to compress.
At the time of writing, 1,385,201 $ETH is queued to be staked, while 815,341 $ETH is waiting to be unstaked. The difference remains meaningful in absolute terms, but the trend points in one direction.
How the Queue Got Here For most of 2026, the imbalance heavily favoured entries. The signal at that point was unambiguous: almost nobody wanted to unstake.
That picture has since shifted.
Context and What to Watch
Still, the structural narrowing of the entry-exit spread since May is worth monitoring. If the exit queue continues to grow independently of one-off events, the cushion that has supported net staking demand for most of the year will continue to shrink.
Sources:
CoinDesk: Ethereum staking exit queue jumps fivefold as holders face a two-week wait
KuCoin: Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Jumps 392%
CryptoSlate: A $1,000 MetaMask incident could turn Ethereum's staking queue into a $5 billion traffic jam
Curve Finance uvádí, že upgrade Etherea Glamsterdam by mohl během přetížení zlepšit přístup komplexních DeFi transakcí k prostoru v bloku; páková půjčka spotřebovala 1,84 milionu gasu oproti 125 000 gasu u swapu stablecoinů.
Curve Finance has said Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade could give complex DeFi transactions more reliable access to blockspace, citing mainnet checks in which a leveraged borrow used about 1.84 million gas against 125,000 for a direct stablecoin swap.
Summary
Curve’s mainnet checks put leveraged borrowing gas usage at nearly 15 times a direct stablecoin swap. The team expects added capacity to help borrowers, arbitrage traders and liquidators during heavy demand. Ethereum developers have prepared a 200 million gas test, without committing mainnet to that limit. Curve cautions that revised state charges could increase gas requirements for some transactions. Curve Finance, the decentralized finance protocol behind the crvUSD stablecoin, said Glamsterdam’s value should be measured by how transactions perform during congestion rather than by the block gas limit alone.
In comments shared with crypto.news, the team identified transaction inclusion times and actual user fees during demand spikes as the practical tests of whether Ethereum’s added capacity improves access. Its assessment also made easier validation a condition of successful scaling.
Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade could help complex DeFi transactions According to Curve’s mainnet checks, a leveraged borrowing transaction consumed roughly 1.84 million gas, compared with 125,000 for a direct stablecoin swap. Based on those figures, the borrowing operation used about 14.7 times as much gas.
For transactions combining borrowing with a collateral purchase, the team said congestion can affect several parts of the same operation. More predictable access to blockspace would therefore be particularly useful for users carrying out complex transactions when network activity rises, in Curve’s view.
Cheaper execution could also make smaller arbitrage trades worth completing, according to the protocol’s team. It expects longer swap routes to become more economical, potentially improving the prices available through its pools and making positions easier to open or unwind.
The team described added capacity as welcome when Ethereum can provide it without making validation harder. Its comments stopped short of claiming that every user action would become cheaper, pointing instead to changes in the way the upgrade charges for state operations.
In Oct. 6 coverage of the 200 million gas test, earlier reporting described Sepolia preparations for a block gas limit up from roughly 60 million. The report explained that the test setting would not automatically become Ethereum mainnet’s limit.
According to Prysm’s Oct. 5 release notes, version 7.2.1 added the Sepolia schedule so validators would default to 200 million gas after the fork. The preceding version supported the upgrade but would retain the 60 million setting unless operators changed their configuration.
Liquidation benefits depend on timely transactions During sharp market moves, Curve said liquidators, oracle updates and borrowers compete for blockspace. Extra capacity could help their transactions get through, although the team cautioned that larger blocks would still face demand.
For Curve’s lending system, the expected benefit involves LLAMMA, its liquidation mechanism. According to the team, cheaper and faster arbitrage should help LLAMMA track market prices more closely as collateral passes through its liquidation range.
By reducing delays in that process, the protocol expects the upgrade could limit losses associated with prices moving before transactions complete. Curve also linked dependable liquidations to the stability of crvUSD.
The team placed particular weight on performance during volatility, when users need to act on positions rather than wait for network congestion to clear.
“What we think should be watched most closely is execution under real load.”
In Curve’s assessment, a higher gas ceiling would offer limited practical benefit if transactions continued to stall during busy periods. The team said the relevant measurements are how quickly transactions enter blocks and what users pay when competition for blockspace increases.
Gas repricing could require contract and wallet changes Alongside its expected execution benefits, Curve warned that Glamsterdam reprices state operations, meaning some actions would require more gas.
Ethereum developers raised related concerns in an Aug. 26 report on smart contract compatibility risks. According to the Ethereum Foundation warning covered there, most contracts were unaffected in transaction replays, while many flagged failures could be fixed by supplying higher gas limits.
The Foundation identified fixed gas allowances, hardcoded call limits and gas-sensitive contract logic among the risk factors. Its warning also extended to wallets, infrastructure providers and gas-estimation tools that rely on cached assumptions.
Under the proposed changes described in that report, EIP-8037 changes the cost of creating state, including accounts and contract storage, while EIP-8038 revises charges for accessing existing state. Developers were urged to test applications before mainnet activation.
On validation, Curve said Ethereum should preserve the ability to verify its ledger without asking permission. The team warned that scaling would compromise that principle if added capacity made independent verification impractical.
Public testing follows capacity checks and builder warnings In Sep. 18 coverage of Glamsterdam testnet builder risks, Ethereum developers warned that free test ether could allow malicious builders to win block auctions and withhold transaction payloads.
The developer discussion treated the scenario as a public-testnet availability concern rather than a way to steal mainnet ETH. According to the report, Devnet-11 had used 84,000 validators across multiple clients, but its controlled rehearsal excluded deliberate attacks.
For U.S. investors following Ether through listed funds, a Sep. 19 report on U.S. Ether ETF withdrawals recorded approximately $140.6 million in net outflows during Sep. 14–18, based on Farside data. Ether was the weakest of the four crypto ETF categories covered in that report.
According to the Oct. 6 upgrade coverage, the Ethereum Foundation had not set Hoodi or mainnet activation dates and said separate announcements would follow agreement among client teams.
Testnet Etherea Sepolia aktivoval upgrade Glamsterdam s limitem gasu téměř 200 milionů, tedy více než trojnásobkem limitu mainnetu. Mainnet zatím zůstává na 60 milionech.
In brief Ethereum's Sepolia testnet activated Glamsterdam on October 6 at epoch 353,024, with a block gas limit of nearly 200 million, more than three times mainnet's 60 million. Sepolia blocks 11,872,013 through 11,872,037 used between 47.1 million and 85.9 million gas, roughly 24% to 43% of the limit. The announcement sets no date for the Hoodi testnet and schedules no mainnet upgrade, so mainnet's limit stays at 60 million for now. Ethereum's Sepolia test network activated the Glamsterdam upgrade on October 6 and began producing blocks with a gas limit of nearly 200 million, more than three times the 60 million that Ethereum's main network allows. Gas is the unit that measures computing work on Ethereum, and the gas limit caps how much of that work fits into a single block.
The 200 million figure was scheduled in a commit tied to epoch 353,024, a 6.4-minute time marker in Ethereum's calendar that began at 13:53:36 UTC.
Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction.Blocks used only a fraction of that room. A snapshot of 25 consecutive blocks on Etherscan taken on October 8, numbers 11,872,013 through 11,872,037, shows gas use at roughly 24% to 43% of the limit.
A higher ceiling does not mean three times as many transactions, only that a block can hold more when demand shows up. For everyday users, that headroom is what helps keep fees from spiking when many people use Ethereum at once, because congestion feels like strangers outbidding each other to get into the next block.
Bigger blocks are harder on validators, the computers that put up ETH as collateral to check and confirm each block. Ethereum Foundation researchers had warned that limits above 40 million could "fail to propagate as expected" across the network, so the number has crept up in small steps.
One of those steps was a 52%-to-48% validator vote in February 2025 that moved the limit from 30 million to 32 million. The limit was later raised to 60 million during 2025, double the original 30 million, and the Fusaka upgrade, which went live on December 3, 2025, made that the default.
Two changes on Ethereum's roadmap are meant to help the network handle more load. Block-level access lists record which accounts and data each block touches, so computers can check many transactions at once instead of one by one. Enshrined proposer-builder separation moves the auction that decides who assembles each block, today run through outside middleware, into Ethereum's own rules.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sketched the longer arc in July, when he described a plan to replace almost every major piece of the protocol over three to four years. Glamsterdam is the nearer-term step, and Ethereum developers describe a possible gas-limit increase toward roughly 200 million after it.
Sepolia is a testnet, a practice network whose tokens carry no real value, so developers can break things without costing anyone money. It also staged the Merge rehearsal on July 6, 2022, when it switched to proof of stake ahead of the main network.
The announcement sets no date for Hoodi, another public testnet, and schedules no mainnet upgrade, so Ethereum's main network keeps its 60 million gas limit for now.
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Ethereum Institutional po rebrandingu spustil vyhledávatelný portál pro institucionální nasazení na mainnetu Etherea a sítích Layer 2 s filtry podle odvětví, sítě a typu aktiv.
Ethereum Institutional, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting enterprise adoption of Ethereum, has revealed a major rebrand and an overhauled website just three months after its initial launch. Announced via the group’s official X account, the update introduces a refreshed wordmark, updated visual identity, and a redesigned portal aimed at making institutional Ethereum activity more accessible.
New portal streamlines institutional discoveryAt the core of these changes is a searchable database featuring institutional deployments across both Ethereum’s mainnet and prominent Layer-2 networks. The portal allows users to filter by industry, chain, and asset type, supporting a wide range of use cases such as stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, and on-chain settlement.
A distinct brand identity has also been created for the Ethereum Institutional Forum. Previously, this forum convened over 150 executives collectively representing approximately $250 trillion in assets under management. The rebrand is intended to move Ethereum’s narrative for enterprises from compelling stories to clear, discoverable solutions.
Background: Foundation and organizational structureEthereum Institutional emerged from the Ethereum Foundation’s Enterprise Acceleration initiative, which was launched in October 2025. This initiative positioned Ethereum as a neutral and secure platform for tokenizing financial value, tracking 75% of tokenized real-world assets, 65% of DeFi total value locked (TVL), and 60% of stablecoin issuance through more than 1.1 million validators.
By July 2026, Ethereum Institutional spun out as an independent nonprofit managed by former Foundation executives David Walsh, Marius Smith, and Matthew Dawson. The group maintains relationships with over 500 key industry players, including leading banks, asset managers, and custodians. Its funding is supported by companies such as BitMine Immersion Technologies and SharpLink, alongside Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin.
A recent reorganization, referenced by the Ethereum Foundation, has kept core protocol development under the Foundation while designating organizations like Ethlabs to lead research and Ethereum Institutional to drive go-to-market activities, including intelligence gathering, industry outreach, and events management.
Mini dictionary: Layer-2 networks (L2s) are blockchain protocols that operate on top of a main network like Ethereum, improving scalability and transaction throughput while reducing costs. Projects such as Arbitrum, Optimism, and zkSync are among the most recognized L2s in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Growth signals from the institutional sectorInstitutions have recently shown increased interest in Ethereum. BlackRock’s BUIDL fund now manages over $1.15 billion in assets, with the majority based on Ethereum. Visa reported processing more than $1 billion in annual stablecoin settlements on the Ethereum network.
MetricValuePlatform/SourceTVL on Base$15.5 billionCoinbase BaseTotal L2 TVL$50 billion+L2BeatEthereum’s share of DeFi TVL65%DefiLlamaStablecoins on Ethereum$180 billionDefiLlamaThis liquidity is highly relevant for assets redeemable in US dollars, an advantage Ethereum maintains as competitors like Solana build out enterprise-facing business development teams. Ethereum Institutional notes that the platform’s neutrality attracts long-term infrastructure builders but may complicate enterprise engagement due to the absence of a clear counterpart.
Tackling industry needs and complianceEthereum Institutional is addressing institutional requirements through support for zero-knowledge proofs, fully homomorphic encryption, and advanced scaling technologies like Aztec and RAILGUN. The organization states that the Forum and deployment tracker address key challenges: enabling greater discovery of enterprise use cases and facilitating peer-to-peer dialogue outside traditional developer settings.
Deployment tracking and the Ethereum Institutional Forum help enterprises discover which peers have advanced beyond pilot phases, while providing a neutral platform for industry connection and credibility.
The nonprofit plans to expand its Institutional Intelligence program, focusing on standardizing issuance, settlement, and compliance processes. The tracker will incorporate live on-chain attestations and references to regulatory filings, offering additional resources for risk and legal teams. For Layer-2 teams, custodians, and exchanges, this presents opportunities to engage on evolving standards such as ERC-1400 and ERC-3643.
Ethereum Institutional positions itself as a facilitator of enterprise adoption, aiming to simplify discovery and integration of Ethereum-based solutions for the financial sector.
Cardano Foundation vyčlenila společnost Veridian a tokenizovala její akcie na blockchainu Cardano v souladu s CIP-0113 jako účetně vedené cenné papíry podle švýcarského zákona DLT.
On 8 October 2026, the Cardano Foundation announced the commercial spinout of Veridian and said the company’s shares had been tokenized on Cardano under CIP-0113. The shares are ledger-based securities under Switzerland’s DLT Act. The Foundation described them as the first asset of this kind deployed on Cardano.
Veridian is a digital identity company led by chief executive Thomas A. Mayfield. It was developed inside the Cardano Foundation for three years before the spinout. The company issues credentials for people, organizations and software agents. Those credentials can be verified or revoked without relying on a central identity database.
The equity deployment gives CIP-0113 a concrete securities use case. The proposal defines programmable tokens as assets that require a script to execute successfully before ownership can change. It remains in proposed status after an update on 29 September 2026.
Ordinary Cardano native tokens can move between addresses without transfer restrictions after minting. The CIP identifies that behavior as a barrier for tokenized securities because issuers may need allowlists, denylists, customer checks or other compliance rules. CIP-0113 adds those controls with existing Cardano primitives rather than a hard fork. From the ledger’s perspective, the assets remain normal Cardano native tokens.
The standard separates shared infrastructure from the rules for each asset. Its first layer is an on-chain registry. Each registered token gets a node with the token policy and the hashes of its configuration scripts. The registry orders those nodes by policy and checks that a new token is configured correctly before accepting it. The proposal also provides deterministic smart-wallet addresses for immediate wallet support.
A second layer supplies common validation infrastructure. Programmable tokens sit at addresses controlled by a base script, while a user’s stake credential identifies ownership. When a holder transfers one of these assets, the base script reads the live protocol configuration and delegates the transaction to the relevant validator. Every transaction spending programmable tokens must include a reference input containing the protocol parameters NFT.
The issuer supplies the third layer. A transfer script decides whether a holder-initiated transfer is allowed. A separate third-party script can define actions taken without the holder’s permission, including seizure or forced transfers. An issuance script sets who can mint or burn the asset and under what conditions. The configuration can also include global state for information such as whether transfers are paused or the token is frozen.
Registration binds those rules to the asset policy. The registry checks that the declared minting credential matches the credential stored in the node, reconstructs the expected issuance policy, and requires the token’s minting logic to run in the registration transaction. Registration may occur before the first mint, a sequence the proposal says is expected for real-world assets and supply-aware designs.
An issuer starts by writing the asset’s transfer and issuance scripts. A third-party action script is optional. The issuer then deploys an issuance policy and adds a node to the registry with the hashes of the relevant scripts. The registry rejects a duplicate policy or an incorrectly constructed issuance policy. Tokens minted during or after registration must go to the common programmable-token script.
Each later transfer carries proof of whether the token policy is registered. If it is registered, the transfer must execute the script recorded for that policy in the same transaction. If the policy is absent, the validator treats the asset as a normal, non-programmable Cardano native token. This proof step is how the shared address distinguishes restricted assets from ordinary tokens.
Holders cannot assume that ownership permits an unrestricted transfer. Each transfer must satisfy the issuer’s transfer script. A permitted third party may also act without holder consent if the asset’s configuration allows it. Wallets and applications need to derive the user’s smart-wallet address, supply registry proofs, and include the validator calls required by the standard.
For issuers, the design puts compliance behavior in token-specific scripts while sharing the registry and validation infrastructure across assets. The standard allows rules for transfers, issuance, seizure and pausing without changing Cardano’s base ledger. It also means the exact rights attached to any programmable asset depend on its registered scripts, not only on the token appearing in a wallet.
What Veridian is taking to market The tokenized equity sits alongside Veridian’s identity product. The company uses KERI and ACDC identity standards, and chief technology officer Fergal O’Connor maintains their core libraries. Veridian Wallet is live on iOS and Android. The company says it has mapped all 142 requirements in Utah’s State-Endorsed Digital Identity implementation guide.
Veridian is already used by Masumi, an AI agent payment and identity network on Cardano. Masumi uses Veridian credentials so a counterparty can check an agent’s identity before payment and revoke that identity if the agent is compromised. This connects the company’s identity product with payment authorization, while the tokenized shares demonstrate the programmable-asset standard on the same network.
The spinout also changes Veridian’s corporate structure. Cardano Foundation chief executive Frederik Gregaard is chair of Veridian. Gregaard and the Foundation’s chief legal officer, Nicolas Jacquemart, joined the board. Mayfield said independence would let the company sell to governments and enterprises after development inside the Foundation.
Veridian plans to seek strategic partners and investors in 2027. It intends to expand work with US state governments, its European enterprise business, its issuer network in Asia-Pacific and identity tools for AI agents. The next technical question is whether CIP-0113 moves beyond proposed status with the deployed Veridian equity as its first announced securities implementation.
Charles Hoskinson odmítl varování Vitalika Buterina, že AI může narušit mřížkovou kryptografii, jako panikaření; podle něj ji přední výzkumníci testují již 40 let.
Cardano (ADA) Ecosystem Update: Charles Hoskinson on the Future of Blockchain GovernanceVitalik Buterin wants crypto to prepare for a threat that does not exist yet. Charles Hoskinson says that preparation could do more harm than the threat itself.
On October 8, the Ethereum co-founder warned that AI-accelerated mathematics could break lattice-based cryptography, the backbone of the new post-quantum security standards. Within hours, the Cardano founder called the warning “panic” and accused Buterin of “bag-holding too much hash-based crypto research.”
Buterin began calmly, saying no one should “scramble to move their funds to new wallets today.” But he argued that AI could soon find hidden weaknesses in lattices that humans have missed for decades. He pointed to RSA encryption as a precedent. It once looked very hard to crack, until years of research produced a far faster attack. “What if there are skeletons in the closet like that?” he asked, ones “we are simply not smart enough to discover, but bots soon will be.”
That concern, he said, is why Ethereum’s lean roadmap has moved to hash-only signatures. His advice is to prefer hash-based tools and, for long-term safety, to multiply lattice key sizes by 10.
The Rebuttal
Hoskinson rejected the argument point by point:
Tested for decades: Lattices have faced 40 years of attacks from the field’s best researchers, and today’s standards are already sized to withstand them.Hashes are not immune: MD5 and SHA-1 were both broken. Ethereum’s own Poseidon hash is so mathematically structured that the Ethereum Foundation funded a bounty to attack it.The 10x rule is “numerology”: A 20% better attack would need about 25% larger keys, not ten times larger.“‘Structure’ names nothing,” he wrote.
The Real Stakes
Hoskinson’s biggest worry lies outside crypto. Browsers and messaging apps already use lattice-based ML-KEM to protect against hackers who steal encrypted data now to decrypt later. Casting doubt on it, he argued, could keep internet traffic on older encryption for longer, the very risk Buterin wants to avoid.
He also dismissed Buterin’s idea of sending encrypted notes off-chain through a third party. That only adds a middleman who can see users’ metadata, he said.
He questioned Buterin’s record too, saying past posts led engineers away from ideas such as Plasma and Casper, only for the industry to return to them years later.
Neither founder pointed to an actual AI-found attack. For now, the question is whether crypto should guard against a break that might come, or trust defences that have held for four decades.
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Senátor Richard Blumenthal žádá Cantor Fitzgerald o informace o jeho vztahu s Tetherem, včetně opatření proti praní špinavých peněz a obcházení sankcí. Cantor spravuje americké rezervy kryjící USDT.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks to Bo Hines, a former White House adviser who is CEO of Tether U.S. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)Summary
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal is continuing to dig into Tether’s financial relationships, sending the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald a letter requesting information on the relationship between the financial firm and the stablecoin issuer. The CEO letter recipient is Brandon Lutnick, the son of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who transferred that leadership post at the company when he left to join President Donald Trump’s administration. Cantor holds and manages Tether’s reserves in the U.S., and the two companies share a number of other business interests. The top Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Richard Blumenthal, is demanding answers about the ties between Cantor Fitzgerald and the worldwide leader in stablecoins, Tether. If Democratic momentum continues into the November election, he and his colleagues may soon have more authority behind such probes.
Blumenthal sent a letter Thursday to Cantor's CEO, Brandon Lutnick, the son of President Donald Trump's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who handed the company reins to his son when he joined the administration. Blumenthal has been scrutinizing Tether's role in Iran's financial system, and he flagged the lucrative business connection between the issuer of USDT and the firm that handles its U.S. reserves, Cantor.
"Just as Tether has made untold millions in interest and investments from the stablecoins used in these illicit activities, so has Cantor Fitzgerald profited from its relationship with Tether," Blumenthal wrote, questioning Lutnick about his company's banking and sanctions safeguards and also his father’s history with Tether there.
"While Tether claims to operate out of El Salvador, the vast majority of its assets reside in the United States under your custodianship," the Connecticut lawmaker wrote. "As Congress considers how to best regulate digital assets, your partnership with Tether will provide important insights into the inner workings of this industry."
One of the letter's many requests: "Please describe all steps Cantor Fitzgerald has taken to investigate allegations that Tether’s stablecoin has been used in illicit finance and money laundering, including within Iran’s shadow banking network and for purposes of Russia sanctions evasion."
Neither Cantor Fitzgerald nor Tether immediately responded to requests for comment sent to their spokespeople.
While Blumenthal and other aggressive congressional critics of the crypto industry, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren, have suffered from a limited authority as members of the minority party, securing a Democratic majority for next year would change that. If they win several more seats in that chamber, they could find themselves atop committees with subpoena power to legally compel information and testimony.
As it stands, the prediction markets suggest that Democrats have a better-then-even shot at returning to the majority. Kalshi has it at 61% and Polymarket at 64%. That number was closer to 50-50 several weeks ago. And the picture in the U.S. House of Representatives is even more positive for Democrats, with both platforms showing the likelihood of a majority shift at more than 90%.
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The Definitive Stablecoin Landscape Series: Asia Pacific
As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.
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As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.
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As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.
Polygon Labs integroval síť TRON do Open Money Stack, čímž firmám umožnil prostřednictvím jediného připojení převádět prostředky mezi bankovními účty a USDT na síti TRON.
Polygon Labs has expanded its Open Money Stack by integrating TRON, enabling fintech firms, remittance platforms, and payment companies to move funds between traditional bank accounts and TRON-based USDT through a single connection.
Access to TRON’s USDT networkThe addition grants direct access to over $94 billion in USDT circulating on the TRON blockchain, Polygon Labs stated. TRON has processed more than $30 trillion in cumulative transfer volume, establishing its status as one of the top settlement networks for stablecoins pegged to the US dollar.
By including TRON, Open Money Stack now taps into a key venue for international stablecoin transactions. The platform’s design aims to handle the substantial volumes already present on the TRON network and facilitates stablecoin settlements in a way that mirrors established payment flows in the digital asset sector.
Mini dictionary: Open Money Stack, a payment infrastructure suite developed by Polygon Labs, is designed to streamline the process of moving assets between traditional banking systems and blockchain networks, allowing businesses to manage fiat, crypto, and stablecoins using a unified interface.
NetworkUSDT Circulating SupplyCumulative Transfer VolumeTRON$94 billion$30 trillionStreamlined payments and new integrationsPolygon’s Open Money Stack brings together several payment infrastructure tools that companies would otherwise need to integrate individually. With the new feature, businesses can accept deposits via bank transfer, cards, cash, or crypto, convert fiat money into TRC-20 USDT, store funds in embedded wallets, transfer assets across compatible blockchains, and return payments to users through conventional financial channels.
This consolidated structure simplifies operations for payment companies and fintechs, as it allows them to bypass complex arrangements involving separate wallets, bridges, banking relationships, and blockchain integrations. The system is designed to make large-scale digital payments and stablecoin settlements more practical and efficient for mainstream use.
Companies can now accept fiat deposits, convert them to TRC-20 USDT, and pay users back through both blockchain networks and standard financial rails, all within a single workflow.
Growing competition in settlement networksTRON has emerged as a preferred choice for international money transfers, remittances, and payments, beyond its core role in crypto trading. The network’s low transaction costs and robust exchange support have made it attractive for sending dollar-pegged stablecoins across borders. Its dominance indicates a broader shift in the stablecoin ecosystem as digital and traditional solutions compete for round-the-clock settlement infrastructure.
Polygon Labs continues to position its Open Money Stack as a hub for businesses looking to operate at the intersection of banking and blockchain, aiming to bring comprehensive, cross-network financial tools to payment providers.
This strategy reflects the changing landscape, where both bank-issued stablecoins and crypto-native tokens are working to become the backbone of 24/7 payment systems.
Bitcoin během necelých 30 minut klesl o zhruba 2 000 USD na méně než 84 000 USD, což za 24 hodin vyvolalo likvidace v objemu přes 550 milionů USD, převážně long pozic.
Bitcoin, haftaya 87.000 dolar seviyesinde yeniden durdurularak başladı. Fiyat bir süre 85.600 doların üzerinde tutundu ancak ardından 30 dakikadan kısa sürede yaklaşık 2.000 dolar geriledi. Sert hareket, kripto piyasasında tasfiyeleri de hızla artırdı.
Son 24 saatte tasfiye edilen pozisyonların toplam değeri 550 milyon doları aştı. Bunun yaklaşık 430 milyon doları yalnızca son dört saat içinde gerçekleşti ve tasfiyelerin neredeyse tamamını long pozisyonlar oluşturdu.
Peki satışın arkasında ne vardı? Piyasada özellikle iki ihtimal öne çıktı.
Bitcoin, 87.000 doları yeniden aşamayınca 85.600 doların üzerinde bir süre yatay kaldı. Ardından satış baskısı hızlandı ve fiyat yarım saatten kısa sürede yaklaşık 2.000 dolar geriledi.
Bu hareket kaldıraçlı işlemlerde zincirleme tasfiyeleri tetikledi. CoinGlass verilerine göre son 24 saatte 100.000’den fazla traderın pozisyonu kapandı.
En büyük tekil tasfiye işlemi Binance’te gerçekleşti. 26 milyon dolar değerindeki işlem ETH/USDC paritesinde açılan bir pozisyona aitti.
Bitcoin’deki düşüş altcoinlere de yayıldı. Ethereum yaklaşık %4 değer kaybederek 2.600 doların altına indi. XRP, HYPE, DOGE ve ADA ise son 24 saatte %6’ya varan kayıplar yaşadı.
ABD Hükümeti Bitcoin Satmış Olabilir mi? Düşüşün ardından dikkatler ABD hükümetinin cüzdan hareketlerine çevrildi. Lookonchain, ABD hükümetinin elindeki kripto varlıkların bir bölümünü taşıdığını bildirdi.
Verilere göre toplam 834 BTC, yaklaşık 71,56 milyon dolar değerle Coinbase Prime’a gönderildi. Bunun yanında 40.285 BNB de transfer edildi.
Coinbase Prime’a yapılan BTC transferi, piyasada satış ihtimalini gündeme getirdi. Ancak bu hareket tek başına ABD hükümetinin Bitcoin sattığını kanıtlamıyor.
Dolayısıyla söz konusu transferi doğrudan Bitcoin’deki düşüşün nedeni olarak göstermek için yeterli veri bulunmuyor. Kaynak da bu gelişmeyi yalnızca olası nedenlerden biri olarak ele alıyor.
Bitcoin has dropped below $84,000.
Just before the market dropped, 4 newly created wallets deposited 1M $USDC into #Hyperliquid and opened 40x shorts on 148.49 $BTC ($12.5M).
Düşüşten Önce 40x Short Açan Cüzdanlar Kim? Daha dikkat çekici ikinci gelişme ise yeni oluşturulan dört cüzdanla ilgili.
Lookonchain’in güncellemesine göre dört yeni cüzdan, düşüşten yalnızca birkaç dakika önce Hyperliquid’e toplam 1 milyon USDC yatırdı. Ardından yaklaşık 150 BTC, yani 12,5 milyon dolar değerindeki pozisyon üzerinde 40x short açtılar.
İşlemlerin zamanlaması dikkat çekiyor. Cüzdanların pozisyon açmasının hemen ardından Bitcoin sert biçimde geriledi.
Ancak bu veriler, söz konusu cüzdanların düşüşü önceden bildiğini ya da hareketin arkasında olduğunu kanıtlamıyor. Yalnızca açılan short pozisyonların zamanlamasını gösteriyor.
Bitcoin’de Tasfiye Baskısı Nereye Kadar Sürebilir? Bitcoin’deki yaklaşık 2.000 dolarlık düşüş, yüksek kaldıraç kullanımının piyasadaki etkisini bir kez daha gösterdi. Son dört saatteki 430 milyon dolarlık tasfiye, özellikle long pozisyonların ne kadar hızlı sıkışabileceğini ortaya koydu.
Ethereum tarafındaki yaklaşık %4’lük düşüş de tasfiyeleri büyüten unsurlardan biri oldu. Altcoinlerdeki kayıpların Bitcoin’den daha sert gerçekleşmesi, satış dalgasının yalnızca BTC ile sınırlı kalmadığını gösterdi.
Bu noktada piyasada iki ayrı ihtimal konuşuluyor: ABD hükümetine ait varlıkların Coinbase Prime’a taşınması ve düşüşten hemen önce açılan yüksek kaldıraçlı short pozisyonlar. Ancak mevcut veriler, bu gelişmelerden herhangi birinin tek başına satışın kesin nedeni olduğunu göstermiyor.
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BNB Chain se jako první blockchain dostala nad 1 miliardu USD v tokenizovaných akciích a ETF a získala 34% podíl na trhu, před Ethereem (22 %) a Solanou (20 %).
Wall Street spent decades building exchanges with opening bells and closing hours. A growing share of tokenized stock trading now happens on a blockchain that never sleeps, and that blockchain is BNB Chain.
As of October 8, 2026, BNB Chain counted 187,112 addresses holding at least $10 in tokenized equities. That base accounts for approximately 41% of the total tracked market value in the category, the largest share of any network.
The numbers behind the lead By late September, the network had scaled to $1 billion in tokenized stocks. That figure translated to a 34% market share in a sector whose total capitalization had climbed past $3 billion.
BNB Chain became the first blockchain to cross $1 billion in tokenized stocks and ETFs, ahead of Ethereum at 22% and Solana at 20%.
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Holder counts tell a similar story. BNB Chain leads with around 1.8 million addresses, equal to a 45% share of tokenized equity holders. That is a broader count than the 187,112 addresses carrying at least $10, which filters out dust balances and inactive wallets.
The chain recorded more than $100 billion in on-chain transfer volume during the third quarter of 2026 alone.
How the sector got here The broader market has been on a tear. Tokenized equities were valued at approximately $700 million in January 2026. By September, the category had pushed beyond $3 billion, a more than fourfold jump in roughly nine months.
Product launches did much of the heavy lifting. Binance rolled out its bStocks initiative in June 2026, and the offering went on to gather hundreds of millions in assets under management. Ondo Global Markets also contributed products that made it easier to access and trade tokenized equities on BNB Chain.
Tokenized equities allow 24/7 trading, fractional ownership and integration with DeFi protocols. Most tokenized equities are backed by underlying shares held in regulated custody.
What this means for the tokenized stock race BNB Chain did not win this niche by being the only chain capable of hosting stock tokens. What BNB Chain had was a direct pipeline to Binance’s user base, plus low transaction fees that make frequent, small trades practical.
BNB Chain still trails Ethereum in the broader real-world asset market, which spans categories beyond equities.
Three things are worth tracking from here. First, whether bStocks and Ondo Global Markets keep adding assets under management at their recent pace. Second, whether Ethereum or Solana respond with issuer partnerships aimed at retail stock buyers. Third, whether the sector’s total capitalization keeps compounding from its current level above $3 billion.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Vivian Nguyen. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
BNB has dropped approximately 5% from its recent highs, in line with continued weakness across the crypto market as Bitcoin heads toward $81,000. This broader market decline has kept altcoins, including BNB, under selling pressure.
Upcoming BNB Chain token burn draws focusThe pullback comes at a time when market participants are closely watching BNB Chain’s next quarterly token burn. The 37th scheduled burn is expected to take place this quarter, following the 36th event, which was completed on July 15. However, BNB Chain has not provided an official date for the upcoming burn.
BNB Chain is a leading blockchain ecosystem that supports a wide range of decentralized applications and hosts BNB, a top cryptocurrency.
The quarterly burn permanently removes BNB tokens from circulation and is a key part of BNB Chain’s long-term supply reduction strategy.
The previous burn removed 1.616 million BNB, valued at about $932 million at the time, and reduced total supply to roughly 133.17 million tokens.
Mini dictionary: Token burn, a mechanism that permanently removes a set number of tokens from circulation, reducing total supply and aiming to create scarcity.
Price action and technical levelsBNB’s recent decline accelerated after repeated attempts to break through resistance in the $790–$807 zone were unsuccessful. The failure to claim higher levels prompted a move back into the mid-$700s.
Technical analysts have identified the next support level near $750, with additional support around $720 if the selling continues. For any recovery, BNB would first need to reclaim ground near the upper-$700s before a renewed attempt at $800 becomes likely.
LevelSupport/Resistance$720Support$750Support$790–$807Resistance$800ResistanceSupply reduction and market impactBNB’s token burn program uses the coin’s price and the number of blocks produced by BNB Smart Chain to calculate how much supply is removed each quarter. The process will continue until the circulating supply falls to 100 million BNB.
While the burn mechanism can gradually support the token’s long-term supply-and-demand dynamics, current and expected burns are predictable and may already be partly priced in. As a result, the events do not always produce immediate surges in BNB’s value.
Quarterly burns do not guarantee instant upward moves for BNB, with their true effect unfolding over a longer timeframe as available supply is reduced.
After BNB recently climbed above $770, some traders anticipated a push toward the $800–$850 range. The latest pullback has dampened that momentum, with the market now watching for signs of stabilization before any potential recovery.
Společnost DICK's Sporting Goods snížila výhled tržeb na rok 2026 po nižších tržbách Foot Locker ve výši 1,73 mld. USD; akcie 25. srpna 2026 klesly o 30,68 %.
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DICK's Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE: DKS) shareholders since November 12, 2024 should email [email protected] or see www.fmoorelaw.com The allegations involve the Company's acquisition of Foot Locker, touting the acquisition as a strategic opportunity to drive growth and profitability while assuring investors that Foot Locker's longstanding inventory and promotional challenges had been resolved. However those problems may have persisted, as Foot Locker remained heavily dependent on legacy footwear products that were exposed to intensifying promotional pressures across the athletic footwear industry.
The truth was allegedly revealed to investors before markets opened on August 25, 2026, when Dick's Sporting Goods reported disappointing second-quarter 2026 results, which included revenue of $1.73 billion from Foot Locker that fell well short of analysts' estimates of $1.81 billion. Dick's Sporting Goods also reduced its net sales guidance for full-year 2026 and disclosed that it expected Foot Locker's proforma comparable sales to yield a range of negative 2.0% to 0.0% for the year—down from Dick's prior forecast of 1.5% to 3% growth.
On this news, the price of Dick's Sporting Goods stock fell $55.02 per share, or 30.68%, to close at $124.31 per share on August 25, 2026.
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Chainlink spustil adaptéry CCIP Vault, které umožňují vklady do podporovaných trezorů z více než 80 blockchainů. Mezi první uživatele patří Aave, Lombard, United Stables, Veda a Venus.
Chainlink (LINK) declined 3.02% over the last 24 hours to $12.97, as increased market volatility and the launch of new cross-chain technology shaped trading activity. The move pushed LINK close to a key support level at $12.80, with technical indicators pointing to continued selling pressure.
Market volatility affects digital assetsBroader financial markets showed risk aversion amid concerns about geopolitical events. Rising Brent crude prices above $100, higher US Treasury yields, and a strengthening dollar provided a challenging environment for digital assets. Data from CoinGlass indicated approximately $550 million in leveraged cryptocurrency positions were liquidated within a single day. Large-cap cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana registered declines in parallel.
On-chain analytics revealed substantial whale activity for Chainlink, with 681 transactions valued at $100,000 or more marking a new peak for 2026. Despite this notable activity, transaction data did not clarify if these large holders were accumulating or reducing positions in LINK.
Technical signals from TradingView showed continued selling pressure on Chainlink, with Chaikin Money Flow at -0.14 and a negative MACD reading below its signal line. As a result, LINK approached the $12.80 support, while immediate resistance stood at $14.00 and the next level at $15.00.
Chainlink ETFs recorded zero net flows on October 7, and trading volume reached $4.85 million the same day. Combined ETF assets stood at $226.29 million, with cumulative net inflows at $168.96 million. These metrics indicated subdued demand from ETF channels despite volatile price movements.
MetricValueLINK Price (Oct. 8)$12.97Key Support$12.80Immediate Resistance$14.00ETF Assets$226.29 millionCumulative ETF Net Inflows$168.96 millionWhale Transactions (>$100,000)681CCIP Vault Adapters expand Chainlink’s cross-chain reachThe company recently introduced CCIP Vault Adapters, designed to let users deposit funds into supported vaults from over 80 different blockchains. This infrastructure upgrade means users can access vault products without being limited to a single network, while vault strategy and accounting can remain on their primary chain. Early adopters of the adapters include Aave, Lombard, United Stables, Veda, and Venus, aiming to ease fragmented liquidity across multiple blockchains.
Mini dictionary: CCIP Vault Adapters, a Chainlink feature, enable users to make cross-chain deposits into supported vaults on decentralized applications, helping reduce fragmentation and ease liquidity management.
CCIP 2.0, unveiled on September 28, provides an option for institutions to introduce their own verifiers into Chainlink’s network of 16 independent node operators. Organizations can tailor confirmation speeds and integrate KYC, anti-money laundering, and sanctions compliance. Thus far, only Lombard has been named as a verifier adopter. No traditional banks have been reported as users of the new upgrade, though Chainlink claims the system facilitates cross-chain transactions exceeding $84 billion in value. Collaborations with industry names such as Swift, DTCC, UBS, and ANZ remain limited to pilot programs and experiments, with no disclosed figures on deposits or usage volumes for the adapters.
Chainlink described the new adapters as “one-click cross-chain deposit infrastructure for vault providers,” highlighting their early adoption among lending protocols and decentralized finance platforms.
Security, payment abstraction, and market outlookThe upgrade arrived after a significant bridge exploit involving Kelp DAO and the LayerZero protocol in April, which exposed vulnerabilities in cross-chain verification. In response, CCIP 2.0 now assigns responsibility for security to institutions that may add optional verifiers, while the separate Risk Management Network is no longer used to double-check transactions. Those opting out rely on Chainlink’s primary verifier network.
Another update, called Payment Abstraction, allows customers to pay for services in tokens, stablecoins, or fiat, all of which are automatically converted to LINK before entering the project’s reserve. The impact of increased usage on LINK’s price will depend on transaction volume, accrued fees, and reserve management policy.
Despite the technological advancements, Chainlink traded 5.8% below its September 28 value after the launch of CCIP 2.0, and it remained 75.5% below its all-time high from May 2021. Market analysts noted that macroeconomic trends outweighed new adoption signals, leaving a cautious outlook for LINK’s short-term price action.
Arc spustil Earn Kit SDK, který aplikacím umožňuje vkládat USDC a EURC do spravovaných Morpho Vaults za účelem úročení. Vklady při spuštění přesáhly 150 milionů USD.
Arc, the layer-1 blockchain developed by Circle, has rolled out its Earn Kit SDK. The kit lets developers connect USDC sitting in Arc apps directly to curated Morpho Vaults so users can earn interest.
What the Earn Kit actually does The Earn Kit SDK is part of Arc’s broader App Kits suite. Its job is narrow and practical: embed USDC and EURC earning features inside applications without forcing builders to become DeFi engineers.
Developers skip several chores that normally come with offering yield. There is no need for custom DeFi protocol integrations, no vault contracts to write and no markets to bootstrap from scratch.
Instead, the SDK takes care of the plumbing. It handles vault discovery, deposits, position tracking and withdrawals on the developer’s behalf.
For builders, the interface is a set of TypeScript methods. Functions such as exploreVaults and deposit stand in for the smart contract code that would otherwise be required.
The setup is non-custodial. Users keep control of their funds through their own wallets, and their USDC sits in vault contracts rather than with the app or Arc.
Early numbers and partners Day-one deposits topped $150 million across USDC and EURC vaults.
Two integrations are already on the board. Pulsar Money Earn and SafePal have both connected to the framework.
On the vault side, curators include Steakhouse Financial and Galaxy. Curators decide how deposited funds are allocated across lending markets, so the quality of curation largely shapes what depositors are actually exposed to.
At launch, the supported opportunities involve lending backed by ETH and BTC collateral. In plain terms, depositors’ stablecoins are lent to borrowers who post Ethereum or Bitcoin as security.
The kit also supports cross-chain deposits facilitated by CCTP, along with gas sponsorship. That means users may not need to hold a separate token just to pay transaction fees.
The SDK went live on testnet shortly after it was announced on approximately September 16, 2026. Full mainnet deployment is expected by late September 2026.
Why Morpho sits at the center Morpho was established as Arc’s primary credit layer on around September 16, 2026. The Earn Kit is essentially the developer-friendly front door to that credit infrastructure.
Morpho’s role on Arc goes beyond passive yield. It provides variable-rate lending and borrowing, which gives the network a native place for stablecoin capital to find borrowers.
Arc’s App Kits are built around a cluster of stablecoin functions: funding, earning and borrowing. The Earn Kit fills in the earning piece of that puzzle.
What this means for builders and users There are risks worth keeping in view. Yield from lending is only as sound as the collateral and the curation behind it, and launch-stage opportunities are concentrated in ETH- and BTC-backed loans.
A sharp drop in either asset would test the liquidation mechanics of these vaults. The non-custodial design protects users from an app misusing funds, but it does not shield them from market risk inside the vault itself.
The things to watch are fairly concrete. First, whether mainnet arrives on the expected late-September timeline. Second, whether more apps follow Pulsar Money Earn and SafePal in plugging in.
Third, whether deposits keep climbing beyond the $150 million opening mark across USDC and EURC vaults. Finally, if Arc expands beyond ETH and BTC backing, the risk profile of these vaults will shift, and developers will need to decide which opportunities they are comfortable putting in front of their users.
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@Tether has quietly become one of the most profitable financial enterprises on the planet, and the numbers are hard to ignore. The issuer of the world's largest stablecoin has generated $19.93 billion in lifetime revenue from yield on the assets backing its $184 billion $USDT stablecoin, a figure that puts it in rare company across both crypto and traditional finance.
A Revenue Machine Built on Reserves Tether's business model is straightforward but extraordinarily lucrative. Rather than charging transaction fees, it earns yield by investing the dollars deposited to mint $USDT into short-term assets, primarily U.S. Treasuries.
How Circle Compares @Circle's $USDC has generated $7.57 billion in lifetime revenue, a figure that is impressive in its own right but illustrates how large the gap between the two issuers has grown. The structural reasons are clear: $USDT's supply is more than double that of $USDC, giving Tether a significant head start on reserve income.
Circle also faces a cost structure that limits how much of that revenue it retains.
Growth is accelerating, but the scale difference with Tether remains stark.
The stablecoin sector is maturing fast, and the revenue figures from both @Tether and @Circle underline just how much value flows through dollar-pegged tokens. For now, $USDT's commanding market lead means its earnings power is in a league of its own.
Sources:
The Block: Tether reports $13 billion in net profits for 2024
Yahoo Finance: Tether Projects $15 Billion Profit in 2025
Payment Expert: How Circle makes money from USDC
