October 21, 2026 @ 10:15 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Southeast Asia’s digital economy is projected to reach $368 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) in 2026, growing 17% year-on-year despite macroeconomic pressures, as artificial intelligence (AI) adoption reshapes consumer behaviour and investment across the region, according to a report by Google, Temasek and Bain… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgian hardware wallet company Ngrave disclosed that attackers compromised a third-party service responsible for delivering push notifications in its LIQUID companion app. The breach allowed the criminals to send authentic-looking security alerts to customers on October 17, 2026. The messages claimed that a user’s portfolio… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Andrew Cuomo, co-chair of OKXICE and former New York governor, stated that objections from major U.S. companies to the joint venture’s planned tokenized stock trading platform constitute an expected reaction to a new market structure. The comments came after an updated public notice dated October… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum and Solana both set new highs for staking participation during the third quarter of 2026, even as the returns available to stakers declined, according to Bitwise’s latest quarterly staking analysis. Growing amounts of capital locked into securing the networks diluted individual rewards, while the… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has posted its final rules for stablecoin regulation under the GENIUS Act, which became law in 2025. The OCC falls under the domain of the US Department of the Treasury, which has been working closely on… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Evidence continues to mount on both sides of the Atlantic that banks are limiting services available to cryptocurrency users. A newly released report from Stand With Crypto UK, titled Blocked: Britain’s Crypto Access Problem, details the scale of difficulties faced by customers in the United… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) reported strong third-quarter 2026 results that underscore its rapid transformation from a pure-play launch provider into a diversified technology company dominated by artificial intelligence. The company generated $14.6 billion in revenue, a 161 percent increase from the year-earlier period, while swinging from… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Utah Attorney General Derek Brown filed a civil lawsuit on October 20, 2026, against prediction-market operator Kalshi and affiliated entities, seeking to halt their activities in the state and recover estimated tens of millions in profits tied to Utah users. The action, lodged as a… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a statement that underscores a shift in Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) strategic priorities, Elon Musk has emphasized that the company’s humanoid robot Optimus and its purpose-built autonomous Cybercab vehicle are expected to account for the vast majority of Tesla’s future enterprise value. The remarks, made… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) public comment window closed on October 20, 2026, for its proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, two industry voices submitted detailed feedback seeking refinements that would reduce uncertainty for token classification, distributions, and trading. Bitwise Asset Management and the… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Executives at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) discussed tokenization of financial assets during their third-quarter 2026 earnings calls, characterizing it as a potential source of additional business rather than an immediate competitive threat. Related activity remains limited in scale,… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s September cease-and-desist campaign against prediction-market platforms offering sports-related event contracts has produced its first federal lawsuits. On October 16, 2026, two of the six recipients—Crypto.com’s affiliated exchange and sports-focused operator Novig—filed actions seeking to block the state from applying its… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 6:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Protocol rolled out NEAR Business on October 20, 2026, introducing a confidential multi-signature treasury platform designed for crypto-native companies, funds, digital asset firms, and institutional teams. The service consolidates payments, asset swaps, capital allocations, and balance management into one shared dashboard spanning more than… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 5:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on October 16, 2026, that his office had reached a $500,000 settlement with Fidelity Digital Assets, National Association (the successor entity to Fidelity Digital Asset Services). The agreement addresses allegations that the firm’s earlier limits on moving cryptocurrency off… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 4:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger is preparing to activate the fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment around 09:34 UTC on October 23, 2026. This package, introduced in xrpld version 3.4.0 and released on September 17, bundles a series of amendment-gated corrections. It currently holds the minimum validator support required for activation… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 4:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United States closed fiscal year 2026 with interest payments on the national debt climbing at a pace that outstripped growth in overall spending, tax collections, and the broader economy. Treasury Department figures show net interest outlays rose 8 percent to $1.05 trillion, up from… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 3:30 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-based Genie Health has raised $3 million in seed funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform, which helps individuals make sense of their health information and enables clinics to provide more personalised care. The funding round was led by Nadathur Family Office, with participation from… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 2:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash developers are advancing a targeted privacy enhancement to shield ZEC swap activity from potential future quantum computing risks. The team behind Zakura, a full-node implementation of the Zcash network, has detailed an approach that assigns a unique incoming viewing key to every publicly exposed… Read More

October 21, 2026 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is mounting a direct challenge to Nvidia’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) longstanding software dominance in artificial intelligence by preparing to open-source a new development tool called TorchNeuron. Set for public beta release on Tuesday, October 20, in conjunction with the PyTorch Conference North America,… Read More