Crypto & Blockchain

Public miners backed by major TradFi players are coming back online, boosting Bitcoin’s hashrate, a positive sign for BTC’s fundamentals, according to CryptoQuant’s Ki Young Ju.

Fireblocks denied an Axios report that Visa is in talks to acquire the crypto custody firm for around $2.5 billion.

Boosters often say crypto voters can swing elections, but Democrats are seeking mileage out of tying crypto to Trump, corruption and attempts to buy seats in Congress.

Crypto exchange Coinbase Ireland has been penalised by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) for a series of operational and governance failings over a five-year period.

A new draft targets a fourfold cut in the time it takes Ethereum transactions to become final, which could free up money transfer services tie up while customers’ payments clear.

Each SOFIE token represents $1 on deposit at SoFi Bank, earning 4.40% APY with FDIC insurance—a yield-and-protection combination ordinary stablecoins lack.

The new real-time market feeds will cover trade data from over 200 onchain venues across 12 blockchain networks.

SoFi has launched SOFIE, a tokenized deposit offering 4.4% APY and FDIC insurance, with the option to convert to SoFiUSD.

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 21, 2026

Bitcoin as much as 2.9% to around $81,600 as Nasdaq futures dropped, while the CoinDesk 80 lost 3.5% and DeFi index slid 6%.

Police say a car-rental firm near Milan was an underground bank for 'Ndrangheta and Camorra figures, moving money abroad and into crypto.

The pre-IPO Jio contract on Bitget is trading near $12, a roughly 4% premium on the top price band, as India’s largest public offering remains open for subscription.

A Tianjin court will hear the application after a six-month notice period, while a parallel fight over the same coins continues in London.

Spot bitcoin ETFs attracted $528 million on Wednesday as BlackRock and Fidelity led a recovery in institutional demand.

The Nasdaq is down more than 2% as the AI bull market trade continues to unwind. U.S. interest rates are plunging even as oil surges.

Technology shares led regional losses as mixed U.S. earnings unsettled investors and Brent crude climbed above $112 a barrel.

Citadel's founder says investors are almost certainly in an AI bubble, warns a chip glut could crash prices like empty airline seats, yet expects the survivors to lead for decades.

Nvidia's OpenShell Reference Architecture pairs a software sandbox on Vera CPUs with Sentry monitoring on BlueField-4 chips, aiming to let companies run autonomous agents while enforcing limits agents cannot reach.

The regulation bans direct yield payments to customers from stablecoin issuers, but the OCC said it would "evaluate" third-party yield arrangements on a case-by-case basis.

OpenAI says its models found PHP2Shell and led a two-month coalition to fix it. It's the same AI that broke into Hugging Face and an Australian government portal this year.

Madrid, 19 de octubre de 2026.- La adopción de la inteligencia artificial en la Administración de Justicia y el Sector Público ha alcanzado un punto de inflexión donde la ciudadanía y los operadores jurídicos exigen el fin de las ‘cajas negras’ algorítmicas, un escenario marcado…