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▶ Bitcoin Magazine Stand With Crypto Director: The Crypto Vote Will Decide the Midterms | Mason Lynaugh Ahead of midterms, Stand With Crypto's Mason Lynaugh breaks down a 3.1M-advocate push, explaining why crypto swing voters will forge the most pro-BTC Congress. This post Stand…

The name change is symbolic of the fund’s future investing focus, though the firm will continue investing in crypto.

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Will Settle 100% of Global Payments Parker Lewis argues Bitcoin will settle all global payments as $107T in debt strains the credit system, driving merchants toward zero-fee adoption. This post Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Will Settle 100% of…

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Block Releases THE Bitcoin National Ad Campaign Block launches 'Bitcoin Does' to onboard millions. Head of Bitcoin Marketing Maria Pesce explains how the campaign focuses on real-world utility over tech. This post Block Releases THE Bitcoin National Ad…

China’s five-year digital development plan calls for wider blockchain use in trade and manufacturing alongside stronger technical standards.

Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests across 21 countries, while Angolan police seized more than 2,000 crypto mining devices.

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone: AI Risk Could Force Bitcoin Drawdown to $10,000 Bloomberg's Mike McGlone warns Bitcoin could drop to $10K, citing ETF exhaustion, stock correlation, Fed rate hikes, and macro headwinds across assets. This post Bloomberg’s Mike…

Smart money app Plum has been authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to offer Targeted Support, through its investment entity Saveable Limited.

Phantom users will fund trades with CASH stablecoins, with market restrictions applied in Michigan, Nevada and Washington.

Malaysia and Thailand have joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit settlement.

Bitcoin loses its 50-day SMA as liquidation clusters, leverage, and ETF outflows point to a volatile weekend.

Remuneration for quantitative finance professionals has continued to rise despite the increased use of AI, according to recently published research.

The request follows an August 2025 default judgment, with the AG also announcing nearly $6 million in settlements with four promoters.

Bitcoin price volatility cooled as stock markets battled another day of resurgent AI fears during Friday’s Asia trading session.

New York-based startup Coast has raised $35m for the launch of a payment platform designed to support companies working in the physical economy.

Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did.

Institutional capital sets the headlines, but the 2026 downturn showed individual activity to be the durable part of the market, and XT Exchange has built for it since 2018. The numbers the industry now watches most closely belong to institutions: fund inflows, corporate…

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Tech Mahindra (NSE: TECHM), a leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation and technology consulting solutions to enterprises across industries, has acquired Finastra’s Cash Management product suite, comprising Fusion Cash Management (FCM), Fusion Virtual Accounts (FVA)…

The industry runs on a vocabulary nobody commissioned; XT Exchange sees in that culture one reason people stay engaged through quiet markets, and a responsibility that comes with it. No committee approved the word “HODL.” It began as a misspelling in a forum post during a 2013…

The Hoodi testnet fork is off after ChainSecurity found gas changes that could let contracts lock in failures, citing 13 real-world cases.

Recent hardware wallet security incidents have renewed debate over whether self-custody is suitable for beginners, as multisig and seedless designs carry their own risks.

HTX Research, the dedicated research arm of HTX, has published a new report titled Crypto Market Outlook Before and After the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections. The report finds that while the midterm elections may reshape policy expectations for the next two years, short-term crypto…

BlackRock's IBIT led Thursday's net outflows with $254.1 million, while four other funds also witnessed withdrawals.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao says AI doesn’t need to break Bitcoin’s cryptography to cause damage. Instead, he warns that leaked data already fuels phishing and social engineering. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Core developers are changing how they disclose bugs as AI makes flaws easier…

Private market firms vary in how well they identify and manage conflicts of interest, according to an FCA review. Private markets refer to investments in assets, companies, or debt not listed or traded on public exchanges. They’ve grown significantly in recent years, and the UK…

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 23, 2026

Speech by Ashley Alder, FCA Chair, at the Michael D. Gill Lecture on International Financial Regulatory Understanding and Cooperation. I wasn’t fortunate enough to work as closely with Mike as many of you in this room.But I knew him well enough during my time with the IOSCO…

Brent crude oil surged above $116 per barrel for the first time since late April.