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The post-trade market infrastructure provider said the tokenization services will create a “practical path” for tokenized securities adoption.

DTCC's tokenization service went live on Canton Network and private chain Besu, with JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley among 20 firms signed up.

Nearly half the companies on the venture’s original roster have now objected to their shares trading on the planned blockchain-based venue.

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An experimental change would let companies cover the reserve for customer and AI-agent accounts, allowing users to start with stablecoins without first acquiring XRP.

Bitcoin rose above $81,400 as Asian chip stocks rallied, with frog-themed memecoin pepe adding 9%.

A Euronext spokesperson told Cointelegraph the suspension was due to “operational settlement requirements” and remains in effect until settlement operations are supported by the CSD.

HYPE and ZEC led a broad bounce, with every top token in the green hours before the Federal Reserve’s rate call.

The company’s Hong Kong unit issued six-month notes under its $3 billion program, extending blockchain-based distribution to institutional investors.

Google Multi-Party Compute is in private preview, with several major financial institutions testing the technology and parent company Alphabet using it to secure its own digital assets on Ethereum and Solana.

Stablecoins lead instruments in use or planned at 63%, ahead of tokenized deposits at 53% and tokenized money market funds at 52%.

Itaú Unibanco notified Brazil’s central bank of its crypto trading and custody operations on Tuesday, ahead of an Oct. 30 deadline.

South Korean chipmakers led a broader AI recovery after SK Hynix reported a sevenfold profit surge and announced another $45 billion in shareholder returns.

Bitcoin sought to rebuild support at $80,000 while Asian and US tech stocks extended a rebound into key corporate earnings releases.

Both bitcoin and the S&P 500 have historically produced positive returns in a year after midterms. BTC's pattern, however, could also be explained by the four-year halving cycles.

The firms announced the agreement at Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation’s annual conference in Portugal.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $286 million over two days, narrowing October’s net outflows to $26 million as the Crypto Fear & Greed Index remained neutral.

Coinbase said that an incident at analytics vendor Amplitude exposed some customers’ contact data, but it found no evidence of unauthorized access to its own systems.

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The company said the accounting correction will cut reported assets by $92.2 million at the end of 2025 after bitcoin held on Biconomy could not be withdrawn.

The breach hit an internal employee system that Bithumb says is separate from its trading platform, while the exchange is still determining whether customer information was exposed.

Majors outpaced bitcoin across the board as tech stocks extended a climb.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says tokenized equities need more than a temporary SEC exemption to flourish in the US.

The crypto exchange says an incident at analytics firm Amplitude exposed some customer contact information, but insists its own systems were not breached.

The breach impacted its in-house mobile system, used by employees for work and information sharing.

Discord conversations on large public servers will soon reach audiences far beyond their communities, raising privacy concerns.

VanEck’s new Wealth Builder ETF targets a 2% Bitcoin allocation, with a permitted range of 1% to 5%, gaining exposure through a spot Bitcoin ETP.

More than 40% of the companies initially proposed to have their stocks listed in tokenized form have asked to opt-out.

Speaking at Ripple's conference, the U.S. Treasury Secretary said the SEC and CFTC action could help fill the gap left by the Clarity Act's failure, while curbing crypto debanking.

Speaking on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast, Muneeb Ali warned that uncertainty over Bitcoin’s quantum security could deter institutional investors.

Crypto trading volume fell 38% from year-ago levels, but the firm's overall blockchain business gained traction.

Ripple also expanded its collaboration with BNY on digital asset custody and partnered with C2FO to bring trade finance settlement onto the XRP Ledger.

The US state filed a lawsuit against Kalshi last week, seeking to recover up to $60 million in profits related to event contracts on prediction markets.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has pursued more than a dozen legal actions to protect what its chief sees as its sole power over prediction markets.

The latest notice added four objections, bringing the total to 26 as the joint venture prepares to test the SEC’s new framework for blockchain-based stock trading.

The September survey offered a possible window into US voters who could consider fintech and digital asset policies on Election Day.

USDT volume on crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin jumped nearly 800% and bitcoin volume surged 865%. Binance’s USDT/BRL market tripled while the global BTC/USDT pair fell.

The blockchain-based fund offers eligible non-US investors exposure to the Nasdaq-100 as Janus Henderson expands its institutional tokenization business.

Robinhood helped launch a rival dollar-backed token, USDG, but will also offer Ripple's stablecoin to retail customers later this year.

USDC’s share of euro stablecoin trading has climbed to 56% since January 2024, with deeper liquidity as exchanges restrict USDT under MiCA.

The $500 billion asset manager is launching an issuer-sponsored fund on Stellar, taking a different approach from third-party stock tokens.

The new service could help developers build blockchain-based index funds, tokenized portfolios and derivatives using established financial benchmarks.

Former Morgan Stanley and Weiss executive Jordi Visser says AI agents are boosting demand for crypto as he expands his holdings beyond Bitcoin, Ether and Solana.

Luxor raised $16 million to expand into AI hardware and trading, betting that computing power will become a market where companies can hedge costs and prices.

Arthur Hayes revealed the derivatives market design for Flop Network and how he expects its native token could transform AI compute into a tradable commodity.

Luxor aims to use the proceeds to scale its existing AI infrastructure business and expand its GPU sourcing services as global chip supply chains become constrained.

A decline in the share of Bitcoin’s realized cap held by coins unmoved for 18 months or longer points to the ‘early stages’ of a bull market, analysis says.

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The Fed is expected to hold rates steady on Wednesday, but markets will be looking for clues about future policy moves.

Sean Bowe says ZCG has enough money to keep funding projects and wants its share of new ZEC redirected to a reserve for the network.

Bloom pledged to reimburse nine traders after $953,000 was drained from 48 wallets, saying no private keys were accessed or compromised.

The exchange is delisting 22 crypto assets for Brazilian users and hopes talks with the central bank will allow it to restore some services.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs remained in the red for October, with about $202 million in net outflows for the month despite Monday’s rebound.

The stablecoin payments company previously disputed reports that its US listing had been delayed.

The approval clears the way for Ripple to manage reserves backing its RLUSD stablecoin and provide digital asset custody.

The announcement followed the banking regulator finalizing its rules for the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin law to be implemented in January

The new index tracks rental prices for five Nvidia GPUs, offering leveraged trading and potential hedging against fluctuations in AI computing costs.