The stablecoin payments firm says SEC review of its Titan Acquisition merger is in its final stage. Listing at about $1.145 billion, US launch by April 2027 and ticker OP.

The federally chartered crypto bank trims about 68 roles despite its $4.2 billion valuation. The cuts follow a year-long bear market and layoffs at Gemini and Coinbase.

US ether ETFs shed about $118 million over three straight sessions while bitcoin funds took in money. ETH holds near $2,680 before Glamsterdam reaches Sepolia on October 6.

Safety reports lead David Robinson resigned after three and a half years, arguing OpenAI's trial-and-error approach is failing as models grow stronger.

Microsoft's 13-million-follower X account was hijacked to promote a Clippy meme coin, then recovered within about half an hour.

A September 29 cabinet letter scraps the 36 percent levy on unrealized crypto gains and moves Box 3 toward realized-gains taxation from 2028.

Spending has run far ahead of revenue across the AI buildout, with PwC and Bain estimates both pointing to gaps measured in trillions through the decade.

A $433,833 annual compliance estimate attached to the SEC's October 1 crypto custody proposal has small advisers crying foul while big firms scale.

A September 30 ESMA response would extend MiCA limits from trading to custody and transfer, leaving holders of unsanctioned tokens without a licensed way out.

Rolex sued Epic Games and the Viewdex NFT platform in two Florida courts this week, over watches in Fortnite and crypto-branded token collections.

Ethereum activates Glamsterdam on Sepolia next week with a 200M gas target, protocol-managed block building and parallel execution ahead of a Q4 mainnet window.

The annual Windows 11 26H2 update reaches general availability through an enablement package, with support clocks reset and one 26H1 upgrade gap.

Citi settles Coinbase stablecoin payments as bank of record, with fiat wallets auto-converting to stablecoins and merchants accepting them at checkout.

The first binding GENIUS Act rule took effect September 30, splitting US stablecoin oversight at $10 billion and starting state certification clocks.

MSCI could remove Strategy, Metaplanet and dozens of digital asset treasury firms from global indexes. Bitcoin Policy Institute says the process behind it is broken, and metadata suggests the crypto rule never died, it just changed clothes.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed calls from Altman, Amodei and Musk to slow frontier AI as alarmism without solutions.

Monad's MonadTen upgrade cut storage-read gas by up to 98%, and MON is up 35% in 30 days. 1inch moved its full stack onto the chain.

French 10-year yields touched 4.95%, the widest spread to Bunds since 2011, with markets betting fewer ECB hikes ahead.

A weak US jobs report briefly lifted Bitcoin to $87,200, then the market reversed hard and liquidations neared $600 million.

Visa says 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume comes from business programs, with volume up near 200% year over year.

Shares in China's biggest memory chip maker jumped nearly 470 percent on its Shanghai Star Market debut, making CXMT the most valuable listed firm

MetaMask pulled roughly 17,000 validators, about 523,000 ETH, offline after a security incident, pushing Ethereum's exit queue to a 9-month high

The SEC approved 3x leveraged ETPs for bitcoin, ether, gold, silver, oil and natural gas on October 3, per Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas. Trading venues move next.

A Maryland cybersecurity consultant faces charges over the 2021 exploits that drained $53.3 million from Uranium Finance and killed the DEX. His defense says no one saw his fingers on the keyboard.

Two years after its peak, the tap-to-earn token from one of the biggest gaming communities sits near record lows. A small lesson in what happens after an airdrop to 131 million people.

A Maryland cybersecurity consultant is on trial for the 2021 Uranium Finance exploit that drained $53.3 million and shut the DEX down. The defense says no one saw his fingers on the keyboard.

Jump Crypto's from-scratch validator client hit production deployment after three years of development. Client diversity rises and the single-client risk shrinks.

A month after the White House pledge, Google is testing Argon on cyber defenders first. Government reviewers saw it early. Developers still have no endpoint.

The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon $24.4 billion over five years to speed up SM-6 interceptor production, replacing munitions used in the Iran operation.

Hellenic Police say the scheme pulled in more than $8 million from around 10,000 people. Nine of those arrested are serving members of the armed forces.

USDe supply sits near $4.9 billion, while the October 5 unlock of 1.4 billion ENA and the $7.5 billion fee-switch threshold set a clear test for the token.

Microsoft confirmed an October 7 Windows and Surface event in San Francisco with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on stage, centered on RTX Spark and local AI PCs.

Farside data show Bitcoin ETFs took $82.9 million while Ethereum funds lost $118 million, and Solana flows shrank to $800,000 in the week.

Tokenized equity holder addresses on Solana climbed 88 percent this month while SOL sits near $119.41, with ETF inflows keeping the tape stead.

Nvidia published confirmation that GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast runs on Blackwell GPUs in the OpenAI API, weighing on Cerebras shares a day after they hit their lowest level since the May IPO.

Bitcoin closed its best quarter since early 2024 yet sits 32 percent below last October's peak, trapped between 5 percent Treasury yields, a cooling Fed and ETF inflows that keep braking.

Zcash fell toward $1,276 on Saturday as leveraged longs unwound and ZEC's spot ETF posted its first weekly outflow, $93.6 million, even as plans for broader ZEC trading advanced on THORChain.

The FTC inquiry builds on a September filing that could reshape industry AI advocacy, with document demands and executive testimony reportedly on the way as agency staff weigh open questions.

The SEC proposal outlines conditional adviser self custody, state trust companies as qualified custodians and tighter US crypto market rules, with a 60 day comment window now open.

QNT trades well below its late September peak near $373 as weekly gains unwind, daily volume falls 43 percent and old wallets, including the founder's, send tokens to exchanges.

September payrolls came in at 29,000 against a 85,000 forecast and unemployment rose to 4.2 percent, pushing odds of an October Fed hike to near zero.

Assets on the layer 2 fell 98 percent from a $2.2 billion peak. Users have until October 26 to withdraw before contract-only withdrawals begin.

The Sepolia fork on October 6 tests ePBS, block-level access lists and a 200M gas limit, the first public step toward a Q4 mainnet rollout.

Researchers at the San Francisco Fed track $200 billion of Treasury buying and see most of the China gap elsewhere.

Greg Lui, owner of California's Earthmade Computer, faces up to 20 years after allegedly shipping $300 million in export-controlled AI servers to China via Malaysia and Singapore.

San Francisco Fed researchers say stablecoin issuers added about $200 billion in Treasuries since 2021, covering 40 percent of China's pullback, and could reach $400 billion by 2030.

Ripple launched XRP Asia at XRP Seoul 2026, an independent body led by ex-Hedera executive Sabrina Tachdjian, with Ripple backing and an APAC growth brief.

AG Rob Bonta served OpenAI an investigative subpoena over cybersecurity incidents involving its models, including the July breach where agents hacked Hugging Face.

The SPAC merger closes October 7 and XRPN starts trading October 8, handing public-market investors a pure-play XRP treasury holding about $710 million.

The first AQAv2 allocation lands October 3: about $14.5 million of USDC reserve yield routed to the Assistance Fund, all of it earmarked for HYPE buybacks.