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🚨 NEW: SpaceX is reportedly in talks to secure at least 80,000 US cell sites as it moves toward launching a fourth nationwide wireless carrier, per Bloomberg.

📉 BIG: Since 2016, the US dollar has lost 26% of its purchasing power, according to IMF data charted by River. Even the best performer, the Bahraini dinar ... Show more

🔥 LATEST: Chainlink partners with LG Group’s tech arm LG CNS to build compliant digital asset infrastructure for Korea’s $68B market.

🇲🇾 🇹🇭 LATEST: Malaysia and Thailand’s central banks join Singapore’s BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit payments.

🚨 TODAY: Aave launches its first externally curated markets on V4 with Sentora, letting users borrow RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSD against yield-bearing and blue-chip ... Show more

🚨 NEW: Meta creates a new class of non-voting shares that it could use to help fund its massive AI spending, per Bloomberg.

🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran warns it will hit airports, pipelines and other civilian targets across the Persian Gulf if the US and Israel resume airstrikes, per WSJ.

🚨 NOW: Polymarket has reportedly fired CMO Matthew Modabber, a close ally of CEO Shayne Coplan, following an internal probe, per New York Post.

This week the internet looked fragile: holes in the code behind 70% of websites had even Japan’s prime minister and the NSA sounding the alarm ... Show more

🇺🇸 LATEST: Chainlink, Hedera, Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, Stellar and the Cardano Foundation urge the SEC to formalize its “digital commodity” classification in rule ... Show more

⚡️ TODAY: Elon Musk says SpaceX has “a shot at exceeding 10GW of compute next year.”

🚨 NOW: Oil climbs with Brent near $110 a barrel after deadly attacks in Saudi Arabia, including a drone strike on an Aramco field ... Show more

🚨 LATEST: Microsoft warns a China-aligned hacking group used an AI-powered pentesting tool to breach IT firm ConnectWise in a campaign targeting hundreds of ... Show more

🇨🇳 JUST IN: China’s DeepSeek raises about $15B in one of the country’s biggest funding rounds ever, as it gears up to take on Anthropic and OpenAI ... Show more

🔥 TODAY: Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled to activate at 13:20 UTC, targeting 150ms finality, down from 12.8 seconds.

🔥 BIG: Tokenized stocks hit $4.4B in market cap, up 886% over the past year, led by BNB Chain, Solana and Ethereum.

🇺🇸 LATEST: Ripple backs the SEC’s Reg Crypto proposal in a comment letter, saying the investment contract, not the token, is the security and that oversight ... Show more

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Crypto exchanges including Blockchaincom and Binance US are rushing to launch prediction markets in the US as the prolonged token slump pushes them ... Show more

🚨 TODAY: MoonPay teams up with Upbit parent Dunamu to explore stablecoin payments and corporate treasury tools, linking its global network to Dunamu’s GIWA ... Show more

🚨 TODAY: OpenAI says it’s updating its Usage Policies effective Nov. 20, requiring model routers and AI gateways to get its approval before offering access to ... Show more

🚨 NEW: Elon Musk says SpaceX and Tesla have set up special committees to weigh a merger that could become the biggest corporate deal ever.

LATEST: 🇯🇵 South Korea's Shinhan Card is partnering with SBI VC Trade and SBI XDC Network APAC to pilot yen stablecoin payments for travelers and ... Show more

🚨 TODAY: Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal admits he may have been wrong to mock the “blockchain, not Bitcoin” crowd. He says perps on neutral chains like ... Show more

🇬🇧 NEW : UK competition watchdog proposes opening iPhone contactless technology to rival wallets and payment apps, with substantially lower access fees.

🔥 NEW: NEAR Protocol introduces NEAR Business, a private multisig treasury that lets crypto teams pay staff, swap assets and move funds across 35+ chains with ... Show more

🚨 LATEST: Goldman Sachs, McDonald’s and Microsoft are pushing back against efforts to tokenize their shares under a new regulatory framework ... Show more

🚨 LATEST: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes back on criticism from AI safety advocate Nathan Calvin, admitting some missteps but defending the company’s ... Show more

🇮🇷🇺🇸 NEW: Iran tells Pakistan’s army chief it won’t negotiate with the US until its conditions are met, including lifting the port blockade and oil sanctions ... Show more

🇮🇪 JUST IN: 500 $BTC linked to former Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins has moved again, from a stash of 6,000 $BTC he bought before 2012.

LATEST: 📊 Bitwise says a record 43.8M ETH, or ~36% of supply, was staked at the end of September, even as average annualized yields slipped to 2.63% from 2 ... Show more

🇺🇸 ELON MUSK: "Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America."

🚨 JUST IN: Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows soaring revenue but an $80B net loss, with up to $750B in computing spend planned in the coming years ... Show more

Trump called the word "artificial" fake and renamed AI to Super Intelligence, and Slovenia's .si domain suddenly became one of the hottest ... Show more

Elon Musk says a SpaceX share for every kid in America is just the start.

🇺🇸 LATEST: The SEC will hold a public roundtable on Nov. 9 to explore how machine-readable data and superintelligence are being used in markets ... Show more

🔥 JUST IN: Strategy bought 267 $BTC for $22.1M. They now hold 848,517 BTC.

🔥 JUST IN: Bitmine bought 12,535 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 6.04M $ETH.

🇺🇸 NOW: Fed officials see the AI boom fueling inflation, but further rate hikes are expected to hit small businesses and consumers harder than deep-pocketed AI ... Show more

🚨 NEW: Top 6 token unlocks this week led by $AKE at $62.42M, followed by $ZRO, $XPL, and $H, per Cryptorank.

🚨 JUST IN: OpenAI is reportedly rushing to close a roughly $30 billion funding round that could value it above $1.4 trillion before Anthropic’s expected ... Show more

🚨 TODAY: The US DOJ is urging a judge to deny bail for an OpenAI engineer charged with planting a hidden recording device in the company’s office ... Show more

🔥 LATEST: Citi Research says Aave could become the go-to layer for financing tokenized assets once they move onchain, calling collateral mobility one of ... Show more

UPDATE: 💰 Metaplanet’s plan to invest 2,100 BTC into Nasdaq-listed Super League was approved by the gaming firm’s shareholders ... Show more

⚡️ NEW: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly outlined three possible endgames for safe AI development to employees last week, including one where a single company ... Show more

LATEST: ⚡ Mastercard unveiled Stablecoin Security at Money20/20 USA, an API that lets banks screen stablecoin payments for fraud and sanctions exposure before ... Show more

⚡️ UPDATE: Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade will go live on the Hoodi testnet on October 26 alongside a gas limit increase to 200M, with no mainnet date set yet.

🚨 JUST IN: Over $10B has flowed into crypto lending vaults, up from $4B at the start of last year, drawing scrutiny from US and European regulators, per FT.

🚨 NOW: Sam Altman’s World brings World ID to Zoom and major financial firms to fight bots, fraud, and deepfakes.

🇸🇻 HUGE: El Salvador's Bitcoin holdings now surpass 7,800 $BTC.

Tesla’s flying Roadster looked incredible on stage, but the closer we looked, the less it added up. The thrusters empty their tanks in seconds ... Show more

📊 INSIGHT: 4.4% of moved Bitcoin aged 6–12 months reached exchanges, down from 40.4% in June, suggesting easing sell pressure, per CryptoQuant.

🇺🇸 TODAY: President Trump says he struck a diesel export deal with Russia and held off on new sanctions to keep Putin at the Ukraine peace talks.

⚡️ TODAY: Vitalik Buterin calls for “EIP-8288 maximalism,” saying heavy cryptography should be STARKed client-side and kept off Ethereum’s main chain so the ... Show more

⚡ NEW: Bitget is shutting accounts for users in Russia and Belarus, with some told they can't open new trades from today and have until October 21 to ... Show more

🔥 HUGE: BlackRock sees tokenized funds moving deeper into Wall Street’s core infrastructure, with uses as collateral and around-the-clock transfers ... Show more

📊 MARKET: There is almost more $ETH exiting staking than there is trying to enter. Once we cross that line, it'll be something we haven't seen since ... Show more

🇺🇸 LATEST: Anthropic is quietly pitching lawmakers its own AI safety bill that would limit when the government can block a model’s release and preempt some ... Show more

📊 FUN FACT: Nvidia is on pace to sell around $430B worth of chips this year. That's about the size of South Africa's entire economy.

⚡ SAYLOR: "We found room for more orange." Another week, another Saylor tease.

🚨⚡ BIG: Nine crypto firms just formed a Quantum Alliance to set post-quantum standards, warning 6.04M BTC, about 30% of supply ... Show more

🔥🇧🇬 BIG: Bulgaria's fourth-largest bank, Postbank, will let customers buy crypto, stocks and gold right inside its banking app from early 2027 ... Show more