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Intel, Oracle, IBM, and IonQ became the latest companies to object to trading of their shares on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, bringing the total to 26.
Ripple is expanding XRP Ledger adoption through two deals, bringing faster supplier payments with C2FO and institutional custody services with BNY.
Attackers obtained the factory key that proves Keystone's hardware wallets are genuine, and 25,964 buyer records were affected. The company says recovery phrases and private keys were not involved.
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.
Bitcoin is trading above $80K after another rejection from the $87K supply zone, which has put the mid-channel support under pressure. The pullback leaves the market testing whether the broader recovery structure can hold or whether a deeper correction is developing. Meanwhile, the declining miner reserve suggests that supply pressure from miners has not fully …
The September survey offered a possible window into US voters who could consider fintech and digital asset policies on Election Day. A new poll from the DeFi Education Fund and Ipsos found that 72% of people surveyed said it was “somewhat” to “extremely” important for politicians to be supportive of policies encouraging financial technology built in the US. On Tuesday, Ipsos released the results of a poll of 1,545 people conducted in September, showing that 35% of respondents said it was “very” or “extremely” important for political candidates to support the idea of “ensuring that those who are building the next generation of financial technology are encouraged to do so in the United States.” An additional 37% of those surveyed said that the fintech policy was “somewhat important.” Notabl…
So far this year, Bitcoin and the Nasdaq have been performing quite differently. Tech stocks kept setting records on the back of the AI mania, while the primary cryptocurrency was struggling in a full-blown bear market. The same driving force underpinned both trends: Artificial Intelligence. It directed capital allocation and now appears to be shaping …
Chainalysis’s Oct. 26 report tracks a collapse and recovery in activity it classifies as everyday use, while household access remains unmeasured. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
A collaboration with payments-tech firm ACI Worldwide will pilot folding USDC settlement into Colombia’s instant-payments network.
A transfer to BitGo does not prove a sale has taken place, leaving the purpose of the $80 million transaction unresolved.
The EEA rollout adds USD-settled contracts to existing derivatives accounts, with shared futures collateral and portfolio margin on by default. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
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.
Chuck Todd called markets a "fact checker" for journalism, as Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood pitched contracts well beyond elections.
A new OpenAI paper declares ETH false, a claim that hundreds of research papers lean on. Crypto Twitter degens and serious mathematicians are abuzz.
The blockchain-based fund offers eligible non-US investors exposure to the Nasdaq-100 as Janus Henderson expands its institutional tokenization business. Asset manager Janus Henderson and tokenization platform Centrifuge have launched a blockchain-based fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index on Stellar, offering eligible investors outside the United States exposure to the benchmark. Called JQQQ, the fund uses Centrifuge’s tokenization infrastructure and seeks to track the Nasdaq-100 under a licensing agreement with the exchange, according to a Tuesday announcement. The launch expands Janus Henderson’s onchain investment offerings beyond US Treasurys and structured credit into equity-index exposure. The asset manager said its institutional onchain strategies now exceed $1 billion.
Robinhood helped launch a rival dollar-backed token, USDG, but will also offer Ripple's stablecoin to retail customers later this year.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI predicts an astonishing XRP price by January 1, 2027. It forecasts a price range of $30 to $60, with a stretch target above $80 if a full-blown cryptocurrency bull market emerges alongside a major catalyst.As of October 27, 2026, XRP is trading around $1.29 to $1.30. This optimistic outlook hinges on …
Business-service inflation reached 3.7%, while the transport-excluded rate held steady and labor-sensitive price growth eased before Friday’s BOJ decision. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox
USDC’s share of euro stablecoin trading has climbed to 56% since January 2024, with deeper liquidity as exchanges restrict USDT under MiCA. Circle’s USDC (USDC) has overtaken Tether’s USDt (USDT) in stablecoin trading against the euro, as European Union regulations increasingly favor bloc-compliant stablecoins, according to a new Kaiko report. USDC now accounts for 56% of stablecoin trading against the euro, up from just 10% in January 2024, according to Kaiko data. The shift accelerated after major exchanges restricted USDT trading for customers in the European Economic Area under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). USDC has also overtaken USDT in euro-denominated trading liquidity, with its order books now roughly 40% deeper than its rival’s. Tether remains the larger stablec…
Flop's proposed compute contracts would use dollar margin even though the underlying market runs on the FLOP cryptocurrency.
