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US Inflation Re-Accelerates to 3.7%: The Bond Market Is the Real Threat to Crypto
Hotter inflation, oil above $107 and Treasury yields at multi-year highs have put Bitcoin’s $80,000 floor under pressure. With the Fed caught between stubborn prices and a weakening labor market, the next rate decision could determine whether BTC holds its range or breaks lower.
Licensed to Shill: Taiwan's Banks & AI Hardware Makers Could Fuel Asia's Largest Stablecoin Corridor | Justin Wang, Capital Layer
Wang says manufacturers selling AI devices into Latin America are paying up to 11% in local transfer fees, the gap Capital Layer is betting stablecoins can close.
Licensed to Shill: Ethereum's Staking Yield Cut Won't Fix What's Actually Broken
The panel, featuring Blockhead's Tim Han, discusses why cutting ETH's risk-free rate from roughly 3% to 1.2% cannot fix a token that still has nowhere useful to go.
Licensed to Shill: Retail Barely Touches Stablecoins – Treasury & Remittance Are the Real Adoption (Jeannie Lim, Xweave)
At Xweave, Jeannie Lim says her team moved $1 million for an e-commerce client in under three minutes, cutting settlement costs 30% against a Tier 2 bank's SWIFT rate.
Licensed to Shill: DeFi's Third Phase is Tokenized Yield, and Institutions Are Already Buying In (Ben Nadareski, Solstice)
The Solana-based yield protocol has $500 million in liquidity and a delta-neutral strategy with four and a half years of trading history – but its CEO's bigger argument is about what most DeFi investors still fail to check before they deposit.
US Inflation Re-Accelerates to 3.7%: The Bond Market Is the Real Threat to Crypto
Hotter inflation, oil above $107 and Treasury yields at multi-year highs have put Bitcoin’s $80,000 floor under pressure. With the Fed caught between stubborn prices and a weakening labor market, the next rate decision could determine whether BTC holds its range or breaks lower.
US Inflation Rises to 3.7% as Gasoline Surges, Putting an October Fed Hike in Play
Headline and core CPI both came in a tenth above forecasts, and Bitcoin slipped below $82,000 as traders raised the odds of a second consecutive rate increase at the Fed's Oct. 27–28 meeting.
Bitcoin Rose 43% in Q3 – Crypto Venture Funding Did Not Follow
Tiger Research's Q3 data shows the rebound's capital went into tokens and ETFs, while the money that did reach crypto companies came increasingly from exchanges, lenders and public markets instead of the lead VCs that set terms in past cycles.
Bitcoin Needs Big, Slow Liquidity, But Cleveland Fed President Wants Small, Quick Moves
Hammack’s call for smaller, faster Fed rate moves has done little to revive Bitcoin’s rally. With ETF outflows accelerating, miners selling and $85,230 resistance holding firm, the market needs a reversal in liquidity—not just a slower pace of tightening.
AI Agents Could Close the Wealth Gap in Emerging Markets – Or Widen It
Crypto promised to democratise finance in Southeast Asia. The results were mixed. AI agents could be a second chance, but only if the infrastructure is built for everyone, not just those who can already afford a seat at the table, argues Morph CEO Colin Goltra.
The Retail vs. Institutional Divide: How Trading Patterns Reveal Two Completely Different Markets
As ETFs, corporate treasuries, and tokenized real-world assets absorb supply, the old four-year retail cycle is giving way to a macro-driven, institution-led regime where liquidity concentrates, volatility compresses, and value accrues to utility over hype.
Industry Inflection Point: How 2026 Will Define Enterprise Adoption of Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Asset Class
Bhau Kotecha, co-founder and head of Paxos Labs, explains why programmable stablecoins are becoming core financial infrastructure—and how institutions can capture value beyond payments.
Crypto Wasn’t on the Ballot in Japan, But the Mandate Will Shape It
Sota Watanabe, CEO of Startale Group and founder of Astar Foundation, discusses how Japan's snap election could affect crypto tax and regulatory reforms.
Coins.ph Faces Philippine Central Bank Action Over Alleged Links to Offshore Gambling Firms
Bank transfers into the exchange have been blocked since late September, and people familiar with the matter say the alleged violations could cost it its license to operate.
South Korea Blocks Websites of 27 Unregistered Overseas Exchanges Including KuCoin, MEXC, BingX
The move extends app-store restrictions first imposed in March 2025 to the web, and the regulator says it no longer needs evidence of user harm before ordering a block once an operator is confirmed as unregistered.
MAS Chief Says Stablecoins May Not Be Fit for Large Wholesale Settlement
Chia Der Jiun's remarks, made a week before MAS's consultation on stablecoin legislation closes, put central bank money at the top of Singapore's settlement hierarchy and raise the prospect of reserve access for systemically important issuers.
MAS Finalises AI Risk Rules for Financial Institutions, With Agentic AI Guidance to Follow in 2027
The guidelines hold firms accountable for third-party AI models they use and take effect in October 2027, and MAS says autonomous agents will need further guidance of their own.
AI Agents Have Made 138 Million Payments Over x402, Most of Them Under 10 Cents
Chainalysis data shows U.S. wallets account for almost all agent spending on AI model inference, while Chinese-linked wallets dominate payments for security and code analysis services.
Women Are Closing the Startup Gap While Capital Still Flows to Men
A global entrepreneurship study finds women founders increasingly out-innovating their male peers on AI adoption, even as investors and caregiving demands keep pulling them out of the race to scale.
SWI Group Raises €800M to Turn FTX-Backed Bitcoin Miner Genesis Digital Into AI Data Centres
The Amsterdam-listed buyer took control of the miner Alameda sank $1.15 billion into on the day FTX's estate dropped its clawback suit, and its CEO says he has "zero interest" in mining bitcoin.
Reap's Daren Guo Says Payward Deal Sped Up an Existing Roadmap, With Agentic Payments Next
Three months after Kraken's parent closed its acquisition of the Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, Reap is building out Mexico as a second hub and pitching AI agents as its next growth channel.
AI Agents Have Made 138 Million Payments Over x402, Most of Them Under 10 Cents
Chainalysis data shows U.S. wallets account for almost all agent spending on AI model inference, while Chinese-linked wallets dominate payments for security and code analysis services.
Reap's Daren Guo Says Payward Deal Sped Up an Existing Roadmap, With Agentic Payments Next
Three months after Kraken's parent closed its acquisition of the Hong Kong stablecoin card issuer, Reap is building out Mexico as a second hub and pitching AI agents as its next growth channel.
Samsung Wallet Adds USDC on Sui for Galaxy Users in US
The launch gives a stablecoin native placement on up to 82 million US devices, though at launch users can only hold and send USDC, and the announcement does not say how they will get it into the wallet.
Only 6% of Asia Pacific Consumers Understand Stablecoins, Visa Survey Finds
The survey's strongest finding is a trust gap that favours banks and regulated institutions, which happens to be the market Visa is building its stablecoin platform to serve.
AI Agents Have Made 138 Million Payments Over x402, Most of Them Under 10 Cents
Chainalysis data shows U.S. wallets account for almost all agent spending on AI model inference, while Chinese-linked wallets dominate payments for security and code analysis services.
DAS2026 Speakers Trade Tokenisation's Promise for Its Plumbing
Speakers at the Digital Assets Association's Singapore summit spent less time on tokenisation's promise and more on capital treatment, interoperability and the human errors behind most exploits.
MAS Finalises AI Risk Rules for Financial Institutions, With Agentic AI Guidance to Follow in 2027
The guidelines hold firms accountable for third-party AI models they use and take effect in October 2027, and MAS says autonomous agents will need further guidance of their own.
0G Commits S$20 Million to Singapore, Makes City-State Its Global Headquarters
The decentralised AI infrastructure company is spreading the five-year pledge across operations, university research and a badminton AI project, while its token trades more than 95% below its all-time high.
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Binance Will Judge Its Marketing on User Retention, Interim CMO Eowyn Chen Says
Chen outlines how Binance will explain tokenized stocks, crypto-backed loans and AI agents to users, and why she treats trust as the objective.
Perps: Swaps or Futures?
Perpetual futures may borrow the name of futures, but their mechanics look far more like modern cleared swaps. The case for regulating perps as swaps starts with how they actually work, not what they are called.
The Sanctions Shuffle
The problem with running a global crypto exchange from offshore is not just compliance. It is who stands behind you when a major power comes calling.
Defining Accuracy in Blockchain Analysis
A new study using real EU regulatory data finds that the multi-input heuristic can be highly accurate in some cases and completely wrong in others, raising serious questions about its use as forensic evidence.
Escalating the Prediction Markets Fight
The CFTC says federal law clearly overrides state gambling rules. The problem is that the courts have never actually said that — and the agency’s aggressive defense of Kalshi could put its own powers at risk.
The ColdCard "Hack" Should Not Be Called Theft
ColdCard’s security failure exposes an uncomfortable truth about self-custody: if private keys are meant to be the final authority, users cannot invoke the legal system whenever that authority produces an outcome they did not intend.