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Evernorth Holdings completed its merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II on October 9, clearing the path for its Nasdaq trading debut on October 12 under the ticker XRPN. The company enters the public market holding approximately 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash proceeds before

AI agents processed 13.49 million transactions on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) across 168 registered merchants in October, according to XRPL AI Hub. The milestone reflects growing adoption of autonomous payments enabled by the x402 protocol, which allows software agents to purchase digital services using X

Meanwhile, a Bermuda-based life insurance company operating entirely in Bitcoin, raised $37.5 million on Thursday from existing investors led by Bain Capital Crypto. The funding round, which brings the company's total raised to over $180 million, was driven by climbing demand for its unusual

NEAR Protocol surged 7.25% in the past 30 minutes, rising from $5.369 to $5.758. The rapid price movement occurred amid mixed signals across the broader crypto market, with no confirmed catalyst identified for the surge. Trading volume reached $111,267,388.23 over 24 hours, reflecting active market

BAT surged 11.3% within 60 minutes, reaching a current price of $0.1595 amid widespread selling pressure across the cryptocurrency market. The rapid price increase occurred as the token moved from $0.1433 to $0.1595, with trading volume reaching $7,654,874.37 over the 24-hour period. The surge

U.S. spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana exchange-traded funds all recorded net losses for October through the first seven trading days, reversing September's momentum. Bitcoin ETFs posted a net outflow of $386.3 million despite a $21.1 million inflow on Friday, driven by their worst single-day

Nvidia fell 2.94 percent on Thursday 8 October 2026 to $230.48, then declined another 0.52 percent on Friday 9 October to $229.28, following reports that OpenAI's annualized revenue reached approximately $50 billion at the end of September rather than the widely circulated $68 billion figure. CNBC c

India's Crypto Tax in India framework, introduced in 2022, marked a shift from regulatory ambiguity to formalisation, recognising crypto as taxable and traceable. Three years later, data from the KoinX Crypto Tax Insights Report 2025

CoreWeave closed at $82.08 on Friday 9 October 2026, up 0.61 percent from Thursday's $81.58, but still $6.37, or 7.20 percent, below Wednesday's $88.45 close. Thursday fell 7.77 percent after CNBC confirmed OpenAI told investors it had roughly $50 billion of annualized revenue at the end of

RippleX fixed a critical payment-engine overflow bug in the XRP Ledger that could have allowed an attacker to mint up to 18 trillion XRP, exceeding the network's fixed supply. The vulnerability was addressed in version 3.4.1 of the XRP Ledger on September 25. The bug had been present in the code

DFI surged 9.68% over a 5-minute span, reaching a price of $0.000641. The cryptocurrency's 24-hour performance shows a 10.08% increase, with trading volume at $247.16 and a market capitalization of $591,343. The altcoin market is currently exhibiting mixed signals as DFI's rapid price movement

Bitcoin is trading near $83,100 on October 11, one year after the largest liquidation event in crypto history wiped out more than $19 billion in leveraged positions on October 10, 2025. Leverage is beginning to build again, with Bitcoin futures open interest rising approximately 4% over the past

PolyAI CTO Shawn Wen stated at the HumanX conference last month that voice AI has not yet reached its 'ChatGPT moment' despite the development of full-duplex models that can speak while listening. Wen explained the core challenge is making reasoning fast enough for natural conversation flow. This as

U.S. software development job postings have risen nearly 15% since February 2025, even as overall job postings fell, according to data from Indeed Hiring Lab. The increase follows the launch of Anthropic's Claude Code in February 2025 and occurs despite widespread adoption of AI-powered coding

Ukraine conducted drone strikes on multiple Yandex data centers in Russia over the past few days, causing Russian bot traffic to drop to just 0.4% of maximum levels recorded in the past two weeks, according to Cloudflare. The strikes targeted Yandex facilities in Sasovo on Oct. 8 and Kaluga

The Russian crypto industry may begin operating within the legal framework by the end of 2024, Central Bank First Deputy Chairman Vladimir Chistyukhin said on September 21. According to him, the Central Bank and the Government are developing secondary legislation comprising 27 regulations: seven first-tier and 20 second-tier acts. Chistyukhin explained that the second-tier acts must be adopted by the end of October. Six of the seven initial acts have already been submitted to the Ministry of Jus

Zakura, which builds a Zcash full node, said its team expects post-quantum signature opcodes to land in Zcash in January, enabling hash-based signatures for the network's transparent payments. The approach pairs address rotation with private information retrieval, a feature rolling out this week in

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said during a CNBC interview on Friday that Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is positioned to challenge major wireless carriers as Starlink expands into direct-to-device and mobile services. Carr stated SpaceX has accumulated

Kyrgyzstan shut down USDKG as part of a regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency. The government cited concerns about risks associated with cryptocurrencies and the need to protect its financial system from potential instability. This action aligns with a broader trend across Asia, where countries

China unveiled a national blockchain network plan on Friday through a policy document published by state news agency Xinhua, as part of a broader strategy to accelerate the expansion of its digital economy. The policy document, titled 'Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on