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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang concluded a week-and-a-half European tour at the company's GTC conference in Berlin, where he met with U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. During a Thursday morning media Q&A, Huang announced new products a

Elon Musk endorsed a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, telling investors he thinks it 'would be a good idea' and revealing that both companies have formed special committees to explore a transaction. On Wednesday's Tesla earnings call,

CyberCartel used Claude and Grok AI agents to automate attacks on over 400 Latin American financial institutions including banks and mobile payment apps, stealing passwords and customer data. The hacking group bypassed AI safeguards by telling the models they were operating in test environments,

Bloomberg expanded its Crypto Exposure Analytics service to help customers identify and classify crypto-asset and tokenized real-world asset exposures under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's prudential framework for banks. The update aims to connect exposure detection with

London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to acquire Octus for $3.535 billion in cash, expanding its credit intelligence and data services across public, private, illiquid and distressed debt. Octus is being sold by funds advised by Permira and its management, including founder Kent Collier. The

Heatbit announced Bitwater on Thursday (October 22), a water heater element with 20 Bitcoin mining chips that screws into existing electric tanks in the U.S. and Canada. The element produces up to 34 TH/s on up to 600 watts, with the first batch priced at $899 for preorder and later batches at up to

S&P Global reported on October 23 that the Eurozone's October composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) preliminary reading stood at 51.9, marking the fourth consecutive month above the 50.0 expansion threshold but declining from September's 53.1 to a four-month low. The slowdown was driven by

JPMorgan Asset Management expanded two tokenized money market funds, MONY and JLTXX, to Solana blockchain, announced last night. The expansion provides qualified U.S. investors access to these funds through Morgan Money, the firm's liquidity management and trading platform. JPMorgan Asset Management

AvaTrade Japan confirmed unauthorized parties accessed customer trading accounts and executed transactions without permission, following security incidents involving third-party services used by foreign exchange traders. The broker acknowledged unauthorized access, account logins, and trading

Storm-0940, a China-state-aligned hacking group active since 2021, deployed ARTEX, an open-source AI-driven penetration testing framework, in a large-scale supply chain attack targeting ConnectWise applications, Microsoft disclosed in its Security blog. The AI agents attempted sign-ins at more

Kalshi Prime and BitGo launched HODL Margining, a service allowing eligible customers to borrow US dollars against digital assets held in custody and use loan proceeds to meet margin obligations on KalshiEX. BitGo Bank & Trust serves as the first custodian in the network, while loans are provided

A crypto whale deployed $7.22 million across nine altcoins including Ethena (ENA), Litentry (LIT), and Ondo (ONDO), while Pump.fun (PUMP) faced significant selling pressure over recent trading periods. Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain reported the multi-token acquisition alongside $13.2 mil

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing launched two thematic benchmarks, the HKEX Artificial Intelligence Index and HKEX Semiconductor Index, expanding its proprietary index suite around technology industries. The exchange also licensed the AI index to China Southern Asset Management for an

Nansen, a crypto analytics platform, predicts a bullish fourth quarter for the cryptocurrency market according to a recent tweet. The forecast comes as the crypto market displays mixed signals and trading volume remains low. Nansen's prediction could influence trader sentiment as market

GoBTC Pay, a Bitcoin payment protocol built by GoMining, launched on October 23 with a flat 0.2% merchant fee per transaction, undercutting Stripe's 2.7-2.9% plus fixed fees and Square's 2.6-3.3% plus fixed fees. The protocol provides instant checkout approval for shoppers and settles payments in re

FX swap points in South Korea's foreign exchange market rose on May 23 ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting scheduled for May 28. The 1-year maturity FX swap point closed at -15.30 won, up 0.20 won from the opening price, while shorter maturities also posted gains across the

Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore's BLOOM initiative as policy institution members on Oct. 23. The two central banks are joining the cross-border stablecoin payments initiative to lower costs and speed service launches by reducing the need for s

The Blockchain Association sent a letter on October 22 to US congressional leaders including Senate Republican Leader John Thune, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, calling for an overhaul of digital-asset taxation. The group argued the current tax framework, in

Monero developers are preparing the FCMP++ upgrade to replace the ring signature system that currently hides transaction senders, receivers, and amounts. A draft timeline from a Monero developer points to a fork-enabled release between October 14 and 21, 2026, with activation around the first week o

On October 21, 2026, Solana mainnet activated the Alpenglow consensus upgrade at slot 459,653,000, officially retiring TowerBFT after more than six years of operation and cutting transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds. This is the largest change to Solana’s consensus layer since its launch in 2020. Anza CEO Brennan Watt described it as “the largest blockchain upgrade since The Merge.” However, as of October 23, 2026, Beijing time, Gate market data