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Pendle launched PPLUS, a real-world asset (RWA) vault strategy targeting a maturity date of January 2027. The strategy aims to provide fixed yield on leveraged credit through a collaboration designed with Bitwise and managed on Ember Protocol. The launch comes as the RWA

Brian Vieten, senior research analyst at Nasdaq-listed Siebert Financial, forecasts Bitcoin rising beyond $175,000, according to comments provided to Bitcoin.com News on October 14. BTC traded near $80,800 on October 15, leaving a substantial gap between current market conditions and the analyst's b

Tom Lee predicted on October 15 that Ethereum could exceed $5,000 before December 31, requiring a 112% rally from its current $2,362.73 price. The co-founder of Fundstrat and chairman of BitMine Immersion Technologies cited growing institutional adoption of blockchain infrastructure during remarks a

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated late Wednesday that the United States 'absolutely must' work with Chinese AI companies and maintain dialogue to ensure the technology develops safely, speaking at an event in London. Huang explained the necessity for cooperation by noting that 'this technology is

Bank of America shares were trading flat in pre-market trading on Thursday after a 5% earnings-led crash in the previous session, with the US Stock Market News highlighting a 21% slide from the company's recent peak. The second-largest US bank reported net income of $6.9 billion in the third

XRP Ledger validators are voting on four proposed network amendments as of October 15, with the LendingProtocol amendment receiving support from 19 of 35 validators and the ConfidentialTransfer amendment attracting 22 votes. Both proposals remain below the 29-vote supermajority threshold currently r

Cloudflare tracked malicious Russian bot traffic migrating to alternate cloud hosting providers after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged Yandex data centers. The cybersecurity company reported that automated attacks shifted from Yandex.Cloud to networks including Radist and Selectel, with total bot

China's three major A-share indices closed lower on October 15 after narrow afternoon fluctuations, with big banks attempting to support the market. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.59% to 3,707.48 points, the Shenzhen Component Index dropped 2.43% to 11,816.79 points, and the ChiNext Index

SinoPac Asset Management announced on October 15 the launch of the SinoPac Global Strategic Resources Fund, targeting uranium mining, rare earth minerals, and electricity infrastructure investments, with募集 starting October 19. The fund responds to AI development driving increased power demand and he

Chinese mainland stocks declined sharply on October 15, with the Shanghai Composite Index falling 1.59% to 3,707.48 points after briefly breaking below the 3,700-point level during intraday trading. The selloff was driven by broad-based declines across the market, with over 5,100 stocks falling.

Hong Kong stocks declined on October 15, with the Hang Seng Index falling 251 points or 1.03% to close at 24,062 points. Artificial intelligence (AI) concept stocks emerged as the hardest-hit sector, with multiple companies recording double-digit percentage losses. Market analysts attributed the

The US Labor Department reported on October 15 that the producer price index rose 1.3% from a month earlier in September, exceeding economists' forecast of 0.6% by 0.7 percentage point. The increase was driven by rising company input costs including raw materials, labor, and energy. PPI measures

BingX EU secured a MiCAR license from Austria's Financial Market Authority, enabling regulated crypto services across 29 EEA countries. The authorization allows the platform, operating as MEGE zweite GmbH, to provide digital asset services under a unified regulatory framework focused on

US spot XRP exchange-traded funds attracted $740,400 in net inflows on October 14, marking a sharp slowdown in institutional demand. Cumulative inflows have reached approximately $1.8 billion since the products began launching in November 2025, according to SoSoValue's XRP ETF tracker. Bitwise

Pyth Network announced that Q3 marked its largest quarter for real-world asset (RWA) perpetuals, achieving a cumulative trading volume of $2.16 trillion. Open interest climbed 79% to a record $12.6 billion, with $2.04 trillion priced by Pyth during this period. Pyth Network operates as a

The HEX token fell nearly 30% in the past 24 hours following local media reports that founder Richard Schueler, also known as Richard Heart, was detained by authorities in Istanbul on Wednesday. The token declined to $0.0006 as of 11:28 am UTC on Thursday, erasing about $160 million from its

Memory chip stocks SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron suffered sharp declines this week, with SK Hynix plunging 26% over the last five days, Samsung tanking 22%, and Micron dropping around 11%. The selloff intensified after Chinese chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) announced plans to roll

Ledger unveiled Atom on Thursday, an $849 hardware wallet device designed with anti-tampering protections and a smartphone-like interface that separates Android apps from sensitive wallet operations. The French hardware wallet maker announced the device will begin shipping in summer 2027. The unveil

OpenAI accused a former employee who returned to Apple of transferring over 100 confidential device files on October 14, 2026. The allegations were detailed in a supplement to a joint case management statement filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where Apple