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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev followed an X account related to memecoin GIGATENEV on October 20, triggering a nearly 17-fold price surge in the token over a short period. Crypto outlets BlockBeats and Odaily reported that Tenev followed the 'Giga Tenev' account earlier in the day, prompting the rapid pri

Beast Holdings, a company linked to global YouTuber MrBeast, filed trademark applications for 'MRBEAST FINANCIAL' and 'BEAST FINANCIAL' on October 13, 2025, according to crypto-focused media outlet Odaily reported on October 20. The filings cover cryptocurrency trading, payment processing, and

Berkshire Hathaway recently invested an additional $330 million in Italian technology company Bending Spoons, securing a 4% stake in the firm. The investment came on top of the $600 million Berkshire committed during Bending Spoons' initial public offering, according to a company press release. Berk

The Trump administration banned Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from civilian U.S. government agencies through a Department of Homeland Security order issued on July 24 and made public on Monday. The ban requires federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek-related technology from their IT systems and p

Nick See Tong, Base's head of Asia-Pacific, stated in an interview published on Oct. 20 that Coinbase sees a future where all assets move on-chain and trade 24 hours a day. Base aims to connect trading, payments, and finance on a single on-chain infrastructure so institutions and developers can

Multicoin Capital confirmed Hyperliquid's HYPE token as its largest hedge fund position, Spencer Applebaum said on October 19, 2026. Applebaum, a general partner and co-head of venture investments at the firm, said Multicoin accumulated the token through public-market purchases and generally

UK-based digital asset platform Archax integrated Chainlink Data Streams to provide pricing data for $GOVY, its tokenized perpetual U.S. Treasury product. The integration aims to expand the asset's utility across on-chain lending, collateral

Germany's Sparkassen savings-bank network began offering cryptocurrency trading to retail customers on October 19, 2026, through a service branded Krypto – powered by Deka. The service allows eligible customers at participating savings banks to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies through the existing Sparkasse mobile banking application. DekaBank, the investment services provider of the Sparkassen financial group, operates the service in cooperation with Boerse Stuttgart. The launch marks a reve

Trader Bharat Krymo purchased 5.02 million $EDEL tokens for $143.6K within a span of just a few hours, according to CryptoTwitter commentator @lookonchain. The purchase represents significant market engagement from Krymo, who maintains substantial positions across multiple tokens. Krymo currently ho

Mastercard launched Stablecoin Security on October 19, 2026, at the Money20/20 USA conference in Las Vegas, a risk intelligence solution designed to help financial institutions identify fraud, scams, sanctions exposure and other financial crime risks across stablecoin payment transactions. The

Chevron shares traded near a 52-week high of $225.67 on Monday ahead of the energy company's third-quarter 2026 earnings report scheduled for Oct. 30. Wall Street analysts forecast Chevron's quarterly earnings will surge 155.68% year over year to $4.73 per share, with revenue projected at

JPMorgan Asset Management included Bitcoin for the first time in its '2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions' and projected a 10% annualized compounded return over the next 10 to 15 years, Wu Blockchain reported on October 20. The projection marks the first-time inclusion of Bitcoin in JPMorgan's

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected South Korea's potential growth rate will rise to 2.14% this year from 1.94% last year, and further to 2.20% next year, according to its October World Economic Outlook report released on October 18. The projection marks a two-year consecutive increase i

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated on Oct. 20 that trading volume in Iran-linked stablecoins fell 94% after the company froze wallets tied to sanctioned entities. The statement pushed back against recent analysis by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Tether's sanctions compliance. Tether, the issuer

Sophon has set a Nov. 25 deadline for users to withdraw their assets ahead of its planned mainnet shutdown. The Ethereum layer-2 blockchain announced Monday it will begin shutting down key infrastructure and related websites on Nov. 25, following a June announcement that it would abandon its

JP Morgan analysts assessed that artificial intelligence-related bond issuance is adding pressure to bond markets but the impact remains modest, according to a report released on the 19th (local time). Nicolaos Panigirtzoglou, Chief Market Strategist for Global Markets at JP Morgan, stated that

BlackRock introduced tokenized access to selected European money market funds on August 4, using JPMorgan's Kinexys asset tokenization platform to create blockchain-based representations on Ethereum. The world's largest asset manager, which reported $15.49 trillion in assets under management at the

The Hyperliquid Policy Center submitted five recommendations to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on October 19, 2026, urging revisions to the agency's proposed cryptocurrency regulatory framework to clarify how token distributions and decentralized markets operate under federal securities l

Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet moved closer to establishing a US-listed subsidiary after shareholders of Super League Enterprise approved proposals supporting a transaction involving 2,100 Bitcoin and $2.5 million in cash on