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Salesforce announced an agreement on Tuesday morning to acquire customer engagement platform Braze for approximately $5.66 billion, causing Braze shares to skyrocket more than 50% while Salesforce stock slipped roughly 1%. Under the deal terms, holders of Braze Class A common stock will

Ethereum staking reached a record 43.8 million ETH at the end of the third quarter, equal to 35.9% of total supply, according to Bitwise's fourth-quarter staking report released on October 20. Net staking inflows totaled 1.99 million ETH during the quarter, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of g

The AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) and SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) announced a cooperation agreement to enhance oversight of investment advisors and service providers. The agreement was revealed in a tweet by the AMF and focuses on strengthening supervision in the financial servi

Silence Therapeutics (Nasdaq: SLN) closed at $19.58 on Monday October 19, 2026, up $10.90 or 125.58% from Friday's $8.68, following Merck KGaA's $20.00 per American depositary share cash acquisition offer. The transaction is structured as a UK scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies

The United States and Iran have given preliminary approval to a diplomatic mediation proposal presented by Qatar and Pakistan, according to a report on October 20. Walter Bloomberg, citing Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, reported that both sides tentatively agreed to the compromise proposal. The agreement

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA) signed a two-year agreement in Singapore at the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development to strengthen cybersecurity expertise and promote responsible use of digital

Solana trader @Jelitics reported losing over $1 million across 12 meme coin trades, achieving a 0% win rate and subsequently cashing out all holdings. The losses occurred through trading Solana-based tokens in recent market activity. The incident has intensified discussions within the Solana

On-chain analyst Darkfost reported on October 20 that Bitcoin supply currently in profit has fallen to 53.8%, down from levels recently above 60%. The decline reflects weak investor conviction as the market enters a wait-and-see phase without clear directional momentum. Darkfost characterized

XRP traded at $1.30 on Tuesday 20 October, down approximately 1 percent in 24 hours, marking a decline to about 6 percent below its weekly 200-period exponential moving average near $1.377. The cryptocurrency has weakened alongside Bitcoin's failure to reclaim $84,000 since early October, while US s

XRP launched its first official X account on October 19, over 14 years after the XRP Ledger began operating. Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation jointly manage the new social media presence. The @XRP account debuted with a short message and a 10-second video displaying the XRP logo, drawing

Binance has tokenized Tesla and SpaceX stocks through its bStocks and xStocks offerings, with a combined market value of $403.2 million, according to Token Terminal. Tesla bStocks account for $172 million while SpaceX xStocks represent $124.4 million of this total. The figures reflect growing

Palantir stock (Nasdaq: PLTR) traded at $193.02 in Tuesday's pre-market at 9:12 am ET on 20 October, down 0.58 percent from Monday's close. The stock closed Monday 19 October at $194.15, up $8.12 or 4.36 percent, its best single-day gain since early September, after announcing a partnership with

CryptoUK recently hosted a webinar where Myles Harrison, Chief Product Officer at amina_uk_, argued for the integration of digital assets into existing regulatory frameworks. Harrison emphasized that as digital assets increasingly intertwine with

Stablecoins transferred more than $400 million on average every hour in the third quarter of this year, with 73% of that activity occurring outside U.S. banking hours, according to a joint study by Coinbase and The Block Pro Research published October 20. The report, titled 'The Always-On Dollar,' a

Bob McGrew, former research chief at OpenAI, has raised $230 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for his AI manufacturing startup Arda, the company told CNBC in an exclusive interview Tuesday. The funding round was led by Altimeter Capital, Accel and Khosla Ventures. Arda develops AI software to

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered federal civilian agencies to stop purchasing and remove products developed by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from government IT systems over national security concerns. The order, published in the Federal Register, extends beyond DeepSeek's own products

Grvt announced on October 20, 2026 that the Foundation's token issuer completed its first GRVT token buyback, burning 1.1 million tokens. The self-custodial trading platform, built on its own zero-knowledge chain, stated the transaction permanently removed close to 1% of GRVT's circulating supply at

CryptoTwitter influencer Richard Teng commented on research conducted by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) examining the relationship between bank deposit rates and stablecoin growth. Teng stated that higher bank deposit rates may influence stablecoin adoption, though they represent

XRP lost approximately $61.14 billion in circulating market capitalization from October 19, 2025 to October 19, 2026, a 42.6% decline coinciding with Ripple-backed Evernorth Holdings entering Nasdaq on October 12 holding approximately 473 million XRP. The token's price declined approximately 45.5% f