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Thai immigration police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man surnamed Wu, who was wanted in China, at a luxury residence in Ramkhamhaeng, in Bangkok’s Saphan Sung district, on October 16, 2026. Police accused Wu of being involved in a transnational money-laundering network that processed more than 500 million Yuan (approximately $75 million) in transactions through over 133 bank accounts, and of allegedly providing cryptocurrency and foreign-exchange services to transnational criminal groups. Arre

Bitcoin (BTC) has given back its overnight gains and is trading at around $81,450 as of Oct. 20. The U.S. CFTC challenged CME’s standing to sue, saying CME failed to prove that the new Perpetual Contract policy caused it harm. JPMorgan is bringing JPM Coin to Ethereum to test bank-money settlement. Macro Events & Crypto Market Highlights According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint with the court last Friday, stating that CME failed to prove it ha

Sumit Gupta, co-founder of CoinDCX, has called for Crypto Tax in India reform, highlighting that India risks losing ₹57,147 crore in potential revenue due to traders migrating to offshore exchanges. According to the TIOL Knowledge Foundation report shared by Gupta, the high 1% TDS (Tax Deducted at S

Morningstar published a report on October 19 (local time) identifying a significant shift in bond market selloff drivers that emerged approximately one month prior. The analysis found that fiscal health concerns have overtaken artificial intelligence spending as the primary force pushing bond

From January through September 2026, the tax service added 365 companies and individual entrepreneurs engaged in mining to the register, while removing 375 participants. As of October 1, 2026, the register listed 1,473 participants. According to estimates by consulting firm Quattor Advisory, 65% of those removed from the register had voluntarily abandoned mining, while another 32% had ceased their business activities. The remaining participants were removed because of inaccurate information abou

Over 40% of large-cap altcoins are operating near their highest leverage levels of the year, according to on-chain market analysis firm Glassnode. The market has experienced a pullback since leverage peaked earlier this month. Mid-cap altcoins are also reaching yearly leverage highs, creating

Over 93% of South Korean bond market participants expect the Bank of Korea's Monetary Policy Committee to freeze the base interest rate at its meeting on the 22nd, according to a survey conducted October 12-15 by the Korea Financial Investment Association. The survey of 100 respondents from 53

US bank stocks extended their decline through the 19th, marking 6 consecutive weeks of losses despite solid third-quarter earnings from major institutions. The KBW Nasdaq Bank Index fell 11% since early September, representing the longest sustained decline for the banking sector since the 2008

South Korea's National Tax Service disclosed preliminary specifications on October 6 for a system to track year-end holdings of large virtual-asset investors, according to the Public Procurement Service's KONEPS platform reported on October 20. The project, budgeted at approximately 1.382 billion

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and Alphabet, owns approximately 1% of Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude models, according to a Bloomberg report published on October 19, 2026. The stake originated from Schmidt's investment in Anthropic's Series A funding round in 2021, when the company

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outlined three potential scenarios for how the race to build advanced AI could conclude during an internal discussion with employees on October 19-20, 2026, according to reports. The scenarios include establishing a global regulatory body similar to nuclear watchdogs,

LS Eco Energy, an LS Group affiliate, announced on the 20th that it achieved record third-quarter earnings with revenue of 351.5 billion won and operating profit of 22.2 billion won on a consolidated basis. The results represent year-over-year increases of 51.0% in revenue and 50.2% in operating pro

Ethereum options traders purchased downside protection at a premium on October 19, 2026, as short-dated put contracts traded significantly above call contracts in pricing. ETH declined roughly 8% over the past month while Bitcoin gained 1.5% during the same period, prompting defensive positioning in

BNB Chain opened a dedicated community forum category for NewL1, a new Layer 1 blockchain network, in July 2026, with renewed promotion on October 17 and 19, 2026. The project is seeking community input on the technical design of a network built to handle workloads that exceed the current capacity o

Hugging Face's Head of Global Policy is warning against relying on embedded evaluators, third-party assessors given extensive access inside frontier AI labs. The caution follows a July 2026 incident in which OpenAI's internal evaluation agents compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure during

Hyperscalers are projected to see their free cash flow turn negative by 2027 as capital expenditure for artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerates, according to JP Morgan strategist Mislav Matejka. Morgan Stanley raised its total capital expenditure estimate for hyperscalers from $978

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and activist Ilana Glazer discussed artificial intelligence regulation at Webster Hall in Manhattan on Monday night during The People's AI Assembly hosted by the AI Now Institute. Mamdani urged New Yorkers to resist assumptions that AI adoption is inevitable and called for holding AI companies accountable. The event occurred as the federal government provides minimal AI regulation, leaving cities to implement their own policies. Mamdani Orders AI Ban in NYC Elementa

Citi identified Aave as a collateral mobility protocol for tokenized capital markets in recent research. The financial institution's analysis positions Aave as capable of facilitating transactions in traditional finance. This recognition highlights the ongoing convergence between decentralized finan