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W Group announced the expansion of hashbank's digital banking model, which now connects regulated fiat banking services with external blockchain wallets and crypto platforms. hashbank obtained a full banking license from the National Bank of Georgia in 2023 and began operating in 2024. The expansion

DSRV, NICE Information & Telecommunication, and SBI DigiTrust signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 2 to verify a stablecoin remittance and payment model between South Korea and Japan. The three companies will jointly examine a structure that uses stablecoins in QR-code payments by Japanese u

Whale Alert confirmed earlier today that 1,075 BTC, valued at approximately $92.8 million, was transferred from an unknown wallet to the OKEX exchange. Whale Alert is an organization that tracks large cryptocurrency transactions on the blockchain, providing data on significant asset movements

Economist and 'The Bitcoin Standard' author Saifedean Ammous said on Cointelegraph's Proof of Thesis that Bitcoin treasury companies may struggle to compete with Michael Saylor's Strategy. Ammous cited Strategy's larger holdings and lower borrowing rates as competitive advantages. Strategy

The U.S. Treasury designated Russia's A7 Network a transnational criminal organization on Thursday, with the Office of Foreign Assets Control listing addresses in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network separately proposed a rule prohibiting U.S.

JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs expressed caution regarding October crypto market trends as the month begins. The institutions' hesitation reflects mixed signals across the cryptocurrency market and insufficient price action to confirm bullish momentum. Both financial giants are waiting for clearer mark

Ethereum withdrew its EIP-8363 staking-reward burn proposal on October 1, removing a mechanism that would have reduced ETH issuance as the staking ratio increased. The proposal faced criticism over its timing and potential impact on smaller validators after generating more than 200 forum comments. T

Speakers at a Yonsei University symposium held Sept. 28 emphasized that Asia must build credible financial infrastructure integrating transition finance, carbon markets, and digital finance to accelerate carbon neutrality progress. The conference, titled 'Transition Finance, Carbon Markets and

French government bonds faced intensifying selling pressure as the yield spread between French and German 10-year sovereign debt widened to 152 basis points in intraday trading on October 2, according to Walter Bloomberg. The gap marked the widest level since 2011. Market concerns center on France's

Google released Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship AI model, as the company seeks to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic in the frontier AI race. The model ranks behind only Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index composite benchmark. Google is launching the m

Wall Street banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One posted 139,819 AI-related job listings this year, a 49% increase compared with 2025, according to enterprise hiring data firm Draup. The surge reflects banks moving beyond chatbots to deploy AI agents that handle an increasing

Oracle stock faces two unconfirmed data points that do not directly intersect. The Financial Times reported on October 1, 2026, that Tencent has taken a five-year lease worth about $7 billion for access to roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips in Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia, with about 30

Aave V4, a decentralized lending protocol, surpassed $1 billion in deposits during September and expanded to Circle's Arc network and Base, according to an October 1 development update from Aave Labs. The milestone reflects the protocol's hub-and-spoke architecture, which isolates different risk

Optimism released Kona v1.8.0 on October 1, delivering fixes for derivation, proof execution, TLS dependencies, and preimage handling in its Rust-based fault-proof stack. The update addresses a narrow edge case where malformed batches could cause Kona to derive a different chain from op-node under s

US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $56.9 million in net outflows for the October 1 session, while Bitcoin ETFs moved in the opposite direction with $102.7 million in net inflows, according to DefiLlama's ETF dashboard using Farside data. The divergence suggests investors may be preferring Bitcoin

Optimism released op-reth v2.5.0 on October 1, a maintenance update recommended for all op-reth operators that removes two legacy pre-Bedrock import commands and patches security vulnerabilities in rustls and imbl dependencies. The update addresses technical debt accumulated during the network's