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Filtering the noise: Oct. 13, 2026

2 min readOct 13, 2026

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Important news for today:

Macro

  • Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has announced that the monthly inflation rate in September was 0.82%, up from deflation of 0.32% in August.

Crypto

  • Aptos has launched an optional new feature that could help shield traders from attacks involving maximal extractable value (MEV), including frontrunning and sandwich attacks.
  • Binance is shutting down its mining pool and related services in November, ending an operation that has been running for over 6 years.
  • Blur will close its NFT marketplace website on Nov. 12 and stop arranging new loans through Blend, though its Ethereum smart contracts will remain operational.
  • Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network, which supports AI data training protocol DATA Network. DATA Network is set to be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui, and its independent chain will be retired.
  • Bybit will launch mStocks next month, offering 24/7 access to tokenized equities backed 1:1 by real shares. Developed with Mantle, mStocks will support use as trading collateral, DEX trading and DeFi.
  • A short list of the upcoming TGEs, primary listings, product releases you should know about.
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Corporate

  • Strategy bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million last week, marking a second consecutive weekly decline in purchases as its Bitcoin holdings reached 848,250 BTC.
  • Jeonbuk Bank became South Korea’s first lender to offer BTC-backed loans, available exclusively to corporate clients. Loans use third-party custodians for BTC holdings and rely on court-ordered sales if borrowers default.
  • Bitmine acquired 12,532 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 6,028,946 ETH, or 4.9% of Ethereum’s supply.
  • DeFi Development Corp added about 22,070 SOL and SOL equivalents last week, lifting its treasury to roughly 2,586,282 tokens, up 12% since August 12.
  • Morgan Stanley now expects to start supporting tokenized equities on its alternative trading system in Q1 2027, later than its previously announced timeline of H2 2026.

Fundraising and M&As

  • TruGolf Holdings has acquired Polymath. Polymath aims to facilitate the launching of security token ICOs and trading of security tokens
  • Orbio.so raised $1.2M in a seed round. Orbio.so is a Robinhood chain token for earning OpenRouter credits from fees.
  • TROOPS has acquired Efforce. Efforce is a blockchain platform for financing energy efficiency and climate projects.

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Beyond the Crypto Horizon investigates the changing world of cryptocurrencies through project research, news aggregation, and weekly fundraising updates.