Filtering the noise: Oct. 13, 2026
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.
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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