Important news for today:

Macro

• Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has announced that monthly inflation in October was 0.65%, up from 0.42% in September. In year-on-year terms, inflation rose to 3.75% in October, up from 3.45% the previous month.
• US CPI rises 0.4% month over month in October, above the 0.3% estimate. Core CPI rises 0.3%, above the 0.2% estimate and matching September’s pace.

Crypto

• Across Protocol said it has regained control of its website after a social engineering attack on Tuesday enabled attackers to gain control of its domain, replacing its website with a phishing site.
• Kimber Digital Securities, an affiliate of Plume, secured official SEC registration and Finra approval to operate as a US broker-dealer. The approvals allow the firm to plug public blockchain infrastructure directly into the Depository Trust Company (DTC), bypassing traditional wrapped asset models.
• Visa has added Monad as a stablecoin settlement option for participating issuers and acquirers. The foundation said a planned privacy feature will let institutions keep settlement details private while allowing auditors and regulators to access them.
• Moody’s Ratings and Chainlink completed a pilot demonstrating the cross-chain distribution of credit ratings across multiple blockchain networks using Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP).
• Jupiter is launching 4 products, including Baskets for buying bundles of tokens in one deposit and Vaults for yield strategies run by outside curators. The releases roll out this week ahead of Solana Breakpoint on November 15, with Vaults opening first as a private beta.
• NEAR AI says an attacker exploited a flaw in SGLang, accessed internal systems, and downloaded account details for approximately 100 users. Data from 18 older AI agents included chat histories and logs; API keys for two Cloud customers were also exposed and revoked.
• Sui hardware wallet Suiball announces its shutdown and will refund all pre-orders in USDC. It says the Sui Foundation decided the project was too risky to support after a wave of hardware wallet attacks.

Corporate

• Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other financial firms committed about $270 million to cover 5 years of operating costs for a joint stablecoin venture. The venture, known as Project Faro, plans to issue a dollar-denominated stablecoin and is expected to be incorporated in the US.
• Payward has added more than 200 tokenized UK and European stocks to xStocks, including all 40 companies in Germany’s DAX index.
• Ark Invest sold $6.1 million worth of Block shares and $1.13 million worth of Bullish shares through its ETFs. The investment firm also bought $16.2 million worth of Nvidia and $6.8 million worth of SoFi Technologies stock.
• HIVE Digital Technologies reported a net loss of $78.7 million in the 3 months to Sept. 30, compared with $15.8 million a year earlier. HIVE’s BUZZ HPC business brought in $8.8 million during the quarter, a 70.7% increase from the same period last year.
• eToro reported third-quarter net income of $15 million, down from $57 million a year earlier. The trading platform’s net contribution fell 13% to $186 million, primarily driven by weaker crypto trading activity.
• Bitdeer reported a net loss of $125.5 million in Q3 despite revenue hitting a record $320.7 million. The company mined 3,855 BTC in the third quarter, up 248% from 1,109 BTC a year earlier.
• Canaan said it generated $4.8 million in revenue from mining equipment, down 96% from the third quarter of 2025. The firm’s operating loss widened to $42.9 million from $23.9 million a year earlier.
• Forward secured a $50 million credit line backed by SOL that will continue earning staking rewards. The company committed up to $50 million to USHP, planning to use investment income to accumulate more SOL.
• Tron Inc. reported Q3 2026 net income of $14.9 million, up 22% year-over-year, with a nine-month net income of $39.4 million, up 203%. Its unrealized staking income rose 41% year-over-year to roughly $3.18 million in Q3.
• Tom Lee’s Bitmine reported a net loss of $6.3 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2026, primarily driven by ETH’s decline. Earlier this week, Bitmine said it has accumulated 6,070,092 ETH, reaching 4.97% of Ethereum’s total supply.

Fundraising and M&As

• Alta, a startup building blockchain infrastructure for banks and payment companies, raised $47.5 million in fresh funding in a Series A round.

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Filtering the noise: Nov. 11, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

AI/Equities

• Anthropic is reportedly planning to begin trading next week.

Crypto

• Formation Securities plans to operate the first Solana-based tokenized stock marketplace under the US SEC’s innovation exemption. Galaxy Digital, Forward Industries and Exodus already signaled support for listing their tokenized shares for trading, using trading technology licensed from Orca.
• The New York Stock Exchange plans to use Avalanche as the core settlement ledger for its forthcoming tokenized securities platform. The venue aims to offer round-the-clock trading and settlement while supporting tokenized stocks issued on multiple blockchain networks.
• According to Similarweb data, cumulative web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges in October remained at the same level as in the previous month.

• A short list of the upcoming TGEs, primary listings, product releases you should know about.

Corporate

• Strategy bought 1,036 Bitcoin for $81.9 million last week, bringing its holdings to 850,364 BTC.
• Robinhood confirmed it did not object to its shares trading on OKXICE, while about 90% of the companies initially selected have opted out. The venue would use the SEC’s 5-year innovation exemption, which permits tokenized stock trading through automated market makers and gives companies 30 days to object to being listed.
• Coinbase is the latest crypto native firm to win full status as a national trust bank under a US OCC charter.
• MARA Holdings sold $1.1 billion in bitcoin after September, equivalent to 40% of its quarter-end holdings, and plans further sales to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, debt repayments and potential share buybacks.
• Charles Schwab adds trading for SOL, AVAX and LINK.
• Securitize acquires River One, its first buy as a public company, to expand into the $6 trillion asset-backed finance market.

Fundraising and M&As

• Seva Money raised $5M in a seed round led by Blockwall (Lead), Revent (Lead), seedcamp, Ada Ventures, and Stride.VC. Seva Money provides white-label wallets and cards for remittance recipients, supporting fiat and stablecoins.

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Filtering the noise: Nov. 10, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

Macro

• The government’s just-released Nonfarm Payrolls Report showed the addition of 165,000 jobs in October, far past estimates for 65,000. September’s originally reported 29,000 job gain was revised higher to 60,000. The October unemployment rate fell to 4.1% versus forecasts for 4.2% and September’s 4.2%.

Crypto

• Gnosis Pay disclosed a security breach on Friday that exposed customers’ payment card details, home addresses and cryptocurrency wallet addresses.
• World Liberty Financial plans further WLFI token buybacks after its price fell about 10% following the US midterm elections, bringing its decline this year to more than 66%. The company said it may fund purchases with fees from reserves backing its USD1 stablecoin and other sources, aiming to increase governance participation and long-term holders’ voting power.
• Zcash activated its NU7 upgrade, cutting the target interval between blocks from 75 seconds to 25, though actual speeds were still adjusting and payment availability depends on each service’s requirements.
• Aave Labs has acquired the team and technology behind Avon. The acquisition adds an onchain order book and fixed-rate borrowing functionality to the network.
• MEXC just got cut off from the US financial system. FinCEN is accusing the exchange of helping Iran, North Korea and Russia evade sanctions.

Corporate

• Core Scientific said it expects to exit Bitcoin mining by the end of 2026 as it shifts its business toward artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure.
• South Korean crypto exchange GOPAX suspended trading, deposits and standard withdrawals Friday after receiving an email threatening a hack.
• Apple, Meta and Palantir are among the latest companies to object to OKXICE’s tokenized stock trading plans, bringing the total to 67. Strategy, Coinbase, Circle and Robinhood have no disclosed objection, alongside Securitize and BitGo, which previously said they would not object.

Regulations

• Greece has approved a 10% tax on individual crypto capital gains above 500 euros a year, with the rules set to take effect in January 2027. Staking, crypto lending and DeFi liquidity returns will face a separate 15% tax, while investors can carry forward qualifying losses for 5 years.
• The Central Bank of Nigeria has introduced new licensing requirements for stablecoin issuers and other non-security virtual asset service providers. The regulations create separate licensing categories for naira-referenced and foreign-currency-referenced stablecoins. The rules also prohibit algorithmic stablecoins and impose anti-money laundering and transaction-monitoring requirements.

Fundraising and M&As

• Unruggable raised $500k in a strategic round led by Colosseum (Lead). It is a self-custody hardware wallet and companion app for Solana.
• Takenos raised $7M in an extended seed round led by North Island Ventures (Lead), Road Capital (Lead), Variant, Lattice, and Reverie. It provides accounts, cards and international payments using stablecoins in Latin America.

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Filtering the noise: Nov. 6, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

Macro

• The monetary policy committee (Copom) of Brazil’s central bank (BCB) has maintained the benchmark interest rate (Selic) at 13.75%. This marks an end to the rate-cut cycle which had seen 5 consecutive cuts to the Selic since March this year. In a Copom statement yesterday announcing the decision to hold the Selic, the committee highlighted a range of inflationary risks, including supply-side shocks related to oil prices, and adverse climate effects impacting agricultural production, as well as stimulus to aggregate demand.
• In a widely expected move, the Bank of England raised its main interest rate to 4% from 3.75%. 8 policymakers voted for the quarter-point increase, while one wanted a larger, half-point rise.
• Democrats have won control of the US Senate after flipping Republican-held seats in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa. The majority was secured after Democrat Senator Josh Turek won the Senate race for Iowa, bringing Democrats and independents who caucus with them to 51 seats.

AI/Equities

• OpenAI says its AI found 948 flaws in the Linux kernel and wrote a working attack for each one. Linux runs much of the world’s computing, including a lot of crypto. Crypto security voices say decentralization makes the industry more resilient than traditional software.

Crypto

• Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake is targeting December 2028 to complete Ethereum’s post-quantum and post-AI transition, a year earlier than the foundation’s previously announced quantum-resistance deadline.
• Payward and its clients bought an undisclosed amount of AAVE tokens on the secondary market. The deal evolved from earlier talks involving tokens and equity. The investment expands Payward’s asset management push, with the companies exploring further collaboration.
• Samsung’s Stablecoin Account is now live in Samsung Wallet, allowing eligible Galaxy users in the US to buy, hold and transfer USDC on Solana.
• Canary Capital has launched the Canary Staked INJ ETF. The fund will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker INJC.

Corporate

• Thailand’s securities regulator has filed a criminal complaint against BG Limited, the operator of cryptocurrency exchange Bitget, for allegedly operating without a license.
• J.P. Morgan includes Bitcoin in its 2027 long-term capital market assumptions, forecasting a 10% annualized return.

Regulations

• Hong Kong passed a law requiring cryptocurrency exchanges and other covered providers to collect customer and transaction information for sharing with tax authorities in participating jurisdictions where customers are tax residents.

Fundraising and M&As

• Soter Insure raised an undisclosed amount in a series B round led by Galaxy (Lead), Coinbase Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, Franklin Templeton Investments, Token Bay Capital, and SC Ventures. Soter Insure provides insurance for digital asset institutions, covering theft, slashing and smart contract risks.
• Uranium Digital raised $16.5M in a series A round led by Blockchain Capital (Lead), Portal Ventures, and Apeiron Investment Group. It is a platform for institutional uranium trading and tokenized warehouse receipts.
• Lombard Systems raised $4M in a seed round led by Ethereal Ventures (Lead), Atka, Veris Digital (Prev. Veris Ventures), ALPS Capital, and First Commit Capital. They provide infrastructure for institutional lending against tokenized assets held in custody.

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Filtering the noise: Nov. 5, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

Macro

• Eurozone inflation rose to 4% in October, its highest level in more than 3 years, as soaring energy bills kept pushing up the cost of living across the bloc.
• Democrats have won control of the US Senate after flipping Republican-held seats in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa. The majority was secured after Democrat Senator Josh Turek won the Senate race for Iowa, bringing Democrats and independents who caucus with them to 51 seats.

Crypto

• Schroders is bringing its emerging markets bond strategy onchain with tokenization specialist Centrifuge, marking its first deployment on the Solana blockchain.

Corporate

• Circle earned $226 million in the third quarter, compared with $214.4 million a year earlier, and reported $317 million in adjusted EBITDA. A note in Circle’s earnings tables also disclosed $9.1 million in restructuring charges tied to a roughly 5% workforce reduction.

Fundraising and M&As

• CRYMBO raised an undisclosed amount in a strategic round led by Orbs. CRYMBO is a digital asset infrastructure for institutions, with identity verification and compliance.
• Scallop raised an undisclosed amount in a strategic round led by XDC Ventures. Scallop is a financial platform for fiat and crypto accounts, cards and cross-border payments.
• Yellow Card has acquired GoMoney. GoMoney is a Brazilian fintech for crypto conversion and international payments.

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Filtering the noise: Nov. 4, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

Macro

• Australia raises interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.85%, an 18-year high, as AI investment and higher energy costs fuel inflation.

Crypto

• Binance has completed a new zero-knowledge proof of reserves snapshot, allowing users holding BTC, ETH, USDT, BNB, SOL, USDC, XRP, USD1, RLUSD and ZEC to independently verify that their balances are backed 1:1. In its latest recovery update published Monday morning, the exchange said it replenished about 95% of the assets affected by last week’s hack with its own funds, with the remaining 5% in less-liquid tokens it is still working to acquire.
• Consensys introduced a technology stack for routing and coordinating transactions across independently operated institutional ledgers. The product uses Cross Ledger Interoperability Protocol to coordinate securities and currency settlements across networks without moving assets off their native ledgers.
• NEAR’s House of Stake passed HSP-029, which lowers the network’s maximum annual issuance rate from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months. It still needs Security Council review, a 90-day grace period, and a validator upgrade before it becomes binding.
• A short list of the upcoming TGEs, primary listings, product releases you should know about.

Corporate

• Strategy repurchased $208.2 million in STRC and spent about $65.5 million buying 811 BTC at an average price of $80,846.
• Animoca Brands had secured approval to manage investment funds for non-retail clients in Abu Dhabi, expanding the asset management business of a company that began in mobile games before moving into blockchain gaming and venture investing.
• Moscow Exchange plans to launch trading in Bitcoin, Ether and Tether’s USDT on Dec. 1, opening what it describes as Russia’s first organized digital currency market.
• Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Netflix, SoFi and Lam Research are the latest companies to object to OKXICE’s tokenized stock trading plans. 49 of the 62 companies initially proposed for trading have objected, leaving 13 without a disclosed objection. Companies that received notice on Oct. 4 have until Tuesday to object under the SEC’s 30-day response window.
• NYSE adds Broadridge, Computershare, Equiniti and Superstate as transfer agent partners for its new tokenized securities venue, joining Securitize and tZERO.

Regulations

• The CFTC cleared the way for perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to trade on registered US exchanges for the first time. The move advances Washington’s effort to bring perpetual futures trading under US regulatory oversight.

Fundraising and M&As

• StableStock raised an undisclosed amoun at $75M valuation led by Amber Group, Gate Ventures, Nomad Capital, and Flow Traders.
• Bloquo raised $3.7M seed round led by Triaxis Capital (Lead), Crescera Capital (Lead), and Lattice. Bloquo is a stablecoin infrastructure for international payments, FX and trade finance.
• LO:TECH raised $12M in a series A round led by MMC Ventures (Lead), Faction, Atka, and 13books Capital. LO:TECH provides market making, trade execution and market data for digital asset markets.
• CRSHMARKET raised $3.5M in a seed round led by 6th Man Ventures (Lead), Lattice, Reciprocal Ventures, and Starting Line. CRSHMARKET is a livestream prediction markets on Monad for gaming and real-world events.
• PropHub raised an undisclosed amount in a strategic round led by Merchant Seven. PropHub provides trading infrastructure for prop firms, brokers and Web3 exchanges.

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Filtering the noise: Nov. 3, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

AI/Equities

• Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $201.9 billion and earnings of $1.89 per share, missing estimates of $202.26 billion and $1.97, while AWS sales beat expectations.

Crypto

• Polymarket said it had suspended trading after a third-party provider was compromised, affecting users on the platform’s international venue. Polymarket announced the breach on Thursday after users reported seeing their assets withdrawn without their approval.
• Trezor said it received a responsible disclosure alleging a hardware implant in a Safe 5 bought from reseller CryptoBilis. The incident marks the latest supply chain breach involving the Southeast Asian distributor.
• Binance has begun recovering affected assets and reserved over $6.34B in company funds to cover losses. Binance is working with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to recover stolen funds, while $3B has already been frozen.

Corporate

• Coinbase reported a sharp increase in 3rd-quarter net income to $719 million, up from $433 million in the same period last year. According to the exchange’s earnings report released Thursday, the company generated $1.22 billion in total revenue, broadly flat from the previous quarter but down 35% year over year.

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Filtering the noise: Oct. 30, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

Macro

• The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate at 3.75% to 4% pausing after raising borrowing costs in September for the first time in 3 years. The Fed will keep 8 FOMC meetings per year starting in 2027, but one will focus solely on long-term monetary policy strategy with no rate vote or policy statement.
• The European Central Bank (ECB) left its key deposit rate unchanged at 2.5% on Thursday, at a meeting overshadowed by President Christine Lagarde’s announcement earlier in the day that she will leave her post next February, months before her term ends.
• Bank of Canada hikes its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.50%, matching expectations.
• US Q3 GDP grows 3.4% annualized vs. 3.2% expected.

Crypto

• The Canton Foundation approved almost 15.8 million Canton Coin (worth about $1.55 million at the time of writing) to fund RedStone’s open-source pricing tool for institutions.
• Polygon Labs is bringing its Open Money Stack payments infrastructure to Solana, giving businesses access to bank funding, digital wallets, cross-chain transfers and payouts through a single integration.
• Chainlink adds weekend and holiday pricing for stocks, commodities and other traditional assets. The service uses perpetual futures quotes to update reference prices when traditional markets close.
• BNB Chain’s Jenner hard fork goes live on BSC testnet, reserving 5% of block gas for payments.
• Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin is now available to retail and institutional customers through Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange and the Coinbase retail app.
• Curve Finance has launched on the Stellar mainnet, its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem. Users can create pools, swap assets, and provide liquidity. Curve also plans to add FXSwap for trading assets such as stablecoins pegged to different currencies, once its audit is complete.
• Uniswap Labs has opened up its Token Jar fee conversion system to other apps through a new tool called TJAR. Token Jar handled more than $15.3 million in conversions in September, when it was used for Uniswap protocol fees.

Corporate

• Coinbase has applied for authorization to operate as a crypto service provider in Brazil ahead of the country’s license application deadline on Friday.
• Canton Strategic Holdings plans to make its shares available on TSV LLC, with trading expected as early as Nov. 2. The company engaged transfer agent Fairmint to tokenize its stock, avoiding the issuer objection process that applies to unaffiliated third-party tokenization.
• Strategy shareholders approved an amendment allowing daily dividend accrual for STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD.

Fundraising and M&As

• Stanley Druckenmiller chose cryptocurrency for the subject of his first post on the social media platform X, revealing an investment in Trade[XYZ].
• Birch Hill raised $4M in a seed round led by Multicoin Capital (Lead), ParaFi Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and Nascent. Birch Hill is a digital asset infrastructure firm focused on onchain lending and tokenized asset markets.
• Ibis raised an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round led by FalconX (Lead), Innovating Capital, and Anchorage Digital. Ibis is an institutional private credit origination, tokenization and servicing.
• PhotonPay raised $40M in a series C round led by Blockchain Capital (Lead), Faction, GL Ventures, IDG Capital, and SBI Digital Asset Holdings. PhotonPay is a digital financial infrastructure provider offering global payment solutions to businesses.

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Filtering the noise: Oct. 29, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Important news for today:

Macro

• Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has announced a trade deficit of $606m in September. This compares to a surplus of $605m in August. Exports rose by 37.9% year-on-year to $77.80bn, while imports climbed 33.1% to $78.40bn.

Crypto

• Janus Henderson launches JQQQ, the first licensed tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund, on Stellar using Centrifuge.
• Solflare’s validator has stopped producing SOL staking rewards after a security incident at its staking provider affected the validator keys, though the wallet says user funds are safe.
• DTCC launches its tokenization service with 34 securities available at launch, initially supporting Canton Network and Besu.

Corporate

• Ripple and Robinhood have expanded their partnership to bring the RLUSD stablecoin to Robinhood’s retail and institutional businesses, alongside new integrations spanning treasury management, lending and trading services.
• Coinbase denied reports that it was hacked, saying its systems were not accessed without authorization and customer funds remain safe. The breach originated at Amplitude, a third-party analytics provider, and exposed contact information for a small subset of Coinbase customers.
• Bithumb said an outsider breached an internal employee mobile system and stole personal information, but no cryptocurrency funds were reported lost. The South Korean exchange said the compromised system was separate from its trading platform, though it has not disclosed how many people were affected or whether deposits and withdrawals were disrupted.
• Itaú Unibanco, Brazil’s largest private bank, formalized its cryptocurrency trading and custody operations under the country’s new digital-asset rules, becoming the first bank in the country to do so.
• Robinhood posted record Q3 revenue of $1.4B, up 12% year-over-year, with $16B in net deposits and a record 5.2M Gold subscribers.

Fundraising and M&As

• Luxor Technology raised $16 million in a strategic round led by CMT Digital. The investment round also saw participation from Canaan, MicroBT, Halo, Steelhead, and additional angel investors.
• Cancore raised $7.2 million in seed funding at a $60 million fully diluted token valuation. The platform connects Canton assets with liquidity on public blockchains and has processed more than $86 million in trading volume since launching in April.
• Predicate raised $8M in a series A round led by Blockchain Capital (Lead), 1kx, Tribe Capital, and Paxos. Predicate is a network for simplifying transaction prerequisites.
• Spicenet raised $5M in a series A round led by dao5 (Lead), Acc Ventures, and Babylon. Spicenet is a cross-chain execution and funding infrastructure for DeFi applications.
• Hyperbolic Labs raised $30M in an extended series A round led by Walden Catalyst (Lead), General Catalyst, Vista Equity Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Cambium Capital, IOSF Ventures, and others. Hyperbolic is a The Open-Access AI Cloud. Access inference and compute at a fraction of the cost.

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Filtering the noise: Oct. 28, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Macro

• South Korea’s economy grew 1% in Q3 2026 as the AI-led boom in tech products continued to lift output.

AI/Equities

• Anthropic filed for an IPO, aiming to take the AI giant public in November. Anthropic’s S-1 shows first-half 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion and a net loss of $80.7 billion. Share count and price range haven’t been disclosed.

Crypto

• Injective has launched a perpetual futures market tracking the rental prices of five Nvidia GPUs, allowing traders to bet on changes in AI computing costs with up to 10x leverage.
• Binance has applied for a cryptocurrency service provider license in Brazil, seeking to maintain its operations in one of Latin America’s largest crypto markets ahead of a regulatory deadline on Friday, Oct. 30.
• Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending the automatic funding stream to Zcash Community Grants (ZCG), saying its treasury was large enough to continue funding projects without further automatic payments.
• Hyperliquid plans to make Payward the first CFTC-regulated HIP-3 deployer, a step toward regulated US perpetual futures.

Corporate

• Ripple announced that its national trust bank has secured final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
• Bitmine Immersion Technologies resumed share buybacks after a roughly 10-week pause, purchasing 2.04 million shares for about $45.9 million last week.
• Strategy pauses Bitcoin purchases, leaving its holdings unchanged at 848,517 BTC.
• BlackRock signs an MOU with SBI Holdings and Startale to explore linking tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, a yen-backed stablecoin, to push onchain finance in Japan.

Regulations

• Canada opened a 60-day consultation, ending Dec. 23, on stablecoin rules that would prohibit issuers from paying interest while allowing transaction-based rewards. The proposed framework would require nonbank issuers to maintain reserves equal to their circulating tokens at qualified Canadian financial institutions and redeem stablecoins within three business days, with fees capped at 1%.

Fundraising and M&As

• EtherFi has acquired Zeal. Zeal is the self-custody crypto wallet for managing your web3 needs across all EVM networks and apps.
• RedotPay has acquired BTCBOX. BTCBOX is a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange offering spot trading against the yen.
• SwapGlobal raised an undisclosed amount in an OTC round led by Kenzoll Capital, W Group, and Marcel Boekhoorn. SwapGlobal is an institutional OTC platform for crypto derivatives and synthetic asset exposure.
• Fun raised an undisclosed amount in a funding round led by IOSG Ventures. Fun is a payment system that offers the converting rails to move money on blockchains.
• Mochatrade raised $4.87M in a seed round led by CoinFund (Lead), Coinbase Ventures, and Nicky Montana. Mochatrade is an INR-funded platform for trading perpetual futures on US stocks and other markets.

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Filtering the noise: Oct. 27, 2026 was originally published in Beyond the Crypto Horizon on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.