Markets news
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BNY and Citadel Securities Use Tokenized Treasury in Overnight Repo
A two-year note settled within minutes on BNY’s private digital ledger before Citadel Securities used it to raise cash.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Most tokenized stock trading on Solana, BNB Chain occurs outside US market hours
Tokenized equities have reached nearly $3.3 billion in value as investors embrace round-the-clock access beyond Wall Street hours.
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APT Gains 51% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
The token's weekly return is nearly flat, while DefiLlama's tracked stablecoin market cap on Aptos has fallen 17.5% over four weeks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base Introduces Earn & Borrow With Aave and Morpho
Apps can embed variable-rate stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans, while borrowers remain subject to the underlying protocols’ liquidation rules.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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cirBTC Borrowing on Morpho Tops $190 Million as Arc Liquidity Tightens
About 97.4% of supplied USDC is borrowed in the main market, compared with 8.1% when Circle Mint opened access on Sept. 21.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strive Buys $280 Million in Bitcoin, Its Largest Purchase in Months
The Nasdaq-listed asset manager bought the Bitcoin at an average of about $84,500 during a rough week for the market, lifting its total stash to 32,773 BTC.
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XRPN took shareholder vote with no knowledge of XRP inflation bug
Shareholders of Ripple and Arrington Capital’s XRP treasury stock Evernorth Holdings would have surely loved to know that hackers could have inflated the supply of XRP by trillions of new tokens before they decided last month whether to move forward with a plan to take an XRP crypto treasury...
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The Amount of Bitcoin on Exchanges Is Shrinking. Is a Rally Imminent?
Bitcoin Magazine The Amount of Bitcoin on Exchanges Is Shrinking. Is a Rally Imminent? Bitcoin’s price could be due a move upwards as the supply of the leading cryptocurrency on exchanges shrinks. That’s according to a researcher at data firm CryptoQuant, who wrote in a Monday report that bitcoin...
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MNX Launches Futures on AI Lab IPOs and Revenue
The contracts offer leveraged exposure rather than shares, with settlement tied to IPO filings, private-market valuations or revenue estimates.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How the SEC’s lack of leadership could facilitate crypto rulemaking
A recent change in the SEC’s rules on quorum could make it easier for the agency to amend its approach to crypto regulation in the absence of a market structure bill.
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Strive reports $208M in warrant exercises as Bitcoin holdings jump 11%
Strive is now the fifth-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, with 32,773 BTC, as it continues to expand its treasury through equity financing.
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Bitcoin keeps up pressure on $84K as US stocks skirt Korea tech sell-off
Bitcoin price action preserved overnight gains as US stocks quickly rebounded after opening lower on the back of Korea’s tech-stock rout.
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Zest Sets Oct. 23 Deadline to Exit aeUSDC on Stacks Market V1
The lending protocol says Allbridge will end its aeUSDC bridge to Stacks on Nov. 3. Its one-transaction migration to V2 excludes aeUSDC.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin hits $84K resistance as Korean tech rout deepens KOSPI losses
Bitcoin’s liquidity kept BTC price below $84,000 amid a mounting South Korean tech and semiconductor stock sell-off.
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NFT Marketplace Blur to Shut Down Website, Stop New Blend Loans Next Month
The shutdown comes as NFT trading volumes have collapsed from their 2021-2022 peak, with market revenue projected at $318 million this year.
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Binance VIP head says hedge funds are actively exploring arbitrage opportunities on crypto venues
The executive cited improved depth, 24/7 trading and weekend price discovery as reasons why the opportunities have become more relevant.
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Tokenized SanDisk bets saw more liquidations than XRP as Asia’s chip rout wipes out $800 million
About $800 million in leveraged positions were wiped out over 24 hours, 86% of them bullish. Chip-stock contracts on crypto exchanges took a chunk of the damage.
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Bitcoin slides below $82,000 as crypto liquidations surge past $770 million
Crypto liquidations amounted to $771 million over the past 24 hours, including $685.6 million in long positions.
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Moscow Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Trading, Testing Underway
Bitcoin Magazine Moscow Exchange to Launch Bitcoin Trading, Testing Underway The Moscow Exchange plans to let clients trade cryptocurrencies starting in December and has begun testing operations with professional market participants, a senior executive said last week. “We are actively testing. We...
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Bitcoin Extends Slide — Can ‘Uptober’ 2026 Beat Last Year’s?
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Extends Slide — Can ‘Uptober’ 2026 Beat Last Year’s? Bitcoin’s price dipped further on Monday, sliding 2% over a 24-hour period to trade at a little over $82,423. The coin over the past week has dropped by 3%, and so far this month, it’s trading down. October is usually a...
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Solana Treasury Firm DeFi Development Keeps Buying SOL as CHAD Preferred Stock Hits Record
The Nasdaq-listed company now holds about 2.59 million SOL, but its weekly purchases keep shrinking.
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StoneX raises Securitize price target 50% as tokenized stock platform opens new revenue stream
StoneX lifts SECZ price target to $18 from $12, citing new revenue from the Securitize Stocks tokenized trading platform on Solana.
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Bitcoin Spooked? Crypto Fear and Greed Index Drops to Pre-Rally August Lows
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has dropped to 56 from an August peak of 82, as oil, bond yields, and ETF outflows hit Bitcoin in October.
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Bitcoin drops 2.2% as Ukraine, Iran strikes send oil toward one-month high
Bitcoin price action stayed rangebound after failing to sustain above $84,000 into the Wall Street open on rising oil prices.
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Derive Proposes Treasury Funding for US-Regulated Derivatives Push
The Foundation would gain authority to pursue approvals and establish or acquire entities, but the proposal sets no spending amount or launch date.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NEXTPredict Paid $12,000 to Hedge Its Conference on a Prediction Market
Where event insurance deals with scrapped shows and what happens inside the venue, NEXTPredict is focusing on flight cancellations.
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Strategy Smash Buys $21.5M in Bitcoin as It Continues BTC Accumulation
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Smash Buys $21.5M in Bitcoin as It Continues BTC Accumulation Bitcoin juggernaut Strategy has bought more BTC as it pivots back to accumulating on a weekly basis. The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury spent $21.5 million on 250 bitcoins from October 5 and October 11,...
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THORChain Fees Rebound but Remain 84% Below September Surge
The latest seven-day total is back above the pre-surge week, after fees plunged 91% in Oct. 2–8.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tom Lee sees $2 trillion wealth transfer fueling crypto demand as Bitmine buys more ether
The Bitmine chairman said he expects younger investors to drive demand for digital assets as his ether treasury company inches closer to owning 5% of the total supply.
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SkyAI Sells Half Its SOL Treasury, Plans $201 Million Cash Buyback
The proposed $3-per-security offer targets 95% of eligible shares and warrants, with an expected condition that SOL’s closing price remains above $100 during the offer period.... Read the full story at The Defiant