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UPDATE: XRP Ledger's bug fix countdown restarted after validator support dropped to 26 of 35, pushing the patch to November. Support has since recovered to 31 validators, but the two-week clock reset means the fix missed its near-final window.
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EARNINGS: Tesla reports mixed third-quarter results, with revenue of $28.05 billion missing expectations while earnings per share of $0.48 beat forecasts. The company continues to hold 11,509 BTC, worth roughly $1 billion. $TSLA shares are up 1.5% in after-hours trading.
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LATEST: $META plans to introduce non-voting shares to help fund its massive AI expansion without reducing Mark Zuckerberg's control of the company, according to Semafor.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX and Tesla are exploring a merger that would combine more than 30,000 bitcoin, the OCC tightens rules on stablecoin rewards, and Zcash prepares for an upgrade that could triple transaction speed. @jennsanasie has what you need to know.
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Most banks have tested blockchain, but @gluk64 says very few have shipped it. The @the_matter_labs CEO says the holdup isn’t the tech. It’s the plumbing. He joins @jennsanasie to break down Prividium Commander, what banks want from ZK privacy and what it takes to get from pilot to production. 00:00 - Matter Labs’ Alex Gluchowski Joins Markets Outlook 01:40 - What Is Prividium Commander? 02:03 - Why Bank Blockchain Pilots Stall Before Production 04:30 - What Happens When Banks Build Their Own Plumbing 05:34 - How Cari Network Is Bringing 30 Banks to Tokenized Deposits 06:48 - The Path From Commander to ZK 09:06 - What Institutions Want From ZK Privacy 10:52 - Can Blockchains Handle Bank-Level Volume? 12:04 - Matter Labs’ Vision for a Global Digital Asset Economy
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LATEST: The UK’s FCA publishes two consultations on DeFi regulation and crypto perimeter guidance, clarifying which activities require FCA authorization ahead of the full regime launching October 2027 with responses due November 18.
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The people who run digital assets at DTCC and U.S. Bank will be in Lisbon next week, talking about what they’re building on @StellarOrg. You can be in the room. Meridian, Oct 28–29. Register: meridian.stellar.org/registe…
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JUST IN: @Solana activates Alpenglow on mainnet today, replacing its consensus mechanism with one targeting 150ms finality, roughly 40x faster than TowerBFT’s 12.8 seconds.
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Bitcoin options now account for nearly 60% of open interest across the derivatives market, up from about 50% at the start of the year, as traders increasingly focus on managing risk instead of simply betting on price direction. Get the full picture in Crypto Daybook Americas, CoinDesk’s daily markets briefing presented by @Grayscale. coindesk.com/daybook-us?term…
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RESEARCH: The addressable market for diversified real-world-yield stablecoins, the segment @realfi_co is building $USDrf in, sits at roughly $654M today. Its size is a function of three variables: total stablecoin supply, the productive share of that supply, and the diversified RWA share of the productive segment.
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On those inputs the bucket reaches roughly $1.2B, $4.0B, or $10.8B over three years in the bear, base, and bull cases. Two rotations compound in its favour at once, so even holding the total market flat nearly doubles it. The downside is slower growth, not contraction. @RealFi_co's $USDrf is built for that bucket.
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Supply of assets is not the constraint as private credit alone runs to roughly $2 trillion, before the far larger Treasury, money-market, and investment-grade universes the reserve also uses. Even the bull case is well under 1% of private credit. Stablecoin adoption is the binding variable. Full data and analysis from CoinDesk Research, commissioned by @RealFi_co: coindesk.com/research/beyond…
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NEW: Tether has invested in Bolivian fintech Peso to expand USDT payments across Latin America. The funding will support everyday stablecoin payments and banking integration in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina.
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JUST IN: The OCC issues the first final rule under the GENIUS Act requiring crypto exchanges to seek approval for existing stablecoin rewards programs, with no safe harbors, as the regulator warns it “will not presume” programs that predated the law comply with it.
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NEW: @evernorthxrp's SEC filing reveals $XRP fell 40% between its merger signing and closing, eliminating adjustment share bonuses for early investors, while clearing the company to raise up to $132M through warrant exercises.
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LATEST: @SpaceX and @Tesla are exploring a merger that would combine their $BTC holdings into a single entity holding more than 30,000 $BTC.
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JUST IN: @Ripple launches 24/7 institutional stock trading via Ripple Prime, accepting $RLUSD as collateral.
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INSIGHT: @Citi expects a negative bitcoin yield for @Strategy in 2026 after it built a cash reserve and sold $BTC at unfavorable prices. The key question now is how $MSTR restarts yield generation in 2027.
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EARNINGS: SpaceX ($SPCX) reports $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue, up 161% year-over-year, driven by growth in its AI and Starlink businesses. The company also reported $4.4 billion in net income, compared with a $1.1 billion loss a year earlier.
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