🔥 LONGITUDE: @PayPal can pay $1B in dividends using its stablecoin, Steve Everett reveals.

🇲🇾 🇹🇭 LATEST: Malaysia and Thailand’s central banks join Singapore’s BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit payments.

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🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Oct. 22, while BTC, ETH and SOL spot ETFs saw net outflows. BTC: $23.16M ETH: -$26.13M SOL: -$2.65M XRP: $3.55M

🔥 LATEST: An Ethereum OG who picked up 3,000 ethereum:native at just $18.83 nine years ago sold for around $7.23M, a 128x return, per Arkham data.

⚡ LATEST: DeepSeek banned from US federal civilian agencies over spying fears. Singapore firm behind Europe's only spot Bitcoin ETF, as Switzerland partners with Vietnam on crypto tech. This week in Asia Express: ct.com/magazine/new-deepseek…

🚨 NEW: Commodity exchanges including CME are pressing the CFTC to reject Kalshi’s proposed perpetual oil futures contract over market integrity risks, per Bloomberg.

🚨 TODAY: Aave launches its first externally curated markets on V4 with Sentora, letting users borrow RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSD against yield-bearing and blue-chip collateral on Ethereum.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: Trump’s UN envoy Mike Waltz says the US is ready for a prolonged standoff with Iran and can keep its blockade on Iranian ports for the foreseeable future, per FT.

🚨 NEW: SpaceX is reportedly in talks to secure at least 80,000 US cell sites as it moves toward launching a fourth nationwide wireless carrier, per Bloomberg.

🇭🇰 LATEST: HSBC begins rolling out its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin RedCoin to over 3.3 million PayMe users, SCMP reports.

🚨 LATEST: President Trump reportedly called Elon Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Starlink in Ukraine, according to the WSJ.

⚡️ NOW: CZ says AI hacking fears around crypto are overblown since the internet and banking run on weaker encryption, but warns: “AI doesn’t need to break Bitcoin’s cryptography to cause damage, leaked data already enables more phishing, social engineering, etc.”

🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Polymarket has reportedly fired CMO Matthew Modabber, a close ally of CEO Shayne Coplan, following an internal probe, per New York Post. 🔹 Chainlink partners with LG Group’s tech arm LG CNS to build compliant digital asset infrastructure for Korea’s $68B market. 🔸 The US Treasury proposes a rule to restrict American investments in AI, supercomputing, and other high-tech sectors in China, Russia, and other “countries of concern.” 🔹 OpenAI is nearing a funding round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation ahead of a potential IPO, CNBC reports. 🔸 A new lawsuit accuses Trump and World Liberty Financial of illegally profiting from more than $2 billion in UAE-linked crypto deals. 🔹 Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo are among US banks racing to contain risks from unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts, Axios reports. 🔸 Robinhood Stock Tokens are live on Morpho, allowing users to use them as collateral to borrow stablecoins. 🔹 CZ says no crypto wallet or software is 100% secure, urging users to stay informed and manage their risks. 🔸 Fireblocks disputes Axios’ report of $2.5B Visa acquisition talks. 🔹 Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX did not sell any Bitcoin in Q3, holding 30,221 $BTC worth $2.54 billion combined.

🚨 NEW: Ethereum Foundation delays the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet, originally set for October 26, to further study EIP-8037’s impact on mainnet smart contracts.

🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran warns it will hit airports, pipelines and other civilian targets across the Persian Gulf if the US and Israel resume airstrikes, per WSJ.

🚨 NOW: Polymarket has reportedly fired CMO Matthew Modabber, a close ally of CEO Shayne Coplan, following an internal probe, per New York Post.

🔥 BIG: Tokenized stocks and ETFs hit over $37B in onchain trading volume in Q3, with monthly volume up nearly 18x since January, per Dune Analytics.

⚡️ TODAY: Heatbit introduces Bitwater, a water heater element packed with 20 ASIC chips that mines Bitcoin while heating your tank. Would you mine Bitcoin from your water heater?

🔥 LATEST: Chainlink partners with LG Group’s tech arm LG CNS to build compliant digital asset infrastructure for Korea’s $68B market.