Phantom Begins Gradual US Rollout of Kalshi Prediction Markets After CFTC Relief www.​crowdfundinsider.​com/2026/10/320549-phantom-begins-gradual-us-rollout-of-kalshi-prediction-markets-after-cftc-relief/

270,000 digital ruble accounts in under two months. Nabiullina put a hard number on early CBDC uptake after Russia’s nationwide rollout. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Tokenization is leaving the pilot stage: banks are testing it for financing, custody, and settlement as 24/7 markets pull institutions deeper into digital assets. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Hong Kong is lifting offshore yuan liquidity to 22 billion yuan and naming 12 banks as primary providers for the next two-year term. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Bitget Announces One-Off Service Discontinuation for Select Users Amid Vague Criteria www.​crowdfundinsider.​com/2026/10/319310-bitget-announces-one-off-service-discontinuation-for-select-users-amid-vague-criteria/

CFTC’s Innovation Task Force Announces Agenda & Panelists for Inaugural Frontier Forum on Super Intelligence crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Treasury says Operation Economic Outcast has gutted Iran’s financial channels. Bessent: the U.S. is “no longer” playing the old sanctions game. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Hong Kong’s OASES picked Solana as its only blockchain infrastructure name for 2026—alongside Pfizer, GSK, Roche, and DiDi. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Uniswap v4’s new Aggregator Hooks pull external venues in as native pools—live on Ethereum, Base, and Robinhood Chain. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Kraken parent Payward has in-principle AFSA approval for a Kazakhstan license inside the Astana International Financial Centre. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

After a multi-hour cloud outage knocked major banks offline, EBA and FCA want answers from Google on a power-related third-party incident. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Stripe is handing startup treasury tasks to AI agents. Treasury for agents lets tools like ChatGPT and Claude run key financial operations on top of Stripe Treasury. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Barclays plans to cut ~5,000 roles—about 5% of a 93,000-person workforce—by end-2026 while pushing deeper AI integration across the bank. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Spending is up. Results are not. Only 13% of CIOs in a Gartner survey of 2,002 tech leaders say AI has delivered significant or transformational value. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

UK Lords open their sandbox inquiry this week. First in a series maps why so many “safe” experiments stall—and what the model quietly dropped along the way. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Solana mainnet just retired TowerBFT. Anza’s Alpenglow is live—finality targeted around 150 milliseconds after the slot handoff. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

In a 19-page MiCA review response, the Cardano Foundation urges the EU not to stretch the crypto rulebook over DeFi and staking. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Kraken Parent Entity Payward Obtains Preliminary Regulatory Approval to Enter Kazakhstan’s Digital Asset Market www.​crowdfundinsider.​com/2026/10/320165-kraken-parent-entity-payward-obtains-preliminary-regulatory-approval-to-enter-kazakhstans-digital-asset-market/

Tether is leading a pre-seed check into Bolivian fintech Peso—payments, savings, and investment rails built around USDT across Latin America. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

How DeFi gets supervised in the UK, and where the cryptoasset perimeter finally stops, is now open for input at the FCA ahead of the wider regime. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…