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…

LLMs made some Bitcoin Core bugs cheap to rediscover. Maintainers are speeding patches for low-effort finds and keeping longer timelines where full exploits still take real work. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

55% of traditional hedge funds now have some exposure to digital assets, up from 47% a year earlier crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

Andreessen Horowitz just dropped “crypto” from the name of its dedicated digital-asset arm. Chris Dixon’s group is now a16z Frontier, with a wider AI and emerging-tech brief. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

A nationally chartered U.S. bank is putting a tokenized deposit in front of retail customers—4.40% APY, FDIC-covered, branded SOFIE. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

After $CRWV wiped roughly a quarter of its value on debt fears, Goldman and JPMorgan are arguing the market over-read how AI infrastructure gets financed. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…

AI spend is propping up demand, but MAS’s Edward Robinson warns central banks not to treat higher productivity—or a new policy regime—as already in the data. crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10…