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🔥MULTICOIN: “EVERYONE’S CHASING AI, WE’RE STAYING WITH CRYPTO” Multicoin’s $2.7B fund says hyperliquid:native is the largest position in its hedge fund (size undisclosed), and it won’t expand into pure AI like Paradigm, Framework or Haun. Still, per Arkham, it has sold about 75% from its peak and holds roughly $90.5M in HYPE.

🇩🇪 GERMANY’S LARGEST BANKING NETWORK OPENED THE DOOR TO CRYPTO From October 19, Sparkasse customers can buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Polygon right in their banking app, with a €0.99 fee per order. Only 5 banks have joined so far, but 30–40 more are expected to join each month.

🔥METAPLANET GOT THE GREEN LIGHT FROM US SHAREHOLDERS TO LAND ON NASDAQ WITH 2,100 BTC Super League (Nasdaq: SLE) shareholders approved the deal on Oct 16: Metaplanet will contribute 2,100 bitcoin:native (about $170M) plus $2.5M in cash to take roughly 95.7% of the common stock. The company will be renamed Superplanet (ticker SUPA) and become Metaplanet’s US Bitcoin treasury platform. The BTC comes from its existing holdings (under 5% of its 43,000 BTC), and closing is expected in Q4 2026.

🔥ETHEREUM SETS GLAMSTERDAM TEST RUN ON HOODI: OCT 26, GAS LIMIT RAISED TO 200 MILLION The Ethereum Foundation has scheduled Glamsterdam to activate on the Hoodi testnet at 17:42 UTC on October 26, raising its gas limit to 200 million to match Sepolia, which has been running the upgrade since October 6. The upgrade brings ePBS and BALs to enable parallel transaction validation, but this is still a testnet and no mainnet date has been announced.

🇮🇷💵TETHER HITS BACK AT US SENATOR: “WE FREEZE IRAN WALLETS BEFORE THE US SANCTIONS THEM” CEO Paolo Ardoino says that since 2023, Tether has frozen wallets an average of 4 weeks before the US and Israel imposed sanctions, driving Iran-linked stablecoin volumes down 94%. However, these figures come from Tether itself and haven’t been independently verified, and Senator Blumenthal is still calling for an investigation.

🔥ANTHROPIC SET ASIDE 5% OF ITS OWN SHARES FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD AND THAT NUMBER WILL KEEP GROWING The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, announced on Oct 18, starts with 5% of shares (pending stockholder approval) and can receive up to 2% more each time the company’s valuation rises another 50%. Combined with earlier commitments, roughly 20% of shares will be directed toward the public good, but governance details haven’t been released yet, so this is a pledge, not a result.

🇫🇷🇮🇹 CHAOS ERUPTS IN EUROPE: FRANCE FIRST, NOW ITALY! Milan's cost-of-living protests turned violent, with fires, looting, and clashes between protesters and police. As unrest spreads across Europe, is a bigger crisis brewing?

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳 PUTIN WANTS TO SIT DOWN WITH TRUMP AND XI TO “END” THE UKRAINE WAR? According to the WSJ, during an October 9 call, Putin proposed a three-way Russia–U.S.–China meeting next month. The same call also produced a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel. On Trump’s side: - He held off on new sanctions to keep Putin engaged in peace talks. - He claims “great progress” toward a Russia–Ukraine deal. - He accused Zelensky of obstructing peace, saying he “doesn’t want to end the war, and probably never did.” 👉 One side promises peace talks, the other keeps doing energy business, and Kyiv gets the blame. Is this real progress, or just a play for time?

🔥BANKS RAISE DEPOSIT RATES, STABLECOINS SLOW DOWN - BIS NOW HAS THE EVIDENCE A new BIS working paper (Oct 13, 2026), using U.S. data from 2019 to 2025, shows that stablecoins and bank deposits compete directly: a 1 bps rise in deposit rates slows stablecoin market cap growth by about 3 percentage points over 10 weeks, with USDC (-4.8%) hit harder than USDT (-1.9%). Note that this is a working paper that hasn’t been peer-reviewed, and the effect on USDT isn’t statistically certain.

🚨 BITGET “CLOSED THE DOOR” ON SOME USERS IN RUSSIA AND BELARUS Bitget’s Terms of Use, updated Oct. 16, now list Russia and Belarus (along with Kazakhstan, which may have been on the list before) as prohibited jurisdictions. Bitget says this is a one-off exercise: only users who receive an official notice are affected, each gets their own withdrawal deadline, and funds remain safe. If you use Bitget, check your account notifications now, and only follow instructions from official channels.

🔥BINANCE US WAS ONCE VALUED AT $4.5B. NOW IT’S AIMING FOR JUST $1B According to Bloomberg, the exchange is looking to raise up to $100 million to rebuild its US business after losing market share following its 2023 settlement. The plan includes expanding into prediction markets, restoring state licenses, and considering liquidity from global Binance, while World Liberty Financial was informed but is not participating. ⚠️ Based on anonymous sources; the round is not finalized.

💸 TETHER BACKED AISA SO AI CAN PAY ON ITS OWN WITH STABLECOINS On Oct 15, Tether Capital made a strategic investment in AIsa, a platform that lets AI agents pay for data, software and computing in fiat or stablecoins, with built-in spending limits. AIsa says it runs 250,000+ agents and has processed 100M+ transactions, but these figures are self-reported and the investment size hasn’t been disclosed.

🇪🇺 THE EU NAMED USDC ITS FIRST “SIGNIFICANT” STABLECOIN UNDER MICA On Oct 14, the EBA classified Circle’s USDC as a significant e-money token, the first of 45 EMTs notified in the EU. From Nov 12, the EBA and France’s ACPR will jointly supervise USDC’s capital, reserves, liquidity and recovery plans, while holders keep their 1:1 redemption rights.