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Mastercard unveiled Stablecoin Security at Money20/20 USA, a tool that scores stablecoin transfer risk before settlement by pairing payment data with blockchain analytics. BorderlessXYZ and Keyrails are first partners. Wider rollout lands next year, after the $1.8B BVNK deal.

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Reuters: Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance ordered 3M+ Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards, over $35B at list price. Total Chinese orders top 6M, beyond planned output. Nvidia told partners it may fill just 5% to 10%. B300 is blocked and H200 case by case, so the cards go to inference.

JPMorgan has brought its JPM Coin deposit token (JPMD) to Ethereum mainnet for institutional clients, adding to the Base service launched in November 2025. Eligible institutions can use it for payments, settlement and collateral. Transfers clear in seconds, 24/7.

FINMA approved Switzerland's first Bitcoin ETF, a retail fund holding BTC directly, exempt from Swiss diversification rules. Approval requires custody and operational risk controls, FinSA conduct rules at point of sale, and clear volatility warnings in fund documents.

J.P. Morgan's 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions put Bitcoin at a 10% annualized return over 10-15 years, above US large caps (7.5%), REITs (8.2%) and gold (5.5%). The firm still leaves it out of recommended allocations, citing 55% volatility and unstable correlations.

BNB Chain completed its 37th quarterly burn, removing 1,646,196.44 BNB, worth about $1.197B around the time of burn. Remaining total supply stands at 131,512,085 BNB, with the Auto-Burn targeting 100M. The burn now runs directly on BSC.

Tokenized equities reached $3.8B, up 483% since January, per DWF Labs research. Transfer volume grew 41.8x and spot DEX volume 55x against 5.8x for market cap, so these tokens trade rather than sit idle. BNB Chain share rose from 9% to 32%. DeFi TVL hit $313M, up 20x.

Citi's $113K BTC target and a 64% October rate-hike contract cannot both be right. Citi cites ETF inflows and Treasury buybacks. Polymarket repriced the FOMC after Barr's tightening talk, and BTC slipped from $87K to $81.7K. Watch $73K, the short-term holder cost basis.

$518B in capex against a 40% cheaper Opus 5.5 means someone covers the gap. Haiku 5.5 points at heavy users. $0.10/$0.50 per million matches GPT-6 Luna, then jumps 5x past 100K tokens, on a tokenizer ~1.25x heavier than Haiku 4.5 (Simon Willison). Above 100K, Luna is cheaper.

Deutsche Bank plans to launch crypto custody in Germany within weeks, its first digital asset service, pending MiCA approval expected in October. Scope at launch: Bitcoin, Ether and stablecoins for institutional clients, custody only, no trading. Asia rollout targeted for 2027.

TSMC Q3: revenue $46.72B, up 41.2% YoY. EPS up 68.7%. Operating margin 58.7%, up 810 bps. Q4 guide of $52.3B to $54.3B implies about 58% YoY growth. N2 capacity more than doubles in 2027, plus three new N3 fabs. Shares trade at 18x 2027 earnings, near the historical average.

Singapore Gulf Bank now lets corporate and HNW clients mint and redeem stablecoins directly from their accounts, with 24/7 settlement. SGB waives gas and bank fees on Solana for a limited period. USDC above $100k at launch, with USDT, USDe and USDG to follow.

Breaking Bitcoin's math needs 1,200 to 1,450 logical qubits. The most reported so far is 96, by QuEra. IBM targets 200 by 2029 and 2,000 by 2033. BIP-360 remains unapproved, and Coinbase said on Oct 13 that an upgrade could take several years.

Tech billionaires added $845B in the first 9 months of 2026, a record for the period. Their $4.6T total is 36% of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, from about 20% of members. Non-tech billionaires lost $62B. Americans took 94% of net gains, and since Sept.

BlackRock has turned more bearish on stocks. Major indexes closed lower as chip stocks sold off, while financials gained after bank earnings. Fund managers won't dump stocks for bonds until yields hit 5.9%, per a Bank of America survey.

US deficit is projected to widen to 6.1% of GDP in 2027, the largest since 2012 outside 2020-21 and the biggest among the 5 major developed economies. Germany widens from 2.7% to 4.1%, Japan from 0.7% to 2.5%, France to 5.2%. Only the UK narrows, from 4.3% to 3.1%.

Interactive Brokers added Ethereum staking for eligible clients. ETH holders on the platform can now earn staking rewards inside a traditional brokerage account. Access depends on eligibility, so check account status in the IBKR client portal before planning around it.

Most tokenized equity trading now happens outside regular market hours. BNB Chain is the first chain above 70% off-hours volume. Solana sits at 63%. Jupiter's tokenized asset volume grew 50%+ month over month. Tokenized equity supply hit a record $3.3B.

Binance Pool shuts down Nov. 10, ending the pool launched in April 2020. Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, Transaction Accelerator, APIs and hashrate alerts end too. Binance cited only a product review. Move hashrate and redeem Pool Savings by Nov. 10. Records stay until Nov. 24.