TL;DR: Visa, BILL and Billtrust are piloting trusted AI agents that complete approved invoice payments through supplier portals. The next stage of automated payments may depend less on how fast a transfer settles and more on proving who authorised it. Visa, BILL and Billtrust announced an October 20 live pilot allowing trusted AI agents to …
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TL;DR: DriveWealth plans to integrate Ripple’s stablecoin, payments and custody technology, initially focusing on European settlement. Investors can trade US stocks through digital apps at almost any hour, but moving the cash needed to fund those trades still runs into banking cutoffs. A newly announced partnership between DriveWealth and Ripple aims to close that gap …
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TL;DR: Visa says Inyo Global is the first enabler to bring its stablecoin-enabled Visa Direct prefunding into production for eligible clients. Stablecoins are often discussed as an alternative to established payment networks. Visa’s latest move shows how they can instead become a funding component inside one. On October 15, the company said its Visa Direct …
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TL;DR: Ripple Prime says eligible institutional clients can trade perpetual swaps referencing more than 100 traditional markets through its new offering. Exposure to traditional markets is increasingly being packaged for venues that never close. Ripple Prime said on October 15 that it had introduced support for real-world-asset perpetual swaps covering more than 100 reference markets, …
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TL;DR: A BCG report commissioned by Ripple says custody buyers increasingly judge governance, interoperability and operational integration alongside asset security. Institutional custody is becoming a question of how assets can be used, not just where keys are stored. Ripple’s October 21 discussion of a Boston Consulting Group research report argues that security is now a …
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Keystone initially disclosed a leak of customer information but has since disclosed that hackers also stole a key that could allow counterfeit wallets to pass authenticity checks.
Researchers at the crypto firm Galaxy Digital think the Bitcoin (BTC) bear market ended four months ago. Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of firmwide research, says in a new analysis that Bitcoin is currently in “the accumulation phase that has preceded every prior advance.” “On a technical basis, the 200-week moving average held, the 50-week moving …
The Bitcoin treasury firm Strive (ASST) just acquired $511 million worth of BTC. The Dallas-based company bought 6,182 Bitcoin between October 16th and 23rd, stretching its total holdings to 43,000 BTC, per documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Strive is the fourth-largest Bitcoin treasury firm in the world, and the …
The approval clears the way for Ripple to manage reserves backing its RLUSD stablecoin and provide digital asset custody. Ripple announced Monday that its national trust bank has secured final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The approval completes the chartering process for Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), which received …
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A hacker has drained nearly $1 million worth of Solana (SOL) from users of a crypto trading bot that runs inside the Telegram chat app. The attack hit 49 wallet addresses belonging to nine users and took about 9,408 SOL, worth roughly $947,000, says Bloom, the company behind the bot. Bloom says the attacker exploited …
The new index tracks rental prices for five Nvidia GPUs, offering leveraged trading and potential hedging against fluctuations in AI computing costs. Layer-1 blockchain Injective has launched a perpetual futures market tracking the rental prices of five Nvidia GPUs, allowing traders to bet on changes in AI computing costs with up to 10x leverage. The …
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The announcement followed the banking regulator finalizing its rules for the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin law to be implemented in January The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has petitioned community banks to enter the payment stablecoin market as part of the regulator’s rules on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US …
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As part of the potential implementation of its Stablecoin Act, the Canadian government will hear from the public on a proposed framework for tokens from non-financial institutions. Lawmakers in the Canadian government opened a 60-day public consultation on regulations proposed to address non-financial institution stablecoin issuers, including a potential prohibition on yield payments. On Saturday, …
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The artificial intelligence company disclosed more than $16 billion in revenue and an $80 billion net loss for the first half of 2026. Anthropic announced that it had filed S-1 registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering on Nasdaq, marking a significant step for artificial intelligence companies. A …
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October 26th, 2026 – New York, United States Ritual Chain turns AI agents into persistent economic actors that control their own wallets, onchain identity, and private state. Ritual, a lab for autonomous intelligence founded by former Polychain Capital partners Niraj Pant and Akilesh Potti, has launched Ritual Chain, an EVM-compatible Layer 1. Unlike conventional blockchains …
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