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The Financial Stability Board warned that stablecoins could face redemption crises even with adequate total reserves if assets are trapped across borders. Regulators will discuss the approximately $300 billion market’s cross-border vulnerabilities at the Oct. 15 G20 meeting.
Jeonbuk Bank has launched won-denominated loans secured by bitcoin, becoming South Korea’s first bank to offer the service. The product initially targets corporate working-capital borrowers and uses regulated custodians rather than direct bank custody of the cryptocurrency.
The IMF says AI investment is helping sustain global growth near 3%, but the technology could eventually affect 40% of jobs worldwide. Young workers may face the earliest disruption as routine entry-level tasks become increasingly automated.
Standard Chartered will custody Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for institutional clients in Dubai. A planned LMAX integration would let traders use the tokens as collateral while they remain at the bank, pending documentation, testing and regulatory approvals.
SWI Group has raised about $900 million to expand AI and data-center capacity in Europe and the United States, incorporating a mining business formerly linked to FTX. SWI says it now controls 70% of Genesis Digital Assets, renamed SWI Digital.
SWI Group has secured €800 million to expand AI infrastructure and transform Genesis Digital Assets, the FTX-backed Bitcoin miner it controls. The move follows estimates that AI computing can deliver much higher profit per megawatt than mining, though conversion costs remain substantial.
Meta has launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier-class models from Meta Superintelligence Labs. The systems target coding, legal and agentic tasks, while pricing and independent tests show a close contest with products from OpenAI and Anthropic.
REA, an open-source toolkit linking AI coding agents with reverse-engineering tools, climbed from fewer than 10,000 to more than 100,000 GitHub stars in six days. Its rise is powering experimental game ports, software alternatives and new debates over copyright, piracy and security.
Bitcoin has started October with losses, but analysts say the cryptocurrency could still recover during a historically strong month. Technical signals, easing oil prices and recent quarterly gains are prompting debate over whether a market bottom may be forming.
Standard Chartered has launched custody for Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin through its Dubai branch. The bank, Ripple and LMAX plan to let institutions use RLUSD held in custody as trading collateral, although no launch date has been announced for that integration.
DeFi Development Corp added about 22,070 SOL last week, lifting its treasury to roughly 2.586 million tokens. Its CHAD preferred stock reached a record and neared $10, while DFDV shares remained below the value of its Solana holdings.
Crypto-aligned political committees reported $2.7 million in advertising and direct-mail spending for 2026 US House races. The Fairshake network is backing candidates viewed as supportive of digital-asset policy while pressuring lawmakers over stalled cryptocurrency legislation.
A proposed FASB accounting update could allow qualifying stablecoins to be treated as cash equivalents, making them more practical for corporate treasury use. Tempo says direct redemption rights with issuers would be key, while the proposal remains open for public comment until Nov. 19.
Bitcoin’s Friday options expiry is dominated by put exposure at $76,000-$80,000 as seven-day implied volatility falls before Wednesday’s US CPI report. Derivatives data also shows substantial longer-dated call exposure at higher strikes, while Bitcoin remains below its recent levels.
Ripple-backed Evernorth has started trading on Nasdaq as XRPN with about 473 million XRP and $300 million in cash. But XRP’s decline has reduced the treasury’s value to roughly $677 million, below the more than $1 billion raised when the deal was announced.
Solana is evaluating signer programs as a replacement for durable nonces, preserving offline cold-key approvals while shifting account control to program-derived addresses. The transition has no fixed date and depends on an audited mainnet implementation and application compatibility.
Ledger is investigating cryptocurrency losses reported by Southeast Asian customers who bought devices from Malaysia-based reseller CryptoBilis. One affected Ledger device contained an unauthorized hardware implant, while the company says the number of impacted products was limited.
Bitcoin miners expanding into AI and high-performance computing may need about $50 billion to complete planned infrastructure projects. Lenders are scrutinizing data-center deals more closely, while borrowing costs and other financing terms vary widely across companies and projects.
