Episodes
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Morning digest: October 29, 2026
Thursday's crypto lead is Wall Street's settlement backbone going on-chain: DTCC's tokenization service is live with 20 big banks and brokers signed up. Ripple's RLUSD landed across Coinbase, Mirae Asset sold tokenized notes on Solana, a midnight bookkeeping bug cost TranchePool about $1 million,...
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Morning digest: October 28, 2026
Wednesday's crypto lead is Ripple winning final OCC approval for a federally chartered trust bank to hold the reserves behind its RLUSD stablecoin, as RLUSD went live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp and BNY began custodying XRP and RLUSD. Janus Henderson put a Nasdaq-100 tracker fund on Stellar,...
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Morning digest: October 27, 2026
Tuesday's crypto lead is the OCC nudging community banks to issue their own stablecoins under the GENIUS Act. Aviva Investors put a share class of its roughly £22 billion sterling money-market fund on the XRP Ledger, a retired DotSwap signing server cost On Nexus liquidity providers about…
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Morning digest: October 26, 2026
Monday's crypto lead is India's CoinDCX absorbing a $16 million loss after deposits kept landing in a wallet it had retired after last year's hack. Upbit and Bithumb flagged Initia's INIT token while its chain stays halted, CLARITY Act negotiators tightened the bill's fundraising caps, and Sony's...
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Morning digest: October 25, 2026
Sunday's crypto lead is Electrum patching an actively exploited fee-bump attack in version 4.8.3. Attackers bought two of X100's three Senate seats with a flash loan and drained about $4.85 million, Initia named the MoveVM bug behind its halt with a restart days away, Tether lined up 15 mining...
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Morning digest: October 24, 2026
Saturday's crypto lead is Initia freezing its whole network after an attacker used a MoveVM bug to mint bridged tokens and take about $2.7 million. Malaysia and Thailand joined Singapore's BLOOM settlement project, OKXICE tokenization objections reached 22 companies, a tokenized-bond repo rolled…
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Morning digest: October 23, 2026
Friday's crypto lead is Ethereum's next big upgrade losing its Oct. 26 test date on Hoodi after security researchers flagged a gas-accounting risk to existing contracts. HSBC rolled out a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin to 3.3 million PayMe users, Swell froze its staked-ether tokens over a suspected...
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Morning digest: October 22, 2026
Thursday's crypto lead is the first final rule under the GENIUS Act: the OCC dropped its presumption against exchange-paid stablecoin rewards and will judge them one at a time. Solana's Alpenglow is now live, Standard Chartered is buying all of Zodia Custody, LayerZero set Nov. 30 for its Zero...
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Morning digest: October 21, 2026
Wednesday's crypto lead is Solana switching to its new Alpenglow consensus, aiming to finalize payments in about 150 milliseconds instead of roughly six seconds, and Zcash setting a November date for an upgrade that makes blocks three times faster. Malaysia had a big tokenization day with a...
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Morning digest: October 20, 2026
Tuesday's crypto lead is Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs joining the companies refusing to let their shares trade as tokens on OKXICE, as the SEC's comment period on its main token-fundraising rule closed. Switzerland approved its first retail fund that holds bitcoin directly, Mastercard...
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Morning digest: October 19, 2026
Monday's crypto lead is JPMorgan's deposit token, JPMD, going live on Ethereum mainnet. Stablecoin payments are up 45% even though supply has stalled, two hacks at Cysic and Qubic came down to off-chain software, Zcash plans a quantum-era privacy fix, the XRP Ledger is fixing its lending code…
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Morning digest: October 18, 2026
Sunday's crypto lead is nine large U.S. companies, including Broadcom, Verizon, CoreWeave and UnitedHealth, formally objecting to tokenized versions of their shares trading on OKXICE, the first real test of the SEC's new opt-out rule. Weekend chip-stock perpetuals lost about $52M in 10 minutes,...
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Morning Digest: October 17, 2026
Saturday's crypto lead is Anthropic's Claude solving where the NSA got the seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves, including P-256, which makes a hidden backdoor much less plausible. Aerie bundles thousands of post-quantum signatures into one small proof, nine firms formed the Quantum Alliance,...
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Morning Digest: October 16, 2026
Friday's crypto lead is card networks moving stablecoins into their plumbing: Mastercard launched a stablecoin platform built on BVNK, and Visa Direct now takes USDC prefunding around the clock. Ripple brought RLUSD into Cross River Bank's core system, MSCI adopted the rule that could push…
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Morning Digest: October 15, 2026
Thursday's crypto lead is Europe's stablecoin rulebook taking shape: Qivalis, a 37-bank consortium, won a Dutch e-money license for a euro stablecoin, and the EBA labeled USDC significant under MiCA. Kraken's parent agreed to buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank, a UNCX vesting exploit spread to four…
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Morning Digest: October 14, 2026
Wednesday's crypto lead is tokenized collateral going live: BNY and Citadel Securities used a tokenized Treasury as repo collateral, and DRW and Marex traded the first OTC swap on a tokenized index on Canton. The Ledger reseller fallout reached MediaMarkt, Sberbank won a Russian crypto license...
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Morning Digest: October 13, 2026
Tuesday's crypto lead finishes the Ledger reseller saga: the implant was a hidden cellular chip that read the recovery phrase off the screen during setup. Aptos turned on an encrypted mempool, the Financial Stability Board warned about cross-border stablecoin runs, Morgan Stanley pushed tokenized...
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Morning Digest: October 12, 2026
Monday's crypto lead is an update on the Ledger reseller drains: Ledger now confirms a physical implant in one tampered device. Standard Chartered started custody for Ripple's RLUSD, a trader made $1.28M on Papertrade's launch day by moving the Hyperliquid price it copies, ENS Labs proposed...
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Morning Digest: October 11, 2026
Sunday's crypto tape is quiet, but the stories are about control and safety: Tether briefly froze THORChain's vault addresses and reversed it two hours later with no explanation, Stellar disclosed a state-archival bug, Starknet floated leaving Ethereum to become its own layer 1, Echo Protocol on...
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Morning Digest: October 10, 2026
Saturday's crypto lead is security: the XRP Ledger disclosed and patched a decade-old bug that could have minted XRP from nothing, Ledger is investigating wallet drains tied to a Southeast Asian reseller, Sui detailed its Bitcoin-lending network Hashi, Zcash set a January target for...
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Morning Digest: October 9, 2026
Friday's crypto lead is Europe: ESMA gives MiCA-licensed firms three months to drop non-compliant stablecoins, which mostly means USDT. Solana's final cut to 200ms slots is due today, Securitize brings tokenized U.S. stocks to Solana, Samsung Wallet adds cross-border USDC, Polkadot launches…
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Morning Digest: October 8, 2026
Thursday's crypto lead is the Ethereum L2 shakeout: Abstract becomes the second L2 to shut down in a week, Solana moves to 200ms slots Friday, Tether and Kazakhstan's central bank explore a tenge stablecoin, Open USD tops $100M on Ethereum, tokenized ETFs reach Canton, Securitize partners with LG...
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Morning Digest: October 7, 2026
Wednesday's crypto lead is Ethereum plumbing: Glamsterdam live on Sepolia with ePBS and a Prysm client update, first atomic mainnet–L2 via EEZ, Paxos USDG as Arbitrum's house dollar, Cardano CIP-0113 (Foundation-confirmed), Ondo Private Markets, Abstract's Dec. 15 wind-down, ether.fi USD with...
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Morning Digest: October 6, 2026
Tuesday's crypto news is mostly about plumbing for institutions and regulators. Solana DvP settlement, North Dakota's Roughrider Coin pilot, FinCEN withdrawals, CFTC leverage ANPR, Glamsterdam on Sepolia, ACP hormone therapy guideline, Virginia early voting, and a claimed Linear Hadwiger proof…
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