Swiss Regulator Approves First Retail Fund That Holds Bitcoin Directly
FINMA waived the diversification rules for the fund but leaned hard on custody and investor-protection safeguards.
The Midterms Are the First Real Test of Whether Markets Beat Pollsters
Former NBC News political director Chuck Todd is hosting NEXTPredict two weeks before the vote, and has yet to pick a side.
Mastercard Opens Up AI Agent Payments With Early Access and Live Demo
At Cloudflare Connect, the company demoed an AI agent running a sample ad campaign across nine payments to two merchants on a sing...
Mt. Gox Pushes Repayment Deadline to 2027 With $2.8B in Bitcoin Still to Distrib...
The defunct exchange's trustee said many creditors still have not completed the procedures needed to get their Bitcoin back.
Binance Launches Free AI Pro Plan for Automated Crypto Trading
TLDR Binance launched a free Standard plan for AI Pro on Oct. 19, with 250,000 monthly usage credits. A Premium plan costs $19.99...
Ramp Applies for OCC Trust Bank Charter to Offer Crypto Custody
TLDR Ramp applied to the OCC on Oct. 16 for a national trust bank charter for a proposed institution called Ramp National Trust Ba...
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF Sees $665 Million Inflow, Largest in a Year
TLDR BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust took in $665.2 million on Monday, its largest daily inflow since Oct. 7, 2025. US spot Bitc...
JPMorgan Launches JPM Coin on Ethereum for Institutional Clients
TLDR JPMorgan made its JPM Coin deposit token live on the Ethereum main network on Oct. 19 for institutional clients. The token pr...
BlackRock Files for 'Buffer' Bitcoin ETF as IBIT Draws $665M in a Day
The iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF would use options on IBIT to limit losses, in exchange for giving up some upside.
Strive Buys $335 Million in Bitcoin After Investors Pour In $369 Million
The Nasdaq-listed bitcoin holder bought as warrant holders exercised, bringing in $369 million, and it now plans a $630 million sa...