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This matters because on-ramp fees are often the first friction point new crypto users encounter — the cost of simply converting cash into tokens before they ever interact with a decentralized application. By removing that fee for early transactions, Mercuryo is betting that a smoother first experience will translate into longer-term usage of both its payment rails and MetaMask’s wallet. Offer details and eligibility The promotion is restricted to people who are new to MetaMask in Canada, and it applies specifically to purchases of “all available digital tokens” through the wallet’s mobile app and browser extension. It’s a straightforward pitch:…

Still, ChatGPT also underlined that the wider situation in the economy – the recent interest rate hike, bond market tumult, and the elevated oil prices being the key points – placed substantial limitations on any potential rallies by Halloween. Notably, OpenAI’s platform also described Bitcoin’s early October state as ‘a major recovery inside a damaged cycle’ that is, ultimately, not comparable to the late 2025 upsurge: That makes the current situation look more like a major recovery inside a damaged cycle than the beginning of another explosive 2025-style advance. Thus, ChatGPT estimated that Bitcoin’s most likely price on Halloween 2026…

Tokenized Stocks Are Driving Fresh Growth The latest surge is being supported by tokenized equities. The market capitalization of tokenized stocks on $BNB Chain increased by $106.2 million over the past seven days, comfortably ahead of other major networks. X Layer followed with $63.4 million in growth, while Solana added $29.1 million. Source: Token Terminal Binance’s bStocks products accounted for nearly $97 million of the increase on $BNB Chain, making them the clearest driver of the network’s recent expansion. Across the wider crypto market, tokenized stocks have now surpassed $3 billion in market capitalization, highlighting how quickly equities are becoming…

Stablecoins gain ground as foreign governments retreat The rise of crypto-linked buyers comes as the composition of US creditors undergoes a longer-term change that could affect how cheaply Washington can finance its deficits. Foreign investors held more than half of outstanding Treasury securities around 2008, but their share had dropped to roughly 30% by early 2026, the San Francisco Fed said. Within that group, foreign governments have declined even more sharply in relative importance, accounting for just above 40% of foreign Treasury demand by early 2026 compared with nearly all of it at their peak in the 1970s. China has…

$SUI Climbs Ahead of Sui’s Next Throughput Test According to CoinGecko’s $SUI market data, $SUI was trading at approximately $1.23, up 5% over 24 hours on October 5. Its market capitalization stood at roughly $5.06 billion, while 24-hour trading volume was approximately $619.9 million in the snapshot. Table 1. $SUI market data from the October 5 CoinGecko snapshot. These figures represent a point-in-time snapshot and can change throughout the day. Mysten Labs Puts Money Movement at the Center Mysten Labs, the company behind Sui, has positioned the network around moving value between people, institutions and autonomous systems. In “The Road…

Direct TWD to $USDT Conversion Without Bridges The practical upshot for Taiwanese users is a cleaner path between fiat and crypto. Someone can deposit Taiwanese Dollars, purchase $USDT that lives natively on Aptos, and then withdraw straight to an Aptos wallet. The process also runs in reverse. There’s no wrapped asset acting as a stand-in and no cross-chain bridge sitting in the middle of the transaction — a detail that matters for anyone who has dealt with the delays or security concerns that bridged tokens sometimes carry. New Trading Pairs Added Alongside Integration MAX timed the Aptos $USDT rollout with…

Merchants are meant to see little change. Their loyalty programs, eligibility rules and promotions would work inside purchases that Minds leads, and their storefront workflows would stay as they are. The pitch to them is access to what the release calls “qualified agentic users.” A one-merchant demo comes first The demonstration is meant to run the full sequence once. It starts with cryptographic proof of eligibility, then moves to product and merchant selection through Pivota, applies an offer, has Reap issue a scoped payment credential and ends with authorization of the transaction. Yat Siu, Animoca’s co-founder and executive chairman, said…

Bitcoin is trading at $86,090.25, up 1% over the past 24 hours and 3.6% over the week. That puts it about 43% above the floor he has drawn. Why he thinks the floor will hold Svanevik’s case comes down to one idea: central banks cannot stop printing money. Higher lows on the chart: Each major Bitcoin bottom has formed above the previous one. He reads that pattern as currency debasement showing up in the price. No way to stop it: He pointed to central banks, treasury departments and government spending worldwide. “I don’t think there’s any way to control this,”…

Atlas oversees qualified custody, while Porto assists hedge funds The client’s choice of route is based on how strictly it is regulated. Sui says that public companies and digital asset treasury firms might not be able to directly interact with DeFi right now, so their bitcoin goes through Anchorage’s Atlas system, which is a three-party collateral and settlement system, making sure that it stays in qualified custody. Porto is for everyone else. Sui says that Anchorage’s self-custody wallet can be linked directly to Hashi by hedge funds, crypto venture funds, miners, market makers, and liquidity providers, letting them use lending,…

In Hayes’ telling, enormous sums are being committed to infrastructure while the companies expected to consume that capacity remain economically shaky. Eventually, he expects the bill to come due. He noted: “That’s the aha moment. I think we’re maybe 12 to 18 months from that point.” Too Big to Fail, AI Edition Hayes thinks the present phase is less boom than expensive positioning. “Right now we’re in the capital wastage phase,” he said. His thesis gets considerably bigger from there. Hayes expects major AI companies and their surrounding infrastructure to become sufficiently important that Washington would have powerful incentives to…