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The US Federal Reserve (Fed) will announce its critical October interest rate decision tomorrow. As the world awaits the Fed’s decision, markets are pricing in a 25 basis point rate cut at 97.8%. Ahead of the Fed meeting, which is eagerly awaited by global markets, including crypto markets, Morgan Stanley announced that it expects the Fed to lower its policy rate by 25 basis points to the 3.75-4.00 percent range this week, in line with general market expectations. A report prepared by Morgan Stanley economists stated that the failure to release key US economic data due to the government shutdown…

Founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, has for the past week been locked in a war of words and threats with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. The back and forth has the senator referring to the cryptocurrency entrepreneur as a “money launderer” and suggesting, “If Congress does not stop this kind of corruption (the pardoning of financial criminals), it owns it.” Meanwhile, a lawyer for Zhao told the New York Post, “Mr. Zhao respectfully immediately requests the retraction of these false statements, both within the resolution and on X,” adding, “Mr. Zhao reserves his right to pursue all legal…

Binance announced that it will support the network upgrade and hard fork process on the Shentu (CTK) network. Binance to Support Shentu (CTK) Network Upgrade and Hard Fork The company announced that it will temporarily suspend token deposits and withdrawals on the CTK network at 20:00 on October 24, 2025, to ensure users’ asset security. According to Binance’s statement, the network upgrade and hard fork will occur at block height 26,267,300. The upgrade is expected to be completed around 9:00 PM on October 24, 2025. Operations will be reactivated once the network’s stability is verified, and users will not need…

The following is a guest post and opinion from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist. It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) crossed the capability threshold by harvesting vast amounts of public and private data. Combined with breakthroughs in transformer architectures and compute power, this data scraping led to concerns about intellectual property (IP) rights. Intellectual property frameworks exist to incentivize innovation and creative spark, protecting creators and businesses. In turn, the entire society benefits from that incentive structure. Eventually, IP protections typically expire, at which point IP becomes integrated into the public domain. The global…

DeFi lending protocol Suilend has taken precautionary measures in response to a major loss reported by Stream Finance, which is having ripple effects in the Sui ecosystem. One of the worst hit was Elixir, a protocol that appears to have borrowed against assets linked to Stream Finance’s xUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin-like asset. Suilend takes action against Elixir A few hours after Stream Finance announced that it had taken a huge loss, Suilend posted an update on X, assuring users that the team was keeping a close eye on the developing issue affecting Elixir’s deUSD. The post also stated that deposits…

Ether ETH$3,935.00 hovered near $3,946 at 13:57 UTC on Oct. 25 after a high-volume rejection around $4,000 left price coiling below resistance, while analysts outlined five-digit scenarios and on-chain data pointed to larger wallets adding. Analyst view Analyst Ali Martinez projected a long-term path to $10,000, cautioning it may take longer than some expect; his weekly sketch implies a pullback into 2026 followed by a climb toward five digits around 2027–2028. Separately, The Long Investor set a $13,500 target by 2029, framing a multiyear trajectory rather than a near-term call. On the flows side, Santiment said “whales and sharks” holding…

Stablecoins can be issued in Russia, the head of its monetary authority indicated, as a Russian senator issued a call for adopting Russian regulations for the fiat-pegged digital currencies. While stablecoins are good for international settlements, the governor noted that the financial regulator remains opposed to their use for payments inside Russia, just like with cryptocurrencies. Central bank gives the nod to stablecoin issuing in Russia Stablecoins can already be issued in the Russian Federation, the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), Elvira Nabiullina, told lawmakers on Thursday. During a plenary session of the State Duma, the lower…

Crypto market maker B2C2 has launched PENNY, a new platform that enables instant, zero-fee swaps between major stablecoins as institutional demand for frictionless liquidity tools grows, the company said in a press release Thursday. The launch comes as the stablecoin market expands beyond crypto-native trading into payments, banking and settlement use cases. PENNY currently supports six stablecoins — USDT, USDC, USDG, RLUSD, PYUSD and AUSD — across Ethereum, Tron, Solana and several Layer 2 networks, with more assets expected to be added regularly. B2C2 said PENNY allows users, including banks, merchant acquirers, exchanges and stablecoin infrastructure firms, to automatically swap…

Ethereum (ETH) is once again teasing a turnaround. Over the past month, the Ethereum price has slipped about 1.9%, but the past seven days show a mild 2.1% rebound, as traders attempt to recover lost ground. Still, the broader tone remains slightly negative. Previous bounces failed to extend into full rallies, repeatedly capped at key technical levels. Now, with on-chain data shifting again, another rebound is forming — and this one looks more convincing. Whales Add While Dormant Holders Rise The Spent Coins Age Band, a metric that tracks how much ETH moves across wallets of all ages, has dropped…

Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), the parent company behind President Donald Trump’s social platform Truth Social, plans to roll out prediction markets directly in the app through a deal with Crypto.com’s U.S.-registered derivatives arm, the companies announced Tuesday. DJT is higher by 4.4% in premarket action. CRO$0.1591, the native token of Crypto.com, is higher by 4.9% over the past 24 hours. The new feature, called Truth Predict, will let users place bets on the outcome of real-world events — including U.S. elections, Federal Reserve rate decisions, sports games and commodity prices — using a federally compliant exchange operated by…