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Key Takeaways Strive Asset Management’s stock jumped 49% after Mike Alfred purchased over one million shares. Strive’s acquisition of Semler Scientific aims to boost its Bitcoin holdings and position in corporate crypto acquisitions. Shares of Strive Asset Management (ASST) rallied 49% on Monday after hedge fund manager Mike Alfred said he purchased over one million shares of the Bitcoin-focused company, which recently struck a deal to buy Semler Scientific. “Strive is one of the most promising BTC Treasury companies globally trading at an attractive level. You simply do not bet against a generational talent like [Ben Werkman], [James Lavish],” Alfred…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother, Barbara Fried (a former Stanford Law professor and an accomplice in her son’s crime), published a 64-page document defending her son’s actions and framing FTX’s collapse as a liquidity crisis rather than outright fraud. The document is widely viewed by many as part of a larger, coordinated PR and legal campaign by the Bankman-Fried family aimed at managing the public story and building support before the upcoming appeals in his legal case. Fried’s article also attacks the trial judge, the Justice Department, and the bankruptcy team, claiming they are biased and have misrepresented the facts of the…

Kadena’s KDA token is being removed from prominent crypto exchanges after the company behind the blockchain announced Tuesday that it is shutting down—and will no longer support the long-running network. Bybit and OKX both said Wednesday that KDA trading services are starting to be removed from their respective exchanges. OKX already suspended deposits on KDA and plans to suspend spot trading services on October 26, ahead of removing the trading pairs on October 29. Customer withdrawals for KDA will be disabled on January 22, 2026. Bybit, meanwhile, has ended all lending and borrowing services around KDA and will end perpetual…

Avalanche is emerging as the foundation for South Korea’s digital economy. From fan platforms to bank-backed stablecoins and tokenized funds, the country’s leading entertainment companies, payment providers, and financial institutions are building on Avalanche to move products from pilot to production. South Korea is mobile-first, quality-obsessed, and policy-led. Super-apps already reach tens of millions, and regulators are preparing frameworks for digital KRW and tokenized finance. In this environment, platforms must deliver speed, compliance, and invisible user experiences. Institutions Lead the Way: Mirae Asset Global Investments Mirae Asset Global Investments (“Mirae”), South Korea’s largest multinational asset manager with $316B AUM, recently…

Hunter Horsley, chief executive officer at Bitwise Invest, has predicted that “every” Wall Street institution will be doing something in crypto within the next 12 months. “Software is eating the world. Crypto is going to eat capital markets,” Horsley said in a recent social media post. Widespread adoption According to a recent chart developed by Bitwise, Wall Street is rapidly taking over crypto trading and custody. Such huge names as Bank of America, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, CBOE, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS all have a presence within this specific sector. Now that crypto has entered the mainstream, crypto trading…

Innovate NY, a self-described “pro-digital assets” political organization funded with about $100,000 ahead of the New York City mayoral election, has backed independent candidate and former state Governor Andrew Cuomo. In a Tuesday notice, Innovate NY endorsed Cuomo for mayor, the race for which is already in the middle of early voting. The political group cited an agenda that included “blockchain, tokenization, public-benefit stablecoins, and artificial intelligence.” The organization, registered as an independent spender with the New York City Campaign Finance Board, was funded with $99,500 from six individuals through two companies as of Wednesday. According to expenditure records, Innovate…

Coinbase said its Coinbase One Card is now open to U.S. customers who are, or become, Coinbase One members at $49.99 a year, offering up to 4% back in bitcoin on purchases. The update came in an X post from Max Branzburg, head of consumer and business products, who described the product as open to everyone in the United States with access tied to the Coinbase One plan. The card carries no foreign transaction fees and lets users pay their credit card bill either from a linked bank account or with crypto held on Coinbase. Coinbase says bitcoin rewards do…

BlackRock and its tokenization partner Securitize have redistributed a large chunk of the asset manager’s tokenized fund BUIDL across several blockchains, quietly reducing its market cap on Ethereum by about 60%. Data from RWAxyz shows that the $2.8 billion fund’s holdings on Avalanche, Aptos, and Polygon jumped to around $554.7 million, $544.1 million, and $530.9 million as of Oct. 30, up from just $54.3 million, $43.4 million, and $30.7 million respectively as of Oct. 19. Over the same time period, the $2.4 billion of the fund held on the Ethereum network dropped to about $990 million. BUIDL was originally launched…

The race is on, and $5,000 is the finish line. But which asset gets there first—gold or Ethereum? On Myriad, the prediction market built by Decrypt’s parent company Dastan, traders have placed their bets: 65.5% of the money is on ETH reaching $5,000 before gold does.  It’s a bold call considering gold, trading for $4,115 today, is closer to the target, despite registering its biggest one-day correction in over a decade. But the technical analysis reveals why crypto traders might be onto something—and why they could be spectacularly wrong. Ethereum (ETH) price: Compression before explosion? Ethereum closed yesterday at…

Hong Kong authorities have concluded the second phase of the e-HKD pilot program, with the central bank digital currency launch mostly aimed at institutional clients. Summary The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has completed Phase II of its digital Hong Kong dollar pilot program, revealing that both e-HKD and tokenized deposits enable cost-effective, programmable, and secure transactions. Following the trials, the HKMA plans to prioritize the e-HKD’s development for wholesale financial applications, publish common tokenization standards, and complete policy, legal, and technical preparations by mid-2026. According to a report by local media, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has completed the…