Vaibhavv Ali
The SEC Regulation Crypto Assets comment window shuts on Tuesday, October 20, and the industry’s last-mover instincts are kicking in exactly on cue. The proposal – Release No. 33-11434, File No. S7-2026-27 – published on August 18 for a 60-day run, which puts the deadline for the most consequential US crypto rulemaking of the year … Read more
The Google Willow quantum breakthrough landed in the peer-reviewed world this week, and Bitcoin’s obituary drafts got deleted on schedule. Google’s Quantum AI team published results in Science on October 15 showing its Willow processor cultivated magic states at 99.99% logical fidelity – a roughly 40-fold cut in state-preparation errors – while the timeline for … Read more
XRPL RWA volume has reached roughly $7.03 billion over a rolling 30-day window, according to RWA.xyz data cited this week – a figure that would have sounded like a typo on the XRP Ledger’s books in January, when the network’s entire real-world-asset market capitalization sat near $40.8 million. That is the genuinely newsworthy part: not … Read more
The Anthropic IPO valuation is suddenly a negotiation again: after telling investors it was marketing a share sale near $2 trillion, the company’s investor day in San Francisco produced a cooler number – roughly $1.5 trillion, according to attendees who spoke with Reuters and CNBC. Same blockbuster listing, smaller halo. The reset comes with genuinely … Read more
South Korea blocks 27 crypto exchanges with one website-level blitz, and the message to unregistered platforms is hard to misread: register, or vanish from Korean screens. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) confirmed the sweep this week, extending years of app-store restrictions into full web access blocks across a broad slice of offshore venues. The move … Read more
Nine crypto companies launch the Quantum Alliance to set quantum-computing security standards. 6.4M BTC sit behind exposed keys — but no machine can crack them yet.
MSCI finalizes non-operating company rules that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from global indexes. Final affected list lands Nov 11; JPMorgan sees $2.8B in MSTR outflows.
Beijing proposes export controls on 23 AI technologies, from large language models to model weights. Registration starts now; the comment period runs to Nov 15.
Castle Labs: Solana RWA market cap grew from $700M to $4.3B in a year and now equals 26% of Ethereum’s $16.6B tokenized asset base.
Bowman and Daly dial back October Fed rate hike odds to 32% as bitcoin steadies near $82,000 ahead of the Oct 27-28 FOMC.