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LATEST: 🇺🇸 Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told CNBC that even if Democrats win the House, the GENIUS Act is not “something that’s at risk of being reversed,” calling it “the only major piece of bipartisan legislation” passed in two years. “There may be other areas of crypto that have questions, but I think digital dollars and the role that these play for the United States is going to be something that is important to everybody here.”

LATEST: 🤖 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI’s next big infrastructure bet is “robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers.” Speaking at Stanford, he called it “almost as big of a deal” as AI recursive self-improvement.

LATEST: 🤖 SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom says AI agents will touch “$4 trillion of the $8.5 trillion” in financial services fees by 2035, calling it “one of the biggest battles over money in history.” He told Crypto in America that the fees won’t be “necessarily replaced” by AI agents, “but touched.”

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LATEST: 🇺🇸 The IRS is preparing to lower penalties under its voluntary disclosure program, with crypto handled through the same process as other tax violations, Forbes reports.

LATEST: 📊 Grayscale says HYPE, LIT, and CAKE top its ranking of crypto assets by tokenholder yield, with AERO and UNI rounding out the top five. When ranked by adjusted earnings yield, CAKE, LIT and HYPE keep the top three, followed by RAY and AAVE.

LATEST: ⚡️ Blockchain’s role in AI is expanding beyond tokens and agents to real infrastructure, argues Grayscale's Zach Pandl. He points to DATA for crowdsourcing training data, USD.​AI for GPU-backed compute loans, and Pearl for dual-use GPU monetization.

LATEST: 📊 Bitcoin’s correlation with gold hit an 8-year record in September while its dollar correlation hit a historically low reading, signaling a potential regime shift from risk to hard asset, per Glassnode.

LATEST: 🚨 An INTERPOL-coordinated operation saw 21 countries arrest 1,462 suspects and recover over $105M, including two illegal crypto mining centres in Angola and a $2.4M crypto laundering case in Nigeria.

LATEST: 🏦 Sweden's central bank is urging lawmakers to reconsider a digital krona, arguing it would help safeguard the country's monetary control as foreign stablecoins and a digital euro threaten to erode demand for the krona.

LATEST: 📊 SpaceX booked a $561M unrealized gain on its stake in Elon Musk's Boring Co., according to its latest quarterly filing.

ICYMI: 🇺🇸 JPMorgan analysts say US regulator actions are partly offsetting the CLARITY Act's Senate failure, but only legislation would make crypto rules more durable over the longer term.

LATEST: ⚡️ Six more companies, including Wells Fargo and Intuit, have objected to OKX-ICE listing tokenized versions of their shares, per Reuters, bringing the total objectors to 22 out of 63 planned listings.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 The SEC has added tokenization to its fiscal 2027 exam priorities, listing it with quantum computing and extended trading hours as emerging trends under review.

ICYMI: 📈 Tom Lee told CNBC he remains bullish on software, AI stocks and crypto, adding that AI stocks are bottoming. “I like the crypto here,” he said, reiterating that the setup is “a coiled spring because the fundamentals have been holding in.”

LATEST: 📊 XRP’s holder count hit a record 8.24M non-empty wallets as network growth surged to 4,772 new wallets in a single day, the fifth-largest daily spike since March, per Santiment.

LATEST: 🇿🇦 South Africa is sending its draft crypto capital controls back to the drawing board, with Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana saying thousands of comments showed “a different approach” is needed. Godongwana says the country will shift away from prior approval toward a framework built on legitimacy and tax compliance.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has banned Pentagon personnel from using nonpublic information to bet on US military operations, per CBS News. The Oct. 20 memo names both Polymarket and Kalshi, with Hegseth warning "our enemies watch movements in these markets."

LATEST: 🚨 Bitcoin Core has changed its security policy to patch and disclose bugs an AI could easily find right away, replacing embargoes that previously ran for months.