⚡️🤑 Broadening access to XRPL, from everyday payments to agentic commerce

We’re partnering with Ripple to bring Privy wallets to the XRPL, making it easier for developers to build payments and agentic experiences on the network. 🚀

💸 The XRPL is a decentralized Layer 1 blockchain built for moving and exchanging digital assets, with fast settlement, low transaction costs, and support for assets ranging from stablecoins to tokenized RWAs. Over more than 14 years, the network has grown to more than 8 million funded accounts and $1 trillion in value moved.

❗️With Privy, developers will be able to create and manage XRPL wallets programmatically, sign transactions, and build experiences using XRP, RLUSD, and other digital assets on XRPL.

For payments companies and fintechs, embedded wallets make it possible to offer stablecoin payments without requiring users to manage keys themselves. Server-side wallets can also give agents a way to hold and transact with funds, including through x402 payments.

👇Developers building on XRPL with Privy will be able to:

👉 Create and manage XRPL wallets programmatically through Privy
👉 Sign XRPL transactions using Privy’s wallet infrastructure
👉 Build with XRP, RLUSD, and other digital assets on XRPL
👉 Enable x402 payments for agentic commerce
👉 Give users ownership and portability with private key and seed phrase export

“Stablecoins are changing how money moves, and XRPL has been building for payments from the start. We’re excited to make Privy wallets available to developers building on XRPL, from global payments to agentic commerce, and whatever comes next,” — Henri Stern, Cofounder and CEO of Privy.

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🧬 DNA recording system reveals how a single cell becomes a body

Scientists have reconstructed a detailed family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo, tracing their ancestry from the first division of a fertilized egg through 13.5 days of development. The breakthrough uses DNA Typewriter, a DNA-based recording technology developed by Dr. Jay Shendure and Junhong Choi, which stores a record of cellular history directly in DNA.

The research reveals how early cells multiply, specialize, and contribute to the formation of organs and tissues. The findings, published in Science on October 8, 2026, provide an unprecedented map of how a complex mammalian body develops from a single cell.

This technology could help researchers understand the origins of birth defects, genetic disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions, and cancer. It may also advance stem cell engineering and regenerative medicine by helping scientists guide cells toward specific identities for future therapies. 🚀

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📱 Apple releases HomeView smart home hub with screen as showcase for Siri AI

Apple launched a raft of smart products, including an iPad-like device dubbed the HomeView. It will feature a 7-inch screen and face recognition and will help users control doorbells, thermostats and smart locks.

The HomeView device starts shipping on Nov. 13.

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🇺🇸 First Lady Melania Trump Launches 2027 Presidential SI Challenge and Establishes First Lady Seal of SI Readiness

First Lady Melania Trump launched her 2027 Presidential SI Challenge and established a new First Lady Seal of AI Readiness — inviting K-12 students, educators, and schools across America to participate in the nationwide initiative.

“America’s next groundbreaking idea is already sitting in a classroom,” — said Mrs. Trump. “We must give our children the knowledge, tools, and opportunities to bring those ideas to life.”

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🧑‍⚖️ CFTC Moves to Build a New Regulatory Framework for Crypto Markets

The CFTC has begun developing a regulatory framework for crypto markets, seeking public input on how existing commodity laws should apply to leveraged retail transactions and the platforms facilitating them.

❗️The agency’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) was published in the Federal Register on Oct. 13.

📝 The document outlines two regulatory frameworks, Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions (CTX) and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets (CAM), covering the treatment of leveraged crypto trades and the registration and oversight of trading platforms.

The CFTC has set December 14, 2026, as the deadline for public comments. The initiative would use the agency’s existing authority under Section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to establish rules for certain retail commodity transactions involving crypto assets.

It also examines how designated contract market requirements could be adapted for platforms handling these transactions.

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💸 Federated Hermes joins Wall Street's tokenization push with plans for first onchain fund shares

Federated Hermes (FHI), the Pittsburgh-based investment manager overseeing $911 billion in assets, plans to issue its first tokenized fund shares early next year, joining Wall Street's growing push to bring traditional investments onto blockchain rails.

The asset manager has partnered with plans to make the upcoming products available through traditional brokerages and financial advisers alongside New York-based digital securities infrastructure provider Prometheum.

❗️The firm has not yet disclosed which funds it plans to tokenize or which blockchains they will use. Money market funds are a likely starting point, according to Kevin Barr, Federated Hermes' director of digital asset products and platform.

“There's enormous interest in the industry at large around tokenized money market funds, [and] it aligns very well with the ballast of our franchise, which has been our liquidity funds,” — Barr said.

The move adds another major asset manager drawn to Wall Street's tokenization effort. 🚀

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🧠 After 30 years, scientists finally have a drug for a deadly brain disease

The FDA has approved the first drug designed to directly treat Alexander disease, an extremely rare neurological disorder that progressively damages the nervous system and can be fatal. The treatment, called Zanvastro, represents a major advance for patients who previously had no options beyond managing their symptoms.

Alexander disease can interfere with movement, thinking, and automatic bodily functions such as breathing and heart rate. Zanvastro is the first and only approved disease-modifying treatment for the condition, meaning it targets an underlying biological process responsible for the disease rather than simply relieving its effects.

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⚡️🤑 DriveWealth and Ripple Partner to Bring Institutional Digital Asset Infrastructure to Global Investing

DriveWealth, a global Brokerage-as-a-Service platform powering the infrastructure for modern investing and trading, announced a partnership with Ripple to modernize how money moves, settles, and is managed across DriveWealth's global investing infrastructure and accelerate DriveWealth’s move to digital financial rails. 🤝

👇 The partnership covers:

👉 Stablecoin settlement: DriveWealth is integrating Ripple’s stablecoin infrastructure to support settlement in Europe, with plans to expand to the U.S. The integration will leverage RLUSD on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), alongside Ripple mint and burn capabilities.

👉 Payments: DriveWealth is integrating Ripple Payments to support cross-border acceptance from its global partners, helping streamline how funds move into DriveWealth across markets.

👉 Custody: DriveWealth is working with Ripple to support its digital asset custody needs in Europe, with plans to expand to additional markets over time. 🇪🇺

👉 Equity financing: DriveWealth and Ripple Prime are exploring opportunities across equity financing through Ripple Prime’s Delta One business, which expands its institutional capabilities across U.S. equities and equity derivatives. 🇺🇸

🟠The collaboration brings Ripple’s suite of blockchain solutions into DriveWealth’s brokerage infrastructure, creating a more unified experience across traditional and digital assets.

🟠DriveWealth clients can instantly fund and manage their collateral accounts using stablecoins that convert to cash in near real time instead of waiting on a bank wire.

For international clients that currently plan around cross-border transfer windows and cutoff times, it means capital can move when it’s needed – supporting faster settlement, more efficient use of capital and always-on access to global markets. 🚀

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🇺🇸 Trump Warns of Depression if Democrats Win, Promises $5,000 Checks if Republicans Prevail

"If the Democrats win you will have a 1929-style economic depression... If the Republicans win, you will each receive $5,000 in your pocket... Just recently, I gave all members of our military $1,776, and everybody said that can't be done!"

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⚡️🤑 Chainlink is now live on Stellar, unleashing a new wave of DeFi innovation across a $4B+ RWA ecosystem

Chainlink is unleashing a new wave of DeFi adoption on the Stellar network. With Chainlink’s Data Feeds and Data Streams now live on Stellar, developers have access to the market data needed to launch secure lending markets, prediction markets, perpetual futures, and other innovative onchain financial applications that connect the Stellar network’s growing RWA ecosystem to DeFi.

🏆The Stellar network already supports $4+ billion in RWAs, but assets moving onchain are only part of the story. These assets also need to be priced, traded, borrowed against, and used as collateral. The next phase is utility and distribution.🔣 Chainlink is providing industry-standard data infrastructure required to put more of that value to work securely and reliably.

❗️Data Feeds can supply prices for collateral valuation, loan-to-value ratios and liquidation mechanisms, while Data Streams offer low-latency pricing designed for trading platforms and derivatives markets that require more timely data.

👉 Through Chainlink, assets and liquidity on the Stellar network become the foundation of a productive DeFi ecosystem where stablecoins, tokenized equities, and other digital assets gain utility as collateral and tradable assets, giving users more ways to put their capital to work.

Chainlink creates a powerful engine for the Stellar network’s growth by removing a critical barrier to launching new DeFi applications, enabling developers to build the markets that attract new users and capital. 🚀

“Tokenization is only the beginning. For onchain financial markets to operate at institutional scale, assets need reliable infrastructure for pricing, execution, and movement.

Chainlink's oracle infrastructure strengthens that foundation by giving developers access to the data and connectivity required to build next-gen financial applications on Stellar.

As these layers mature together, the opportunity shifts from simply issuing assets onchain to putting them to work,” — Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer, Stellar Development Foundation.

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💊 Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak envisions BCIs expanding beyond computer control into a wide range of medical applications.

PRIMA, already commercially available in Europe for patients with vision loss caused by geographic atrophy, could also help treat other retinal diseases, including Stargardt disease, a currently incurable condition that causes progressive central vision loss and affects around 150,000 people worldwide.

In May, the first patient with Stargardt disease received a PRIMA implant as part of a clinical trial at Sydney Eye Hospital in Australia. During rehabilitation, the patient was able to see a letter in the first session and read a word in the second, offering an encouraging early sign of the technology’s potential. 👏

📱 Watch the video on YouTube

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⚡️🇮🇳 India Education Minister Plans Technology Push After Exam Leaks

India will overhaul its examination system using technology and large question banks, Education Minister Pralhad Joshi said, as the government addresses weaknesses exposed by exam leaks and cheating allegations that triggered widespread student protests.

“We are making it more technology driven, making it more transparent, all those loopholes, we are plugging it now,” — Joshi said. The government wants an “overall change in the system,” including computer-based examinations as early as possible, he added.

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😊 Google Will Let Anyone Publish Privately Listed Vibe-Coded Apps on the Play Store

Google is making it easier for Android users to run vibe-coded apps for personal use, lowering the barrier for nontechnical consumers who are increasingly turning to AI to build tools for their own needs.

Starting Tuesday, people 18 and older with a Google account can publish Android apps on the Play Store that were created through Google AI Studio, a web-based platform for prototyping apps and creating media with the tech giant’s various AI models.

Notably, the new allowance includes even people without a paid developer account, opening up the Play Store to so-called vibe coders — anyone who uses natural language to ask AI to generate software code.

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⚡️🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan to invest $21 billion in up to two GlobalFoundries chip factories in New York

Japan will invest about $21 billion to build up to ‌two chip factories in New York State that will be jointly owned by the US government and Japanese interests and operated by GlobalFoundries.

The initiative is part of a Trump administration deal struck last year for Japan to invest $550 billion in the US in return for the US lowering tariffs on ​Japanese cars and other imports from at least 25% to 15%.

The first factory is expected to ​add annual US manufacturing capacity for about 900,000 300mm wafers when fully operational, ranking it among the larger US semiconductor manufacturing facilities, and create more than 1,000 factory jobs in New York.

"We are the first administration ever to turn grants ‌into ⁠money for America," — Trump said. 🏆

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