🇮🇱 The Bank of Israel has rejected Netanyahu’s idea of using crypto to get around sanctions, saying it “cannot be used as a route for bypassing sanctions.”

Netanyahu’s response: “I listen, but I do what I think is best.”

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🔥 Nearly 60% of stock token trading on Robinhood Chain takes place outside Wall Street hours, according to Entropy’s Tom Wan.

In just one month, $532M worth of trades happened on weekends alone.

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🇪🇺 LATEST: The ECB says the digital euro is a matter of “sovereignty.” A pilot is planned for next year, with a potential rollout as early as 2029.

Two-thirds of card payments in the euro area currently rely on non-European companies.

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🚨 UPDATE: Solana added $22M in euro-denominated stablecoins over the past week—more than all the other chains on Token Terminal’s list combined.

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🔥 Tom Lee says 99% of the financial system still runs on outdated infrastructure, making it hard for banks to keep up with crypto’s rapid growth.

Without a clear crypto strategy, banks risk being left behind.

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🇰🇷 Major move: Goldman Sachs has cut its KOSPI target by 25%, from 12,000 to 9,000.

The index is now down more than 35% from its June high as the AI trade loses momentum.

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🚨 TODAY: Elon Musk says debt markets are nearly closed to companies without revenue beyond AI, warning that most of the 200+ neoclouds won’t make it.

He says SpaceX still raised $40B in GPU-backed debt, supported by revenue from Starlink and launches.

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🇺🇸 LATEST: Trump calls high gas prices “a small price to pay” for the war with Iran, adding that he expected them to double or triple.

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⚡️ NOW: Vitalik Buterin supports Kimi 3.1’s decision to exclude offensive cyber capabilities from its training data. He warns that mishandling AI risks could result in heavily restricted models and access limited to users who pass KYC checks.

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🚨 TODAY: CZ hints at “multiple chains, one coin” as BNB Chain’s revised docs outline plans for a new, high-performance EVM Layer 1.

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🇯🇵 UPDATE: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will chair a cybersecurity meeting as a growing wave of cyberattacks triggers major data breaches.

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🔥 JUST IN: Strive has acquired 6,182 $BTC, bringing its total holdings to 43,000 bitcoin.

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🔥 JUST IN: Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought 10,452 $ETH last week.

Its total holdings have now reached 6.05M ETH, equal to 4.95% of the supply.

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⚡️ JUST IN: Saylor’s Strategy has paused its Bitcoin buying, keeping its holdings at 848,517 $BTC.

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🔥 BREAKING: Anthropic has filed an S-1 ahead of its IPO, seeking a Nasdaq listing under the ticker $ANT.

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🇺🇸 New: The US OCC is urging community banks to apply for licenses to issue payment stablecoins.

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🇺🇸 LATEST: Markets see a 90.6% chance that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged on Oct. 28.

Will the Fed raise rates or hold steady?

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🇺🇸 Major development: CFTC Chair Mike Selig says crypto markets should receive the same protections as U.S. derivatives markets.

With Congress yet to act, the CFTC is moving ahead on its own. Should it have waited?

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🇧🇷 Brazilian stocks have tumbled. A $1,000 investment at Friday’s close is now worth roughly $835.

In U.S. dollar terms, it’s worth about $740, with the real weakening as well.

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🚨 JUST IN: Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, CNBC reports.

The move follows the company’s first-ever voluntary retirement program six months ago, as heavy investment in AI data centers puts pressure on its finances.

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⚡ BREAKING: The FTC has asked Anthropic executives to testify in an investigation into possible consumer harm. At the same time, the company is courting investors ahead of a potential IPO—one that could rank among the largest ever.

The timing is hard to miss…

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