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

Today, non-European companies handle two-thirds of card payments across the euro area.

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🚨 JUST IN: Solana added $22M in euro-backed stablecoins last week, outpacing every other chain on Token Terminal’s list combined.

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🔥 Tom Lee says 99% of finance still relies on outdated infrastructure, making it difficult for banks to keep pace with crypto’s rapid evolution.

Banks without a crypto strategy risk falling behind.

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🇰🇷 Goldman Sachs has cut its KOSPI target by 25%, lowering it from 12,000 to 9,000.

The index is down more than 35% from its June peak as excitement around AI trading cools.

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🚨 TODAY: Elon Musk says companies banking on future AI revenue are struggling to secure debt. He expects most of the 200-plus neocloud providers to go under.

SpaceX, by contrast, secured $40B in GPU financing backed by revenue from Starlink and its launch business.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: Trump says the higher cost of gas is “a small price to pay” for the war with Iran, and that he expected prices to double or even triple.

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⚡️ Vitalik Buterin backs Kimi 3.1’s choice to exclude offensive cyber capabilities from its training data. He cautions that mishandling AI risks could lead to heavily restricted models, accessible only to users who pass KYC checks.

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🚨 TODAY: CZ hints at “multiple chains, one coin” as BNB Chain’s revamped 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 surge in cyberattacks leads to major data breaches.

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

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

The company now holds 6.05 million ETH—about 4.95% of the total supply.

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

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🔥 BREAKING: Anthropic has filed its S-1 registration statement, a major step toward a Nasdaq IPO under the ticker $ANT.

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🇺🇸 New: The US OCC is encouraging community banks to explore getting licensed to issue payment stablecoins.

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

Will the Fed raise rates or hold steady?

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🇺🇸 A major step: CFTC Chair Mike Selig says crypto markets should be afforded the same protections as U.S. derivatives markets.

With Congress yet to act, the CFTC is moving forward. Should it have waited?

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🇧🇷 Brazilian stocks have taken a hit: $1,000 invested at Friday’s close would be worth about $835 today.

In U.S. dollar terms, it’s down to roughly $740, with the real weakening as well.

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🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees, CNBC reports.

The move comes six months after the company launched its first voluntary retirement program, as spending on AI data center expansion continues to climb.

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⚡ BREAKING: The FTC is seeking testimony from Anthropic executives as part of its consumer harm investigation—on the very day the company is pitching investors on what could be one of the largest IPOs ever.

The timing speaks for itself…

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🔥 BIG NEWS: Kraken’s parent company, Payward, plans to offer U.S. clients perpetual futures tied to Hyperliquid through its CFTC-regulated subsidiary Bitnomial, subject to approval.

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⚡ LATEST: Former DOGE staffers say they breached Anthropic.

Their months-old startup, Cathedral, claims it accessed the AI giant’s sensitive internal data and messaging systems.

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