The biggest Ethereum news of the day comes from Wall Street, not from a developer call. JPMorgan is taking JPM Coin (JPMD), its tokenized dollar deposit, from Base to Ethereum mainnet. Kinexys, the bank’s blockchain unit, said in a statement on Monday that JPMD now supports transfers across Ethereum Virtual Machine networks, including Base and…
“ADA bulls are showing signs of life – breakout confirmation is key,” one analyst stated. Cardano’s native cryptocurrency rebounded strongly at the start of October, climbing to a five-month high near $0.28. However, bears reclaimed control, and it now trades below $0.22, down by double digits over the past week. Here are the next…
NEAR Protocol has outlined plans to apply AI-assisted formal verification to its protocol and core smart contracts after reporting 672 solved mathematics problems at a submission-time model cost of $111.85. Summary NEAR plans to apply AI-assisted formal verification to its protocol and core smart contracts. NEAR AI reported solving 672 PutnamBench problems at a submission-time…
BTC USD reached $83,009 during the session before handing most of the move back, and now trades at $82,202, up 0.38% over 24 hours with market cap at $1.65 trillion. The backdrop had turned friendlier on three fronts at once. Brent eased off its spike above $110, equity futures strengthened, and the market cut its…
JPMorgan is expanding its onchain payment ambitions with JPM Coin on Ethereum. JPMorgan has expanded its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum to give institutional clients another way to move money onchain. The latest move takes it beyond Base, where the dollar-denominated token first launched in November 2025. JPM Coin, also known as JPMD,…
Strategy has acquired another 267 Bitcoin, lifting its total holdings to a record 848,517 BTC, while repurchasing $193 million of STRC preferred stock and raising its digital credit securities buyback authorization to $3 billion. Summary Strategy has acquired another 267 BTC, lifting its reported Bitcoin holdings to a record 848,517 coins. Michael Saylor disclosed another…
[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, October 19th, 2026] StakerX’s AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch StakerGPT trades crypto markets around the clock and publishes every trade it makes, as more than 8,200 users join the platform StakerX.ai, an agentic trading platform built by Switzerland-based StakerX Strategies AG,…
BlackRock has identified the use of tokenized investment funds as trading collateral in traditional financial markets as a potential next application for blockchain technology, building on existing arrangements that already allow institutional crypto traders to pledge tokenized fund holdings. Summary BlackRock sees tokenized money market funds serving as collateral for trades across traditional financial markets….
Nasdaq 100 futures climbed nearly 1% early Monday, challenging social media predictions that markets would open into a “Black Monday” crash. Crypto analyst Sykodelic posted on X early Monday that Bitcoin’s daily chart shows a breakout and retest of its previous high and its 50 EMA, a moving-average trend line, and told jittery traders…
Ripple’s CTO emeritus David Schwartz has expressed optimism about the future of decentralized finance on the XRP Ledger, suggesting that easier-to-use financial applications and AI-powered services could bring more people into blockchain-based finance. Summary David Schwartz expects blockchain finance to become more accessible as tokenization advances and regulatory barriers ease. The Ripple veteran discussed AI…
