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StakerX’s AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch

[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,…

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BlackRock wants tokenized funds to back traditional Wall Street trades

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….

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Bitcoin’s Breakout and Retest Signal All Is Well

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…

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Ripple’s David Schwdartz sees retail DeFi opportunities on XRP Ledger

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…

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Bank rate hikes cut stablecoin growth by 3 points

Stablecoin market growth has slowed when U.S. banks raised deposit interest rates, with new research finding that a one-basis-point increase in deposit rates was associated with roughly three percentage points less stablecoin market capitalization growth over ten weeks. Summary BIS researchers found higher deposit rates were associated with slower stablecoin growth over ten weeks.  A…

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Cysic halts bridge after hacker creates 10 million CYS

Cysic has suspended its cross-chain bridge after an attacker reportedly exploited a processing flaw to mint 10 million CYS tokens without authorization on BNB Smart Chain on October 17. Summary Cysic suspended its cross-chain bridge after an attacker reportedly minted 10 million unauthorized CYS tokens. The attacker allegedly exploited bridge processing weaknesses after gaining unauthorized…

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