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Ethereum’s next big upgrade just lost its Oct. 26 test date after security researchers flagged a gas-accounting risk to existing contracts. HSBC rolled out a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin to 3.3 million PayMe users, and Swell froze its staked-ether tokens over a suspected admin-key compromise. Health leads with a 147,000-person study on how much lifting is enough, plus a step count that protected premenopausal bones and a sleep window tied to sharper thinking.
The first final rule under the GENIUS Act is out: the OCC dropped its presumption against exchange-paid stablecoin rewards and will judge them one at a time. Solana’s Alpenglow is now live, Standard Chartered is buying all of Zodia Custody, and LayerZero set Nov. 30 for its Zero chain and ATLAS exchange engine. Health leads with flywheel split squats that made soccer players quicker at changing direction, plus a 10 p.
Solana switches to its new Alpenglow consensus today, aiming to finalize payments in about 150 milliseconds instead of roughly six seconds, and Zcash has a November date for an upgrade that makes blocks three times faster. Malaysia had a big tokenization day: a licensed bank launched a dollar stablecoin and the central bank opened a platform for tokenized bonds and sukuk. A web certificate authority turned out to have private keys as small as the number 4.
Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs have joined the companies refusing to let their shares trade as tokens on OKXICE, and the SEC’s comment period on its main token-fundraising rule closes today. Switzerland approved its first retail fund that holds bitcoin directly, and Mastercard opened its AI-agent payment system to developers. Health leads with trained athletes: a bedtime protein snack that didn’t hurt sleep, beetroot juice for recovery, and how much of caffeine’s kick is in your head.
JPMorgan’s deposit token, JPMD, is now live on Ethereum mainnet. Stablecoin payments are up 45% even though supply has stalled, and two hacks, at Cysic and Qubic, again came down to off-chain software rather than smart-contract code. Health leads with trained athletes: when to cut a squat set short, and an app-based mindfulness program that eased sprinters’ pre-race nerves. In Science, a new theory asks whether the brain is part superconductor, top mathematicians have confirmed one of OpenAI’s AI-generated proofs, and duct tape beat sandbags at keeping floodwater out of a front door.
Nine large U.S. companies, including Broadcom, Verizon, CoreWeave and UnitedHealth, formally objected to tokenized versions of their shares trading on OKXICE, the first real test of the SEC’s new opt-out rule. On crypto venues, weekend bets on chip stocks lost about $52M in 10 minutes while Wall Street was closed. Goldman, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley called tokenization a growth opportunity, and HEX founder Richard Heart is in custody in Turkey.
Anthropic says its AI model Claude solved one of cryptography’s oldest puzzles: it worked out where the NSA got the unexplained seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves, including P-256, which secures much of the web, and the answer makes a hidden backdoor much less plausible. Post-quantum work kept moving: a new method bundles thousands of post-quantum signatures into one small proof, and nine firms formed a quantum-readiness standards group. In Washington, President Trump waived almost all of the new Graham Act Russia sanctions and tariffs two days before they were due, and existing sanctions are unchanged.
Card networks moved stablecoins into their everyday plumbing overnight: Mastercard launched a stablecoin platform built on BVNK, and Visa Direct now takes USDC prefunding around the clock. MSCI adopted the rule that could push Strategy out of its indexes. The real shock was wholesale prices: September PPI jumped 1.3% in the month and 6.3% over the year, and bitcoin briefly fell below $80,000. Health has no athlete studies today, so it leads with training levers tested in healthy older and young adults.
Europe’s stablecoin rulebook made most of the crypto news overnight. A 37-bank consortium, Qivalis, won a Dutch e-money license for a euro stablecoin, the EU’s banking regulator labeled USDC “significant” under MiCA, and Kraken’s parent agreed to buy a Lithuanian bank. Health has a better day for exceptional cohorts: creatine loading in trained breath-hold divers, dry-heat acclimation in trained cyclists, and two cold-plunge protocols in athletes. September CPI came in hot (3.
Big institutions did most of the crypto news overnight. BNY and Citadel Securities used a tokenized Treasury as repo collateral, DRW and Marex traded the first swap on a fully tokenized index on Canton, and Standard Chartered opened bitcoin and ether trading to wealthy UAE clients. Sberbank won approval to trade crypto in Russia starting Dec. 1. The Ledger reseller story spread to European retail: MediaMarkt pulled Ledger devices from its stores.
