📈 Japan's CPI rose by 2.1% YOY in September, jumping above the BOJ's 2.0% target for the first time in nine months. $IRYS $SOPH $ARK
This acceleration has strongly cemented expectations for a near-term interest rate hike, with economists heavily pointing to a likely increase in December 2026.
Core CPI Rise: Reached 2.1% in September, up from 1.7% in August.
Core-Core CPI Rise: Jumped to 2.4% from 1.9% in August.
Goods & Services Inflation: Goods prices expanded by 2.8%. Crucially, services inflation ticked up to 1.5% from 1.2%.
Current Rate Status: The BOJ raised its benchmark policy rate to a 31-year high of 1.25% in September.
December Hike Outlook: A majority of economists expect the BOJ to raise rates further to 1.50% in December.
🔥 Venture giant Andreessen Horowitz has renamed its flagship digital asset division from a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier, broadening its investment scope to include artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, and autonomous systems while maintaining its commitment to blockchain startups. $BMT $GTC $BTR
The firm states it will keep investing in crypto networks, stablecoins, payments, and policy advocacy.
🔥 U.S. weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunged to 194,000 for this week, undercutting the Wall Street consensus forecast of 200,000 and dropping from the previous week's revised reading of 200,000. $BTC $ETH $SOL
This marks the lowest level of layoffs since July, underscoring an incredibly sturdy but tight American labor market.
🔥BREAKING- U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is backing the OCC’s FINAL GENIUS Act rule, calling it a major milestone for American finance and digital asset leadership! $ALT $PHA $AVA
Key Details of the OCC's Final GENIUS Act Rule:
Effective Date: Takes effect on January 18, 2027.
Reserve Requirements: Issuers must hold 100% liquid reserves in cash or U.S. Treasuries, utilizing a flexible, principles-based approach.
Yield and Rewards: Direct interest is banned, but third-party rewards are permitted conditionally.
AML Rules: Anti-money laundering requirements are deferred to a joint process with the Treasury.
🔥 Tokenised equity products has surged past 360, marking a 200% year-to-date (YTD) increase as blockchain-native stock exposure scales globally. $ALT $PROM $IRYS
Data reported by Blockworks via Coin Bureau highlights a fundamental shift in market structure, with roughly 60% of all tokenised equity trading volume now occurring outside regular Wall Street hours.
Blockchain platforms now enable 24/7 trading, pulling liquidity into nights and weekends. Analysts see this as a catalyst for broader adoption of digital securities 📈.
⚠️CZ warned users to be "extra careful visiting ANY website in the next few days", due to active exploitation of two critical PHP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, which carry a CVSS v4.0 severity score of 9.2. $IRYS $ALT $PHA
🔥 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US banking regulator OCC finalized its landmark stablecoin rules under Trump’s GENIUS Act, paving the way for nationwide stablecoin regulation. $IOST $PARTI $BMT
The regulations—taking effect on January 18, 2027—establish strict standards for reserve backing, redemption rights, risk management, and capital requirements for payment stablecoin issuers.
🔥 Binance創業者のCZは、回顧録『Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users, Resilience, and the Founding of Binance(お金の自由:ユーザー保護、逆境への対応、Binance創業の回顧録)』の日本語版が本日正式に発売されることを発表しました。ほかの言語版も近日公開予定です。🤞$GTC $OSMO $AVA