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📊 Crypto payments funding is up nearly 6x since 2024 In Q3 2026, payments raised $621M across 27 rounds, leading all crypto categories in deal activity. Payments ranks among the fastest-growing sectors by both capital and deal count even as overall investor activity has slowed since 2025. Crypto rails continue expanding into real-world payments.

🏦 $IBM links its digital asset platform to Swift's blockchain ledger. $IBM has connected its digital asset platform to Swift's blockchain ledger, enabling banks to move tokenized deposits on a 24/7 basis, according to WatcherGuru. The integration covers bank-to-bank transfers of tokenized deposits.

🏦 IBM is connecting its digital asset platform to Swift's blockchain ledger, enabling banks to move tokenized deposits 24/7. The integration links IBM's digital asset platform with Swift's blockchain ledger, allowing round-the-clock movement of tokenized deposits between banks, according to Cointelegraph.

📊 RWA Perpetual DEX Volume Hits $365B in Q3 So Far RWA perpetual DEX trading volume reached $365 billion in Q3 to date, per CryptoRank. The figure is up 32% from Q2, according to Cointelegraph.

🚨 Binance to list Hyperliquid $HYPE for spot trading. Binance will list Hyperliquid's $HYPE for spot trading, according to WatcherGuru. The report was posted on WatcherGuru's Telegram channel.

💰 Bitcoin Holders Lock In $5.1B Net Profit Over Past Week $BTC holders realized $5.1 billion in net profit over the past seven days, per Glassnode data reported by Cointelegraph. The level is closer to late 2023 than to past market tops.

🏦 U.K. banks complete world's first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC were among the banks that carried out the transactions, according to Cointelegraph. The transactions are the first of their kind between interbank participants using tokenized deposits.

🇺🇸 US Reportedly Explores Promoting Dollar-Backed Stablecoins Abroad The United States is reportedly examining a plan to push dollar-backed stablecoins overseas, according to Cointelegraph. The reported effort is aimed at strengthening the greenback’s position as the world’s reserve currency.

🇺🇸 US Weighs Plan to Promote Dollar-Backed Stablecoins Globally The U.S. is considering a plan to promote dollar-backed crypto stablecoins worldwide, according to WatcherGuru.

📊 US Treasury yields surge to highest level since 2007. US Treasury yields have climbed to their highest point in more than 16 years, per market data reported by Cointelegraph. The reading marks the highest yield level recorded since 2007.

🚨 Coinbase Dropped From UK Finance Lobbying Group Coinbase has been dropped from UK Finance, one of Britain’s biggest financial-services lobbying groups, per Bloomberg. The removal was reported by Bloomberg.

🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the agency is preparing for the "era of onchain systems, mass tokenization, 24/7 trading, and agentic finance." Selig leads the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal regulator overseeing commodity and derivatives markets. The remarks were reported by WatcherGuru.

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📊 Tron leads stablecoin daily users by chain in 2026, with Polygon second. CryptoRank data shows Tron holding the top spot by a wide margin, citing heavy use for everyday transfers. Polygon ranks second, with growing use across payment-focused apps.

💲 Tether ($USDT) rejects MiCA license in EU over reserve rules. Tether declined to apply for a MiCA license in the EU, CEO Paolo Ardoino said, citing rules requiring 60% of significant stablecoin issuers’ reserves in commercial bank deposits. He said that makes stablecoins less protected, noting EU deposit insurance covers only €100,000. Ardoino said Tether may reconsider when MiCA becomes safer for consumers and stablecoin issuers.

📈 PGIM Credit's Greg Peters: US financial conditions are improving Greg Peters, co-chief investment officer at PGIM Credit, noted that US financial conditions are improving. He shared his outlook for the bond market on Bloomberg Surveillance.

🇵🇰 Pakistan minister pitches strategic $BTC reserve at UN event Pakistan’s Minister Bilal Bin Saqib advocated for creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve, according to Bitcoin Magazine. He made the case at a United Nations event in New York City.

📈 On-chain options notional volume reached a two-year high of $7.52B in Q3 2026. The figure rose 73% quarter-over-quarter, according to CryptoRank. Derive recorded $6.64B in options volume, accounting for roughly 88% of total on-chain options activity.

🇪🇺 JUST IN: Raiffeisen Bank International plans crypto trading via Bitpanda across 11 European markets. The $234 billion bank intends to bring crypto trading to its network banks in 11 European markets through Bitpanda, according to Cointelegraph. The plan covers Raiffeisen’s network banks across those markets.

🚨 BitMEX shuts down exchange operations BitMEX has ceased exchange operations, according to Cointelegraph. Users can still log in and withdraw funds, but deposits are no longer credited.