🇰🇷 JUST IN: Securitize partners with LG CNS to bring tokenized funds, stocks and stablecoins to South Korean financial institutions, sending SECZ shares up nearly 8%.

🇿🇦 JUST IN: FNB, one of South Africa's largest banks, now lets customers buy $BTC, $ETH, $XRP, $SOL and $USDT from as little as R10 through its share-trading platform, in partnership with VALR.

XDC Network now has 2.35 million addresses. According to data from XDCScan, the @XDCNetwork is now close to the 2.35 million address milestone, the blockchain currently adding around 1,000 new addresses per day. The network currently sees between 1-2 million unique transactions per day and has processed a total of more than 1.2 billion since launch.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: CFTC Chairman says only FEDERALLY regulated crypto exchanges would be able to offer leverage under its proposed rules. States "are only able to offer money transmission activity," Michael Selig said. He added the 100x leverage seen offshore has never been allowed in the US, "and this will be no different."

FT: Singapore Regulator Says Hyperliquid May Fall Outside Its Jurisdiction Despite Firm Being Based in Singapore According to the FT, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said it is not aware of Hyperliquid being regulated in any major jurisdiction and has previously warned investors that its perpetual futures are not regulated by MAS. People familiar with the regulator’s thinking said MAS does not consider Hyperliquid to be based in Singapore due to its “decentralised nature” and therefore believes it should fall outside its jurisdiction. However, Hyperliquid Labs confirmed to the FT that it is based in Singapore, while corporate documents reviewed by the FT list Singapore as its registered headquarters. Hyperliquid said it “is not, and has never claimed to be, licensed or authorised by MAS” and remains committed to engaging constructively with regulators.

⚡ QUESTION: Has your country adopted crypto?

Michael Saylor: AI Outperforms What My Entire Team Could Do in a Month Strategy founder Michael Saylor @saylor said in an October 2 interview with the Bitcoin Policy Institute @bitcoinpolicy that AI crossed a major inflection point earlier this year. He said that when using the most advanced models, even if he put lawyers, financiers, marketing professionals, executives, and himself in a room for a month, they still would not produce work as good as the AI. Saylor believes AI agents are increasingly taking over tasks once performed by humans, with billions of agents eventually operating around the clock.

Dogecoin facing a liquidity crisis?! Despite being the industry's 11th largest asset, @Dogecoin liquidity is shockingly low, especially compared to other majors like $XRP and $SOL. According to CoinGecko, only @Binance and @MEXC have a market depth of more than $1M. The low depth could make $DOGE more prone to dramatic price swings in the near future...

The employment downturn in the US Information sector is intensifying: Information employment fell another -10,000 jobs in September, to 2.739 million, the lowest since December 2020. Excluding the 2020 pandemic drop, this is the lowest level since December 2014. In total, the Information industry has shed -376,000 jobs, or -12.1%, since the November 2022 peak. To put this into perspective, during the 2001 recession and its aftermath, Information employment fell -568,000 jobs, or -15.3%, from March 2001 to December 2003. The Information sector is losing jobs at a crisis pace.

🚨JUST IN: Musk's SpaceX is seeking $40 BILLION for Nvidia chips, after reportedly pitching investors with SPACE pictures.

🔥 BIG: SpaceX seeks to raise $40B to buy Nvidia chips through Apollo-led financing.

It's happening - xStocks are coming to Monad. Today, @xStocksFi General Manager @valgui and The @Monad Foundation's Joanita Titan together announced that the pair had partnered to bring a vast array of tokenised stocks to the $MON L1. xStocks will deploy natively on Monad and, in doing so, bring support for a staggering 1,100+ tokenized equities to the chain. This could be the start of Monad season...

The @terra_money ecosystem is one that has certainly had a difficult past. But that hasn't stopped the $LUNC community from trying to rebuild something of significance... ⬇️

🇿🇦 JUST IN: South Africa's First National Bank launches crypto trading, but customers can't WITHDRAW their coins. The crypto is "ringfenced within the FNB ecosystem" and can't be moved to a personal wallet, per TechCentral. Clients can buy Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana and USDT from as little as R10, in partnership with VALR.

⚡️ UPDATE: Cardano whale transactions hit their highest level since June 4 as ADA’s social dominance reached a 2026 high, according to Santiment.

Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price

people are still sleeping on privacy $ZEC and $XMR have been the obvious names $INJ is building privacy infra for RWAs too "privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age." Eric Hughes, 1993

$SPCX - SPACEX LOOKS TO RAISE $40BN TO BUY NVIDIA CHIPS IN FINANCING LED BY APOLLO - FT

🇮🇷 JUST IN: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iran has not loaded a single barrel of crude onto a vessel since August 25, questioning what its new oil minister is managing.

Circle Welcomes DJ Khaled to 'Team USDC' and Crypto Twitter Is Furious