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Today the NBA designated Kalshi as its preferred prediction market.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐔 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲! 🇪🇺💶 With two-thirds of euro-area transactions handled by non-European firms, ECB officials argue that a homegrown CBDC is essential to secure the bloc's payment infrastructure. #ECB #DigitalEuro #EuropeanUnion #AlphaIntel

INTEL: Chainlink launches CustodySync, enabling custodied institutional assets to access DeFi lending, with Anchorage as launch partner.

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 Reuters reports that China’s AI bubble has already burst.

🇺🇸 Markets now price a 90.6% chance the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged at its Oct. 28 meeting.

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the agency is pursuing a voluntary federal registration regime for crypto exchanges.

NEW: Securitize’s tokenized-stock market cap plunges over 50% to $208.6M in under a month.

INTEL: Lummis says the CLARITY Act would give the SEC authority to deny or revoke certifications for crypto projects, and Democrats voted against it.

BNB Standard rang the NASDAQ opening bell today, joined by CZ.

NEW: @SPGlobalRatings has launched DeFi vault risk assessments that evaluate underlying assets, curator, operational, security and governance risks. Andrew O’Neill explains how the firm uses on-chain transparency to surface risks facing depositors.

NEW: The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is urging U.S. community banks to explore becoming permitted issuers of payment stablecoins.

INTEL: Anthropic has reportedly made its IPO filing public, moving toward a potential November stock‑market debut that could rank among the largest in history.

JUST IN: Tom Lee’s Bitmine added 10,452 ETH last week, bringing its holdings to 6.05M ETH — about 4.95% of the supply.

INTEL: Strive says it purchased 6,182 Bitcoin for $511.4 million, bringing its total holdings to 43,000 BTC.

INTEL: Saylor's Strategy halts Bitcoin purchases following two consecutive weeks of buying, keeping its holdings steady at 848,517 $BTC.

INSIGHT: Seeing a DeFi vault’s transactions doesn’t indicate how it will perform under stress. James Wiemken of @SPGlobalRatings says assessing governance and controls is crucial to move beyond transaction transparency to true risk transparency.

Latest: Tokenized equities on Solana have reached a record 1.5M holders.