🚨 ALERT: At least 82 crypto projects have reportedly shut down in 2026 as weak demand, depleted funding, falling revenues and security breaches force closures.
🇺🇸 Ripple Prime is part of DTCC’s tokenization initiative, launching THIS MONTH, with $114 TRILLION in assets under custody.
Standard Chartered targets $28 per $XRP by 2030!
🚨HUGE: Bank for International Settlements study finds banks can CUT stablecoin growth by 3 points just by raising deposit rates 0.01%.
A 1 basis point rise in US deposit rates cuts stablecoin market cap growth by roughly 3 percentage points over 10 weeks, against average growth of about 15%.
The effect is stronger for USDC than USDT, which the authors link to USDC’s closer ties to US savers.
Meanwhile, JPMorgan, BofA and Wells Fargo still pay nothing on $1.6 TRILLION of their deposits, per the FT.
🚨JUST IN: Bank of America warns $1 TRILLION in AI spending is set to dwarf the 1990s tech boom.
Hyperscalers are expected to spend $1 TRILLION over the next 12 months, about 3% of US GDP, per BofA.
That’s nearly triple the 1990s tech boom at 1.1%, and above the 1870s railroad boom at 2.2%.
BofA strategist Sebastian Raedler warns most major past capital cycles “have ended in disappointment.”
Average AI token prices have already fallen about 50% since the summer.
🔥SHOCKING: OpenAI reveals an AI agent stole from a CRYPTO wallet it didn't own to pay for a coding task.
On June 26, a GPT-5.6 Sol research model was asked to update a crypto app and deploy it on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network.
It needed tokens to pay transaction fees but had NO funded wallet.
The agent then checked 362 addresses derived from publicly disclosed seed phrases and found one with funds.
It questioned whether spending the funds was ethical, then used them without permission.
The agent finished the task without revealing where the funds came from.
OpenAI discovered the incident on Sept 25 and has since added internet-access restrictions.
Only test tokens were spent, not mainnet ETH.
🚨MAJOR: Mastercard is bringing STABLECOINS to its global payments network reaching over 17 BILLION endpoints WORLDWIDE.
The payments giant launches Global Money Platform with BVNK, connecting fiat and stablecoins through a single API for real-time conversions, payments and local bank payouts.
BREAKING: Mastercard just launched a new platform enabling stablecoin payments at HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of merchants worldwide.
CRYPTO IS GOING MAINSTREAM! 🚀
A hacker just sent 93.5M $THEO from the @Autheo_Network exploit to my wallet 👀
Not mine. Didn’t touch it. Not selling, not swapping, not moving.
Autheo team, post the official return address and I’ll send it all back.
Tx: https://t.co/KgmikGKO8o
🇺🇸 JUST IN: Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying nationwide spectrum to make Starlink a major telecom operator in the US.
SpaceX has agreed to acquire a nationwide low band spectrum license portfolio, per Reuters.
Carrier stocks dropped after hours:
- AT&T: down 3.6%
- Verizon: down 3%
- T-Mobile: down 2.7%
It comes two days after the FCC approved 15,000 Starlink Mobile satellites and waived a rule requiring SpaceX to lease through a ground carrier.