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🌎 Catch up on day 1 of CoinDesk Live from Meridian 2026.

How stablecoins, payments and yield are reaching real-world users — from Lisbon, with @StellarOrg.

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Brad Garlinghouse says at @Ripple Swell that XRP remains the company's top priority despite its growing focus on RLUSD.

“We only want to do things that are good for XRP.”

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NEW: @The_DTCC goes live with its tokenization service, backing 34 securities representing $30T in market value on the @CantonNetwork and its private Besu blockchain covering large-cap stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasuries.

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LATEST: CFTC chief poses questions about policing AI but calls it a road to 'autonomous trading'

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MARKETS: Traders now see an 86% chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike in December, up from 78% yesterday and 76% last week, according to CME FedWatch.

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At @Ripple Swell, Evernorth CEO @ashgoblue highlights the recent growth of tokenization:

“Tokenization wasn't even a concept maybe 18 months ago, and now you're looking at $400 billion.”

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BREAKING: Kevin Warsh and the Federal Reserve have decided to keep interest rates unchanged.

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The FBI's Patrick Wyman explains at @Ripple Swell how digital assets have become a growing part of investigations across the agency.

“It's important for our investigators to understand it, recognize it, know what to do when they see it, not be scared of it, to embrace the technology.”

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INSIGHT: XRP Ledger developers are testing a way to create accounts with zero $XRP balance, letting apps and AI agents create wallets without pre-funding each one, potentially removing a key friction point for mass adoption.

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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short newsletter:

🟡 @kstellana of @GenLayer on who covers the loss when an AI agent’s payment goes wrong
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🟡 @FranciscoMemor “Hyperliquid volume vs. HYPE price” in Chart of the Week

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At @StellarOrg's Meridian 2026, Jordan Goldman says Stellar's focus on real-world financial applications is attracting growing interest from governments.

"This is where governments want to interact."

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At @StellarOrg's Meridian 2026, @tomerweller explains how Stellar stayed focused on everyday financial services while much of the crypto industry pursued NFTs and meme coins.

“Thankfully, the rest of the industry has aligned.”

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Why did MoneyGram choose Stellar over other blockchain networks?

At @StellarOrg Meridian 2026, @MoneyGram's Luke Tuttle explains why trust was the deciding factors:

“There's the speed of it and the cost, but at the end of the day, it's the trust.”

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Bitcoin is edging higher as traders await the Fed’s rate decision and signals on where borrowing costs go next.

Get the full picture in Crypto Daybook Americas, CoinDesk’s daily markets briefing presented by @Hex_Trust.

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🔵 WATCH: CoinDesk live from @Ripple Swell 2026.

Tune in to @bgarlinghouse, Terrence Duffy and Naureen Hassan, live from New York. https://t.co/MhtOjmIYL6

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CoinDesk Live at Ripple Swell 2026 https://t.co/shrpfQdIqv

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LATEST: JPMorgan Chase, Coca-Cola, Dell Technologies and four other companies have objected to inclusion on OKXICE’s tokenized stock trading platform, raising disclosed objections to 33.

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SCOOP: Google to preview crypto custody security system as AI threats grow

@Aoyon_A reports

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