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[hi news @hiblocks]

If confirmed, weekend and holiday stablecoin settlement could remove a core Web3 neobanking mismatch: cards operate 24/7, while settlement follows business hours. Always-on spending needs always-on financial plumbing.
https://t.co/dbvBSUbxmT

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Visa expands crypto stablecoin settlements network, allowing transactions on weekends and holidays.

[hi news @hiblocks]

An unverified report says Democrats may block Trump’s $1.5T military budget. Crypto should watch the plumbing: shifting Treasury borrowing expectations can move yields, dollar liquidity, stablecoin flows, and risk appetite. Politics is the headline. Funding is the market.

[hi news @hiblocks]

cheap shielded txs at scale is the whole game

[marilyn100x.eth @marilyn100x]

“Tachyon is our answer to how we are going to scale Zcash to planetary scale." - @bajpaiharsh244

Harsh says winning in the next 2 to 3 years means shipping Tachyon and making @Zcash post-quantum secure, so everyone on the planet can use it at a very cheap cost.

I asked him what winning looks like for Zcash and what it takes to get there.

> What does real-world adoption look like for Zcash in 2 to 3 years, beyond price?
> How are you evolving Zcash tooling like developer environments and air-gapped signing?
> What is the single highest-leverage opportunity to push Zcash toward encrypted money at global scale?

Full Q&A👇

[hi news @hiblocks]

The outage report remains unverified. The sharper test is whether fallback capacity is already live for customers, not added after disruption. For financial infrastructure and Web3 neobanks, redundancy only counts when access and payments keep working.
https://t.co/hVbiqU0QB4

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 128 Japanese credit unions hit by widespread outages, leaving customers unable to withdraw cash or conduct transactions.

[hi news @hiblocks]

When investors reach for traditional hedges, crypto liquidity faces a sharper test. Digital assets may need stronger stablecoin inflows and deeper spot demand to sustain positioning.
https://t.co/x2K649qkSz

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Gold and silver prices surge after the Democrats take control of the US House and Senate.

The metals have added a combined +$1 trillion in market cap today.

[hi news @hiblocks]

Freeze instantly. Set clear spend limits. See the available balance. Recover access without a support maze.

For a crypto card, emergency controls are the clearest trust test.

[hi news @hiblocks]

Anniversary date aside, Bitcoin’s next product test is everyday usability without recreating banks in nicer packaging. Web3 neobanks should simplify payments, custody, and recovery while keeping fees, control, and intermediaries visible.
https://t.co/Hxb0pf0cZG

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

18 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper.

[hi news @hiblocks]

🚨 Binance money missing.
https://t.co/EIC2JKQrST: “USDT to SWIFT in one transfer.”

Every investigator sees a case.
Every marketer sees a use case.

I hate that I understand the strategy 😂

[hi news @hiblocks]

Should the $1.5B strategy be confirmed, regional banks and crypto apps may face a sharper contest: offer credible Bitcoin custody and simple access, or watch strategic capital move elsewhere.
https://t.co/l79NfH707v

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇦🇪 Dubai royal family-backed Standard Asset Company launches $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment strategy.

[hi news @hiblocks]

A license can unlock a market. It cannot manufacture habit. Crypto neobanks win locally when onboarding is simple, payment rails work, and users have a reason to return after the first deposit.

[hi news @hiblocks]

The reported PMI improvement is not yet established, but the macro tension is clear: stronger manufacturing can lift risk appetite, while firmer rate expectations may still constrain crypto liquidity.
https://t.co/NI4hc4vOhK

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI index rose +0.1 point in October, to 56.0, its highest level since May 2022.

This exceeded expectations of a -0.4 point decline.

The improvement was particularly driven by job growth, which rose to its strongest level since March 2012.

Meanwhile, the Services PMI index fell -0.9 points, to 57.9, its 2nd-highest level in 4 years.

This brought the Composite PMI index down -0.8 points, to 57.6, also its 2nd-highest in 4 years.

Despite the slight decline, these readings point to GDP growth of +5.0% at an annualized rate in Q4 2026, following projected growth of +4.0% in Q3 2026.

US economic growth is booming amid the AI Revolution.

[GoMining @GoMining]

Getting a grid connection for $BTC mining got hard. Two or three years ago it wasn't.

Filmed at a GoMining site in West Texas, Jared (CEO of GoMining North America Division) makes the point: the competition now is hyperscalers. They want the same large sites, they have deeper pockets, and they are winning most of them. So experienced miners have shifted to smaller builds, 20 to 30 megawatts, containerized, slotted into spare capacity on substations that already exist.

Worth sitting with for anyone who has considered buying an ASIC miner. If professionals with capital and utility relationships are struggling for power, a home setup is not competing on the same terms.

That work is already done behind every GoMining digital miner. The power and the site are sorted before you ever log in.

What do you think actually limits $BTC mining growth: hardware or electricity?

[hi news @hiblocks]

Bitcoin miners now compete with AI and cloud giants for grid power, and the giants are winning most large sites. GoMining's answer: secured power and managed infrastructure behind every digital miner.

[GoMining @GoMining]

Getting a grid connection for $BTC mining got hard. Two or three years ago it wasn't.

Filmed at a GoMining site in West Texas, Jared (CEO of GoMining North America Division) makes the point: the competition now is hyperscalers. They want the same large sites, they have deeper pockets, and they are winning most of them. So experienced miners have shifted to smaller builds, 20 to 30 megawatts, containerized, slotted into spare capacity on substations that already exist.

Worth sitting with for anyone who has considered buying an ASIC miner. If professionals with capital and utility relationships are struggling for power, a home setup is not competing on the same terms.

That work is already done behind every GoMining digital miner. The power and the site are sorted before you ever log in.

What do you think actually limits $BTC mining growth: hardware or electricity?

[hi news @hiblocks]

The unverified claim of a UAE-led operation, over $39B tracked, and more than 960 arrests would raise the compliance bar. Exchanges and Web3 neobanks should strengthen wallet screening and freeze workflows before illicit funds reach user accounts.
https://t.co/Ntxs776DTB

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇦🇪 UAE-led operation tracks over $39 billion in fraudulent funds and crypto assets, leading to more than 960 arrests.

[hi news @hiblocks]

The best crypto spending flow makes blockchain feel like payment infrastructure, not homework. Tap, see the final amount, get a receipt. Chains, bridges, gas, and confirmations belong behind the screen.

[hi news @hiblocks]

If this signal proves durable, reduced Japanese demand for overseas assets could tighten cross-border liquidity and cool global risk appetite, creating a tougher backdrop for crypto beta.
https://t.co/bbKAYRzvO1

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Japanese banks sold -$16 billion of foreign bonds in September, their largest monthly sale since February.

This also marks their 9th consecutive monthly sale, the longest streak since 2022.

As a result, sales of foreign debt by Japanese banks in the first 9 months of 2026 were the largest for that period since 2005.

Japanese financial institutions have turned to domestic government bonds, whose yields have surged to their highest levels in 3 decades.

Over the 5 months ending in August, large banks and insurers bought +$34 billion of Japanese government bonds with maturities of 2 years or more, their largest 5-month purchase since the start of 2023.

Global bond demand is undergoing a historic shift as yields rise.

[Matthew G @matthewgrok]

Trade routes are moving. Settlement rails mostly aren't.

That gap is what A7 International went after at its launch this week. The founders' thesis in one line: "The market belongs to those who come first with a working solution."

What "working" looks like in their version:

• payer settles a foreign invoice in USDT
• recipient gets SWIFT in USD, yuan or dirhams, the currencies of the new routes
• payment network across 150+ countries, no local offices
• 15,000+ businesses already using the group's rails
• 0.3% fee, from one business day

The currency choice is the tell: dollar, yuan, dirham. That's where trade is going.

Early days for the product. Watching whether the rails keep up with the routes: https://t.co/860P0vWIPS

#crypto #A7

[Nicky @NickyBuffett]

Ask anyone who sends money abroad what annoys them most. It's rarely the fee. It's the fee they didn't know about.

A7 International made a point of this at its launch: the price is known before you pay, and it doesn't change afterwards.

What they committed to on stage:

• 0.3% fee, flat, stated upfront
• no hidden extras, no "correspondent bank charges" surprise
• no unexplained freezes of funds along the way
• USDT from you, SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED to the recipient
• from one business day to delivery

Fradkov described the market's real demand as "a few clicks from a smartphone, without paperwork, hidden fees or frozen money."

Everyone promises that. Few deliver it at 2,000+ payments a day. Following to see if they do: https://t.co/jt1LerDQKf

#crypto #A7

[Clarissa Yorke @ClarissaYorke]

Most B2B payment products quietly exclude you if you're not a company.

A7 International said on its launch stream that the new product is for both: companies and individuals paying abroad.

The flow is the same for either:

• register on https://t.co/oRnRedhI55, upload the invoice
• system reads the amount and the bank details automatically
• recipient's registration certificate goes through verification
• confirm one USDT transaction from your wallet
• recipient gets SWIFT in USD, CNY or AED, from one business day

Fee is 0.3%, fixed. Only the payer needs a wallet; the other side never touches crypto.

Shor's point: "If your partner specifically needs to receive funds via SWIFT, now you have that option."

Opening this to individuals is the part I didn't expect. Following to see how it's used: https://t.co/JWTsqcdTkx

#crypto #A7

[︎ Teo Mercer @TeoMercer]

Crypto payments usually break at the accountant's desk, not at the blockchain.

No invoice match, no bank confirmation, nothing to file. A7 International showed a flow at its launch that seems designed for that desk:

• you upload the actual invoice, the system reads the details
• the recipient company's registration certificate goes through verification
• the counterparty receives a regular SWIFT transfer in the invoice currency
• you get a document confirming the payment was executed
• 0.3% fee, from one business day

The payer uses USDT. The paper trail looks like a normal international transfer.

Shor's framing: "We make complex financial operations understandable again."

If the documents hold up in a real audit, this is the interesting part. Following: https://t.co/x9TUYXs87q

#crypto #A7