Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) shares slipped 3% to $140.36 in early premarket trading Thursday, reversing some of Wednesday’s Investor Day-driven advance as AI-related tech stocks weakened amid investor disappointment over Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings.Google’s parent company’s shares dropped roughly 10%

Midnight Network has surpassed 1 million mainnet transactions within seven months of launch, as on-chain activity surged by 26,508% over the past month.At press time, the Midnight network had recorded 1,094,866 (1.094 million) transactions and deployed 1,434 smart contracts, according to data from M

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares fell more than 10% to $291.49 in pre-market trading Thursday after the Google parent reported weaker-than-expected third-quarter earnings, as slowing search advertising growth and heavy artificial intelligence spending overshadowed strong demand for its cloud services

CoinDesk reports:Why Alphabet, Google's parent company, fell today: Free cash flow turns negative, AI-powered search advertising underperformsAlphabet's stock fell about 10% before Thursday's open, potentially marking the largest single-day earnings-day decline since its 2004 IPO. A closing drop exc

Bitcoin infrastructure developer RootstockLabs argues in a new report that lending, yield generation and balance-sheet financing could drive the next increase in institutional Bitcoin demand. RootstockLabs estimates that lending and Bitcoin-native finance currently involve just 1.5% of Bitcoin's sup

CoinMarketCap reports:Key pointsReports indicate that Marvell is in advanced negotiations to acquire Lumentum.After the related news emerged, LITE's stock price rose approximately 9% in after-hours trading.If the transaction is completed, it will strengthen Marvell's business presence in the AI infr

CoinDesk reports:Teku and Besu have updated their respective Docker images following the eMudhra incident, as the weak certificate key posed a risk to software connecting to external services, including some Ethereum validator deployments.Teku 26.10.3 and Besu 26.10.2 have removed the affected certi

ME News reports that on October 29 (UTC+8), Microsoft (MSFT.O) is launching its first senior bond issuance in over nine years, joining peers in significantly increasing borrowing amid a surge in financing demand driven by the AI investment boom. According to sources familiar with the matter, Microso

ChainCatcher reports that PhotonPay has announced the completion of a $40 million Series C funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with SBI Group participating as a new investor. Existing investors IDG Capital, GL Ventures, and Lightspeed Faction also made additional investments. Blacksheep Techno

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Odaily Planet Daily reports that Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, said Kalshi has completed a $1 billion Series G funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management. Other investors in this round include Baillie Gifford, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Coatue Management

China's STAR50 technology index finished October 26, 2026, almost 40% below the index's July closing high. Tencent's closing-price series shows a decline from 2,185.83 on July 9 to 1,315.5 on October 26, a loss of 39.8169% across 71 subsequent Chinese trading sessions. Reuters estimated the associat

CoinDesk reports:Toronto, October 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. (Nasdaq: AZ), a global leader in smart retail technology, today announced that it will release its third-quarter financial results for the period ended September 30, 2026, after the close of U.S. markets on Wedn

ChainThink reports that on October 29, according to The New York Times, Tarek Mansour, co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, stated that the company has completed a $1 billion Series G funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management, with a valuation of $40 billion.Baillie Gifford, Morgan Sta

ME News reports that on October 29 (UTC+8), Yield Basis, an automated market-making protocol founded by Curve founder Michael Egorov, announced the launch of a permissionless propAMM that combines market-aware pricing with dynamic fees to reduce arbitrage losses and improve liquidity provider return