Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

CoinDesk reports:Morning HighlightsToday’s Fortune highlights: Trump’s tariffs nearly bankrupted Spirit Halloween; France is walking on eggshells toward a debt crisis; in markets, tech stocks dragged down performance; the stock market cares less about the Fed than traders think; AI is fueling inflat

PitchBook's new analysis puts the value of loans trading below 80 cents on the dollar in Morningstar's Leveraged Loan Index at $131 billion. PitchBook identifies that price as a widely used threshold for distress. The distressed amount is the largest since May 2020, during the recovery from the pand

The core trading module, StableSwap, is now fully open, allowing users to create pools and swap assets without permission. Curve founder Michael Egorov explicitly stated that this move beyond the EVM ecosystem is primarily driven by institutional-grade compliance requirements, leveraging Stellar’s u

CoinDesk reports:Investors can now trade Kalshi prediction market products alongside futures, options, and stocks via CQG.New York, October 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global fintech company Broadridge (NYSE: BR) today announced that Kalshi event contracts are now available for trading through CQG’s fro

Bitcoin lost 1.4% to about $80,100 on Thursday after recovering from an earlier low of $79,600. Ether declined 1.7%. The CoinDesk Memecoin Index recorded a 3.4% loss.South Korea's Kospi led the market decline with a 1.2% fall. Samsung Electronics shares lost 4% because shareholder returns disappoint

In Brief:Ripple President Monica Long highlighted tokenization’s growing role in global finance during discussions with Robinhood executive Johann Kerbrat at Swell.Robinhood plans to integrate Ripple Treasury for financial operations while adopting RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for institutional settlemen

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that on October 29, according to official announcements, ListaDAO stated that its smart lending market and StableSwap v3 liquidity pools have been fully launched, covering eight pools and 18 markets on BNB Chain and Ethereum. ListaDAO noted that concentrated liquidity enabl

Banks are moving beyond crypto trading to build the infrastructure behind stablecoins and tokenized assets, executives said on Wednesday at MERGE Madrid 2026, held at the Palacio de Cibeles.Chainalysis data helped explain why. Cryptocurrency economic activity reached about $9.4 trillion between June

ChainCatcher report: Trade.xyz founder @sershokunin published a detailed post stating that, 381 days after launching its first market on Hyperliquid, Trade.xyz has partnered with ICE. He noted that, following CFTC approval, a dedicated U.S. market will be established, offering 24/7 perpetual contrac

BlockBeats report, October 29: Digital assets and data center company Galaxy Digital announced that its subsidiary, Galaxy Digital LP, has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish Galaxy National Bank, a nationally chartered trust bank headquartered in New York. If

According to Zhitong Finance APP, as of the time of reporting, Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG.US) shares rose 7% in pre-market trading on Thursday, following management comments the previous day from CEO Scott Botter. Boatwright's efforts to bring customers back with a new menu and marketing campaign a

CoinDesk reports:Bismarck, North Dakota—In 1918, a progressive agrarian-labor movement known as the Nonpartisan League came to power in North Dakota, rising rapidly on a wave of populist anger directed at the large banks and industrial giants in Minneapolis and Chicago.The organization was founded b

Lumentum Holdings shares continued rising Thursday after a late Wednesday report described advanced negotiations for Marvell Technology to acquire Lumentum. Benzinga Pro data showed Lumentum trading at $969.98, up 6.13%, at publication. Lumentum had gained as much as 17% during Wednesday's after-hou

ChainThink reports that on October 29, according to TheEnergyMag, Galaxy Digital has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a federal charter to establish a national trust bank in New York.If approved, Galaxy National Bank will operate as an OCC-regulated federal tru

ChainThink reports that on October 29, according to The Block, Curve Finance has launched on the Stellar mainnet, marking its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem.Users can create liquidity pools, exchange assets, and provide liquidity on this network. Curve plans to add the FXSwap feat