Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

CoinDesk reports:Los Angeles, October 27 /PRNewswire/ — ECHELON Partners today released its Q3 2026 RIA M&A Report, showing that wealth management M&A is still on track to set an annual record. The ECHELON team recorded 125 transactions announced this quarter¹, matching the most active Q3 on record

CoinDesk reports:The browser vendor Opera has introduced a new web standard that allows users to run AI models directly in their browser without relying on the cloud.The new standard, called WebAI, is designed to be compatible with multiple AI models. Opera mentioned Google’s Gemma as an example—a p

TL;DRGalaxy says Bitcoin’s bear market ended in June and now offers an accumulation opportunity, citing improved technical structure and reduced selling pressure.U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have added 87,000 BTC since the June low, which Galaxy interprets as directional demand rather than leveraged carry

In Brief:XRP Ledger active accounts reached 30,604, exceeding the monthly average by 65% and reflecting stronger blockchain participation across the network.XRPL network activity recovered from weaker periods, with active accounts rising beyond 30,000 as transaction participation increased across th

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Meta Platforms (META.O) announced plans to raise funds through a stock offering to support investments in artificial intelligence, increasing the total financing amount slightly from $95 billion to $97.5 billion. On Tuesday, Meta disclosed the pricing details of the

CoinDesk reports:This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Click here to subscribe so future issues are delivered to your inbox.Hello everyone, I'm Leonie Kidd, and here is today's Morning Squawk.Supported by gains from Anthropic, the Nasdaq rose for a second consecutive day, providing overnight sup

CoinDesk reports:Key pointsThe investment scale of three tech giants is approaching $600 billion.Cloud business growth accelerated, but cash flow came under pressure.The upcoming earnings report will test market confidence in AI spending.Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s parent company Alphabet are in

Visser Labs founder Jordi Visser says cryptocurrencies could offer better returns from the artificial intelligence boom than AI stocks. Visser says repeating the sharp gains in AI shares is becoming more difficult. Visser says AI agents are increasing demand for crypto payments and tokenized assets.

CryptoSlate's historical-return simulation found that 50.4% of Bitcoin paths closed above $126,198 during one year, while 34.8% ended above that level. The difference was 15.6 percentage points, meaning roughly one in six paths crossed the record but finished below the record. Bitcoin's price page p

Arthur Hayes, BitMEX co-founder and CEO of Flop Labs, has laid out a more concrete framework for how the Flop Network’s native token could help turn AI compute into something closer to a tradable commodity. Writing two days after selling portions of his altcoin holdings, Hayes argued that if AI agen

The Chengdu Intermediate People's Court on Tuesday sentenced former securities official Wang Huimin to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery. The court found that Wang had accepted bribes exceeding 436 million yuan (US$65 million). Wang admitted accepting bribes while holding office. The senten

GMO Internet is investigating a data leak following suspected unauthorized access to Onamae, a cloud service that supplies virtual desktops to financial traders. GMO said a suspected attacker had published data allegedly connected to GMO and GMO customers. GMO is still verifying the published materi

ChainThink reports that, according to a Reuters survey of more than 500 economists worldwide, global high inflation is expected to persist into next year.The surveyed economists raised the 2027 inflation forecasts for 31 out of 50 economies surveyed; among the 21 advanced economies, 15 had their inf

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports, according to Cointelegraph, Jordi Visser, founder of Visser Labs and former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and Chief Investment Officer at Weiss, stated on Cointelegraph’s podcast “Trade Secrets” that crypto assets may generate better returns than AI stocks from the A

SummaryCryptoQuant analyst Crypto Dan believes Bitcoin could experience another major rally as historical holding patterns suggest further market growth potential.Bitcoin’s 18-month to two-year holding band recovered toward 27%, reflecting renewed growth in older holdings across the cryptocurrency n