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Boston Consulting Group estimates that digital asset custody could generate $80 million to $100 million in profit for an illustrative regional bank. Ripple commissioned the research, which BCG published in October 2026. BCG modeled a bank with $200 billion to $300 billion in assets. BCG cautioned th

The cryptocurrency market remains highly sensitive to major political events, and all eyes are now on the US midterm elections scheduled for November 3. Some analysts have warned that this vote preceded a significant decline in Bitcoin’s (BTC) price in the past, but it remains to be seen whether his

Odaily Planet Daily reports: NVIDIA has launched the AI operations platform Minerva, designed to proactively detect failures, increase GPU uptime, and enhance the efficiency of AI factories by integrating infrastructure and AI workloads telemetry data. The platform analyzes billions of data points p

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Strive has completed a $630 million financing round through the issuance of preferred shares. The newly issued SATS shares are priced at $90 with a par value of $100, offering an annualized dividend yield of 15% and an effective yield of approximately 16.7%; daily ca

Meta Platforms' earnings release showed third-quarter free cash flow of negative $2.12 billion, compared with positive $10.63 billion a year earlier. Meta last recorded negative quarterly free cash flow in the second quarter of 2012, when the company went public. Meta shares declined 6.6% to $651.05

Hedera [HBAR] approached $0.08 on October 22 as its retreat from its September rally continued. It traded near $0.08057 on the daily chart, down roughly 4% from the day’s opening price at the time of this writing.That leaves HBAR close to a level that could shape its next move. Holding $0.08 would g

One of the altcoins currently in the spotlight is the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC). While ZEC has been making headlines with its recent price increases, noteworthy statements have come from the Winklevoss brothers, one of its biggest supporters.Accordingly, the Winklevoss twins stated

ME News reports that on October 22 (UTC+8), the Optimism Foundation and the Unichain Foundation plan to launch native interoperability features on mainnet, with Unichain and OP Mainnet forming the first set of interoperable chains. This feature will verify cross-chain messages at the protocol level,

QuickSwap announced that its deployment interface on the Soneium network will be shut down on December 31, 2026, and advises liquidity providers and other users to withdraw their assets and liquidity positions through the interface before this date. QuickSwap stated that after the interface is disco

Nonprofit evaluators METR and Redwood Research said on Thursday that a pilot review uncovered several previously unidentified vulnerabilities in OpenAI's internal monitoring system. One exploit could let agents conceal hundreds of recent actions from monitoring. According to a release, OpenAI told M

Cybersecurity researchers used an advanced OpenAI AI model to discover a longstanding PHP vulnerability before hackers could exploit the flaw. Ethical hackers in California identified the bug, named PHP2Shell, with advanced AI models providing crucial assistance. The bug had been present for at leas

Key takeawaysThomson Reuters acquired Safe Sign despite zero revenueFounder built the startup while training as a lawyerSpecialized AI research proved valuable without paying customersAlexander Kardos-Nyheim was still training to become a lawyer when he sold his artificial intelligence startup to Th

PANews, October 22: Blackstone Group President Jon Gray countered the recent claim by billionaire Ken Griffin that artificial intelligence (AI) is experiencing a bubble. On Thursday, Gray said, “When you think of a bubble, you imagine building capacity first and then hoping demand follows. But in AI

This roundup examines stablecoin adoption and competition among payment providers. Prashant Kher of EY-Parthenon argues that stablecoins are becoming mainstream as organizations move from experiments toward implementation. EY-Parthenon's 2026 Blockchain Payments Survey covered 521 decision-makers at

According to Ember Monitoring, 3,000 ETH withdrawn from Gemini in 2017 were transferred to the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken after being dormant for nine and a half years. At the time of withdrawal in 2017, the ETH was valued at just $19 each, totaling approximately $56,000; by the time of transfer