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Vault12 raised $17.45 million selling VGT in 2018 and says it met or dropped every promise, yet the token has never traded on a centralized exchange.

The collaboration will explore card-linked merchant payments for Japanese visitors in South Korea and peer-to-peer wallet transfers among broader cross-border trade remittances.

Dogecoin Labs will combine MyDoge, DogeOS and merchant payment tools as developers try to turn coin holders into customers for applications and businesses.

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 21, 2026

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is the first of several federal agencies to finish writing regulations under the act.

Bitcoin rose to a one-week high as Asian tech stocks rebounded and SpaceX and Tesla formed committees to explore a merger.

South Korea data center player Elice surged 30% after plunging about the same amount following its IPO one day earlier.

Independent committees are assessing a potential tie-up, while strong SpaceX earnings lift shares ahead of Tesla’s results.

Open interest has topped $300 million and price is back above $600. A similar setup was seen before January's crash.

The Series A round, which included participation from North Island Ventures and existing investors, brings New York-based Mural's total funding to $28 million.

The NU7 upgrade will cut the time between Zcash blocks to 25 seconds from 75 seconds. The chosen block height still has to be merged into the spec and shipped in node software.

Institutions can trade through Ripple Prime and post RLUSD as collateral. Finding enough buyers and sellers for large positions could prove harder.

Alpenglow will replace the voting system Solana has used since 2020, targeting roughly 150-millisecond finality after months of testing that included a failed migration and rollback.

Eight secret keys at eMudhra, an Indian firm that vouches for websites, were compromised. This is a generic, not crypto-specific, risk.

Strong results from SpaceX and Super Micro sent Asian chip stocks surging, and ZEC led crypto higher after developers set a date for its next network upgrade.

A Commodity Futures Trading Commission task force is scheduled for October 28 to talk about how the latest "super intelligence" technology may impact markets.

The former NY governor, who co-chairs the joint venture between the crypto exchange and Intercontinental Exchange, said companies were expected to take a wait-and-see approach.

Corporate adoption of bitcoin will stall as long as companies can't show who controls the money, who approves its movement, or whether it's still there, argues Onramp CEO Michael Tanguma.

BlackRock's proposed fund follows similar products from Calamos that helped investors avoid steep losses during bitcoin's selloff.

The court injunctions apply strictly to users within the AIFC and do not extend across the rest of Kazakhstan.