Solmate Infrastructure (Nasdaq: SLMT), a Solana-focused digital asset treasury company, said on 30 October that it holds no assets on Binance and carries no exposure to the exchange, hours after Binance disclosed a security breach it estimates at about $6.3bn, the largest theft in cryptocurrency history. The statement answers a counterparty fear now moving through the digital asset treasury sector, where listed companies hold crypto tokens on behalf of public shareholders. So

The GENIUS Act final rule, a Brazilian ban, HSBC's retail HKD stablecoin, and a Mastercard call that talked payouts: October 2026 was the week payments stopped pretending stablecoins were a side quest.

The European Investment Bank and Deutsche Bank have committed €560 million to European space financing, a lending partnership aimed squarely at the growth-stage capital that satellite builders, launch developers and in-orbit service providers struggle to raise from conventional banks. Announced on 29 October 2026 at the European Space Agency Space Investor Forum in Munich, the deal is the first commercial-bank partnership formalised under the EIB's Space TechEU programme, and

The OCC's final GENIUS Act rule reset the US stablecoin playbook this week, two of Europe's biggest banks pushed generative AI into production at scale, and researchers warned the quantum timeline is tightening. Welcome to the frontier. The frontier of financial technology moved on three fronts in the last seven days: regulation, deployment, and threat. The headline is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's final rule under the GENIUS Act, which, as of October 21, 20

Polymarket has turned on 15-minute gold and silver markets, pushing its fast-settling prediction contracts beyond cryptocurrency and into gold and silver, two heavily traded commodities. The change, announced on 29 October 2026, names oracle network Chainlink as the official data provider for Polymarket's high-speed up/down markets, and the company has signalled that equities and foreign exchange are next. For a platform built on betting around elections, sports and crypto pr

Franklin Templeton has listed two exchange-traded funds on Nasdaq that hold US shares and spend the dividends on Bitcoin. The Franklin U.S. Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FBEQ) and the Franklin U.S. Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FIBT) each begin 95% in equities and 5% in Bitcoin, then channel the income those shares pay into the digital asset rather than into more stock. For finance professionals, the practical news is a packaged way to accumulate Bitcoin out of equity c