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Overview Samsung Electronics America announced on October 7 that Samsung Wallet will add stablecoin functionality for eligible US Galaxy users in the last week of October, reaching roughly 82 million compatible devices, with USDC issued by Circle as the first and for now only supported stablecoin. The official announcement sets out two transfer paths: sending USDC to compatible third-party crypto wallets or exchange accounts on supported networks with no Samsung transfer fee, and sending money t

Overview Binance published its notice on the closure of Binance Pool services on October 13, confirming that the pool and its related products stop at 07:00 UTC on November 10, 2026. At that moment mining connections are severed and endpoints stop accepting submissions, with any hashrate or shares sent afterwards neither processed nor credited. The closure covers more than the pool itself, taking in Pool Savings, Cloud Mining, the Transaction Accelerator, Telegram hashrate alerts, email notifica

Overview Chainalysis put a number on something that had been largely unmeasured. In its annual report on the North American crypto economy, published October 14, the firm counted more than 138 million x402 transactions on Base by the close of its study period, which covers the twelve months ending July 1, 2026, with the micropayment analysis extended to the sixteen months ending September 2026. The size distribution matters more than the count. Over 87% of those payments fell between one hundred

Overview ASML delivered a record third quarter on October 14. Revenue, gross margin and net income all came in strong, full-year guidance was raised again, and management said some customers are already discussing equipment orders for 2029 and even 2030. According to the company's quarterly results release, net sales reached €11.662 billion with a gross margin of 57.5%, net income of €4.960 billion and basic earnings per share of €12.95. The share price said something else entirely. Per stockana

Overview CoreWeave is trying to move its funding base away from banks and private credit and toward the longer, cheaper money held by insurance companies. The Financial Times published an interview with co-founder Brannin McBee on October 14, and according to Traders Union's account of that report, McBee described the insurance industry's capital pool as effectively unlimited and said the company is working to get its Nvidia GPU-backed loans rated investment grade as a class. The same report put

Overview The Census Bureau releases September retail sales on October 15 at 08:30 ET, which is 20:30 in Singapore. According to investinglive's calendar for the week, consensus looks for a 0.3% monthly gain in the headline and 0.5% excluding autos, against August prints of 1.2% and 1.4%. Moving from 1.2% to 0.3% is a sizable step down in expectations. The number itself is not the interesting part. What makes this release worth watching is the contradiction sitting behind it. The University of Mi

Overview Four token unlocks land within the next 72 hours. BeInCrypto's roundup of this week's schedule puts Starknet at roughly 127 million STRK on October 15, Arbitrum at roughly 92.65 million ARB on October 16, and Cronos at roughly 1.17 billion CRO on October 17. PANews' list of the same window adds Sei with about 55.56 million SEI, also on October 15. Priced at October 14 levels, the four events total roughly $102 million. Unlocks earn calendar space not because prices reliably fall on the

QRIS Cross-Border is now used for payments between Indonesia and Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and China. Indonesian travellers can use participating domestic payment applications to scan partner-country QR codes, while visitors from partner countries can pay Indonesian merchants through supported QRIS connectivity.The expansion means that travellers do not always need to rely on physical cards or exchange cash before leaving Indonesia. A user can enter the transaction amoun

Overview Meta shares rallied on Monday, October 12. The Motley Fool's intraday record shows the stock up as much as 4.7% before settling at roughly $742.96, a gain of 3.38% at 2:56 p.m. Eastern, for a market capitalization near $1.9 trillion and a price close to the top of a 52-week range running from $520.26 to $779.82. The catalyst was specific: Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full that morning. What repriced was not a product launch so much as a question that has hung over the stock

Overview Solana completed its most closely watched parameter change of the year on October 9. According to Solana's official upgrade page, the final step of SIMD-0525 took effect on mainnet at epoch 1053, around 14:35 UTC, cutting the target slot time from 400ms to 200ms. The network now has roughly five block production opportunities per second instead of about 2.5, and produces twice as many blocks per day. The reflexive reading is that Solana just doubled its throughput. That reading is wrong