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U.S. Democratic Senator Mark Kelly accused Trump of purchasing $5 million in SpaceX bonds and announced a significant space policy change affecting SpaceX two days later, questioning the corrupt nature of his actions.

Stripe announced a collaboration with Plasma to develop a multi-currency stablecoin card, aimed at allowing individuals and businesses to spend the currencies they already hold in their accounts, reducing unnecessary currency conversion and foreign exchange costs. Plasma will serve as the design partner, integrating with Stripe's stablecoin card infrastructure, enabling customer account balances to be used for payments through the multi-currency card.The expanded infrastructure will support US dollars, Brazilian reais, euros, Mexican pesos, and Colombian pesos; stablecoins include USDC, OUSD, and qualified stablecoins that meet the requirements of the GENIUS Act. The Stripe stablecoin card service currently covers over 30 countries, with plans to expand to over 100 countries by 2027.For example, users holding euros will be able to spend directly in euros in the future, without needing to convert to US dollars first; businesses can issue currency cards that match their spending needs. Stripe also plans to support cardholders in spending from multiple account balances and automatically selecting the appropriate currency at the time of purchase.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has revoked the major payment institution license of the currency exchange and cross-border remittance entity Sir Money Changer Pte. Ltd. (SMC) under the Payment Services Act 2019, effective from September 15, 2026. From that date, SMC is no longer allowed to provide cross-border remittance and currency exchange services.The action by MAS stems from an investigation that found SMC allowed third parties to independently operate cross-border remittance services in one of its business premises under the name of SMC and provided false or misleading information to MAS. MAS pointed out that license holders must not allow third parties to use their license to conduct financial service activities and require payment service providers to maintain effective supervision and control over their business operations.

On October 13, Paul S. Atkins, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued a statement announcing that the Commission voted that day to approve a proposed rule change by a certain securities exchange, allowing for the listing of binary options based on specific key performance indicators (KPIs) reported by certain stock issuers.According to the approval order, these binary KPI options will be listed and traded on the securities exchange, classified as cash-settled, European-style, standardized options, and recognized as NMS securities, protected under securities law. Their listing and trading methods will be largely similar to existing standardized non-binary options and will be subject to the exchange's rules regarding customer accounts, margin, trading halts, auction mechanisms, market maker designations and quoting obligations, order types, validity periods, and order instructions.The approval order only covers the aforementioned specific binary option contracts traded on exchanges that comply with securities law and the listing and trading of standardized securities options, and does not involve similar products that are based on the same KPIs but have different structures. The statement also noted that the approval order does not address or exclude the jurisdiction of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over contracts based on the same KPIs but designed to fall under its jurisdiction.

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange ranking released by RootData, the top three exchanges are Binance, Bitget, and Gate.Among them, Binance scored 95.4, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 25.341 billion USD and a market share of 45.57%; Bitget scored 93, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 3.073 billion USD and a market share of 5.53%; Gate scored 92.6, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 964 million USD and a market share of 1.74%.

According to official disclosures from JPYC, the cumulative issuance of its issuance and redemption service JPYC EX surpassed 10 billion yen as of September 18, with users expanding from individuals to local Japanese businesses and overseas projects.On September 17, JPYC was listed on the South Korean exchange Upbit, trading against the Korean won, BTC, and USDT markets, but the market price temporarily deviated from 1 yen after the listing. In addition, Netstars signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Kaia DLT Foundation to integrate the stablecoins circulating on Kaia into its payment networks such as StarPay, which has approximately 700,000 affiliated stores; the Osaka physical store of Mi&T received a subsidy from the Osaka Prefecture for its JPYC payment pilot, planning to implement it in about 5 stores from November 2026 to March 2027.

After briefly publishing the rumor-refuting content "Cheung Kong Responds to Li Ka-shing's Death: Absolutely Not True," mainstream Chinese financial media outlets including The Paper and Jinshi Data collectively deleted the news, with the deletion occurring on October 15.Currently, Caixin still retains this report, but its source is also The Paper.

Members of the Solana team shared photos announcing the establishment of an office in Shanghai, China. Core member Vibhu and Foundation Chair Lily Liu announced that Solana occupies the "highest" commercial office space in the world.In response, Binance founder CZ retweeted, stating that it is amazing to see Solana able to advertise in China and even set up an office. BNB Chain has not been able to achieve this so far.

A certain whale/institution sold 237.8 BTC in the past day, exchanged it for 19.7 million USDC, and then bought 7929 ETH. In the past 4 days, this entity has sold a total of 1312.1 BTC, exchanged it for 109.1 million USDC, and then bought 43275 ETH.

The Federal Reserve's Beige Book indicates that most regions report little change in overall employment levels.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale sold $92,674.12 in a single transaction regarding the "Federal Reserve's October Decision" event, targeting "no change." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 78%.

The CEO of the stock and cryptocurrency trading platform Robinhood, Vlad Tenev, stated in a recent interview that a significant portion of retail trading is expected to be initiated by AI in the future. The Agent can monitor the market around the clock and handle trades in various assets such as stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies, but most funds may still be held long-term.In May of this year, Robinhood allowed users to trade through third-party AI Agents via MCP, and at the end of September, it announced the direct integration of Agents into the App, with over 150,000 customers having opened dedicated trading accounts at that time. Currently, funds are still restricted through independent accounts; the Agent can view users' other account information but can only place orders within the dedicated account, and funds must be actively transferred by the user. Tenev stated that technically, it is not difficult to directly access the main account, but the company has chosen to gradually loosen permissions.In terms of approval settings, the built-in Agent requires users to approve each transaction by default, but this setting can be manually turned off; external Agents accessed through MCP do not require per-transaction approval by default, and users must enable approval themselves. Tenev also envisions allowing retail investors to deploy trading strategies on servers close to exchanges to reduce order delays, and hopes that ordinary investors can use such infrastructure without needing to understand data centers and network engineering. Robinhood has not yet provided this service and has not announced a timeline for its launch.

According to on-chain analyst AI Yi's monitoring, the TRUMP team allocated an address that transferred 11.78 million dollars worth of tokens to a new address after 12 days, which may be deposited into an exchange.Twelve days ago, he transferred 8.87 million dollars worth of Solana to the address 52RDq...rkaD1: 6p6xgHyF7AeE6TZkSmFsko444wqoP15icUSqi2jfGiPN. This portion of tokens was subsequently deposited into OKX through two addresses.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges released by RootData, the top three exchanges are Binance, Hyperliquid, and Gate.Among them, Binance scored 95.4, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 16.86 billion USD and a market share of 43.23%; Hyperliquid scored 94, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 2.618 billion USD and a market share of 6.72%; Gate scored 93, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 746 million USD and a market share of 1.91%.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges published by RootData, the three exchanges with the largest spreads among the listed exchanges are HTX, OrangeX, and BingX, with spreads of 0.836%, 0.233%, and 0.197% respectively.It is reported that this spread is the weighted spread based on the 24-hour trading volume, and a higher value typically indicates higher trading costs.

According to a report by Daum, while global exchanges are expanding into perpetual contracts, options, and traditional stocks, South Korean local exchanges are still limited to spot trading due to regulatory restrictions. Data from CoinGecko shows that in the second quarter of 2026, the total spot trading volume of the five major Korean won exchanges—Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, DigitalX (formerly Korbit), and GOPAX—was approximately $14.67 billion, a decrease of 33.0% from $21.88 billion in the first quarter.Coinbase completed its integration with the derivatives exchange Deribit this month and plans to launch a unified platform covering spot, derivatives, and stocks; Binance is expanding into precious metals, stocks, and index-related perpetual contracts. Current regulations in South Korea prohibit local institutions from engaging in cryptocurrency derivatives business, and the upcoming virtual asset tax law only covers spot gains, with a lack of clear taxation mechanisms for overseas derivatives gains. The industry is concerned about the loss of competitiveness for local exchanges and tax inequities. South Korean financial regulatory authorities have yet to propose a specific timeline for the introduction of cryptocurrency derivatives trading.

According to two informed sources, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the Philippines, Coins.ph, is facing punitive actions from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The alleged violations reportedly involve providing services to offshore betting companies, with a severity that could lead to the revocation of the operating license for this 12-year-old company. One source stated that this would trigger an "earthquake" in the Philippine crypto ecosystem.Coins.ph has over 18 million customers and a 24-hour spot trading volume of approximately $50 million, controlling about 75%-80% of the liquidity of pesos and stablecoins in the Philippines. Earlier this month, the BSP reportedly imposed restrictions on deposits made through Coins.ph's main wallet company, DCPay Philippines. Previously, several compliance executives from the exchange left, including Chief Compliance Officer Lexi Herrera, Head of Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring Chris Beaño, and Money Laundering Reporting Officer Irish Calagui.A year ago, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas restricted the use of e-wallet applications for gambling, requiring regulated entities to cut off access to gambling websites within the apps. Subsequently, several betting entities migrated to Coins.ph. This restriction is not a temporary measure and no reasons have been provided. Coins.ph is one of the earliest crypto wallets and exchanges in the Philippines, acquired by Indonesian tech company Gojek for $95 million in 2019, and later sold to former Binance CFO Wei Zhou. Neither Coins.ph nor the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas responded to requests for comment.

On-chain data company CryptoQuant researcher Rei Researcher pointed out in a report released on Monday that as the Bitcoin supply on exchanges continues to shrink, the price of Bitcoin may see an upward trend. The report shows that the Bitcoin held by exchanges has decreased from 2.8 million in February to 2.67 million. The recent price of Bitcoin is around $83,485, remaining stable over the past 24 hours but rising 8% over the past 30 days, following the best-performing quarter in years.The report states, "If buying demand continues to improve while exchange supply remains low, Bitcoin could benefit from a supply-demand imbalance, creating favorable conditions for a longer-term upward trend." The report adds, "More importantly, Bitcoin has rebounded from its lows in recent weeks, while exchange reserves continue to decline. This is a notable development, indicating that even as the market recovers, the supply available for trading is still decreasing." The report also notes that investors may be transferring Bitcoin out of exchanges and into cold wallets.In the first half of 2026, Bitcoin traded below $65,000 for most of the time. After reaching an all-time high of $126,080 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a bear market for most of this year. However, the situation changed in August when the U.S. Treasury doubled the scale of liquidity support repurchase operations, weakening the dollar while boosting non-yielding assets like Bitcoin. Analysts say that the so-called "devaluation trade" has heated up again, benefiting Bitcoin as it did in 2024 and 2025. Currently, the price of Bitcoin is still over 30% lower than its historical record.