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A new disclosure about Micron’s buyback plans appears meant to show shareholders that Micron is more generous with cash than one of its key rivals, an analyst said.

Bitmine owns 4.9% of the total ETH coin supply of 122.1 million Bitmine is 99% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 15 months Bitmine released Chairman’s Message on October 7 titled “Crypto Bull Underway — This Cycle Likely the Largest” Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 5,067,309 staked ETH, representing $12.9 billion at $2,544 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors…

Global bank giant Standard Chartered now offers institutional custody of Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin RLUSD on the XRP Ledger through its Dubai branch, giving eligible clients a regulated bank to hold the dollar-pegged stablecoin.The bank, with nearly $450 billion in assets under management, also plans to work with Ripple and LMAX Group, an institutional trading venue for foreign exchange and digital assets, so clients can use RLUSD held at Standard Chartered as collateral for trading on LMAX’s platform. That part of the arrangement is not yet live and remains subject to documentation, testing, regulatory requirements and internal approvals, the bank said…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the New Financial Platform trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, has launched Full Stocks Ahead, a 20-day campaign with a 150,000 USDC prize pool that rewards eligible users for trading U.S. stocks and ETFs on Bybit. The campaign runs from today till Oct. 31, 2026, and follows the launch of Bybit’s stock trading service, which gives eligible users access to more than 1,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs from the same account they use for crypto. Full Stocks Ahead is built to help first-time stock traders place their first trade…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, concluded its TOKEN2049 Singapore presence with a series of interactive experiences and industry discussions spanning TradFi access, AI-powered trading and the future evolution of global trading platforms. MEXC’s presence centered on three key areas: the MEXC Stage and a panel featuring MEXC CEO Vugar Usi Zade and Payward Co-CEO Arjun Sethi, hands-on AI experiences including the MEXC AI Trading Challenge powered by MEXC CLI and the AI Bond Test, and The NEXT Newspaper, an interactive experience that brought insights around TradFi, AI and the future of…

DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the New Financial Platform trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, announced that stocks are now available for trading through Bybit, giving eligible users access to more than 1,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs, including Apple (AAPL), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Micron Technology (MU) and the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ). The development expands Bybit’s multi-asset platform, bringing access to U.S. equities alongside its existing digital asset and traditional market offerings. Eligible users in permitted jurisdictions who have completed the required KYC verification can trade supported U.S. stocks and ETFs using USDC. “Stocks are…

Palo Alto, United States, October 12th, 2026, Chainwire Trace, the onchain registry for rights-cleared AI training data with more than 250 million verifiable receipts, brings its training data to Sui and Walrus to power the next generation of AI models. Sui Foundation and The DATA Foundation today announced that the DATA Network and its Trace registry are joining the Sui stack, bringing a live supply of rights-cleared AI training data onto the infrastructure Sui has built for AI workloads. Walrus, the data platform with integrity proofs anchored on Sui, becomes the default storage layer for applications operated by DATA Foundation.…

High hopes for third-quarter earnings are outweighing concerns around interest rates and oil prices — but one expert warns markets have gotten “extremely complacent.”

“The big proposition is access,” co-founder Bhau Kotecha told CoinDesk in an interview. Gold lending has historically required scale and relationships unavailable to many investors, he said.Kotecha sees demand from individuals, family offices and institutions, with borrowing against PAXGy a possible next step. Lending returns are not guaranteed, and borrower defaults could erode the token’s value.Silver offers another route into that financing market. Theo’s thSLVR product passes income from institutional silver leases to holders while maintaining exposure to the metal’s price.Theo Chief Investment Officer Iggy Ioppe sees growth coming from existing commodity owners and users: institutions seeking productive collateral, refiners…

“I presume these are sophisticated investors taking a profit.”