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In brief Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support stablecoins on Solana, letting U.S. users send USDC across borders from the last week of October, the Solana Foundation said. The feature will launch on 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices, with built-in conversion to and from local currency. Samsung said in July that its wallet would add stablecoin support, but did not name an issuer, a blockchain or a launch date. Samsung Wallet will let U.S. users send Circle’s USDC stablecoin across borders on Solana starting in the last week of October, the Solana Foundation announced Wednesday.The feature, which also extends…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Yapı Kredi Kripto has selected Integral’s digital-asset technology to power pricing, liquidity and risk management for its upcoming regulated crypto trading service in Türkiye. The launch comes as the country builds a formal licensing framework for digital-asset providers. One of Türkiye’s biggest banking groups is preparing to put crypto trading inside regulated financial infrastructure. Yapı Kredi Kripto, the digital-asset business associated with Yapı Kredi, has selected Integral to provide technology for its upcoming cryptocurrency trading operation. Integral’s systems will support pricing, liquidity aggregation and risk management.…

In brief Rep. French Hill, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, told Fox Business that the SEC and CFTC’s crypto rulemaking “fall[s] short” of what’s needed: a legislative solution. He credited SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC acting Chair Mike Selig for using exemptive relief to define digital assets, but argued agency rules are fragile compared with a durable statute. His stance cuts against the post-collapse narrative of crypto leaning on regulators rather than Congress. The regulators may be busy on crypto, but they can’t finish the job. That was the message from Rep. French Hill, who argued this…

In brief Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, down from $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5. Haiku 5.5 scored 72.4% on the OSWorld 2.1 offline subset and 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, ahead of OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna on both but well behind Sonnet 5.5’s 70.6% on the coding test. Anthropic also halved Sonnet 5.5’s cache-read price to $0.10 per million tokens and is adding monthly API credits for Max and Team subscribers this week. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, calling it the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: KoreInside and Digital Motion have formed a partnership designed to help issuers move regulated tokenized securities onto public blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and Base. The collaboration combines securities compliance infrastructure with the technical systems needed to deploy and operate assets on-chain. Putting a security on a blockchain is the easy part. Keeping all of the rules attached to that security intact after it gets there is considerably harder. KoreInside and Digital Motion have announced a partnership aimed at solving that second problem. KoreInside provides infrastructure…

In brief Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake called on the industry to plan for “bunker mode” by gradually moving funds to addresses whose public keys haven’t been exposed. He said ECDSA, the signature scheme behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, could break before Q-Day, in the worst case “in months not years,” citing rapid AI-driven math advances. Drake urged holders not to panic or rush, and said he’ll push to accelerate Ethereum’s shift to hash-based cryptography. Justin Drake has spent years warning that quantum computers could one day crack crypto’s cryptography. Now the Ethereum Foundation researcher says artificial intelligence might get there…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: BitGo and HashKey Cloud have expanded an earlier staking relationship into a broader Asia-Pacific partnership covering staking, trading, custody and real-world asset tokenization. HashKey will support validator services for eligible BitGo clients, initially across Ethereum and Solana. BitGo and HashKey are turning an existing staking relationship into a wider institutional crypto infrastructure partnership across Asia. The companies signed an expanded agreement in Singapore covering four areas: staking, trading, custody and real-world asset tokenization. HashKey Cloud will become a validator partner on BitGo’s platform, initially supporting Ethereum…

In brief OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts in 372 result families on GitHub from an unreleased internal model. Only 162 of the 722 papers have a Lean-formalized main result, and OpenAI warns that some unformalized results could have issues. MIT’s Andrew Sutherland says the one-prompt, single-agent claim is unverified until the model is released, and the release omits the prompts that an advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study recommended disclosing. OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts on GitHub on Tuesday, all produced by an internal model the company has not released. An OpenAI spokesperson said almost everything came from…

In brief Tether signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of Kazakhstan and the Alatau City Authority to prepare a pilot proposal for a tenge-pegged stablecoin and an asset tokenization framework. Kazakhstan’s central bank earmarked up to $350 million for crypto-linked investments in March, and officials said in September that the national crypto reserve has reached $700 million. The deal lands days after a Senate subcommittee report on Iran-linked USDT use and a lawsuit over a $2.76 million Tether freeze. Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: Russia’s new regulated crypto-market framework has moved into operation, with the Bank of Russia adding firms including VTB, Sberbank and several specialist operators to registers covering cryptocurrency exchanges and digital depositories. Domestic crypto payments remain restricted, but regulated trading and custody infrastructure is now taking shape. Russia has begun turning its new cryptocurrency rules into an operating financial system. The Bank of Russia’s framework for registering cryptocurrency exchanges and digital depositories took effect on October 5, and the regulator has begun admitting firms to the new…

In brief Google launched Playground on Oct. 7, a browser-based tool where U.S. adults describe a game in plain language and get a playable, shareable version, with creation access tiered by Google AI subscription. Google’s announcement did not name the AI models behind Playground or give pricing, and it calls the tool “an early experiment.” Unity Spark, a more advanced tool with 3D graphics and professional-level mechanics, will plug into Playground; Google and Unity say it arrives later this year. Google launched Playground on Wednesday, a web platform where anyone can describe a game in plain language and get a…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR: OKXICE, the joint venture between OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, has notified the SEC of plans for a tokenized securities venue that would offer round-the-clock trading in US stocks. More than 60 companies are included in the initial plan, pushing one of crypto’s biggest tokenization ideas directly into regulated US market infrastructure. One of the most consequential tokenized-stock experiments yet is moving toward the US market. OKXICE, a joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, has notified…