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According to The Block, the decentralized trading protocol Curve Finance has launched StableSwap on the Stellar mainnet, marking its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem.Users can now create liquidity pools, exchange assets, and provide liquidity on Stellar without permission.

Lazaro Campos, the former CEO of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), has joined the London-based stablecoin yield platform OpenTrade as Chairman.OpenTrade stated that the platform processed over $1 billion in transactions in the past year, with a current total value locked of $300 million, up from over $200 million in May. OpenTrade was established in 2023, aiming to help businesses provide yields denominated in USD and EUR, backed by real-world assets, and has raised a total of $32 million to date.

According to an official tweet from Gaea Foundation, the decentralized AI ecosystem project GAEA announced the completion of a $3.6 million strategic round of financing on September 19, with investors including MH Venture, CGV FOF, K24 Ventures, and M2M Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of GAEA's Emotional Layer, expand the global community, and promote the implementation of AI entities with emotional perception capabilities.According to the official introduction, GAEA is committed to building a decentralized ecosystem that connects humans, AI entities, data, and computing resources, with the number of users in the ecosystem exceeding 850,000.

According to Cointelegraph, Stellar has launched Project Thruput, a new execution model that has gone live on FutureNet. Early benchmarks show that the model achieves 7.02 million payments per second by scaling across multiple machines.

Michael Selig, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, stated at the CFTC's inaugural Frontier Forum in Washington that imagining a refrigerator autonomously purchasing groceries with funds from staked ETH, or even issuing its own Memecoin, "is no longer science fiction." He believes that when AI agents can hold assets and execute trades autonomously, regulators must make adjustments.Selig pointed out that the CFTC's regulatory framework is built around executing specific financial functions concerning "identifiable market participants," but autonomous software is raising questions about how these rules apply. He proposed that if AI agents identify trading opportunities and execute trades for users, their developers may need to register, who is responsible when the agent goes out of control, how regulators know for whom the agent is trading, and whether a new type of "Know Your Agent" rule, referred to as KYA, is necessary.Selig also mentioned that AI could provide smaller traders and businesses with risk management capabilities that were previously only available to large institutions, but greater autonomy also brings new risks: agents may react unexpectedly to market conditions, agents using similar models may exhibit correlated trading behaviors, and the speed of autonomous trading could complicate market regulation and risk management. Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu recently expressed similar concerns to Cointelegraph; Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets in February, and Binance introduced AI Agent Skills in March, allowing agents to trade within user-defined parameters or provide spot order tools.

Alex Witt, founding partner of the venture capital firm focused on stablecoin infrastructure, Verda Ventures, announced that he and partner Amit will join Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer. Tether was previously one of the limited partners of Verda Ventures.With the two joining Tether, Verda Ventures, which has been operating for three years, will enter the investment recovery phase and cease investing in new companies to avoid potential conflicts of interest. The fund will continue to manage and support its existing 28 portfolio companies and selectively participate in follow-on financing.

The Solana ecosystem meme coin free mika (MIKA) dropped on October 28. Its genesis address transferred approximately 500.44 million tokens to another wallet, accounting for about half of the initial supply; about 7 seconds later, that wallet sold approximately 500.83 million MIKA on PumpSwap, with the selling price temporarily dropping about 99% compared to before the sale.There are claims that the wallet nonce prevented the key holder from transferring funds, but this transfer used a normal recent blockhash, and it is currently unclear whether this sale was due to an external attack or from existing holders.

Visa disclosed in its Q4 fiscal year 2026 earnings call that its stablecoin settlement annualized transaction volume has exceeded $25 billion, a tenfold year-on-year increase, currently supporting 10 blockchains and operating in all 5 regions. The Visa stablecoin platform is available in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, with over 300 partners in the pipeline.Open USD launched on September 30, and as of October 15, its circulating supply exceeded $800 million. Additionally, Visa has over 225 stablecoin-linked card projects, a year-on-year increase of over 70%, with transaction volume growing by more than 150%, covering 5 million cards across more than 50 countries.

Y Combinator, a startup incubator, released a report on the direction of cryptocurrency startups, focusing on stablecoins, asset tokenization, and AI Agents. The report states that over the past year, cryptocurrency applications have been led by institutions rather than consumers for the first time, with the main driving force shifting from speculation to actual financial needs such as hedging oil price risks and cross-border capital transfers for businesses.The report predicts that stablecoins, as well as assets like stocks, debts, commodities, and property rights, will be further tokenized. New types of assets, such as equity in startups and small securities valued under $10,000, will also be issued via blockchain, promoting financial services like trading, lending, and derivatives. AI Agents will become one of the main participants in financial activities.In the next six months, the report focuses on using blockchain to finance the AI industry, new types of dollar stablecoins and non-dollar stablecoins targeting niche markets, new banks based on stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets, new trading platforms and trading interfaces, as well as AI Agent trading and related API infrastructure. The text mentions that blockchain technology and stablecoins may pose a threat to traditional stock exchanges and banking systems.

Microsoft expects its Azure cloud business revenue to grow by 49% to 50% in the second fiscal quarter, with total revenue reaching between 96 billion and 97.1 billion dollars.Revenue from the Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure segment is expected to be between 80.1 billion and 80.7 billion dollars, while revenue from the Devices and Consumer segment is projected to be between 15.9 billion and 16.4 billion dollars. Microsoft also anticipates that capital expenditures in the second fiscal quarter will exceed 50 billion dollars.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that the balance sheet working group recommends submitting to the Federal Open Market Committee in early next year's first quarter.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that economic growth has strengthened.

According to Kevin Gordon, the Chief Macro Research and Strategy Officer at Charles Schwab, the current economic backdrop remains relatively favorable for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates. Even as we enter multiple rate hike cycles, the U.S. economy is likely to remain robust.He pointed out that rate hike cycles are often accompanied by significant market volatility. According to historical data he cited, within 12 months of the Federal Reserve initiating a rate hike cycle, the average maximum decline of the S&P 500 index exceeds 10%.Analysis also indicates that interest rate policy is just one of the factors affecting stock prices. Currently, investments in the AI sector and inflation driven by rising oil prices seem to be the main factors driving the stock market.

According to data compiled by Jinshi Data, the Federal Reserve faces a trade-off between inflation pressures and policy pace at this interest rate meeting.Reasons supporting an interest rate hike include high CPI and PPI data in September, insufficient progress in reducing inflation, and the current interest rates possibly not yet reaching a sufficiently restrictive level. Hawkish views argue that the market widely expects a rate hike in December, and waiting another six weeks may increase the cost of policy lag.On the other hand, those supporting a pause believe that if only 2 to 3 more rate hikes are needed afterward, the risks of a staggered approach and delaying for six weeks are manageable. Continuous rate hikes may lead the market to overestimate the pace of tightening, and officials have previously signaled patience; an unexpected rate hike before the elections could also exacerbate market volatility.

According to official news, Tether announced the establishment of the Swiss non-profit foundation FASE (Financial Access and Systemic Empowerment) on October 28, focusing on four main areas: financial security, financial inclusion, access to basic resources, and responsible AI and robotics.Founding members include Anchorage Digital, Bitfury, Bybit, Chainalysis, Fasanara Capital, Kraken, Opera, Pave Bank, Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps), and the Solana Foundation. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will provide technical consulting.The first batch of projects includes: establishing a global youth alliance with Goodwall, aiming to provide anti-fraud education to up to 10 million young people, prioritizing coverage in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia; launching a stablecoin humanitarian aid pilot with Prosper Global, initially covering up to 1 million people; and collaborating with the United Nations Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons to support survivor assistance.

According to Bloomberg, Anthropic warned in its IPO-related documents that its public advocacy for AI safety regulation and statements from executives may expose the company to risks such as pressure from the Trump administration and selective scrutiny. This risk is related to the company's multiple conflicts with the Trump administration, including disputes over requests to impose safety restrictions on the use of its AI technology by the Department of Defense, as well as disagreements regarding the safety of the Mythos model and export controls.Anthropic also warned that even if other similarly situated companies are not treated equally, Anthropic may still become a specific target for certain departments of the Trump administration. Future export restrictions and cybersecurity or biosafety incidents triggered by AI models could impact its product deployment, international expansion, and business growth.The company also acknowledged that once the regulatory measures it advocates are implemented, they may increase compliance costs, restrict product development and release, and slow its own growth.