Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

IntroductionPalantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) closed Friday, October 23, at $196.75, up 0.29% on the day and 5.76% from its October 16 close of $186.03, which leaves the stock 5.88% below its $209.05 record close and 7.60% below the $212.94 intraday record set on October 12. The move back toward those highs follows one of the steepest climbs among large-cap software names this year. From its June 25 close of $107.27, Palantir gained 94.9% to the October 9 record close, and it finished that run

IntroductionAmazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) closed Friday, October 23, at $248.00, down 0.95% on the day, after a week that began with a push into the $262 to $265 area and ended with a 4.57% decline on Thursday. The stock closed at $262.45 on October 19, $262.63 on October 20 and $262.37 on October 21, three closes within 26 cents of each other that also matched an October 9 close of $262.43 and August closes of $262.07 and $262.65. It then lost $11.99 per share on October 22 as semiconductor and hypersca

IntroductionAdvanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) closed Friday, October 23, at $516.79, up 1.74% on the day, after a pullback that took the stock 20.42% below its $649.42 record close of October 6. The decline reached its low point on Thursday, October 22, when AMD fell 8.10% to $507.93 and touched $502.60 intraday during a steep one-day drop for semiconductor shares. That low landed within about 1% of the $497.51 September low and near a set of September closes between $503.60 and $516.13. Frida

The artificial intelligence boom is entering a more expensive phase as companies race to secure computing power for increasingly capable models. Elon Musk has highlighted the financial pressure behind that race after saying SpaceX closed a $40 billion debt financing deal to purchase Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs). The move shows how much capital is flowing into AI infrastructure. 1.SpaceX's $40 Billion Bet on AI ComputingMusk said SpaceX secured $40 billion in debt financing primarily t

India's market is facing scrutiny after CoinDCX confirmed a $15.99 million USDT loss linked to old wallet infrastructure. The disclosure came days after the exchange rejected reports of a new security breach, saying the wallets had been compromised during a July 2025 incident and later retired. The explanation points to a failed automated process that left deposits exposed. 1.What Happened to the $16 MillionThe incident centers on roughly 15.99 million USDT that left about 40 CoinDCX-linked wall

Dogecoin Labs officially launched on October 21, 2026, bringing together three products—MyDoge, DogeOS, and Such App—under an independent organization in collaboration with the Dogecoin Foundation. The initiative aims to expand Dogecoin's (DOGE) real-world utility, particularly in payments, commerce, and blockchain-based consumer services.The new organization is led by Jordan Jefferson, founder of MyDoge and DogeOS. According to the official announcement, Dogecoin Labs will combine application d

The Starknet community has approved a proposal to explore transitioning from an Ethereum Layer 2 network into an independent Layer 1 blockchain, with the goal of strengthening its resistance to potential quantum computing attacks in the future.The vote concluded on October 22, 2026, with 3,236 votes cast, representing approximately 489.3 million STRK in voting power. Of that total, 93.52% supported moving forward with the research. According to StarkWare, this marked the highest participation le

Aerodrome Finance and Velodrome Finance have officially merged to form Aero, a decentralized exchange (DEX) designed to operate across multiple blockchains. The new platform launched on October 21, 2026, U.S. time, expanding its operations across seven networks: Ethereum, Base, Robinhood Chain, Ink, OP Mainnet, Arc, and Arbitrum.According to Dromos Labs, the developer behind Aero, these seven blockchains collectively generate approximately $120 billion in monthly DEX trading volume. This figure

OverviewThailand's new crypto ETF framework took effect on October 16, 2026, creating a formal route for locally established exchange-traded funds that track cryptocurrency prices. The rules were issued by Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8 after public consultations earlier in the year. During the initial stage, a Thailand crypto ETF may invest only in Bitcoin or Ethereum, although the SEC has left room to expand the eligible-asset list later.The framework is more restri

OverviewCircle has cumulatively minted $110.51 billion of USDC on Solana since the beginning of 2026, according to onchain monitoring cited on October 22. In the latest 24-hour period alone, six transactions of $250 million each added another $1.5 billion of gross USDC issuance on the network. The scale makes Solana USDC minting an important indicator of how heavily stablecoin infrastructure is being used on the chain, particularly as Solana expands across trading, payments, tokenized assets and