Mastercard launched its Global Money Platform, built on BVNK's stablecoin tech. Banks and fintechs can embed accounts that hold fiat and stablecoins side by side, with conversion through one API.

Users can spend stablecoin balances at hundreds of millions of Mastercard merchant locations, with card issuing in 130+ countries. Payouts go straight to local bank accounts via Mastercard Move, with coverage set to reach 40+ currencies in 200+ countries and territories in 2027. It is the first major product since Mastercard closed its up to $1.8B BVNK deal in August.

Nuvei, Ontop, Beem and Almond Fintech are among the first to integrate. The platform is available now through BVNK.

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The EBA classified Circle's USDC as a significant e-money token under MiCA. It is the first of 45 notified e-money tokens in the EU to get the label.

From November 12, USDC moves to dual supervision. The EBA takes over direct oversight of its own funds, reserve assets, liquidity, and recovery and redemption plans from France's ACPR. The ACPR keeps governance, qualifying holdings, fit and proper checks, outsourcing and conflicts of interest.

The EBA also signed a memorandum with New York's DFS to cooperate on cross-border stablecoins, as USDC is issued in both the EU and the US.

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Public teardown tracker by Mark Karpelès lists 12 Ledgers with a hidden LTE implant, bought everywhere from Lazada Thailand and Amazon Japan to Changi Airport.

"The implant sits inside the enclosure and reads the data shown on the screen … It does not modify the Secure Element or the Ledger operating system," Ledger's Donjon team said. That is why a tampered device still passes Genuine Check.

CryptoBilis buyers in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines lost ~$102M, per Bitquery. Ledger has not confirmed a total, but on October 13 it halted sales in 7 Asian markets.

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BingX EU secured a MiCA license from Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA), becoming an authorized crypto-asset service provider (CASP).

The license is held by MEGE zweite GmbH, the BingX EU entity in Vienna. Once passporting is complete, it can offer regulated broker services, including crypto custody and exchange, in all 29 countries of the European Economic Area.

The services are not live yet: BingX EU is still preparing the launch with the FMA and other European regulators.

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Leveraged traders lost $973M in positions over 24 hours, and longs took $892M of it (91.7%). About half hit in a single hour overnight, as ETH fell over 5% and BTC slid toward $80K. 182,685 traders were liquidated.

Binance carried 53% of the total, followed by Hyperliquid and Bybit. ETH led coins at $293M, ahead of BTC at $203M. The largest single order was a $12.03M BTC long on Binance, closed at $80,209. Data: CoinGlass.

StandX is winding down operations and will not launch a token. The BNB Chain and Solana perp DEX will instead airdrop DUSD, funded by all remaining revenue plus extra team money.

Perps go reduce-only on October 20, with no new positions or DUSD minting. Remaining positions are closed at mark price on January 15, 2027, and withdrawals and DUSD redemptions end on January 31. All yield and vault deposits stopped today. Since its November 2025 mainnet, StandX served 237K users and peaked above $200M TVL.

The airdrop checker goes live October 26. Claims run November 1 to December 31 with no lockup, and unclaimed DUSD is forfeited.

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EQX Labs unveiled tokenized US stocks issued natively on Hyperliquid. The first 11 stocks and ETFs, such as SPY and NVDA, will soon trade 24/7 on its order book.

Each token is backed 1:1 by real shares held at Alpaca, StoneX or Clear Street. EQX charges nothing to create, redeem or hold tokens and takes no cut of dividends; it earns from its share of Hyperliquid trading fees. Dividends are reinvested for now, and holders can send voting instructions by signing with their wallet.

The issuer is a BVI company with a separate portfolio for each ticker, owned by an independent Cayman trust rather than by EQX Labs.

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StarkWare opened OffMarket to the public, a privacy app that lets people trade on Polymarket without linking positions to their known wallets.

Orders still fill on Polymarket at the same prices. Funds sit in Starknet's shared privacy pool, which holds about $1.5M across 17,000 deposits, and deposits are capped at $1,000 USDC per account for now. The app is non-custodial and follows Polymarket's geo rules, so US users are blocked. A compliance firm holds a master viewing key for court and regulator requests.

Trade size and timing can still reveal a trader. OffMarket is not a Polymarket product; it runs through Polymarket's verified builder program.

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Polygon Labs completed its Coinme acquisition, turning its Open Money Stack into a US-regulated payments platform that covers 48 states.

Coinme brings 37 state money transmitter licenses, 11 exemptions and FinCEN registration as a money services business. The deal is part of a $250M purchase announced in January that also included wallet firm Sequence. Open Money Stack ties fiat on- and off-ramps, wallets, cross-chain routing and stablecoin settlement into one integration.

Tazapay, Mesh, Toku and Kira are among the first customers, using it for cross-border payments, on-ramps, stablecoin payroll and US dollar access.

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