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Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, or OJK, began enforcing Board of Commissioners Regulation Number 3 of 2026, known as PADK 3/2026, on September 1, 2026. The regulation establishes the format, structure, and procedures for reports submitted by digital financial asset trading operators, including crypto asset service providers.The reporting requirements extend beyond monthly transaction value. Operators must submit information covering their financial condition, customer funds, managed cr

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on September 28, 2026, introducing major changes to the way assets and messages can move across blockchains. The upgrade adds Cross-Chain Verifiers, configurable finality, modular fee components, embedded compliance controls, and alternative execution models.Chainlink says more than US$15 billion in token value migrated to CCIP during the previous four months. That figure includes more than US$7.4 billion in WBTC and over US$6.1 billion in cbBTC. These figures are cla

Bitcoin has returned to the US$83,000 area after failing to hold its move above US$87,000. According to the MEXC price page updated on September 29, 2026 at 10:12 PM UTC+8, BTC was trading near US$83,928, up 0.64% over 24 hours.That modest daily gain does not erase the pressure seen over the previous week. MEXC price history shows that BTC reached US$87,274 on September 23 before falling to US$82,577 on September 28. The distance between those two levels was approximately 5.38%.The current p

Overview Ethereum currently has traffic backed up in both directions at once. According to CoinDesk's October 5 tally, roughly 1.5 million ETH, worth about $4 billion at the time, is waiting to enter staking, with an activation wait of about 25 days. Running the other way, roughly 786,000 ETH, about $2 billion, is queued to exit, with a wait of about 14 days. The exit side built up abruptly: on September 29 that figure stood at around 166,000 ETH. The trigger was the infrastructure security inci

Overview The Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened its first attempt at a federal rulebook for leveraged retail crypto trading on October 5. According to CFTC Release 9307-26, the advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeks comment on two frameworks at once: Regulation CTX, covering retail commodity transactions in crypto assets under section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and Regulation CAM, a new subcategory of designated contract market registration purpose-built for crypto a

Overview Constellation Energy closed 12.41% higher at $300.30 on October 6 after announcing a long-term power agreement with Google totalling roughly 3,590MW. According to 24/7 Wall St.'s market record that day, fellow independent power producers Vistra and Talen Energy rose 8.77% and 7% respectively, while the broad utilities ETF added less than 2%. The gains clustered in generators that sell into competitive markets rather than in rate-regulated names. The strength of that reaction comes from

Overview Marvell Technology raised its fiscal 2028 revenue target to roughly $20 billion at its October 6 investor day, and the stock closed at $287.01, up 5.81%, after gaining close to 10% intraday, leaving the company valued at about $251.7 billion according to StockAnalysis's MRVL data page. Broadcom rose about 4% in sympathy the same day. The single headline number is not what reset expectations. Management also lifted its fiscal 2029 custom-chip revenue goal from $10 billion to more than $1

Overview The September services data published by the Institute for Supply Management on October 5 put an uncomfortable combination in front of traders: growth is intact, inflation is hotter, and hiring has nearly stalled. According to the September 2026 ISM Services PMI Report, the headline index came in at 54.9, down from 55.4 in August but still in expansion for a 27th consecutive month. The number forcing a rethink is the Prices Index at 74.0, the highest since July 2022, when it stood at 74

Overview The way markets price the AI supply chain is quietly changing. For two years, the binding constraint was silicon: GPU allocation, advanced packaging capacity, HBM yields. The question now being asked on sell-side desks is narrower and more physical. When does the substation come online, and when does the interconnection permit clear? According to Benzinga, a Morgan Stanley research note published on October 5 estimates that US data centers face a net power shortfall of roughly 32 gigawa

Overview PTC shares jumped more than 33% on October 5 to close at $192.26, and the catalyst had nothing to do with earnings or a product cycle. Schneider Electric, the French energy management and automation group, agreed to buy the Boston-based industrial software maker for $205 a share in cash, an equity value of roughly $22.6 billion. According to Schneider Electric's deal announcement, the offer implies an enterprise value of about $23.7 billion, a 42.3% premium to PTC's last closing price a