Coffee prices may stay volatile despite a looming surplus as exchange stockpiles remain low and Brazil shipments pick up. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Large Bitcoin wallets reached a record count through October’s pullback, but Santiment warns the same pattern has preceded both rallies and a 34% drop. <p>The post Bitcoin Whales Added 85,000 BTC in Three Weeks as Price Slid first appeared on BTCUSA. </p>

Federal judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York rejected a joint request by the crypto exchange Gemini and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to lift a permanent order. The order bars the exchange from misleading US regulators. The judge declined to reopen the earlier consent order, leaving Gemini bound by its restrictions. The ruling strengthens regulators' enforcement stance toward crypto exchanges and underscores how firmly federal courts oversee the execution of settlement agreements.

Key Takeaways Bitcoin and Ethereum are the first assets eligible for Thai crypto ETFs.

A sense of urgency at Netflix, which now has to think about reinventing itself.

A poor sugarcane crop in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers — plus undermining the country’s energy security goals

Solana will activate its Alpenglow network upgrade on October 21, 2026, in step with Epoch 1064. The upgrade targets cutting transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds, after governance proposal SIMD-0326 passed with 98.27% support. Under the new mechanism, a block finalizes immediately in the first round when at least 80% of stake backs it, while support between 60% and 80% sends it to a second round decided by a 60% threshold. Validators must meet new software requirements and pay a 0.8 SOL admission fee, a change intended to sharpen the network's performance and efficiency.

Anthropic's valuation could fall by £379billion as growth slows . Some Anthropic investors are considering a valuation $500billion (£379billion) below earlier expectations for its stock market debut