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Tokenized Stocks Show Real Demand But Remain Volatile and Illiquid, IMF Finds
Tokenized stocks may be a small market, but their traders aren’t keeping Wall Street hours. More than half of tokenized equity trading happens outside regular U.S. market hours, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest Global Financial Stability Report. About 80% of trades involve less than a full share, a sign of strong demand for fractional ownership among retail investors. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Tokenized stocks are blockchain-based tokens...
Oct 9, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies are privately rehearsing how to handle the public and political backlash after a catastrophic AI event, according to an Axios report published Friday. The scenario they fear most is a large cyberattack—a digital break-in at massive scale—that shuts down banking or internet access, or even power and water. Many industry insiders quoted in the report believe a major incident will happen within the next six to 12 months. Myriad: Which comp...
Oct 9, 2026
Law and Order
Senate Democrat Presses Cantor Fitzgerald on Tether Ties and Lutnick Family Profits
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is asking Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald to hand over records on its business relationship with Tether, the issuer of USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin—the dollar-pegged digital asset that underpins the crypto economy. He also wants to know how much money the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has made from the arrangement, according to a letter dated Thursday. Myriad: Who wins the midterm elections? Click to make your prediction. “Disturbingly, Cantor Fit...
Oct 9, 2026
Business
Blockchain.com Seeks Approval for US Prediction Markets and Crypto Derivatives
Blockchain.com is making a bid to join the U.S. prediction-market boom, telling CNBC it has applied to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for licenses to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives to American customers. The crypto platform filed for two designations, the company told CNBC: a designated contract market license, which would let it operate as a futures exchange for event contracts, and a futures commission merchant license, which would allow it to act as a broker fo...
Oct 9, 2026
Markets
Bitcoin Rebounds After Rough Week, But Traders Are Pricing In More Downside
The crypto markets are breathing today, with the total capitalization up 2.1% to $2.89 trillion on Friday. The bounce recovers only part of the damage, since the market stood above $3 trillion a week ago, when Bitcoin was pressing against its yearly high. Despite the recovery, traders are still nervous. The Fear & Greed Index dropped to 56, a neutral reading, down from the 71 that put sentiment firmly in “greed” territory on October 2. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your predicti...
Oct 9, 2026
Coins
Ethereum L2 Starknet Jumps 20% After Saying It Wants to Become an L1
Starknet, the Ethereum scaling network built by StarkWare, said it is weighing a move to become its own blockchain. "We are actively considering becoming an L1," the project wrote on X. "This would enable Starknet to become the first fully quantum-resistant network, with 2027 as our target." Myriad: Where does Ethereum go next? Click to make your prediction. The STRK token traded around $0.073 on Friday, up about 20% in 24 hours. That is more than double the roughly $0.03 it fetched in April, w...