The number of initial jobless claims in the US for the week ending October 24 stood at 194,000.

The European Central Bank (ECB) kept its deposit facility rate, main refinancing operations rate, and marginal lending facility rate unchanged at 2.50%, 2.65%, and 2.90% respectively, in line with market expectations.

Sky Frontier Foundation has released the Q3 2026 report for its Sky ecosystem. The protocol’s total revenue reached $99.29 million, up 14.2% year-over-year but down 7.4% quarter-over-quarter. Total expenses fell to $62.1 million, while net income rose to $37.19 million, a 11.8% quarter-over-quarter increase. The net profit margin climbed from 31.0% to 37.5%, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of positive net income. The protocol’s end-of-period collateral stood at $11.41 billion, up 25.3% year-over-year. During the same period, $28.47 million was allocated to the Sky Reserve, bringing the reserve’s end-of-period balance to $85.08 million. sUSDS supply hit $4.52 billion, surging 118% year-over-year but down from Q2’s $5.52 billion. Institutional player Galaxy added $100 million in sUSDS to its balance sheet and approved it as collateral for institutional loans. In Q3, the protocol spent $5.6 million on open market repurchases to buy 87.5 million SKY tokens, completing its first-ever SKY burn.

Polygon Labs announced it has integrated Solana into its Open Money Stack payment platform, allowing enterprises to complete bank acceptance, cross-chain fund transfers, and payee disbursements via a single integration. The first clients include payment service provider Kira, whose CEO said the firm has already been using Solana to transfer stablecoins, and the Polygon integration will let it convert funds to U.S. dollars and deposit them into clients’ bank accounts for supplier payments. The stack connects Polygon, Ethereum, and TRON, which was integrated earlier this month. The integration comes as Solana completed its Alpenglow consensus upgrade last week, cutting transaction finalization time from around 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. A product lead at the Solana Foundation said the network has processed over $5.5 trillion in stablecoin transaction volume in 2026. Earlier this month, Polygon also completed its acquisition of Coinme, securing money transmission licenses and exemptions covering 48 U.S. states.

On-chain analyst MLM reported that of the 3.75 million HYPE tokens sold over-the-counter last month, 3.125 million have been staked to validator wallets of HYPE treasury firm Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) and Unit. The remaining 625,000 tokens were transferred to another HyperEVM address and remained idle for nearly three weeks before 1 HYPE was sent to a new address yesterday as a test transaction. This new address received funds via multiple transfers the same day, with its source address showing multiple ties to the address Trade.xyz used to purchase a ticker on Hyperliquid. The 625,000 HYPE tokens were subsequently moved to this new address and transferred from HyperEVM to Hypercore. The analyst stated that while it is strongly suspected ICE is the buyer of the 3.75 million HYPE tokens, this has not been confirmed. The 625,000 tokens may have been sent to Trade.xyz as part of ICE’s investment, and on-chain links strongly indicate these tokens belong to Trade.xyz.

According to HTX market data, HYPE continues to rally, breaking above $90, with a short-term gain of over 13%. Earlier news indicates that ICE, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to partner with Trade.xyz to introduce perpetual contract products into regulated U.S. markets.

Key pre-market news for US stocks is as follows: 1. Microsoft has launched 10 tranches of high-grade US dollar bond issuance, its first such offering since 2017, and plans to raise at least $25 billion through the sale. 2. ICE, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has partnered with Trade.xyz to introduce perpetual contract products into regulated US markets. 3. Apple has officially unveiled its new generation MacBook Pro, adding touch functionality to the Mac product line for the first time and equipping it with a new ProLED XDR display. The 14-inch M5 Pro model starts at $2,899. 4. Amazon is expanding its smart home lineup, launching five new products centered on its Alexa AI assistant. Among them, the 16-inch smart display Echo Show 16 starts at $499.99, directly competing with Apple’s $299 HomeView. 5. Prediction market platform Kalshi has completed a $1 billion Series G financing round, with a post-money valuation of $40 billion. 6. Marvell Technology is in advanced negotiations to acquire optical communications leader Lumentum, with a potential deal announcement as early as next week. The proposed acquisition could help Marvell expand its optical technology portfolio for AI infrastructure. 7. US consumer price growth accelerated in September, which may further support the Federal Reserve’s potential interest rate hike in December, following its pause on rate increases this week.