Fed Governor Waller: Trump’s threat to the Federal Reserve’s independence has not yet succeeded.

Binance has announced a partnership with global media and ecosystem partners to launch the Blockchain 100 Award 2026, which recognizes financial content creators who have made a profound impact on the industry through education, information sharing, and inspiring content. The award features five categories: Community Influencer of the Year (10 recipients), Trader of the Year (30), Content Creator of the Year – Best Streamer (20), Best Long-Form Content Creator (20), and Rising Star (20), totaling 100 winners, each receiving a physical trophy engraved with their name and award category. Key dates are as follows: The public nomination period runs from 09:00 UTC on October 13 to 15:59 UTC on October 16, 2026; the community voting period is from 09:00 UTC on October 19 to 15:59 UTC on October 28; and final results will be announced at 09:00 UTC on October 29. Nominations are open to anyone, including self-nominations, with each nomination allowing the same creator to be submitted to a maximum of one category. Shortlisted candidates advance to the community voting phase, where each Binance-verified user can cast one vote per category and subcategory daily, with a maximum of five votes per day. Vote counts refresh daily at 00:00 UTC. Of the 100 total winners, 29 will be invited to attend the Binance Blockchain Week in Bangkok on November 29, 2026, and participate in the in-person award ceremony.

According to PeckShield monitoring, 19 million THEO tokens were unauthorizedly minted on the Base network. Hackers converted these tokens into 700.8 ETH worth approximately $1.76 million and bridged them to the Ethereum network. THEO has plunged 92% in the past 24 hours.

According to data from DeFiLlama, Bitget recorded a net capital inflow of $52.02 million over the past 24 hours, ranking second among centralized exchanges (CEXs), second only to Binance.

According to Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, while leading the roughly $5 billion loan sale for AI cloud startup Volta Infrastructure Holdings, implemented an unusual risk control arrangement: the two banks underwrote only $1.3 billion in term loans, leaving roughly $3.7 billion in chip-related loans un-underwritten to reduce their own exposure. Sources familiar with the matter said the move aims to guard against risks including investors demanding higher returns for high-risk AI debt, and banks being forced to hold positions when loans fail to sell. The debt is priced at a yield of around 11%, one of the highest levels for AI financing in the leveraged loan market, and the transaction is unrated, which typically makes Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) – the largest buyers of such debt – difficult to participate. Banks usually underwrite entire debt packages to assure borrowers of funding availability, but after suffering losses from unsold loans amid sharp interest rate hikes in 2022, they have grown more cautious about untested AI financing structures. The loan commitment subscription deadline is October 14; JPMorgan had already started gauging investor interest back in August.

Sources familiar with the matter said Bank of Japan (BOJ) officials are leaning against implementing a rare consecutive interest rate hike this month, while leaving open the possibility of a rate hike as early as December. With no signs of a sudden rise in upside inflation risks, BOJ officials see no need for consecutive rate hikes. The central bank will closely review economic data to assess whether to launch a new round of rate hikes at its December meeting. Sources added that the final policy decision at the October 30 meeting remained subject to change until the last minute. To curb upside inflation risks, the policy board led by BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda raised interest rates to 1.25% last month. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had previously pressured Japan to continue policy normalization to support the yen’s strength.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, Hyperliquid whale address 0x30af…393e liquidated long positions worth approximately $36.51 million in CBRS between last night and early this morning, incurring a trading loss of around $6.95 million. During the same period, the address opened roughly 116,100 long positions in GOOGL and 607,400 long positions in GME, with the total current position value standing at about $57.42 million. The GOOGL and GME long positions currently use 20x and 10x isolated margin leverage respectively; their liquidation reference prices are approximately $344.56 and $25.56, which are around 2.37% and 5.67% lower than the current mark prices.