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The collaboration will explore card-linked merchant payments for Japanese visitors in South Korea and peer-to-peer wallet transfers among broader cross-border trade remittances. Japanese visitors to South Korea might one day be able to transact using yen stablecoins linked to payment cards following experiments conducted by South Korean card issuer Shinhan Card and subsidiaries of the Tokyo-based financial services company SBI Holdings. Shinhan Card, a unit of Shinhan Financial, is working.

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Dogecoin Labs will combine MyDoge, DogeOS and merchant payment tools as developers try to turn coin holders into customers for applications and businesses. The teams behind a Dogecoin DOGE$0.08200 wallet, an application network and merchant payment tools are combining to form Dogecoin Labs in an effort to give DOGE holders more places to spend and use their coins. Dogecoin Labs, formed in partnership with the Dogecoin Foundation, will own and.

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Your day-ahead look for Oct. 21, 2026 This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here, if you haven't already. Bitcoin BTC$83,311.03 options are taking a bigger share of the largest cryptocurrency’s derivatives market in a sign that trading is becoming more sophisticated. According to Volmex, the issuer of the bitcoin volatility index BVIV, options accounted for just under 60% of open interest among all bitcoin derivatives last.

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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is the first of several federal agencies to finish writing regulations under the act. U.S. crypto exchanges that have long been giving people rewards for usings stablecoins will have to get the agency to sign off on those existing programs, according to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the first federal banking regulator to issue a final rule.

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Bitcoin rose to a one-week high as Asian tech stocks rebounded and SpaceX and Tesla formed committees to explore a merger. Bitcoin BTC$82,687.80 reached its highest level in a week on Wednesday, trading around $83,500 and adding 0.6% since midnight UTC, as an earnings-led rebound in Asian technology stocks lifted risk assets. SpaceX SPCX and Super Micro Computer (SMCI) set the tone with strong results on Tuesday in the U.S.

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SpaceX’s blowout quarter revived the AI trade, but oil topped $110 again. XS.com warns that losing $82,500 opens a path toward $70,000. SpaceX’s blowout quarter revived the AI trade, but oil topped $110 again. XS.com warns that losing $82,500 opens a path toward $70,000. Bitcoin is hanging just above $82,500 on Wednesday, the level XS.com’s Simon-Peter Massabni calls its most important support, as stock futures climbed on SpaceX’s blowout results.