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Trade Expo Indonesia, or TEI, closed with an announced transaction value of US$22.94 billion, equivalent to approximately Rp414 trillion. The figure from the October 14 to 18 event reached roughly 131% of the US$17.5 billion target, according to the closing report published by detikFinance on October 18.Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade described the result as potential transactions in its official release. The total therefore cannot be treated immediately as payments already received by exporters,

The distributed value of tokenized stocks reached US$3.50 billion as of October 16, 2026, an increase of 24.15% over 30 days. The number of holders also rose by 18.82% to 4.42 million, according to the RWA.xyz Tokenized Stocks dashboard.The increase in value was not matched across other activity indicators. Monthly transfer volume fell by 72.73% to US$10.26 billion, while monthly active addresses declined by 59.98% to 1,386,288. More value was recorded in distributed tokens, but transfers and ad

Solana Accelerate Shanghai, originally scheduled for October 16, 2026, was postponed on the day it was due to begin. Solana Foundation President Lily Liu said registrations had quadrupled overnight and exceeded the attendance cap filed with local authorities.Organizers initially notified registered guests that the event had been delayed because of logistical considerations at the venue. Liu later provided a more specific explanation, saying the registration surge had moved expected attendance be

Celestia reported that Fibre sustained throughput of 3.07 terabits per second in an end-to-end benchmark involving 120 validators. The test ran for a 143-second load window, while the best rolling 60-second and 30-second periods reached 3.69 Tbps and 4.27 Tbps, respectively.The result shows how much data Celestia’s data availability pipeline can process under a specific test configuration. It does not mean that Celestia Mainnet is already offering 3 Tbps of capacity to all users. Several benchma

The IMF is placing artificial intelligence among the growth and financial-stability issues discussed during its October 2026 Annual Meetings. Its official October 16 agenda covers productivity opportunities, market concentration, and cyber and financial risks. The discussion extends beyond whether AI adoption will increase.For investors, the central tension lies between economic benefits and the price already paid for exposure. A company can expand revenue through AI while its stock declines bec

USDT and USDC are both designed to maintain a value close to one U.S. dollar. Both can support trading, transfers, dollar-denominated balances, and blockchain-based financial applications. Their differences become clearer when we examine the amount outstanding, where the tokens move, and the infrastructure their issuers are building.USDT has the larger market capitalization, but size alone cannot explain its uses. USDC is also not accurately described as a stablecoin exclusively for payments or

Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) shares jumped about 52% on October 20, 2026, after Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire Braze for $47.50 per share in cash.The offer values Braze at an enterprise value of about $5.66 billion and is roughly 58.1% above Braze's October 19 closing price of $30.04.The move was a repricing toward a fixed cash offer rather than a reaction to Braze's own earnings, which changes how the stock is likely to trade from here.Key TakeawaysPrice: $47.50 per Braze Class

Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $12.874 billion, up 12% year over year, and diluted EPS of $0.87, according to its Q3 2026 shareholder letter.Shares still fell in after-hours trading on October 20, as Netflix lowered its 2026 advertising revenue forecast to about $2.7 billion from roughly $3 billion and guided fourth-quarter EPS to $0.67.On MEXC, the NFLXUSDT perpetual contract fell about 5.7% in the five hours after the release. Key TakeawaysQ3 results: Revenue of

SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $14.575 billion, up 161% year over year, and net income of $4.404 billion, according to its Q3 2026 earnings release filed with the SEC.The bigger story is the business mix: the Super Intelligence (SI) segment, previously reported as Artificial Intelligence, now generates more than half of group revenue.On MEXC, the SPCXUSDT perpetual contract rose about 8.2% in the five hours after the release, on turnover far above the same window a

Only one pot of money actually changed hands in the AI news of October 19. Tenstorrent closed a $1.5B Series E at a $6.2B valuation led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, having chosen independence after takeover talks with two large chipmakers. Two power items carried far bigger numbers that same day, yet neither is approved: AEP (Ticker: AEP) signed a 960MW small nuclear joint development agreement with Amazon (Ticker: AMZN) and X-energy (Ticker: XE), and Entergy (Ticker: ETR) added 1,400MWh o