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Overview Meta announced in its third quarter results on October 21 the establishment of a publicly listed, non-voting class of Class C common stock, to be distributed as one Class C share for each existing Class A and Class B share held. The company said that once the distribution is paid, it expects the market price of Class A stock to reflect the effect of a two-for-one stock split. On dates, a precise distinction is needed, because this is where current coverage most often goes wrong. Per the

Overview The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued its final rule implementing the GENIUS Act on October 21. Per the official news release, the rule sets requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers under OCC jurisdiction and covers certain custody activities conducted by OCC-supervised entities, taking effect on January 18, 2027, the same date the GENIUS Act itself takes effect. The detail with the most search value is not reserves or r

TOKEN2049 Singapore has become the industry's definitive meeting point - a moment each year when builders, traders, and institutions converge to define where the market goes next, and this year's edition carried particular weight as crypto, AI, and traditional finance edge toward genuine convergence. Against that backdrop, MEXC, a global multi-asset trading platform, took the stage on October 7-8 not merely to attend, but to demonstrate what that convergence looks like in practice - unveiling a

Lam Research reported record revenue of $8.22 billion in its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results on October 21, 2026, yet its shares fell about 6% after hours.For investors in AI memory and storage stocks, the more useful part of the release was the outlook: Lam expects chip equipment spending to top $200 billion in 2027, with DRAM leading the growth.This article explains what Lam's outlook means for Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital and Seagate, and how their perpetual contracts on MEXC traded the

APP falls 4.71% to $266.13 as analyst price-target cuts pile up and the stock trades 64% below its December highAppLovin Corporation (NASDAQ: APP) closed at $266.13, down $13.16, or 4.71%, extending a selloff that has now erased more than half the stock's value over the past year. The decline came one day after the stock touched a fresh 52-week low of $260.59, and it arrived alongside a cluster of analyst price-target cuts, ongoing securities-fraud litigation stemming from an August earnings rea

IntroductionMicron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) closed at $878.84, down $52.40 or 5.63%, capping a rough week for one of 2026's biggest AI winners. Zoom out and the stock is still up a staggering 360.63% over the past year, but the past month tells a very different story: down 5.93%, including a stretch that saw shares fall from above $1,080 to the high $800s. Monday's pre-market indicator showed a bounce back to $905.96, up about 3.1%, so this is a stock that keeps whipsawing both directions.This MU

IntroductionCircle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has had a rough stretch since its blockbuster 2025 IPO. CRCL stock fell 5.46% in a single session to close at $82.22 on Friday, October 16, 2026, caught up in a broad market risk-off day alongside a company-specific headline about how much of its revenue gets shared with partners. The stock is now down roughly 40% over the past year and sits far below both its 52-week high and its all-time high near $299 set

JPMorgan's JPM Coin (JPMD) is now live on Ethereum mainnet. See how the deposit token works, how it differs from stablecoins, and what it means for crypto. PrefaceOn October 19, 2026, America's largest bank took another step onto public blockchain rails. JPMorgan's JPM Coin (ticker: JPMD) is now live on Ethereum mainnet, giving the bank's institutional clients a new way to move US dollars on-chain. The token was already running on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, since November 2025.Th

Visa and Mesh will let you spend crypto and stablecoins at 175M+ merchants without a separate card. See how it works, what is still unconfirmed, and what to do now. PrefaceAround 774 million people worldwide own crypto, according toCrypto.com research. Yet very little of it ever reaches a checkout counter.On October 19, 2026, Visa and crypto payments network Mesh announced a partnership aimed at fixing that. The Visa Mesh partnership is designed to let users of participating wallet apps pay

BlackRock's IBIT took in $665.2M in one day, its biggest since Oct 2025. Here's what the Bitcoin ETF inflow means for price, institutions and you. PrefaceOn Monday, October 19, 2026, BlackRock Bitcoin ETF inflows hit a standout number: the iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker: IBIT), BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, took in $665.2 million of net new money in a single trading day.According to SoSoValue data reported by The Block, that is the fund's largest daily inflow in the past year and its biggest sinc