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The prediction-market exchange's Series G was co-led by Wellington and Sequoia. Kalshi wants to become a multi-asset exchange with single-stock perpetuals and compute markets.
Utah's attorney general charged KalshiEX, CEO Tarek Mansour and COO Luana Lopes Lara on Oct. 28, 2026, escalating the state-versus-federal fight over prediction markets.
Amazon posted a record 13.9% operating margin and AWS's fastest growth in nearly five years, but trailing free cash flow turned to a $42.4 billion outflow on AI spending. Shares fell more than 6% after hours.
Microsoft's fiscal first quarter, reported Oct. 28, 2026, beat estimates. Azure revenue was disclosed in dollars for the first time, while free cash flow fell 27%.
Revenue rose 25% to $127.6 billion and Google Cloud grew 103%, but Alphabet missed estimates and posted its second straight quarter of negative free cash flow.
Trading volumes rose 12%, the average loan book grew 27% to $1.8 billion and data center leasing added $79.1 million in revenue.
The automaker keeps the "GM" ticker, becomes eligible for potential Nasdaq-100 inclusion and joins a string of companies that have left the New York Stock Exchange.
The bitcoin treasury company paid about $82,732 per coin from Oct. 17 to Oct. 23, 2026, per an SEC filing, and can now sell up to $1 billion of its 15% SATS preferred stock.
Ripple National Trust Bank can manage the reserves behind the $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin and offer fiduciary digital asset custody under federal supervision.
The draft Stablecoin Regulations, published in the Canada Gazette on Oct. 24, 2026, are open for comment until Dec. 23, 2026. They ban interest on held balances but allow transaction-based rewards.
Meta launched about $35 billion in underwritten offerings on Oct. 26, 2026, and plans a $60 billion at-the-market program for AI infrastructure and "personal superintelligence."
The U.S. bank regulator published its final rule for payment stablecoin issuers on Oct. 21, 2026, covering reserves, redemption, custody and capital. Anti-money-laundering rules come separately.
A Coinbase-commissioned report by The Block Research, published Oct. 20, 2026, puts organic stablecoin transfers at more than $400 million an hour, with 73% of volume outside U.S. banking hours.
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