Crypto Pulse

Overview Jabil (NYSE: JBL) reports fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2026 results before the market opens on Wednesday, September 30, followed by a call that doubles as the company's annual investor briefing. According to Jabil's own announcement, management will use the session to lay out strategic and financial priorities for fiscal 2027. That framing matters, because the quarter itself is largely pre-guided. The fiscal 2027 outlook is the event. The reason the market is watching closely is

Overview The August reading of US job openings lands on Tuesday, September 29 at 10:00 a.m. ET, and it opens one of the heaviest macro weeks of the quarter. It matters more than a second-tier labor release normally would, because the Federal Reserve delivered its first rate hike in three years on September 16 and the market has yet to settle on what happens at the October meeting. In the previous Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported July openings little

All three major indexes closed higher on Friday, September 25: the Dow +0.93%, the S&P 500 at 7,743.41 for +0.51%, the Nasdaq at 27,068.72 for +0.48%, and the Philadelphia semiconductor index +1.4%. The gains went to the names with new orders: Microsoft +3.66%, Qualcomm +3.97% and Dell +5%, against Nvidia (NVDA) at only +0.22%. The stock in focus is Qualcomm (QCOM), which closed at $201.97 and rose 3.97% as two things landed the same day: the top Snapdragon 8 Elit

I. Macro & Market Sentiment· Market Data: BTC $83,660.00 (-0.96%) | ETH $2,656.13 (-1.67%) | SOL $120.67 (-0.63%)· Market Sentiment: Funding Rate -0.0018% | Fear & Greed Index 74 (Greed)· Data Preview: Core PCE on Wednesday and nonfarm payrolls on Friday, among other releases, will be published in quick succession, setting the stage for a repricing of rate expectations. Read moreII. Trading Signals / Key Themes· [Today's Focus] BTC | Spot inflows and declining exchange reserves emerge simultaneo

Cardano has integrated x402, an internet-native payment standard that allows AI agents and automated applications to pay for access to APIs, data, computing resources, and digital services directly while they operate.Cardano support is now available within the x402 ecosystem through the @x402/cardano package, while the Cardano Foundation has also developed a facilitator and developer templates. Current testing shows that the payment flow can support both ADA and native assets on Cardano.What

Circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing, a service that allows eligible institutional clients to use Bitcoin as collateral to access USDC liquidity without having to sell their BTC.Rather than lending directly to customers, Circle provides a workflow connecting Circle Mint with third-party lending protocols. Customers can deposit BTC, mint cirBTC, transfer cirBTC into a Smart Wallet they control, and use the token as collateral on supported lending markets. The borrowed USDC is then a

Block, the financial technology company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, has joined the x402 Foundation and contributed support for Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network to the x402 protocol, expanding the payment methods that AI agents and automated applications can use across the internet.Block announced the move on September 24, 2026, while the technical changes related to Lightning had already appeared in the x402 Foundation’s official repository on September 23 through a commit titled “Speci

Prediction markets are expanding rapidly, but their growth is running into a major US regulatory dispute. On September 24, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket, alleging that its US platform operates as an illegal, unlicensed gambling business. Hours later, Polymarket filed its own federal lawsuit seeking to stop New York officials from regulating it. 1.New York’s Case Against PolymarketNew York’s lawsuit argues that Polymarket’s event contracts amount to gambling because user

Key takeawaysCircle opened the public mainnet of Arc; an EVM-compatible Layer 1 assigned Chain ID 5042 and built for stablecoin settlement, foreign exchange and tokenized capital markets. Eleven founding validators run the permissioned consensus layer: BlackRock, DTCC, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Corporation and Visa. USDC serves as the native gas token so fees are dollar-denominated, while ARC is a separate staking and governance

OverviewTwo of the world's larger economies spent September moving in opposite directions on the same question, which is what rules should govern a regulated crypto market. On September 15 the US Senate failed to invoke cloture on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act by 49 votes to 50, leaving the boundary between the SEC and the CFTC to agency rulemaking instead of statute. Six days later, at the Moscow Financial Forum, Chistyukhin told reporters that Russia's crypto industry could be operating