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The Italian scale-up has appointed Turnbow to lead its technical expansion into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with an energy-to-compute approach that aims to harness renewable energy sources and reuse existing assets to develop more sustainable compute infrastructure. TRENTO, Italy, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ALPS announces the appointment of Brian Turnbow as Technical Director for AI. Founded in Trentino in 2018 and operating across four continents, the company is applying its expertise in designing, building, and operating data centers integrated with energy systems to AI and HPC. Access to power is one of the main constraints on AI infrastructure…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 14th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit Kazakhstan announces the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation with AIFC Markets Ltd., the Programme Office of the Astana International Financial Centre’s Investment Tax Residency Programme (ITRP). Under the memorandum, qualified investments in digital assets made by Programme participants through Bybit Kazakhstan’s licensed platform will be verified and recognised by the Programme Office. The ITRP is an AIFC initiative that allows eligible foreign investors to obtain Kazakhstan tax residency and an investor visa in exchange for investing through the AIFC infrastructure. The Programme already recognises in-scope investments in digital assets made through AFSA-licensed…

Francois Volpoet, Chainalysis’ CEO for France, warned that the measure could undermine efforts to bring more crypto transactions into the regulated financial system.”Do we want more taxpayers to declare their assets, or a higher tax rate applied to a base that is increasingly evaded?” Volpoet said in an email to CoinDesk. He said authorities can more easily monitor regulated stablecoin transactions than trades made through decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms or self-hosted wallets.Another amendment backed by the finance committee on Oct. 9 would require French taxpayers to declare self-hosted crypto wallets holding at least €100,000 ($116,000 approximately) in assets, with fines…

A brief spike to $84,000 early Wednesday faded within the hour, leaving bitcoin down 0.5% at about $83,200. It’s still boxed between its 50-day moving average near $81,000 and a ceiling at $84,000.The 50-day moving average is bitcoin’s average closing price over the past 50 days, and traders watch it for the medium-term trend. Buyers defended it on Tuesday, when bitcoin bottomed near $81,000, but they haven’t managed to push the price through $84,000 since.ZEC and TRX were the only gainers among the majors, up about 1%. HYPE was the laggard, down 2% to about $81. SOL fell 1.4% and…

Bitcoin climbed back above $84,000 on Monday as easing oil prices offered some relief to cryptocurrency markets, even as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs suffered their largest weekly withdrawals since June.The world’s largest cryptocurrency traded near $84,050 after briefly slipping to $83,500 earlier in the session. The recovery brought Bitcoin close to Sunday’s high of $84,145, suggesting buyers were willing to defend current levels despite persistent macroeconomic uncertainty.The rebound came as West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures fell 1.8% to $90.28 per barrel, easing concerns about energy-driven inflation. Meanwhile, U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $681 million in net…

Moscow, Russia, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire A7 International enables businesses and individuals to pay invoices with digital assets, while recipients receive a regular bank transfer, reflecting A7’s international positioning and expanding the geography of settlements available to foreign clients. In two years of operation, A7 has become one of the key players in the international settlements market. Founded in 2024 to serve the foreign economic activity of Russian businesses, it currently serves around 15,000 companies, processing 10+ trillion roubles in 2025 alone. The services A7 offered domestically sparked interest among businesses from other countries, prompting the company to come up…

Investors must establish their ownership rights under Chinese laws before they can claim the seized Bitcoin through the UK court process. A UK High Court judge has ruled that Chinese law, not English law, must govern the claims of victims to more than 61,000 BTC recovered from a multibillion-pound fraud. But while the decision settles an important preliminary legal question, it does not determine whether the victims can establish ownership of the cryptocurrency or how much, if anything, they may recover. How Qian’s Fraud Led to the High Court Dispute This case arises from investment scams arranged by Zhimin Qian…

“AI is driving one of the largest investment cycles in history, despite the financial infrastructure around it remaining quite underdeveloped,” said Max Killberg of Village Global. He said the firm sees an opportunity to develop financial markets around AI, rather than simply back another prediction market.Manifold Markets co-founder Stephen Gruggett told CoinDesk that MNX’s approach is better suited to private companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, whose shares trade infrequently and are difficult to price.”OpenAI, Anthropic secondaries are illiquid and hard to price,” he said. “A perp based on an illiquid, stale price is worse than meaningless: it doesn’t behave…

Reason to trust Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Created by industry experts and meticulously reviewed The highest standards in reporting and publishing Strict editorial policy that focuses on accuracy, relevance, and impartiality Morbi pretium leo et nisl aliquam mollis. Quisque arcu lorem, ultricies quis pellentesque nec, ullamcorper eu odio.   Geneva, Switzerland, October 12, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today highlighted key findings from its State of TRON Q3 2026 ecosystem report. The report examines network activity, stablecoin…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 13th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit Co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou has outlined the latest stage of the company’s expansion from a crypto exchange into The New Financial Platform, highlighting new products and collaborations across traditional and digital markets.  The updates were presented during Bybit’s latest biannual “Keynote with Ben” session titled “Make Your Move”, where Ben discussed the convergence of financial markets and the company’s approach to building for that shift. Held outside the usual studio format, in a gathering with a live audience, the keynote brought Ben together with selected guests to discuss changes in…