According to ChainCatcher citing Arbitrum, USDG deposits in an on-chain Morpho vault rose from about $10 million on October 13 to more than $130 million.

Lithium Americas Corp.’s Nevada mine was intended to curb US dependence on China for a battery mineral, but Trump administration tariffs are raising the company’s costs, according to Bloomberg.

According to CNBC, Sens. Angela Alsobrooks and Ron Wyden asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) what steps it has taken to address risks from prediction market contracts tied to clinical drug trials and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals. In a Wednesday letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they raised concerns about effects on the scientific process, trial participants and patients, as well as possible insider trading by researchers or regulators with access to nonpublic information. The senators requested internal HHS communications about staff participation in the markets, communications with prediction market platforms and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and any department analyses of the markets’ potential impact. Kalshi and Polymarket offer the contracts; Polymarket’s are available only on its international exchange, which is not regulated in the U.S. When Kalshi launched related markets in July, it said it limited them to late-stage trials, required enrollment to be complete before listing contracts and used employee verification technology for participating traders.

Democrats delivered a sweeping win across the country, while Nvidia launched an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Tech rallied despite macro jitters as markets awaited Anthropic’s upcoming IPO, Bloomberg reported. Michael Ball joined Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss the tech trade’s resilience.

Michael Saylor said Strategy will bring STRC and MSTR onchain as another step toward capital markets that never close. According to Odaily, he wrote on X that Bitcoin is digital capital, which Strategy converts into digital credit and digital equity.

Hex Trust nhận được sự chấp thuận về nguyên tắc đối với giấy phép Tổ chức thanh toán lớn từ MAS, củng cố cam kết tuân thủ và mở rộng phạm vi quản lý của mình.