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The meeting is the first such gathering since 2005, when premiers and then-prime minister Paul Martin met with Indigenous leaders in Kelowna, B.C.

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Oct 24, 2026, 12:00 p.m. EDT3 min readNYSE trading floor (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)SummarySince 2025, preferred stocks funded purchases of 135,979 BTC through Oct. 5, Fidelity said. Bitwise expects ETFs to remain the larger demand source, with preferreds attracting yield investors. Dividend obligations and buybacks could constrain further bitcoin purchases. Bitcoin BTC$84,459.46 treasury companies like Strategy (MSTR) and Strive (ASST), whose purchases help maintain demand for the largest cryptocurrency, have a tough balancing act, according to Fidelity Digital Assets and analysts who spoke to CoinDesk. On the one hand, they need cash to fund their purchases. On the other, they need to maintain investor appetite for new sales of the perpetual preferred stock that is their favored fundraising vehicle. As the number of shares in circulation grows, so do the dividend payments. The securities, which sit between debt and common equity in the capital structure with regular payouts and no voting rights, have financed purchases of some 136,000 bitcoin in the 20 months since their introduction, Fidelity research analyst Zack Wainwright wrote in a Tuesday report.

Oct 24, 2026, 11:21 a.m. EDT2 min readJack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Block (CoinDesk)SummaryBlock unveiled Dessa, a voice AI trained only on human speech that talks without text and runs locally on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max chip. Reactions split between amazement at how human it sounds and fears it could fuel scams and deception, with CZ eyeing uses in children’s education. Block hasn’t disclosed model size, benchmarks or a release date; the research preview is going first to a small group of AI safety researchers. Jack Dorsey's payments company Block XYZ$76.45·Market Closed has unveiled a voice AI model that sounds remarkably human in company demonstrations, prompting reactions ranging from amazement at its conversational abilities to warnings that such technology could make phone scams harder to detect. Called Dessa, the model was trained entirely on human speech rather than text and can listen while speaking, allowing it to handle interruptions, laughter and changes in tone during a conversation, according to the Block’s announcement. “Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence,” Dorsey wrote on X.

SummaryThe U. S. is quickly evacuating personnel across the Middle East on threat of Iranian attacks, the WSJ reported. Crypto prices are in broad decline on Saturday, with bitcoin slipping to its weakest level in more than one month. The U. S. is quickly evacuating personnel from embassies and military bases throughout the Middle East as intelligence suggests Iran is prepping attacks against Americans, the WSJ reported Saturday morning. “Iran has substantially increased efforts to target U. S. personnel,” wrote Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, in a Friday memo to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “The lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U. S. citizens have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and certain other countries.”These evacuations appear to go well beyond reports from earlier this week that the U. S. was ordering some diplomatic staff in Saudi Arabia to vacate. President Trump, meanwhile, has threatened a re-escalation in the war against Iran after the midterms in early November. “We may do another little ‘Epic Fury,’” Trump said at a rally in Florida on Friday. Crypto prices are sinking to multi-week lows, with bitcoin now down by 2

"I never once pulled anything out, no matter how bad the market got, like in 2008. I stayed the course, and it has paid off, so far."

Oct 24, 2026, 11:00 a.m. EDT4 min readMcDonalds sign (Jurij Kenda/Unsplash)SummaryThis is an excerpt from CoinDesk's new ‘Tokenization Weekly’ newsletter that will be launching soon. Sign-up details will be here when it goes live. The SEC's new framework for tokenized stock trading looked, at first glance, roughly a month ago, like a fast track to putting U. S. equities on crypto rails. The first real-world test hasn't looked particularly encouraging so far. A growing group of public companies has objected to having their shares traded on the tokenized-securities venue being built by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange. This week’s of objections included some of the biggest names yet: Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Goldman Sachs (GS) McDonalds (MCD) and three others on Monday, then Wells Fargo (WFC) and Cisco (CSCO) and four more firms on Friday rejected having tokenized versions of their shares traded on OKXICE, bringing the disclosed total now to 22 objecting issuers. Seeing some of the world's largest companies say no may not exactly be the start that tokenization advocates had hoped for.

Oct 24, 2026, 10:38 a.m. EDT2 min readSummaryAn Argentine judge dismissed the criminal probe into President Javier Milei, his sister Karina and LIBRA adviser Hayden Davis. The judge found that Milei's promotion of LIBRA did not constitute fraud, despite the attention his support drew to the token. LIBRA lost more than 95% of its value after reaching about $5, while wallets linked to its creator withdrew around $99 million in cryptocurrency. An Argentine federal judge has dismissed the criminal case against President Javier Milei over his promotion of LIBRA, a memecoin that crashed soon after its launch in February 2025. The ruling also covers Milei's sister Karina, the presidency's secretary general. U. S. businessman Hayden Davis, who described himself as an adviser to the token's launch, was also covered by the dismissal, Reuters reported. In all, 11 people were cleared, including lobbyist Mauricio Novelli and KIP Protocol CEO Julian Peh, according to Infobae. None of them had been formally questioned in the case.

Oct 24, 2026, 10:06 a.m. EDT2 min readAndrew Cuomo, co-chair of OKX-ICE and board member of OKX (Getty Images)SummaryCisco, Wells Fargo, Marvell, Arm, Intuit and Moderna opted out of OKXICE’s plans to offer blockchain-based trading of their tokenized shares, bringing the total number of objections to 22. The growing list highlights a hurdle for the joint venture of the crypto exchange and NYSE parent under the SEC’s new framework, which gives issuers 30 days to block their shares from trading on a tokenized securities venue. OKXICE co-chairman Andrew Cuomo said objections were expected, with many companies preferring to wait and see how the new market works before participating. Cisco (CSCO), Wells Fargo (WFC) and four other companies have opted out of plans by crypto exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to offer blockchain-based trading of their shares, bringing the total objections to 22 as issuers weigh participation in the SEC’s new framework for tokenized stocks.

Updated Oct 24, 2026, 1:50 p.m. EDTPublished Oct 24, 2026, 10:00 a.m. EDT3 min readXapo's Seamus Rocca (courtesy Xapo Bank)SummaryXapo customers are using bitcoin as collateral and accumulating BTC through interest on dollar savings, its CEO told CoinDesk. Experience from previous market cycles is dividing clients between profit-takers and holders reluctant to sell. Traditional banks’ cautious approach leaves an opening for specialist providers, Seamus Rocca said. Wealthy bitcoin BTC$84,459.46 holders are increasingly treating their cryptocurrency as an asset to borrow against and generate income from, marking a shift from speculation toward private banking, according to Xapo Bank CEO Seamus Rocca. At the Gibraltar-based bank, customers are seeking cash without selling their bitcoin, putting some of their holdings into income-generating investments, or accumulating more BTC through interest paid on dollar savings, he said. “Customers are looking for yield and alpha,” Rocca told CoinDesk in an interview, pointing to demand from funds and family offices for accumulation and income products. The behavior reflects bitcoin’s growing maturity, he said.

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Oct 24, 2026, 8:00 a.m. EDT4 min readSummaryThe U. S. risks losing digital asset business to faster-moving jurisdictions in Asia, the Middle East and Bermuda after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, Apex Group CEO Peter Hughes said. Hughes said Europe’s crypto rules remain restrictive, while Saudi Arabia is emerging as a tokenization hub by opening its real estate market to digital assets and greater foreign investment. Tokenized money market funds and regulated, yield-bearing stablecoins could accelerate institutional adoption by offering higher returns, collateral utility and broader access than traditional financial products, Hughes said. The U. S. risks losing digital asset business to Asia and the Middle East if it continues to delay crypto legislation or fails to implement a clear, certain regulatory framework for digital assets, said Peter Hughes, founder and CEO of Apex Group, a global financial firm. Hughes said, however, that Europe will not benefit from Washington’s setback despite having its own rules in place since July 1.

Thousands of people were already marching Saturday afternoon in Orléans, south of Paris, in a separate protest against the far right

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As AI models become more advanced, tech leaders and philosophers are mulling the relationship between humanity and technology.