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🤖 Humanoids, Fed Cuts Rates, Altcoin ETFs, & Privacy Coins
Humanoid robots hit the spotlight, Fed cuts rates, altcoin ETFs debut strong, privacy coins surge past $14B market cap, and more.
Bernadette Winston
October 29, 2025
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It’s hump day! 🐫 Tech and macro forces are shaping a fast-moving week. 1X enters the $300B humanoid robot race with its new "NEO" home assistant, while the Fed cuts interest rates by 25bps, signaling caution as inflation remains sticky. Meanwhile, altcoin ETFs debut with $65M in volume led by Solana, and the privacy coin market surges past $14B with Monero and Zcash leading the charge.
More news below!
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News Roundup
Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft AI Chief Rules Out Sex Robots Amid Industry Surge (Decrypt)
1X Launches NEO, a Chatty Home Robot in Race for $300B Humanoid Market (Decrypt)
AI Fatigue Grows as Users Push Back Against Unwanted Features (Decrypt)
Sam Altman Apologizes for GPT-5 Rollout, Details $1.4T AI Expansion (Decrypt)
Over 1 Million ChatGPT Users Discuss Suicide Weekly (OpenAI)
Turn ChatGPT Into Your Crypto Risk Analyst (Cointelegraph)
Judge Lets Authors Pursue Book Download Claims Against OpenAI (Decrypt)
Telegram's Pavel Durov launches decentralized AI network on TON (Cointelegraph)
Decentralized, Centralized, & Traditional Finance
Visa Expands Stablecoin Support as Usage Quadruples in Q4 (The Block)
Kaia Chair Criticizes South Korea’s Bank-Only Stablecoin Plan (Cointelegraph)
Circle’s Arc to Host South Korea’s First Won-Backed Stablecoin (Cointelegraph)
Xiao Feng: Blockchain Will Replace Global Financial Infrastructure (Wu Blockchain)
Ondo Expands Tokenized Stocks Platform to BNB Chain (The Block)
Bank of Canada Cuts Rate to 2.25% Amid Trade‑Driven Slowdown (Bloomberg)
Ex-FTX US President Launches Stock and Forex Perps Platform (Brett Harrison)
Fed Cuts Rates by 25bps, Signals Caution Amid Elevated Inflation (FRB)
Exchanges
Exchange-Traded Products
Altcoin ETFs Launch with $65M in Day-One Volume, Led by Solana (The Block)
Bitwise Solana Staking ETF Debuts With $223M In Assets (Cointelegraph)
Grayscale’s Solana ETF Debuts on NYSE Arca With Staking (Globe Newswire)
Bitwise Solana ETF Sees $69M Inflows on Day One, While Rivals Flatline
On October 28, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $202 million in net inflows.
U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $246 million in inflows on October 28.
CoinShares Launches Toncoin ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange (Cointelegraph)
Safello, Deutsche Bank Launch First TAO ETP on Swiss Exchange (Cointelegraph)
21Shares Files for Hyperliquid “HYPE” ETF Amid Crypto Fund Boom (The Block)
Solana vs Ethereum ETFs, Bitwise’s Horsley Explains the Shift (Cointelegraph)
Infrastructure
Ethereum's Fusaka Upgrade Clears Final Testnet Before December Launch (The Block)
Binance Wallet Integrates Bubblemaps to Spot Insider Trading (Cointelegraph)
BitGo Adds Custody Support for Canton Coin (Cointelegraph)
Stable to Launch Phase 2 of Campaign Amid Controversy (The Block)
Taurus Opens NYC Office, Tapping US Demand for Digital Asset Infra (The Block)
Ethereum Foundation debuts enterprise portal for institutional adoption (EF)
Markets
Augur Plans Algorithmic Fork as REP Surges 50% (The Defiant)
Hyperliquid and BNB Chain Overtake Solana in L1 Fee Market (The Block)
Dormant Ethereum ICO Whale Moves $6M in ETH After 8 Years (The Block)
GMX DAO to Buy $110K in GT Monthly to Support Ecosystem (GMX)
Bitcoin Steadies Near $113K Ahead of Fed Decision (The Block)
Privacy‑coin market surpasses $14 billion as XMR & ZEC lead rally (CoinGecko)
Avalanche Gains Institutional Adoption, AVAX Still Down 86% (Cointelegraph)
Nvidia Surges Past $5T as Bitcoin Falls Behind U.S. Stocks (CoinDesk)
BNB Supply Shrinks as CZ Holds Under 1% (YZi Labs)
Zcash Shielded Supply Hits 4.5M as ZEC Soars 7x (The Block)
Meme Coins
Solana Meme Coin “Chill House” Soars After Insulting Vitalik Buterin (Decrypt)
CZ Warns Against Memecoin as 'Golden Statue' Token Crashes 86% (Cointelegraph)
CZ Meme Coin Surges Despite Binance Founder Urging ‘Don’t Buy’ (Decrypt)
Mining
Brazilian Solar Firm Eyes Bitcoin Mining to Monetize Excess Power (Cointelegraph)
TeraWulf Eyes $575M Raise to Fund Google-Backed AI Data Centers (Decrypt)
Politics & Regulation
Crypto Tax Reporting in Norway Jumps 30% (Cointelegraph)
France Considers Motion to Back Bitcoin, Reject Digital Euro (Cointelegraph)
Australia Expands Crypto Oversight With Updated ASIC Guidance (Decrypt)
Senate Democrats Slam Trump’s Pardon of Binance’s CZ (Cointelegraph)
Senators Move to Ban AI Companions for Kids Over Mental Health Risks (Decrypt)
Germany’s AfD Pushes for Bitcoin as Strategic National Asset (Cointelegraph)
Kraken Tops EU Crypto Lobbying, Outspends Coinbase as MiCA Takes Effect (Decrypt)
Prediction Markets
Polymarket to Go Live in the U.S. by Late November (The Block)
Token Generation Events
World Liberty to Airdrop 8.4M WLFI to Early USD1 Stablecoin Users (The Block)
Treasuries
Other News
Check This Out
A documentary titled The Incentive Layer was released today. The documentary aims to explore how incentive structures (token rewards, network effects) create new layers in crypto and AI infrastructure.
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