ADOPTION: Brazilian companies turned to stablecoins on election day to protect against a currency crash. 🇧🇷 With markets closed Sunday, $USDT volume on Mercado Bitcoin jumped nearly 800%, and companies made up 78% of trading. 📈 The next day, the real plunged 8% against the dollar and Brazilian stocks crashed 14%. Crypto never closes.

ASIA MARKETS: Asian stocks are ripping on AI chip optimism 📈 🇰🇷 KOSPI +5.01% 🇯🇵 Nikkei 225 +1.18% SK Hynix just posted a record quarter, with operating profit up 631% on AI memory demand. 🚀 Source: askclash.ai/macro/indices

NEW: Ripple and Robinhood just announced a strategic partnership to expand stablecoin adoption 💵 $RLUSD is live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp now, and is coming to the Robinhood app’s 28.6M funded customers later this year. Robinhood will also settle institutional payments on the XRP Ledger.

REALITY CHECK: River data shows the U.S. dollar has lost roughly 97% of its purchasing power since the Fed's creation in 1913. Your cash doesn't need to crash overnight to lose value. Inflation can do it slowly and the Fed can print more money at anytime. Choose Bitcoin.

LATEST: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $110.3 million in net inflows yesterday 🚀 BlackRock's $IBIT accounted for ALL of it. The other 11 funds reported zero net flows. Two days of outflows snapped, with one fund doing all the heavy lifting.

🚨BREAKING: Up to $6 BILLION in U.S. Treasury debt is targeted for buyback today. 🇺🇸 Settlement falls tomorrow, October 28, the same day as the Fed's rate decision. Treasury supporting bond-market liquidity while the Fed sets the policy tone. A busy 24 hours for Bitcoin, stocks, and bonds.

🇺🇸FED WATCH: The FOMC interest rate decision is tomorrow and markets are pricing a 90.6% chance of a hold. A hawkish surprise could flush $BTC longs near $79K -- a dovish lean could fuel a short squeeze toward $81.4K. High odds of unchanged rates does NOT guarantee low volatility 👀

JUST IN: 🇺🇸President Trump says he will be officially "BANNING" the terms "AI" and "Artificial Intelligence." This follows his September executive order directing federal agencies to use “SI/Super Intelligence.”

JUST IN: Ripple's collaboration with $2.2T BNY is expanding into custody and tokenized trade finance using $RLUSD, $XRP and the XRP Ledger. 🔥

Bitcoin Is Quietly Preparing For Its Next Rally xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/2mdjnamRW…

🇺🇸JUST IN: Crypto companies have spent approx. $176 MILLION across more than 100 U.S. midterm races, per Reuters. The goal: garner bipartisan support from lawmakers who decide the rules for exchanges, stablecoins, market structure, and digital-asset custody.

JUST IN: Binance files for a crypto license in Brazil, adding another major market to its regulatory expansion. 🚀

BULLISH: Wall Street is in its “stablecoins and tokenization, not Bitcoin” phase again, per Galaxy Research 🔥 HSBC, JPMorgan, the OCC and central banks are all racing into crypto rails, while $BTC sits near the bottom of 2026’s asset rankings. The last two times this happened, Bitcoin went on to run 83x and 20x. 🚀

LATEST: BNB Chain is building a new high-speed Layer 1 with ~200ms blocks and ~20ms pre-confirmations 👀 No new token. $BNB powers gas, staking and governance on both chains. CZ summed it up as multiple chains, one coin. 🔥 Public testnet by end of 2026, mainnet early 2027.

JUST IN: Ripple just got final OCC approval to charter Ripple National Trust Bank 🚨 The federally supervised trust bank will manage $RLUSD reserves and offer crypto custody to institutions. Crypto keeps moving inside the U.S. banking system.