[French Senate Passes Bill Authorizing Approval of Multilateral Agreements Related to CARF and CRS] On October 27, 2026, the French Senate passed Bill No. 21 through expedited first reading, authorizing approval of the multilateral agreement between competent authorities on the automatic exchange of information regarding the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), and supplementary documents to the Multilateral Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (CRS). Both documents were signed in Asunción, Paraguay on November 26, 2024.

Anchorpoint, a Hong Kong-licensed stablecoin issuer jointly established by Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong Telecom and Animoca Brands, has introduced its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP to Solana. HKDAP supports native minting and redemption on Solana, with applications ranging from retail payments to tokenized assets.

The US stock market lost $850 billion in market capitalization after opening. (Watcher.Guru)

All markets for Aave V3 and V4 are now unfrozen, contracts were not affected by the Binance security incident, and positions remain fully collateralized. The loan-to-value ratios for USDT, USDC, USDT0, POL, WAVAX, sAVAX, XAUT, PAXG, and OP remain at 0 for the time being, meaning these assets cannot be used as collateral for new borrowing.

On October 30, US semiconductor stocks fell sharply, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index dropping 5.67%. Intel fell over 26%, AMD fell over 10%, SanDisk fell 8.38%, SK Hynix fell 6.93%, Micron Technology fell 5%, Nvidia fell 2.51%, TSMC fell 3.69%, and the 3x Long Semiconductor ETF (SOXL) fell over 20%.