Daily Brief ยท October 18, 2026
Forty institutions executed live tokenization trades with the DTCC, while European regulators outlined their 2027 digital oversight strategy.
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DTCC completes live tokenization trades with J.P. Morgan and CME Group
Approximately 40 institutions executed tokenized trades on Oct. 17, testing margin pledges and collateral mobilization ahead of the DTCC Tokenization Service's expected commercial deployment in October 2026.
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ESMA designates AI and tokenization as 2027 supervisory priorities
The European Securities and Markets Authority will make artificial intelligence and tokenization its strategic supervisory priorities starting in 2027, operating alongside existing cyber resilience efforts.
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Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade for Hoodi testnet on Oct. 26
Core developers set epoch 132,352 for the Hoodi testnet deployment, which will raise the network gas limit to 200M and implement enshrined proposer-builder separation to improve Layer 1 scaling.
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Bitcoin holds near $81,378 as TON rallies 31.8 percent
$BTC ended the UTC day at $81,378 after trading in a narrow range on Oct. 17, while TON outperformed the top 30 digital assets with a 31.8 percent gain amid balanced exchange flows.
The numbers
$BTC trades at $81,982 and $ETH sits at $2,416, with total market capitalization at $2.70 trillion and Bitcoin dominance reaching 60.8 percent.
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