Weekly Roundup 10/30/26 (Prediction market election hiccups, Hyperliquid onshoring, pubcos push back at tokenization, agents are using stables) (EP.747) — On The Brink with Castle Island

Editor's note: this episode was recorded before the Binance hack.

Matt and Nic are back with another week of news. In this episode:

Prediction markets keep screwing up around major elections
Quantum firm Alice and Bob devise a new lower estimate for an ECDLP break
Google enters institutional crypto custody with Google MPC
ICE and Trade.xyz plan to bring Hyperliquid perps to the US, pending CFTC approval
DTCC's tokenization service goes live on Canton and its private Besu chain
Who is using Instinct?
Who's behind the anonymous WSJ ad warning companies against tokenized stocks?
Should public companies be able to opt out of tokenized trading?
Canton Strategic Holdings plans to tokenize its own shares
Bitcoin Core discloses three bugs found by an AI security scan
Does AI make yearlong vulnerability disclosure embargoes obsolete?
Category Labs unveils Quantum Cadence, a post-quantum consensus protocol
Can fast blockchains accommodate quantum-safe signatures?
Strategy shareholders approve daily dividends on its perpetual preferred stocks
Datavault AI says it can't withdraw its Bitcoin from Biconomy
Y Combinator's latest crypto request for startups
Why do Kalshi and Polymarket disagree on the midterms?

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