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Odaily reports: Major U.S. banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup are tightening restrictions on third-party AI agents' access to customer accounts and their ability to execute transactions. Citigroup prohibits unauthorized third-party agents from logging in or trading directly through digital platforms, but allows some approved connections with read-only access to account information.JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said during the October 13 earnings call that external agents should not be allowed unrestricted access to bank systems; Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan emphasized that payments must be authorized by humans. Wells Fargo's updated access agreement is scheduled to take effect on November 24, distinguishing between viewing financial information and executing transactions. (Bitcoin.com News)
JPMorgan assesses that contract renewals and expansion, along with AI product version upgrades, support a Q3 beat, but as AI monetization is more likely to occur in 2027, further re-rating will require evidence of stable organic cRPO growth. Maintains Overweight with a $150 price target, implying 3.2% upside from current levels.
According to PR Newswire, J.P. Morgan Asset Management announced on October 22 that its tokenized money market funds MONY and JLTXX are now live on the Solana blockchain and available to eligible U.S. investors. Eligible investors can subscribe and redeem through its institutional trading platform, Morgan Money, and receive their token balances at their own blockchain addresses. MONY is a private fund established under Rule 506(c), launched in December 2025. At that time, J.P. Morgan became the first global systemically important bank to launch a tokenized money market fund on a public blockchain. JLTXX is a U.S.-registered government money market fund, with an investment approach designed to support stablecoin issuers under the framework of the GENIUS Act.
Odaily reports: Crypto analyst Darkfost published a post on X outlining the evolution of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's attitude toward Bitcoin in recent years.In 2017, Dimon called Bitcoin a "fraud"; in 2018, he expressed regret over those remarks and acknowledged the value of blockchain technology; from 2019 to 2020, he said Bitcoin "doesn't appeal to him"; in 2021, he called it "worthless"; in 2023, he said that if he had the power, he would ban Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies; and in 2024, he likened Bitcoin to "pet rocks" and a Ponzi scheme.In 2025, Dimon still criticized Bitcoin for lacking value and being used for money laundering, but later stated that everyone has the right to buy Bitcoin. Now, JPMorgan in its 2027 outlook has listed Bitcoin as the asset with the best long-term return performance.Previously reported, JPMorgan Asset Management released its "2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions" report on October 19, including Bitcoin in its long-term return projections for the first time and forecasting a compound annual growth rate of 10% over the next 10 to 15 years, higher than the 7.5% for U.S. large-cap stocks, 5.5% for gold, and 8.2% for U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs).
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan (@Matt_Hougan) shared a chart on X featuring J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions (31st edition), which has now included Bitcoin in its asset class forecasts. According to the report, Bitcoin’s expected compounded return is 10.0%, its arithmetic mean return is 20.9%, and its annualized volatility is 55.0%. Comparative data for other assets are as follows: • US large-cap stocks: compounded return 7.5%, volatility 18.0% • US small-cap stocks: compounded return 7.7%, volatility 21.0% • Gold: compounded return 5.5%, volatility 17.2% • US aggregate bonds: compounded return 5.6%, volatility 4.7% • US cash: compounded return 3.2%, volatility 0.7% • US real estate investment trusts (REITs): compounded return 8.2%, volatility 17.3% Based on arithmetic mean returns, Bitcoin (20.9%) ranks highest among the assets listed in the report, followed by US small-cap stocks (9.66%) and US REITs (9.55%). By compounded return, Bitcoin (10.0%) also tops all other assets in the table.
According to Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase announced the launch of a deposit token (JPM Coin) representing its US dollar deposits for institutional clients on the Ethereum network, further expanding its blockchain payments business. Initially launched last year on the Coinbase-affiliated blockchain network Base, the token enables institutional clients to bypass the constraints of traditional business days and multi-day settlement cycles, facilitating round-the-clock, second-level fund transfers.
Odaily Report: JPMorgan is expanding its JPM Coin USD deposit token to the Ethereum mainnet, offering it to institutional clients. The token was previously launched on Base in 2025 and represents actual bank deposits, enabling near-instant peer-to-peer transfers and settlements around the clock. It is currently available only to JPMorgan institutional clients through Kinexys, does not support public trading, and is not open to retail customers. JPM Coin is a permissioned, regulatory-compliant bank money and is not a decentralized stablecoin.
Coinbase's outstanding balance for crypto-backed loans has reached $2.3 billion, with the product launching in January 2025. Eligible users outside New York State can pledge Bitcoin to borrow USDC without selling their holdings, with loans routed through the Morpho decentralized lending protocol on the Base network. On September 22, Coinbase added fixed-rate loans through Morpho Midnight, and pledgeable assets have expanded to XRP, DOGE, ADA, and LTC. As of mid-September 2026, floating-rate loans have exceeded $1.4 billion, backed by approximately $3 billion in collateral.JPMorgan's JPMD tokenized deposits have been running on Base for institutions since mid-2026, with Citi and BNY Mellon also advancing related initiatives, and multiple UK banks planning to launch related networks in 2027.
JPMorgan notes that retail investors have lost confidence in tech ETFs, but their buying of individual semiconductor stocks runs counter to institutional positioning, with semiconductor crowding at the 96.1th percentile. Over the next seven days of earnings season, 62 S&P 500 companies will report results, accounting for 14% of market capitalization, concentrated in the financial and industrial sectors.
JPMorgan estimates that Maia becoming the primary inference system will improve Copilot performance and reduce cost per compute unit, with Microsoft Cloud's gross margin expected to improve; the firm maintains an Overweight rating with a $625 target price.
According to Odaily, SpaceX's stock price has recently been fluctuating within a narrow range, but a new wave of buying may arrive soon as the Nasdaq 100 Index undergoes its quarterly rebalancing later this month. Due to lock-up restrictions, SpaceX has a relatively low proportion of freely floating shares, which currently gives it a weight of only 1.25% in the Nasdaq 100 Index, ranking 19th. Despite its market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion, placing it sixth among the index's constituents.Following the next index rebalancing, SpaceX's weight is expected to increase. The adjustments will be announced after the market close on Friday and take effect on September 21. This is partly because more than 1 billion shares have already been unlocked, raising SpaceX's free-float shares from less than 10% of total shares outstanding shortly after the IPO to nearly 30%.According to a report released Tuesday by J.P. Morgan Securities strategists including Min Moon, SpaceX's weight could rise to 1.51% after the rebalancing, which would trigger approximately $12.4 billion in passive net buying of SpaceX shares by index funds and ETFs. Nasdaq data shows that as of the end of the second quarter, approximately $1.7 trillion in assets were tracking the Nasdaq 100 Index, including the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 exchange-traded fund, widely known by its ticker QQQ.
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and 18 other institutions have announced the formation of a new company, planning to issue a regulated US dollar stablecoin in the first half of 2027, followed by an expansion to other G7 currencies such as the euro.
According to CriptoNoticias, data from El Salvador's National Digital Assets Commission (CNAD) shows that 233 new tokens were registered in the country's digital asset market in 2026, with 182 concentrated between July and August, accounting for 78.1% of the annual total. The registered assets encompass tokenized stocks of tech giants including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, alongside financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Visa, and Mastercard. The list also features consumer brands like Walmart, Netflix, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola, as well as tokenized versions of indices and assets such as the S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, gold, and U.S. Treasury bonds. Major issuers include MIO 3 MARKETS 1 (101), Monetae Securities (70), and NexBridge Digital Financial Solutions (27). Additionally, 35 tokens originate from local Salvadoran enterprises, covering corporate bonds, commercial paper, real estate financing instruments, and venture capital agreements.
According to Chaowang Research, JPMorgan’s August 28 research report states that OpenRouter platform token volume increased 47% month-over-month and 28 times year-over-year in August, while expenditure rose 7% month-over-month and 12 times year-over-year; the volume-weighted average price decreased 28% month-over-month, with low-priced models such as GPT-5.6 Luna accounting for approximately 99% of the incremental volume. In the GPU rental market, A100 prices remained flat at $1.65/hour, H100 rebounded to $2.73 (+1.2%), and B200 fell 1.5% month-over-month to $5.63, marking the first monthly decline since the index was published in September 2025. DRAM spot prices have risen for five consecutive months, with DDR5 16Gb reaching $50.20 (+6% month-over-month, +880% year-over-year); NAND ended a four-month downward trend, with 1Tb quoted at $30.50 (+14% month-over-month, +470% year-over-year). JPMorgan observes that AI computing demand continues to expand, yet structural shifts on the supply side are reshaping pricing dynamics. Closed-source and open-source models are growing in tandem, with lower-priced models gaining market share while higher-priced models drive the majority of revenue. The price reduction for B200 reflects increased capacity for next-generation GPUs, while the rebound in H100 pricing demonstrates sustained demand resilience for the preceding generation. With both DRAM and NAND showing strength, the ongoing crowding-out effect of HBM on DRAM capacity continues to provide positive support to semiconductor equipment suppliers.
According to Bloomberg, insiders revealed that JPMorgan has initiated preliminary discussions with potential lenders to secure a $5 billion debt financing package to support Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. in constructing artificial intelligence data centers. Earlier this month, Volta AI completed a $300 million venture capital funding round at a valuation of $2.4 billion, with the goal of enabling more technology firms to access costly AI chip resources.
Odaily News, Justin Sun stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference in Hong Kong that the threat of quantum computing to blockchain and the entire financial system is widespread, with traditional banks such as JPMorgan facing the same risks. Due to the highly decentralized nature of the Bitcoin community, which involves multiple participants including miners, exchanges, and WBTC, reaching a quantum-resistant consensus will take a considerable amount of time. Justin Sun stated that TRON has been researching quantum-resistant mechanisms over the past year, having released a quantum-resistant address solution and launched it on the testnet in the first half of this year. The project plans to upgrade the entire network into a mainstream crypto network with quantum-resistant capabilities by the end of this year.
JPMorgan Chase and Santander will lead financing of up to $15 billion for Argentina's liquefied natural gas project.
According to TechFlow Research, JPMorgan Chase's August 17 research report pointed out that chip manufacturers' capital expenditures continue to be raised, and equipment vendors' WFE outlooks are revised upward in tandem. TSMC raised its 2026 capital expenditure to $60 billion to $64 billion (+52%), Intel raised it to $20 billion (+11%), and SK Hynix plans 40 trillion Korean won (+45%). Tokyo Electron raised its 2026 WFE outlook to over $150 billion and over $190 billion in 2027, with gross margin expected to reach 50% by early fiscal 2027. Screen Holdings expects 2026 WFE growth to exceed 20% (at least $140 billion). AXT is shifting InP substrate capacity to 6-inch, having received requests for five-year contracts from customers and significant prepayments, with prices expected to rise from 2026 to 2027. Storage LTA coverage is accelerating; Samsung plans to bring 60% to 70% of capacity under LTA, SK Hynix has signed 10 contracts, and SanDisk has signed 8 contracts. The research report concludes that signals from four directions all point to the semiconductor equipment and materials cycle shifting from volume expansion to a dual drive of volume and price. Japanese semiconductor and technology material companies are expected to become major beneficiaries.
According to CoinDesk, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) announced plans to utilize the Canton network to conduct a proof of concept for on-chain trading of Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) to achieve real-time 24/7 settlement, replacing the traditional settlement process requiring 1 to 3 days. MUFG stated that this move aims to enhance the operational and capital efficiency of repo transactions, noting that European and American financial institutions have already expanded proof of concept projects in this field, with JPMorgan Chase's Kinexys network having supported blockchain-based intraday US Treasury repo operations since 2020. MUFG pointed out that Japanese Government Bonds are widely used as collateral for repo transactions by domestic and international market participants due to their high credit ratings and liquidity, and the trend towards on-chain adoption is accelerating. Additionally, MUFG has previously partnered with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC) and Mizuho Financial Group to explore the joint issuance of stablecoins by March 2027; this JGB on-chain settlement test is a significant component of its blockchain strategic layout.
Odaily News: Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Monday of blockchain oracle project Chainlink, projecting LINK to reach $200 by the end of 2030 — roughly 25 times its current price of around $8. The bank's phased targets are $13 by the end of this year, followed by $41, $82, and $133. Standard Chartered estimates that the on-chain tokenized asset market will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, with DeFi-deployed assets hitting $2.7 trillion by 2030 — a 37-fold increase from current levels. The bank expects Chainlink fees to grow approximately 25-fold over the same period, assuming token prices track fee growth. Chainlink secures over $110 billion in total value, covering approximately 70% of the value that global DeFi relies on from oracles, with a share exceeding 80% on Ethereum; Aave V3 accounts for 44% of that. Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, Fidelity, and S&P Global are all listed as institutions using its services. Chainlink still lags behind LayerZero in cross-chain interoperability. Following the $292 million attack in April, over $7 billion in token value has migrated to Chainlink CCIP, with second-quarter transaction volume reaching $4.9 billion — up 353% year-over-year. Risks include slowing institutional tokenization, pilots not converting to production processes, and technical failures impacting confidence. (Decrypt)