PTC Industries said its Q1FY27 consolidated revenue from operations rose 97.4% year on year to ₹1,918.0 crore. Net profit climbed 466.2% to ₹291.9 crore, while EBITDA increased 180.1% to ₹542.1 crore. Operating cash flow turned positive at ₹442.5 crore, compared with a negative outflow of ₹345.4 crore a year earlier.

The Trump administration has continued to channel large incentives into the nuclear industry, including a newly announced $4.2 billion federal loan to Ohio nuclear plant operator Vistra. Nuclear-related stocks have not rallied on the policy support, with Vistra down 9% year-to-date. Cameco and Brookfield Asset Management are also down 3% and 15% year-to-date, respectively. Investors have appeared unmoved by the announcements, with shares in several cases falling after the incentives were revealed.

Aave has raised the GHO borrowing rate on its Ethereum Core market from 4.25% to 4.5% to match the sGHO savings rate and remove an arbitrage gap that was funded by the DAO. TokenLogic proposed the adjustment on Oct. 2, alongside lifting the base rate from 2.75% to 3% and the optimal utilization APR from 4% to 4.25%. The change is intended to encourage borrowers to source repayment GHO via stability modules so reserves can be replenished, according to TokenLogic.

AMD said on September 28 it will acquire World Labs in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal. The company aims to strengthen its capabilities in artificial intelligence model research. The transaction is also viewed as a key move to secure AI talent as AMD pushes development of next-generation AI technologies.

S&P Global Ratings is launching a tool to assess blockchain-based lending vaults, which now hold about $10 billion in investor deposits. Deposits in digital-asset lending vaults have risen from roughly $1.5 billion in September 2024 to $10 billion as of September 2026. The company has also rolled out stablecoin assessments, rated a DeFi protocol and a Bitcoin-backed structured finance transaction, and said it plans to acquire blockchain security firm OpenZeppelin. S&P Global shares were trading at $ 386.27 and are down more than 20% year-to-date.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a notice on Oct. 4 under its newly launched “Innovation Exemption,” allowing OKX to partner with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to offer 24/7 trading in tokenized U.S. stocks. The exemption permits qualifying venues to trade tokenized securities without registering as traditional exchanges, subject to SEC conditions. The notice lists more than 60 companies whose shares could be tokenized, including Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, with trading routed through permissioned Uniswap v4 liquidity pools on OKX’s layer2 network XLayer. Companies have 30 days after receiving notice to object.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Joint Crypto Asset Taxonomy explicitly lists XRP as a digital commodity, placing it in the same category as BTC, ETH, SOL and XLM. The move gives XRP a clearer regulatory positioning in the U.S. market and further strengthens the compliance basis for treating it as a non-security digital asset. The classification comes from an official CFTC document and marks a key step in XRP’s federal-level regulatory recognition.

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) disclosed that it bought 334 Bitcoin for $28.7 million between Oct. 1 and Oct. 4 at an average price of $85,838.80, lifting holdings to 848,000 BTC. The purchase was its smallest of 2026, below the prior low of 520 BTC bought in June. The company also said spending under its preferred-stock repurchase authorization has reached roughly $1.45 billion, helped by a $176.3 million buyback of about 1.77 million STRC shares. Bitcoin’s roughly 43% third-quarter gain lifted the carrying value of Strategy’s holdings to $70.82 billion and it estimated a $20.91 billion digital-asset gain for the quarter under fair-value accounting.