Morning digest: October 23, 2026

Zanyuk Morning Digest · Oct 23, 2026 · 13m

Friday's crypto lead is Ethereum's next big upgrade losing its Oct. 26 test date on Hoodi after security researchers flagged a gas-accounting risk to existing contracts. HSBC rolled out a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin to 3.3 million PayMe users, Swell froze its staked-ether tokens over a suspected admin-key compromise, SoFi launched a tokenized deposit, J.P. Morgan put money-market funds on Solana, and Starknet's post-quantum vote passed. Health leads with a 147,000-person study on how much lifting is enough, plus a step count that protected premenopausal bones, a sleep window tied to sharper…