Binance Wallet launched Pre-Access, a PancakeSwap-hosted program giving tokenized, indirect exposure to private companies before they potentially go public — Binance

Linera, an a16z-backed Layer 1, is shutting down over insufficient funding after its Sonar token sale missed the threshold and refunded all commitments — WuBlockchain

ZetaChain holders voted 99.4% to shut down its Layer 1 and migrate ZETA to Solana as a native SPL token — The Block

Fetch.ai and NuNet exploited for ~$2M via a leaked signing key: 8.7M FET drained and 408.5M NTX minted, and Fetch.ai has paused its Ethereum bridge — SlowMist

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says SBF once paid seven figures for the project's .com domain and pointed it at a fork, only for Uniswap to reclaim it for free — BeInCrypto

The ECB launched Pontes, letting banks settle tokenized-asset transactions in central bank money via the Eurosystem TARGET system instead of private stablecoins — CoinDesk

Strategy acquires $80.5M of BTC, and $174M of STRC Stock over the past week — Saylor

Coinbase now lets eligible US retail users request IPO shares at the offer price before trading opens, starting with smart-ring maker Oura (Nasdaq: OURA) — Coinbase

xAI launched Grok 4.7, its cheapest and fastest model yet for coding and knowledge work, at $2/$6 per million tokens, now live in Cursor and the xAI API — xAI

GMGN launched a public beta of perpetual futures, pushing the meme coin trading platform into leverage with BTC, ETH, SOL and ZEC markets — WuBlockchain

Ondo now lets approved institutions mint tokenized Ondo Stocks directly from shares they already hold, using Alpaca's Instant Tokenization Network — Ondo

Shyft added the Blockchain Center Abu Dhabi to its Strategic Global Council, bringing UAE policy and institutional weight to its onchain-wealth expansion — Shyft

Onchain prediction market Trueo is migrating from Base to Ethereum mainnet, with Vitalik Buterin welcoming it as a new decentralized contender — The Block

US prosecutors are probing whether Binance knowingly let Iranian users trade in violation of sanctions, per a Bloomberg report — Reuters

Binance bought a $100M equity stake in Circle, the USDC issuer, taking 1,237,011 new Class A shares at $80.84 each alongside an expanded 5-year USDC deal — SEC Filing

Arkham launched Tracer v2, a tool for following fund flows through bridges and across chains, letting anyone trace an address and its counterparties hop by hop — Arkham

CatchBack, a verifiable digital trading card platform, raised $8M in a seed round led by Foundation Capital, with Y Combinator, Robinhood, Coinbase Ventures and the Solana Foundation joining — CryptoRank

CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures on October 19, pending regulatory review, expanding its regulated crypto derivatives suite — StockTitan

Crypto VC Hashed anchored a new $300M private credit fund with Thoro Capital, lending stablecoin-settled dollars directly to crypto institutions — The Block

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, its first 5.5-family model, matching flagship Fable 5.1 on most work at roughly 40% lower run cost — Anthropic