Binance and Coinbase joined a UK-hosted crackdown on West African scam networks that led to 28 arrests in Ghana and Nigeria and flagged $11M in funds for possible freezing — CoinDesk

Hackers stole $1.18B across 107 crypto incidents in Q3, up 55% quarter over quarter, with $906.8M lost through suppliers, dev tools, unpatched fixes or components left out of audits — CoinDesk

Stablecoin payments rose 45% to $482B in 2026 through September while supply grew just 0.4% to $305B, and stablecoin card spending jumped tenfold to $3.9B — CoinDesk

Latvia plans to let residents pay personal taxes in crypto as early as 2027, after parliament voted to tax only withdrawals exceeding deposits rather than each trade — CoinDesk

Cysic suspended its bridge after an attacker minted tokens and moved about $727,000 of the proceeds to Ethereum — The Block

Tether Capital invested an undisclosed sum in AIsa, a network letting AI agents pay for data, APIs and compute, which claims 250K agents and 100M+ transactions — Tether

Crypto.com and Novig sued Missouri in federal court over its order to stop offering sports event contracts, while fellow targets Kalshi, Polymarket, Robinhood and Underdog have not filed — The Block

World launched its first industry-specific World ID suite for banks and financial firms, bundling the app, World ID for Agents and a Zoom deepfake check now out of beta — The Block

Qubic halted its network after an attacker exploited weak randomness in wallet seeds to drain 1,404 wallets of 2.94T QU, about $1.3M, with 87.1% of the funds frozen — Bitcoin.com News

Deutsche Bank plans to launch crypto custody for institutions in Germany within weeks and expand it to Asia in 2027, starting with BTC, ETH, USDC, EURC and EURAU — CoinDesk

An XRP Ledger bug-fix package is set to go live around October 23 with exactly 29 validator votes, patching Ripple's uncollateralized lending code that is still 10 votes short — CoinDesk

Wallets linked to MARA Holdings, the largest public Bitcoin miner, deposited 1,000 BTC worth about $82.8M to Binance and Gate over five days, suggesting the company is selling — Lookonchain

Zcash client team Zakura plans to give every ZEC swap through NEAR Intents its own viewing key, so a future quantum computer couldn't expose a user's full payment history — CoinDesk

Spot Ether ETFs lost $320M last week, their third straight week of outflows, with BlackRock's ETHA taking $299M, while Bitcoin ETFs shed $229M, led by IBIT's $165M — Crypto Briefing

JPMorgan is bringing its deposit token JPM Coin to Ethereum, opening the bank's on-chain dollar to institutional clients on the largest smart contract network — Bloomberg

Upbit is listing Concrete (CT) for spot trading on its KRW, BTC and USDT markets, opening the token to South Korea's largest crypto exchange — New Listings Feed

Aerodrome handled $1.9B of tokenized-stock DEX volume on Base over the past 90 days, about 83% of the network's $2.3B total — Token Terminal

BNB Chain burned 1.646M BNB worth about $1.2B in its 37th quarterly auto-burn, up from 1.616M in July, as it works toward a 100M total supply — BlockBeats

Revolut won a Gibraltar DLT licence for its new entity Revolut Global Digital Assets, a base for international crypto expansion as 16M of its 80M+ customers use crypto — The Block

Microsoft dropped a planned 50MW AI data center in Essex run by bitcoin-mining spinoff Nscale after the local grid said power may not arrive until the 2030s — CoinDesk

Strategy bought 267 BTC worth about $22M last week, lifting its holdings to 848,517 BTC, and spent $193M buying back its STRC preferred stock — Velo