Ethereum staking hit a record 43.8M ETH, or 35.9% of supply, growing for a sixth straight quarter even as the staking yield slipped to 2.63% from 2.81% — Bitwise

A Kazakhstan court barred Coinbase, BingX, HTX, BitMart, WEEX and Bitcoin.com from offering unlicensed crypto services inside the Astana International Financial Centre, though not nationwide — CoinDesk

LayerZero's Zero L1 mainnet and its first app lzATLAS go live on November 30, with three zones for EVM apps, trading and private payments each targeting about 2M TPS — LayerZero

Injective signed an MoU with Korean custodian BDACS to make its won-pegged stablecoin KRW1 the exclusive KRW settlement asset for RWA and tokenization on the network — The Block

Mastercard opened early access to payments made by AI agents, following pilots run with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare — The Block

OKX brought its Shield program to the US, covering account takeovers with up to $100,000 for users who enable its security settings and up to $500,000 in total — The Block

JPMorgan added bitcoin to its long-term capital market assumptions for the first time, projecting about 10% annual returns over the next decade — The Block

Strive closed an upsized IPO of its 15% perpetual SATS preferred stock, raising $630M at $90 per share, with proceeds possibly going toward more bitcoin purchases — Yahoo Finance

DefiLlama and Trueo launched prediction markets that settle on DefiLlama data, letting traders bet on protocol revenue races and the odds of DeFi hacks — DefiLlama

Utah sued Kalshi and two Susquehanna trading firms, calling the platform a back-alley gambling den and estimating it made $30.6M to $61.2M in fees from Utah users — The Block

Hyperliquid, SIFMA and AIMA pushed the SEC to revise its Regulation Crypto Assets proposal, which adds $5M and $75M token-raise exemptions, as the comment period closed October 20 — The Block

Wallets tied to April's $295M Drift exploit pushed 25,700 ETH, about $61.5M, into Tornado Cash in two hours, still holding 81,454 ETH worth roughly $198M — Decrypt

MoonPay and Upbit operator Dunamu agreed to explore stablecoin cross-border payments, corporate treasury tools and taking Dunamu's GIWA blockchain to overseas markets — The Block

MEXC is shutting down services for users in Russia and Belarus, with affected accounts getting individual deadlines to close positions and withdraw assets — CoinMarketCap

Solana activates Alpenglow on mainnet today at epoch 1064, around 14:50 UTC, replacing TowerBFT and cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds — CoinDesk

Binance.US has reportedly applied for US regulatory approval to offer prediction markets, joining a wave of crypto exchanges racing to bring the product to American customers — Financial Times

Ripple backed the SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets proposal in a 20-page comment letter, arguing the investment contract, not the token, is the security and oversight should end once issuer promises are met — crypto.news

An unnamed institution lost about $2.84M to North Korea-linked SquidSquad on BNB Chain, with the attacker laundering 1,111 ETH via Tornado Cash and Tron to Chinese OTC desks — ZachXBT

An institutional entity lost about $2.3M in MORPHO, now sent to Tornado Cash, less than two weeks after the same wallet lost $3.5M, with both thefts using EIP-7702 delegation — ZachXBT

Sophon will permanently shut down its zkSync-based mainnet on November 30, giving users until November 25 to withdraw SOPH, ETH, USDC and claim staking and farm rewards — crypto.news

Crypto market cap rose 39.6% in Q3 to about $3T, ending a three-quarter losing streak, while spot volume on top-10 exchanges fell 14.2% to $1.65T — CoinGecko