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

Tether led a $15M Series A in Mural, a payments startup founded by ex-Palantir engineers that lets AI agents move money with spending limits and approvals, lifting its total funding to $28M — CoinDesk

Zcash set its NU7 upgrade for block 3,543,405, expected around November 5, cutting block times from 75 to 25 seconds and shutting down Sprout, leaving unmoved funds unspendable — CoinDesk

Trump will spotlight a crackdown on foreign networks luring Americans into fake crypto investments today, with seizures of fraudulent crypto sites, as FBI scam complaints topped 1M last year — Reuters

UK bank customers filed 10,092 complaints over blocked transfers to crypto exchanges in 90 days, led by Lloyds with 2,297, while Starling, TSB and Chase UK block them entirely — Decrypt

Upbit is listing AXIS Robotics (AXIS) for spot trading against the Korean won, bitcoin and USDT, with trading opening on October 21 — Upbit

The OCC issued a final rule implementing the GENIUS Act, becoming the first US federal regulator to finalize stablecoin rules under the Trump-signed law — The Block

OpenSea opened its mobile app to everyone on iOS and Android, letting users trade tokens and NFTs across 25+ chains, follow other traders and track a self-custodial portfolio in one place — OpenSea