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
Dogecoin Labs launched with the Dogecoin Foundation, merging MyDoge, DogeOS, Such App and Foundation dev teams under CEO Jordan Jefferson to build a DOGE economy beyond memes — The Block
Shinhan Card, with about 20M cardholders, and SBI units are testing yen stablecoin payments so Japanese visitors could pay by card in South Korea, with no launch timeline yet — CoinDesk
Standard Chartered signed definitive agreements to buy 100% of crypto custodian Zodia Custody, folding it into its Securities Services unit pending regulatory approval — The Block
SkyAI, formerly Sharps Technology and once the fifth-largest Solana treasury company, sold all its SOL and is buying back up to 95% of its shares in a $201M tender offer — The Block
Kalshi will let some clients post crypto as collateral for leveraged perpetual-futures trades through bitcoin-backed loans under a new arrangement with a digital-asset lender — Bloomberg
Staked ETH hit a record 36.4% of total supply, up 6.55 percentage points from 29.8% at the start of 2026 — The Block
Grayscale opened in-kind investing across 10 ETPs, letting eligible investors swap BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, HYPE, ZEC and other tokens directly for fund shares without selling for cash first — Grayscale
S&P Global led a strategic investment in crypto market data firm Kaiko, extending its Series B to $110M, with BNP Paribas, Nasdaq Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and RBC also joining — Kaiko
DATA, the a16z-backed startup formerly known as Story Protocol, is shutting down its own blockchain after raising $140M and moving to Sui following a $30M Sui Foundation investment — CoinDesk
Dataline raised a $10.6M seed round backed by Coinbase Ventures and Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev for its AI-agent data network, planning a public token sale via Uniswap's auction platform — The Block
The American Bankers Association accused the OCC of undermining Congress after its final GENIUS Act rule left room for exchanges to keep paying stablecoin rewards on a case-by-case basis — The Block