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

Pump.fun now routes cross-chain trades through its own Pump Bridge instead of Relay, promising about 2x faster execution, 92% fewer errors and no bridging fees — Pump.fun

Switzerland's FINMA approved the country's first retail spot Bitcoin ETF, BIT Asset Management's BBIT, a Swiss-law fund holding BTC directly, set to list on SIX in November — BeInCrypto

Aerodrome and Velodrome merged into Aero, one DEX across seven chains including Ethereum, Base and Arbitrum, with AERO and VELO migrating into a single AERO token — The Block

CZ urged users to be extra careful visiting any website in the coming days, as two exploited PHP flaws rated 9.2/10 let unpatched sites steal visitors' credentials or attack their devices — BeInCrypto

ZKsync developer Matter Labs launched Prividium Commander, a control platform letting banks issue and manage tokenized deposits, stablecoins and securities with built-in permissions and audit trails — Matter Labs