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
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
Cloud host Railway disclosed a breach in which attackers decrypted some customers' stored environment variables, exposing API keys and database credentials, and urged users to rotate all secrets now — Railway
Three firms, TSV LLC, OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE TSV, and Perpetuals.com operator Kepas, have filed with the SEC to run tokenized stock venues under its Innovation Exemption — Bloomingbit
Swell's swETH and rswETH admin keys appear compromised, with attackers inflating their value up to 1% per hour and staging malicious upgrades that could drain about 2,500 ETH — Spreek
An XRP Ledger fix for a bug letting burn-only accounts mint tokens slipped to November 4 after validator support briefly fell to 26 of 35, below the 29 required — CoinDesk
Bitcoin fell below $83,000, dropping more than $2,000 in about six hours from near $84,800 as weak Tesla and Meta outlooks revived doubts about the AI trade — Bloomberg
Solana activated its Alpenglow upgrade, replacing on-chain validator votes with direct vote certificates to cut transaction finality from several seconds to a targeted 150 milliseconds — CoinDesk
A Tianjin court accepted Chinese prosecutors' request to confiscate over 61,800 BTC seized in the UK, tied to Qian Zhimin's $5.7B fraud that hit 102,000+ investors — CoinDesk
Bybit's Dubai entity secured a full VARA VASP license for spot crypto trading, two years after in-principle approval, and plans to seek derivatives approval next — ChainCatcher
CoinDCX is suspected of losing about $16M in USDT from its hot wallets, with funds routed to Binance, OKX and Gate, after a $44M hack in July 2025 — ChainCatcher
South Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act, covering exchange licensing and stablecoin issuance, is nearing completion, while officials review whether to keep the January 2027 crypto tax start — The Block