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

Over 93.5% of Starknet voters, across 2,800+ wallets, backed researching a move from Ethereum L2 to an independent post-quantum Layer 1, with a whitepaper due in November — The Block

Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $528M in a day, led by IBIT at $235M and FBTC at $212.7M, while ether funds snapped a five-day outflow streak with $14.9M — The Block

Italian police arrested 30 people and seized about $24M from a mafia-linked "secret bank" near Milan that moved roughly €68M abroad via crypto exchanges for 'Ndrangheta and Camorra groups — Decrypt

a16z is reportedly dropping "crypto" from the name of its flagship blockchain fund and widening its focus to other investments, while one of the fund's founding members is also leaving — The Information

SoFi launched SOFIE, an FDIC-insured tokenized deposit paying 4.4% APY that converts 1:1 into its SoFiUSD stablecoin 24/7, the first such retail product from a US national bank — The Block

Dune launched real-time trading data feeds for hedge funds and market makers, streaming trades from 200+ onchain venues across 12 networks, including Hyperliquid and Lighter perps, about one second after execution — The Block

Ethereum researchers led by Ben Edgington filed draft EIP-12566 to cut finality from about 16 minutes to roughly 4 by splitting validator votes for block choice and finality — CoinDesk

Ethereum holds over 40% of tokenized RWA market cap, but its share fell nearly 30 points in a year as Solana, BNB, Stellar and Avalanche gained about 6 points each — The Block

Visa is reportedly in late-stage talks to buy crypto custody firm Fireblocks for about $2.5B, less than a third of its $8B 2022 valuation, in its first stablecoin-sector acquisition — Crypto Briefing

Organic stablecoin transfers averaged over $400M per hour in Q3 2026, and about 73% of screened transfer volume in the 12 months to July 31 happened outside US banking hours — The Block

Major US banks including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are finding unvetted third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, some acting without user instructions — Axios

Uniswap launched aggregator hooks on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, routing trades through Fluid, Curve and PancakeSwap liquidity, with protocol fees from those swaps feeding UNI burns — The Block