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
Fireblocks denied being in $2.5B acquisition talks with Visa, calling the reports news to the company and not true at present, while Visa declined to comment — ChainCatcher
Coinbase Ireland was fined $3.6M over failures to properly segregate customer funds and weaknesses in its oversight controls — The Block
Morpho now lets non-US holders of Robinhood Stock Tokens like NVDA, SPY and SPCX borrow USDG stablecoins against them on Robinhood Chain — Morpho
Donald Trump and a crypto firm have been sued over allegations that they improperly profited from a foreign government — Bloomberg
Senator Richard Blumenthal is probing reported Tether payments to Nxum, the consulting firm of Tether US CEO Bo Hines, made while Hines was still a White House crypto adviser — CoinDesk
Polymarket reportedly fired CMO Matthew Modabber after an internal probe into his team's alleged fake trading-profit promos, which also triggered a still-ongoing CFTC investigation — Crypto Briefing
HSBC began rolling out its HKD-backed RedCoin stablecoin to more than 3.3 million PayMe users in Hong Kong, starting with peer-to-peer transfers and merchant payments — SCMP
Ethereum core developers postponed Glamsterdam on the Hoodi testnet, set for October 26, to study how EIP-8037 gas changes affect mainnet contracts, leaving no new testnet or mainnet dates — Ethereum Foundation
Chainlink partnered with LG CNS, the IT services arm of Korea's LG Group, to expand the use and distribution of Korean won stablecoins as Seoul finalizes its stablecoin rules — The Block
Sentora launched the first externally curated markets on Aave V4, letting users borrow RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSD against yield-bearing and bluechip collateral — Aave
Spot bitcoin ETFs saw $635M in net outflows on October 22, led by IBIT at $254M and FBTC at $217M, a day after $528M inflows, while ether funds lost $111M — Farside Investors
A UAE-led anti-fraud operation across 30 countries traced over $39B in scam-linked funds and crypto, blocked 4,126 bank accounts and led to more than 960 arrests — The National
Malaysia's and Thailand's central banks joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative for cross-border settlement of tokenized deposits and stablecoins, as Visa, Mastercard, Ripple and the World Bank also signed on — MAS
Bank Negara Malaysia launched SSDS+, an in-house platform for issuing and holding tokenized bonds and sukuk with 24/7 settlement in central bank money — The Edge Malaysia
South Korea's government and the Bank of Korea plan to amend the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act this year to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments, including cross-border transactions — The Block