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

New York's attorney general asked a court to order NovaTech founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion, who fled the US, to pay $1.3B, while four promoters agreed to return nearly $6M — The Block

Phantom rolled out Kalshi prediction markets to its US users and says it is confident and comfortable doing so despite ongoing state lawsuits against Kalshi — The Block

Robinhood Chain earned about $51M in network revenue in its debut Q3, beating Ethereum's roughly $41M after a 35% drop, as total network revenue rose ~24% to ~$349M — ARK Invest

Interpol's Operation Serengeti III across 21 African countries led to 1,462 arrests and $105M recovered, shutting two illegal crypto mines in Angola with over 2,000 rigs seized — Interpol

Franklin Templeton leads TradFi tokenization with $2.56B in tokenized assets ahead of BlackRock at $2.2B, while only six institutions top $500M and just 11 top $100M — The Block

China set a 2030 target to largely complete its national blockchain network under a new five-year digital plan, expanding blockchain use in trade, finance, manufacturing and agriculture while still banning crypto business — Cointelegraph

Bitcoin Core will now quickly patch and disclose bugs an AI can find with a simple prompt, replacing embargoes of about a year, after a surge in LLM-found reports — CoinDesk

The SEC named tokenization risks among its fiscal 2027 examination priorities for over 34,000 registered firms, alongside AI, cybersecurity, private funds and AML compliance — SEC

Wells Fargo, Arm and Intuit are among six more companies objecting to tokenized versions of their shares on OKX and ICE's OKXICE venue, bringing the total to 22 issuers — Reuters

Initia chain was reportedly hacked, with an attacker infinite-minting several tokens and cashing out $2.6M so far as more funds remain in flight — Spreek

A PNAS study of about 1 million resolved forecasts on Polymarket, Kalshi, Manifold and Metaculus found them well calibrated, with p% events occurring roughly p% of the time — PNAS

Netanyahu said Israel must prepare an economy that can get around possible banking sanctions and that he has already ordered a plan using digital currencies and blockchain — Ynetnews

Perp DEX Extended revealed its $XTEN token: 1B genesis supply, 30% (300M XTEN) goes to eligible Extended Points participants for free via self-hosted Arc wallets. Launch in November 2026, MiCA white paper and tokenomics due October 31 — Extended

Robinhood won Dubai regulatory approval and picked DIFC as its regional headquarters, planning to launch stock, crypto and ETF trading across the Middle East in 2027 — Robinhood

Arkham launched a $1,500-per-month Enterprise plan and cut free users to the 100 most recent transactions per address, moving Tracer, filtering and counterparties behind the paywall — Arkham

Tokenized stocks grew over fourfold in 2026 to $3.15B and account for 82% of RWA holders, while Binance's bStocks hit $772M onchain and $35.8B volume in three months — The Block