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

HYPE treasury firm Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) raised its stock buyback authorization from $30M to $100M, with about $72M still available, and extended it to October 31, 2027 — Hyperliquid Strategies

An Argentine federal judge dismissed the criminal investigation into President Javier Milei, his sister Karina and nine others over the 2025 $LIBRA memecoin scandal — Reuters

HTX added Russia to its restricted jurisdictions, allowing it to limit access, suspend withdrawals or close accounts, following Bitget and MEXC exiting the Russian market in October — RBC

Crypto longs lost $404M in liquidations within four hours as bitcoin briefly slipped below $80,000 during a sharp Saturday sell-off — The Block

Hardware wallet maker Keystone confirmed a breach of its Shopify-based website exposed customers' names, contact details, shipping addresses and orders, while keys, recovery phrases and payment data were untouched — Keystone

Tether got 15 mining firms including Bitmain, MicroBT, Canaan, Foundry and Bitdeer to build integrations for its open-source Mining Development Kit, aimed at letting AI agents run mining farms across vendors — Tether

Bitcoin miner turned AI data center operator TeraWulf expanded its Morgan Stanley-led revolving credit facility from $250M to about $400M, with an option to add $150M more — SEC

The Bank of Israel rejected Netanyahu's plan to use crypto against possible banking sanctions, saying digital currencies cannot bypass sanctions, while Netanyahu replied he will do what he thinks is right — Ynetnews

HSBC launched RedCoin (RCHKD), its first stablecoin, a HKMA-licensed HKD token that 3.3M PayMe users can send to friends and spend at 100,000+ merchants — HSBC

Binance Futures is launching a USDⓈ-margined PREDICTUSDT perpetual for prediction market Predict.fun's token in pre-market trading on October 25 — Binance

Robinhood Chain did $3.68B in stock token DEX volume from September 24 to October 23, with 59% traded outside US market hours and $532M on weekends alone — Cointelegraph

UK consumers filed 10,092 complaints over bank restrictions on crypto transfers in 90 days, with Lloyds Banking Group drawing the most at 2,297, ahead of Barclays and NatWest — CoinDesk