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

An investor in Acier, the new lending protocol from ex-Aave contributors Marc Zeller (ACI) and BGD Labs, accused it of hiding that BGD owns two-thirds and is demanding a refund — Aave Governance Forum

Indian exchange CoinDCX confirmed a $16M loss from retired wallets, just days after its CEO dismissed reports of a breach as a false alarm — The Block

Pearl, the AI-compute proof-of-work L1 that mines with Nvidia GPUs, has reportedly raised about $130M: $55M equity from Lightspeed, Ribbit and Square Peg plus a $75M GPU fund — Ian's Intel

Compromised Cloudflare API keys let attackers send phishing emails from the official domains of Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Foundation, though Passport devices and customer funds remain safe — Foundation

An Electrum wallet bug let malicious servers swap pending payments for fake ones, so users who hit Replace-by-Fee signed coins to attackers, with at least one theft confirmed before the 4.8.3 fix — CoinDesk

BNB Chain is building a new high-performance EVM L1 alongside BSC with 200ms blocks and no separate token, using BNB for gas and staking, with mainnet targeted for early 2027 — Crypto Briefing