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

South Korea is reportedly weighing a fourth delay of its crypto gains tax, which would push the start from January 2027 to 2029 — The Block

Sony's Ethereum L2 Soneium plans to issue its $SONEIUM ecosystem token and pivots to tokenized entertainment IP, starting with Moriusa and K-pop concert royalty bonds — Soneium

UK insurer Aviva's asset manager launched a tokenized share class of its £22B ($29.4B) Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger with Ripple, seeding it with £50M — The Block

Strive, the fourth-largest corporate bitcoin holder, opened a $1B at-the-market program for its 15%-dividend SATS preferred stock, with proceeds allowed for more bitcoin purchases — SEC

Strive bought 6,182 BTC for $511.4M at about $82,732 each between October 17 and 23, lifting its bitcoin holdings to 43,000 BTC — Strive

Vanguard's small-cap index ETF VSS has reportedly taken its first position in Japanese bitcoin treasury firm Metaplanet, buying about 4.5M shares worth $7.5M — WatcherGuru

BitMine bought 10,452 ETH over the past week, lifting its treasury to 6.05M ETH, about 4.95% of supply, with 5.23M ETH staked — BitMine

Strategy bought no bitcoin last week and instead spent $205M repurchasing its STRC preferred stock, continuing its shift from BTC buys to buybacks — Michael Saylor

S&P Global closed its acquisition of OpenZeppelin, the smart contract security firm whose libraries have moved $37T onchain, with its open source contracts staying free — OpenZeppelin

Coinbase has reportedly opened spot trading for RITUAL, the token of AI-native blockchain Ritual, shortly after adding it to its listing roadmap — New Listings Feed

Canada opened a 60-day consultation on draft stablecoin rules that ban issuer-paid yield, require full reserves at Canadian banks and redemption within three business days — CoinDesk

Keystone's website breach also leaked its device-authentication key, letting counterfeit hardware wallets pass official checks, so it will destroy 18,835 unsold devices and switch to a new key — Phemex News

The NBA made Kalshi and Polymarket its preferred prediction markets, giving both official league data and logo rights, and struck an integrity agreement with the CFTC — The Athletic

Akash Network picked Solana for its chain migration, leaving its Cosmos chain to rebuild its GPU compute marketplace as a Solana program, with AKT becoming a Solana-native token — Foresight News

The OCC urged US community banks to apply to issue their own dollar stablecoins under the GENIUS Act, ahead of its January 18, 2027 compliance deadline for issuers — CoinDesk