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
BitMine resumed share buybacks after a 10-week pause, spending $45.9M on 2.04M shares last week while slowing its ETH buying to 10,452 ETH — CoinDesk
Ripple Treasury added AI tools that automate corporate cash forecasting, reconciliation and payments, plus a 24/7 Returns feature letting business clients earn yield on RLUSD and other qualifying digital assets — crypto.news
Ethereum developers postponed today's Glamsterdam fork on the Hoodi testnet after ChainSecurity found 13 real-world contracts that EIP-8037 and EIP-8038 gas changes could break, with no new date set — Unchained
Kraken parent Payward plans to offer US clients CFTC-regulated perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, with its Bitnomial unit becoming the first regulated HIP-3 deployer, pending regulatory approval — Payward
Ripple received final OCC approval to charter Ripple National Trust Bank, a federally supervised national trust bank, about 10 months after its conditional approval in December 2025 — Business Wire
BlackRock signed an MOU with SBI Holdings and Startale to explore linking its tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, SBI's regulated Japanese yen stablecoin — The Block
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending Zcash Community Grants at the NU8 upgrade and redirecting its 8% block reward share to the Network Sustainability Mechanism, withholding that ZEC from circulation — Zcash Community Forum
Ethereum developers patched a Glamsterdam flaw that could have let an operator registered as a builder claim ETH staking services deposited for new validators under the same key — CoinDesk
Upbit is listing Nillion's NIL token on its KRW market, with trading set to open October 27 at 16:40 KST on the Ethereum network — Upbit