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
Solana's Firedancer bug bounty now requires researchers to burn 1 SOL per report after AI-assisted spam turned 809 audit submissions into just 127 unique findings — CoinDesk
A 2-of-7 Safe multisig holding trading inventory on Avalanche lost $7.45M after unlimited WAVAX, USDC, WETH.e and BTC.b approvals set back in March were exploited — Defimon
Binance filed for a Brazilian crypto license ahead of the October 30 deadline and cut lending, margin trading and 22 tokens including USDE and USTC for Brazilian users — The Defiant
Predict.fun users have reportedly had wallets drained to Tornado Cash, with about 19 victims losing a combined 105 ETH (~$260K) and the team yet to respond — Dethective
Mirae Asset Securities' Hong Kong arm issued tokenized funding notes subscribed by perp DEX Grvt for its Earn product, with tokenized Treasuries and ETFs next to explore — Chainwire
Wallets linked to Justin Sun pulled $48.76M of PEPE from Poloniex in 10 days, now holding 2.82% of supply worth $51.25M and making him the largest individual holder — Arkham
Ripple and Robinhood partnered to integrate RLUSD across Robinhood's retail and institutional businesses, using it for institutional trade settlement, treasury automation and financing via Ripple Prime and Bitstamp — CNBC
Polymarket has investigated dozens of midterm election bets for possible insider trading ahead of the November 3 vote, with at least two cases reportedly referred to the CFTC — NPR
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched JQQQ, the first Nasdaq-licensed onchain fund tracking the Nasdaq-100, issued on Stellar and lifting Janus's onchain platform above $1B — CoinDesk