BNB Chain activated the Jenner hard fork on BSC testnet, reserving 5% of every block's gas as a Payment Lane so BNB transfers and payment transactions stay includable during congestion — BNB Chain

Ethereum clients Teku and Besu patched a flaw that could let attackers redirect ETH rewards, after a blunder at Indian certificate issuer eMudhra left some setups trusting forged certificates — CoinDesk

Bitcoin Core disclosed three flaws dug up by an AI scan, including one letting a malicious peer crash Windows and macOS nodes by exhausting their memory, with fixes already released — CoinDesk

The CFTC will host a public industry roundtable on December 15 in Washington on whether US derivatives markets can move to 24/7 trading, following its summer consultation on extended hours and perpetual futures — CFTC

The former CEO of Swift, the global interbank messaging network, joined stablecoin firm OpenTrade as chairman after the startup closed a $17M raise — CoinDesk

Bithumb said an hour-long intrusion into its internal groupware on October 27 leaked data of 6,444 customers, including ID numbers and bank accounts, plus 715 staff, with funds unaffected — Yahoo Finance

Bermuda's government picked WalletConnect to bring crypto payments to local merchants, starting with ticketing platform PTIX in the second quarter, under its Circle- and Coinbase-backed onchain economy plan — CoinDesk

NYSE owner ICE took a strategic stake in trade[XYZ] and plans a CFTC-regulated US venue for 24/7 perpetual futures built on Hyperliquid, with Stan Druckenmiller also investing — trade[XYZ]

Solflare pledged to cover missed staking rewards on about $160M of SOL delegated through its wallet after the validator behind it went offline — CoinDesk

Curve Finance launched on Stellar, its first native deployment outside the EVM ecosystem, bringing the stablecoin-focused DEX to a non-EVM chain for the first time — The Block

Binance will list predict.fun's PREDICT token on spot with a Seed tag, opening PREDICT/USDT, PREDICT/USDC and PREDICT/TRY trading on October 30 at 10:00 UTC — Binance

The US Treasury sanctioned 10 people and one entity over North Korean IT worker schemes, including two Russians who converted millions in crypto for Pyongyang's networks since 2024 — Decrypt

Indonesia's largest crypto exchange Indodax paused deposits and withdrawals after a spike in cyberattack attempts, saying no funds were taken and no data was breached — TechFlow

Russia's draft crypto law will bar domestic investors from non-custodial wallets but keep them allowed for international settlements, the Bank of Russia's first deputy governor Vladimir Chistyukhin said — PANews

Axis Robotics insiders allegedly pulled 76M+ AXIS ($12M+) from a multisig and dumped it via Base DEXs and Bitget, crashing the week-old token 40% in a day, with one insider now holding $5M+ in USDC — ZachXBT

Crypto exchange HTX agreed to exit the UK after the Financial Conduct Authority sued it over illegally promoting crypto services to British consumers — Financial Times

Polygon added Solana to its payments stack, letting businesses link bank accounts, crypto and payouts across both chains through one integration — The Block

Kalshi raised $1B in a Series G at a $40B valuation co-led by Wellington and Sequoia, and says it now makes over $1B in annualized revenue from non-sports markets — The Information's Yueqi Yang

Ransomware group WhiteArmor allegedly leaked 38,628 orders and 10,139 IPs from no-KYC swap service Wagyu.xyz, data that could tie deposits and IPs to Monero receiving addresses without breaking XMR itself — Hudson Rock

A new quantum computing model slashes the hardware needed to break Bitcoin's elliptic-curve private keys by 17 times, pulling the threat to exposed wallets closer than earlier estimates — CoinDesk

Uniswap Labs opened its Token Jar fee-conversion system to any app as TJAR on seven chains, with Robinhood first using it to convert collected fees into USDC and USDG — The Block