Aptos made an opt-in Encrypted Mempool and Confidential APT live on mainnet, letting users encrypt pending transactions until blocks finalize to cut MEV risk.

Federated Hermes, managing $911.6B, plans to issue tokenized funds via Prometheum's SEC-registered broker-dealers, with a first product expected in Q1 2027.

Metaplanet set a ¥339 conversion price on ¥52B of zero-coupon bonds due 2031, using the proceeds to repay Bitcoin-backed loans and fund share buybacks.

Coinbase, holding about 5% of BTC, set out what it wants from Bitcoin's post-quantum shift, favoring flexible outputs like P2MR and asking about late movers.

Anza said Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade goes live on mainnet-beta around 14:50 UTC on Oct. 21, replacing TowerBFT and targeting 150ms finality.

Blur will retire its blur.io website and stop new Blend NFT loans on Nov. 12 while keeping its on-chain protocol live, as BLUR fell 35% in a day to a new low.

Binance will close Binance Pool, Pool Savings, Cloud Mining and Transaction Accelerator on Nov. 10, telling miners to move hashrate to other pools first.

The Cardano Card will stop working on Oct. 31 after Wirex, its issuing partner, decided to drop its custodial crypto infrastructure for a non-custodial one.

England's High Court ruled Chinese law governs fraud victims' claims to over 61,000 BTC, worth about $5B, seized in the Zhimin Qian case, not English law.

Strive (ASST) bought 3,311 BTC at about $84,500 each between Oct. 5-9, bringing its total Bitcoin treasury to 32,773 coins, an SEC filing shows.

South Korea's FIU said sites of 27 unregistered exchanges, including KuCoin, MEXC, BitMart and BingX, will be blocked, and 44 firms referred to investigators.

Ledger's Donjon said a hidden implant in CryptoBilis-sold devices read 24-word recovery phrases and sent them over LTE, as MediaMarkt Saturn halted sales.

Interactive Brokers (IBKR) launched Ethereum staking through Zero Hash, adding to a crypto lineup it says costs up to 85% less than rivals.

Russia’s central bank added Sberbank to its crypto exchange register, with the state bank’s first BTC, ETH, and USDT products due out Dec. 1.

The IMF’s October stability report puts the tokenized RWA market at $65 billion and warns tokenization could create new leverage and liquidity risks.

Strategy bought 250 Bitcoin last week and spent $192.4 million buying back STRC preferred stock to hold it near $100, ahead of an Oct. 28 dividend vote.

Analysts say Bitcoin has bottomed after it held $81,500 twice in a week, but US spot Bitcoin funds have lost about $452 million to outflows in October.

A Bitcoin wallet dormant since March 2020 moved its entire 4,582 BTC balance worth $378 million on Monday, according to data from Lookonchain.