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.

BTC fell 2.8% to $81,382 on Monday as crypto liquidations topped $771 million, led by $685.6 million in longs per CoinGlass data, amid a Kospi sell-off.

TD Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg says the CFTC advance notice on crypto rulemaking, opened Oct. 5, could take until early 2028 to finalize or collapse.

Opinion: More than 575,000 AI agents are registered on-chain, yet a July report put x402's adjusted lifetime volume at just $15 million. Execution is the missing piece.

Users can now access the Monero network through the THORWallet app, with support for core functionality including sending and receiving XMR.

Unichain, Uniswap's layer-2, is migrating to Optimism's OP Enterprise, with testnet moving Oct. 13 and mainnet Oct. 29 ahead of bridge-free ETH transfers.

Bybit launched zero-commission trading in over 1,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs funded with USDC, with orders executed and the shares held by broker Alpaca.

Kraken parent Payward won VARA Full Market Approval in Dubai and plans AED spot and margin pairs, dirham funding, staking and xStocks for UAE users soon.

OneKey and Trezor cut ties with reseller CryptoBilis after drains linked to Ledger devices it sold reached $102M across 324 wallets, per data firm Bitquery.

Nasdaq-listed SkyAI sold about 1M SOL and plans a $3-a-share cash tender for up to 95% of its SKYA stock, conditional in part on Solana holding above $100.

A new Polkadot OpenGov referendum would direct the DOT DAO to prioritize user growth and DOT-backed “dotStables” like dotUSD over other ecosystem metrics.

The Financial Stability Board told G20 finance ministers that cross-border cooperation on global stablecoin arrangements is still “immature” and underdeveloped.

Australia’s ASIC proposed extending its CFD leverage limits for 10 years and replacing “cryptoasset” with a broader “digital asset” definition in the rule.

Strategy Inc (MSTR) bought 250 BTC for $21.5 million, lifting holdings to 848,250, and repurchased $192.4 million of STRC preferred stock through Oct. 11.

BMNR’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies reported $16.2 billion in crypto, cash, and securities holdings on Oct. 12, with its Ethereum now at 4.9% of supply.

XRP slipped about 2% as Evernorth began trading on Nasdaq with 473 million XRP, most of it contributed by Ripple and backers rather than bought in the market.