Neynar is handing Farcaster's app and protocol code to Balaji Srinivasan's Network School, which plans stricter moderation and an on-chain vote on new rules.

Vitalik Buterin built a "paranoid mode" for his AI agent that routes chats through Tor, adds cover traffic and pays via zkAPI so payments aren't tied to him.

Circle said $819 million of its about $1.4 billion in H1 2026 revenue went to USDC partners and transaction costs, as on-chain volume topped $36 trillion.

Deutsche Bank is reportedly weeks from launching Bitcoin and Ethereum custody in Germany and plans to take it to Asian financial hubs in 2027.

Strategy declared daily STRC dividends for every day of November at a 12% annual rate, payable only if stockholders approve the change at an Oct. 28 meeting.

Celestia and Injective rose more than 20% from Thursday's low as futures bets grew faster than their prices, a pattern Glassnode has tied to market froth.

SMBC, Mizuho and MUFG said a joint stablecoin and cross-border payments pilot confirmed the feasibility of a multi-bank issuance model ahead of live use.

Chainalysis says one of the biggest Ledger theft victims was a task scammer who lost over 60 BTC, about $4.8M, after moving scam proceeds to Ledger wallets.

A US judge denied Gemini and the CFTC's joint bid to vacate the 2025 consent order behind Gemini's $5M penalty, calling the enforcement shift policy, not law.

OpenAI says an internal research model derived keys from public recovery phrases and spent Sepolia testnet ETH from another account to finish a coding task.

Strive priced 7 million shares of its 15% SATS perpetual preferred stock at $90, raising about $630 million, with uses including more Bitcoin purchases.

Bitcoin held near $82,000 on Friday after traders cut the odds of an October Fed rate hike to about 15% from 28%, with Bitfinex eyeing $83,000 as the next test.

Capital B reported a $78 million first-half net loss after a noncash Bitcoin impairment charge, while it raised $30 million and grew its Bitcoin holdings.

Australia’s Treasury opened consultation on draft legislation to adopt the OECD’s crypto tax reporting framework, with submissions due by Oct. 28, 2026.

MSCI finalized a “non-operating company” screen Thursday that its August simulation flagged against Strategy and Metaplanet, with deletions possible Nov. 11.

VanEck asked the SEC to let it withdraw the S-1 for its proposed Lido Staked Ethereum ETF, which would have held stETH, saying it does not intend to proceed.

Nasdaq-listed Tron Inc. signed a $200 million at-the-market stock sale agreement with Clear Street and plans to use the proceeds mainly to buy more TRX.

Binance.US is seeking up to $100 million at about a $1 billion valuation to grow its US business, Bloomberg reported, well below its 2022 valuation of $4.5B.