BitMine's Tom Lee says Democrats will start backing the CLARITY Act after the Nov. 3 midterms, and argues crypto strength signals easier incoming financial conditions.

The CFTC published an ANPRM on retail crypto transactions and a new "crypto asset market" category, following the Senate's failure to pass the CLARITY Act.

Chainalysis says South Korea led East Asia with a $449.1B crypto economy in 2026, driven by AI-token trading, as China's stablecoin P2P volume grew 43x.

Bitmine says its crypto, cash, and moonshot holdings reached $17.4 billion after buying 15,112 more ETH, lifting its Ethereum treasury to 6,016,414 tokens. 

About 1.46M ETH faces a 25-day wait to enter Ethereum staking while 786K ETH sits in the exit queue as MetaMask Staking unwinds validators after an incident.

Strategy posted a $20.9 billion Q3 digital-asset gain and held 848,000 BTC as of Oct. 4, while new Bitcoin buys trailed far behind its STRC stock buybacks.

Armada Acquisition Corp. II shares rose about 273% last week ahead of an expected Oct. 7 merger with XRP treasury firm Evernorth and a Nasdaq listing as XRPN.

Metaplanet revised its capital allocation policy on Oct. 5, setting Bitcoin at 85%-90% of assets and adding a 10%-15% tier for BTC-funded investments. 

Kraken parent Payward integrated SGB Net so select institutional clients can settle US dollar transactions 24/7, as SGB taps Kraken Prime for liquidity.

Bitcoin slipped back to about $85,300 as the 10-year Treasury yield rose to 5.35% after services data, with real yields near a 3% line Tesseract watches.

Volatility Shares can list 3x BTC and ETH futures funds on Cboe BZX after an Oct. 2 US SEC order, though the triple-leveraged products are not trading yet.

Pump.fun's PUMP rose about 18% in a week while Meteora's MET fell 14%, and Blockworks Research tied part of MET's discount to its discretionary buybacks.

OKB rose 4.61% to $126.59 on 5 October, edging past the 90-day high it set on 22 September, on turnover of $47.65 million, about 1.6 times its median.

Bitcoin climbed within $500 of its eight-month high before sellers dragged it back under $86,000, the second such reversal in a week.

Zcash has activated its NU7 network upgrade on testnet, cutting block times to 25 seconds, with mainnet activation planned for Nov. 5.

OKXICE, the joint venture from OKX and NYSE parent ICE, has filed with the SEC to launch a 24/7 tokenized stock platform, with one issuer already objecting.

Cardano rose 10.68% to $0.27 on 5 October, clearing the 90-day high it set a day earlier, on turnover of $1.09 billion, twice its 30-day median.

The ICBA sued the OCC on Oct. 2, challenging crypto firms' national trust bank charters and asking a court to vacate Protego's approval.