ONDO issuer Ondo Finance launched Private Markets on Oct. 6, giving eligible investors tokenized exposure to a pre-IPO AI company with 24/7 secondary trading.

Polymarket introduced Protocol V2 on Monday, a rebuilt contract system with unified position infrastructure, ahead of its November market migration date. 

Rep. Don Davis introduced a bill to bar federal candidates from trading contracts tied to their own races, days after his opponent was fined by Kalshi for that.

FinCEN withdrew its 2023 crypto mixing proposal and 2020 unhosted wallet rule, citing concerns over a chilling effect on legitimate privacy-focused activity.

OKX Money lets emerging-market users convert over 50 currencies into USDG, USDC or USDT stablecoins, with up to 10% annual yield on eligible USDG balances.

Binance, Robinhood, and Coinbase now issue their own stock tokens. Here’s how to buy one, move it to a wallet you control, and borrow against it on-chain.

Monero rose 4.41% to $560.11 on 6 October, moving back above $550.00 from a $546.64 close, on a day the top-50 median barely moved and Bitcoin was flat.

Sky fell 8.44% to $0.088 on 6 October, a day after setting a 90-day high of $0.10, on turnover of $67.15 million, about 2.5 times its 30-day median.

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.