DeFi Development Corp authorized buybacks of its 13% CHAD preferred stock but has no current plan to buy, saying its first goal is getting CHAD to $10 par.

Conduit sued four Tether entities over $2.76M in frozen USDT, saying Brazilian police never flagged its wallet and that Tether earns interest on the reserves.

Glamsterdam, which brings ePBS and block-level access lists to Ethereum, went live on the Sepolia testnet Tuesday.

Ripple Prime will provide prime brokerage, clearing and financing to $35B manager Brevan Howard's funds across traditional and digital markets, Ripple said.

A Winklevoss-tied sponsor filed an S-1 for a spot ZEC ETF to list on Nasdaq as WINK, with a 0.25% fee, Gemini custody and up to $100M of Winklevoss interest.

Russia's central bank said over 220,000 digital ruble accounts were opened in the month since launch, nearly four times its 60,000 forecast, Reuters reported.

Securitize and LG CNS detailed a three-part MoU covering market development, tokenization technology, and stablecoin infrastructure for Korean institutions.

Ethereum mainnet handled 13.6% of decentralized exchange trading in September, its smallest monthly share since 2018, as activity moved to Solana and Robinhood Chain.

Rain applied to the OCC to form Rain National Trust Bank in New York to custody assets, manage reserves and issue stablecoins under the US GENIUS Act.

An ArbitrumDAO proposal seeks 100M ARB to grow Paxos' USDG, set to become the default dollar for Arbitrum's DeFi after it joined the Global Dollar Network.

Strive bought 2,000 Bitcoin at about $84,422 each, lifting holdings to 29,462 BTC.

OKX extended its March round at an unchanged $25B valuation, adding Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures and QRT as new investors, as the OKB token rose about 8%.

ZachXBT says he posed as a client of a Chinese syndicate that laundered $1B+ for North Korea's Lazarus Group.

Raydium's RAY rose about 64% in 30 days as stock-linked trading doubled on Raydium, but Pine Analytics says the gains rest on one launchpad as October fees slow.

Solana Foundation launched Solana DvP, an open-source atomic settlement standard built with input from J.P. Morgan, as it pushes into institutional finance.

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.