Standard Chartered has launched custody for Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger. The move follows $765.3 million in third-quarter market-cap growth as a planned LMAX collateral integration targets institutional trading.
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BNY expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform to EU institutions under MiCA.
South Korea's FIU says 27 sites run by unregistered crypto operators, including KuCoin and MEXC, will lose domestic access after an October 6 and 7 review.
Binance will discontinue Binance Pool and related services on Nov. 10, 2026.
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Bitcoin fell below $82,000 as $771 million in crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours. Long traders took most of the losses as ETF outflows and a sharp decline in South Korean stocks added to market pressure.
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Aptos put encrypted transactions on mainnet on October 12. The feature hides your order from frontrunners, and it doubles the minimum gas price.
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Canton Network recorded $155.36 million in third-quarter fees, topping CertiK’s comparison. Its average daily fee pace was lower than the rate reported in June.
A wallet idle for years moved all 4,582 BTC on October 13, worth $377.58 million. No on-chain evidence yet of a sale or an exchange deposit.
NEAR Intents' GM says only part of the $3.8 million exploit refund came back in Bitcoin, with the rest in Monero the team still must convert.
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Solana plans to retire durable nonces for an onchain signer program. Both designs roll back a failed transaction's nonce, so a signature can be resubmitted.
Ontology resumed block production on Oct. 12 after a two-day security halt tied to an unnamed ecosystem project, its second shutdown in about six weeks.
Cardano processed 1,780,896 transactions in Epoch 660, its busiest five-day stretch in about five years, while two governance votes expired short of quorum.
SWI Group raised €800 million ($894 million) on Oct. 12 to fund AI data centers, and it controls the former FTX-owned bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets.
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Morgan Stanley now expects to support tokenized equities on its Trajectory Cross trading system in Q1 2027, moving past its earlier second-half 2026 target.
Bybit opened trading in over 1,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs on Oct. 12, 2026, funded in USDC and executed through Alpaca. No volume or fee data was disclosed.
OneKey cut off CryptoBilis as a reseller and is offering free hardware wallet replacements to anyone who bought a device there since March 1, 2026.
The US Dollar Index reached an 18-month high near 102.56 as Bitcoin traded around $83,000. Futures price an 87% chance of a December Fed hike.
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Ripple-backed Evernorth began trading on Nasdaq as XRPN after completing its SPAC merger, entering public markets with approximately 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash proceeds.
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ICP rallied sharply as trading activity increased and investors assessed DFINITY’s Cloud Engines plan, which would direct 20% of enterprise revenue toward ICP purchases and burns.
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Derive's governance forum carries a proposal to fund a US-regulated derivatives venue. The document sets no spending figure, no launch date or named regulator.
NEXTPredict paid $12,000 for 3 million Kalshi contracts at $0.004 that pay $3 million if JFK cancels over half its flights on October 21.
Ledger confirmed that a device linked to recent losses carried an unauthorized hardware implant, and all confirmed cases trace back to reseller CryptoBilis.
Strategy bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million and repurchased $192.4 million of STRC in the same week, spending nearly nine times more on the buyback.
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Bitquery counted 4.5 million Solana wallets dusted by lookalike addresses over 11 months. Here's how the trick works and what to check before you send.
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