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Circle Match Opens Hourly USDC Mint and Redeem Auctions
Circle Match, live October 22, 2026, runs hourly batch auctions for eligible Circle Mint customers. Matched minters get a full fee rebate, redeemers pay a uniform clearing fee capped at the Express rate, and prefunding enables atomic settlement.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Cloudflare CEO Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts on Critical PHP Flaws
Cloudflare recorded millions of exploit attempts against two critical PHP vulnerabilities after disclosure, and thousands in the 10 hours before, CEO Matthew Prince said. PHP shipped emergency fixes on Wednesday as the FBI urged organizations to patch or go offline.
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Ethereum Developers Cancel Oct. 26 Glamsterdam Fork on Hoodi Testnet
Ethereum developers have cancelled the October 26 Glamsterdam activation on the Hoodi testnet. Node operators are told to avoid fork-enabled builds. The upgrade already ran on Sepolia, but the floated early December mainnet window now looks less certain.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Kraken xStocks Lineup Passes 1,000 Tokenized Instruments
Kraken's xStocks catalog counts more than 1,000 instruments as of October 22, 2026, a more than sevenfold jump from 131 in its September 18 FAQ. Pre-expansion volume topped $40 billion with 300,000+ holders. US, UK and Canada remain excluded.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Arbitrum One Daily Active Addresses Hit 571,767, a 408% Weekly Jump
Arbitrum One daily active addresses hit 571,767, up 408.2% week-over-week per growthepie. Transactions rose only 25.7% to 1.7M, revenue fell 2.4% and stablecoin supply dropped 5.8%, a weak signal of durable demand.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Fireblocks Denies Axios Report of $2.5 Billion Visa Acquisition Talks
Axios reported Visa was in late-stage talks to buy crypto custody firm Fireblocks for about $2.5 billion. Fireblocks says the deal is 'not true at present time,' a narrow denial as talk of a sale, with Coinbase also named, has circulated for weeks.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Dune Launches Onchain Trading Data Feeds in Real Time for Institutions
Dune has launched real-time market data feeds covering more than 200 onchain venues across 12 networks, pitching hedge funds, asset managers, market makers and brokers as tokenized stocks move toward onchain trading under a new SEC exemption.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
SoFi Launches SOFIE Tokenized Deposit Paying 4.4% APY
SoFi has launched SOFIE, which it calls the first national bank-issued tokenized deposit for consumers. Each token is $1 on deposit at SoFi Bank earning a variable 4.40% APY with FDIC cover, but converting to SoFiUSD drops both interest and insurance.
MarketsAlejandro Silva Ramírez
Clifton Collins Linked Wallet Sends 500 BTC to Coinbase Prime
500 BTC, dormant since January 2016, moved from a Clifton Collins-linked wallet to Coinbase Prime on Oct. 20. It is the fifth 500 BTC transfer this year, with 2,500 BTC moved and about 3,500 BTC still in Collins-linked wallets.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
$KIMCHI Memecoin on Pump.fun Locks Every Creator Fee to One Wallet
A new Solana memecoin on Pump.fun routes every creator fee, permanently, to an address labeled "Kimchi" that also received 75% of supply. The deployer bought 79.3% for about 87 SOL and reportedly cleared roughly $26,000 as market cap ran to about $40 million.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Matter Labs Launches Prividium Commander for Bank Digital Assets
Matter Labs launched Prividium Commander on October 21, 2026, a control plane bundling permissions, token issuance and compliance for banks. CEO Alex Gluchowski says the revenue goes to Matter Labs, not ZKsync tokenholders.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Vantage and Rio Bank Settle Loan Payment With Tokenized Deposits on Ethereum
Principal and interest reached the receiving bank's wallet in under three minutes. Vantage Bank and Rio Bank used tokenized deposits on Ethereum mainnet, running the payment through Participate and the Hazel Network built with Custodia Bank.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Binance Drops 2h44m of Blue Ocean Data From US Stock Perp Funding
A connectivity failure at US overnight trading venue Blue Ocean led Binance to exclude nearly three hours of premium index data from the 08:00 UTC funding calculation on its US stock perps, exposing the third-party risk behind TradFi perpetuals.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Bitcoin Volatility Nears 2026 Lows Ahead of Fed Meeting and $12B Options Expiry
Bitcoin volatility is closing in on its 2026 lows as K33 Research points to thin trading activity. DVOL sits near 37 and Bollinger Bands span about 6.5% of price, with the FOMC meeting on October 28 and a roughly $12 billion options expiry on October 30.
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Securitize to Mint Stablecoins Directly With Anchorage Digital Bank
Securitize, home to tokenized funds from BlackRock, Apollo and KKR, will source settlement dollars from federally chartered Anchorage Digital Bank instead of intermediaries, bringing OCC supervision to the cash leg of its trades.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Eclair Ships Two Security Releases in Five Days for Lightning Nodes
ACINQ issued two Eclair security releases in five days. v0.14.4 closes a browser-based API flaw that could trigger unauthorized payments, and v0.14.5 fixes peer-behavior bugs that could let peers steal funds. No losses have been reported.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Polkadot Warns Fearless Wallet Users: Assume Compromise, Move Funds Now
Polkadot told anyone who used the Fearless Wallet extension since February 2025 to assume their keys are compromised. Four releases leaked private keys to an attacker server, eight users report 17,286 DOT stolen, and an affected Chrome version still showed around 6,000 users.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Musk Backs Tesla SpaceX Merger That Would Hold 30,221 BTC
A Tesla and SpaceX merger would put 30,221 BTC, worth roughly $2.5 billion, on one balance sheet. Musk called the idea good on SpaceX's Q3 call but warned a deal is far from certain, with Tesla shareholder approval a key hurdle.
MarketsIbrahim Rajab
Glassnode: Late 2025 Bitcoin Buyers Are Capping Rallies Near $87K
Bitcoin keeps hitting a wall near $87,000. Glassnode says late 2025 buyers selling at break-even built it, with the 6-12 month cost basis at $87,700 and support stacked between $80K and $81.5K.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Celestia Activates Fibre on Mainnet for Direct Rollup Uploads to Validators
Celestia has activated Fibre on mainnet with its v10 upgrade, giving rollups a direct path to upload large blobs to validator-run servers. The initial release caps blobs at 128 MiB and 200 submissions per block, well below the protocol's 3.07 Tb/s test benchmark.
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JPMorgan Asset Management Projects 10% Annual Bitcoin Return in First Forecast
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has issued its first long-term Bitcoin forecast: 10% a year, ahead of U.S. stocks, bonds and gold. The catch: 55% volatility, and no spot in the firm's main portfolio models.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf
Tether CEO Ardoino Disputes Senate Report on USDT Freezes Tied to Iran
A Senate subcommittee report says Tether lagged in freezing wallets tied to Iran and its proxies. CEO Paolo Ardoino counters that Tether freezes addresses weeks before designations and credits it with a 94% drop in Iran-linked stablecoin volumes.
MarketsHadi Ghadban
Lido Engineer Warns of Staking Deposit Hijack Risk at Glamsterdam Fork
Lido Head of Engineering Dima Gusakov warns that shared deposit queues around the Glamsterdam fork could let a malicious node operator hijack staker ETH. A consensus-specs fix was closed as 'not planned', leaving pre-deposit checks to staking protocols.
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Ether.fi Requires All 12 Node Operators to Run Optimum mump2p
Ether.fi made Optimum's mump2p block-propagation software mandatory for all 12 of its node operators as the protocol launched on Ethereum mainnet. Sixteen operators with over 1.4M staked ETH now run it, but the 2.42x speed figures are Optimum's own.
MarketsJulie "Mooncat" Wolf