The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland €3.25 million for under‑funded safeguarding accounts and over‑reliance on its U.S. parent, marking the exchange’s second Irish enforcement action in a year.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in over $1 billion in three days, turning October’s net flow positive despite Bitcoin’s price dip.

Coinbase Ireland admitted safeguarding breaches, was fined €3.25 million, and says no customers lost money despite mixing client funds with its parent’s accounts for months.

Uniswap v4 now routes swaps through external liquidity sources, charging protocol fees that are funneled into UNI token burns.

The Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet scheduled for Oct 26 2026 has been postponed with no new date set, requiring node and validator operators to adjust their client configurations.

Starknet’s community voted overwhelmingly to research a move from an Ethereum L2 to an independent, quantum‑resistant L1, with a target of full post‑quantum security by 2027.

Stablecoins are moving from experimental pilots to mainstream corporate and banking use, especially for cross‑border payments, and advisors should help clients navigate multi‑rail, programmable solutions.

Fireblocks has officially denied any ongoing acquisition talks with Visa, calling recent reports false.

Shinhan Card and SBI Holdings are testing yen‑backed stablecoin payments for Japanese visitors in South Korea, exploring card‑linked merchant transactions and wallet‑to‑wallet transfers.

Bitcoin hit a week‑high on Asian tech gains and a SpaceX‑Tesla merger talk, while Zcash surged after announcing a November upgrade.

Polymarket has sued Ohio in federal court, arguing that new CFTC rules and the Commerce Clause preempt the state’s licensing requirements for sports event contracts.

Securitize now mints and redeems stablecoins directly through federally chartered Anchorage Digital Bank, eliminating third‑party intermediaries and bringing the process under federal oversight.

Kazakhstan’s AIFC regulator is serving Apple and Google with court injunctions against six unlicensed crypto platforms after the court refused to bind the app‑store operators directly.

Aerodrome and Velodrome have merged to create the Aero platform, now live on seven major blockchain networks.

Centralized exchanges avoid listing legacy tokens because the SEC’s safe‑harbor proposal leaves them vulnerable to future enforcement, and they demand a clear, time‑bound immunity before listing.

The OCC’s new final rule implements the GENIUS Act, setting stablecoin reserve and governance standards while removing a proposed presumption on third‑party reward arrangements.

Webull will let eligible U.S. customers trade Bitcoin perpetual futures on Kalshi’s regulated exchange starting in November, with broader access planned through 2026.

BitGo has created an innovation unit, BitGo Labs, to explore AI‑crypto intersections and build foundational infrastructure for the emerging AI economy.

UK banks received over 10,000 complaints in three months as customers faced blocked or limited crypto transfers, prompting calls for clearer, risk‑based policies ahead of the FCA’s new crypto regime.

JPMorgan Asset Management projects a 10% annual base case return for Bitcoin over the next decade but still views it as a speculative asset without a clear portfolio role.

SEACAST is a fast, lean broadcast protocol for Ethereum that combines segmented, coded chunk diffusion with data‑availability sampling, offering lower latency and bandwidth use than current gossip solutions.

The OCC’s new final rule enforces the GENIUS Act’s ban on stablecoin yield, requiring existing rewards programs to seek regulator approval and setting a clear, case‑by‑case framework for compliance.

Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade replaces TowerBFT with a sub‑150 ms finality protocol, marking the network’s most ambitious upgrade since Ethereum’s Merge.

Solana has switched its mainnet to the Alpenglow consensus protocol, cutting finality from seconds to about 150 ms and moving validator votes from transactions to lightweight signed messages.