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Keeper, the wallet for Telegram-native layer-one blockchain The Open Network (GRAM), has launched an event offering dinner invitations for three top users to a banquet attended by U.S. President Donald Trump, Crypto Briefing reported. The event runs from Oct. 29 through 9:00 a.m. UTC on Nov. 10, and the dinner is scheduled for Nov. 22. Users receive one point for every $100 worth of TRUMP traded in the Keeper wallet, while holdings of TRUMP purchased on Keeper earn an additional one point per $100 every six hours. Existing holdings or tokens transferred from external wallets are excluded from the holding-score calculation. Keeper said it secured three invitations through consultations with the TRUMP project team. The wallet rebranded from Tonkeeper in September and recently expanded support to the Solana network, where TRUMP was issued.

Ripple’s annualized revenue is projected to reach about $900 million by the end of 2026, while the company is expected to post record results this year, CoinDesk reported. The outlet said Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD has reached a market capitalization of $2.6 billion, and cumulative payment volume on Ripple Payments is nearing $150 billion.

Indonesian crypto exchange Indodax has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals after detecting an increase in attempted cyberattacks, co-founder and CEO William Sutanto said on X. Sutanto said the security team is assessing the situation and taking steps to reduce the risk of an attack, with deposits and withdrawals set to resume once safety is confirmed. Sutanto added that user assets remain safe and that no unauthorized withdrawals or data leaks have been found. Indodax was previously hit in 2024 by hackers believed to be North Korea’s Lazarus Group, resulting in the theft of about $18.2 million in crypto.

Prediction market platform Kalshi has raised $1 billion in a Series G funding round co-led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management, according to Walter Bloomberg. The round valued Kalshi at a $40 billion post-money valuation.

Blockchain cybersecurity platform FORT said on its official X account it had detected signs that about $783,000 was drained from zkLink. According to FORT, the attacker exploited Arbitrator.claimMessage failing to clear temporary message hashes, then set a forged root and created fake proofs to withdraw the funds.

Bitcoin would need to account for 25% of the combined market capitalization of gold and BTC, up from about 5% now, to reach Bitwise’s recent $1.6 million BTC price target for 2036, Scott Melker, host of The Wolf Of All Streets, said in a blog post. Melker said Bitwise raised its target from $1.3 million to $1.6 million not because it increased Bitcoin’s expected market share, but because it lifted its broader market growth outlook. Melker added about 82% of the valuation model is based on the assumption that BTC becomes an alternative to gold. Melker noted the model also assumes gold’s market capitalization nearly triples, while even if the combined market size of gold and BTC is held at current levels, BTC reaching a 25% share would imply a price of about $663,000. The key question, Melker said, is how much of gold’s share BTC can capture. Melker added that even if BTC rises in price, the asset could move farther from its market-share target if gold’s market capitalization grows faster. At present, one BTC can buy about 20 ounces of gold, or 55.5% of the roughly 36 ounces it could buy at the January 2025 peak.

Binance announced it will list PREDICT for spot trading at 10:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 30. The listing will carry a Seed Tag, which the exchange applies to tokens that may have higher volatility and risk than other listed tokens.

Verification costs for the quantum-resistant digital signature Falcon-512 on Ethereum layer-two network Starknet have been cut by about half, with the cost now at roughly $0.023 per verification based on the recent STRK price, Crypto Briefing reported. StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation recently launched a competition aimed at reducing the gas needed by developers and AI agents to verify signatures. As a result, gas use per verification fell from an initial 48.4 million to about 25.9 million. Falcon-512 is a digital signature technology designed to guard against attacks from quantum computers, and the competition saw the benchmark broken 434 times. The verification code developed through the contest will still require separate security audits before it can be used to protect actual user assets.

HYPE has retaken the ninth spot by cryptocurrency market capitalization, overtaking ZEC again, according to CoinMarketCap. HYPE’s market cap now stands at $21.93 billion, ahead of No. 10 ZEC at $21.37 billion. HYPE was trading at $86.45. CoinNess previously reported that Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is pursuing the launch of perpetual futures in the U.S. through decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid.

Russia’s central bank said restrictions in a bill regulating cryptocurrency circulation on the use of non-custodial personal crypto wallets would not apply to international payments, according to Russian state-run TASS. Vladimir Chistyukhin, first deputy governor of the Bank of Russia, said at a recent press conference the bill would not allow direct use of such wallets for investment purposes after risks tied to anti-money laundering, state-level oversight and investor protection were considered during the drafting process. Chistyukhin added the restriction would not block transfers of crypto from custodial wallets within Russia’s regulated infrastructure to custodial wallets on overseas infrastructure, and assets moved to overseas custodial wallets could then be transferred again to non-custodial wallets.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Oct. 28 said it had sanctioned 10 individuals and one entity involved in a fraudulent employment and fundraising network tied to North Korean IT workers. The Treasury said the network targeted U.S. companies with fraud and helped fund North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs with illicit proceeds. CoinNess previously reported that OFAC had sanctioned two Russian nationals accused of supporting undercover North Korean IT workers who cashed out cryptocurrency stolen through fraud targeting U.S. companies.

Galaxy Digital, a Nasdaq-listed U.S. crypto financial company, said it has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for approval to establish a federal trust bank called Galaxy National Bank. If approved, Galaxy Digital would be able to provide crypto custody, trading, staking, and fiduciary investment advisory services to clients across the United States under OCC supervision. Meanwhile, Ripple received final OCC approval to establish a national trust bank on Oct. 26, according to the company.

Blockchain-based payments network Stellar (XLM) said it has been added to MetaMask as a default network. Eligible MetaMask accounts now include a Stellar address. The announcement was made at Meridian2026.

ECB President Christine Lagarde will step down on Feb. 7, 2027, about nine months before the end of her term, BeInCrypto reported. Lagarde had pushed against approval of Binance’s European Union license application in Greece, citing the exchange’s 2023 guilty plea in the United States over anti-money laundering violations and concerns over the ECB’s digital euro initiative, according to the report. Greece’s securities regulator, however, said it reviewed Binance’s application independently under EU and domestic rules. After failing to secure authorization in Greece, Binance plans to reapply through another EU member state. Meanwhile, the EU is discussing a plan to centralize member-state crypto licensing reviews under the European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA.

Russia’s central bank has granted self-regulatory organization status to the National Association of Securities Market Participants, or NAUFOR, for digital depositories and cryptocurrency exchange operators, local media outlet Vedomosti reported. Under the move, NAUFOR will help develop industry standards, monitor compliance, and represent the sector’s interests as the regulatory framework is refined, according to the report. CoinNess previously reported that Russia had established investor qualification assessment criteria for those seeking to trade cryptocurrencies on regulated platforms. NAUFOR Vice President Ekaterina Andreeva also said at Crypto Summit 2026 that a draft of the relevant standards was submitted last week to the Basic Standards Committee under the Russian central bank.

Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest bought 99,418 shares of Robinhood stock, worth about $9.1 million, on Oct. 28, CoinDesk reported. It was Ark Invest’s largest Robinhood purchase since it bought $39 million worth on April 29. Ark Invest made the purchase through three ETFs, ARKK, ARKW and ARKF, marking its first Robinhood buy since Sept. 8. Earlier, from Oct. 6 to Oct. 9, Ark Invest had sold about $47.5 million worth of the stock. The latest purchase came as Robinhood shares have fallen more than 23% over the past month. Robinhood’s third-quarter crypto trading revenue fell 55% from a year earlier to $120 million, while crypto trading volume dropped 38% to $50 billion. By contrast, prediction market revenue rose to $173 million, more than six times the level a year earlier, exceeding crypto trading revenue.

Curve Finance has launched on the Stellar mainnet, marking its first deployment outside the Ethereum ecosystem, The Block reported. The integration allows users to create liquidity pools on Curve Finance over the Stellar network, swap assets, and provide liquidity, while also bringing Curve’s StableSwap to Stellar. Curve founder Michael Egorov said rising institutional demand was one of the factors behind the move to Stellar. Curve also plans to introduce FX swaps on Stellar after completing an audit, enabling trading in assets with fluctuating relative prices, including tokenized foreign exchange and real-world assets.

Solana wallet Solflare said it will fully compensate staking rewards lost after a security incident at an external service provider disrupted its validator operations. Solflare plans to cover about 1.56 million SOL, or around $160 million, in staking rewards. Solflare said funds held in users’ personal staking accounts remain safe and the disruption affected staking rewards rather than deposited assets. The company added it has launched a new validator, and users can move their staking delegations through the app, although the transfer may take several days due to Solana’s epoch structure.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority said on Oct. 29 it had secured a High Court undertaking that will stop crypto exchange HTX, formerly Huobi, from operating in the UK. The FCA said it sued HTX in October last year over alleged breaches of financial promotion rules. HTX later moved to withdraw from the UK market, and the two sides have now reached a settlement. Deposits and new user registrations by UK customers have already been suspended, and HTX will no longer be allowed to promote its services or solicit customers in the UK. Existing UK users should check the HTX website for procedures to withdraw remaining assets.

South Korean police have referred former Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok to prosecutors without detention on allegations of publishing false information for electoral gain under the Public Official Election Act, MBN reported. Yoo is accused of preparing campaign materials during the local election without disclosing virtual assets held by Yoo’s wife, identified only by the surname Choi, in the asset filing.

Chiliz said in a notice under CEO Alex Dreyfus’s name that it has moved a multisig-protected bridge wallet into an institutional custody framework as part of a wallet replacement process. The transfer on Chiliz Chain and Ethereum was carried out by Chiliz, which said major exchanges and CoinMarketCap were notified before the move. Chiliz added that the transfer does not change CHZ circulating supply, involve any token minting or burning, or affect CHZ trading.

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, is pursuing the launch of perpetual futures in the U.S. through Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, Bloomberg reported. ICE plans to work with Trade.xyz, the operator of a trading platform in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, to build a new market. The market would allow trading in perpetual futures tied to stocks, stock indexes, commodities, and currency prices, while including separate clearing, know-your-customer, and anti-money laundering systems. Its launch and business rollout are subject to approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. As part of the agreement, ICE will also acquire a stake in Trade.xyz, although specific investment terms were not disclosed.

Bitcoin has risen above Strategy’s average 2026 purchase price of $78,900, but the company’s holdings acquired since 2025 remain at a loss overall, according to a CryptoQuant analysis by contributor Darkfost. In a post on X, Darkfost said Strategy’s average cost for BTC bought since 2025 was around $90,600, including coins sold at this summer’s low. Darkfost added Strategy paused purchases for several weeks before resuming them, but made no additional buys last week. According to Darkfost, Strategy holds 848,517 BTC in total, with an overall average purchase price of $75,446.

The Cardano Foundation said it has joined CMTA, which recognized CIP-0113 as equivalent to CMTAT following the standard’s launch. Issuers can use CIP-0113 to tokenize verifiable shares, and the Cardano Foundation and CMTA plan to work together on developing standards for tokenized capital markets.

WalletConnect has expanded support for Stellar, enabling WalletConnect Pay users to make direct cryptocurrency payments to merchants through Stellar wallets, according to Stellar (XLM). The blockchain-based payments network said the decentralized wallet connectivity network announced the move at Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation’s annual blockchain conference in Lisbon, Portugal.