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ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said ARK’s venture fund has launched on-chain through Securitize, with no changes to the existing portfolio, liquidity, or minimum investment amount. Wood said, based on ARK’s research, tokenization could fundamentally change how investors participate in public and private financial markets, and added the launch expands ARK’s goal of giving more investors access to opportunities to invest in technological innovation.

The U.S. SEC has approved the listing of binary options on Cboe tied to key performance indicators of listed companies, according to Crypto in America host Eleanor Terrett. The products would let investors bet on whether conditions are met for metrics such as Coinbase trading volume, BTC mining output at MARA Holdings (MARA), and Robinhood customer numbers and revenue. Robinhood is expected to be the first to offer the products to retail investors. The approval opens a way to trade not only on BTC prices but also on the earnings and business performance of crypto-related companies. The approval, however, is limited to a specific securities-options structure, while contracts with different structures could fall under the CFTC’s jurisdiction.

Asset manager VanEck has asked the U.S. SEC to withdraw the S-1 registration statement for its Lido-staking Ethereum (ETH) ETF. VanEck said it has not issued or sold any ETF shares under the filing and will not issue or sell any in the future.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) said on X that all hardware wallets should use transparent cases so users can easily check whether a device has been tampered with.

Coinbase announced via its official X account the addition of perpetual futures trading for CRWV, ORCL, SOXS, DELL, PLTR and SNXX. Trading in those contracts began at 10:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 14.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed lower today. - S&P 500: -1.10% - Nasdaq: -1.88% - Dow Jones: -0.09%

Patrick Witt’s secondment to the White House crypto council has ended, according to Eleanor Terrett, host of the podcast Crypto in America. Terrett said the White House said in an email that Witt’s assignment to the White House crypto council had expired, and Witt therefore stepped down as the council’s chief of staff.

MEXC CEO Vugar Usi Zade said Bitcoin has moved out of a bear market and into a sustainable upswing, supported by rising confidence and adoption among institutional investors. In an interview with AMB Crypto, Zade said this cycle is completely different from earlier, more speculative ones and that institutional acceptance is strengthening Bitcoin’s foundation. If institutional demand remains high and overall economic conditions improve, Bitcoin could see a stronger recovery, Zade added.

The Nasdaq’s intraday decline widened to 2.01% in U.S. stock trading. The S&P 500 was down 1.29%, while the Dow Jones fell 0.42%.

The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book showed overall prices rose strongly in three of the 12 Federal Reserve districts and increased modestly in eight others, according to the report released on Oct. 14. The report said input cost pressures were intensifying or already rising strongly in three districts. Employment was little changed across most districts, while only two of the 12 reported modest growth in economic activity since the previous Beige Book. The outlook tilted toward slight growth, although the report said momentum was concentrated in manufacturing and ongoing uncertainty continued to weigh on conditions.

Ledger said its investigation into a German user’s claim of finding an unauthorized hardware implant, described as a cellular or LTE module, in a wallet device bought at a retail store found no signs of tampering in any devices examined. The company said it retrieved products from retailers and distributors across Germany and carried out a related investigation. It also inspected products at the store mentioned in the report, but found no evidence of tampering in any device. Ledger added no financial losses tied to malicious hardware inserted into devices have been reported anywhere in Europe. Ledger said it has not yet directly examined the device shown in photos and videos published online and asked the owner to send it to its security team for analysis. It added the findings will be disclosed once confirmed.

Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff warned investors to sell Bitcoin and buy gold before the market plunges. In a post on X, Schiff added, "비트코인 가격이 도대체 왜 안 떨어지는지 모르겠다. 민주당이 의회를 장악할 가능성이 커지고 있고, 인플레이션과 채권 금리가 상승하면서 자산 버블이 터질 조짐을 보이고 있다. 비트코인 가격은 지금쯤 훨씬 더 낮아졌어야 한다."

Bitcoin miners are no longer under pressure to sell their holdings, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said on X. He added that Marathon Holdings (MARA), a major publicly traded mining company, has an average Bitcoin production cost of $59,774 per BTC, well below the current market price. Hashrate has also risen for the past two months after ending a nine-month downtrend, Ki said. He explained that an increase in mining equipment signals mining companies are optimistic about further gains in Bitcoin prices.

It remains unclear whether Patrick Witt, chief of staff of the White House crypto council, is still serving in the role, Eleanor Terrett reported. Terrett said she had asked the White House for comment three times over the past week but received no response, while Witt declined to comment. Witt is a U.S. Department of Defense employee temporarily detailed to the crypto council, and the assignment has either already expired or is set to expire soon, with no confirmation on whether it will be extended.

Russian fintech platform A7 International has launched a service that lets companies settle overseas trade payments using USDT, Crypto Briefing reported. Under the service, a company sends USDT over the TRON network, A7 converts the funds and sends an international SWIFT transfer to the recipient’s bank account. Recipients can receive payment in their preferred currency, including U.S. dollars, euros, yuan and dirhams, without needing a crypto wallet.

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour argued that prediction markets should be overseen at the federal, not state, level amid a legal dispute over regulatory authority, CoinDesk reported. Speaking at a recent DC Fintech Week event, Mansour said the issue is not whether state or federal authorities regulate the market, but whether prediction markets remain in the U.S. or move overseas. Several U.S. states argue prediction market operators should be subject to state gambling rules because they offer what the states describe as illegal betting services on sports outcomes. Kalshi and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, by contrast, maintain that prediction markets fall under federal rules for financial products and that oversight authority rests with federal agencies. Mansour also denied allegations that Kalshi inflated trading volume in its Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures markets. He said claims raised on social media stemmed from a misunderstanding of market maker orders.

Analysts have not been this bullish on BTC since August 2025, according to CryptoQuant. Of 164 analysts, 84% now hold a bullish view, up sharply from 37% in July. CryptoQuant said the share is also higher than at a similar point during the 2023 bull market.

Bitcoin is facing overhead selling pressure while trading below the average cost basis of investors who bought BTC over the past two years, according to Glassnode. The firm estimated the average entry price for holders in the six- to 12-month cohort at about $88,000 and for one- to two-year holders at about $100,000, with both levels acting as resistance that stalled Bitcoin’s gains this year. Glassnode also said long-term holder capitulation has eased. Realized losses among long-term holders have fallen about 85% since peaking on Aug. 12, a pattern the firm said has also appeared in past bull markets. However, institutional demand is weakening again. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted about $3 billion in net inflows from Sept. 21 to Oct. 6, but shifted to roughly $760 million in net outflows after Oct. 7. Glassnode said a sustained recovery in ETF inflows would signal a revival in demand. In the near term, a break above $88,000 and a resumption of ETF inflows could point to further gains, while a drop below the $80,000 support level could increase downside pressure toward around $78,000.

Ethereum, Solana and BNB Chain may be overlooked as newer investment themes such as Zcash and Hyperliquid draw attention, Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl said, according to Crypto Briefing. Pandl said the tokenization market could grow as assets worth trillions of dollars move onto blockchains in the future, with stablecoins, deposit tokens, and tokenized securities such as stocks and bonds among the main growth areas. Pandl added market participants focused on projects generating short-term gains and strong revenue could miss the long-term growth potential of established smart contract platforms.

The Osmosis community has begun discussing a proposal to halt new issuance of the OSMO token. If passed, the proposal would stop daily new OSMO issuance through the Mint module, with staking rewards to be paid only from protocol revenue. The proposal also includes halting daily vesting distributions paid to developers. About 51.9 million OSMO remains in the vesting module account, and any further distributions would require a separate governance decision. The onchain vote is scheduled for Oct. 20.

AI agents have processed more than 138 million cryptocurrency transactions through x402, a payment protocol developed by Coinbase, CoinDesk reported, citing blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The agents are using the protocol to buy data, computing resources and AI model inference services. U.S.-linked wallets accounted for 88.1% of AI model inference service payments among transactions with identifiable regional data, while China-linked wallets made up 0.1%. More than 87% of x402 payments were microtransactions ranging from $0.0001 to $0.10. The average time for an AI agent to execute an x402 payment after first receiving funds shortened to 18 minutes in the third quarter of 2026 from 73 days on average at the end of 2025.

The European Banking Authority has designated Circle’s stablecoin USDC as the European Union’s first Significant E-Money Token, The Defiant reported. Financial supervisory authority over USDC is set to shift from France’s Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority, or ACPR, to the EBA on Nov. 12.

StarkWare has unveiled OffMarket, a privacy service designed to prevent users’ existing accounts from being publicly linked to their trading positions on prediction market platform Polymarket, The Block reported. After a limited launch in August, the service is now available to general users and uses Starknet’s zero-knowledge proof technology and a shared privacy pool. The current USDC deposit cap is $1,000 per account, and StarkWare plans to adjust the limit based on demand and operating conditions. OffMarket does not fully anonymize trading, however. Users can still be inferred from trade size or timing, and USDC withdrawals to a new wallet and that wallet’s Polymarket trades remain publicly visible.

Developer platform EasyA, focused on blockchain and AI applications, has been valued at $1.1 billion by an independent appraisal firm and is targeting a U.S. stock market listing in the first half of 2027, CoinDesk reported. EasyA’s app has surpassed 1.3 million users, and the company has worked with blockchain firms including Ripple and Solana on educational programs and hackathons to support the expansion of the developer ecosystem. It is also considering a plan to tokenize its own shares from the first day of trading so they can be traded on-chain.

Babylon is pursuing a way to use Bitcoin for collateralized lending on Aave V4 without moving it to an external network or wrapping it, Crypto Briefing reported. The approach is based on Babylon’s trustless Bitcoin vault, or TBV, protocol, under which Bitcoin remains in self-custody on the Bitcoin network. On Aave, BTC held in the vault is represented as "vaultBTC," a verifiable unit of account. The design would allow users to borrow assets including USDC, USDT and WBTC against that collateral. In liquidations, WBTC would be used so liquidators can receive WBTC immediately instead of waiting for BTC to move on the Bitcoin network when the collateral value falls below lending thresholds.