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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.

BlackRock’s digital asset assets under management stood at $79.6 billion at the end of the third quarter, up 63% from $48.8 billion at the end of the second quarter, CoinDesk reported. The increase came as the crypto market recovered and investor money flowed in, with digital asset products posting $7.9 billion in net inflows during the quarter. Despite the rebound, the total was still 23% below about $104.0 billion a year earlier. Over the past 12 months, digital asset products saw $6.3 billion in net inflows, but declining asset values reduced the total by $30.6 billion.

Bastion Trading, which holds about 9.99% of SkyAI, has objected to the company’s planned share buyback of up to $201 million, Crypto Briefing reported. Bastion said SkyAI had provided insufficient disclosure on sales of its Solana holdings and called for a higher tender offer price and a board overhaul. SkyAI recently announced a cash tender offer to buy back up to 95% of its common shares and three classes of warrants at $3 per share, a roughly 65% premium to the Oct. 9 closing price. The offer is expected to begin around Oct. 15 and run for 10 business days, with at least 50% of each security class required to be tendered. The tender offer also includes a condition that SOL remain over $100 during the offer period. Bastion estimates SkyAI has sold about 70% of its SOL holdings and is seeking more detailed disclosure on the size of the sales and the remaining balance. Bastion estimates SkyAI sold about one million SOL and now holds between 600,000 and one million SOL. Bastion also puts SkyAI’s net asset value at about $3.30 per share and argued the tender offer price should be raised to at least $3.50.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $82,000. BTC is trading at $81,984.49 on the Binance USDT market.

Nasdaq-listed fintech firm Perpetuals.com (PDC) plans to operate a blockchain-based stock token trading platform under the U.S. SEC’s five-year innovation exemption program, CoinDesk reported. CEO Patrick Gruhn previously led FTX Europe. Earlier, OKXICE, a joint venture between crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, also submitted a plan to offer 24-hour trading in more than 60 U.S. stocks.

A whale swapping UBTC for ETH exchanged an additional 13,036.32 ETH over the past 24 hours, worth $32.59 million, according to ai_9684xtpa. Since Oct. 11, the whale has swapped UBTC for a total of 39,832.76 ETH, valued at more than $100 million.

Chainlink said its oracle infrastructure has officially gone live on the Stellar network. Data Feeds and Data Streams will be available to Stellar’s real-world asset ecosystem, which exceeds $4 billion in size, and developers can use verifiable market data for lending, stablecoins and tokenized stocks. Stellar also plans to commit substantial capital through the Chainlink Scale program to support builders with cost-efficient access to institution-grade oracle infrastructure.

Major U.S.-listed crypto-related stocks were trading lower shortly after the market opened, according to real-time data from MSX.COM. - Strategy (MSTR): -0.56% - Coinbase (COIN): -0.84% - Circle (CRCL): -1.32% - Bitmine Immersion (BMNR): -2.21% - SharpLink Gaming (SBET): -1.90%

A mail phishing scam impersonating an official notice is targeting users of hardware wallet provider Ledger, Bitcoin News reported. A user in Germany said the person received a fake notice claiming that, under new regulations, the person had to register a Bitcoin wallet through ZenLedger by Oct. 31. The mail included the Ledger logo, wording related to German financial authorities, and a QR code designed to prompt wallet registration.

K33 Research said Strategy’s issuance of STRC preferred stock, introduced to avoid diluting common shareholders, ended up creating a heavy dividend burden and produced more drawbacks than benefits. According to a K33 report, Strategy’s annual dividend obligations surged to $1.56 billion as its STRC program expanded, with $725 million of that tied to additional STRC issuance. At a Bitcoin price of $83,000, that amounts to an annual cost of about 8,740 BTC. K33 added that if Strategy had not issued preferred stock and had instead used its $4 billion cash reserve and the funds spent on STRC purchases to buy Bitcoin, the difference in its current Bitcoin holdings would be only around 4,900 BTC. Factoring in STRC’s 12% interest cost against a 4% return on cash reserves, K33 said buying Bitcoin through common stock issuance would have been more efficient and criticized the preferred stock-based financing model.

Standard Chartered has pushed back its forecast for the stablecoin market to reach a $2 trillion market cap to 2030 from 2028, The Block reported. The bank kept its $2 trillion market cap outlook unchanged while reflecting a slowdown in stablecoin supply growth this year. The current stablecoin market cap stands at around $309 billion. Standard Chartered said stablecoin use continues to expand across savings tools in emerging markets, payments in developed markets, the crypto market, and payments between AI agents. It added competition is likely to be fiercest in the developed-market payments segment led by USDC.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened lower today. - S&P 500: -0.4% - Nasdaq: -0.65% - Dow Jones: -0.15%

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York uncovered an international cryptocurrency fraud ring based in Eastern Europe that swindled tens of millions of dollars from U.S. users, Bloomberg reported. Prosecutors shut down 241 websites tied to crypto scams and seized 112 servers hosted by companies in Eastern Europe and the United States in the operation.

Major exchanges have seen $101 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $221 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

Nine major U.S. banks operated debanking policies from 2020 through September 2025 that restricted access to financial services for the cryptocurrency industry and other sectors, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said, according to Cointelegraph. The banks were JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank, and BMO Bank. Debanking refers to the refusal or restriction of bank account access and financial services for specific companies or individuals.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said on X that Bitcoin showed strong price resilience, falling only about 1% even though U.S. inflation data came in above expectations. Hougan said he had expected the crypto market to drop 3% to 5% after the data, but BTC was still holding near $82,600, calling the move "impressive."

Crypto remittances from Canada to India, China and the Philippines rose 141% year over year to $2.36 billion, Cointelegraph reported, citing a Chainalysis report. Over the one-year period through June 2026, the number of transfers reached 3.56 million, with an average transfer size of $663. Remittances to the Philippines rose 28% to $61.02 million. Chainalysis said Canada’s large immigrant population and high fees charged by traditional overseas remittance services may have contributed to the growth in crypto remittances.

Richard Heart, the founder of cryptocurrency project HEX, was arrested in Istanbul, Türkiye, on Oct. 14, according to local media. Turkish intelligence authorities and police were said to have detained Heart in the Besiktas district of Istanbul and seized 64 luxury watches, cash, firearms and electronic devices. Heart has been under investigation in Finland on allegations of tax evasion and assault, and an Interpol Red Notice was issued in December 2024 at the request of Finnish authorities, the reports said.

Polygon Labs has completed its acquisition of crypto payments firm Coinme, The Block reported. The deal gives Polygon Labs a foundation to offer compliant payment services across 48 U.S. states, including money transmitter licenses in 37 states and related regulatory exemptions in 11 others. The Coinme acquisition is part of a $250 million deal announced in January covering the acquisitions of Coinme and Sequence.