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Crypto industry super PAC Fairshake announced its support for 32 incumbent House candidates in the November midterm elections, according to CoinDesk. The group’s endorsements include 13 Democratic incumbents and 19 Republican incumbents, with six of them set to receive $1 million each. Fairshake said it has always been an issue-focused organization and will continue backing pro-crypto candidates in both parties who support U.S. innovation.

The Ethereum Foundation has proposed native transaction assertions to address blind signing under the draft EIP-7906 proposal. The measure would allow on-chain code to verify what a transaction actually does and cancel it if the outcome violates user-defined rules. It is based on the framework outlined in EIP-8141, or frame transactions.

Liquidity remains one of the biggest constraints facing tokenized stocks as more equities and funds move on-chain, NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin said in an interview, according to Crypto Briefing. Polosukhin said liquidity is fragmented across Solana, Ethereum and Base, and added the issue will become more apparent as trade sizes grow. Using Nvidia as an example, Polosukhin said buying $10 million worth of shares through Nasdaq is relatively straightforward, while executing a tokenized trade of the same size on-chain remains difficult because there is still not enough available market depth.

Crypto bank Anchorage Digital is expanding access to USD accounts and SWIFT payments through a partnership with Standard Chartered, according to Crypto Briefing. Under the partnership, Anchorage Digital will offer USD account and SWIFT payment services to overseas institutional clients. Eligible investor clients onboarded through Anchorage Digital Singapore will be able to hold U.S. dollars, use international remittance services, and transfer funds to third parties through Standard Chartered’s banking infrastructure.

U.S. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig cited BTC, ETH, SOL, XLM, XTZ and XRP as examples of digital commodities as the agency moves to draft its first formal rules for the crypto market, according to Wu Blockchain. While explaining a crypto asset taxonomy jointly developed with the U.S. SEC, Selig presented those coins as examples of digital commodities. He also said the CFTC plans to craft more specific crypto rules by distinguishing among digital commodities, retail trading, on-chain physical delivery, non-custodial wallets and software developers, rather than treating all crypto assets as a single category.

Securitize (SECZ) CEO Carlos Domingo has proposed using a blockchain-based shareholder registry in place of paper proxy forms sent by mail, according to Crypto Briefing. Under the current structure, information on end investors is not always delivered directly to companies as it passes through multiple intermediaries and nominal shareholders. As a result, companies use paper documents and mail when sending shareholders voting materials and other information tied to major corporate decisions. Domingo suggested putting that information on a blockchain to create a digital record of actual stockholders and make communication between companies and investors more direct.

JAN3 CEO Samson Mow questioned whether ZEC can sustain its recent surge, saying on X "지캐시 시가총액이 인위적으로 부풀려졌다. 시장은 필연적으로 평균 수준으로 회귀할 것" and arguing there is not enough speculative capital in the market for the token to hold a top-10 cryptocurrency ranking. Mow added ZEC has risen more than 1,000% since the start of this year.

Backpack Securities has launched a Solana-based tokenized Brazil ETF through Sunrise, according to Crypto Briefing. The token, EWZ, is a tokenized version of the iShares MSCI Brazil ETF and can be redeemed on a one-to-one basis for the underlying shares.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig said the current Commodity Exchange Act already applies to Bitcoin, according to Crypto Briefing. Selig said the law is working well and that its definition of commodities is broad enough to cover Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency sector. While discussing Bitcoin, Selig also referred to the Lindy effect, the idea that the longer a technology, concept, or company has survived, the longer its expected lifespan becomes. On the same day, the CFTC moved to draft its first formal regulations for the cryptocurrency market.

1inch has added support for 77 bStocks stock and ETF products on BNB Chain, according to Crypto Briefing. The 1inch dApp and wallet now support BEP-20 tokens backed one-to-one by U.S. equities, expanding access to self-custodied stock investing.

Umia, a platform that supports token launches and governance for crypto projects, raised $6.11 million through the sale of its UMIA token, The Block reported. The seven-day auction drew 10 institutional investors and about 700 retail investors. A total of 17.3 million tokens, equal to 34.6% of UMIA’s total supply, were sold in the auction, which implied a fully diluted valuation of $18 million at the time. The sold tokens were not subject to a lock-up. About 45% of the proceeds came from institutional investors, including Galaxy Ventures, Digital Currency Group (DCG), Draper Associates and Maven 11. The token is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of this year.

Large-scale investors, including sharks and whales, have moved back into profit as Bitcoin prices recover, according to Glassnode. Smaller investors remained in profit even at the June low, as their average purchase price was $48,000. Glassnode said this contrasted with the 2022 bear market, when Bitcoin traded below the average cost basis for every investor cohort and pushed the market broadly into losses from shrimp to whales.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is moving to establish its first formal rules for the crypto market and has submitted two proposals to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, The Wall Street Journal reported. The proposals are Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions, or CTX, and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets, or CAM. CTX would govern crypto transactions involving leverage, margin, and financing, while CAM would create a new registration framework for crypto platforms offering those products. The move is seen as an effort to build a clearer regulatory framework instead of relying on an enforcement-led approach focused on individual cases. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said the agency is pursuing rules that would create a federal regulatory framework allowing crypto exchanges to offer leveraged and margined spot trading to retail customers without congressional action. Unlike the Clarity bill, the proposal would not require crypto assets to trade exclusively on CFTC-registered platforms, he said.

Whale Alert reported that 2,500 BTC has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex. The transaction is valued at about $214 million.

Draper Dragon, an investment firm led by Tim Draper, has led a strategic investment round in Bitcoin wallet provider Xverse, The Defiant reported. The investment amount and the company’s valuation were not disclosed.

The Nasdaq index hit another intraday record high on Oct. 5, local time, and at one point came close to the 27,400 level.

South Korea’s crypto economy totaled $449.1 billion from July 2025 to June 2026, the largest in East Asia, according to Chainalysis. Japan followed at $228.3 billion, ahead of Hong Kong at $192.2 billion, China at $176.3 billion and Taiwan at $140.4 billion. South Korea’s market grew 12.3% from a year earlier. Chainalysis found AI-related cryptocurrency trading stood out in South Korea. As of June 2026, AI coins were the largest thematic investment segment by won-denominated trading volume, surpassing payment tokens such as XRP. The share of won-based trading in AI coins was 19.5 times that of Japanese yen-based trading. Over the period, the most-traded AI-related token in South Korea was Worldcoin (WLD) at $7.41 billion, followed by SAHARA at $3.2 billion, VIRTUAL at $2.7 billion, BIO at $2.0 billion and NEAR at $1.7 billion. Chainalysis said South Korean retail investors are rotating within the AI theme faster and with greater intensity than in other markets.

Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company DeFi Development (DFDV) said it bought an additional 26,203 SOL between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, bringing its holdings to about 2.56 million SOL.

Former House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry said the Clarity Act could be taken up during the lame-duck period after the midterm elections, CoinDesk reported.

Solana ranked first in DEX trading volume for five consecutive weeks, outperforming all Layer 1 and Layer 2 chains, according to SolanaFloor.

Global payments company Stripe plans to expand its stablecoin card program to more than 100 countries by year-end, CoinDesk reported. Current users of the service include Kraken, Ramp and Morse. Henri Stern, who leads Stripe’s stablecoin and crypto business, said the goal is to integrate stablecoins as another payment option for consumers and businesses rather than replace existing fiat payment networks.

Binance announced plans to launch Binance Intelligence, which uses AI to analyze markets and design and execute trading strategies. The suite consists of three products: Binance AI, Binance AI Pro and Binance Agent OS. Binance AI, a free feature that integrates a range of market signals including cryptocurrency, stocks, macroeconomics and on-chain data, will be rolled out to users in phases starting today.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened mixed today. - S&P 500: +0.15% - Nasdaq: +0.26% - Dow Jones: -0.09%

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, has withdrawn existing proposed rules on self-hosted wallet transactions and crypto mixing, Zoomer News reported. The withdrawn proposals included the so-called Travel Rule proposal tied to self-hosted wallets and a separate proposal targeting crypto mixing transactions. The self-hosted wallet proposal had called for financial institutions to collect, keep and report additional identity information on virtual asset transactions over $10,000. Market participants see the move as easing long-running regulatory uncertainty around self-custody and DeFi, while a lower compliance burden on transactions involving non-custodial wallets could support on-chain activity and demand for self-custody, according to the report.

The number of wallets participating in peer-to-peer stablecoin trading in China has surged despite continued cryptocurrency restrictions, Chainalysis said, citing its own data. The blockchain analytics firm said the number of unique wallets sending P2P stablecoins in China rose 43-fold from the first quarter of 2024 to the second quarter of 2026. From July 2025 to June 2026, China recorded 18.1 million transactions tied to self-custodied stablecoins, with a total value of $104.1 billion, according to the data.