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Jonathan Gould, head of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said the OCC is expected to release its final rule to implement the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin regulation law, before the end of October. He made the remarks at the Milken Institute’s "Building the New Digital Economy" event held alongside DC Fintech Week, according to Crypto in America host Eleanor Terrett.

U.S. Cross River Bank announced a strategic partnership with Ripple and said it will add the dollar-pegged stablecoin RLUSD to its in-house payments system. Under the move, RLUSD will be added as a new payment option alongside bank transfers. The bank’s fintech partners will be able to use RLUSD payments and XRP Ledger (XRPL)-based transactions through a single API without building separate cryptocurrency infrastructure. The two companies plan to support 24/7 instant payments, real-time settlement and cross-border payment services, while reducing payment-processing delays and improving operational flexibility for issuers and acquirers.

An anonymous whale with cumulative losses of about $26.23 million closed an ETH long position worth about $880,000 on Hyperliquid and opened a short position worth about $7.64 million, BlockBeats reported.

Crypto.com has launched Predict Pro, a prediction market platform for U.S. users, The Block reported. The platform offers trading through OG.com Markets, an exchange and clearinghouse registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It supports a real-time order book, probability charts and multiple order types, and also allows trades combining two to 20 event predictions across multiple markets. Contracts are typically settled automatically within one hour after event outcomes are confirmed.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $82,000. BTC is trading at $82,024.22 on the Binance USDT market.

Ethereum layer-two network Aztec has unveiled a roadmap aimed at implementing post-quantum cryptography, or PQC, by the end of 2030, The Defiant reported. According to the report, Aztec plans to offer enhanced developer libraries in early 2027, allowing developers to build more secure on-chain design patterns. In mid-2027, the project plans to select specific replacement signature, encryption and proof systems. Once the cryptographic approach is chosen, Aztec will restructure its internal mechanisms, including updating network addresses, key derivation protocols, account and validator authentication, and establishing a clear migration path for existing private state. The roadmap’s main goal is to defend against HNDL attacks, in which attackers steal and store currently encrypted data and decrypt it later as quantum computing advances.

Taiwanese singer Jeffrey Huang, known as Machi Big Brother, added 250,000 USDC to increase margin and expanded a 25x ETH long position to 3,100 ETH, worth about $7.37 million, BlockBeats reported.

Aave v4 deposits rose 68% over the past 30 days to $1.08 billion, according to Unfolded. Its active loan balance currently stands at $417 million.

Bitcoin spot ETF investors, who spent most of this year underwater, have now moved back into profit, ARK Invest said, according to Crypto Briefing. ARK Invest said investors’ average returns rose 43% over one quarter and moved above breakeven for the first time since January, indicating market sentiment may be turning more positive.

Polygon Labs said it has officially released Bor v2.10.3, fixing two denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities. The issues were identified during BlockSTM V2 parallel block execution and were reported through the Immunefi bug bounty program. The update also includes security and stability improvements such as transaction filtering, limits on concurrent RPC execution, and pending transaction cleanup.

Russia’s central bank announced it will ban direct peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading between individuals from July 1, 2027. Under the measure, individuals will be barred from buying and selling cryptocurrencies without going through licensed intermediaries, and all legal transactions must be conducted through intermediaries supervised by the central bank.

Nasdaq-listed TRON is seeking to raise up to $200 million through an at-the-market stock offering to expand its TRX reserves, Cointelegraph reported. The company plans to sell common stock from time to time through Clear Street, which is acting as sales agent and will receive a fee of up to 3% of the gross proceeds. TRON had previously announced an asset reserve program in February to buy around $50,000 worth of TRX per day. It recently bought an additional 149,369 TRX at an average price of $0.3347. TRON now holds about 718.9 million TRX, worth around $237 million.

DeFi protocol Firelight has added $30.5 million in capacity to Kraken’s USDC Vault, The Defiant reported. Users can receive coverage of up to $100,000 per account during each coverage period, with payouts handled by Sentora.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $81,000. BTC is trading at $81,107.18 on the Binance USDT market.

Ethereum Foundation researcher Antonio Sanso said Daisugi v0.3 successfully verified 20 quantum-resistant digital signatures bundled into a single proof. Daisugi is an Ethereum-compatible test network for experimenting with quantum-resistant signature technology. The experiment used the quantum-resistant signature technology LeanSPHINCS and the virtual machine LeanVM. The setup verified 20 LeanSPHINCS signatures in LeanVM and represented their validity in a single proof. To verify that proof on an Ethereum execution-layer client, a LeanVM verifier and a guest program for LeanSPHINCS are required.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $80,000. BTC is trading at $79,965.68 on the Binance USDT market.

Bitcoin mining rig maker and miner Canaan announced on Oct. 15 that it mined 44 BTC in September, bringing its Bitcoin holdings to 1,875 BTC as of the end of September. The company also said it sold 3,952 ETH and 54.5 BTC as of Oct. 15 to secure about $13.9 million in cash to fund share repurchases.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has agreed to release all of the 100 million barrels of oil that had not yet been released.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said on X that Bitcoin analysts are bullish while gold analysts are bearish. According to the CryptoQuant analyst consensus index he shared, as of Oct. 15, the outlook among BTC analysts stood at +1.3σ, signaling bullishness, while the outlook among gold analysts was -1.2σ, indicating bearishness. Sigma refers to standard deviation, and the index shows the overall market outlook of each analyst group. A positive reading means analysts are more optimistic than usual, while a negative reading means they are more pessimistic than usual. BTC analysts see accumulation and the defense of support levels as signs the market may have bottomed in this cycle. By contrast, gold analysts cited a break below the $4,318 support level and dollar strength as bearish factors.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened mixed today. - S&P 500: -0.4% - Nasdaq: -1.29% - Dow Jones: +0.46%

Nilion, which shifted to an Ethereum layer-two architecture this year, announced on its official X account that it plans to end operations of its proprietary layer-two network. The company said, "Layer 2 will soon cease operations. If you hold NIL or ETH on the network, please use the bridge to move your assets to Ethereum layer one before the shutdown." Nilion had transitioned from Nilchain, its proprietary Cosmos-based layer-one network, to Ethereum layer two in January this year. According to CoinMarketCap, NIL was trading at $0.0866, up 14.39%, at the time of writing.

Crypto asset manager Grayscale said on X it has partnered with on-chain investment platform Republic to offer three investment products to eligible investors. The products to be available on the Republic platform are the Grayscale DeFi Fund, which offers diversified exposure to major DeFi protocols including Uniswap (UNI), Aave (AAVE), Ondo (ONDO), Ethena (ENA), Curve (CRV) and Lido (LDO); the Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund, which invests in blockchain and artificial intelligence projects including NEAR (NEAR), Bittensor (TAO), Render (RENDER) and Filecoin (FIL); and the Grayscale Data Network Trust, which invests in the native token DATA of a data network.

Stripe announced on Oct. 15, citing its official channel, that it has entered into a partnership with Plasma (XPL), a blockchain project focused on stablecoin payments, to jointly develop and launch a multicurrency stablecoin card. The card is intended to support multiple fiat currencies, including the U.S. dollar, euro and Brazilian real, as well as stablecoins such as USDC and OUSD. The goal is to let users pay directly with their held currency and reduce unnecessary foreign exchange costs. The related infrastructure is currently available in more than 30 countries, and Stripe plans to expand supported regions to more than 100 countries in 2027. The company also plans to add a feature that automatically selects the most suitable currency for payment from multiple balance holdings.

Ledger said in an official blog post it has tightened product-handling rules for authorized retailers and distributors to prevent a recurrence of cryptocurrency theft linked to device tampering. Under the new rules, sellers must keep Ledger products in a separate storage area rather than on store shelves and hand them directly to customers at the time of purchase. Ledger also said sellers must immediately notify the company if a customer reports an issue with a product. Ledger reiterated an existing rule barring the resale of returned devices even if they appear unopened. The company had earlier halted sales across Southeast Asia and at one distributor in Germany after a device-tampering case involving a recovery-phrase theft tool was discovered. Media reports said losses could exceed $86 million, but Ledger did not disclose an official damage estimate.

Mert Mumtaz, CEO of Solana infrastructure firm Helius, has joined the board of the NEAR Foundation, The Block reported. Mumtaz is set to help shape the board’s future product strategy, ecosystem expansion and governance direction.