US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $635 million in net outflows on October 22, their largest daily withdrawal since June 25. BlackRock’s IBIT led with $254 million in outflows.
Project Kimchi’s market cap fell from roughly $15 million to $284,000 after Pump.fun co-founder Alon removed his repost of Kimchi’s QR-code promotion. Kimchi also deleted the post and removed Pump.fun from his bio; claims that his account was SIM-swapped remain unconfirmed.
Bitcoin fell about 4% and tested $81,500 after rejection near $84,800. Crypto long liquidations reached $418 million, up from the earlier $383 million tally.
Ethereum developers postponed Hoodi’s October 26 Glamsterdam upgrade to review how EIP-8037’s gas pricing changes interact with existing mainnet contracts. No new activation date has been announced.
HSBC is rolling out its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin RedCoin to more than 3.3 million PayMe users for transfers and merchant payments. It plans to add access to tokenized funds through its Hong Kong banking app by year-end.
Bitcoin remains inside the trading range it has held for about a month. Traders are continuing to trade that range rather than treating recent moves as a breakout.
Fomo began publicly rolling out its own bridge after a week of limited access, claiming cross-chain transactions land in under one second.
a16z has renamed its crypto arm a16z Frontier and expanded its $2.2 billion fifth fund to include AI, robotics and other emerging technologies. The firm says it will keep investing in crypto and advocating for crypto regulation.
CoinDCX acknowledged operational losses from failed sweeps of compromised addresses after denying a new breach. ZachXBT puts the loss at about $16 million and urged users to withdraw funds.
Traders challenged the $40 million TRUMP profit figure used to market Kimchi and Pump.fun, citing roughly $6 million instead. FaZe Banks said Kimchi never made the $40 million claim himself.
Sentora launched Aave V4's first externally curated markets on Ethereum. Users can borrow RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSD against yield-bearing and blue-chip collateral across three markets.
Bitcoin is back near its 50-day simple and exponential moving averages after repeated tests over recent weeks. Traders are watching whether the zone holds as support.
Bitcoin’s hashrate has risen above 1 ZH/s to a seven-month high despite some miners shifting capacity to AI infrastructure.
Dubai's VARA licensed Bybit Fintech FZE to offer spot crypto trading. Bybit plans to seek separate approval for derivatives.
LG CNS partnered with Chainlink to add oracle, cross-chain and orchestration tools to its digital asset platform for Korean institutions. The partnership also targets wider use of Korean won stablecoins.
LACMA acquired more than 200 donated digital artworks, including Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks pieces. Mneme Foundation helped arrange the gift.
Fireblocks denied reports that Visa is in late-stage talks to buy the crypto custody and stablecoin infrastructure firm for about $2.5 billion. Coinbase also denied involvement in a potential deal.
Solana activated Alpenglow on October 21, targeting roughly 150-millisecond finality. Researchers have also proposed Quantumglow, an adaptation intended to protect consensus against quantum attacks without slowing finality.
The OCC’s final GENIUS Act rule keeps the ban on issuer-paid interest and gives existing stablecoin rewards no grandfathering. Partner rewards face case-by-case review, leaving Coinbase’s 3.75% USDC rewards open to challenge rather than outright banned.
A StarkWare and Starknet Foundation working group is studying an independent, post-quantum Layer 1 after 93.52% of voting power backed research in a non-binding poll. Any transition would require a separate community vote.
A Tianjin court accepted prosecutors' application on September 28 to forfeit 61,896 UK-held BTC tied to Qian Zhimin. Its October 13 notice opened a six-month claims window; the coins remain under English court control.
Bitcoin closed above roughly $83,400 but failed to hold that level on a retest. It fell back toward $82,085, giving back most of its short-liquidation-driven rally.
Roughly $370,000 in suspected wallet drains have been linked to Railway's possible exposure of stored secrets, but the connection remains unconfirmed. Railway paused deployments and urged credential rotation; enterprise builds later resumed, letting those customers deploy replacement credentials.
Pump.fun added take-profit and stop-loss orders across six EVM networks, extending tools already available on Solana. Traders can now set automated exits across Robinhood Chain, BSC, Base, HyperEVM, Arc and Ink.
Uniswap launched Aggregator Hooks linking seven outside liquidity sources to v4 pools on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain through its Web App and API. Trades routed to those sources pay protocol fees that fund UNI burns.