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Zcash activated NU7 on public testnet, cutting block time from 75 to 25 seconds ahead of a planned November 5 mainnet launch — CoinDesk
36 · Plume launched nBND, a vault backed by Fidelity's actively managed Total Bond ETF (FBND), bringing longer-duration debt onchain — Plume
35 · Hyperliquid received its first $14.58M USDC payment under AQAv2, routing 30 days of USDC reserve yield into HYPE buybacks — WuBlockchain
35 · Fhenix, the FHE privacy stack for Ethereum, launches mainnet on October 21 on Ethereum and Arbitrum. Five apps go live at launch — Fhenix
34 · Strategy reported a $21B gain on its bitcoin in Q3 and added 334 BTC last week, bringing its holdings to 848,000 BTC — Strategy
35 · Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC in Q3 and bought 11,000 back at higher prices to prove liquidity, ending the quarter with 44,000 BTC — CoinDesk
36 · Strive bought 2,000 BTC for $169M at about $84,422 each, lifting its holdings to 29,462 BTC — Matt Cole
36 · ZachXBT went undercover with a Chinese syndicate that laundered $1B+ for Lazarus, helping freeze funds from the $1.5B Bybit hack — ZachXBT
39 · Virtuals launched Virtuals App in closed beta, a personal AI with a built-in wallet that researches and trades inside group chats — Virtuals
39 · Binance launched Binance Intelligence, bundling a free AI assistant, the AI Pro strategy agent and Agent OS for developers — Binance
1 · 41 · The CFTC opened rulemaking on Regulation CTX and CAM, an opt-in federal regime for crypto venues, after the Clarity Act stalled — CFTC
42 · Umia raised $6M by auctioning its own UMIA token on Base, with Galaxy Ventures, DCG and Draper bidding on the same terms as retail — Umia
2 · 42 · Yukon launched HashSmash with Zcash, an open contest where humans and AI agents try to break SHA-256, SHA3-256, BLAKE3 and Poseidon — Yukon
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AlloX opened registration for its $1M token sale on Coinbase’s Sonar, with commitments from Oct 12 and FDV tiers of $65M, $52M and $39M — AlloX
38 · Solana Foundation launched Solana DvP, an open-source program for atomic trade settlement in seconds, built with input from J.P. Morgan — Solana
1 · 39 · Ondo launched Ondo Private Markets, tokenized notes on pre-IPO companies, starting with a leading AI firm that trades 24/7 from this week — Ondo
36 · Spiko raised a $90M Series B led by NEA for its tokenized money market funds, which now hold $2.7B, up over 5x in a year — Spiko
1 · 35 · OKX raised new funding from Standard Chartered and Circle at a $25B valuation, matching ICE’s March deal, per Bloomberg — Bloomberg
31 · ether.fi launched ether.fi USD, its own dollar stablecoin built on Ethena’s whitelabel service, making its M+ in stablecoins native to its products — ether.fi
28 · Polymarket launched Protocol V2, rebuilding its core contracts around one ERC-1155 positions contract and pUSD collateral; new markets move over Nov 2 — Polymarket
25 · Aptos unveiled MonoMove, a new execution engine running onchain market contracts up to 55x faster, with mainnet planned for 2027 — Aptos
22 · Treasure launched Higgsmart on Solana, letting creators turn Higgsfield AI memes into tokens with a verified-original badge — Treasure
22 · Mistral launched Large 4, a 1T-parameter model nicknamed “Le Chonk”, priced at about a third of Claude Opus 5.5, with open weights due by end of October — Mistral
15 · General Medicine raised a $120M Series B led by a16z for its online healthcare store with up-front prices, bringing total funding to $152M — General Medicine
10 · Abstract is winding down its Ethereum L2 after almost three years; users must bridge assets out by Dec 15 or lose access — Abstract
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