Franklin Templeton issued $150 million in new fund shares on XRP Ledger on October 22, roughly double the fund’s September assets, and every share landed in one wallet.
Offchain Labs became the sole member of Arbitrum’s Developer Guild, collecting all of its revenue, and proposed that the Arbitrum Foundation sign off on new Stylus activations on Arbitrum One.
U.S. Bitcoin ETFs ended a two-week outflow streak with a $301 million weekly inflow, but BlackRock’s IBIT supplied all of it while the other funds combined lost money.
The SEC has put tokenization on its examination priorities for fiscal 2027, five weeks after opening a path for tokenized stocks to trade under a new exemption.
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel must prepare a “bypass economy” for possible banking sanctions, and that he has asked for a plan using blockchain as one of the tools.
New York wants $1.3 billion from NovaTech’s founders, who the state says fled the country, while the promoters’ nearly $6 million in settlements is partly payable through 2030.
Grayscale has flagged three crypto projects building AI infrastructure, including Pearl, whose token is up 580% in three months, but the money they earn does not always reach token holders.
Ripple and Visa have joined a Singapore-led digital money initiative that already includes rival stablecoin issuer Circle, as Malaysia’s and Thailand’s central banks sign on as policymakers.
Pledging Bitcoin instead of paying a cash down payment lets buyers keep their coins, but it replaces savings with a second loan and locks the collateral for years.
Bitcoin Core will now ship fixes for easy-to-find vulnerabilities to every maintained version as soon as possible, after AI tools made its longer embargoes for those bugs largely pointless.
Ethereum core developers have postponed Glamsterdam’s October 26 Hoodi testnet activation to investigate how EIP-8037’s gas accounting interacts with smart contracts already running on mainnet.
A Circle shareholder has sued President Donald Trump over two UAE-linked World Liberty Financial deals, alleging they breached the Constitution and cost Circle stablecoin reserve income.



