Telegram has started rolling out Money, a built-in Gram wallet for transfers and collectibles that separates in-chat payments from Walt’s wider crypto trading tools.

Mastercard is among the partners for an XRP Ledger hackathon in New York, where developers will spend 36 hours building AI-payment, lending and protocol tools ahead of Ripple’s Swell conference.

Sui’s Hashi is preparing a phased mainnet rollout later this month with more than $500 million in committed capital. Anchorage Digital has joined the launch coalition, adding custody-based and self-custody routes for institutions that want to use Bitcoin as collateral.

XRP Ledger has activated PermissionDelegationV1_1, allowing businesses to assign specific tasks to separate accounts. The change gives stablecoin issuers, fund administrators and payment firms a way to keep primary treasury credentials away from systems handling routine work.

Samsung will add USDC transfers to Wallet for eligible U.S. Galaxy users in the last week of October.

Wells Fargo is reportedly discussing a crypto-trading-liquidity arrangement with Payward, the parent company behind Kraken. The talks offer a view into how a large bank could reach digital-asset markets without operating an exchange or building every part of the trading system itself.

Cardano has introduced a framework for regulated tokens whose issuers can restrict transfers, freeze balances or recover assets under pre-set conditions. ADA and Cardano native tokens that do not adopt the framework keep their existing transfer rules.

Ethereum will test blocks with a 200 million gas target on Sepolia on October 6. Hours before the activation, Prysm updated its validator client so operators can follow that target without manually changing an older default.

Solana has released open-source software for tokenized trades where the asset and payment can settle together in seconds, provided both already exist on its blockchain.

The XRP Ledger has moved its Smart Escrow testing environment to new infrastructure, giving developers updated tools to test custom rules for releasing locked XRP.

Stripe plans to expand stablecoin-backed card issuing to more than 100 countries by year-end, giving platforms a way to make digital-dollar balances spendable through familiar cards.

Crypto lending vaults held roughly $10 billion in deposits in September, according to S&P Global Ratings. Its new Vault Risk Assessment addresses a problem that on-chain data alone cannot solve: a visible pool of assets does not show how easily depositors could lose money or struggle to withdraw it.