Aviva Investors has added a tokenized share class of its £22 billion Sterling Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger, less than three months after putting its dollar cash fund onchain.

Thirty dollars landed in an AI agent’s wallet. Three of them came from customers.

Crypto startup valuations hit a record in the third quarter, but the typical funding round shrank by about 40% from its own record, while pre-seed deals grew their share.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stock, ETF and index perpetuals traded $201 billion on Hyperliquid in the third quarter, according to Dune, in markets that did not exist on the platform a year ago.

Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick expects AI to trigger a wave of cheap, short-lived crypto “meme games,” but the industry was already losing studios and struggling to find players.

Solana’s reported transaction numbers fell sharply after the Alpenglow upgrade switched its consensus system on October 21, because validator votes are no longer recorded as transactions in blocks.