MetaMask exited affected validators while investigating an infrastructure security incident, with no sign wallets or funds were affected
NEAR Intents confirmed a $3.8M exploit and promised full compensation
Ostium said it was rebuilding as Gateway, a whitelisted API and liquidity layer for stablecoin-native perps access
SEC proposed a new rule for investment funds holding crypto, including self custody under certain conditions
BAXUS brought collectible bottles onchain, tradable without physical delivery
Centrifuge went live on Arc with tokenized RWAs from Janus Henderson and New York Life Investment Management, including JAAA, JTRSY and HYB
Arc launched Borrow Kit, letting apps offer USDC loans against cirBTC via Morpho markets
EIP-8363 was withdrawn from Hegotá consideration, with issuance policy set to get its own dedicated process
LloydsBank and Visa completed a live USDC settlement pilot, moving $750K cross-border in under an hour
Trump memecoin investors got another gala dinner offer for November
LTC Foundation signed an MOU with Greywick Digital to bring LTC to Canton Network as cLTC, with no launch date set
Illinois agreed to postpone its 0.2% crypto tax by six months
Chainlink was selected as the official price oracle for @openstandard’s $OUSD
Petrobras tested Cardano to track green fuel certificates and prevent double counting of sustainable aviation fuel credits
U.S. lawmakers considered broader crypto powers for banks and credit unions, covering custody, payments, lending, trading and stablecoin operations
Re7 Labs launched the Frax USDai Ecosystem Vault on Mainnet, with frxUSD lenders at 41.99% APY
Sui announced the Basecamp Creator Challenge with $30,000 in prizes across 8 tracks, with submissions opening Oct 7 at 11:00 SGT
Walapay raised a $4.6M seed led by genventurecap
EF and OA announced zkAPI, a way to get private AI inference by depositing ETH into a vault
Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the European Commission to build on existing EU rules for onchain markets
Cloudflare’s Monetization Gateway let APIs charge agents per request in USDC on Base
Quick slots (EIP-8198) moved to CFI on the All Core Devs call, with a first slot cut from 12 to 10 seconds targeted
World Liberty launched staking with a $1.25M USD1 rewards pool, with 180 day linear distribution starting Oct. 2
Philippine central bank partially suspended inbound InstaPay and PESONet transfers to Coins ph’s e-money operator DCPay Philippines
Zcash community approved $8.39M in retroactive grants across 17 proposals after the Orchard bug
Porsche shut down its Web3 project, with holders keeping their 911 NFTs
Cboe said it was considering VIX perpetual futures once there was more regulatory clarity in the U.S.
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, with 473M XRP expected at closing, close set for Oct. 7 and XRPN trading set to start Oct. 8
SBI Holdings completed its acquisition of Bitbank, valued at 46.7B yen ($288.6M)
Robinhood Wallet integrated Arcus’ API for 190+ stock tokens
EU questioned Binance over continued operations despite wind down order
Drift launched DFX claims for April exploit victims at 1 DFX per 1 USDT lost
Base Batch 004 announced its 10 selected teams out of 750+ applicants
