Volantis raised $88M Series A to tackle AI’s memory bottleneck with photonics
Blast L2 announced its shutdown over unsustainable costs, with users required to withdraw to Ethereum before October 26
South Korea unveiled rules letting stocks, bonds and funds move onchain from February 2027, with its securities depository building connectivity on Avalanche
SMBC Nikko, one of Japan’s largest securities firms, said it was building a trading venue on Uniswap with compliance running inside a hook, set to launch mid-2027
26 new tokenized stocks landed on Base, tradable 24/7
Zcash got two independent full-node implementations, Zebra and Zakura
Silicon Exchange launched GPU cluster financing for AI compute, built on Stripe, Tempo, Privy and OUSD
New York and Wyoming regulators agreed to jointly oversee crypto firms, sharing exam data and fast-tracking licenses for established companies
Lido EarnUSD updated its fees to a cap of 0.5% AUM + 20% performance, set to launch at 0.2% AUM + 15% performance, down from 1% AUM + 10%
BNB Chain became the first blockchain to surpass $1B in tokenized stocks and ETFs
Core Lightning warned node operators on version 26.06.7 or earlier to upgrade immediately as attackers targeted unpatched nodes
ZEC pool went live on THORChain
PUSA, the onchain common stock of Powerus, went live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities, redeemable one to one for the Nasdaq-listed share
Chainalysis attributed the $387M Bitget hack to DPRK actors, with funds moved across Ethereum, XRP, Zcash and Tron
bitFlyer announced Cooldown, starting October 15, which restricts external crypto transfers for 48 hours after JPY deposits for users within 90 days of verification
Tether-backed Utexo said it planned to launch USDT on Bitcoin this month, built on RGB with private transfers, native BTC-USDT swaps and BTC-backed lending
Aave v3 Loop Safe Module was exploited for about 114.09 ETH via an access-control flaw in FlashLoopAdapter, per SlowMist
Near announced that $3.8M stolen in the NEAR Intents exploit was returned in full
Fiserv’s digital asset platform went live with Bank of North Dakota’s dollar-backed coin on Solana as its first use case, covering 90+ banks and credit unions
Copper launched institutional trading access to Hyperliquid perpetuals via API and its platform, with assets kept in non-custodial MPC
Forward Industries added nearly 949,000 SOL last quarter at an average cost of $83, bringing holdings to 8.5M SOL, roughly 1.4% of circulating supply
IMF approved a $138M disbursement to El Salvador under its $1.4B Extended Fund Facility, waiving the country’s breach of bitcoin accumulation limits
BNY was reported in talks with Kraken parent Payward over an infrastructure partnership
Anchorage Digital laid off 17% of staff
The Bitget line is the one I'd follow up on. If North Korea did it, the money is probably gone: per CNBC, Bitget has frozen about $1.1 million of the $387.5 million taken and doesn't expect to recover much more. That's under 0.3%. When a hack this size is almost entirely unrecoverable, should exchanges have to carry insurance sized to what they keep in hot wallets?