Strategy reported a $21B digital asset gain in Q3 2026, bought 334 BTC last week, repurchased $176M of STRC, and held 848,000 BTC and $5.7B in USD assets
Strategy opened a vote on daily dividends for STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD
CFTC moved ahead with two crypto rulemaking proposals, Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM, despite the Clarity Act stalling. CFTC-registered exchanges would get a federal path to list crypto assets and offer margined or leveraged retail trading
Bank of Russia opened applications for crypto exchanges and custodians to join official registers, with first licenses possible before year end
US Treasury withdrew proposed crypto surveillance rules targeting unhosted wallets and mixers
OKX filed with the SEC to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform
Yukon Research launched HashSmash, an open contest testing whether SHA-256, SHA3-256, Poseidon and BLAKE3 hold up against stronger future attackers
Hyperliquid perps went live on the Bloomberg Terminal
Zama Protocol shielded TVL passed $100M
Binance launched Binance Intelligence, an AI suite with Binance AI, AI Pro and Agent OS, which passed 280,000 daily calls
BitMine bought another 15,112 ETH, bringing holdings to 6,016,414 ETH, about 4.9% of supply
Metaplanet set a target of 85%-90% of assets in Bitcoin and 10%-15% in strategic investments, and held 44,000 BTC as of Sept. 30
Plume launched nBND, a tokenized vault backed primarily by Fidelity Total Bond ETF
Hyperliquid received its first $14.58M USDC payment under the AQAv2 framework, funding HYPE buybacks
Binance announced it will block Brazil cross border crypto transfers from Nov. 1 unless users provide purpose and counterparty details
Umia raised $6.1M at $18M FDV to help crypto projects launch tokens
Privy CEO Henri Stern took over Stripe’s crypto and stablecoin efforts while still leading Privy
DeFi Development Corp. added about 26,203 SOL, bringing holdings to roughly 2.56M SOL and equivalents worth $302M
Strive bought 2,000 BTC for roughly $169M at an average of $84,422, bringing total holdings to 29,462 BTC
Visa found 46% of Asia Pacific consumers were likely to use stablecoins within five years, versus 16% who used them in the past year
Zcash NU7 went live on public testnet early at block 4,465,026, cutting target block time from 75 to 25 seconds
