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• Polymarket briefly halts international trading after a third-party breach drains user accounts

  The prediction market says a compromised third-party provider was to blame and it will fully reimburse affected traders. Trading was back after nearly an hour.

  Crypto · Oct 30, 2026, 1:25 AM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• NYSE owner ICE plans a US market for Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures

  ICE would run a new regulated retail market and clearing structure for Trade[XYZ]'s perps and make a strategic investment in the company. The market needs CFTC and other approvals, and no launch date has been set.

  Crypto · Oct 30, 2026, 12:20 AM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• DTCC's tokenization service goes live with JPMorgan, Citi and Morgan Stanley signed up

  The Depository Trust Company launched a service that creates tokens representing securities it holds on the Canton Network and its private Besu chain, with 20 firms signed up and 34 securities eligible at launch.

  Crypto · Oct 28, 2026, 12:10 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• CFTC is reportedly probing Polymarket again over US users on its offshore platform

  The probe, part of a broader CFTC inquiry opened this year, is examining Polymarket's location controls and US advertising, according to people familiar with the matter. The CFTC and Polymarket declined to comment to Reuters.

  Crypto · Oct 27, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Robinhood taps Ripple for stablecoin settlement and its own treasury

  RLUSD is live now on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp and is expected in the Robinhood app later this year, while Robinhood will integrate Ripple Treasury into its own treasury operations.

  Crypto · Oct 27, 2026, 10:45 AM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Strategy's bitcoin-buying preferreds come with a growing dividend bill

  Perpetual preferreds have contributed to the accumulation of 135,979 bitcoin, Fidelity says. Every new share also adds to the payouts, and Strategy's latest week paired a $193 million buyback with just 267 bitcoin.

  Crypto · Oct 25, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Coinbase's 15-minute crypto prediction markets settle at $1 or $0

  A new Coinbase post pitches up-or-down contracts on BTC, ETH and SOL, but they aren't new, and bitcoin's 15-minute markets may settle on a different price than the one on your screen.

  Crypto · Oct 25, 2026, 6:50 AM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Franklin Templeton puts $150 million of fund shares on the XRP Ledger, all in one wallet

  Two $75 million cash subscriptions were followed by two batches of just over 72,184,793 sgBENJI shares, all sent to one wallet. Whether it holds one investor's money or many is unclear.

  Crypto · Oct 24, 2026, 6:10 AM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• A Senate Democrat wants Tether's records on payments to Bo Hines' consulting firm

  Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent letters to Tether and Nxum Group, citing Wall Street Journal reporting on payments made while Hines advised the White House on crypto. Tether says an internal investigation by outside counsel found no evidence of wrongdoing.

  Crypto · Oct 23, 2026, 11:35 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Coinbase pitches AI agents that trade crypto, stocks and derivatives for you

  Coinbase is promoting a way to plug Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and other agents into your account. The service has been live since June; what's changed is the menu.

  Crypto · Oct 23, 2026, 11:15 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Tokenized stock trading topped $37 billion last quarter, and one token did much of the work

  Dune says onchain trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs grew almost 18x since January. Its own dashboard shows a single BNB Chain token in about half the recent volume, in trades Dune says look programmatic or incentive-driven.

  Crypto · Oct 23, 2026, 11:05 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Ethereum delays Glamsterdam test after a security firm flags a risk to existing contracts

  Core developers postponed the upgrade's Oct. 26 Hoodi testnet launch to study how a gas change interacts with contracts on mainnet. The Ethereum Foundation says ETH holders don't need to do anything.

  Crypto · Oct 23, 2026, 7:20 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• OCC finalizes stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act, effective Jan. 18, 2027

  The bank regulator's final rule sets requirements for stablecoin issuers and custody. Existing US issuers that file a substantially complete application by Jan. 18, 2027, can generally expect waivers from the prior-approval requirement, but the application window isn't open yet.

  Crypto · Oct 22, 2026, 4:40 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Goldman, Microsoft and Alphabet object to OKX-ICE trading tokens of their shares

  Seven more companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs, have objected to tokenized versions of their shares on OKXICE, the planned 24/7 venue from OKX and NYSE parent ICE.

  Crypto · Oct 21, 2026, 11:15 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Solana's Alpenglow is live, and its transaction count just shrank by design

  Solana swapped consensus systems on its live network Wednesday, targeting 150-millisecond finality. Vote transactions left the chain, so headline transaction counts dropped.

  Crypto · Oct 21, 2026, 5:40 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• JPMorgan's asset arm projects 10% a year for bitcoin, then calls its own forecast premature

  J.P. Morgan Asset Management's 2027 outlook gives bitcoin a 10% base case over 10 years, above its stock and gold projections, while keeping it out of its main portfolio models.

  Crypto · Oct 21, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh

• Bitcoin rides the AI earnings mood, but the outlets can't agree on why

  CoinDesk credits SpaceX and Super Micro for reviving the AI trade, Cointelegraph points to GM and 3M, and Bloomberg calls bitcoin little changed. Spot ETF flows may be the clearer signal.

  Crypto · Oct 21, 2026, 4:15 PM EDT · Jennifer Walsh