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AEON announced the launch of Agentic Checkout V2, a system that lets AI agents search for, purchase and pay for goods, while adding travel booking through crypto-based travel platform Travala. The company said users can delegate the entire travel reservation process to an AI agent. In V2, payment funds can be managed separately through a dedicated agent wallet, which is isolated from a user’s primary wallet and keeps a transparent record of transactions. AEON said the payment execution function has expanded beyond basic e-commerce purchases into service areas involving more complex intent, such as travel. Amid moves by major big tech companies including Stripe and Meta to build payment environments for AI agents, AEON emphasized that it is broadening execution into real-world service bookings such as travel based on its AI card and on-chain wallet infrastructure.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced the temporary suspension of Babylon (BABY) deposits and withdrawals at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 22 to support a network upgrade.

South Korea’s National Tax Service plans to request a preliminary review of its notice on virtual asset taxation on Nov. 6 and issue an administrative notice on Nov. 30, Digital Asset reported. The notice is set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2027. The draft notice is to be finalized on Oct. 30, followed by public comment collection, drafting steps and a request for preliminary review, confirmation of regulatory targets, approval of the drafting plan, an administrative notice, additional opinion gathering, and implementation.

Bithumb announced a temporary suspension of deposits and withdrawals for 49 Solana-based tokens due to a Solana network upgrade. - DoubleZero (2Z) - Access Protocol (ACS) - Arcium (ARX) - Moonbird (BIRB) - Bubblemaps (BMT) - Bonk (BONK) - Cudis (CUDIS) - deBridge (DBR) - Doodles (DOOD) - Geodnet (GEOD) - Grass (GRASS) - Helium (HNT) - Holoworld AI (HOLO) - Huma Finance (HUMA) - io.net (IO) - Jito (JTO) - Jupiter (JUP) - Kamino Finance (KMNO) - Solayer (LAYER) - Mayflower (MAY) - Magic Eden (ME) - Meteora (MET) - MetaDAO (META2) - cat in a dogs world (MEW) - Moodeng (MOODENG) - Metaplex (MPLX) - Orca (ORCA) - Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) - Ponke (PONKE) - Popcat (POPCAT) - Pearl (PRL) - Pump.fun (PUMP) - Pyth Network (PYTH) - Raydium (RAY) - Render Token (RENDER) - ROA CORE (ROA) - Seeker (SKR) - Solstice (SLX) - SNS (SNS) - Solana (SOL) - Sonic SVM (SONIC) - SOON (SOON) - Official Trump (TRUMP) - Global Dollar (USDG) - Useless (USELESS) - Wormhole (W) - Humidifi (WET) - dogwifhat (WIF) - Kapybobo (PYBOBO)

Four newly created addresses received a total of 1,127 BTC from crypto market maker Wintermute, worth about $93.45 million, according to ai_9684xtpa. The transfers are estimated to reflect purchases routed through Wintermute.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - BTC: $125.99 million liquidated (61.51% shorts) - ETH: $72.70 million liquidated (57.42% shorts) - ZEC: $12.85 million liquidated (76.85% shorts)

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals of XPLA at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 22 to support the token's network upgrade.

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hyoung-il, who also serves as minister of economy and finance, reiterated that the government will make a carefully considered decision on the planned January implementation of virtual asset taxation next year after gathering views from the industry, experts and lawmakers, Edaily reported. Speaking at a comprehensive parliamentary audit session of the Planning and Finance Committee at the National Assembly in Seoul on Oct. 22, Lee said multiple lawmakers had raised concerns during the previous audit and Lee had said at the time that the government would hear more from experts and the industry before making a decision. Lee added that, in that context, the first vice minister had listened to industry views. Lee had also reaffirmed during the G20 finance ministers meeting on Oct. 19 that the government would go through additional consultations on virtual asset taxation, according to the report.

Major cryptocurrency groups cut third-quarter lobbying spending from the previous quarter after the CLARITY Act failed to advance last month, Bloomberg reported. Even so, total lobbying outlays in the quarter exceeded $4 million, marking a sixth straight quarter in which the crypto industry spent more than $4 million. The industry had previously spent $8 million in the first half of this year to push the CLARITY Act.

CME Group CEO Terry Duffy said cryptocurrency perpetual futures should be classified and regulated as swaps rather than traditional futures contracts, according to BeInCrypto. In a recent interview, Duffy said the funding rate mechanism used in perpetual futures matches the characteristics of swap contracts. He added the products therefore need to be subject to tougher swap regulations introduced after the 2008 global financial crisis. Duffy also pointed to the lack of clear regulatory standards to control leverage, particularly as some overseas crypto exchanges allow trading at up to 250x leverage. CME previously sued the U.S. CFTC over its approval of perpetual futures listings by prediction-market platforms including Kalshi. The CFTC had argued CME lacked standing to sue, saying CME trading volumes had increased after the approvals.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $83,000. BTC is trading at $82,977.33 on the Binance USDT market.

Bitcoin treasury companies, or DATs, are not continuing to buy even though their holdings are showing unrealized gains, Glassnode said. The firm said DATs’ average cost basis is around $80,000, and BTC has remained above $80,000 since Sept. 18. It added that if DATs keep buying while already in profit, that could stir the market.

An anonymous whale wallet starting with 0xdeA posted 18,500 WETH as collateral on Aave, borrowed $25 million in stablecoins, and used the funds to withdraw, or effectively buy, 12,549 ETH worth $32.04 million from Binance, according to ai_9684xtpa. The accumulation appears to have started on Sept. 29, and continued buying lowered the wallet’s average entry price to $2,553 from $2,736. The address also appears to be linked to a known wallet associated with U.S. rapper Kanye West.

Sonic said on its official X account it plans to move around 13 million S, worth about $720,000, within the next 24 to 48 hours as part of a strategic over-the-counter deal. The layer-1 project said the token transfer is tied to a strategic OTC agreement with a long-term partner, which is expected to use its own network to strengthen Sonic’s ecosystem reach and boost user engagement. Details including the counterparty’s identity and the size of the agreement were not disclosed.

Circle’s Arc chain has launched Arc Portal, an ecosystem hub where users can swap and transfer assets, generate yield, and explore applications across the ecosystem. It also supports AI agent enablement, allowing users to directly set spending limits and permissions for AI agents.

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service said today that a case recently emerged in which scammers created a fake network resembling GIWA, a blockchain network under development by Dunamu, and stole users’ virtual assets. The agency said the group spread false claims such as a “mainnet surprise launch” through social media and online communities to lure investors, even though there had been no official announcement from the actual developer. It added that DYOR Swap, a decentralized exchange, mistakenly supported the fake network as if it were real, leading users to deposit Ethereum through a fake bridge, after which the scammers withdrew the transferred assets in a lump sum. The Financial Supervisory Service said that in on-chain virtual asset scams, fund transfers and theft can take place within minutes to hours, and damage recovery is extremely difficult.

An anonymous whale believed to be an institution sold 246.2 BTC for $20.36 million and used the proceeds to buy 10,636 ETH, EmberCN reported. Since Oct. 11, the whale has sold 1,847.3 BTC to secure $153 million in USDC and has redeployed those funds to buy 63,731 ETH at an average purchase price of around $2,400.

The PHP Foundation acknowledged delays in fixing a critical security vulnerability first identified in 2024 and described the lapse as an organizational structural failure, Cointelegraph reported. In a statement released after distributing an emergency security patch on Oct. 21, local time, the foundation said decision-making problems in its security response process and a shortage of developers delayed the fix for an extended period. The two vulnerabilities identified this time involve flaws that could let attackers remotely execute code on affected servers without any separate login or authentication. According to the foundation, developers first detected signs of the issue in 2024 but struggled to devise a solution while weighing the impact on the PHP-based software ecosystem. The foundation added that Calif and OpenAI independently reported the same underlying issue on Aug. 11, local time, and Calif demonstrated that unauthenticated remote code execution was possible, raising the priority of the response. As security concerns spread, some government websites and online services in European countries including the Netherlands, Finland, France and Germany were temporarily suspended. Australia’s government cybersecurity website was also found to have been affected. Separately, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said some website operators may not have applied the security patch and urged users to be cautious when accessing websites over the next few days.

Cardano-based DeFi protocol Genius Yield is moving toward a shutdown, developer Lars Brünjes said on X. The Genius Yield team has released Genius Zero, an open-source web application designed to support user asset withdrawals and reward claims. The tool interacts directly with smart contracts in a browser without relying on Genius Yield’s backend servers, allowing users to withdraw staked assets and create or cancel DEX orders. Reward claims, however, require a separate co-signing service, and only rewards with on-chain funding can be claimed.

The Bank of Korea held its benchmark interest rate at 3.00% after raising it preemptively for two straight meetings in July and August to address inflation risks. The central bank’s Monetary Policy Board is scheduled to make this year’s final rate decision on Nov. 26.

Pump.fun announced the launch of its in-house cross-chain bridge, Pump Bridge. In a post on X, Pump.fun co-founder and COO Alon said Pump Bridge executes buy orders about twice as fast as Relay, a legacy cross-chain service provider, while cutting transaction error rates by about 92% to under 1% from more than 11%. Alon added Pump Bridge delivers better execution, allowing users to buy more tokens on average with the same funds, and currently charges no additional cross-chain fees.

CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index came in at 59, down one point from yesterday. The index compares the price performance of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped coins, against Bitcoin. An altcoin season is identified when 75% of the top 100 coins outperform Bitcoin over the past 90 days, while the opposite is considered a Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates stronger altcoin season conditions.

The Cardano Foundation urged the European Union to address flaws in its existing Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA, before introducing new rules for DeFi and staking, Cryptopolitan reported. In a statement released on Oct. 21, the foundation said providers should not be treated as financial service firms solely because they offer services on public blockchains, and argued that instead of creating a new regulatory framework, existing laws should apply to businesses that actually provide financial services or manage customer assets. The foundation had previously told the European Commission in September, during a consultation on related regulations, that it opposed separate rules for DeFi and staking.

Crypto custody firm BitGo said on Oct. 21 it launched BitGo Labs, a research organization focused on developing next-generation applications in digital assets. In its early stage, BitGo Labs plans to focus on research into the convergence of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies.

Aerodrome and Velodrome have merged to launch Aero, a spot exchange supporting seven networks, The Block reported. The exchange supports the Ethereum mainnet, Base, Robinhood Chain, Ink, the Optimism mainnet, Arc and Arbitrum. Existing AERO and VELO tokens will migrate to the new AERO token, while wrapped tokens will also have a separate migration option. Aero includes a feature that lets AERO stakers allocate liquidity to markets expected to generate returns, a metaswap function linking trades across networks, and a mechanism that raises fees during periods of fast market volatility. All revenue will be returned to AERO stakers.