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The U.S. SEC has charged BG Wealth Sharing and DSJ Exchange over an alleged $130 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme, The Defiant reported. The two companies are accused of promising investors risk-free trading returns and submitting false documents for SEC approval.

Polymarket said on its official X account it identified and fixed an issue caused by the compromise of one of its third-party providers. The platform said affected users will be compensated, although trading remains temporarily suspended. Earlier, some users had raised concerns about unauthorized asset withdrawals and a possible front-end hack. In a separate update, blockchain security firm PeckShield said, "currently, the official website UI seems to have been compromised. It is recommended not to use the site at this time."

Mysten Labs’ self-custody wallet for the Sui blockchain, Slush Wallet, has been upgraded to let users pay network fees in stablecoins, according to Crypto Briefing. The feature was first applied to transfers and payments on Oct. 14, then expanded on Oct. 28 to swaps, staking and unstaking, and deposits and withdrawals. Users who use the feature only need to pay Sui gas fees, with no separate platform fee.

MoonPay, a global crypto payments and stablecoin infrastructure company, announced U.S.-based creator platform Whop has joined its AI payments product PayBox Markets. The move will connect about 300,000 Whop merchants to PayBox Markets, enabling AI agents to search for products and handle ordering and payment.

Prediction market platform Polymarket said it is currently allowing only order cancellations. Some users had earlier raised concerns about unauthorized asset withdrawals and a possible frontend hack. Polymarket said it is investigating an incident related to the matter.

HTX adviser and Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun said HTX, formerly Huobi, concluded legal proceedings in the UK after constructive talks with the UK Financial Conduct Authority and agreed to stop operating there, but the settlement does not amount to an admission of legal liability or unlawful or improper conduct. The comments came after UK regulators reached an agreement with HTX over allegations of illegal crypto promotions in the country, Sun said on X.

Asset manager Vanguard increased its holdings of BTC treasury company Strive (ASST) to 1.99 million shares worth $51.5 million through its flagship Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSAX), Bitcoin Treasuries reported.

Celestia announced the launch of Voyager, a new blockchain architecture for large-scale payments in agent commerce. The company said Voyager was designed for an internet where millions of agents pay for content, data, and services whenever needed, and added that the system reached 21 million transactions per second in benchmarks.

Just 13% of U.S. voters said it matters whether political candidates support emerging financial technologies such as cryptocurrency, blockchain and DeFi, Decrypt reported. The figure came from an Ipsos survey commissioned by the DeFi Education Fund, which found the strongest support, at 35%, was for candidates who back broader measures to foster fintech companies in the United States.

Some Polymarket users have raised concerns about unauthorized asset withdrawals and a possible frontend hack, multiple media outlets reported.

Ethena announced cumulative rewards in the USDe ecosystem have surpassed $800 million since launch. Most of the rewards went to users who deposited USDe to receive sUSDe, while other participants in ecosystem activities also received payouts, according to Crypto Briefing. Ethena recently approved the 'ENA fee switch' in a governance vote to buy back its token with as much as 95% of eligible net revenue, but the fee switch will activate only if USDe’s market capitalization rises above $7.5 billion. USDe’s market capitalization is currently below $5 billion.

Stock tokens cannot solve liquidity constraints through around-the-clock trading alone and need redemption mechanisms and market-maker support, Gravity Team CEO Mārtiņš Beņķītis said in an interview with Crypto Briefing. Beņķītis said liquidity providers cannot hedge with the underlying stocks when traditional equity markets are closed on weekends and overnight, leaving large orders more likely to move prices sharply. The IMF had also previously found that stock tokens are less liquid than traditional equities while exhibiting realized volatility 1.5 times higher.

Layer-1 blockchain Zilliqa said it plans to carry out its fourth exchange migration hard fork at block height 39,242,023, expected around 7:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 30. The upgrade will migrate ZIL balances on XT from legacy Schnorr addresses to verified Zilliqa EVM addresses, change validator reward distribution from every block to every epoch, and enable Pectra support to update EVM compatibility. It will also support the migration of existing deposited balances in Scilla staking contracts for Zilliqa 1 through the ZKP app, prepare the migration of some ZRC2 Scilla tokens to ERC20 on EVM, and revise EVM gas fee accounting. Zilliqa said users do not need to take any separate action, while centralized exchanges have temporarily suspended ZIL deposits and withdrawals and may resume them once the hard fork is successfully implemented.

India’s Enforcement Directorate conducted searches linked to $524 million in cross-border cryptocurrency transfers, The Defiant reported. The agency said the company used USDT and USDC for overseas remittances without approval from the Reserve Bank of India, violating foreign exchange law. Binance, Bybit and other offshore platforms were reportedly used in the process, although it was unclear whether any charges had been brought against the platforms.

Shopify and Coinbase have built a Commerce Payments Protocol on Base to enable merchants to accept stablecoins as a payment method, according to Base.

Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock STRC rose above $99.95 for the first time in 165 days, moving close to its symbolic $100 par value.

IPX, formerly LINE FRIENDS, announced an integration with Bridge, Stripe’s stablecoin infrastructure unit, to add fiat deposit and withdrawal functions to its intellectual property tokenization platform. Starting on Nov. 15, eligible users and projects will be able to receive off-chain revenue such as sponsorships, licensing fees, and ticket sales through Bridge virtual accounts via wire transfers and ACH. U.S. dollars received as revenue will be automatically swapped into Base-based USDC, with conversion back to a bank account also available.

Bitcoin’s derivatives market is seeing concentrated bets on $90,000, $95,000 and $100,000 call options even as demand for downside hedging is also rising, according to a Bitcoin.com analysis. Futures open interest stood at $54.78 billion, or 672,480 BTC, up 1.46% over the past 24 hours. In the options market, call options accounted for 59.35% of open interest, but put options led daily trading volume at 52.07%, indicating that downside hedging demand has increased as well. The max pain price, or the range where the largest number of options buyers lose their premiums, was estimated at $78,000-$81,000 for October expiry and $75,000-$78,000 for December expiry.

Sports fan-token-focused layer-one blockchain Chiliz (CHZ) said in a message from CEO Alex Dreyfus that governance and staking have resumed and are now operational. The company added that a pending update status has also been cleared.

Former FTX Chief Operating Officer Constance Wang said in an interview that the public does not fully recognize FTX employees as victims and that most people believe the staff caused a major tragedy, Cointelegraph reported.

DeFi lending protocol Fluid announced the start of a limited beta for its decentralized exchange, Fluid DEX v2. The platform supports custom range orders across both Smart Collateral and Smart Debt, while also offering features including Hooks, dynamic fees, and on-chain limit orders. The beta is open to all users, although strict usage limits apply during the test period.

Blockchain investment firm 1kx expects total revenue across the blockchain industry to reach $100 billion this year, down about 28% from a year earlier as cryptocurrency prices fell. In a report, 1kx said institutional and real-economy-related businesses now account for about 30% of blockchain industry revenue, while revenue from real-economy-related businesses surpassed blockchain infrastructure revenue for the first time ever in the third quarter of 2026. The share of total revenue generated by listed companies also rose to 16% from 7% in 2022, 1kx said. In the same quarter, 283 protocols returned value to token holders through token buybacks, burns and fee-sharing, the highest figure on record, according to the report.

Shares of Nasdaq-listed Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR), a company pursuing a HYPE accumulation strategy, were trading at $11.72, up 17.55% from the previous session, following gains in HYPE. Bloomberg previously reported that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is seeking to launch perpetual futures products in the U.S. through Hyperliquid.

Request said it launched an orchestrator dashboard on Oct. 30 that lets payment platforms manage stablecoin payments across all merchants in one place without relying on technical teams. The blockchain payment protocol said platforms can onboard merchants through a white-label setup with their own branding, customize payment pages to match either platform or merchant brands, and set merchant-specific fees to generate revenue on each transaction. For wallet screening, platforms can apply standard or customized know-your-transaction, or KYT, rules, or let each merchant choose a screening provider and rules directly. The dashboard also shows all connected merchants and their status, as well as the KYT rules applied to each merchant, while allowing team members to handle routine operations and reserving control over sensitive settings for the top administrator.

The French Senate passed at first reading a bill that would allow the automatic exchange of cryptocurrency transaction data with foreign tax authorities and sent it to the National Assembly as Bill No. 3421, Cointelegraph reported. The bill includes an information-sharing framework based on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, or CARF, along with amendments to an existing agreement on financial account information. Separately, France’s parliament on Oct. 16 approved an amendment to the 2027 budget that would tax gains from conversions involving certain fiat-backed stablecoins starting Jan. 1, 2027. A plenary vote is scheduled for Nov. 3.