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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating whether Polymarket took sufficient steps to block U.S. users from accessing its offshore platform, Reuters reported, citing industry sources. The probe is focused on Polymarket’s geolocation-based access controls and advertising activity in the United States. The CFTC is also examining customer sign-up procedures and user protection measures on Polymarket’s U.S. platform. In 2022, Polymarket paid a $1.4 million fine over allegations it offered contract products without reporting to or registering with regulators, and blocked access for U.S. users. Reuters added that the CFTC and the U.S. Department of Justice had also conducted and closed a similar investigation in 2025.

Layer-1 blockchain Core said it is entering its next phase of decentralization. Since the DAO began transferring block production to independent validators, the network has seen no downtime during the transition. Core said the community will take on more of the network’s operations going forward, including ecosystem development, growth initiatives, and decisions on strategic direction. As part of the transition, early contributors Rich Rines and Brendon Sedo are stepping down from their roles within the DAO.

Web3 gaming ecosystem Astranova said it will carry out phase four of its in-house token burn program, "The Forge," on Nov. 2. In this phase, 135 million RVV will be transferred from a public wallet to a burn address for permanent removal. Astranova said the transaction will be disclosed for on-chain verification. After phase four is completed, two more phases will remain, and the next schedule will be announced after this burn is finished.

Decentralized exchange Curve announced the launch of a new market that lets users borrow USG against crvUSD/frxUSD LP tokens as collateral. Initial incentives are already being distributed.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Utah and the state’s attorney general over prediction market regulation, marking Utah as the 10th state targeted in the agency’s legal campaign. According to The Defiant, the lawsuit is aimed at Utah’s recent case against Kalshi and Susquehanna and seeks to block state investigations and enforcement actions against federally regulated markets. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said the agency has the expertise and responsibility to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over commodity derivatives and will do so. The CFTC had previously filed similar lawsuits against nine states, including Kentucky, New Mexico and Wisconsin, with Utah becoming the 10th.

Crypto exchange Kraken now supports Bitcoin and Ethereum options trading through existing Kraken Pro derivatives accounts for eligible traders in the European Economic Area. The contracts are cash-settled, and premiums, profit and loss, and final settlement amounts are calculated in U.S. dollars even when collateral is posted in another currency. Expiries include weekly, monthly, quarterly, and semiannual terms. Kraken launched its options service for eligible traders and institutions in July, and at the time had slated a European rollout for the second half of this year.

According to Chainlink, the blockchain oracle project behind LINK, Further, an asset manager backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ, will adopt Chainlink for a new tokenized asset compliance platform. Chainlink ACE will apply compliance rules across all workflows, starting with Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).

Decentralized prediction market platform Myriad Markets will void 10 BNB Chain-based prediction markets and issue refunds after an internal administrator wallet was compromised, The Defiant reported. The attacker used the hacked wallet to buy specific positions, then finalized those outcomes as winners and claimed payouts. Refunds will be calculated by multiplying each user’s share count by the last price of each outcome before the attack. The affected markets included whether Base will launch a token in 2026, the U.S. midterm elections, cryptocurrency and commodity prices, and whether George Russell will win the 2026 Formula One drivers’ championship.

Decentralized exchange GMX said GMX staking on Arbitrum and Avalanche will move to new contracts on Oct. 27. After the change, unstaking will require a request process, and tokens can be withdrawn 180 days after a request is submitted. Existing staked GMX and esGMX will remain in place and require no separate action. The 80% staking power threshold will apply at the time the request is submitted.

USDC has overtaken USDT in the euro-denominated stablecoin trading market, with its share of euro trading rising from 10% in January 2024 to 56% now, Cointelegraph reported, citing a Kaiko report. The shift accelerated as major exchanges restricted USDT trading for customers in the European Economic Area under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. USDC also led in liquidity, with its euro-denominated order book liquidity running about 40% higher than USDT’s, according to Kaiko. Even so, USDT’s global circulating supply remains about 2.5 times larger than USDC’s.

The Coinbase premium has not turned positive on any day in October, marking its deepest negative reading since June, according to CryptoQuant. The data suggests U.S. buyers have remained on the sidelines.

Coinbase announced the addition of STABLE.

The Ethereum Foundation’s App Enablement team is gathering feedback on Ethereum Improvement Proposals, or EIPs, and constraints in the layer-one protocol, Crypto Briefing reported. The effort is aimed at ensuring application developers’ needs are reflected in the development roadmap for Ethereum’s core protocol, and it is proceeding alongside preparations for Hegotá, the next upgrade expected in 2027.

Bitcoin needs to hold $75,500 to preserve the uptrend structure formed since its summer low, Jesse Marre, senior portfolio manager at digital asset investment firm Hilbert Group, said in an analysis, according to Crypto Briefing. Marre identified a short-term support zone at $78,500 to $79,500, where a trendline supporting Bitcoin’s recent sideways movement is located. Marre warned that if the decline continues below $75,500, the recovery structure built since summer could break down and send BTC back toward its previous low range. On the upside, Bitcoin needs to reclaim $81,400 to re-enter its short-term consolidation range, Marre said. If BTC then breaks through $85,000 and $87,500 in sequence, it could rebound toward $95,000 to $98,000 depending on market conditions. Marre pointed to rising oil prices and a selloff in AI-related tech stocks as drivers of Bitcoin’s weakness. Marre also cited the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate decision this week as a key variable, and expects the Fed to keep rates unchanged at this meeting while maintaining a hawkish stance, citing inflation pressures and resilient economic growth.

A governance proposal has been submitted to burn 55.5 million OSMO, roughly half of the Osmosis community pool’s holdings, according to the decentralized exchange Osmosis. If implemented, the move would reduce total supply by about 7% and push cumulative OSMO burned above 100 million.

Coinbase will automatically convert balances in 14 trading-restricted cryptocurrencies held by retail customers in the European Economic Area on Oct. 30, Crypto Briefing reported. The affected assets are USDT, PYUSD, USD1, DAI, PAX, GUSD, GYEN, BUST, UST, RAI, PAXG, MUSD, USDS and TGBP. If users do not withdraw the balances to an external wallet before the deadline, the holdings will be converted into USDC or another supported cryptocurrency or fiat currency at the prevailing market price. Coinbase has already halted trading, buying and selling of those assets for EEA retail customers to comply with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. For now, the available option for users is to withdraw the assets to a supported external wallet.

Crypto casino platform Gamdom has been asked by hacking group Whitearmor to pay $15 million worth of Bitcoin to prevent the release of customer data, Bitcoin.com reported. Whitearmor claimed it had obtained information tied to 15.42 million Gamdom accounts, although the scale of the data and whether the entire platform was breached have not been independently verified. The incident came less than two weeks after Gamdom was hit by a crypto wallet hack.

MANTRA, a layer-1 blockchain focused on real-world assets (RWA), said claims have opened for the eighth OM upgrade distribution. Vesting will continue through Dec. 2, and users who have not made a claim since June 3 must claim at least once by Dec. 2 to remain eligible for future distributions.

Ondo Finance said 15 Ondo tokenized stocks and ETFs can now be bridged from Ethereum and BNB Chain to Robinhood Chain. It added that 11 Uniswap StablePair pools connect Ondo Stocks with Robinhood Stock Tokens and provide 24-hour liquidity.

Asset manager VanEck announced the launch of the actively managed VanEck Wealth Builder ETF (WBMO), a fund that combines equities, bonds, real assets such as gold, and bitcoin-related investment products in a single vehicle. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the product is designed to let retail investors access VanEck’s existing Wealth Builder model portfolio strategy through a single ETF. The fund does not invest directly in Bitcoin. Instead, it gains Bitcoin exposure by allocating part of its net assets to digital-asset exchange-traded products, or ETPs.

The number of wallets holding between 1,000 and 100,000 XRP has reached a record high, CryptoPotato reported, citing data from on-chain analytics platform Glassnode. As of today, the number of wallets in that range rose to 1,138,510, with more than 3,000 added this month alone. Both the wallet count and aggregate holdings have continued to trend higher this year. Total XRP held by those wallets increased from 10.48 billion at the start of 2026 to 10.86 billion currently, for a year-to-date gain of about 380 million XRP.

Block Scholes research analyst Habib Rahman said Bitcoin could outperform gold and stocks as seasonal factors in November and December historically favor risk assets, according to Crypto Briefing. Bitcoin’s 90-day correlation with gold has risen to 54%, the highest since 2014, while its correlation with the Nasdaq 100 fell to 33% from 59% in February, nearing the lowest level in about a year. Bitcoin’s correlation with the U.S. dollar index also turned the most negative since early 2023. Rahman said the shift in correlations began in June and accelerated after the U.S. Treasury announced in August that it would expand its Treasury buyback program to curb a rise in long-term yields. In the following week, Bitcoin posted its biggest weekly gain since March 2024, while gold rose 5%. Rahman added that with the U.S. midterm elections approaching, November and December have historically been favorable months for risk assets, pointing to the potential for additional relative strength in cryptocurrencies.

Solana-based memecoin issuance and trading platform Pump.fun said it has added the TON (GRAM) network to the Pump.fun app, enabling users to buy TON-based tokens with USDC.

European asset management platform SwissBorg said it burned 300,000 BORG tokens in the third quarter. The burn was approved through a vote by Guardians, a group of premium users who stake BORG. Combined burns in the first and second quarters totaled about 500,000 tokens, bringing the cumulative burn for the first three quarters of this year to about 800,000. Since launching the burn program in April 2021, SwissBorg has burned more than 14.2 million BORG in total, equal to about 1.42% of the token’s maximum supply of 1 billion.

On-chain trading platform Genius has launched a mobile app through Apple’s App Store and Google Play, Wu Blockchain reported. Built on BNB Chain, the app integrates token trading, social features and token creation. Through its Genius fun feature, users can create tokens, set up trading pairs and launch new tokens.