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Nasdaq-listed XRP treasury company Evernode (XRPN) has signed a stock purchase agreement to issue new shares worth $80.7 million to fund additional XRP purchases, according to CoinGape. In a filing submitted to the U.S. SEC on Oct. 23, local time, Evernode said it entered into the agreement with CF Principal Investments, an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, and plans to issue 5.2 million XRPN Class A common shares over the coming months. The purchase price is set at 97% of the average share price during that period. The proceeds will be used for additional XRP purchases and ecosystem activities.

South Korean exchange Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend HBAR deposits and withdrawals at 11:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 28 for the Hedera network upgrade.

Advertisements featuring the XRP logo have appeared on subway trains and in stations around Manhattan’s 42nd Street area in New York, according to U.Today. The ads feature a white XRP logo on a black background, the U.S. flag and the slogan "Crypto Responsibly." Meanwhile, Ripple will hold its Swell conference in New York from Oct. 27 to Oct. 29.

Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for Pocket Network (POKT) at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 27 due to a network upgrade.

Spot CVD is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper section shows the volume heatmap, while the lower section shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. The background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance. - The CVD indicator in the lower section reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color moves higher. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 49.26% long, 50.74% short - Binance: 48.98% long, 51.02% short - OKX: 49.12% long, 50.88% short - Bybit: 49.77% long, 50.23% short

The total stablecoin market capitalization has fallen by $12.73 billion since May 22 to $300.36 billion as of Oct. 25, Bitcoin.com reported, citing DefiLlama data. USDT and USDC led the decline, according to the report. USDT’s market cap stood at $182.423 billion, down $1.29 billion over the past 30 days, while USDC’s fell by $4.69 billion over the same period to $71.743 billion. Stablecoins are generally seen as capital waiting to buy cryptocurrencies, and a decline in market capitalization may be interpreted as weaker buying demand.

South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb announced the designation of Initia (INIT) for a delisting watchlist. Upbit said it confirmed the token could pose a risk of user harm after considering factors including the occurrence of a security incident such as a hacking attack whose cause has not been identified or remedied. The Initia team previously announced on Oct. 24 that an attack exploiting a project bug had occurred.

An Ethereum whale address beginning with 0x6C67, which bought 100,000 ETH at $0.311 each during Ethereum’s 2015 ICO, deposited 1,500 ETH worth $3.45 million to an exchange, according to EmberCN. EmberCN said the address sold 50,000 ETH in 2016 at $5.47 each for a 17-fold return, then held the remaining 50,000 ETH for 11 years before transferring funds to an external address for the first time today. The amount sent to the exchange was part of those holdings. Exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of intent to sell.

Users of Telegram-based crypto trading bot BloomTrading suffered about $950,000 in losses after a wallet compromise, with 9,408 SOL drained from about 48 to 49 wallets, Crypto Briefing reported. Bloom said it is investigating the incident, including the possibility of a breach involving a third-party system, and has temporarily suspended some services. The company also said it plans to compensate affected users by sending funds to newly created secure wallets. BloomTrading is a Telegram-based trade automation tool that supports Solana and EVM-compatible blockchains. The platform uses a custodial structure in which it generates and manages users’ private keys, raising concerns that user assets could be exposed if the platform’s infrastructure or related accounts are compromised.

PancakeSwap, a BNB Chain-based decentralized exchange, said CAKE bridging on opBNB via LayerZero will stop at 12:00 a.m. UTC on Nov. 23 as LayerZero ends support for opBNB. Users holding CAKE on opBNB should bridge their tokens to BNB Chain before the deadline.

Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend Pocket Network (POKT) deposits and withdrawals at 9:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 27 for a network upgrade.

The U.S. is moving to counter organized crime and illicit cryptocurrency activity in the Pacific region, Bitcoin.com reported. Of a total $44 million budget, $5 million was allocated to the Pacific Alliance to Counter Illicit Finance and Cybercrime program, or PACIFIC, according to the report. Under the program, U.S. federal agencies will train local police officers in cryptocurrency tracing, beneficial ownership investigations and digital forensics.

Bitcoin hardware wallet maker Foundation warned users on X after spam emails appearing to come from its official domain were circulated. Foundation said one or more Cloudflare API keys appeared to have been compromised and all API keys were revoked. The malicious domain included in the spam emails has been taken down. Foundation added its Passport hardware wallet was not compromised and stored funds remain safe. The company is investigating the exact cause of the incident and plans to release a report soon.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Zhao voluntarily pleaded guilty in the U.S. and paid a hefty fine because Zhao did not want to become a fugitive or avoid the issue, BlockBeats reported, citing an interview with Japanese business outlet PIVOT. Zhao said Binance’s violations were limited to registration-related issues, not fraud, and there were no victims, while user assets remained protected throughout. Zhao added that prison was an unpleasant experience and a lesson. Zhao also said Bank of America recently faced only a $1.2 billion fine for what Zhao described as more serious violations and was not prosecuted. Zhao said the world is inherently unfair, but Zhao is no longer dwelling on the past and plans to learn from the experience and focus on doing more positive things going forward.

Kakao Pay CEO Shin Won-keun said stablecoin preparations need to move faster and that broader efforts around tokenization and digital assets should also accelerate, according to IT Chosun. Speaking at a keynote address at Seoul Fintech Week 2026 in Seoul today, Shin identified three tasks for expanding financial AI agents: payment infrastructure, trust-building and regulatory improvement. Shin spent much of the speech explaining the advantages of stablecoins as a payment method for AI agents, saying they enable high-frequency micropayments, allow transactions through software-based authentication without entering card numbers or security codes, and make cross-border payments much easier.

Democratic Party lawmaker Park Min-kyu will hold a forum at the National Assembly on Nov. 2 to examine weakening competitiveness in South Korea’s digital asset market and discuss institutional reforms, Law Issue reported. Park, a member of the National Assembly representing Seoul’s Gwanak A district, said the event titled 'Coin Exodus, No Longer Something We Can Leave Unchecked - Emergency Review of the Competitiveness of South Korea’s Digital Asset Market in the AI Era and Institutional Reform Measures' will take place at 5:00 a.m. UTC on Nov. 2 in a small conference room on the basement first floor of the National Assembly Library. Government officials will attend in person, and amid divided views over whether to delay the planned January 2027 rollout of virtual asset taxation, the head of the Income Tax Policy Division at the finance ministry will hear views from experts and industry officials.

Developer Shaw, who has about 164,000 followers on X, asked other developers to help reverse-engineer the smart contract of Solana-based memecoin issuance platform Pump.fun. Shaw said the goal is to analyze Pump.fun’s private smart contract and recreate code that is completely identical to the original binary down to the byte level. Shaw said the effort is not aimed at building a contract with similar functions, but at reproducing the original contract exactly, including its bugs and flaws, and asked developers to join the reverse-engineering work through a related GitHub repository. Shaw argued the source code for smart contracts must be made public so people and AI can review the code to identify and report security vulnerabilities. Shaw also said tokens purchased with memecoin trading fees would be distributed as rewards to developers who contribute to achieving the reverse-engineering goal.

As pessimism spreads across the crypto market, well-known trader Bonk Guy said investors should avoid getting swept up in fear and instead look for undervalued opportunities and build positions ahead of the next rally. Bonk Guy said past market cycles showed bull markets lasted an average of about 1,060 days and accounted for 74% of the full cycle, while bear markets lasted an average of 380 days and made up 26%. Bonk Guy added that corrections leave a strong impression on investors and increase psychological pressure, but occupy a relatively short portion of the overall cycle. Rather than getting absorbed in pessimism spreading on X, market participants should research investment opportunities that others are ignoring out of fear and prepare for the next bull market before sentiment recovers, Bonk Guy said. By the time broad buying interest returns, attractive entry opportunities may already have disappeared, Bonk Guy added.

Nasdaq-listed TRON bought an additional 150,997 TRX at an average price of $0.3311, for a purchase worth about $50,000, Onchain Lens reported. The company’s holdings have now surpassed 720 million TRX.

BNB Chain is pursuing development of a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain tentatively called NewL1, optimized for latency-sensitive workloads such as high-frequency trading and AI-based transactions, Crypto Briefing reported. According to updated technical documents cited by the outlet, the network targets 200-millisecond block times, around 20 milliseconds in pre-confirmation, sub-one-second transaction finality and throughput of more than 100,000 transactions per second. To support that, BNB Chain plans to upgrade Parlia, the consensus mechanism used by the existing BNB Chain, while applying consensus optimization and parallel execution. The roadmap also includes native account abstraction with programmable account features and a shielded privacy pool designed to strengthen transaction privacy. BNB Chain is targeting a public testnet for NewL1 by late 2026 and a mainnet launch in early 2027. BNB Chain described the new network as a way to expand the ecosystem rather than a replacement for BNB Smart Chain, or BSC. Zhao Changpeng, also known as CZ, said BNB would remain the only token used for gas fees, staking and governance across the broader BNB Chain network, including BSC and the new Layer 1.

A 35-year-old New York resident, Timothy Wadsworth, was sentenced to 51 months in prison on conspiracy and money laundering charges for laundering credit card fraud proceeds through Bitcoin, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York. The office said Wadsworth used credit card information obtained from accomplices to make unauthorized purchases, moved the stolen funds into Wadsworth’s bank account, then used part of the proceeds to buy BTC on Coinbase and send it to accomplices’ external wallet addresses. Between March and May 2020, Wadsworth attempted 310 unauthorized transactions worth about $1.67 million, of which 116 worth about $730,000 were successfully processed, it said. The office added Wadsworth also fraudulently obtained COVID-19-related government relief loans and unemployment benefits and took part in a romance scam. Total losses tied to the crimes, including attempted fraud, were estimated at about $2.06 million. The court also ordered about $810,000 in restitution and forfeiture of the same amount.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission officially announced it has become the first in the world to allow secondary trading of tokenized public funds on licensed virtual asset trading platforms. The move has opened 24-hour trading for two already approved tokenized money market funds. The SFC said it also plans to expand links with tokenized deposits through Project Ensemble, a joint initiative with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, as part of efforts to streamline settlement procedures for tokenized asset trading and enable real-time transfers of sale proceeds.

Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend ATOM deposits and withdrawals starting at 11:00 a.m. UTC on Oct. 28 for the Cosmos network upgrade.

The Ethereum Foundation sold 2,785 ETH worth $6.42 million through decentralized exchange CoW Swap, according to Onchain Lens.