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On-chain compliance platform Predicate said it raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Paxos, 1kx and Tribe Capital. Predicate provides services that review regulatory compliance and control risk before trade execution for on-chain financial products such as stablecoins and tokenized assets.

Ethereum Name Service (ENS), an Ethereum-based decentralized naming protocol, announced the official mainnet launch of a new protocol, the ENS app and ENS Explorer. ENS said it rebuilt the protocol for current users and for all future environments that will require naming services.

DePIN project Pocket Network (POKT) said it has completed its mainnet v0.1.36 upgrade. The chain was briefly paused at block height 982,867 at 1:14 p.m. UTC and resumed with the new binary about three minutes later. Block production and settlement are operating normally. Suppliers must run a v0.1.36-compatible RelayMiner. Proofs from earlier versions will be rejected and subject to slashing.

Decentralized exchange Jupiter has launched Jupiter Bridge, a bridge aggregator that compares multiple bridges including RelayProtocol, Mayan, Circle CCTP and NEAR Protocol to offer optimal rates for Solana deposits and withdrawals.

CF Benchmarks, a unit of Kraken parent Payward, has launched CFB Oracle, an oracle service that delivers price indices used in traditional financial markets to blockchain applications, CoinDesk reported. The service allows developers to build onchain index funds, tokenized portfolios and derivatives based on pricing data used by traditional financial institutions. CF Benchmarks has provided price indices used for BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF and CME Group’s crypto futures. CFB Oracle offers benchmark prices across a range of assets including cryptocurrencies, stocks, bonds, commodities and foreign exchange. For example, an onchain fund holding tokenized stocks can use the data to calculate portfolio value, while a lending platform accepting tokenized bonds as collateral can use it to set borrowing limits and liquidation thresholds. The service currently supports Ethereum, HyperEVM and Robinhood Chain, with plans to expand to other networks.

Injective announced the launch of Injective Options, its proprietary options infrastructure, which is now live on testnet. The initial rollout offers fully collateralized call and put options across six markets, including the on-chain AI compute index SICI, the U.S. top 500 companies index US500, the U.S. top 100 technology companies index US Tech, and global commodities such as gold, silver and crude oil. All options are fully collateralized with Injective’s native USDC. Injective said developers can use the options infrastructure to build white-label exchanges or derivatives protocols, while institutions can create customized derivatives and hedging products, and users can trade or issue options directly on-chain.

Modular rollup execution environment Cartesi (CTSI) announced two foundation notices for stakers and CTSI holders. The first covers the remaining lifecycle of the Mine Reserve in relation to staking rewards. The second proposes permanently revoking the CTSI token’s MinterRole, with a vote set to take place after a 21-day comment period.

A whale address, 0xbf8...808d5, which accumulated Ethereum from November 2022 to February 2026, deposited 3,084 ETH worth $7.17 million to Binance about five minutes ago, according to ai_9684xtpa. The whale had been buying ETH in tranches over the past four years and staking it on Lido to earn yield. Its last sale took place between August and November 2025, when ETH was trading at $3,847 to $4,532. Estimated profit is about $928,000.

Solana-based decentralized applications posted about $34 million in revenue last week, ranking first among layer-one and layer-two blockchains for a seventh consecutive week, Crypto Briefing reported.

Cryptocurrencies may outperform AI-related stocks, former Morgan Stanley executive and Visser Labs founder Jordi Visser said, according to Cointelegraph. Visser said it is becoming harder for AI stocks to repeat their explosive gains, while the spread of AI agents is increasing demand for crypto payments and tokenized assets. He added that AI agents will bring a shift to the crypto market comparable to the arrival of smartphones and app stores, and said he has recently expanded his investment scope beyond Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) into other altcoins.

The UAE’s crypto economy reached $104.8 billion, up 31.9% from a year earlier, based on combined inflows to crypto services and peer-to-peer trading, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Over the same period, the broader Middle East and North Africa region shrank 1.4%, while the decline excluding the UAE reached 8.6%. Chainalysis said the crypto sector continued to expand even as regional conflict tied to the Iran war persisted and the UAE’s broader economic growth slowed, adding that years of efforts to attract crypto firms and lead related regulatory frameworks helped draw institutional capital seeking a stable regulatory environment into the UAE.

Ripple said it is expanding its partnership with Robinhood to cover the RLUSD stablecoin, Ripple Prime prime brokerage services, and Ripple Treasury cash management services, with plans to support client-facing offerings and core financial operations.

Stablecoin protocol Lista DAO announced its Lista CDP migration will close on Oct. 31. Users with remaining CDP positions must either move them to Lista Lending with one click before the deadline or repay the debt and withdraw collateral. Positions can be checked under "My dashboard."

Crypto.com and OG.com plan to launch regulatory-compliant cryptocurrency perpetual futures in the U.S. with leverage of up to 5x, The Block reported. The products are derivatives with no expiration date, allowing investors to take positions on both rising and falling crypto prices.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.3% - Nasdaq: +0.45% - Dow Jones: +0.04%

Bitcoin mining services firm Luxor Technology has raised $16 million to expand its artificial intelligence business, CoinDesk reported. CMT Digital led the investment, while mining equipment manufacturers Canaan and MicroBT also participated. Luxor plans to use the funding for AI hardware brokerage and computing resource trading.

Whale accounts on decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid have flipped to a net short BTC position for the first time since March, Crypto Briefing reported. As of Oct. 27, the outlet said the group held about $1.33 billion in BTC short positions, roughly $377 million more than its $952 million in long positions. Some whales built short positions of more than $200 million each when BTC was around $76,000, including one account with a $210 million short. With BTC now trading near $80,000, the position is showing unrealized losses. Crypto Briefing added that short positions totaling about $3.3 billion could be liquidated if BTC approaches $85,000, and such large-scale short liquidations could trigger additional buying pressure and set off a short squeeze.

A DTCC validator on the Canton Network, "DTCC-Validator-1," used 787,154.59 CC to secure network traffic, according to blockchain explorer CCView. At 5:56 p.m. UTC on Oct. 26, the validator’s remaining traffic reached 15% of its preset limit, triggering an automatic purchase. The purchase totaled 1,252.17 MB, with 628.63 CC used per MB. On the Canton Network, CC used for traffic purchases is burned. DTCC’s head of digital assets said in July that the firm was working with Canton and Stellar to handle annual settlement processing worth 4 quadrillion U.S. dollars.

Mirae Asset Securities’ Hong Kong unit said it will work with decentralized perpetual futures exchange GRVT on security token issuance and product development. The unit said it arranged the issuance of tokenized funding securities through an affiliate’s structured securities program, and GRVT acquired the securities. GRVT plans to use them for GRVT Earn, its yield product. The two sides also plan to consider expanding tokenized products to include U.S. Treasurys, corporate bonds and ETFs.

The amount of ZEC bridged to Solana reached a record of about 103,000 tokens, worth roughly $124 million as of late October, with most of the supply coming through NEAR’s OmniBridge, Crypto Briefing reported. ZEC supply on Solana rose from about 86,643 in May to 97,942 in mid-September before setting a new high this time. The record was based on token count, however, and its U.S. dollar value was lower than in mid-September, when it stood at about $132 million. The number of addresses holding ZEC issued through OmniBridge climbed about ninefold, from roughly 17,000 in late June to more than 152,000 by late October. As of mid-September, about 79% of spot DEX trading volume in ZEC across all blockchains took place on Solana. ZEC bridged to Solana does not provide privacy-preserving features, meaning balances and transaction histories are visible.

AI agent onchain execution protocol Wayfinder (PROMPT) said its services are back online. Agent execution, Shell restoration, new account creation, wallet imports and Path staking have been normalized, and security has been rebuilt across the full stack. Path usage, installation and publishing features will be restored in phases later. Pro account users have received one-month refunds.

U.S. fintech company SoFi posted $161.6 million in gross revenue from crypto trading in the third quarter, up 20% from the previous quarter, The Block reported. Net revenue from crypto trading, excluding related costs, came to $1.6 million. SoFi resumed its crypto trading service late last year.

Janus Henderson has launched JQQQ, a tokenized fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 index, Crypto Briefing reported. The fund is the first tokenized product officially authorized to track the Nasdaq-100 and uses the Stellar (XLM) blockchain and tokenization technology from Centrifuge (CFG). Initial investment is limited to eligible professional investors outside the United States, with a minimum investment of $100,000.

Bitcoin could fall to the next support level at $76,000 if it fails to hold $80,000, and may slide to the low-$70,000 range if that level also breaks, crypto market maker Wintermute said in an analysis posted on X. Wintermute said BTC has declined for three straight weeks and broken below the $82,500 support level. The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Oct. 28 local time is a key variable for the next price direction, it said. While rates are widely expected to remain unchanged at this meeting, emphasis on the possibility of a December rate hike could lift Treasury yields and push BTC back below $80,000. On the other hand, if policymakers leave December policy options open, BTC could have room to recover to the $82,000-$82,500 range. Wintermute added BTC has recently been reacting sensitively to moves in U.S. tech stocks. It said it is not broadly bearish on the market, but is maintaining a cautious stance until BTC comes through the FOMC meeting and the Personal Consumption Expenditures price data due on Oct. 29 without major disruption and regains $82,500.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor said on X that Bitcoin remains a worthwhile investment. He said arguing there is no need to buy BTC simply because anyone can create a cryptocurrency is like saying there is no need to learn English because anyone can invent a new language.