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World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s DeFi project, plans to expand its payment technology offerings to major Web2 companies, Crypto Briefing reported. The main focus is corporate payment services for disbursing funds to drivers, contract workers and content creators, with the related payment infrastructure built around WLFI’s dollar stablecoin USD1.

Dominion, a Solana-based tokenized silver project, announced it is shutting down after a security incident in September led to the theft and sell-off of a large amount of SILV tokens, collapsing liquidity. The project said the attack also caused losses to operating funds and damaged the market structure, leaving the capital needed to rebuild beyond its remaining resources. Dominion said it will direct most of its remaining liquidity to a reimbursement program and allow eligible users who held SILV before the attack to redeem and liquidate their tokens at $63 each. SILV is a token designed to be backed one-to-one by physical silver, with each token representing one troy ounce of silver.

U.S. government-linked wallets transferred 40,285 BNB to a new address, worth $31.6 million, according to Onchain Lens.

Stacks founder Muneeb Ali has returned as CEO and outlined five priorities for his first 30 days, including expanding institutional business development and shortening the time from initial interest to launch for Bitcoin bonds amid rising demand. Ali said speed would be critical and that the company would move with startup-like urgency. Ali also said the leadership structure would be simplified, with the CEO delegating authority to key talent while clearly defining which decisions Ali would make directly and setting up a process to hear a range of views before making decisions quickly. Ali plans to unveil a two-year roadmap showing how institutional-grade Bitcoin privacy and quantum-resistant technology fit into Stacks' strategy beyond Bitcoin capital markets. Ali also plans one-on-one meetings with large STX holders to share Stacks' latest strategy and progress, and to hold the first public holder update call within 30 days.

Arthur Hayes said at the Token2049 event that Flop Labs, the AI agent project he leads as CEO, plans to launch its testnet in October. The testnet is set to run for 90 days, with the mainnet scheduled for launch in the first quarter of next year. Testnet participants will be eligible for a FLOP airdrop.

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted a net outflow of $201.89 million on Oct. 6, extending the streak to six straight trading days, according to SoSoValue. - BlackRock ETHA: -$201.89 million

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $118.86 million on Oct. 6, reversing to net inflows after one day, according to Farside Investors. - BlackRock IBIT: +$122 million - Morgan Stanley MSBT: +$7.84 million

The Cardano Foundation said it has launched CIP-0113, a programmable token standard for the Cardano mainnet that lets issuers embed compliance features directly into tokens. Issuers of regulated assets such as stablecoins, tokenized funds, and bonds can use the standard to set rules for KYC and AML checks, sanctions screening, asset freezes and seizures, and transfer restrictions within the token itself. The foundation said the standard can be applied without a separate hard fork, while issuers can choose modular rules, write their own, and update them as regulations change.

Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to its corporate treasury assets, The Block reported.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said in a CNBC interview that under the crypto regulatory framework being prepared by the CFTC, leveraged trading will be allowed only on federally regulated crypto exchanges. Selig added that leverage of up to 100x, seen on offshore exchanges, has never been permitted in the United States and will not be allowed under the new framework. The CFTC had previously indicated it would limit excessive leverage in the U.S. crypto derivatives market.

Shayne Coplan, CEO of Polymarket, said at Token2049 that Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is one of Polymarket’s largest shareholders. Coplan added that ICE is actively considering putting stocks on-chain in cooperation with regulators.

Coinbase plans to relaunch Coinbase Pro later this year for high-net-worth and high-frequency traders, Crypto Briefing reported. The new platform is set to support spot, futures, perpetual futures, options, and stocks in a single trading environment. Coinbase also plans to introduce spot margin trading, offering up to 10x leverage on major assets and up to 5x on other assets.

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - BTC: $145.38 million liquidated (90.65% longs) - ETH: $176.73 million liquidated (94.06% longs) - XRP: $12.43 million liquidated (95.46% longs)

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced the designation of XAI as a delisting watchlist item.

Frank, the founder of the DeGod NFT project y00ts, sold about $1.32 million worth of altcoins over roughly 30 minutes. The sales included about $1 million worth of BP, $250,000 worth of EDEL, and $70,000 worth of GP.

Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said at Token2049 that crypto is at the start of a supercycle and that most assets managed in traditional finance will be tokenized within the next 10 years, with BlackRock, JPMorgan and Robinhood building related infrastructure on Ethereum, or ETH.

An anonymous trader’s wallet was likely hacked five hours ago, with about $4 million in assets stolen, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. The stolen assets totaled nine tokens, including 1.43 million BP worth $1.77 million, 13.96 million MASCOIN worth $1.55 million, and 3.7 million CASHCAT worth $510,000. A CoinNess analysis found the hacker sold the stolen assets, swapped them into ETH, BNB and SOL, and then laundered the funds through Privacy Cash and Chainflip.

Jack Yi, founder of crypto-focused investment firm LD Capital, said Bitcoin is still holding key support levels while altcoins have entered a broader correction phase. Yi said BTC had been seen as vulnerable to a pullback after rising to $86,000 about a month ago, adding that even in a bull market, prices spend most of the time moving sideways before surging in certain stretches or undergoing a natural correction. Yi said the current decline, even if it deepens, should be viewed as a normal correction within a broader bullish trend.

Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, or BaFin, has rejected Futurum Bank’s application for a license under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, affecting local crypto trading platform Bitcoin.de, Cointelegraph reported. As a result, trading services on Bitcoin.de, most of which have been suspended since June, are not expected to resume for the time being. Parent company Bitcoin Group SE said it may challenge the decision or reapply later, and is pursuing a plan to restart trading through a partner with regulatory approval. Bitcoin.de has more than 1.1 million users.

Major exchanges have seen $370 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $508 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

AVAX has fallen by 4.21% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, AVAX is trading at $11.04.

ADA has fallen by 4.53% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, ADA is trading at $0.25.

DOGE has fallen by 3.88% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, DOGE is trading at $0.09.

XRP has fallen by 2.81% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, XRP is trading at $1.46.

ETH has fallen by 2.86% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, ETH is trading at $2,603.94.