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Investors with sizable stakes in companies such as SpaceX are considering reinvesting 10% of those holdings into cryptocurrencies, Re7 Capital founder Evgeny Gokhberg said at the Singapore Longitude conference, Cointelegraph reported.

A U.S. court has sentenced a Missouri man to 32 months in prison after he damaged a company computer network and demanded Bitcoin ransom from employees, according to Daily Hodl. Daniel Rhyne, a Missouri resident, hacked the computer network of a New Jersey industrial company in 2023 while working there as a core infrastructure engineer, deleted a network administrator account, and threatened to keep shutting down servers unless employees paid around 20 BTC, worth about $750,000 at the time, the report said. That amount is now worth about $1.667 million. In April, Rhyne pleaded guilty to charges of threatening to damage a protected computer and intentionally causing damage to a protected computer.

CoinGecko CEO Bobby Ong said at the Singapore Longitude conference that institutional investors can no longer ignore cryptocurrencies and now need to embrace the sector and examine it more closely, Cointelegraph reported. He cited stablecoin growth, Bitcoin ETFs and asset tokenization as signs the industry is evolving.

FalconX transferred 96,600 HYPE from a hot wallet to Coinbase, according to Onchain Lens. The transfer was worth about $8.01 million.

Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman said at the Longitude conference in Singapore that the crypto industry never needed a pro-crypto U.S. administration, only one that was not fiercely opposed to cryptocurrencies.

The Aptos Foundation has outlined plans to revamp APT tokenomics, including cutting the annual staking reward rate to 2.6% from 5.19%, raising gas fees tenfold, and capping total supply at 2.1 billion APT, according to Wu Blockchain. The foundation also said it plans to permanently lock and stake 210 million APT, equal to about 18% of the current supply, and fund operations through staking rewards rather than token sales. Future ecosystem grants will be determined by whether performance metrics are met, while a buyback program funded by cash reserves and future revenue is also under review. The foundation said the initial four-year token unlock cycle is set to end in October, which is expected to reduce annual token unlock volume by 60%. It added the changes are aimed at lowering token issuance and increasing token burns, and APT could shift to a deflationary structure if the plan proceeds as proposed.

Major exchanges have seen $172 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $1,141 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

The NFL has backed New Jersey in its Supreme Court case against Kalshi, arguing sports prediction contracts amount to gambling rather than financial swaps overseen by the CFTC. The lawsuit could help determine whether prediction markets can offer sports-related contracts nationwide or remain subject to state-by-state regulation, The Block reported.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley said BWOW, the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF scheduled to cease operations on Oct. 14 local time, showed a gap between ETF traders and users of crypto trading apps, according to an interview with The Block at Digital Asset Summit 2026 Asia. Horsley said he likes Dogecoin and holds it, adding he sees authenticity in the token itself. But as an ETF, it delivered no meaningful results, he said. Horsley added ETF traders did not want exposure to Dogecoin, although that could change over time. He said Bitwise's job is to identify the opportunities investors want to access and develop useful products around them.

Bitcoin miners have stopped selling, easing pressure on BTC prices, according to CryptoQuant. CryptoQuant said miners have not shown extreme BTC outflows since Aug. 21, citing local time. Bitcoin was trading at around $76,000 that day, while miners’ profitability indicator shifted from "extremely underpaid" to "fairly paid," the report said. CryptoQuant said this suggests one of the most persistent sources of selling that had continuously weighed on Bitcoin prices during the 2026 bear market has diminished, easing the market’s structural sell pressure.

Major exchanges have seen $106 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $975 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

President Donald Trump said on Oct. 9 the U.S. is engaged in productive talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trump said Iran is in a very weak economic and military position, while a full blockade remains in place and record volumes of oil are still flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. He added that 22 million barrels passed through the waterway last night and not a single barrel either came from Iran or was headed there. Trump also said the U.S. will not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections and added that Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig said in an interview with Fox Business that the U.S. would no longer stand by as crypto business moved overseas and other countries set the standards. Selig said crypto was returning to the U.S. and would remain there as the country leads on the back of regulatory clarity.

Netflix has released the first trailer for “The Altruists,” an eight-episode drama inspired by the rise and fall of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The series also features figures surrounding Bankman-Fried, including FTX co-founder Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend and the former CEO of Alameda.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $81,000. BTC is trading at $80,948.52 on the Binance USDT market.

Bitmine (BMNR) Chairman Tom Lee, whose firm accumulates Ethereum (ETH), said past crypto bull markets relied on NFTs and stablecoins, while this cycle is drawing attention to asset tokenization. In a post on X, Lee added, "이번 암호화폐 강세장의 핵심 동력이 이전 주기보다 강력할 수 있다. 토큰화로 인한 잠재적 시장 규모가 과거 소매 시장의 규모를 훨씬 뛰어넘기 때문".

El Salvador’s government has continued buying Bitcoin, bringing its national holdings to 7,798 BTC. Data shows the country bought 7 BTC over the past seven days.

Major exchanges have seen $424 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $844 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

The UK has announced sanctions on crypto service providers Cryptomus, Heleket and TokenSpot as part of a crackdown on alleged Russian sanctions evasion, The Block reported. Among them, TokenSpot transferred more than $950 million to sanctioned exchanges Grinex and Garantex, as well as the Kremlin-backed A7 network, according to the report.

Major exchanges have seen $320 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $741 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

U.S. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said the regulatory approach toward Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies would remain in place even if Democrats return to power, according to former Bitcoin Magazine editor Pete Rizzo. Rizzo said Selig added that sound rules would stand the test of time.

Major exchanges have seen $180 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $600 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

Securitize Chief Strategy Officer Chongwu Du said tokenized finance will run on several blockchains rather than a single chain. According to Crypto Briefing, Du added, "onchain asset's future is in multichain."

Pyth Network DAO has approved proposal OP-PIP-136 to use 100% of product revenue for token purchases, according to Crypto Briefing. Under the proposal, 100% of eligible revenue generated by Pyth products will be used for open-market token buybacks, and the purchased tokens will be added to the DAO’s PYTH reserves.

The boundary between traditional finance and on-chain finance could eventually disappear, Fidelity Digital Assets head of strategy Matthew Horne said during a panel discussion, according to Crypto Briefing. Horne said the gap between the two could vanish entirely, leaving only finance, and rejected the idea of a competitive dynamic between traditional finance and decentralized finance. Instead, on-chain finance is more likely to absorb traditional finance or be absorbed by it, Horne said, adding that the labels may ultimately stop mattering. He also said institutional assets are moving on-chain at a very fast pace, with the main driver being the opportunity to enter new markets that offer investors better access.