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Polymarket is investigating a series of unusual trades made during this week’s election period in Israel, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg reported that just before polls closed on Oct. 27 local time, hundreds of newly created accounts bet that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party would outperform rival forces. The trades soon turned profitable, and some of the accounts cashed out more than $100,000 in combined proceeds. Bloomberg said the timing of the trades was highly precise and the gains were substantial, raising suspicions of possible insider trading.

Ronin, an Ethereum sidechain for P2E games, announced Ronin Waypoint is scheduled to shut down at 3:00 p.m. UTC on Oct. 31. After logging in, users should check whether wallets labeled Keyless on the wallet list still hold assets that need to be moved. Seed phrase wallets labeled Ronin Wallet do not require any asset transfers.

Tesla founder Elon Musk posted "interesting" in reply to an X post mentioning Stanley Druckenmiller and Hyperliquid. After the reply, HYPE rose more than 16% to as high as $94.65 on Binance’s USDT spot trading pair and was recently trading at $93.10.

Crypto exchange KuCoin (KCS) announced it will stop providing services to customers in Russia and Belarus as the EU tightens crypto-related sanctions. Customers in those regions will receive individual deadlines to close positions and withdraw funds. KuCoin did not mention specific rules or regulators and cited "applicable laws and regulatory requirements" as the reason. Bitget and MEXC had earlier announced service suspensions in those markets as well.

Five anonymous addresses simultaneously opened $52.7 million in HYPE long positions on Hyperliquid, Hupzy, formerly Spot On Chain, reported. Hupzy described the move as a bullish bet made amid recent Hyperliquid-related developments and an OTC unlock of team-held tokens. Earlier, Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange, was said to be pursuing the launch of U.S. perpetual futures products through Hyperliquid. HYPE later rose about 15%.

NEAR Protocol, a layer-one blockchain, said XLM and Stellar USDC can now be used in a service with confidentiality enabled by default. Users can deposit funds from Stellar, then swap them or send them to other users. Recipients receive only the funds, while the sender’s address and full transaction history are not shared, it said.

The Bank of England has begun seeking feedback on tokenized collateral for payments, Cointelegraph reported. The consultation covers ways for central counterparties (CCPs) to accept digital versions of eligible collateral, and under existing rules, digital collateral can be accepted if the assets meet clearing standards. The feedback period ends on Feb. 12.

Axis Robotics said it has suspended all further dealings with an over-the-counter counterparty after strongly suspecting the party sold large amounts of AXIS into the market during Oct. 28-29. The company said the tokens sold were part of the ecosystem allocation from the initial circulating supply and were delivered through that counterparty under a written agreement that included lock-up terms. If the suspected sales took place, the counterparty would have acted in breach of the contract, Axis Robotics said. Axis Robotics added that 835 million AXIS subject to lock-up, including team and investor allocations, remains under vesting agreements, representing 83.5% of the total supply, and will not be unlocked before the end of a mandatory 12-month lock-up period. The company said it plans to review the contract with legal counsel, pursue all contractual remedies available, and distribute the remaining ecosystem tokens only through on-chain vesting going forward.

The Stellar Development Foundation has announced a strategic investment in Marketnode, a digital market infrastructure operator in the Asia-Pacific region, according to Stellar (XLM). Marketnode is backed by Euroclear, HSBC, SGX Group, and Temasek.

Canton Strategic Holdings (CNTN) is moving to launch what would be the first issuer-sponsored tokenized stock trading by a U.S.-listed company, The Block reported. The trading is set to take place on a platform operating under a new tokenization regulatory framework built on the U.S. SEC’s innovation exemption framework announced in September. Under the plan, CNTN will tokenize its common stock through on-chain securities infrastructure firm Fairmint and make it available for trading on TSV, a Canton Network-based trading platform. Trading could begin as early as Nov. 2, The Block reported.

Crypto exchange KuCoin (KCS) said it is prioritizing clear guidance and necessary support so users affected by its service adjustments can move through the transition smoothly. The process includes closing positions and withdrawing assets. KuCoin said regulatory compliance is central to its operations and guides decisions on where and how it provides services.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $81,000. BTC is trading at $81,019.51 on the Binance USDT market.

Injective said Injective Trench Treasury bought 5% of the RUNNER supply from RunUp, which is developing a token launch model using Injective’s native perpetual futures market. The model allocates trading fees to an on-chain treasury strategy, uses proceeds to support token buybacks, and provides INJ rewards to holders based on platform activity. Injective also reaffirmed its policy of not selling assets purchased by the Trench Treasury in the future.

Uniswap (UNI) has launched TJAR, a feature that lets users swap fee income into a designated cryptocurrency, according to its official X account. Uniswap said users earn income through a range of activities, but most prefer to receive it in a single cryptocurrency such as a stablecoin or Ethereum (ETH). Through TJAR, users can create a single-cryptocurrency income structure.

Chainlink has launched Chainlink 24/7, a service that provides prices for traditional assets such as stocks and commodities on weekends and holidays, and has secured Aave as its first partner, CoinDesk reported. The service combines regular and after-hours session prices with quotes from perpetual futures exchanges after traditional markets close to deliver continuous asset-specific pricing. Aave will apply the service to price feeds for Horizon, its institutional lending platform, starting with heavily traded U.S. stock tokens, according to CoinDesk.

FHE-based privacy infrastructure provider Zama said Confidential USDT, or cUSDT, which encrypts on-chain transfer amounts, is now operating on Ethereum. Zama said cUSDT keeps payment amounts encrypted when users pay contractors, suppliers and employees on-chain, and can be used without bridging.

Elastos, a Layer 1 blockchain focused on the decentralized internet, announced the release of ELA v1.0.3, a mandatory upgrade for all Elastos mainchain nodes. The new version strengthens validation and improves block production under heavy load, peer handling, synchronization, and recovery after restart. All mainchain nodes must complete the upgrade before Nov. 16.

Canton Foundation announced it has awarded a grant of 15.8 million CC to blockchain oracle network RedStone. Based on the funding, RedStone plans to develop an open-source pricing tool that would allow institutions to share market prices without exposing trading terms. The grant is set to be paid quarterly from a development fund that will be financed with 5% of future CC issuance.

European quantum computing startup Alice&Bob said a quantum computer with 30,000 qubits could crack a Bitcoin wallet’s encryption in 62 minutes, according to CoinDesk. Alice&Bob said more than six million BTC held at addresses with already exposed public keys could be potential attack targets and funds should begin to be moved, while adding the findings are theoretical and would require advances in hardware and power efficiency. The estimate is one-seventeenth of the level presented by Google in March. At the time, Google presented a report indicating a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could crack BTC encryption.

WalletConnect (WCT), a cryptocurrency wallet connectivity protocol, announced LOBSTR has become the first wallet to support WalletConnect Pay on the Stellar network. LOBSTR users can now make payments to merchants directly from the wallet.

The number of companies opposing stock tokenization listings on OKXICE, a joint platform between crypto exchange OKX and ICE, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has risen to 38 from 33. According to an Oct. 28 notice from OKXICE, five companies were added to the opposition list: Eli Lilly, Carnival, Arcos Dorados, Walmart and Cigna. JPMorgan, AMD, Coca-Cola and Adobe had previously also expressed opposition.

Crypto exchange Backpack announced today that it has signed a business agreement with SK Securities to expand global investors’ access to South Korea’s stock market. The partnership, signed on Oct. 22, aims to combine SK Securities’ expertise in capital markets with Backpack’s global network to offer qualified overseas investors access to South Korean stock trading through the Backpack app. Backpack said the two sides also laid the groundwork for cooperation in security tokens and tokenized real-world assets, or RWAs, based on Backpack’s existing U.S. securities trading platform, adding that the partnership is intended to connect traditional financial markets with blockchain-based financial infrastructure.

Litecoin said it signed a letter of intent with listed Litecoin miner Luxxfolio to explore ways to use LTC mined by Luxxfolio in institutional markets on Canton Network. Luxxfolio, based in British Columbia, is the first ecosystem partner for cLTC.

Hong Kong-based payment company PhotonPay said it raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Blockchain Capital. SBI Group joined as a new investor, while existing backers including IDG Capital, GL Ventures and Lightspeed Faction also participated in the follow-on investment. PhotonPay plans to use the funds to strengthen multi-asset wallet features, expand global card issuance, build out local settlement infrastructure and develop financial systems for AI agents as it expands its stablecoin-focused Financial OS. The operating system connects stablecoins with traditional financial networks to support corporate cross-border remittances, local payments and business spending.

Bitcoin has held its price range with a more limited decline than expected despite a string of negative developments, cryptocurrency analyst KillaXBT, who has about 241,000 followers on X, said. KillaXBT said headwinds included the Federal Reserve’s hawkish stance, concerns over a rise in the U.S. Consumer Price Index, a sharp jump in global sovereign bond yields, gains in the U.S. dollar index (DXY), the Ledger wallet hack, and concerns that Strategy (MSTR) could be removed from an index. KillaXBT added that BTC should already have fallen below $70,000 given that level of bad news, but the market has been absorbing the pressure and holding up, which could signal the kind of resilience seen in a bull market.