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Ethereum (ETH) developers have postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on Hoodi, removing its scheduled 26 October activation.

Bitcoin Core is revising its security disclosure policy to accelerate fixes for vulnerabilities that researchers can easily rediscover.

CoinDCX says an operational failure involving deprecated crypto deposit addresses caused losses that the exchange absorbed.

The Blockchain Association has urged US congressional leaders to advance bipartisan cryptocurrency tax legislation, launching a public campaign for clearer rules.

Italy’s financial police have arrested 30 suspects over an alleged underground bank serving mafia groups near Milan.

Visa (NYSE:V) is reportedly considering a $2.5 billion acquisition of crypto custody firm Fireblocks, but the target company has denied discussions.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has barred military personnel from using nonpublic information to bet on prediction markets.

Andreessen Horowitz has renamed its crypto fund a16z Frontier, expanding its investment focus beyond digital assets.

SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFI) has launched SoFi Earn (SOFIE), a tokenised bank deposit offering a variable 4.40% annual percentage yield (APY).

Uniswap has launched aggregator hooks across Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, extending its v4 protocol to external liquidity platforms, according to an exclusive report by The Block.

Underdog plans to introduce cryptocurrency and stablecoin deposits for eligible prediction-market users through infrastructure provider zerohash.

Dune has launched real-time market data feeds covering more than 200 on-chain trading venues across multiple blockchain networks.

Coinbase Ireland Limited, part of Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ:COIN), was fined €3.25 million for breaching customer-fund safeguarding and outsourcing rules between November 2020 and August 2025.

Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate 61,896 Bitcoin linked to an alleged investment fraud that raised more than 40.37 billion yuan, according to a report by The Paper.

Aero launched on 21 October 2026, merging Aerodrome and Velodrome into one decentralised trading platform across seven blockchain networks.

Grayscale has expanded in-kind subscriptions across 10 digital asset investment products, allowing eligible investors to exchange crypto holdings for product shares.

Dataline raised $10.6 million in seed funding for its decentralised AI data network, according to an exclusive report by The Block.

US President Donald Trump said his administration had disrupted overseas scam networks, with the FBI reporting 20 compounds dismantled.

Babylon Labs has partnered with HODL1 to help Japanese companies use native Bitcoin as collateral for onchain financial services.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has finalised rules implementing the GENIUS Act without adopting a proposed presumption against certain third-party stablecoin rewards.

The PHP Foundation released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 on 21 October, fixing two critical remote-code-execution vulnerabilities.

France’s Treasury, AMF, Banque de France and ACPR have proposed changes to the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).

Shinhan Card has signed a memorandum of understanding with SBI VC Trade and SBI XDC Network APAC to explore yen stablecoin payments in South Korea.

Solana (SOL) activated its Alpenglow consensus upgrade on mainnet-beta on 21 October, introducing a new system for confirming transactions.