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The selling pressure from whale distribution has been in decline since July, and the change in $BTC holdings has climbed from -282k $BTC to -39k $BTC. In less than three months, whales have bought 243k $BTC, the analyst observed. Bitcoin still in early accumulation phase Source: Axel Adler Jr. on X On the 1st of July, when Bitcoin was trading at $59.3k, the MVRV Percentile reached 0%. The metric recovered to 32% by late September, and has since pulled back to 25%. The metric normalizes the MVRV data into a scale from 0% to 100%. Extremely low values reflect deep…

OKXICE, backed by one of the world’s biggest exchange operators, issued its initial public notice on Oct. 4, outlining plans to use Uniswap (UNI) liquidity pools on OKX’s XLayer blockchain, with transactions settled in stablecoins. Venues must notify issuers and give them 30 days to object before offering tokenized versions of their shares. The venture’s original proposed trading roster covered 62 companies. Wells Fargo and ARM were not among them, while Cisco, Moderna, Intuit and Marvell were included. That means the 22 objections cannot all be counted as departures from the original selection. Cerebras Systems, whose objection was disclosed earlier,…

“Swell has historically been where Ripple makes its most significant product and partnership announcements.” What to expect at Ripple Swell 2026. Source: Ripple Swell website. Bank Executives and $XRP Developers Take the Stage Executives including Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy, and Bullish CEO Tom Farley appear on the published Swell agenda with discussions spanning digital asset markets and financial infrastructure. Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, will also speak. Tokenization sessions will examine how assets can be represented on a blockchain. David Schwartz, Ripple’s chief technology officer emeritus, and Ayo Akinyele, senior director of…

Lighter announced that users can now use “weETH as collateral to trade perps.” Its live asset API also lists weETH’s margin status as enabled. Lighter Collateral Terms Source: Lighter asset API, Oct. 23, 2026 snapshot. Supply caps are denominated in each row’s asset, not dollars. Liquidation thresholds weight collateral in the account-wide health calculation. The addition extends Lighter’s unified collateral system, introduced earlier this year. Multi-asset margin is available only to accounts with Unified Trading Accounts enabled. $USDC remains the base collateral, valued at 100% without a supply cap. Collateral Can Be Liquidated Alongside Perps The 70% weighting governs opening…

Blockscout data showed approximately 600,020 ipUSD in the product’s pre-deposit contract on October 28. That balance does not establish how much money has already entered the royalties fund. The opening follows Soneium’s October 26 tokenized-IP roadmap. Before investment settlement, users can cancel unlocked subscriptions without a protocol fee after a ten-minute delay. ipUSD and vault shares serve different purposes Holding ipUSD alone provides no royalty exposure. The dollar stablecoin is used for deposits and withdrawals; vault shares represent the investment. Through the interface, users can exchange USDSC, also called Startale USD, and USDC.e for ipUSD at a one-for-one rate. The…

Galaxy Research took to X on Oct. 24 to explain that the mystery sender has been injecting the same message into Bitcoin transactions. It stored the duplicates in 103-byte OP_RETURN outputs that have surpassed the previous default relay limit on Bitcoin of 83 bytes. Moreover, the research unit found that the same cryptographic keys have been used to issue another poem twice. Therefore, the total number of mystery messages has now reached 28 in only 12 days. What is the mystery poem for? The researchers are yet to figure out the mystery sender’s motive. Galaxy Research said that it is…

That gives public companies a say in whether unaffiliated third parties tokenize and trade their shares, but it also tilts the decision toward caution. Global law firm Latham & Watkins has warned issuers that silence effectively becomes an irrevocable decision: the SEC order provides no mechanism to object after the 30-day window or withdraw a prior non-objection once trading begins. So when a legal or investor-relations team receives notice about a new market structure it may know little about, saying no while it figures things out can be the rational choice. “Most of these companies had no idea a third…

Kraken’s Parent Payward Wins Initial Approval to Enter Kazakhstan Kazakhstan went from hosting nearly one-fifth of the world’s bitcoin (BTC) mining activity in 2021 to tightening oversight of its cryptocurrency industry. Now, Kraken’s parent company, Payward, is preparing to enter the Central Asian market. On Thursday, the company announced in-principle regulatory approval for its Kazakhstan subsidiary, potentially opening the door to cryptocurrency trading, investment services and custody in a country increasingly focused on regulated digital asset businesses rather than simply supplying cheap electricity to miners. Payward Secures Regulatory Foothold in Kazakhstan The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) granted preliminary approval…

Average daily active addresses fell 14%, from 2.43 million to 2.10 million. New addresses also declined, dropping 27% to an average of 482,000 per day. Automated activity on token launchpads was significant, as combined token creation nearly tripled to 2.59 million launches—Flap generated 2.02 million of these tokens, while Four.meme produced 568,000. $BNB Agent Studio expands payments and wallet controls During Q3, $BNB Agent Studio released four versions that introduced payment, earnings, wallet security, and deployment features. Since its July 1, 2026 launch, the platform has allowed developers to generate an AI agent from a prompt and deploy it on…

Netanyahu acknowledged the opposition, telling Channel 14, “I hear the resistance; I am taking it into account.” However, he said he would continue to follow his own judgment. The proposal followed sanctions announced by Britain and 11 other Western countries targeting goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Opposition Leaders Question Crypto Strategy Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot called the proposal a national security threat, warning that economic isolation could damage investment and employment. נתניהו מפרק את הכלכלה הישראלית: חזון ה-BibiCoin הוא איום על הביטחון הלאומיאחרי שסיים לפרק את החברה הישראלית, ולאחר שהחליש את צה״ל – נתניהו מסמן את היעד…