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SynFutures has flipped the switch on an invite-only private beta for what the team calls its most ambitious upgrade yet. The closed test is meant to be a controlled proving ground: a handful of handpicked partners will bootstrap liquidity, stress-test the new infrastructure and help SynFutures polish the trading experience before a wider public rollout. At the center of the upgrade is a technical rewrite that aims to push on-chain order execution down to roughly five millisecond latency, a speed more commonly associated with top centralized venues. The point, SynFutures says, is to bring that level of responsiveness to a…

Key takeaways ETH is trading around $4k per coin, down 1.7% in the last 24 hours. The leading altcoin could rally towards $4,300 soon amid choppy price action. Ethereum Foundation deploys 2,400 ETH and $6M on Morpho Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has been underperforming over the past 24 hours despite the Ethereum Foundation announcing its DeFi expansion to Morpho. The Ethereum Foundation announced on Wednesday that it is deploying 2,400 ETH, valued at about $9.3 million, and $6 million worth of stablecoins into the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Morpho. The team added that the funds will…

The majority of Russians save some money every month, in case of unforeseen expenses, and cryptocurrency is now among the assets in the buffer. While bank deposits are still widespread, crypto wallets are also among the popular choices. And for a small minority that’s likely to grow, they are the preferred option to store liquid funds. Over 80% of Russians maintain financial buffers The great majority of Russian citizens, 84%, save money on a monthly basis to have their own financial cushion, according to a new survey conducted by Sberbank’s life insurance unit, Sber Strakhovanie, and the employment website Rabota.ru.…

Italy’s financial markets regulator, Consob, has ordered the blackout of 17 websites that illegally offered investment and crypto-asset services. Several of these sites used fake advertisements featuring deepfaked images and voices of prominent Italian politicians. The websites cloned the likenesses of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, Elly Schlein, and Carlo Calenda to promote unauthorized financial services. None of the politicians had any connection to the activities. Consob banned several online platforms that promoted unauthorized investment and crypto-asset services. The regulator said these sites advertised illegal offerings and used misleading promotional content to attract investors. Join IG,…

Ventuals, a protocol designed for trading tokenized private and pre-IPO companies, launched its HYPE liquid staking vault today, which will be used to fund the protocol’s HIP-3 permissionless derivatives market on Hyperliquid. The launch included a minimum stake threshold of 500,000 HYPE, worth roughly $19 million, which was filled in just five minutes, with the top depositor contributing 250,000 HYPE. Users who deposited before the threshold was hit will receive a 10x multiplier on their points distribution and an official Ventuals NFT. Inflows continued to pour in, with a little over 1 million HYPE, worth $38 million, raised in the…

River (RIVER), a chain-abstraction network that unifies fragmented liquidity across Web3, announced a strategic partnership with Aerodrome Finance, a DEX (decentralized exchange) and a liquidity avenue built on the Base blockchain. The partnership enabled the integration of River’s chain-abstraction technology into Aerodrome’s liquidity marketplace, aiming to simplify Aerodrome’s DEX interaction with different chains by addressing the fragmentation problem in the DeFi environment. River is a chain-abstraction stablecoin network that links assets, liquidity, and yields across various blockchains. On the other hand, Aerodrome Finance is a decentralized exchange that functions as a key trading platform on the Base blockchain, serving as…

Recently, social media and crypto forums have been flooded with sensational claims that Alibaba founder Jack Ma is “building a strategic Ethereum reserve.” The news rapidly took hold across X, YouTube, and crypto influencer channels, with many asserting that Ma’s reported ETH holdings could mark one of the largest corporate or private accumulations of Ethereum in Asia. But how credible is this claim, and what do the facts actually show? Where Did This Claim Come From? The claim emerged after several viral posts on X around October 13, 2025, from influential accounts like MerlijnTrader & Crypto Rover, claiming that “Jack…

Key Takeaways The SEC may conclude reviewing the final round of filings for spot crypto ETFs this week. New SEC listing rules approved in September enable faster launches of ETFs that directly hold crypto assets beyond just Bitcoin. The final wave of filings for spot crypto ETFs may wrap up this week as the SEC continues reviewing applications for assets including XRP and Solana, according to analysts. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new listing rules in mid-September to facilitate spot crypto ETF launches and accelerate the review process. These rules pave the way for exchange-traded funds that directly hold…

On October 16, 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced BLOOM. The program will increase settlement capacity among financial institutions. It concentrates in tokenized bank debt, and controlled stablecoins. MAS will collaborate with partners in the industry on a standard basis. The project will deal with operational and financial risks. BLOOM will be dealing with G10 and major Asian currencies. The project aims at home and intercountry settlements. It will also enhance efficiency in the process of corporate and institutional transactions. MAS also makes BLOOM one of the milestones in the leadership of fintech in Singapore. 吴说获悉，新加坡金融管理局（MAS）今日宣布启动名为 BLOOM 的新计划，旨在扩展金融机构的结算能力。该计划将与行业合作，在标准化框架下推动以代币化银行负债和受监管稳定币进行结算，并有效管理相关风险。BLOOM 将覆盖…

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has added Binance’s BNB token to its roadmap for listings amid a series of online exchanges discussing the process. On Tuesday, Limitless Labs CEO CJ Hetherington posted to X, contrasting what he claimed were the requirements for a token to be listed on Binance rather than Coinbase. According to the CEO, Binance’s requirements included a security deposit of 2 million BNB (BNB) for a spot listing, while Coinbase’s were limited to “build[ing] something meaningful on Base.” The online exchange sparked debate, which only seemed to intensify when Coinbase’s head of Base, Jesse Pollak, chimed in to say…