Cryptocurrencies

On October 14, 2025 the UK FCA opened a consultation to let authorised funds issue on public blockchains. Paired with October’s jump in onchain Treasuries led by BUIDL and BENJI, here is why 2026 could be when funds, collateral, and repo finally move onchain.

Banks are challenging stablecoin reward programs just months after the GENIUS Act became law. Here is how issuers, exchanges, and regulators will draw the line between interest and incentives, and why onchain dollars will keep gaining speed.

Telegram is standardizing on TON for all Mini Apps, bringing checkout into chat and unifying wallet auth with TON Connect. Here is how USDT, Stars, and Toncoin turn Telegram into a complete commerce stack and how builders can capture the opportunity.

MUFG, SMFG, and Mizuho agreed on a unified, bank-grade yen stablecoin standard that could become Asia’s corporate settlement backbone, speed cross-border B2B and FX with embedded compliance, and force U.S. and EU answers.

The OCC’s conditional charter for Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank reopens a supervised path for onshore settlement, compliant custody, and narrow‑bank reserves. The decisive next steps rest with FDIC insurance and a Federal Reserve master account.

On October 3, 2025, Samsung gave U.S. Galaxy owners special access to Coinbase One inside Samsung Wallet, turning the default phone wallet into a crypto on-ramp and previewing how OEM-native wallets could reshape stablecoin spend and DeFi access.

Two U.S. deals just reset the map for event trading. On October 16, 2025, Kraken agreed to acquire The Small Exchange, a CFTC Designated Contract Market, and on July 21, 2025, Polymarket bought QCEX. Together they signal crypto-native prediction markets moving into the regulated U.S. perimeter.

A brief PYUSD minting error flashed trillions on chain before being burned. Paired with new U.S. rules, a global warning, and U.K. caps, the takeaway is clear: programmable dollars need an onchain control layer to scale safely.

Grayscale filed a Form 10 for a Bittensor Trust on October 10, 2025, a faster path to SEC reporting status that can open OTC access for U.S. institutions. Here is why this matters more than an ETF today, the 3-6 month catalyst map, and what it could mean for AI and DePIN.

The SEC’s new generic listing standards rewired today’s Solana ETF timeline. Here is what approval or denial actually means for capital, staking, liquidity, and what to watch on day one.

S&P’s hybrid benchmark of 15 tokens and 35 crypto-linked stocks debuted October 7, 2025. With Dinari planning a tokenized wrapper, advisors get a defensible reference and DeFi gets diversified collateral. Here is what changes, and what could go wrong.

A top U.S. derivatives venue is moving to always‑on crypto trading and has launched options on Solana and XRP. Here is how continuous, regulated derivatives can tighten weekend spreads, deepen liquidity, and reshape basis and volatility markets.

Uniswap v4 turns pools into programmable engines with hooks that enable dynamic fees, MEV defenses, and on-chain limit orders. Here is what changed on January 31, 2025, how Unichain fits in, and the patterns builders and wallets should adopt now.

From October 14 to 17, Coinbase is auto-converting MATIC to POL, marking Polygon’s switch to Polygon 2.0. Here is why POL is more than a ticker change and what users, builders, and validators should do now.

The United States GENIUS Act, signed on July 18, 2025, gave stablecoins a national rulebook. By October, major banks were prototyping G7-pegged tokens. Here is who wins and loses, how payments and yields realign, and a builder playbook for the next 18 months.

Arbitrum has activated BoLD and Base has switched on permissionless fault proofs, bounding withdrawal times and removing allowlists. It is the clearest step yet toward consumer‑grade onchain experiences over the next year.

Monad will open its airdrop claims portal on October 14, 2025, spotlighting a parallel EVM and near‑instant confirmations that could reset Layer 2 fee dynamics and MEV flows. Here is what builders and users should watch over the next 30 to 90 days.

Telegram made TON the exclusive chain for Mini Apps and shipped a self-custodial wallet to U.S. users. That pairing ties distribution to payments and gives crypto its most credible mobile onramp yet.