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• Crypto News: Remittix Sets Its Final Presale Price at $0.46 as XRP Price Prediction Targets $12 and Cardano's RealFi Expansion Revives the $1 ADA Dream GNW
• U.S. CFTC moves to fold event contracts into swaps regulations as legal fight rages COINDESK
• Bitcoin and Ethereum Slide Along with Solana, Binance Coin, Cardano as Iran Tensions Weigh on Markets Ahead of 2027 CROWDFUNDINSIDER
• Builder Series coming 🔜 Hear directly from Open House alumni @AlphaGridProp @CapricornDEX, @DenariaFinance and @agamafinance on why they chose to build with us and the opportunity waiting for the next cohort of founders Arbitrum
• Hard to top announcing your own stablecoin and then talking about it on stage the next day with the team that powers it @ethena 🤝 ether.fi
• The #Genesis block, the first mined block of the Verge #blockchain, was mined on October 9, 2014. Huge thanks to the #VergeFam, all of our partners, supporters, and the $XVG core team! Without you, #VergeCurrency wouldn’t be what it is today! ❤️ Happy Birthday! VergeCurrency $XVG
• SCOOP : Robinhood Chain considers technology that gives paying traders priority CoinDesk
• 'Crypto King' investor recounts the moment he learned $311M investment fund didn't exist CBC
• Measuring What Remains After Rewards End SXT
• Aero Upgrade Hub is Live ✈️ Details on the final Aerodrome and Velodrome epoch, token conversion rates, launch timeline and more 👇 Aero
• NEW: The CFTC proposed a rule to explicitly include event contracts tied to sports, politics, cultural events and weather within the definition of swaps, seeking to clarify its authority over prediction markets. The proposal would resolve ambiguity over the classification of the contracts, which the agency says fall under its exclusive jurisdiction pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act. "Event contracts are used by Americans every day to hedge risks, speculate, and provide the public with information about the outcome of future events," CFTC Chair Michael Selig said. The Block
• US plans to seize $1B in crypto linked to Iran this week: Scott Bessent COINTELEGRAPH
• Arcus Biosciences Announces New Employment Inducement Grants BUSINESSWIRE
• 🎉 1,105 Time Travelers—and our first Monthly Rewards draw is coming! Since Big Time Event Rewards launched on September 14, the first 24 days have brought: 🏆 21 Daily Reward Winners 🎁 15 Weekly Reward Winners ⏳ 1,105 participants Next up: our first Monthly Rewards draw, reserved for players who participated throughout the event’s first four weeks. Good luck, and keep playing, Time Travelers! 🚀 Big Time
• THE BLOCK: Evernorth has completed its SPAC merger with Armada II, bringing approximately 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash proceeds into the public markets. The $XRP treasury company expects to begin trading on Nasdaq on Monday under XRPN. The Block
• IMPERIA // National Medal of Science Honoree Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD, has been awarded the National Medal of Science, one of America's highest honors for scientific achievement. Dr. Su is a visionary leader who has expanded the limits of high-performance computing and advanced technologies that drive superintelligence. Dr. Su’s achievements embody the spirit of IMPERIA: Women whose ingenuity, leadership, and determination shape industries and define our future. MELANIA TRUMP
• New York permanently bars Celsius founder Mashinsky in $35M fraud settlement COINTELEGRAPH
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• Congressional Bills S 195 Signed into Law WHITEHOUSE
• 3 days left to claim your Season 2 fee refund, if you choose to. The refund window closes on 10/12 at 11AM ET. 👇 Genius
• ETC is back on Google BigQuery. Query network activity, mining, tokens and contracts, back to block one, with plain SQL. Free up to 1 TiB of queries a month. Published and kept current by @classix_dev: Ethereum Classic
• Ondo Private Markets: Private Company Exposure Trading 24/7 Yesterday, we introduced Ondo Private Markets, which gives eligible investors tokenized exposure to the economic performance of industry-defining private companies before they go public. Starting with a pre-IPO AI company, the first market is live with permissionless trading available on secondary markets. Exposure to leading names across robotics, cybersecurity, biotech, infrastructure, and other sectors will follow as Ondo builds out the broadest selection of private-company exposure onchain. Exposure that has traditionally been opaque, gated by high minimums, and illiquid is now accessible in a permissionless token, fully composable and able to be traded 24/7. Why Private Markets? Private markets can offer even more in both breadth and performance than U.S. public markets, which are widely regarded as the global gold standard. 87% of U.S. companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue are privately held, including many shaping the next generation of AI, robotics, and more. They can also deliver superior long-term returns. Over the 20 years ending December 2025, U.S. private equity funds delivered annualized returns of 13.2%, net of fees, compared with 11.3% for an S&P 500 public-market equivalent. Yet access to private markets remains out of reach for many retail and high-net worth investors, with high minimum investments creating a substantial barrier to entry. Still, access is only half the challenge, with a lack of liquidity also holding back the asset class. Limited secondary markets make it difficult to exit, particularly for investors with smaller positions, who may have to wait years for an IPO. Getting in is difficult, and getting out can be just as hard. “A huge and growing amount of wealth-generating potential is out of retail investors’ reach, concentrated in a dramatically smaller number of institutional hands.” — Eric Pan, CEO of The Investment Company Institute (ICI), the trade association for the global asset management industry Open Access, With A Way In and Out Ondo Private Markets brings together targeted exposure to individual private companies with permissionless 24/7 trading, giving investors exposure to top performing private companies, while unlocking the ability to transfer or trade their positions before the reference company goes public. Specifically, Ondo Private Markets provides economic exposure to the economic performance of individual private companies through tokenized notes. Each note’s payout is linked to the per-share value realized on the referenced company’s common shares at a qualifying liquidity event. Eligible investors can trade the notes 24/7 on secondary markets or hold them in their own wallets. Here’s why it matters: 1. Access industry-defining companies Gain economic exposure to private companies shaping the next era of the economy, before they reach public markets. We're starting with AI, with plans to expand into robotics, cybersecurity, biotech, defense, energy, space, and more, bringing eligible investors access to the companies building out the modern economy. 2. Buy and sell, anytime Private markets have historically offered limited liquidity. Ondo Private Markets enables trading venues to generate liquidity, bringing buyers and sellers together 24/7. Investors can increase, reduce, or exit their exposure through secondary trading without waiting for an IPO or other liquidity event. 3. Only the companies you want Choose the individual businesses you have conviction in, without having to buy a broad fund full of companies you don't. Build exposure around your own view of a company's prospects, with greater control over which businesses you include and how much you allocate to each. 4. Self-custody and freely transferable Hold your tokens in your own self-custody wallet and transfer them to other eligible holders. Onchain transferability gives you flexibility over where you hold your tokens and how you move them between supported wallets and trading venues. 5. Built on proven infrastructure Ondo Private Markets is built on the same institutional-grade infrastructure that has made Ondo the leading issuer of tokenized stocks and Treasuries, with $3.9 billion in total value locked, over 1 million cumulative holders, and partnerships with the largest institutions in traditional markets. Access the Fastest-Growing Startups, Starting With AI Within private markets, the fastest-growing startups have delivered outsized returns. AI companies are leading the way, accounting for nearly half of all unicorn value. Together with SpaceX, the two leading AI companies are projected to generate more value than every U.S. venture-backed exit since 2000. These private companies shaping the future of AI, space, energy, and robotics are staying private longer rather than going public, even as their valuations climb into the hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars. By the time these private companies IPO, a significant portion of their wealth creation may already be behind them. “Today, the top decile of high-growth companies are almost exclusively in the private markets.” — David George, General Partner at a16z Ondo Private Markets is built to provide a way to not only get access before industry-defining companies go public, but also a way to get out anytime if they want to reduce their exposure. The first asset, tokens referencing a leading pre-IPO AI company, is now trading on secondary markets, with robotics, cybersecurity, biotech, and infrastructure names to follow. One Asset First, an Asset Class Next What Ondo Stocks did for public companies, Ondo Private Markets will do for private companies. Ondo Stocks became the number 1 platform for tokenized stocks with over $1 billion in TVL, bringing over 450 tokenized stocks and ETFs to global investors that previously never had access. Now Ondo Private Markets is bringing tokenized exposure to the most in-demand private companies, opening access to eligible investors worldwide, with 24/7 trading on secondary markets. We're starting with one market, but we're on a path to redefine an entire asset class, bringing the broadest selection of private-company exposures trading 24/7. Ondo Finance
• Bitcoin Recovers Some Ground on Falling Yields, Oil — 2nd Update DOW JONES
• How is Grok @Bot working with your Shopify store? Elon Musk
• Quantum Security, Universal Markets, and Confidential AI: NEAR at TOKEN2049 Singapore At TOKEN2049 Singapore, NEAR was at the center of industry conversation, with new markets launching on near.com, Illia showcasing the convergence of NEAR Intents and NEAR AI on the main stage, and cryptographers, investors, and builders convening for a full day on quantum security co-hosted by NEAR and Quantus. Here are the highlights. ✦ Robinhood Chain went live on near.com and NEAR Intents ✦ Quantus Network’s post-quantum asset, QTC, debuted on near.com across 30+ chains ✦ NEAR and Quantus co-hosted Quantum + Privacy Day, broadcast live by The Rollup ✦ Industry turns to quantum security, with ML-DSA already live on NEAR mainnet ✦ Near One previews NEP-655 and a Q-Day Recovery Registry ✦ Illia made the case for AI and finance that are private by default ✦ Confidential Intents expanded to DarkSwap and Circuit ✦ New models on NEAR AI Cloud ✦ A House of Stake proposal to lower NEAR issuance ✦ New research from Bitwise, Grayscale, and Delphi Digital Robinhood Chain is live on near.com and NEAR Intents Swap ETH, USDG, and more against 180+ assets across 30+ chains. Deposit, withdraw, and pay to and from Robinhood Chain without manually navigating bridges or downloading a new app. Builders get the same access through NEAR Intents. Wallets and apps on the 1Click API can offer Robinhood Chain assets with confidential execution and limit orders. QTC debuts on near​.com, the first post-quantum asset accessible cross-chain from day one Quantus Network's QTC, a post-quantum asset, launched on near.com. Users can trade it confidentially across 30+ chains, with native deposits and withdrawals to and from the Quantus network. QTC is also available through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API. Any integrated wallet or app can offer QTC to its users without building Quantus-specific infrastructure. @TrustlessState also sat down with Quantus founder Christopher Smith and @AlexAuroraDev to discuss the significance of the launch in light of the industry’s latest turn to quantum security. NEAR and Quantus set industry agenda at Quantum + Privacy Day On October 8, NEAR and Quantus brought builders together to map what post-quantum security actually requires: which signatures hold, how migration works, where privacy breaks, and who stays exposed when the cryptography shifts. Speakers included Balaji Srinivasan, Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley, Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi, and Bankless co-founder David Hoffman, alongside Quantus co-founder Christopher Smith, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin, and Alex Shevchenko, CEO of Defuse Labs, the developer of NEAR Intents. Illia explained how any NEAR account can become quantum-safe today by rotating its keys, with no need to move assets. The Rollup broadcast live all day. Quantum security becomes an industry priority Following Quantum + Privacy Day, quantum security became one of the most talked-about topics across the industry. On NEAR, upgrading signatures is already a routine operation. ✦ ML-DSA signing: NEAR accounts already support the post-quantum ML-DSA signature scheme on mainnet, with no asset migration required. ✦ NEP-655: committed implicit accounts derived from a hash of their initial state. Assets sit behind that hash, with no public key or key hash exposed onchain. Live on testnet, with mainnet planned in the coming weeks. ✦ NEAR Intents Wallet Contracts: being designed to support custom signing extensions, including ML-DSA and hash-based schemes. ✦ Q-Day Recovery Registry: a registry on NEAR for chains that can’t yet add a post-quantum key, where users commit recovery keys as rotatable hashes. In progress. NEAR was designed with quantum in mind in 2018. Read the full roadmap: Preparing NEAR for the Quantum Computing Era Illia on the main stage In his TOKEN2049 keynote, Illia made the case for AI and finance that are private by default, with near.ai and near.com working as one privacy stack. The full keynote recording is coming soon. He also joined Base's Jesse Pollak and Gauntlet CEO Tarun Chitra on a panel about blockchains, stablecoins, and AI agents that transact on their own. Confidential Intents expands to DarkSwap and Circuit Two more apps now offer confidential execution, powered by NEAR Intents: ✦ @DarkSwapApp is using Intents to give Solana users more ways to swap confidentially. ✦ @CircuitAI integrated Intents, enabling users to make confidential transfers across chains from a single natural-language prompt. New on NEAR AI ✦ New models on NEAR AI Cloud: GPT-6.1 Sol for coding and agent workflows, and TypeSafe’s Jev 1.13 for routing and classification are now on NEAR AI. See the full list of models supported by NEAR AI. ✦ Verify it yourself: How to Verify Private Inference, from NEAR AI Head of Product Sergey Astretsov, shows how to check NEAR AI’s confidentiality claims. A governance proposal to lower NEAR issuance A new House of Stake proposal from Sal Ternullo, CEO of SVRN, would lower NEAR’s maximum annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. The cut would phase in on a linear ramp over 24 months, beginning after a one-quarter grace period. The proposal is a draft in community discussion. If it passes a supermajority vote in House of Stake, validators would still need to adopt it through the standard protocol upgrade process. Media, research, momentum ✦ Grayscale: their latest analysis highlights NEAR as a leading project in the AI crypto sector and as the "platform for agentic commerce." ✦ Bitwise: new report calls NEAR Protocol "a settlement engine fast and cheap enough for AI-scale commerce," citing $30B+ in cumulative NEAR Intents volume. ✦ Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan: why NEAR is “one of the most ambitious projects in crypto.” ✦ Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR): top 10 by assets under management among the 107 US ETFs launched in September. ✦ Delphi Digital: NEAR Intents had its best fee month of the year in September, after confidential perps launched on near.com via Hyperliquid. ✦ The Rollup: Illia describes NEAR Intents as a "market of markets” and walks through how near.com and Intents now support tokenized stocks. ✦ NEAR Intents traction report: September was one of Intents’ biggest growth months yet, across volume, users, and new integrations. The week also included a NEAR Happy Hour on October 6 for builders, partners, investors, and community members. Thank you to everyone across the NEAR ecosystem who joined us in Singapore, and to everyone who followed along from home. The future is NEAR. NEAR Protocol
• OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe DECRYPT
• It is my Great Honor to have just appointed, as Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia. Katie currently serves as Senior Communications Advisor to Truth Social (Trump Media & Technology Group), where she has been outstanding! A native of California, Katie previously served as Spokesperson and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security. Katie is a distinguished Graduate of Pepperdine University, and the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, an attorney, and a frequent Commentator on outlets, including Fox News and Newsmax. She was previously involved in my Campaigns, assisting in key Swing States, where we won 7 out of 7. She has an unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning. She is, likewise, a devoted fan and member of MAGA! I am confident that Katie will deliver strong results for our Country as the next White House Press Secretary, as she has the respect of, and will work fantastically with, the Media, the American People, and my Administration. Katie is replacing the fabulous Karoline Leavitt, who did a fantastic job as Press Secretary. Good luck Katie! President DONALD J. TRUMP Donald J. Trump
• "You go back a few years ago and many people had written Solana off, but here we are" – @CaddleMaya, Head of Payments Partnerships, Solana Foundation Solana Foundation
• Where Human Judgment Goes Next SAPIEN

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