Binance announced that over 600 accounts were banned last week for using unauthorized third-party tools. From now on, any accounts found to be using such tools or violating Binance Exchange, Binance Wallet, or Binance Alpha terms may face permanent disqualification from all Binance activities, and all earnings from Alpha events will be revoked. — link

Weekly Project Updates: Blockchain Startup Tempo Raises $500 Million, Ondo Finance Requests SEC Delay on Nasdaq Tokenized Securities, Eric Trump Plans Real Estate Tokenization, Perp DEX Open Interest Drops Over 60%, OpenSea to Launch SEA Token in Q1 2026, Ripple Leads $1 Billion XRP Treasury Fundraising and More — link

ZachXBT: A U.S. user lost $3.05 million in XRP after their Ellipal hardware wallet was hacked. The stolen funds were moved via Bridgers and laundered through OTC channels tied to Huione, a Southeast Asian platform recently sanctioned by U.S. regulators for fraud and money laundering. — link

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin introduced the GKR protocol, a family of protocols that enables very fast proof systems. GKR is a core protocol for fast ZK-EVM and zk-ML proofs, optimized for computations with multiple low-degree layers and many repeated function applications (such as hashing and neural networks). It only requires commitments to inputs and outputs, not intermediate layers, greatly improving efficiency. — link

According to Eleanor Terrett, several crypto company executives will attend a roundtable with pro-crypto Senate Democrats this Wednesday to discuss market structure legislation and industry outlook. Expected participants include executives from Coinbase, Chainlink, Galaxy, Kraken, Uniswap, Circle, and Ripple. The meeting is led by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. — link

According to DeFiLlama data, the dark pool HumidiFi has become the largest DEX on Solana, with a 24-hour trading volume of $1.1 billion, 7-day volume of $9.698 billion, and 30-day volume of $34 billion—all surpassing Meteora, Raydium, and Pump. HumidiFi operates without a frontend and uses private quoting, with trades typically executed via aggregators. — link

From October 13 to October 17 (ET), spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net weekly outflow of $1.23 billion, the second highest on record, with none of the twelve ETFs reporting net inflows. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a net weekly outflow of $312 million, with BlackRock’s ETHA leading the outflows at $245 million. — link

South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit will list BIO trading pairs against KRW, BTC, and USDT. Bio Protocol is a decentralized financial and operational infrastructure. — link

Jay A, founder of AI research lab nof1, tweeted that their Alpha Arena platform has launched a new “AI trading showdown” benchmark, featuring six top AI models including Grok4, Deepseek, GPT, and Claude, all trading crypto assets with real capital. Grok4 posted a daily return of over 500% by perfectly timing a short-to-long reversal. Deepseek later took the lead, thanks to well-defined take-profit and stop-loss strategies. — link

Multiple platforms including Reddit, Hulu, EA, Max, and Xbox Network experienced simultaneous outages early today, according to Downdetector. Coinbase support confirmed that some users faced access issues due to an AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage. The team is actively working on resolving the problem. — link

Coinbase Traders announced on October 20 at 22:43 (UTC+8) that Coinbase Advanced trading is currently down due to an AWS outage. The team is actively investigating and working to restore the service.

According to Tokenomist, over the next 7 days, single large token unlocks (over $5 million) will include ZRO, XPL, MBG, SCR, SOON, UDS, KAITO, H, SAHARA, and VENOM. Additionally, linear large unlocks (daily unlocks over $1 million) will involve SOL, WLD, TRUMP, DOGE, AVAX, IP, ASTER, TAO, ETHFI, TIA, SUI, DOT, among others. The total unlocked value is estimated to exceed $431 million. — link

Digital asset ETPs saw US$513m in outflows after the 10 Oct liquidity cascade. Bitcoin led outflows (US$946m), while Ethereum (US$205m), Solana (US$156m), and XRP (US$73.9m) saw strong inflows on continued ETF launch enthusiasm. — link

VanEck has filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the “VanEck Lido Staked ETH ETF.” This fund aims to provide investors with regulated exposure to Ethereum staked via the Lido protocol (stETH). If approved, it will become the first U.S. ETF referencing stETH. 一 link

Strategy has acquired 168 BTC for ~$18.8 million at ~$112,051 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 26.0% YTD 2025. As of 10/19/2025, Strategy hodl 640,418 BTC acquired for ~$47.40 billion at ~$74,010 per bitcoin. — link

BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) announced the purchase of approximately 203,800 ETH in the past week. Its total crypto and cash holdings have reached $1.34 billion, including 3.24 million ETH, 192 BTC, $219 million in cash, and $119 million in equity of Eightco Holdings. — link

Greenlane Holdings (Nasdaq: GNLN) announced a $110 million private placement to fund its cryptocurrency treasury strategy focused on Berachain (BERA) tokens. Led by Polychain Capital and other investors, the funds will be used to acquire BERA for the treasury. — link

Evernorth, backed by Ripple, plans a Nasdaq listing to raise over $1 billion for building the largest publicly traded XRP treasury. The deal is expected to close in early 2026 with key investors including SBI, Pantera Capital, and Kraken. — link

Asia’s weekly TOP10 crypto news (Oct 14 to Oct 19): MAS Launches BLOOM Initiative for Tokenized Settlements, Dubai Unveils Financial Strategy Highlighting Virtual Assets, Russia Explores Tokenizing Domestic Stocks, Japan Considers Allowing Banks to Hold Crypto Assets, Ant Group and JD.com Suspend Stablecoin Plans in Hong Kong and More — link

According to data from @marcov_91, Wyoming government has recently issued 100,000 FRNT stablecoins on each of seven blockchain networks—Solana, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon, and Avalanche C-Chain—bringing the total supply to 700,000 tokens distributed across six addresses. Backed by USD and short-term Treasuries plus a 2% reserve, FRNT’s yield supports Wyoming’s education fund. — link

According to Bloomberg, the Canadian province of British Columbia plans to limit power use by AI data centers and permanently ban new crypto mining projects. The province’s Energy Ministry said it will prioritize grid access for mining and natural gas industries to create more local jobs and revenue. — link