Coinbase will list aPriori (APR) and Meteora (MET) for spot trading, with APR-USD and MET-USD trading pairs expected to open on 23 October 2025, subject to liquidity conditions in supported regions. Meteora is a dynamic liquidity pool protocol built on Solana, while aPriori is an MEV infrastructure and liquid staking protocol. — link

Fidelity Crypto has added Solana to its supported assets, expanding beyond Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The update applies across all Fidelity Digital Assets platforms, including Fidelity Crypto for retail users, IRAs, wealth managers, and institutional trading. — link

According to Bloomberg, the White House announced that U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a bilateral meeting with the Chinese President next Thursday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea. This will mark their first face-to-face meeting since Trump returned to the White House in January. — link

Dan Romero, Farcaster co-founder, announced that Base-based launchpad Clanker has joined the Farcaster ecosystem. Clanker updated its tokenomics: two-thirds of fees will buy and hold CLANKER, older ecosystem tokens have been burned, and 7% of supply is locked in a one-sided LP. Farcaster clarified it has no official token. — link

The stablecoin blockchain Stable, supported by Bitfinex and USDT0, officially announced the start of its pre-deposit event at 9:13 UTC+8. However, on-chain data shows that deposits were already enabled at 8:48 UTC+8. The top 10 deposit addresses collectively contributed nearly $500 million USDT, accounting for over 60% of the total cap — with one address alone depositing $101 million USDT. — link

On October 23 (ET), Ethereum spot ETFs saw a total net outflow of $128 million, with none of the nine ETFs recording net inflows. In contrast, Bitcoin spot ETFs had a total net inflow of $20.33 million, led by BlackRock’s IBIT with $108 million in net inflows. — link

Covalent has announced the launch of the Covalent Strategic Reserve, a multi-year locked reserve funded by onchain and offchain revenue, including periodic CXT buybacks. The reserve aims to accumulate ~10% of CXT supply and will require governance votes for any future outflows. In 2025 alone, over 17M CXT was repurchased through offchain revenue-backed buybacks, in addition to 9.05M CXT removed via daily automated onchain buybacks.

According to the latest “Q3 2025 Crypto Exchange Market Report” released by TokenInsight, KuCoin’s native token KCS outperformed Bitcoin in quarterly gains, showing strong performance among exchange tokens. Meanwhile, KuCoin’s derivatives market growth placed it among the world’s top three, and its spot market share has increased for four consecutive quarters. — link

South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Upbit, has announced the listing of the ORDER/KRW trading pair. Orderly is a project that provides order book–based trading infrastructure and a liquidity layer. — link

Crypto wallet project Vultisig will initiate its whitelist token issuance on October 27, with a Kraken listing 24 hours later. Vultisig offers a live multichain MPC wallet with no seed phrases and no single point of failure, generating $400K in cross-chain swap fees over the past year. Backers include Arca, Delphi, and Wintermute. As of now, Vultisig’s whitelist application channel appears to still be open. — link

JPMorgan plans to allow its institutional clients to use their holdings of BTC and ETH as loan collateral by the end of this year. This global program will rely on third-party custodians to safeguard the pledged crypto tokens. This initiative represents an extension of JPMorgan's previous policy of accepting crypto ETFs as collateral. — link

Polymarket CMO Matthew Modabber has confirmed plans to launch a native POLY token and an airdrop as the predictions market adoption heats up . Bloomberg reported that Polymarket is exploring fresh funding at a valuation of up to $15 billion. — link

WuBlockchain Weekly: HKEX and Others Resist DAT Companies, CZ Pardoned by Trump, Google Claims“Quantum Breakthrough”, JPMorgan Plans to Allow Bitcoin and Ethereum as Collateral, etc — link

The Uniswap Foundation has awarded a grant of up to $9 million to Brevis to develop and manage a Router Rebate program, which will provide gas rebates for routers integrating v4 hooked pools. The rebate system will rely entirely on Brevis’s ZK Data Coprocessor and Pico zkVM for trustless calculation and verification. — link

The Binance-backed competitor to Hyperliquid, ASTER, has announced it will allocate 70-80% of its Season 3 fee revenue to repurchase ASTER tokens. The final percentage, subject to market conditions, will be disclosed at the end of the season. The airdrop and buyback programs for future seasons will be announced separately after the details are finalized. — link

US September CPI (unadjusted YoY): 3% (exp. 3.1%, prev. 2.9%).
US September CPI (SA MoM): 0.3% (exp. 0.4%, prev. 0.4%).
US September Core CPI (unadjusted YoY): 3% (exp. 3.1%, prev. 3.1%).
US September Core CPI (SA MoM): 0.2% (exp. 0.3%, prev. 0.3%).

White House says no US inflation data likely next month. Analysts warn Fed’s December decision will be highly complex.

Binance Wallet has launched the x402 list. Users can access it under the Market tab to discover and trade the latest tokens. x402 is an HTTP-based open payment protocol, driven by Coinbase and others, enabling native internet micropayments without accounts, API keys, or subscriptions. — link

According to Bloomberg, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has revealed that the company is projected to post a net profit of approximately $15 billion this year, achieving an exceptional profit margin of 99%. When discussing the types of investors Tether aims to attract, he emphasized that the goal is to create synergies and expand the company’s impact, though he declined to disclose any details regarding specific potential investors. — link

Tether plans to launch a U.S. dollar stablecoin, USAT, in December 2025, compliant with the GENIUS Act and targeting 100 million users in the U.S. CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company is considering 2–3 additional investments in content or social platforms to expand USAT’s use cases in the creator economy. — link

According to Bloomberg, Donald Trump has decided to nominate Michael Selig as Chair of the CFTC. Selig currently serves as Chief Legal Counsel for the SEC’s Special Task Force on Crypto. If the nomination is formally submitted, it will still require Senate confirmation. — link

Rumble has partnered with Tether to launch Bitcoin tipping for creators, expected to go live in early to mid-December. CEO Chris Pavlovski said the feature is in testing, while Tether’s Paolo Ardoino noted it will fully launch after final UX fixes. Rumble, which has over 51 million monthly users, previously received a $775 million investment from Tether. — link