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  • October 29 · 3 min

    BNB Chain's Jenner Fork Reserves 5% of Block Gas for Payments

    BNB Chain's Jenner hard fork went live on the BSC testnet, reserving 5% of each block's gas for payment transactions, with governance able to raise it to 10%. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bnb-chain-jenner-hard-fork-payment-lane-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 3 min

    Uphold Adds Crypto-to-Stock Swaps With 4,000+ US Securities

    Uphold now lets US users swap directly between crypto and 4,000+ stocks and ETFs in one step, from $5, with 0% commission on cash-to-stock trades. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/uphold-crypto-to-stock-trading-4000-securities-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 4 min

    US Government Sells $627M in Seized FTX Anthropic Shares Now Worth $3.94B

    The US government cashed out seized FTX Anthropic shares for $627M. Those same shares are now worth $3.94B, a 6.3x gap that reframes the bankruptcy math. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/us-government-sells-627m-seized-ftx-anthropic-shares-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 5 min

    CZ Flags Four Data Leaks in One Day, Coinbase Vendor Among Them

    Binance founder CZ flagged four data leaks in a single day, including a breach at Coinbase's analytics vendor Amplitude that exposed some users' contact data. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-amplitude-vendor-breach-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 3 min

    Solflare Validator Hit by Key Breach, User SOL Stays Safe

    Solflare's staking provider suffered a security incident that compromised its validator keys. Delegated SOL was never touched, but rewards are paused pending a migration. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/solflare-validator-key-breach-staking-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 4 min

    VanEck's Wealth Builder ETF Puts a 2% Bitcoin Target in a Core Fund

    VanEck has launched the actively managed Wealth Builder ETF (WBMO), which targets a 2% Bitcoin allocation, flexing between 1% and 5%, alongside stocks and bonds. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/vaneck-wealth-builder-etf-2-percent-bitcoin-allocation-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 4 min

    X100 Governance Flaw Lets Attacker Drain $6M in One Transaction

    An X100 attacker froze tokens, seized two of three Senate seats, and passed a proposal that drained about $6M from the treasury in one flash-loan transaction. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/x100-governance-flaw-6m-flash-loan-exploit-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 5 min

    Arthur Hayes Proposes a Futures Market for AI Compute Power

    BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes pitched futures and perpetual swaps on AI compute, priced against a FLOP-denominated reference rate he calls the FRCR. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/arthur-hayes-ai-compute-derivatives-flop-futures-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 4 min

    Ripple Brings RLUSD to Robinhood's Retail and Institutional Markets

    Ripple is expanding its Robinhood partnership to bring the RLUSD stablecoin across retail and institutional products, spanning treasury, lending, and trading. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-rlusd-robinhood-retail-institutional-october-2026/

  • October 28 · 4 min

    Robinhood's Crypto Revenue Plunges 55% to $120M, Still Beats Forecasts

    Robinhood's Q3 2026 crypto revenue fell 55% to $120M, beating a lowered $114.1M forecast even as crypto slid to 8.4% of the broker's record $1.42B in sales. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-crypto-revenue-plunges-55-percent-q3-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 4 min

    Janus Henderson Puts a Tokenized Nasdaq-100 Fund on Stellar

    Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launched JQQQ, a tokenized Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar for non-US professional investors, pushing its onchain book past $1B. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/janus-henderson-jqqq-tokenized-nasdaq-100-stellar-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 4 min

    USDC Takes Majority of Euro Stablecoin Trading as MiCA Reshapes Market

    USDC now handles 56% of euro stablecoin trading, up from 10% in early 2024, after MiCA rules pushed major exchanges to restrict USDT for European users. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/usdc-majority-euro-stablecoin-trading-mica-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 4 min

    Binance Files for Brazil Crypto License Days Before Oct 30 Deadline

    Binance filed for a crypto service license with the Central Bank of Brazil on October 23, days before an October 30 deadline, while delisting 22 assets. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/binance-brazil-crypto-license-filing-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 4 min

    Coinbase Says Seven of the World's Biggest Banks Run on Its Rails

    Coinbase Institutional co-CEO Brett Tejpaul says seven of the world's largest banks now use its infrastructure, calling it a Kodak moment as stablecoin payments climb. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/coinbase-seven-global-banks-infrastructure-kodak-moment-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 4 min

    Ripple Wins Final OCC Approval to Launch a U.S. National Trust Bank

    The OCC gave Ripple final approval to run Ripple National Trust Bank, which will hold RLUSD reserves and custody institutional crypto under federal oversight. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-national-trust-bank-occ-final-approval-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 4 min

    Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Spends $204.9M on STRC Buybacks

    Strategy bought no Bitcoin for the week ending October 25, ending a five-week streak, and spent $204.9 million buying back STRC preferred shares instead. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/strategy-pauses-bitcoin-buys-strc-buyback-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 5 min

    RedotPay Weighs US IPO Filing, Eyes $4-5B Pre-IPO Valuation

    RedotPay is reportedly preparing a confidential US IPO filing by year-end while raising a pre-IPO round at a $4B to $5B valuation, per a Bloomberg report. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/redotpay-us-ipo-4-5-billion-valuation-october-2026/

  • October 27 · 5 min

    Foundation Ties 23,000 Phishing Emails to Old Data, Not Passport Wallets

    Foundation says over 23,000 phishing emails hit Passport wallet users after attackers abused compromised Cloudflare API keys and exposed historical order data. Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/foundation-passport-phishing-23000-emails-october-2026/

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