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ClearBank is aligning with Circle, a leading global stablecoin issuer to bring regulated digital currencies and near-instant settlement to European financial institutions and fintechs. The move underpins the shift from legacy cross-border payments to a blockchain-enabled infrastructure under the EU’s upcoming regulatory standards.

1inch and Innerworks have activated an AI guard that monitors blockchains and hits back at thieves. The system runs inside 1inch’s infrastructure and aims to rob attackers of their edge. Instead of waiting for damage and then patching holes, the code steps in first to prevent theft from spreading, setting a new rule book for coin suppliers, holders, and node operators.

The cryptocurrency market enters the final week of October under high tension. Data from Coinglass reveals a significant risk of liquidation for altcoins like Solana (SOL), Zcash (ZEC), and Virtual Protocol (VIRTUAL). These coins face billions in leveraged long positions that could be wiped out if prices fall.

The price of BNB saw a notable rally of over 3% during the October 2025 session. This upward momentum occurred immediately after a massive scheduled asset destruction was executed. The impact of BNB token burn, valued at $1.69 billion, was confirmed in the project’s official “Report 33”. The move reshuffled the cryptocurrency rankings. The hard data from the event is significant. The recent quarterly burn, corresponding to report 33, removed exactly 1,441,000 BNB tokens from circulation. This figure represents a market value of $1.208 billion at the time of the operation. Following this removal, the total circulating supply was reduced…

Tether, the issuer of the largest dollar-linked stablecoin, says it will earn about fifteen billion dollars in profit this year. A profit of that size could reshape how cash moves through crypto markets and what the whole system pays to operate. The forecast intensifies scrutiny from big investors and watchdogs and affects every exchange, custodian, and user who relies on a one-to-one dollar peg.

Stellar XLM has stabilized after a sharp jump, with a clear rise in trade size that hints big funds now trade the coin. This shift changes how easy it is to buy or sell and alters price behavior for traders, custodians and asset managers. The market is digesting the prior move while participants assess whether the new flow is durable.

Pump.fun now owns Padre and will merge both sites into a single, larger gateway for token builders and traders. The deal lands as memecoin activity cools, with a new fee and liquidity setup planned to consolidate users and order books.

Citi lowered Gemini’s expected value and raised Bullish’s, indicating the bank now expects Bullish to do better than Gemini. The revised split guides fund managers and traders to treat the two exchanges differently, affecting how risk and capital are allocated. The change was outlined in a research note from the bank.

In 2025, a wave of big-money deals in crypto mining revived the “Barbarians at the Gate” motif as buyers, lenders and investors poured billions into miners pivoting to AI compute. Headline moves include CoreWeave’s nine billion dollar buyout of Core Scientific and Google’s 1.4 billion dollar purchase of 5.4% of Cipher Mining. The surge concentrates server power and heaps debt on a small set of firms, affecting pension funds, cloud companies and government watchdogs.

Bitcoin reserves held by public and private corporations exceed 1.33 million BTC, rivaling ETFs. Willem Schroé, founder and CEO of Botanix Labs, is proposing a solution for activating Bitcoin treasuries. His initiative seeks to transform these passive assets into yield-generating instruments. Schroé highlighted this vision during a recent interview about the future of corporate balances.