OpenAI launched the Decisions API in public beta for all developers, claiming up to 10x faster decisions than GPT-6 Luna via the Responses API

OpenAI rolled out the Meetings plugin in beta for Pro and Business users on the ChatGPT macOS desktop app, with auto notes, summaries, and next steps

Claude started working inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides via a sidebar, with edits made in place and approved one by one

Google released EmbeddingGemma 2 under Apache 2.0, its first natively multimodal open embedding model, unifying text, images, video, audio, and code

OpenAI published a repo of novel math solutions from an unreleased internal model, with ~4,000 problems posed and ~3 hours of ChatGPT Pro compute per result on average

Sesame voice assistant got a major update with a more expressive model, image generation, connectors, computer use, and the ability to run coding agents like Devin, Codex, and Claude Code

AgentMail launched AgentID, a Sign in with Google style login for AI agents using a verified email tied to a human owner

Ampersand raised a $15M Series A led by Bessemer, added Lauri Moore to the board, and made its platform generally available

Figure’s Hark Pro went live on web, iOS, and Android, with the $100 Pro plan made free

Google launched Nano Banana 2.1, an image model with better visual design, mask-based editing, subject consistency, and more natural-looking images, available in ai.studio

Mitra assistants gained the ability to chat for you in messaging apps and talk to other assistants via Mitra Link

Mistral Large 4 hit 6th on the Open-Weight Artificial Analysis Index and scored 82 on CyberGym-E2E

Gamma launched Gamma 5 with an agent that plans, designs, and edits decks, plus PowerPoint import/export and Notion, Slack, and HubSpot connectors

Google added native Markdown file support in Drive and Docs

ChatGPT Auto-review became free for everyone signed in with a ChatGPT account, running a background agent that checks the main agent’s actions against user intent

SpaceX sought to raise $40B, ~$10B in bank loans and $30B in investment-grade debt, led by Apollo, to buy Nvidia chips

Artificial Analysis ranked Mistral Large 4 as the most intelligent model from outside the US and China, on par with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max)

Anthropic said it found 5.5K+ verified vulnerabilities in April-October, while Glasswing partners found 129K+ in April-July, 33K+ of them critical or high severity

Anthropic merged its Cyber Verification Program and Project Glasswing into an expanded CVP with three tiers and access to its latest models

Mysten Labs and Google Cloud announced Verifiable Agent Arbiter, an evidence layer for enterprises to prove AI agents acted as authorized, anchored on Sui and Walrus

Abstract announced it would shut down on December 15, 2026, with users required to bridge assets off before then

MetaMask Staking nearly finished exiting its Lido validators, with stETH APR at 2.23%

OKX raised at a $25B valuation from StanChart and Circle

Superform launched Earn Stocks on Base, powered by Aave, offering DeFi yield on NVDA, TSLA, GOOGL, and other MAG 7 stocks

Aptos Labs unveiled MonoMove, an execution engine upgrade with up to 55x faster smart contract execution in tests, with mainnet planned for 2027

Vitalik said at OKX NOW Singapore that Ethereum fees would fall, privacy would improve, and AI would increasingly handle on-chain interactions over the next two years

Ethereum Economic Zone executed the first atomic L1-to-L2 transaction on Ethereum mainnet

Navra, led by SoFi and Figure co-founder Mike Cagney, raised $19M in a Series A led by Ribbit Capital

Conduit sued Tether, alleging $2.76M in USDT was frozen without explanation for over a year

Winklevoss twins filed an S-1 for a spot Zcash ETF on Nasdaq under ticker WINK, with Gemini as custodian and a 0.25% sponsor fee

Hyperscale Data reported $56.4M in bitcoin, cash, and restricted cash, including nearly 220 BTC worth $19M

DeFi Development Corp. authorized a buyback of up to all of its CHAD preferred stock, though it didn’t currently plan to repurchase

Solana Foundation launched an open source delivery versus payment settlement program with input from JPMorgan

Rain applied to the OCC for a national trust bank charter covering digital asset custody, reserve management, and stablecoin issuance and redemption

Fairshake planned to back 32 House incumbents in the midterms, including $1M each for six lawmakers, all of whom backed the Clarity Act

Rep. Don Davis introduced a bill banning federal candidates and their families from trading prediction market contracts tied to their own elections

Spiko raised $90M in a Series B led by NEA, bringing total funding to $120M, with $2.7B in AUM

Artizen paused operations and told users to claim payouts or withdraw ART and USDC

MoonPay became payments infrastructure partner for ether.fi

Solana announced the Intelligence Summit for November 13 in London, ahead of Breakpoint

Variational treasury crossed $10M in USDC, with about $2.5M added in September

Ripple Prime started providing multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing, and financing to Brevan Howard

South Korea’s finance minister said the government would gather industry, expert, and parliamentary views on the planned crypto tax, which was set to take effect next year

USDC Bridge added Solana support, connecting it to 18 supported ecosystems

ZIG Finance and World Liberty Financial partnered to deploy USD1 into real-world investments, with first deployment live via PayFi Vault on Concrete financing cross-border payment and remittance flows

Base invites chains considering winding down to migrate, pitching lower costs and deep borrow/earn markets

Derive completed migration to V3 architecture, withdrawals for some assets may take up to a week to resume

Nano Banana 2.1 appeared live on Google Flow, but output looked similar to Nano Banana Pro

Google was working on Superprojects for Gemini, replacing Gemini Notebook projects, with files and chats accessible across Google products

GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol were expected to be 50% faster

OpenAI said it will roll out text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex in the EU in the coming weeks, staying off by default in the API

ContextQA launched Ship, an AI quality engineer that reproduces bugs from Slack or Linear reports, investigates causes, and hands findings to engineers, Claude or Codex

Gemini Notebook got new usage limits that refresh every 5 hours, a flexible Notebook-wide limit, and a background queue for generations when out of quota

Figure was reportedly planning to release Hark, a proactive AI assistant, this week, with Pro to Pro⁴ plans on web, iOS and iPad, waitlist at launch

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model, rivaling GLM-5.2 on reasoning with far less inference compute, weights due this month

Meta and Microsoft pushed employees off Anthropic’s Claude toward their own AI tools as costs climbed

Higgsfield launched Ads Studio, a ROAS-driven static ad generator, free in its ChatGPT extension

Cognition added Dreaming to Devin, building a memory graph across sessions and cleaning stale records overnight, plus an open standard called Agent Memory Repo

Ghost launched Core, a personal AI computer

Cursor SDK agents could now be steered mid-run with run[.]steer

ElevenLabs Creative launched The Search, a $100,000 competition for the catchiest ad, with $50,000 for first place and 11 winners

Strategy opened a vote on daily dividends for STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD

CFTC moved ahead with two crypto rulemaking proposals, Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM, despite the Clarity Act stalling. CFTC-registered exchanges would get a federal path to list crypto assets and offer margined or leveraged retail trading

Bank of Russia opened applications for crypto exchanges and custodians to join official registers, with first licenses possible before year end

US Treasury withdrew proposed crypto surveillance rules targeting unhosted wallets and mixers

OKX filed with the SEC to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform

Yukon Research launched HashSmash, an open contest testing whether SHA-256, SHA3-256, Poseidon and BLAKE3 hold up against stronger future attackers

Hyperliquid perps went live on the Bloomberg Terminal

Zama Protocol shielded TVL passed $100M

Binance launched Binance Intelligence, an AI suite with Binance AI, AI Pro and Agent OS, which passed 280,000 daily calls

BitMine bought another 15,112 ETH, bringing holdings to 6,016,414 ETH, about 4.9% of supply

Metaplanet set a target of 85%-90% of assets in Bitcoin and 10%-15% in strategic investments, and held 44,000 BTC as of Sept. 30

Plume launched nBND, a tokenized vault backed primarily by Fidelity Total Bond ETF

Hyperliquid received its first $14.58M USDC payment under the AQAv2 framework, funding HYPE buybacks

Binance announced it will block Brazil cross border crypto transfers from Nov. 1 unless users provide purpose and counterparty details

Umia raised $6.1M at $18M FDV to help crypto projects launch tokens

Privy CEO Henri Stern took over Stripe’s crypto and stablecoin efforts while still leading Privy

DeFi Development Corp. added about 26,203 SOL, bringing holdings to roughly 2.56M SOL and equivalents worth $302M

Strive bought 2,000 BTC for roughly $169M at an average of $84,422, bringing total holdings to 29,462 BTC

Visa found 46% of Asia Pacific consumers were likely to use stablecoins within five years, versus 16% who used them in the past year

Zcash NU7 went live on public testnet early at block 4,465,026, cutting target block time from 75 to 25 seconds

Russia’s Ministry of Finance is now paying some state employees in a central bank digital currency

The New York Times published a feature on CZ’s life in Abu Dhabi since his release from prison

Japan sanctioned 33 entities and nine individuals on October 2, adding Russian crypto exchange Garantex to its asset freeze list

TRUMP team wallets sent about 81.87M TRUMP ($249M) to CEXs over eight months, and still hold roughly 718M tokens (71.8% of supply)

Blockaid flagged an ongoing exploit on an unnamed Base vault, with more than $6M drained so far

Aave V4 now lets users borrow USDC against Coinbase tokenized stocks, including Apple, Nvidia and Tesla, with deposits reportedly above $9M

Arcus Points Season 1 is fixed at 250K per week, and the program ends no later than the end of H1 2027

Pumpfun flipped Hyperliquid in 30 day revenue

Aave proposed an Aave Foundation, a memberless Cayman Islands entity to hold the Aave trademark and IP for the DAO

Trump announced a Super Intelligence Force to keep the US ahead in Super Intelligence

Musk said SpaceXAI will rebrand to SpaceXSI after Trump ordered federal agencies to say Super Intelligence instead of artificial intelligence

Anthropic is prompting more users to join a 15-minute voice interview via Anthropic Interviewer on how AI fits into their lives, with the option to make interviews public later

OpenAI is about to release GPT 6.1 Sol Ultrafast

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an open-weight MoE model with 78B params (3.46B active) and a 1M context window under Apache 2.0, with 21.3% of pre-training tokens in German

Meta is working on Agent Engine, internally called Forge, for its Meta API Platform

Bloomberg Intelligence said the US lead over China in AI performance has narrowed to a record low as labs like DeepSeek gained ground

Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who warned AI could become too powerful for humans to control, will testify Monday at a New York City Council hearing alongside reps from major AI companies

Meta shared six papers on open math problems solved by mathematicians working with Muse Spark 1.1 and 1.2 in Thinking Mode through the regular meta.ai chat

Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for building hardware that works with Muse

Gemini Desktop is getting a Full Access permission for computer use, letting it read, modify, or delete files anywhere on your Mac and control other apps without asking each time (still hidden in the app)

Maket launched Maket 2.0, an AI platform that generates floor plans and 3D views for new homes or remodels from a short prompt

DeepSeek Harness v0.2 is live on macOS, Windows, and Linux, a desktop app powered by DeepSeek models for work and coding tasks, with Plugins and Workspaces built in

Volantis raised $88M in Series A funding co led by Lachy Groom and Abstract, with John Doerr, Susa Ventures, VXI Capital, and Triatomic Capital participating

David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI’s Safety Systems team and previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week

Cactus released Whistle, a 16.9MB speech-to-text model that runs on CPU and mostly beats Whisper base with 9x less file size and 6x speed

Blast L2 announced its shutdown over unsustainable costs, with users required to withdraw to Ethereum before October 26

South Korea unveiled rules letting stocks, bonds and funds move onchain from February 2027, with its securities depository building connectivity on Avalanche

SMBC Nikko, one of Japan’s largest securities firms, said it was building a trading venue on Uniswap with compliance running inside a hook, set to launch mid-2027

26 new tokenized stocks landed on Base, tradable 24/7

Zcash got two independent full-node implementations, Zebra and Zakura

Silicon Exchange launched GPU cluster financing for AI compute, built on Stripe, Tempo, Privy and OUSD

New York and Wyoming regulators agreed to jointly oversee crypto firms, sharing exam data and fast-tracking licenses for established companies

Lido EarnUSD updated its fees to a cap of 0.5% AUM + 20% performance, set to launch at 0.2% AUM + 15% performance, down from 1% AUM + 10%

BNB Chain became the first blockchain to surpass $1B in tokenized stocks and ETFs

Core Lightning warned node operators on version 26.06.7 or earlier to upgrade immediately as attackers targeted unpatched nodes

ZEC pool went live on THORChain

PUSA, the onchain common stock of Powerus, went live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities, redeemable one to one for the Nasdaq-listed share

Chainalysis attributed the $387M Bitget hack to DPRK actors, with funds moved across Ethereum, XRP, Zcash and Tron

bitFlyer announced Cooldown, starting October 15, which restricts external crypto transfers for 48 hours after JPY deposits for users within 90 days of verification

Tether-backed Utexo said it planned to launch USDT on Bitcoin this month, built on RGB with private transfers, native BTC-USDT swaps and BTC-backed lending

Aave v3 Loop Safe Module was exploited for about 114.09 ETH via an access-control flaw in FlashLoopAdapter, per SlowMist

Near announced that $3.8M stolen in the NEAR Intents exploit was returned in full

Fiserv’s digital asset platform went live with Bank of North Dakota’s dollar-backed coin on Solana as its first use case, covering 90+ banks and credit unions

Copper launched institutional trading access to Hyperliquid perpetuals via API and its platform, with assets kept in non-custodial MPC

Forward Industries added nearly 949,000 SOL last quarter at an average cost of $83, bringing holdings to 8.5M SOL, roughly 1.4% of circulating supply

IMF approved a $138M disbursement to El Salvador under its $1.4B Extended Fund Facility, waiving the country’s breach of bitcoin accumulation limits

BNY was reported in talks with Kraken parent Payward over an infrastructure partnership

Anchorage Digital laid off 17% of staff

Perplexity launched the Decisions API, powered by pplx-decider-v1-27b, at $0.04/million input tokens and 85.71% across benchmarks

Google launched Guided Vision in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices for real-time visual assistance

Google launched Guided Vision in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices for real-time visual assistance

OpenAI rolled out virtual try-on and a Favorites library for shopping in ChatGPT

Claude app work started on designs, decks or docs used 50% less of your usage limits for two weeks

doxx[.]net launched Agentic Defined Networking after raising $38M from a16z, Animo Ventures and Focal[.]vc

Arceus launched an AI-first law firm with $17M led by Greycroft, with Craft Ventures and SPC participating

Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash

Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3 Image with precise editing and 4K support, open weights coming in the next few weeks

Grok 4.7 rolled out on web and mobile as the base model across Fast, Expert, Build and Heavy modes

Tavus unveiled Griffin, a video-to-video model for real-time conversations, with 45% of 120 study participants taking it as real

Podonos launched Onepin, an AI voice production agent that fixes voiceover lines at the word level

Grok Bot got a Primary Bot that manages other bots and acts proactively, rolling out gradually

Synthesia launched Sessions, interactive AI avatars for roleplay coaching and survey interviews

NEAR Intents confirmed a $3.8M exploit and promised full compensation

Ostium said it was rebuilding as Gateway, a whitelisted API and liquidity layer for stablecoin-native perps access

SEC proposed a new rule for investment funds holding crypto, including self custody under certain conditions

BAXUS brought collectible bottles onchain, tradable without physical delivery

Centrifuge went live on Arc with tokenized RWAs from Janus Henderson and New York Life Investment Management, including JAAA, JTRSY and HYB

Arc launched Borrow Kit, letting apps offer USDC loans against cirBTC via Morpho markets

EIP-8363 was withdrawn from Hegotá consideration, with issuance policy set to get its own dedicated process

LloydsBank and Visa completed a live USDC settlement pilot, moving $750K cross-border in under an hour

Trump memecoin investors got another gala dinner offer for November

LTC Foundation signed an MOU with Greywick Digital to bring LTC to Canton Network as cLTC, with no launch date set

Illinois agreed to postpone its 0.2% crypto tax by six months

Chainlink was selected as the official price oracle for @openstandard’s $OUSD

Petrobras tested Cardano to track green fuel certificates and prevent double counting of sustainable aviation fuel credits

U.S. lawmakers considered broader crypto powers for banks and credit unions, covering custody, payments, lending, trading and stablecoin operations

Re7 Labs launched the Frax USDai Ecosystem Vault on Mainnet, with frxUSD lenders at 41.99% APY

Sui announced the Basecamp Creator Challenge with $30,000 in prizes across 8 tracks, with submissions opening Oct 7 at 11:00 SGT

Walapay raised a $4.6M seed led by genventurecap

EF and OA announced zkAPI, a way to get private AI inference by depositing ETH into a vault

Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the European Commission to build on existing EU rules for onchain markets

Cloudflare’s Monetization Gateway let APIs charge agents per request in USDC on Base

Quick slots (EIP-8198) moved to CFI on the All Core Devs call, with a first slot cut from 12 to 10 seconds targeted

World Liberty launched staking with a $1.25M USD1 rewards pool, with 180 day linear distribution starting Oct. 2

Philippine central bank partially suspended inbound InstaPay and PESONet transfers to Coins ph’s e-money operator DCPay Philippines

Zcash community approved $8.39M in retroactive grants across 17 proposals after the Orchard bug

Porsche shut down its Web3 project, with holders keeping their 911 NFTs

Cboe said it was considering VIX perpetual futures once there was more regulatory clarity in the U.S.

Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders approved the Evernorth merger, with 473M XRP expected at closing, close set for Oct. 7 and XRPN trading set to start Oct. 8

SBI Holdings completed its acquisition of Bitbank, valued at 46.7B yen ($288.6M)

Robinhood Wallet integrated Arcus’ API for 190+ stock tokens

EU questioned Binance over continued operations despite wind down order

Drift launched DFX claims for April exploit victims at 1 DFX per 1 USDT lost

Base Batch 004 announced its 10 selected teams out of 750+ applicants

Google introduced Gemini 4 Argon, showing frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering

Inworld acquired Ultravox, the voice agent platform

Google is building a Security review feature for Google AI Studio that applies secure coding practices, alongside a Plan mode

Claude mobile chats are getting Skills as a separate attachment menu

Kled V3 shipped 108 task templates across image, video, audio, text and annotation, and collects 8M datapoints per day

Sesame is building Connectors (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive), Skills, scheduled tasks and task management, with adjustable thinking effort

GMI Cloud raised $668M in a Series B led by ARCHIV, with NVIDIA participating and a credit facility led by CTBC

ChatGPT profiles added Top Plugins and Showcase sections, with a configurable, publicly visible list of sites

Airwallex launched agentic Business Accounts, where AI agents manage entities, accounts, balances and currencies within user-set rules and approvals

Creatify launched Boreal-H3, a video model for ad production, plus an Ad Agent powered by Claude Opus 5.5

Drift said it has frozen about $9.2M of the $295.4M stolen on April 1 and launched a 10% recovery bounty with Bybit

Ostium launched OLP recovery plan, repaying in full the 90% of wallets with losses of 1,000 USDC or less, larger holders choose by Oct. 30 between a flat 1,000 USDC or a Stage 2 pro-rata plan

Base launched Cobalt, its third network upgrade, bringing Validity transactions and B20 enhancements to mainnet

Chainlink launched Fulcrum, connecting major financial institutions to onchain financing with 24/7 collateral mobilization and risk management

ESMA proposed expanding MiCA to cover DeFi gateways, staking and crypto lending, with tighter limits on services involving unauthorized stablecoins

Hyperliquid community event to take place October 5 in Singapore, RSVP acceptance required

Open USD (OUSD), the stablecoin from Coinbase, Mastercard, Stripe, Visa and others, is now live

Solana Company HSDT prices a $15M stock offering with warrants at a 5% premium to NAV, holding 2.3M SOL worth roughly $273.5M

DogeOS launched a public testnet for its ZK rollup, bringing EVM smart contracts to Dogecoin with DOGE as gas

CFTC filed two rulemakings with the White House’s OIRA targeting event contracts, one excluding casino-style gambling products from the swap definition, the other including event contracts

Stand With Crypto rolled out its first round of Senate endorsements after the failed Clarity vote

Abracadabra governance is considering an orderly wind-down of the protocol, citing roughly $21M in MIM bad debt

Balancer BAL holders approved an orderly wind-down after BIP-928 passed and the fork failed, V3 pools stay live until Oct. 30 and the first treasury distribution is set for May 2027

Australia’s ASIC is preparing to regulate digital asset and tokenised custody platforms under a regime starting April 2027

HSBC named its upcoming HKD stablecoin HSBC RedCoin, launching in H2 2026 via PayMe and the HSBC HK app

MoonPay CLO Caroline Pham said real tokenized securities listed on NYSE or Nasdaq will come onchain much faster than expected, and that stablecoins’ role relative to tokenized deposits is overestimated

Binance Pay users can now pay at Japanese merchants accepting PayPay, available only to overseas visitors

Brazil’s CSD BR partnered with Ripple to tokenize BTG Pactual fund shares on the XRP Ledger

Scorechain integrated with Sui for wallet screening, transaction monitoring and fund tracing

Muneeb Ali is taking over as CEO of Stacks Labs on Oct. 15 as Bitcoin Staking goes live

Robinhood added AI agents, in-app perps via Bitstamp and weekend trading

UK FCA opened its crypto authorization gateway, firms should apply by Feb. 28, 2027 ahead of the regime starting Oct. 25, 2027

OpenAI introduced Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer

OpenClaw Foundation, with Red Hat, Nvidia and OpenAI, is open sourcing OpenClaw Enterprise, a free control plane for persistent agents

Meta launched Muse for Small Business, adding new skills and connectors to its Muse AI agent

OpenAI introduced GPT-6.1 Sol, with near Astra intelligence at one fifth of the price and a 95% cache read discount

Multicoin Capital invested in Grass, a DePIN selling pretraining data to AI labs and expanding into live web retrieval for AI agents

Perplexity Computer launched Automations, running on event-based triggers or schedules and connecting to Slack, Gmail, Outlook and Linear

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Space, a collaborative workspace with interactive pages featuring charts, images, checklists and dashboards, rolling out to Pro, Business and Enterprise

OpenAI is reportedly raising another $30B at around a $1.4T valuation.

OpenAI announced Codex Cloud at DevDay, letting developers run Codex remotely on Plus, Pro, Business, Healthcare, Education and Enterprise plans

OpenAI introduced Ultrafast, a premium speed tier with up to 8x faster token generation (300 tokens per second) in Codex and up to 6x in the API

InstaCloud raised an $8M seed round to build an agent-native serverless cloud aimed at replacing AWS, GCP and Azure

Wajo launched Fo, an AI agent that places calls, sends emails and pays with single-use cards, completing 71% of setback-heavy test tasks without help

OpenAI unveiled Decisions API, powered by GPT-6 Luna, returning predefined answers with confidence scores, in limited preview with no pricing details

Bitwise launched NRR, the first spot NEAR ETP in the US, with in house staking

Jeeves raised $110M to scale its stablecoin native banking platform to 35 countries, with stablecoin volume above $1.5B annualized in 8 months

Ondo and Kakaopay Securities are partnering on global distribution of tokenized Korean equities

El Salvador is building a government backed app on Base, with Sivar by Modveon enabling US to El Salvador transfers for a flat $2

Coinbase will add support for Concrete (CT), with deposits unavailable until the issuer unlocks transfers

Earn Kit is live on Arc Mainnet, giving developers access to Morpho USDC and EURC lending, crosschain deposits via CCTP and gas sponsorship

Strategy launched a Credit Pricing Calculator comparing market prices for its preferreds with derived prices based on BTC Credit

Illinois published a draft rule launching its first digital assets tax

CEA Industries renamed itself BNB Standard Corporation after a community vote

Rep. James Comer is expanding his insider trading in prediction markets probe to Hyperliquid, Crypto[.]com and PredictIt

Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global closed a funding round with prediction market liquidity firm Raven at a $90M pre-money valuation

MoonPay began full scale operations in South Korea, with new work alongside KakaoBank and KB Financial Group and existing partner Woori Bank

Avalanche saw +$266M in RWA market cap growth over 30 days, more than the next two chains combined

Arbitrum Foundation is subsidizing smart contract audits for teams building on Arbitrum

Morgan Stanley launched a Digital Asset Lab to test stablecoins, tokenized deposits, DeFi vaults and tokenized money market funds

Blockworks launched Blockworks Intel, an agent-based market intelligence product for underwriting and monitoring onchain assets

Monero released beta stressnet v3 ahead of the planned October 5 stressnet hard fork, testing FCMP++ and CARROT

Aave proposal seeks to deploy Aave V4 on Monad with three risk-tiered markets, USDC and USDT0 as borrowable assets

Codex drove 64% of OpenAI’s enterprise output tokens, up from near zero a year ago

Perplexity gave 9 AI models root access in a sandbox test, and none breached the VM boundary across 108 runs and joined Nvidia and 100+ industry partners to build infrastructure that contains rogue AI agents.

Nvidia and 100+ partners launched an open safety platform to monitor and enforce boundaries on AI agents, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry

Meta launched Enterprise Platform with its AI stack (Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code), led by former MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai

ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, with v4 taking first place on the Artificial Analysis Provider Voice TTS Arena

TinyFish launches two free builder programs, one for students and one for ambassadors, sharing a monthly bounty board where multiple users can get paid for the same bounty

Manus launches Manus 2.0 with Cloud Computers, event-triggered Automations, a Manus Studio desktop workspace, and Cue, a standalone app for personal agents with their own email, phone number, and wallet

Base44 launches Base Code, a cloud code editor that opens any GitHub repo in the browser, works with multiple AI models side by side, and turns queries into pull requests

Grok Bot introduced Team Bots as shared AI teammates that learn as your team works with them, usable in Slack or Grok Bot

World Labs is joining AMD to scale its spatial and physical intelligence work closer to the hardware

Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, on top of the $10B secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia set it up in June

Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI until government safeguards exist

Strategy bought 1,665 BTC and repurchased $152M of STRC, bringing holdings to 847,666 BTC and $6.02B in USD assets

Coinbase and Citi brought stablecoins into the banking system, enabling instant stablecoin acceptance for institutions

Chainlink announced it was working to connect financial institutions to Swift’s blockchain ledger

Tether supported nearly $550M in Iran linked USDT freezes as the US expanded its sanctions campaign

Ondo launched spot trading for Ondo Stocks, enabling the basis trade on a single platform

SEC updated its crypto FAQ on token buybacks: no central party behind them likely means no investment contract

Coinbase got CFTC approval for its own derivatives clearing house

Franklin Templeton expanded its off-exchange collateral program to Bybit, letting users pledge shares of its $686M tokenized money market fund to borrow USDT or USDC

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0, letting companies add their own security verifiers to cross-chain transfers

Circle and Volante partnered to integrate USDC workflows into Volante’s payments platform, whose clients included 4 of the top 5 global corporate banks and 7 of the top 10 US banks

DeFi Development Corp added about 47,706 SOL since Sept. 21, bringing total holdings to about 2.54M SOL and SOL equivalents worth $309M

Strive bought 1,107 BTC for $94.5M at an average of $85,396, bringing total holdings to 27,462 BTC

Bitmine passed 6M ETH, worth about $16B and 4.9% of circulating supply, after adding 17,362 ETH this week

Circle co-founder Sean Neville stepped down from the board, and CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen planned to leave by end of December

Capital B bought 13 BTC for $1.1M, bringing total holdings to 3,538 BTC

RedotPay received a clean Big Four audit opinion on its 2024 and 2025 financials ahead of a potential listing

NEAR Intents blocked over $50M in Bitget hack flows, with about $503K frozen mid-execution and $166K passing through, and waived its share of the recovery bounty

ETHFI announced it would fully exit EigenLayer restaking this quarter, with less than 1% of assets still restaked

Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla tokenized stocks from Coinbase went live as collateral on Aave V4 on Base to borrow USDC

Binance Wallet let users pay gas fees in USDT on BNB Chain, Ethereum, Solana and TRON

Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the protocol was considering an AAVE token burn in Aavenomics 3.0

Chainlink CCIP integrated Ethereum’s Fast Confirmation Rule, cutting reorg guarantees from about 15 minutes to 12-24 seconds

Blockchain[.]com reportedly targeted a $500M raise at a $4-6B valuation in its IPO

Goldman Sachs brought its $100B flagship Treasury fund to Avalanche via Lynq, a permissioned L1 used by 30+ institutional firms

Australia’s senate asked the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear at an inquiry following the recent hack of a government website

OpenAI is expanding its Ultrafast API to more users after DevDay, with a Fast, Standard and Ultrafast Speed selector coming to the Responses API Playground

OpenAI teased always-on agents to arrive at DevDay next week

Nano Banana 2.5 Flash reference on Google Flow was changed to Nano Banana 2.1, not live yet

Muse agent is getting a dedicated tab for permanent browsing of its VM screen, and its web voice mode now appears as a voice-calling widget

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are moving ahead with a self regulatory AI safety organization, industry run with some government oversight, after a potential executive order stalled

DeepSeek’s annualized revenue hit $1B as it prepares to raise $7.5B at a $7.5B valuation

Bill Gates said AI risk is not a hoax and expects Trump to listen and reach a consensus on safeguards

Vitalik said Ethereum’s Hegota upgrade next year is likely its last normal one, with everything after focused on ZK proofs and quantum safety, targeting finality in as little as 8 seconds by 2030

Ethena will end all USDe related token incentives and inflation at the end of this month, after incentives already fell about 85% since 2024

Wazz traced at least $18.43M extracted across 53 Robinhood Chain token launches to one rug-pull operation, with CRUMBS, LEGS and PINK taking about $3.12M, $2.9M and $1.44M

Jumper is spinning out of LI[.]FI to build a super-app for onchain finance, ticker JUMP

THORChain said it is decentralized and permissionless like Bitcoin and Ethereum after Bitget CEO Gracy Chen asked it to refuse transactions from flagged attacker addresses

GoPlus argued THORChain’s decentralization claims don’t hold, said FBI or OFAC attributed DPRK linked funds could be blocked under its existing emergency framework

GoPlus said Bitget’s $387.5M hack hit the transaction-signing trust chain, not private keys, with funds drained over about 2 hours and 25 minutes

Bitget said the vulnerability behind its September 24 hack is fixed, with withdrawals resuming in phases

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce will leave the agency on October 2 after nearly nine years.

Circle and Tether froze $318,000 tied to the Bitget hack (218,023 USDT and 99,990 USDC), while attacker addresses still hold more than 63,000 ETH

Zano restarted its blockchain from block 3,833,000, just before Hard Fork 6, to wipe out unauthorized ZANO and fUSD minted through its Gateway Address vulnerability, and said it will publish a reimbursement process

Giwa team confirmed its mainnet is not live yet after a fake Giwa mainnet deployment caused asset losses across the community.

Trump said Scott Bessent won’t be the Super Intelligence czar and will stay at Treasury.

Trump said he wants AI left exactly where it is, while Xi called responsible AI development necessary and other Chinese officials backed a global governance framework this week.

Congressional Republicans are sponsoring bipartisan AI regulation bills 39 days before the midterms.

OpenAI disclosed that research environment AI agents sent training and eval data to third party services, including 53 cases where user uploaded images ended up posted as unlisted links on image hosting sites, most of which have since been removed.

ChatGPT’s desktop app got a UI overhaul with a new sidebar separated from chat history.

Claude Directory now lets builders submit Plugins and MCP Connectors, with usage stats included.

Microsoft launched a new Copilot app with Home, Code, and Autopilot modes, powered by the same tech as GitHub Copilot, rolling out now through its Frontier program.

Anthropic’s co founders are pushing for majority voting control ahead of an IPO, proposing a structure that gives them 50.1% of the vote on major corporate decisions.

Radical Ventures said AI neolabs with no products, markets, or revenue raised $24B combined over the past two quarters, nearly 5x what OpenAI and Anthropic raised pre-ChatGPT.

Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein AI is just software and existential risk fears are overstated, though his own standards would reportedly shut down OpenAI and require 10x more safety spending.

AlphaFi is winding down its protocol after the Sui Security Team found a misconfigured ALPHA oracle created bad debt; Sui Foundation is stepping in to keep it solvent, no user funds are affected, and withdrawals are open.

Pydantic AI agents can now run on Jev, the classifier from Typesafe AI, returning typed answers instead of text.

Muse is partnering with Plaid to help users manage their money.

Bitget revised its hack losses to $387.5M after tracing stolen funds on Zcash and TRON, said it would announce a withdrawal timeline by Sept 26, 4am UTC

CZ said Binance, BNB Chain, and the community would do everything possible to help Bitget after its hack; Bybit, MEXC, and CoinDCX execs also offered support

Coinbase’s CEO said crypto and stablecoins would become the go-to payment method for AI agents

Jumper opened its JUMP token sale on Legion, running Sept 29 to Oct 2

Strategy proposed switching its preferred securities (STRF, STRC, STRK, STRD) to a daily dividend structure, accruing every calendar day with unchanged economics

Coinbase’s tokenized stocks went live on Aave V4 on Base, available outside the US

Brazil’s central bank mandated reporting on self-custody wallet transfers of $10,000 or more starting October 1

House Small Business subcommittee held a hearing examining how crypto payments could cut costs and speed up transactions for small businesses

Hypernova launched Wallet Connect, letting users link trading history from Hyperliquid for better pricing assessments

Aero confirmed an October 21 launch, adding Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum alongside Base, Ethereum, Arc, OP Mainnet, and Ink

Tezos launched Quantumnet to test quantum resistant signatures (ML-DSA-44) across consensus and data availability

Arc Mainnet added Onramp Kit, letting developers embed fiat-to-USDC funding via Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards, and bank transfers

Alpenglow went live on devnet, officially retiring TowerBFT ahead of the mainnet-beta migration

SEC staff clarified when live tokens, buybacks, and staking receipts don’t count as securities

Bybit published a restricted counterparty list covering exchanges, mixers, and darknet markets, including Garantex, HTX, Samourai Wallet, and groups like Lazarus, Hamas, and ISIS-K

Magic Eden was suspected of an NFT security vulnerability after a white hat moved 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets

Strive pushed back on MSCI’s proposed index rules, warning it could be excluded without a clear definition of an operating asset

LayerZero is winding down offchain DVN and Executor support within 30 days for low activity chains including Aurora, Taiko, Japan Open Chain, LightLink, Viction, Animechain, XPLA, Merlin, Gnosis, Zora, Otherworld Space, XAI, and opBNB.

Fhenix goes mainnet this October with dual mode, letting the same asset switch between public and confidential states without fragmenting liquidity.

US seized $84M from Montana payments firm Capstone over alleged Tether and Bitfinex fund movements through Caribbean bank EQIBank

Circle Foundation is partnering with the UN Development Programme and World Food Programme to pilot USDC-based stablecoin payments for humanitarian aid in conflict zones and low-connectivity regions.