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The October 6 activation moved existing FXRP stakes automatically into pooled cover backing, pairing fee income with claim exposure and longer withdrawals. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in yo…

The mainnet plan calls for a live consensus replacement, with roughly 150ms finality dependent on network conditions and a coordinated validator handoff. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your…

Solana's Alpenglow upgrade replaces the TowerBFT voting system on October 21, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to a target of 150ms and pulling vote transactions out of blocks entirely.

The second-largest stablecoin by market cap will be overseen by French and EU authorities under its classification as a “significant e-money token.“

SkyAI's SOL treasury fell 70% in under a month, with 400,000 SOL unexplained. Bastion Trading won't tender at $3 a share and wants $3.50.

ZkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs says handled 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds each on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. The announcement came five days after Starknet said it is actively considering becomi…

CEO Tarek Mansour said he feels "pretty good" about the pending outcome of the current legal fight over who has the right to regulate prediction markets.

A hypothetical $500 million SATS financing assigns $387.5 million to Bitcoin, while actual pricing and capital deployment remain open. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The bank identified four distinct stablecoin markets, with USDC leading payments and AI transactions as competition intensifies over reserve yields.

İhlas News Agency says the HEX and PulseChain founder was detained in a Beşiktaş police operation linked to an Interpol Red Notice requested by Finland. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your…

Nasdaq-listed Perpetuals.com is the second company to pursue a U.S. tokenized stock marketplace under the SEC's new framework, following a joint venture between OKX and NYSE parent ICE.

DriveWealth will use Ripple's RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for stablecoin settlement, collateral funding and custody, starting in Europe.

With Strategy's preferred stock STRC closing in on $100 par, Saylor might not be the number two buyer for long...

Evernorth said it is planning a phased move into XRP lending and yield strategies following its Nasdaq debut.

Hypercall, an exchange built on Hyperliquid, says most of its $640 million in volume since June has come from the index.

Starknet’s Shadow Accounts allow users to obscure connections between their main wallets and DeFi activity, though transactions remain visible onchain.

The integration will let software pay for online services using XRP and RLUSD, while questions remain about how much real economic activity the transactions represent.

The switch will replace Solana’s existing validator voting system, remove vote transactions from blocks and could sharply change headline transaction counts even if user activity stays flat.

ZEC led a broad bounce among major tokens, and Korean chipmakers snapped a five-day losing streak ahead of Thursday’s U.S. inflation data.

SkyAI reports about 80% of the required cash and approximately 600,000 SOL retained, while its proposed tender still carries waivable conditions. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

SATS will offer a fixed 15% dividend yield at par and be junior to the company's existing SATA, which pays a variable rate (currently 13%).

Historical estimates point to stronger USDC growth sensitivity to deposit repricing, while exchange rewards complicate adoption forecasts. The post US deposit rates choke USDC adoption, and a BIS model reveals why appeared first on CryptoSlate .

Trezor is cutting authorized resellers after a hardware-implant attack against rival Ledger exposed vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency wallet distribution. In an Oct. 13 letter, Trezor Chief Commercial Officer Danny Sanders said selected partners would lose their authorization on…

Tokenized equities have reached nearly $3.3 billion in value as investors embrace round-the-clock access beyond Wall Street hours.

CCO Danny Sanders said he had notified certain hardware wallet resellers that they would be removed from Trezor’s list of authorized entities starting Jan. 1.

The pending activation draft sets no migration deadline, while moving a name would permanently end its management on v1. The post Ethereum Name Service plans major .eth overhaul with one irreversible catch for domain holders appeared first on CryptoSlate .

The proposal would bring qualifying token-settled derivatives within existing retail safeguards, with some fixed-expiry crypto products remaining outside. The post Australia moves to close crypto derivatives loophole after retail traders lose A$458 million appeared first on Cryp…

A recent change in the SEC’s rules on quorum could make it easier for the agency to amend its approach to crypto regulation in the absence of a market structure bill.

Developers can now build XRPL wallets into apps via Privy, with support for XRP, RLUSD, AI agent payments and x402.

DRW and Marex completed the first OTC swap referencing a fully tokenized index on Derivnex via the Canton Network, with Kaiko data.