The Cryptocurrency week,distilled.

Toto Finance has submitted a proposal to the Cardano community treasury requesting 22 million ADA, valued at approximately $5 million, to establish a strategic copper reserve.

Andreessen Horowitz is rebranding its crypto-focused investment arm to a16z Frontier to expand its scope into artificial intelligence, autonomous machines, and emerging technologies.

Aerodrome and Velodrome have merged to launch a new protocol called Aero.

Visa is in late-stage negotiations to acquire Fireblocks, a provider of stablecoin custody and infrastructure.

Standard Chartered has entered into an agreement to acquire full ownership of Zodia Custody, a digital asset custody provider.

The startup Dataline has raised $10.6 million in funding to develop a decentralized data network for AI agents.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has announced plans to acquire a licensed Thai exchange from the Japanese technology company GMO Internet.

Tether led a $15 million Series A funding round for the New York-based financial infrastructure startup Mural.

HSBC launched its first Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoin, RedCoin (RCHKD), on its PayMe payments app on October 23, 2026.

GCEX has launched options trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Uniswap Labs has launched aggregator hooks for the Uniswap v4 protocol.

JPMorgan has expanded its tokenized fund offerings, specifically MONY and JLTXX, to the Solana blockchain.

Dogecoin Labs has been launched with the support of the Dogecoin Foundation to expand the DOGE ecosystem.

The Solana network is launching its Alpenglow upgrade on Wednesday, October 21, 2026.

JPMorgan has expanded the functionality of its JPM Coin digital token to the Ethereum blockchain.

Developers behind the Zcash network project Zakura are introducing a feature to assign a unique viewing key to every ZEC swap conducted via NEAR Intents.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of approximately $301 million for the week ending October 25, 2026, breaking a two-week losing streak despite a $137.9 million outflow on Friday.

The cryptocurrency Ether experienced a price decline, falling below the $2,300 threshold as of October 24, 2026.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, announced that he has sold the directional trading book of his family office, Maelstrom.

Bitcoin price retreated from a peak of nearly $85,000 to trade just below $82,800 as of the morning of October 23, 2026, in Asia.

In Q3 2026, Ethereum staking reached a record 43.8 million ETH, representing nearly 36% of the total supply, while yields declined to 2.63%.

SkyAI has sold its entire Solana treasury and initiated a tender offer valued at $201 million.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $526.6 million on Monday, October 19, 2026.

Strive, a Dallas-based company, increased its bitcoin treasury to 36,818 BTC after purchasing 1,223 BTC between October 14 and October 16, 2026.

The New York Attorney General's office is seeking over $1.3 billion in restitution and damages from NovaTech founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion.

Senator Richard Blumenthal has demanded that Tether and the consulting firm Nxum provide records, including contracts and payment details, by November 3, 2026.

Also: 22 Oct — coindesk.com

Former Circle engineer J. Benjamin Greenberg filed a derivative lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against President Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial.

Novig and North American Derivatives Exchange (owned by Crypto.com) filed lawsuits in federal courts on October 16, 2026, seeking to block Missouri officials from enforcing state gambling regulations on their sports event contracts.

Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate over 61,800 BTC linked to a $5.7 billion fraud scheme orchestrated by Qian Zhimin and Tianjin Lantian Gree Electronic Technology.

Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs have joined a group of 16 companies objecting to the trading of tokenized versions of their shares on the OKXICE platform.

Also: 19 Oct — decrypt.co

The Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court in China has initiated forfeiture proceedings for 61,896 Bitcoin seized by UK authorities from convicted fraudster Qian Zhimin.

Prosecutors in Tianjin, China, have applied to confiscate 61,896 BTC and other assets seized from Zhimin Qian in the UK, with the Tianjin No. 2 Intermediate People's Court accepting the case.

Adam Gibson proposed a design called Lichen for a single-issuer layer 2 Bitcoin network that allows users to redeem tokens onchain without issuer cooperation using BitVMX and Groth16 proofs.

Starknet holders voted 93.52% in favor of researching a transition from an Ethereum layer 2 to an independent layer 1 blockchain.

The Starknet community has voted to support research into transitioning the network into an independent post-quantum Layer 1 blockchain.

JPMorgan Asset Management released its 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions report, which includes Bitcoin for the first time.

Austin Griffith of the Ethereum Foundation demonstrated that bots instantly drain Ethereum wallets with weak private keys by placing $1 in a wallet with the key '6969'.