Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

Solidus Labs appointed Kevin Webb as Vice President of Policy, bringing a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission official into a regulatory engagement role. Webb served as a CFTC detailee to the Senate Agriculture Committee, advised Chairman John Boozman on digital asset market structure, and i

According to Glassnode, Bitcoin sellers capitulated on October 15 amid the latest BTC decline. The on-chain data firm observed that each wave of loss-driven selling has coincided with local bottoms in August and September. Since the September high, profit-taking has slowed. Selling near the $80,000

XRP Ledger developers deployed a critical security fix on September 25 without waiting for the network's standard two-week validator approval process. The emergency update addressed an 11-year-old vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to create spendable XRP beyond the cryptocurrency's

Solidus Labs has recently appointed Kevin Webb as Vice President of Policy. Webb previously served as a Commodity Futures Trading Commission official and congressional adviser, where he advised on digital asset market structure and helped draft the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) and

According to XRPL developers' official vulnerability report, XRP Ledger deployed an emergency security patch on September 25 that bypassed the network's standard two-week validator approval process. The critical fix addressed an 11-year-old integer overflow vulnerability in the payment engine that c

According to CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju on X, analysts view the MSCI removal impact on Microstrategy (MSTR) as already reflected in the stock price, with overall sentiment remaining bullish. Citi, Barclays, and B. Riley have set price targets at $240, $175, and $195 respectively, with all three

The Solana Foundation postponed its Accelerate event in Shanghai after pre-registration exceeded the venue capacity set by local authorities, Solana Foundation President Lily Liu announced on Friday. Event registration quadrupled overnight following publicity, prompting organizers to delay the

According to MSCI's announcement on October 10, Strategy's stock price dipped 4% in after-hours trading on October 15 after the index giant revealed new rules removing "non-operating companies" from its Global Investable Market Indexes, including the MSCI World Index. Strategy, with a

According to Lily Liu, president of the Solana Foundation, the Solana Accelerate event in Shanghai was postponed on Friday after pre-registration exceeded the event cap set by local authorities. Event registration quadrupled overnight following publicity for the event, and organizers decided to post

According to BlockBeats, on October 16, Celestia launched Eden, a high-performance EVM chain running on Celestia. Eden serves as an experimental sandbox for Agentic Commerce, enabling AI Agents to test autonomous payments, on-chain trading, and model invocations. The chain features EVM

According to Rune Christensen, Sky's quarterly operating expenses fell to $6.8 million as of October 16, down from over $20 million a year earlier. Christensen attributed the reduction to Sky's treasury management mechanism, which enables more predictable spending and maintains costs within

Exchange wallets attributed to cryptocurrency platforms accumulated 83.94 million XRP between October 12 and October 15, according to data from XRP Insights. The increase raised tracked holdings from approximately 21.97 billion to 22.06 billion tokens across 699 wallets linked to 24 exchanges. The a

Ripple Prime launched round-the-clock institutional trading in derivatives linked to more than 100 traditional financial markets on October 15, allowing clients including Virtu Financial to trade exposure to stocks, commodities and currencies even when conventional exchanges are closed. The new

According to Ripple's announcement, on October 15, Ripple launched Ripple Prime, offering 24/7 institutional trading in perpetual swaps across 100+ real-world asset markets including equities, stock indexes, exchange-traded funds, metals, energy and foreign exchange. Virtu Financial is among the ins