Marcinthematrix

Cronos's v1.8 upgrade is live on mainnet, building its parallel EVM engine into the base layer and lifting Ethereum API equivalence above 90%.
It also adds Ethereum's Osaka hardfork rules.
@CronosNetwork

Ledger, which says it secures nearly 30% of all bitcoin held by retail investors, is rolling out bitcoin-backed loans in Ledger Wallet, powered by Morpho.
Users borrow USDC or USDT against cbBTC or WBTC on Ethereum.
@Morpho

EtherFi lets users connect their accounts to Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant that supports MCP, to read their transactions, cards and balances.
EtherFi Cash holds $247.29M, up 111.93% in the past 90 days.
@ether_fi

Pyth Pro sells one subscription across equities, ETFs, FX, commodities, fixed income and crypto, with no exchange fees passed through.
Firms spent $49.2 billion on market data in 2025.
@PythNetwork

Aptos Labs joined Ava Labs, Hedera, Chainlink, the Cardano Foundation and Stellar in asking the SEC to write digital commodity status into its crypto rule.
In March, the SEC concluded APT is a digital commodity, not a security.
@Aptos

NEAR holders are voting on a plan to cut its annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months.
It follows the halving from 5% to 2.5% that NEAR announced in October 2025.
@NEARProtocol

DATA, the a16z crypto-backed project formerly known as Story Protocol, is shutting its own blockchain and moving to Sui after raising $140 million.
Sui Foundation becomes its largest institutional holder.
@SuiNetwork

Ondo Stocks reached $1B in value locked in 8 months.
Tokenized Treasuries took ~18 months to get there, and stablecoins, now a $290.82B market, took ~3 years.
@Ondo

Kaspa's KCC-20 fungible token standard, built on its layer 1 covenants, is now final, with KCC-1 for covenant interfaces and KCC-2 for authorization.
Wallets, compilers and indexers can adopt them with no consensus change.
@kaspaunchained

It's official.
FalconX and GSR made the first block trade in CME Group's Uniswap futures, the first CME futures on a DeFi protocol token, Uniswap says.
CME's crypto futures and options averaged $7.9B a day in notional volume in 2026.
@Uniswap

Lighter, backed by Robinhood Ventures, plans to file for a CFTC derivatives license in November, aiming to be the first CFTC-approved onchain perps exchange.
Lighter Core has passed 1 million accounts.
@Lighter_xyz

62% of banks surveyed expect blockchain to become standard within two years.
For Avalanche, that could mean more demand for its custom blockchains as banks bring payments and tokenized assets onchain.
@avax

Arbitrum’s stablecoin market cap stands at $3.5B, with USDC accounting for 64.19% of the total.

Ava Labs, Hedera, Aptos Labs, Stellar Development Foundation, Cardano Foundation and Chainlink Labs urge the SEC to codify “digital commodities” as non-securities in its proposed crypto rules.

Solana reports $5 trillion in stablecoin volume so far in 2026.
@solana

NEAR launches cross-margin trading on its Hyperliquid-powered perps platform, allowing positions to share a single margin balance while retaining confidential trading.
@NEARProtocol

Solana's Breakpoint 2026 in London will open with a 16K LED show across every screen at Olympia, built by Brilly and rendered on Render Network.
"It would have never gotten done without the Render Network," Brilly says.
@rendernetwork

Sui buybacks have reached 915,800 $SUI year to date, funded by stablecoin yields and execution fees.
@SuiNetwork

For every $1 of PayPal's PYUSD, there is $1.60 of Ethena's USDe.
USDe has $4.65B in supply, against $2.89B for PYUSD.
@ethena

CFTC names Hedera chief policy officer Nilmini Rubin to the agentic trading panel at its October 28 Frontier Forum on super intelligence.
@hedera