Polymarket began running production canary markets on Protocol V2, a rebuilt smart-contract system replacing its 2019 Gnosis-based framework with a single ERC-1155 positions contract, pUSD collateral and a new oracle aggregator plugging into UMA, Chainlink and others.
Canary markets run through October 30, with a tentative switch to V2 for new markets on November 2.
ether fi, a crypto banking platform, launched ether fi USD, its own dollar-denominated stablecoin powered by Ethena, making all $300M+ in stablecoins already on the platform native to every product it ships. $ETHFI $ENA
⚡ AlloX Opens $ALLOX Public Sale Registration on Sonar by Echo
Sale Structure & Terms: • $0.065 per $ALLOX ($65M FDV), $1M raise, $100–$200,000 per entity in USDC/USDT on Ethereum • Whitelist registration is open now; commitments open around October 12, 2026
AlloX is an AI-powered capital allocation platform that transforms market narratives into diversified, risk-managed portfolios.
Binance launched Binance Intelligence, an AI product suite with free Binance AI for general users, Binance AI Pro for turning trading ideas into automated strategies, and Agent OS for developers building AI apps and agents.
Agent OS, which launched in August, has now surpassed 280,000 daily calls.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Uniswap, Robinhood, Open Standard, Blast, Solana, Aave, Polygon, Trust Wallet, LONG(), Ethereum, Drift, and Porsche.
Robinhood's Stock Tokens, backed 1:1 by real shares, are being paired with memecoins in liquidity pools, letting traders swap a token tied to Nvidia or Snap for a memecoin and back again. Daily trading volume in these pairs peaked at around $440M in early September before falling fast, per Bloomberg.
Shares of Nasdaq-listed Farmmi surged as much as 321% after traders piled into a memecoin paired with an unofficial Farmmi token that had no link to the actual company.
Drift Foundation opened DFX claims for users with verified losses from the April 1 exploit, offering 1 $DFX for every 1 $USDT lost.
The claim window closes January 1, 2028; unclaimed DFX will be burned.
The April 1 incident saw roughly $295.4M taken from Drift users. DFX redeems for USDT from a Recovery Pool backed by Tether's matched deployment (up to 127.5M USDT) and strategic partners.
Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity launched zkAPI, letting users deposit ether into a vault, sign a zk proof, and get a fixed amount of private AI inference with no data or identity linked.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Ondo Finance, BNB Chain, MetaMask, Zcash, Plasma, Injective, World Liberty Fi, Near Intens, Arcus, Base, Chainlink, and DogeOS.
DogeOS, built by the team behind the MyDoge wallet, opened its public testnet, an EVM-compatible ZK-rollup letting developers build trading, lending, gaming and consumer apps for Dogecoin ahead of mainnet.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of Open Standard, Hyperliquid, Robinhood, Chainlink, Securitize, Ripple, Ethena, Concrete, Polygon, HSBC, papertrade, and Kalshi.
⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know
The current report features updates of NEAR Protocol, Jumper, Ondo Finance, Goldman Sachs, Base, MoonPay, Aztec, Aster, Coinbase, Blockchain, and World.