Abu Dhabi's FSRA gave 3iQ Middle East in-principle approval for a Category 4 license. That covers advisory and arranging only, not full fund management yet. 3iQ still has to meet the remaining FSRA conditions. It comes right after their QMAP platform with Further drew about $100M in sovereign-linked seed money.
Tokenized stocks on BNB Chain just hit $1.2B. That's the biggest share of the roughly $3.9B total across all chains. It's also the top 7-day gain at +$63.6M. Ethereum sits second at about $842M and Solana third at about $742M. $BNB is near $751.
Stocks that never clock out. Would you trade them 24/7?
IMF: Over Half of Tokenized US Stock Trades Happen Off Hours
The IMF's October 2026 GFSR (Chapter 3) finds tokenized US equities are still only about $2.3B, but more than 50% of trading happens outside regular US market hours and about 80% of trades are below one share. Public tokenized RWAs sit near $65B (ex-repos). Tokenized equities run about 1.5x more volatile than traditional shares, yet overnight onchain moves largely show up in the underlying within five minutes of the open.
Is 24/7 stock trading the real product-market fit?
On this day in 2009, early Bitcoin contributor Martti Malmi sold 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02 via PayPal, widely cited as the first known Bitcoin for fiat exchange. That priced 1 BTC at about $0.001. NewLibertyStandard had published an electricity cost based rate a week earlier ($1 = 1,309.03 BTC on Oct 5). This sale came before the May 2010 pizza trade and helped prove BTC could clear for real money.
ICP is up about 8% on Binance to ~$3.39 after a steady afternoon climb from around $3.15 at 14:00 UTC to a $3.431 high. That's roughly 16% above Thursday's $2.913 close, though still below Monday's $3.609 peak. DFINITY's .icp domain application, which passed ICANN's initial review, and its upcoming cloud engines have kept the ecosystem in the conversation this week.
Throwback: 3 Years Ago Today, JPMorgan Put Tokenized Fund Shares to Work
On Oct 11, 2023, J.P. Morgan announced its Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN) had settled its first live client trade. BlackRock tokenized shares of a money market fund and transferred them to Barclays as collateral for an OTC derivatives trade. Tokenization took minutes and the transfer was near-instant âš¡ $BTC closed that day at ~$26,876 on Binance. Today it's ~$84,000. Is tokenized collateral TradFi's quiet on-chain on-ramp?
$PLUME Hits a 10-Month High After Asia Tokenization MOU🌎
PLUME is up 12.6% on Binance to ~$0.0211, with a $0.0216 high, its best level since the week of Dec 8, 2025. The move comes two days after Plume signed a non-binding MOU with AsiaStrategy (Nasdaq: SORA) on a proposed joint venture to bring tokenized products to investors across Asia, with Sora Ventures helping on distribution in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong.
Four.meme Opens a Path From 4Stock to Binance bStocks
Four.meme says its 4Stock Shared Inventory Pool is now live. 4Stock brings popular stocks onchain before their bStock is available, and the shared pool lets Stock Memes built on 4Stock move over to bStock liquidity seamlessly. PancakeSwap ( $CAKE ) says its Infinity Shared Inventory Hook powers it: one inventory, continuous price and depth, and liquidity that migrates automatically.
Binance posted "Zoom out" this morning, so we did. $BTC is up 0.32% in 24h and napping near $82,960. $LUMIA is up 103% and clearly on its fifth espresso. Same market, very different coffee.
On Oct 31, 2017, CME Group announced it was launching #bitcoin futures "to provide a regulated trading venue for the digital asset market," with a Q4 2017 target. CNBC's headline that day read "CME plans to launch bitcoin futures by year-end." $BTC closed that day at $6,463 on Binance. Today it's around $83,050, about 12.9x higher.
🚨 $LUMIA Doubles in a Day🚨🔥 $LUMIA is up about 103% in 24 hours on Binance spot and trades near $0.168 after a second leg higher this morning. Price jumped from about $0.108 to $0.159 in the 04:00 UTC hour, then tagged $0.1833 at 05:00 UTC. That's its highest level since the week of April 27. No official catalyst has been spotted yet, so this is pure momentum, while $BTC barely moved (+0.3%). Chasing it or waiting for a pullback?
🚨Last Call: Crypto World's Fair Closes in ~48 Hours
👷♂️Builders, the clock is ticking. Solana says 8,500+ builders are already competing in Colosseum's Crypto World's Fair, and submissions close October 12. The prize pool is $800,000, and Colosseum's venture fund will invest more than $2.5 million in the winning founders. The hackathon has been running since September 14. Meanwhile $SOL trades near $109.4. Are you shipping something this weekend?
Almost three years ago, Lightning Labs shipped the first mainnet alpha of Taproot Assets, a protocol for issuing stablecoins and other assets on Bitcoin, with Lightning support promised next. Testers had already minted nearly 2,000 assets on testnet. The goal was to make Bitcoin a multi-asset network without breaking its core values. $BTC closed that day near $28,320 on Binance. Today it's about $83,000. Stablecoins on Bitcoin: yes or no?
China's CPC Central Committee and State Council released new guidelines on developing "new quality productive forces" on Oct 9. Item 9 calls for building a nationwide integrated computing power network and a national blockchain network to merge the real and digital economies. The document doesn't mention crypto at all. Meanwhile, $CFX is up ~17.5% today, though nothing officially links the two.
Is this a big step for blockchain adoption, or just state infrastructure?
TRON DAO says nearly $1B of stablecoin card volume ran on TRON in Q3 2026. That's 23.2% of the total, up 12.4% from Q2, based on CryptoRank data. Total card volume rose 33% to $4.31B, and TRON, Base and BNB Chain handled nearly half of it together (BNB Chain ~$469M, +25.5%). $TRX ~$0.331, $BNB ~$751.7.
$BNB Chain's "Set and Earn": Hire 3 AI Agents, Build 1 🤖
BNB Chain's Set and Earn campaign runs from Oct 1 to Nov 5. Here's how it works: register a wallet, hire 3 different agents across at least 2 of the 9 shortlisted marketplaces (chosen from 260+ Build the Era teams), then build your own agent that gets 3 hires from independent wallets and makes 5 onchain actions on 3 separate days. The first 100 qualifying wallets get limited merch
On Oct 28, 2016, Electric Coin Co. wrote: "The Zcash blockchain is live! We released the genesis block this morning." It used zk-SNARKs to combine a public blockchain with encryption for private transactions, launched with a "slow start" mining period, and called itself "the first protocol of its kind." Today $ZEC trades around $1,222
$STRK just cracked CoinGecko's top 100, sitting at #92 with a market cap of about $765M. On Binance it's trading around $0.103, up about 45% in 24h and about 93% over 7 days, as talk of Starknet becoming its own L1 keeps going. It's still about 97.7% below its $4.41 ATH, so context matters.
Is this a real re rating or a weekend squeeze? #STARKNET #strk #Layer2
$AERO is up about 16% on Binance (around $0.928) as the merger date gets close. According to the official Aero hub, both DEXs upgrade into Aero on Oct 21 at 8 PM EDT. 1 AERO converts 1:1, 1 VELO converts to about 0.044 AERO, and ve-locks become sAERO. The new supply is about 2.11B, with 94.5% going to Aerodrome holders.