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Standard Chartered expects to launch a custody service for crypto assets, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets in Singapore before the end of the year, extending its network in the UAE, Luxembourg and Hong Kong.
Standard Chartered’s Singapore entity is planning to launch a crypto asset custody service for institutional investors, according to a statement released Thursday. The service will cover several types of crypto assets, stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets, subject to applicable legal and regulatory requirements. The move signals the bank is stepping up its presence in Asia’s crypto asset infrastructure.

JPMorgan estimates that $50 billion has flowed into the crypto asset market year to date, equivalent to $66 billion annually, as ETF flows and futures positioning improved in the third quarter.
According to the JPMorgan analysis team led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, about $50 billion has flowed into the crypto asset market year to date. At an annualized pace, that amounts to around $66 billion, higher than the $52 billion recorded in May but only about half the level of a year ago. A report published Wednesday shows that momentum is shifting from crypto asset treasury companies to individual and institutional investors.

A U.S. government wallet holding Bitcoin seized in the Bitfinex hack has just transferred 12,267 BTC, worth about $1.01 billion, to a new address, raising questions about plans for the reserves.
A wallet labeled by blockchain analytics firm Arkham as holding Bitcoin seized in the Bitfinex exchange hack transferred 12,267 BTC, worth about $1.01 billion, in a single transaction at 9:33 a.m. Thursday Eastern Time (ET). The transaction comes amid a recent series of government asset transfers, renewing questions about how Washington will handle its Bitcoin holdings.

Orca and Loopscale on Solana are merging into Formation, combining more than $550 billion in trading volume with $2 billion in loans, with a focus on financing AI, energy, robotics, and defense.
The Orca decentralized exchange (DEX) and the Loopscale lending protocol on Solana will merge into a single company called Formation, according to an announcement from the two development teams on Wednesday. The new company is headquartered in New York and aims to provide capital financing solutions for industries that traditional financial markets have not served effectively, while gradually expanding into regulated markets in the U.S. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The 100.02 BTC mined in July 2010, now worth about $8.3 million, has just been transferred to two new bc1q addresses, with no signs yet of a sale on the market.
A total of 100.02 Bitcoin mined in July 2010, during what is commonly known as the Satoshi era, was transferred on Wednesday, marking its first movement in 16 years. At a price of about $83,000 per Bitcoin, the holdings are worth around $8.3 million, while their value when mined was only about $29, according to data from Bitbo.

Sepolia activated the Glamsterdam upgrade on October 6, with a per-block gas limit of nearly 200 million—more than three times mainnet’s 60 million—though actual blocks are currently using only 24%–43% of that limit.
Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet activated the Glamsterdam upgrade on October 6 and began producing blocks with a gas limit of nearly 200 million, more than three times the 60 million gas limit on mainnet. Gas is a unit measuring computational workload on Ethereum, while the gas limit determines the maximum resources a block can use. This is a notable test of the network’s roadmap to expand its processing capacity.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Agent, an AI agent that can run for days, has its own email and calendar, integrates with Claude, and is managed like an employee, with nearly 500 customers processing more than 1 trillion tokens.
Google Cloud has just introduced Gemini Agent, a versatile AI agent for the workplace that can take in goals, carry out tasks autonomously, and deliver complete results. At the Gemini at Work event, CEO Thomas Kurian emphasized that work now begins in the prompt window. This move shows that Google wants to shift AI from answering questions as an assistant to acting as a true member of an organization.

Circle and Tereina are integrating USDC and EURC into SAP Pay, enabling businesses to make stablecoin payments directly within their ERP software, as 13.4% of businesses already use stablecoins for cross-border payments.
Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC and EURC stablecoins, has announced plans to connect its infrastructure to Tereina’s payment platform. The agreement will allow SAP’s corporate customers to send and receive stablecoin payments directly within the applications they already use, without having to deploy separate systems to process crypto-asset transactions. This is seen as a notable step in efforts to bring stablecoins from crypto-asset markets into corporate financial workflows.

The Cardano Foundation launches the CIP-0113 standard, which allows KYC, AML, and sanctions-screening rules to be embedded in native tokens, paving the way for stablecoins and tokenized securities.
The Cardano Foundation has introduced CIP-0113, a standard for programmable native tokens on the Cardano blockchain. The standard’s core feature is to embed rules governing crypto-asset transactions directly into a token’s operating logic, rather than making compliance dependent on external control layers. The move is seen as an effort by Cardano to attract institutional capital, which demands stricter regulatory compliance than the retail crypto-asset market.

Grayscale’s Krista Lynch says the Zcash ETF attracted more than $1 billion after 30 trading sessions, as issuers expand beyond Bitcoin and Ether and become more selective.
According to Krista Lynch, Grayscale’s managing director of trading and capital markets, the crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is entering a new phase as issuers expand beyond Bitcoin and Ether while becoming more selective about which crypto assets qualify for investment products.

Samsung Wallet will support USDC transfers on Solana for cross-border remittances on 82 million Galaxy devices in the US starting in late October, with no transaction fees.
On Thursday, Samsung announced that Samsung Wallet and Samsung Pay will support USDC stablecoin transfers on the Solana network for cross-border remittances, starting in the last week of October on 82 million Galaxy devices in the US.
The feature is integrated directly into Samsung Wallet, along with mechanisms for converting between fiat currency and crypto assets, rather than requiring a separate crypto app. Eligible users can send USDC to compatible external wallets, while Solana and Sui infrastructure powers the service behind the scenes. The underlying infrastructure framework is being deployed with Bastion, a US-licensed stablecoin custodian.

U.S. government wallets transferred 833.6 BTC to Coinbase Prime and 40,285 BNB, worth about $103 million in total, but there has been no confirmation that the assets were sold.
According to data from blockchain analytics firm Arkham, wallets controlled by the U.S. government moved more than $100 million worth of Bitcoin and BNB on Tuesday. The Bitcoin portion consisted of 833.6 BTC, worth about $71.6 million, which was transferred through two unlabeled addresses before reaching Coinbase Prime deposit addresses. Coinbase Prime provides trading and custody services for large institutions. Observers often view such moves as preparation for a sale, but the reason for the transfer and whether the government plans to sell have not been confirmed.

Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul said data belonging to 850,000 members may have been stolen, while Oasis Security detected signs that an AI agent may have assisted in the attack.
Yoido Full Gospel Church, a megachurch in Seoul once recognized by Guinness as the world’s largest congregation, said Wednesday that personal data associated with 850,000 members may have been stolen.
An initial review found that the affected data included names, dates of birth, and logs of changes members had made to their personal profiles, including 2,629 changes to resident registration numbers, 3,964 changes to phone numbers, and 7,202 changes to addresses. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) alerted the church to the suspected breach on Tuesday afternoon. Since then, the church has blocked external access to its systems, changed its server passwords, and begun notifying members.

Tether signs a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of Kazakhstan to study a tenge-pegged stablecoin and the tokenization of real-world assets in Alatau, a $7.2 billion smart city project.
Tether, the world’s largest issuer of the USDT stablecoin, announced Wednesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Bank of Kazakhstan and the Alatau City Administration. The first goal is to study a stablecoin pegged to the tenge. The three parties will explore how other countries issue this type of asset, then develop a concept plan and a pilot proposal. However, the announcement did not specify which party would issue the token.

The chairman of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee says only legislation can provide long-term certainty for crypto assets, after the Clarity Act failed by a vote of 49–50.
Representative French Hill, an Arkansas Republican and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) push to develop regulations for crypto assets cannot replace market structure legislation that has stalled in the Senate.

Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens, 90% less than Haiku 4.5, with average operating costs about 75% lower. It launched 15 days after Opus 5.5.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, a small model the company describes as the cheapest, fastest, and most capable it has ever developed. The model is designed for high-volume tasks such as document summarization and database queries, as well as speed-sensitive work like real-time customer support and operating a web browser on users’ behalf.

Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation urges users to move assets to addresses that have never signed a transaction, warning that AI could break ECDSA within months—sooner than “Q-Day.”
Justin Drake, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, urged the blockchain industry on Wednesday to calmly plan for “bunker mode.” He said that mathematical advances driven by artificial intelligence (AI) could break the cryptographic signature schemes used by crypto assets before quantum computers do—a risk he had previously associated mainly with quantum technology. His specific recommendation is to carry out a large-scale but controlled migration of assets to new addresses that have never signed a transaction, thereby keeping public keys hidden behind a hash.

The UK Treasury has appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC as lead managers for the DIGIT digital bond, which is expected to be issued before the end of Q1 2027.
The UK government has finalized its selection of lead managers for the pilot issuance of the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT), the country’s first government bond issued directly in digital form. The group of six institutions—Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets—will perform the standard functions for a public debt issuance, from underwriting and engaging with potential investors to allocating the bonds on the issue date. The appointments allow the Treasury to move into the investor outreach phase.

OpenAI has published 722 mathematical manuscripts from an unreleased AI model, but only 162 (about 22%) have been verified by Lean, prompting mathematicians to call for independent evidence.
On Tuesday, OpenAI posted 722 mathematical manuscripts on GitHub, all generated by an unreleased internal model. According to a company spokesperson, nearly all the results came from a single prompt given to a single AI agent, although some required multiple attempts. If confirmed, this could be a significant AI breakthrough in mathematical research, but the claim is facing considerable skepticism from experts.