**Cryptocurrency News**

- **Ripple (XRP)**: Ripple has won a prestigious award from Juniper Research for the best cross-border payments platform. The company is also making progress on developing the RLUSD stablecoin. Despite this, XRP has fallen 9.5% over the past two weeks.

- **Shiba Inu (SHIB)**: SHIB has shown high volatility, briefly rising, but then falling. Analysts remain cautiously optimistic.

- **Bitcoin (BTC)**: Bitcoin started October with a decline, but some analysts see potential for recovery.