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Google tests crypto-key security
Google Multi-Party Compute is in private preview with financial institutions, CoinDesk reports, citing Google. The service combines distributed signing, transaction policies and key recovery for digital assets.
Commercial availability is planned for early 2027, according to the report. Partner names and pricing have not been disclosed.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/28/google-to-preview-crypto-custody-security-system-as-ai-threats-grow
Ripple and Robinhood connect financial rails
Ripple says RLUSD is live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, with Robinhood app availability expected later this year.
Robinhood will use RLUSD on the XRP Ledger for institutional settlement and integrate Ripple Treasury. Ripple Prime already provides Bitstamp with lending and margin financing.
https://ripple.com/ripple-press/ripple-and-robinhood-partner-to-power-the-next-generation-of-finance/
Anthropic files for an IPO.
The company filed a public S-1 registration statement with the SEC on October 26 and plans to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ANT.
The number of shares and the offering price range have not been determined. The registration statement is not yet effective.
Official announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
October funding snapshot
DropsTab reports $497M raised across tracked projects on October 1–24. Its coverage includes AI companies.
Three of the largest rounds: Nous Research $90M, Spiko $90M and Mecka $60M. All three amounts are confirmed by the companies.
This is a partial-month snapshot, not a full-month comparison.
Data: /channel/drops_analytics/8433
Nous: https://icodrops.com/nous-research/
Spiko: https://icodrops.com/spiko/
Mecka: https://icodrops.com/mecka-ai/
a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier
Andreessen Horowitz is renaming a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier and broadening the scope of its new fund.
Its areas of interest include AI, autonomous machines, biology and networks connecting people with AI agents. The firm will continue investing in crypto, with blockchains supporting stablecoins, financial services and machine-to-machine transactions.
Chris Dixon will lead the fund alongside Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Eddy Lazzarin and Guy Wuollet.
Source: Chris Dixon / a16z — October 22, 2026
https://a16z.com/a16z-frontier/
$1WIN public sale: 130M tokens claimed in 8 minutes
The sale opened October 15 at 15:00 UTC. By 15:08, contributions had topped $3.9M — the full value of the 130M tokens on offer at $0.03 each.
That price values the total 1B token supply at $30M, compared with around $400M for Shuffle and $100M for Rollbit.
1win has operated one of the world’s largest iGaming platforms since 2016, generating revenue without a token. Its token enters the market at a valuation roughly 3–13x below those peers.
What backs $1WIN?
• A share of platform revenue funds open-market buybacks.
• 10% of every token spent is burned.
• No additional token issuance.
⏳ Missed the first 8 minutes? The sale is still open.
The oversubscription round runs until October 30. The same 130M tokens are allocated proportionally across all contributions. As more funds enter, each participant’s share decreases, and excess USDC is refunded to the same wallet after the round closes.
Example: if demand reaches 5x the available supply, a $1,000 contribution would allocate about $200 to tokens, with $800 refunded.
🔓 Sale tokens are delivered in full — no lockups or vesting.
📅 Claims open October 31 at 1wintoken.com.
💵 Entry starts at $10. Solana wallet + USDC. No registration.
#promo
Twelve-month performance across the top 60:
ZEC +764% · QNT +140% · HYPE +94% · XMR +78%
MNT −75% · DOT −74% · ADA −71% · DOGE −66%
A year ago Zcash was 1/18th the size of Dogecoin. It is now 1.6× larger.
Bitcoin +15.9% in 48 hours after the White House crypto meeting and the CLARITY Act push.
But BTC landed almost exactly mid-pack: 8 of 15 majors beat it, 7 didn't.
Full 2-day breakdown, including HYPE, PUMP and TRUMP ↓
Polymarket · Fair or Foul?
8 of the platform's most contested resolutions, $418M+ in combined volume — from Ronaldo's "sweat vs tears" to Strategy's May Bitcoin sale (now in NY Supreme Court).
Common thread: UMA works on objective facts. Subjective ones become coordination games.
Lights Out · Last 90 Days
21 crypto projects wound down between March and June 2026. Combined funding raised: ≈$220M.
Across DeFi, infrastructure, L2s, wallets and tooling.
Some after exploits, some after years of operation with no clear revenue path.
Bitcoin Dominance everyone watches: BTC vs other crypto.
Bitcoin Dominance that actually matters: BTC vs the entire world.
2015: 0.003%
2017 ATH: 0.12%
2021 ATH: 0.27%
2025 ATH: 0.50%
Today: 0.27%
1% of global wealth = ~$5T mcap = ~$250K BTC.
One ZEC trade is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
A snapshot of Arthur Hayes' public picks since 2024 — 2 wins, 6 losses. But the wins are big enough that it doesn't matter.
Cerebras starts trading today on Nasdaq.
IPO priced at $185 last night · $55B valuation · raised $5.55B
But Hyperliquid pre-IPO already runs at $291 (+57%). Market is pricing in a "second NVIDIA" — at 1/95 the cap.
The whales are split.
Two years. Nine names. +$209B in combined net worth.
Tether's duo did 9–10×.
Coinbase's Armstrong is the only one who lost.
Forbes 2024 → 2026 in one chart
The crypto market is neutral today
BTC Dominance - 57.95%
Market Cap - $2.33T
BTC - $67,671 (+0.15%)
ETH - $1,997 (+2.08%)
BNB - $627 (+1.18%)
SOL - $83 (+0.89%)
https://dropstab.com
Nasdaq-100 exposure comes onchain
Janus Henderson and Centrifuge announced JQQQ, a blockchain-native fund seeking to track the Nasdaq-100 under license from Nasdaq. It is launching exclusively on Stellar.
Janus Henderson is the sub-investment manager; Anemoy is the investment manager. The fund is available only to eligible investors and is not available to US persons.
https://centrifuge.io/blog/jqqq-janushenderson-nasdaq
Ripple says it has received final OCC approval for Ripple National Trust Bank, following conditional approval in December 2025.
According to its October 26 release, the bank's scope includes RLUSD reserve management and fiduciary digital asset custody.
Standard Custody & Trust Company remains the RLUSD issuer under NYDFS supervision.
Company release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261026570843/en/
BNB Chain is building a new L1.
The EVM-compatible network currently runs as an internal devnet. Its documentation specifies 200 ms blocks and BNB for gas and staking, bridged from BNB Smart Chain.
The roadmap targets public testnet by the end of 2026 and mainnet in early 2027. These are planned dates; no public endpoints are available yet.
Documentation: https://docs.bnbchain.org/newl1/faq/
Network details: https://docs.bnbchain.org/newl1/get-started/network-info/
Roadmap: https://www.bnbchain.org/en/blog/bnb-chain-h2-2026-tech-roadmap-doubling-down-on-speed
Funding ≠ survival.
DropsTab's October 22 shutdown list contains 82 names. The 46 entries with project-level funding figures account for about $727M in historical VC rounds and token sales.
The top 10 represent $433.3M, or 59.6% of the disclosed total. Another four entries show parent-company funding only; 32 show no amount.
The list includes company closures, product sunsets and announced wind-downs. The fundraising total is not an estimate of investor losses.
Our infographic breaks down the source snapshot.
Source: DropsTab / Drops Analytics, October 22, 2026
/channel/drops_analytics/8429
Pump.fun listed pre-IPO tokens for OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Neuralink and four others on Oct 19.
Token prices imply ~$3.9T in combined valuation. The tokens themselves hold ~$15M on-chain.
What holders actually get, and when the real shares could list.
Zcash peaked at $1,653 on Sept 27. It’s now $1,154 — down 30%, and −16% over 30 days.
ZCSH ETF saw ~$105M of October outflows across 9 of 10 settled days. Monero, with no ETF and no catalyst, is +11% over the same month.
NU7 go/no-go lands Oct 20.
Anatomy of $LAPTOP's first 24 hours:
· 100M tokens (10% of supply) moved to a project multisig 7 days before trading
· 42.5M distributed pre-launch, including to GSR and Wintermute
· Peak came 7 minutes after open
· ~80% of tracked wallets ended up in the red
Founder allocation remains locked.
BitMEX and BitMart announced closure three days apart. Neither collapsed — both just chose to walk away.
That's new. A decade of exchange failures cost users $20B+, mostly from hacks and leverage.
The full graveyard, 17 venues, 2014–2026 ↓
A single SpaceX IPO ($75B) raised 8.3× more than all 10 biggest crypto ICOs in history combined (~$9B).
9 trading days in: SPCX at $185 (+37%), mcap $2.42T, ATH $225.64.
10 vs 10, side by side: capital raised, day-1, +1Y, where they trade today.
📢 STRATO has launched its Community ICO — a public Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) on Uniswap!
STRATO is a HardFi platform that combines gold and silver with a full-stack DeFi platform. It turns gold back into money by allowing people to borrow against it, and use those funds for DeFi or day-to-day spending through their MetaMask integration.
There's over $30 trillion in gold sitting in vaults and ETFs earning nothing. STRATO tokenizes it, so holders keep the asset they trust while gaining instant transferability, divisibility, and on-chain leverage. The platform already holds over $37M in TVL with nearly $5M in gold-backed loans originated.
For the first time, the public can access $STRATO. The auction sells 2.5% of the total token supply through Uniswap's CCA, the same mechanism Aztec used to raise $59M from 17,000 bidders.
🔹 Why a CCA:
1️⃣ No sniping, no front-running, no gas wars
2️⃣ Everyone who clears in a block pays the same price
3️⃣ Early bidders get more chances to fill at a lower average price
4️⃣ Entirely on-chain, transparent price discovery
🔹 Auction Details:
Pre-bid: June 3rd, 16:00 UTC
Public bidding: June 4th
Auction closes: June 10th
🔹 How to participate:
1️⃣ Hold native ETH on Ethereum
2️⃣ Use a browser wallet (MetaMask, Rabby, Phantom etc)
3️⃣ Set a budget and a max FDV
4️⃣ The protocol spreads your bid across every remaining block (this gets rid of whale advantage, snipers, and MEV attacks)
🔹 Register for the pre-bid period: strato.nexus/auction
🔹 Partcipate on Uniswap at: https://app.uniswap.org/explore/auctions/ethereum/0xfFDab1083fCbBCEE32997795388B3D61Ebab786E
Disclaimer: This is not financial advice. Participate at your own discretion.
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6 months of Trump headlines vs. crypto:
The market learned to fade his tariff threats — "TACO" (Trump Always Chickens Out) is now a trade.
But it still can't fade Iran. The Hormuz blockade → peace hint → deal whipsawed BTC ±6% in weeks.
Tariff theatre is noise. War risk is real.
"Sell in May" — does it work in crypto?
3 of the last 6 summers saw BTC fall from May to September. Average return: −6%.
So yes, the adage technically works.
But hold one more month and Uptober flips it: +14.5% avg.
The real rule isn't "sell in May" — it's "sell in September".
Two cycles, two kings.
🟣 2018 → 2022: TSLA dominated (+1,163%)
🟢 2022 → 2026: NVDA took the crown (+1,049%)
ETH went from +251% to flat. Gold & Silver only woke up in cycle B. BTC quietly delivered triple-digit returns in both.
The biggest crypto threats in April weren't smart-contract bugs.
They were North Korean operatives posing as a quant fund (Drift) and DDoS-ing bridge nodes to mint fake messages (Kelp DAO). Audits won't catch this.
Top 100 losers in 24h: STABLE, PIPPIN, ZEC, APT, ARB, IP, DASH, IMX, PENGU, SUI, VIRTUAL, AERO, POL, AAVE, PUMP
https://dropstab.com/top-performance