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The private keys hidden in a fishing rod case ten years ago are still “paying out” in batches today.
At 22:16 Beijing time on October 20, an old address that had been inactive since January 2016 transferred exactly 500 $BTC in a single transaction, worth about $41.5 million at current prices. Based on Arkham labels, Lookonchain attributed the address to Irish cannabis dealer Clifton Collins; the recipient was labeled Coinbase Prime.
A quick bit of background:
· In 2011–2012, Collins used drug money to buy around 6,000 BTC, split across 12 wallets with about 500 BTC each. He printed the private keys on paper and hid them inside a fishing rod case.

Wall Street made its stance on “putting stocks on-chain” crystal clear this week: fine, but don’t use my stocks as a test case.
OKXICE, a tokenized stock platform jointly established by OKX and NYSE parent ICE, updated its public notice on October 19: seven more issuers have objected—Microsoft, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, Caterpillar, McDonald’s, and Western Digital. The list of objectors has grown from nine last week to 16.
A few key points:
· OKXICE initially published a list of 63 tickers across 62 companies. According to CoinDesk, 15 companies have objected so far, covering 17 tickers, while the remaining 47 have not objected; another objector, Cerebras, was not on the list to begin with.

This time, ZachXBT has uncovered a less-than-savory use for Hyperliquid’s “whoever grabs the ticker can list it” design.
On October 20, on-chain investigator ZachXBT posted an investigation on Telegram: a centralized exchange service called FreedomXMR (FXMR), which appeared on Hyperliquid Core in August, had more than 87% of its inflows directly linked to illicit activity.
A few key facts:
· He manually reviewed historical inflows of more than $10,000 per transaction and traced over $20 million to ransomware, exploits, malware, and social engineering scams
· The named incidents include the September thefts from DCENT Wallet, Fetch.ai, and Axelar, an unnamed ransomware payment, and the October theft from Gamdom

Strive just filed an 8-K with the SEC: its upsized IPO of 15% Series A Perpetual SATS Preferred has closed.
Primary-source check: 7,000,000 shares at a public offering price of $90 per share; approximately $630M in gross proceeds. The 15% annualized dividend is based on a $100 par value and is cumulative. Nasdaq ticker: “SATS”; trading is expected to begin around October 20.
CEO Matt Cole’s framing: This is a key step toward raising the Amplification Ratio while putting a layer of junior capital beneath SATA—essentially, it’s still all about capital structure around the $BTC treasury.
The earlier feed only filtered for pricing and the pace of accumulation; today brings the hard fact of closing: Strive’s press release + Form 8-K Item 8.01 (accession 0000950103-26-015849). Not investment advice.

The comment period on the rules implementing U.S. stablecoin law closed on Monday. The most telling thing isn’t who voiced support, but which words the industry is picking over: if one provision is left unclear, exchanges, wallets, and even market makers could be deemed to be “participating in illegal issuance.”
First, some background.
The GENIUS Act was signed into law last year and is expected to take effect in January 2027. In August, the Treasury Department published proposed rules for Section 3 in the Federal Register (docket number TREAS-DO-2026-0496), governing who may issue, offer, or sell payment stablecoins in the United States. The comment period closed on October 19, with 123 comments received, according to regulatory portal data cited by The Block.

$SOL ’s Alpenglow switches over tomorrow, earlier than originally planned. But with just one day to go before activation, around one-fifth of the stake still isn’t ready.
First, the timing.
Anza posted tonight: Alpenglow is expected to go live around 14:00 UTC on October 21, or around 10 p.m. tomorrow Beijing time. The migration boundary is set at slot 459,653,000. Estimates from a few days ago put it at around 11 p.m. Beijing time; it moved earlier because blocks were produced faster than expected, pulling the start of epoch 1064 forward.
The Solana Foundation’s upgrade page gives a more precise timeline: epoch 1064 is expected to begin around 13:20 UTC (around 9:20 p.m. Beijing time). After the feature switch is enabled, the network will continue running the old TowerBFT consensus for about 5,000 more slots (roughly 18 minutes), then officially switch to Votor at the slot mentioned above.

Switzerland has finally approved its first spot $BTC ETF aimed at retail investors. Interestingly, the regulator’s announcement doesn’t say who’s behind it.
Let's start with the facts.
On October 20, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) announced that it had approved, for the first time, a publicly offered fund that is traded on an exchange and holds bitcoin directly. Its legal classification under Swiss law is “other alternative investment fund,” and it is labeled “special risks.”
A few key points:
1) An exception was made. The fund holds just one asset, so it does not meet the diversification requirements under the rules. FINMA granted an exemption, citing bitcoin’s long trading history and exceptionally high trading volume.

The French Parliament has taken another step toward making 'crypto-to-stablecoin' trades taxable, by a margin of just one vote.
First, the facts.
On October 16, the French National Assembly passed Amendment I-3898 at the first reading of the 2027 Finance Bill, with 38 votes in favor, 37 against and 25 abstentions. The amendment was proposed by MP Nicolas Sansu; the same provision had already passed in the Finance Committee on October 7.
Two key changes:
1) Deferred taxation for 'crypto-to-crypto' trades is abolished: if what you receive in the exchange is an e-money token as defined by MiCA (a stablecoin pegged to a single fiat currency, such as $USDC ), the transaction counts as a sale and any gains are taxed at the flat rate of 31.4%—even if not a single cent reaches your bank account.

The Drift hacker has woken up. After two months of silence, they funneled about $61.56 million in $ETH into Tornado Cash in a single afternoon.
Start with the facts.
On October 20, on-chain monitoring platform Lookonchain reported that the address linked to the Drift Protocol attacker deposited 25,700 $ETH into Tornado Cash over roughly two hours, worth about $61.56 million. The address had been inactive for about two months. MistTrack put the figure at 25,710 ETH, involving address 0xAa84…57C1. Multiple trackers observed consecutive deposits of 100 ETH each.
The figures vary across sources (13,400, 21,300, and 25,700 ETH); they’re snapshots from different times, so don’t add them together.

Bitget is buying its way into Thailand. Less than a month after hackers stole about $388 million, it headed to Bangkok to secure a license.
First, the facts.
On October 20, Bitget announced plans to acquire GMO-Z.com Cryptonomics (Thailand), the operator of Z.com EX, a cryptocurrency exchange licensed by Thailand’s SEC. The buyer is BTGT Management (Thailand), an affiliate in which Bitget holds an interest, and the sellers are Japan’s GMO Internet and its Thai subsidiary. The deal involves the transfer of approximately 99.94% of the shares.
GMO’s disclosure documents also include a few details:
- The buyer was only established on September 22, with registered capital of 2 million baht;

Mt. Gox has been delayed again. The fourth time, for one year each—more consistent than the roadmaps of many project teams.
First, the facts.
Mt. Gox trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi announced on October 16: With the Tokyo court’s approval, the deadline for base repayments, early lump-sum repayments, and intermediate repayments has been extended from October 31, 2026, to October 31, 2027 (Japan time).
The reason is the same old story: creditors who completed all the required procedures without any issues have mostly been repaid, but “many” people still haven’t completed the procedures to claim their funds, while a “considerable number” are stuck in the repayment process. The announcement gave no figures for the number of unpaid creditors or the amount of bitcoin involved, and no timeline.

$BNB The 37th quarterly burn is complete, with a headline-grabbing figure: about $1.197 billion. But on closer inspection, most of this “billion-dollar” figure is driven by the token price—the number of coins burned was about the same as last quarter.
According to the official BNB Chain blog (October 19, data as of 10:05 UTC):
· 1,646,196.44 $BNB were burned this time, worth approximately $1.197 billion at the time of the burn
· Sent directly to a burn address on BSC: 0x…dEaD
· Total supply after the burn: 131,512,085, leaving about 31.5 million to go to reach the 100 million target
· The official statement says the burn amount is calculated based on the price of BNB and the number of blocks produced on BSC that quarter, independently of the Binance exchange; block production sped up after the Lorentz and Maxwell upgrades, so the formula parameters were adjusted

While other crypto VCs are busy expanding into AI, Multicoin has shown one of its cards: $HYPE is the hedge fund’s largest holding. Not $BTC , and not $ETH .
In an interview with Bloomberg on October 19, Multicoin general partner Spencer Applebaum said a few things:
· Multicoin manages about $2.7 billion in assets. Its hedge fund buys tokens directly, and its largest position is currently Hyperliquid’s $HYPE
· These tokens were bought on the open market, not acquired through early private sales
· It does not disclose the position size or its share of the portfolio
· Publicly traded assets are typically held for “years,” not days or weeks

The most interesting thing about this J.P. Morgan Asset Management report isn’t the 10% figure—it’s that after running the numbers, it still won’t let you allocate to it.
On October 19, J.P. Morgan Asset Management published the 31st edition of its Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions (LTCMA 2027), including $BTC in the table for the first time. Covering more than 200 asset classes and looking 10 to 15 years ahead, it’s a reference that many pension funds and endowments consult when setting their strategic allocations.
A few figures, based on the official page and press release:
$BTC Assumed compound annualized return of 10.0%, arithmetic average of 20.9%, and annualized volatility of 55%
U.S. large-cap stocks: 7.5%, up 80 basis points from the previous edition, on the grounds that profit margins exceed 15%

$HYPE Everyone in the community is speculating about S3 today, prompted by a comment letter sent to the SEC. The bottom line: this is rulemaking advocacy, not an airdrop announcement.
On October 19, the Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC, an independent policy advocacy organization in Washington) submitted comments on the SEC’s proposed “Regulation Crypto Assets.” It broadly supports the proposal and recommends adopting it as soon as possible, while also suggesting five changes. Today, October 20, is the deadline for public comments on the proposal.
First, the proposal’s framework: a startup exemption allowing up to $5 million to be raised over four years; a fundraising exemption allowing up to $75 million every 12 months, but requiring financial statements and ongoing disclosure; an “investment contract” safe harbor; and federal preemption of state registration requirements.

Swiss regulators have put $BTC into a publicly offered fund structure.
FINMA announced on Tuesday that it had approved the first exchange-traded fund (Bitcoin ETF) open to the public that invests directly in Bitcoin. It is classified under Swiss law as an “other alternative investment fund” with special risks. Given $BTC ’s long trading history and substantial trading volume, it was granted an exemption from risk-diversification rules, while custody and operational risks and sales suitability requirements were tightened. FINMA also warned that an ETF wrapper does not change Bitcoin’s high volatility and that investors could suffer substantial losses of capital.
According to AWP·Keystone-SDA: The announcement did not name the issuer; a spokesperson said several funds had already submitted or announced applications. Swiss exchanges previously mostly offered ETPs; this approval adds a genuine publicly offered fund structure.

Sophon has set its shutdown date: the mainnet will be permanently shut down on November 30. But the date you really need to remember is November 25.
On October 19, the official account posted four times on X: November 25 is the deadline to withdraw your assets; after that, key infrastructure and related websites will be taken offline gradually. Assets left on-chain may become permanently inaccessible. The message was clear: “Nov 25 is the date to act, not Nov 30.”
Assets to move: on-chain $SOPH , $ETH , $USDC , and other liquid assets; unclaimed staking and Guardian rewards; and assets left unclaimed in Sophon Farm. The official portal is claim.sophon.com. The official documentation also states that Guardian NFTs, vSOPH, and staked SOPH will be migrated to Ethereum by the project team, so you don't need to move them yourself.

The hardest part of cross-border stablecoin ($USDT, $USDC ) transfers has never been those few seconds on-chain—it’s getting the money into the recipient’s bank account or mobile wallet.
On October 19 at Money20/20 USA, Coinbase and Singapore-based payments company Thunes announced a strategic partnership. Both companies published official blog posts and press releases. The partnership works both ways:
1) Coinbase connects to Thunes’ Direct Global Network, linking directly to local clearing systems and payment methods to send money to recipients’ bank accounts and mobile wallets.
2) In turn, Coinbase provides Thunes with stablecoin infrastructure, further embedding stablecoins into Thunes’ network.

Where stablecoin money is held and where it flows are two different things.
On October 19, CoinDesk Research published a third-quarter report on TRON (note: the report was commissioned by TRON). The key takeaway: as of September, TRON handled about 73% of stablecoin transaction volume, $ETH with about 15% coming in second.
Looking at the existing supply, TRON accounts for just 30.2% of the total stablecoin market cap (up from 28.7% in June). It has 30% of the supply but handles over 70% of the transaction volume. This chain is mainly used for “transfers,” not “storing money.”
A few figures you can verify:
- There are about $92.7 billion in $USDT on TRON, a record high; total USDT across all networks is about $184 billion, with roughly half on this chain (estimated by Crypto Briefing).