DWF Labs says tokenized equities reached $3.8 billion in early October, up 483% since January, as weekly DEX trading rose 55-fold to $2.54 billion. Usage grew faster than value, though only about 8% of the market is deployed in DeFi.
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Circle spent $819 million on USDC distribution partners and transaction costs in the first half of 2026, about 59% of its roughly $1.4 billion in revenue. Each point of that share is worth about $14 million against net profit of about $98 million.
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Circle plans to enter about 40 emerging markets with USDC at $73.3 billion, about a quarter of stablecoins, CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters. Tether holds nearly 60%, a 35-point lead, and the $400 million Tazapay deal for local payment networks is not expected to close until 2027, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Solana Foundation's Accelerate China event in Shanghai was suspended on October 16 with officers at the venue, the first stop of a four-city tour. No source ties the halt to China's February 2026 crypto notice, and a similar Shenzhen disruption came months before it.
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BNB Chain overtakes Stellar to hold 59.8% of Franklin Templeton's onchain fund assets
Franklin Templeton holds about $1.5 billion, or 59.8%, of its roughly $2.55 billion in onchain fund assets on BNB Chain, Crypto Briefing reported. The other nine chains split about $1.03 billion, roughly $114 million each on average.
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XRP drew $145.6 million in won trading on Upbit on Oct. 15, ahead of Bitcoin at $126.5 million and Ethereum at $92.1 million. Crypto Briefing and Bitcoin News tie the lead to South Korea's block on 27 offshore exchanges, but the evidence for a retail rush into one altcoin is thin.
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CryptoQuant rates ETH neutral after $345 million of Binance longs were liquidated
CryptoQuant says about $345 million of Binance ETH longs were liquidated on Oct 8-9, with funding rates near zero. It still rates conditions neutral because Binance USDT reserves fell 2.3% and the Coinbase Premium is not yet rising.
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XRP whales deposited 1.669 billion tokens on Binance over 30 days, the highest reading in seven months, according to CryptoQuant data. At $1.33 a token that is about $2.22 billion, against $1.8 billion of net US spot ETF inflows over 13 weeks.
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Tracked exchange wallets take on 84 million more XRP in three days with the price near $1.32
Wallets publicly attributed to exchanges added 83.94 million XRP over Oct. 13-15, taking the tracked total to 22.06 billion, CryptoSlate reported. The 0.38% rise raises a supply question, though balance data alone cannot show that anyone is selling.
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Regulators penalized Bank of America more than $1.21 billion for AML and sanctions failures, and no executive faced criminal charges. Crypto voices led by Binance's Changpeng Zhao say banks and crypto firms are treated differently.
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Binance is considering offering exposure to Hong Kong, South Korean, Taiwanese and Brazilian stocks, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune. Tokenized stocks total $3 billion worldwide against $34 trillion traded on Binance in the previous year, Cryptobriefing reported.
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Binance US is seeking up to $100 million at about a $1 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, against $4.5 billion pre-money in 2022. None of the three accounts says whether the $1 billion is pre- or post-money, so the markdown is approximate.
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Tokenized stocks traded about $14.3 billion onchain outside the US in 30 days, roughly 3 to 4.8 times their estimated market cap
Tokenized US stocks took 99.3% of non-US onchain trading volume in a 30-day period, a total of $14.4 billion, cryptobriefing.com reported. Against an estimated market cap of $3 billion to $4.8 billion, the whole market changed hands three to nearly five times.
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Binance's Bstocks tokenized equities passed $1 billion in assets under management on Oct. 15, about four months after the June 11 launch. The retail case rests on Binance's own usage data, and the reports do not include a holder count.
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Binance will close its bitcoin mining pool on Nov. 10 after its hashrate fell about 65% to roughly 9.2 EH/s, leaving miners four weeks to move. Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool hold 64.2% of hashrate, and the 9.2 EH/s left is under 1% of it.
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More than $106 million of Ether longs were liquidated on Binance within an hour of September's CPI release, CryptoQuant's Darkfost reported. Ether fell nearly 6% to about $2,350, with derivatives volume near nine times spot.
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Ethereum drops to $2,362 after its biggest liquidation event in six months
Long positions were over 92% of Ethereum liquidations on October 15, Cryptopolitan reported, in the biggest liquidation event in six months. The same report's positioning data suggests much of that leverage has already been cleared.
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Tokenized ETFs added $531 of market value for every new wallet in 2026
Tokenized ETFs grew market cap 213% to $686.5 million in 2026, Token Terminal data show. Wallets multiplied about 51-fold over the same period, so the average balance fell from roughly $12,500 to about $765.
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Crypto's $876 million long liquidation flush hit a market stuffed with leverage, with longs up to 92% of liquidations at the peak
Leveraged crypto longs lost more than $876 million to liquidation in 24 hours, Crypto Briefing reported. A second tracker's October 15 tally puts longs at 84.5% of liquidations, under the 88% to 92% peak share.
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Bitcoin's $80,000 support sits 10% below the $88,000 cost basis of holders seeking to exit
Glassnode says Bitcoin must reclaim $88,000, the cost basis of six-to-twelve-month holders, after US spot ETFs shed about $760 million since October 7. It wants sustained ETF inflows as confirmation, and hot September CPI has raised expectations of another Fed hike.
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