Starknet opened a seven-day nonbinding vote on October 15 asking STRK holders to back research into becoming a quantum-resistant Layer 1. A yes buys developer time and further votes, so the cost lands before any design exists.
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Starknet and StarkWare unveiled Shadow Accounts on October 13, 2026, per-app DeFi addresses that users fund from shielded STRK20 balances. Their balances, transactions and positions stay public, so what users gain is a severed link to the main wallet.
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Starknet's builders weigh a standalone L1 to get ahead of Ethereum's quantum timetable
Starknet's builders are weighing a standalone L1 aimed at a quantum-resistant network in 2027, Bankless reported. StarkWare's June 30 roadmap had no L1 option, and its third phase depends on Ethereum.
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Starknet says it is actively considering leaving Ethereum to become its own L1, with 2027 as its target for full quantum resistance. STRK rose about 20% to $0.073, Decrypt reported, so holders are already paying for an exit that is still only under discussion.
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Robinhood Chain's daily transactions have fallen more than 40% since mid-September, barely three months after the network went live. Robinhood paid customers' swap fees through the whole slide, so the money users still keep parked on the chain is the better test of it.
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Starknet's Stwo prover cuts peak memory by 85% so phones can prove their own transactions
Starknet's Stwo prover cut its peak memory from 13.9 GiB to 2.1 GiB, enough for a smartphone to prove Starknet transactions. Users gain privacy because their data can stay on the handset, while proving whole blocks still scales with workload size.
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Bitcoin recovers to $82,500 on Trump's Iran pledge with futures leverage flat
Bitcoin climbed back to about $82,500 after Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms, still about 4% down on the week. Futures open interest barely moved on the way up, so traders bought the bounce without taking on fresh leverage.
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Robinhood's talks with T. Rowe Price point tokenized stock wrappers toward active funds
Robinhood is exploring a Stock Token with T. Rowe Price, the $1.9 trillion asset manager, that would track an actively managed ETF. It would be Robinhood's first token on a fund whose holdings a manager picks, and board approval, regulatory clearance and filings still stand between the talks and anything an allocator can buy.
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Abstract's withdrawal cutoffs can arrive before the Ethereum layer-2's Dec. 15 shutdown
Abstract will shut its Ethereum layer-2 network on Dec. 15, 70 days after its Oct. 6 notice telling users to migrate or lose access to their funds. Under the terms of service provider Cube, Inc., the deadlines to start, finish or claim an exit can each fall before that date.
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Robinhood has added $25 million of bitcoin to its balance sheet, crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said, a stake worth about 0.025% of its market value. The company's larger tie to the asset runs through trading, where August crypto volume reached $17.5 billion.
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Igloo Inc., the Pudgy Penguins parent, will shut its Abstract layer-2 on Dec. 15 after 18 months of losses in the tens of millions of dollars. Funds not bridged off by then become inaccessible, and its chief executive says no Abstract token is coming.
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Arbitrum joined Paxos's Global Dollar Network to share USDG reserve income, with a DAO proposal to add 100 million ARB in incentives. It takes no direct cut of the USDC that is about 60% of its $3.8 billion in stablecoins, so the payoff depends on USDG winning that float.
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Blast and Abstract shut their layer 2s as fees fall short of the cost of running a chain
Blast and Abstract are closing their Ethereum layer 2 chains after both operators said running costs outran revenue, Igloo by tens of millions of dollars. Cheaper blob space lowered rollups' posting bills but not the cost of running a chain.
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Crypto liquidations hit $547 million on Brent's jump as open interest slips only 1%
Crypto liquidations rose 235% to $547 million after Iran's tanker attacks pushed Brent above $101, yet futures open interest slipped only 1%. Leverage was already thin, so the selling moved token prices far more than it cleared out positions.
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Abstract gives 93,000 weekly active addresses until December 15 to leave its chain
Abstract, the Igloo-backed Ethereum layer-2, is shutting down after its secured value fell more than 90% from a peak above $291 million. Its closure comes weeks after Blast's, and holders on smaller layer-2 chains now face fixed dates to move their funds before the bridges close.
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Blast is closing its Ethereum layer-2 after the chain earned $1,793 last month, down from about $3.5 million in June 2024. Revenue fell far faster than deposits, a pattern that fits an airdrop-era chain better than an industry-wide squeeze.
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Memecoin-for-stock-token trading on Robinhood Chain fell 96% from a peak of $443 million a day in early September, according to CryptoQuant. The chain's earnings now depend on the plainer stock-token trade it was built to host.
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Aztec Labs is bringing back zk.money as a private DAI wallet that caps every transfer at $2,500 and all users' deposits combined at $50,000 a day. Raising either limit means a new contract that each user must opt into. The caps arrive while US law on privacy wallets remains unsettled.
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Base's Cobalt upgrade went live on September 30 with Validity Transactions, swaps the chain holds privately until set conditions are met. It continues the push toward trading and tokenized assets that Base began in July with its B20 issuer standard.
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Aerodrome's AERO emissions buy half of Base's peak USDC transfer volume
Coin Metrics puts Aerodrome at about half of Base's peak USDC transfer volume, with a single WETH/USDC pool at 32%, and the report says vote-directed AERO rewards and bribes to voters hold that liquidity in place.
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