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Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction-market platform, secured a $2 billion strategic investment from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent of the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction, announced October 7 2025, lifted Polymarket’s valuation to roughly $9 billion, making it one of the highest-valued decentralized-finance (DeFi) companies to date.

Ripple and Immunefi launched a $200,000 Attackathon to battle-test the proposed XRPL Lending Protocol, with training underway and a bug-bounty window from October 27 to November 29 2025.

Falcon Finance (FF) has staged an impressive rebound, soaring over 42% in the past 24 hours to trade at around $0.1578.

Solana recently reached a key milestone, reaching 100,000 transactions per second (TPS), to CoinMarketCap. The result, achieved during stress testing, asserts Solana’s claim as one of the fastest in the industry.

of approximately $2.16 million in October, which represents a notable jump compared to other months.

New speculative interest has swept through the meme coin market today, with top tokens Dogwifhat (WIF), PEPE, DOGE, SHIB, BONK and FLOKI all posting high-volume, double-digit gains. Let’s break down the key movers and see which of these rallies have real strength behind them.

Pump.fun, the largest and oldest memecoin launchpad on Solana, has launched the “Glass Full Foundation” (GFF), a new initiative to inject significant liquidity into the most vibrant communities in its ecosystem. The foundation will select and support the most promising memes created on the platform.

Crypto asset manager 21Shares has submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The filing seeks approval to launch the 21Shares 2x Long HYPE ETF. This leveraged fund is designed to deliver twice the daily returns of Hyperliquid (HYPE) before fees and expenses.

Solana’s memecoin community is captivated as its two largest launchpads, Pump.fun and LetsBonk.fun, collide in a battle for supremacy, with Pump.fun narrowly reclaiming its top spot for daily token launches.

As of October 28, 2025, CryptoRank data showed Risk Curator Protocols nearing $10 billion in total value locked. Capital moved toward products that target predictable, rules-based yield instead of direct high-beta exposure. Such a shift marks a broader turn in crypto’s investment story from speculative bursts to institutional-style allocation.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Scallop (SCA) has emerged as one of the leading projects on the Sui blockchain, to a recent report from crypto research firm Messari.

Thumzup Media Corporation (NASDAQ: TZUP), a company tied to the Trump family, has provided a $2.5 million loan to DogeHash Technologies to expand Dogecoin mining. The financing will fund more than 500 new ASIC units, lifting DogeHash’s fleet above 4,000 miners.

Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) is attracting significant in the broader cryptocurrency industry, aiming to surpass Pokémon and Hello Kitty as a global intellectual property (IP).

The attackers behind the September 12 Shibarium bridge exploit have liquidated their remaining stash of BAD tokens, according to Christopher Johnson (Mr. Lightspeed), President of Lightspeed Crypto Services and advisor to the Bad Idea AI project.

DeFi Protocol Stream Finance has halted all withdrawals and deposits on its platform following the disclosure of a $93 million loss.

Market data platform Lookonchain today that high-leverage trader James Wynn has once again suffered losses on the perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid. Wynn had recently claimed $23,117 in referral rewards and used the funds to open new long positions on PEPE, Ethereum (ETH), and Dogecoin (DOGE).

StakeWise has pulled off a rare recovery in the DeFi world, retrieving the majority of assets lost in the recent that rocked the ecosystem.

Decentralized exchange and liquidity protocol Balancer has suffered a major security breach, with attackers stealing over $120 million in digital assets.

Another Solana-based memecoin has tanked after a sudden liquidity drain (), this time tied to , a project promoted by 15-year-old activist Avishkar Raut, known for his viral anti-corruption speech in Nepal.

Bitcoin has broken above $116,000, a strong sign that the market’s positive ‘Uptober’ momentum is building and could be starting a new wave of upward price action.