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​​Meanwhile Secures $37.5M to Expand Bitcoin Life Insurance The round was led by Bain Capital Crypto, pushing Meanwhile's total capital raised past $180M to expand its Bitcoin-denominated life insurance to families across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Other backers include Haun Ventures, Framework, Pantera Capital, Digital Currents and Apollo Global, with the deal reportedly valuing Meanwhile at $350M. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​Ledger Users Lose $86 Million in Suspected Wallet Exploit Over $86 million has reportedly been drained from Ledger hardware wallets across Ethereum, Tron and Bitcoin, with on-chain analyst Specter tracing stolen funds to hundreds of victim addresses. Ledger says it's investigating losses tied to a reseller called CryptoBillis in South East Asia and has asked it to pause all sales and shipments while the probe continues.

Anyone who bought a device from CryptoBillis in the last 90 days is urged to avoid setup, or move funds to a new Ledger signer with a fresh seed if already set up.

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​​Top Centralized Exchanges by Weekly Visits Let's take a look at the ranking of top centralized exchanges by weekly visits. Weekly visits to the website (not including mobile app) based on data from SimilarWeb and CoinmarketCap. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know The current report features updates of Securitize, Ondo Finance, Chainlink, Aave, Hyperliquid, Pyth Network, Injective, Orca, Samsung, Starknet, Aptos, and papertrade CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​Ondo Launches Onchain Trading for Private Pre-IPO Companies Ondo Finance has introduced Ondo Private Markets, giving eligible investors tokenized exposure to pre-IPO companies they can trade permissionlessly on a 24/7 secondary order book, well before any public listing.

The first live market tracks an undisclosed AI company, with Ondo planning to expand into robotics, cybersecurity, biotech and other private sectors.

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​Securitize Launches Onchain Trading of Tokenized US Stocks Securitize has launched onchain trading of tokenized US equities, giving eligible investors 1:1-backed security entitlements to shares like Apple, Tesla, Nvidia and Palantir through its regulated broker-dealer platform on Solana.

The stocks are also expected to trade on NYSE's upcoming 24/7 venue and the OKX-ICE Tokenized Securities Venue, with Jump Trading serving as market maker.

Ripple Prime and Aave are lined up as launch partners too, planning to bring the tokens into institutional trading and DeFi collateral markets. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​Samsung Adds $USDC to Its Wallet Samsung Wallet is adding USDC cross-border transfers to 82M eligible US Galaxy devices, built on Coinbase custody with Solana and Sui powering the blockchain infrastructure.

Users can send $USDC to compatible wallets abroad or bank accounts in 60+ countries starting the last week of October, with no Samsung fee on transfers to compatible wallets.

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​​Bitget Report Shows Tokenized Stocks Cutting Margin Requirements by Half Bitget and Block Scholes released a report showing that tokenized stocks used as collateral in Bitget's Cross-Asset Unified Account cut the capital needed for a modeled $1M multi asset portfolio from $340K to $175K. The account lets 370+ assets, including 125 tokenized US stocks, share one margin pool, with rStocks equity exposure & USDT dividends. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​​Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know The current report features updates of OKX, Ether fi, Polymarket, Ripple, Solana, Arbitrum, World Libert Fi, MoonPay, Aptos, Ondo, AlloX, and Injective. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​Robinhood Adds $25M of Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet Robinhood added $25M worth of $BTC to its balance sheet, with SVP Johann Kerbrat saying the purchase signals the company's commitment to crypto rather than a major financial move.

"We care deeply about bitcoin and the ecosystem around it," Kerbrat said, noting it's a small sum for a company with a roughly $100 billion market cap.

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​Coinbase Completes Deribit Integration for Global Trading Coinbase said its Deribit integration is complete, creating the Coinbase Global Exchange and connecting US and international derivatives markets into a single regulated liquidity pool for the first time, with access to over $30B in Bitcoin options open interest.

Options trading, spot margin and unified portfolios roll out in the coming weeks, and Coinbase Pro returns at year-end as a dedicated professional-grade platform.

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​Pudgy Penguins Closes Abstract Igloo, the company behind Pudgy Penguins, said it is shutting down its Abstract L2 on December 15 after losing tens of millions of dollars funding the chain, becoming the second Ethereum-linked network to announce a shutdown in under a week.

About $76M remained on the network as of Wednesday; users must bridge assets off before the deadline or lose access to them.

It follows Blast's shutdown last week, the Paradigm-backed L2 that cited the same unsustainable economics. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​​Top RWA Perps Venues by 30d Volume RWA perps venues traded $128B over the past 30 days, with TradeXYZ alone handling $59.1B, nearly half the total. Total RWA open interest stands at $5.68B. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​​Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know The current report features updates of OKX, Ether fi, Polymarket, Ripple, Solana, Arbitrum, World Libert Fi, MoonPay, Aptos, Ondo, AlloX, and Injective. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​Polymarket Rolls Out V2 Protocol Upgrade Polymarket began running production canary markets on Protocol V2, a rebuilt smart-contract system replacing its 2019 Gnosis-based framework with a single ERC-1155 positions contract, pUSD collateral and a new oracle aggregator plugging into UMA, Chainlink and others.

Canary markets run through October 30, with a tentative switch to V2 for new markets on November 2.

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​​ether.fi Debuts USD Stablecoin ether.fi, a crypto banking platform, launched ether.fi USD, its own dollar-denominated stablecoin powered by Ethena, making all $300M+ in stablecoins already on the platform native to every product it ships. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​Crypto Exchange OKX Raises at $25 Billion Valuation OKX raised new funding at a $25B from Circle, Ripple, Standard Chartered's SC Ventures and hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies, extending the round ICE joined at the same valuation back in March.

It comes just a day after OKXICE, OKX's joint venture with ICE, notified the SEC of plans to launch tokenized US stock trading.

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​​AlloX Opens $ALLOX Public Sale Registration on Sonar by Echo Sale Structure & Terms: • $0.065 per $ALLOX ($65M FDV), $1M raise, $100–$200,000 per entity in USDC/USDT on Ethereum • Whitelist registration is open now; commitments open around October 12, 2026 • KYC/KYB verification via Sonar; eligibility excludes restricted jurisdictions AlloX is an AI-powered capital allocation platform that transforms market narratives into diversified, risk-managed portfolios. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram

​​Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know The current report features updates of Bitcoin, Hyperliquid, Binance, Bitmine, Virtuals Protocol, Plume, Coinbase, Zama, CFTC, Saturn, OKX, and Payward. CryptoDep | Community Chat | X | Telegram