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Leaving Cosmos: Where Appchains Are Moving Next Akash is voting to leave Cosmos for Solana: 97.9% yes so far, the vote closes Nov 2. ZetaChain voted for the same move in September. Sei went EVM-only, Noble left for its own EVM chain, and Nillion moved to Ethereum.

The reasons repeat: a sovereign chain is costly to run and secure, and liquidity sits on Solana and Ethereum.

On Oct 7, Osmosis flagged 41 Cosmos chains as dead in one sweep. ATOM is down 96% from its 2021 high, and TVL across ~44 Cosmos chains fell 73% in a year. Not everyone is leaving: dYdX, Celestia, Injective and Babylon still build on Cosmos, and Cosmos Labs is pivoting to enterprise tokenization.

Which DEXs Actually Monetize Volume PumpSwap earned the most of any DEX in the last 30 days: $14.8M on $9.4B of volume, about 0.16% of every dollar traded. Uniswap did 7x the volume ($64.4B) and earned half as much, $7.4M, or roughly 0.01%. Half of its volume ($32B) ran through V4, which shows zero protocol revenue. Aero made $7.8M on $16.6B, more than Uniswap on a quarter of its volume. Meteora and Pharaoh sit near the 0.1% line, PancakeSwap and Orca near 0.01%.

Prediction Markets Are Buying Up Sports Leagues In 13 months, prediction markets signed 16 deals with sports leagues and tours. The NBA picked Kalshi and Polymarket as its preferred prediction markets on Oct 26.

Polymarket is collecting leagues: 11 rights holders, 9 of them exclusive, including MLB, MLS, UFC, the ATP Tour and four foreign football leagues for the US. Kalshi has 5 and goes after teams instead: the Dodgers, Red Sox, Braves, Padres and Giants signed in August. The money explains the rush. On the NFL's opening Sunday, $1.8B of $3.3B in prediction-market volume was NFL contracts, and Kalshi's baseball volume is up about 36x this year.

The NFL has no deal and told the Supreme Court these contracts are gambling. Kalshi has to respond by Nov 9.

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Ripple Gets Final OCC Approval for Its Trust Bank The OCC gave Ripple final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank, 10 months after the conditional nod in December 2025. A federal bank, just not one that takes deposits.

As a trust bank, RNTB takes no deposits and makes no loans. It will manage the segregated reserves behind RLUSD, act as collateral trustee for holders and offer digital asset custody to enterprises. RLUSD (about $2.6B market cap) is still issued by Ripple's NYDFS-regulated trust company, with BNY as primary reserve custodian. The new charter adds federal supervision on top of the state license.

Next, RNTB starts operations while the US rolls out the GENIUS Act stablecoin rules. Ripple counts more than 85 licenses worldwide.

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Today's headliners: S&P Global, NBA, Aviva Investors, Canada, OCC, Strive, Strategy, Electrum, Akash, Keystone

moneycanbuy.fun Launches a Telegram Mini App moneycanbuy.fun launched a Telegram mini app: anyone can now do tasks and earn money right inside the chat. There's $1,218 in live rewards up for grabs. The idea is simple: everyone can earn money for doing stupid tasks. Someone posts a dare and locks the reward, you do it, drop proof, and the contract pays you. Log in with Telegram and a wallet is created for you, no extension needed. Rewards come in ETH, USDC, $IMD or $YOLO.

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We Filtered the Noise: 6 Activities Worth Your Time This week's six have Hack VC, eToro, Jump, Coinbase Ventures and USV money behind them. All live right now: • Axis Robotics: Physical AI · Season 2 points, free browser tasks • Extended: Perp DEX · 30% of XTEN to points holders • Dataline: AI Data · Quest 2 with doubled airdrops • Vangrid: Physical AI DePIN · film places, earn USDC bounties • XO Market: Prediction Markets · 3,000 USDC PnL contest • Pascal: Prediction Exchange · negative fees through Nov 4 Full step-by-step breakdown for each 👇 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/we-filtered-the-noise-6-crypto-activities-worth-your-time-step-by-step-oct-26

Asia Has Stablecoin Laws. The Coins Are Still Missing HSBC’s RedCoin went live in Hong Kong on Oct 23. Every live local-currency stablecoin in Asia adds up to about $195M. USDG, one Singapore-issued dollar coin, holds $3.08B. Hong Kong and Japan have stablecoin laws in force, Singapore a finalised MAS framework. The biggest local coin, Japan’s JPYSC at about $132M, never leaves SBI’s exchange.

Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have laws or rules due over the next 6 months, while China and Vietnam have shut the door on local coins. Meanwhile money keeps leaving for dollar coins: Koreans moved about $346M in stablecoins offshore in June alone.

Next up: retail access to Hong Kong’s HKDAP, a joint yen coin from Japan’s megabanks and a Korean won-coin bill under review in November.

Pearl (PRL): The Coin Mined by the Math Behind AI Pearl Research Labs reportedly raised $130M from Lightspeed, Ribbit and Square Peg: $55M in equity plus a $75M GPU fund. Its PRL coin is already top-100 at a $628M market cap. Pearl is a proof-of-work L1 where GPUs mine by multiplying matrices, the core math of AI, instead of burning power on hashes. Overhead on real models is only about 4-5%, so the same work can serve paid AI jobs and secure the chain.

PRL launched in April with no token sale and no VC allocation. Max supply is 2.1B with no halvings. The founders are CS professors at Hebrew University, and the lab already sells AI inference, including a deal with Together AI.

The catch: paid AI jobs aren't running on miners at scale yet, and the raise buys equity, not PRL. By our estimate about 1M new PRL are mined daily, enough to double the circulating supply in a year.

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Sony’s Soneium Plans $SONEIUM Token, Pivots to Tokenized IP Sony’s Ethereum L2 Soneium plans a native token, $SONEIUM. There is no TGE date or tokenomics yet, and no word on whether past onchain activity will count toward a distribution. With the token, the chain bets on tokenized IP. First up is Moriusa, a Tokyo character whose fans can back its expansion into merch, animated shorts and licensing.

Next come IP Vaults with royalty-backed assets, then Tokenized IP Bonds. The first bonds will carry concert royalties from K-pop label DayOneDream (BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON), a partner since September.

The pivot starts from a low base: Soneium’s TVL is $9.4M, down about 95% from its $203M peak in May 2025, even with 250+ apps on the network.

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22 US Companies Just Blocked Tokenized Versions of Their Stock Microsoft, Alphabet, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, McDonald's and 17 more objected to their shares trading as tokens on OKXICE, the on-chain venue from ICE and OKX.

Under the SEC's new exemption, a company can block a third-party token of its stock within 30 days of notice. It gets no capital and no fees from the token, but carries the risk if its price breaks away from the stock.

Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and every crypto-linked name on the list haven't objected yet. Their windows close in early November. Full list and why 👉 cryptodiffer.com/news/22-companies-just-blocked-tokenized-versions-of-their-stock-here-s-why

BNB Chain Unveils Its New L1 Design, No New Token BNB Chain's new L1 won't issue a token of its own. BNB is bridged from BSC to pay for gas, and staking it mints non-transferable govBNB for voting.

"Multiple chains, one coins." CZ

The chain, first announced in July, is built for trading and AI agents: 200 ms blocks vs 450 ms on BSC and finality under a second.

Pre-confirmations now take about 20 ms, down from the sub-50 ms target set in July. Passkey accounts, gas sponsorship and an opt-in shielded pool that hides sender, recipient and amount are built in, and existing Solidity contracts run unchanged.

A devnet is live. Public testnet is targeted for the end of 2026 and mainnet for early 2027, and the chain still has no name.

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Today's headliners: HSBC, MAS, SEC, Wells Fargo, China, Initia, Tether, Ethereum, Chainlink, Plume

Crypto Exchange Fines Fell 30x After the 2025 Peak Crypto exchanges were fined about $69M in 2024 and $1.1B in 2025. In the first ten months of 2026, the total is about $37M, including Coinbase Ireland's €3.25M fine this week.

— 2024 had no record cases: Gemini's $37M from New York's NYDFS was over half the total. — In 2025 OKX, KuCoin and BitMEX alone paid $901M to the US Justice Department. — This year the biggest fine is Bithumb's $25M in South Korea. The total is already below 2024's level, and US penalties fell to $4.5M.

Some names keep coming back: Coinbase and KuCoin were fined in all three years, Gemini, OKX and Bybit in two.

Most of 2025's fines violations from 2018 to 2023. OKX and Bybit have since secured licenses, and the bill keeps shrinking.

Trump's Crypto Fortune: The Legal Map On Oct 22 a Circle shareholder sued Trump, World Liberty and Steve Witkoff, arguing that $2.5B in UAE deals were illegal foreign emoluments.

Trump's 2025 financial disclosure shows about $1.4B in crypto income, $635M of it from the $TRUMP license. His net worth is now $6.6B, up $2.7B since the 2024 election.

Justin Sun is already suing World Liberty over his frozen tokens, and World Liberty has countersued him for defamation. Congressional Democrats are probing the CZ pardon, $320M+ in $TRUMP trading fees and the $1.5B Alt5 Sigma deal.

Federal conflict-of-interest law doesn't apply to the president. The CLARITY Act, with its ban on officials issuing tokens, stalled 49-50 in September.

The GENIUS Gap: Banks Can Still Pay Yield SoFi launched SOFIE, a tokenized deposit that pays 4.4% and is FDIC-insured. Members can swap it 1:1 into SoFiUSD, the bank's own stablecoin, 24/7. Stablecoin issuers can't pay holders under the GENIUS Act. Banks can pay interest on deposits. So SoFi split the job: the deposit earns, the stablecoin moves.

SoFi dropped crypto in 2023 to get its bank charter. Since returning 11 months ago, it has launched SoFiUSD, which now settles its $25B+ card program on Mastercard, and now SOFIE.

SOFIE rolls out to all SoFi crypto members in the US by the end of November.

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IMD's AI Swarm Launches moneycanbuy.fun and $YOLO moneycanbuy.fun is a place where everyone, even AI agents, can pay people to do things. Post a dare and lock the reward on-chain, someone does it and uploads proof, and the contract pays out. If the proof is disputed, Identity MD NFT holders vote. The point is who's paying. Any AI agent with a wallet can post a dare, so agents finally have a way to hire humans for real-world tasks: go somewhere, film something, prove it.

The whole thing, from smart contracts to the website, was written, audited and deployed by IMD, a swarm of 2,000 AI agents that builds and ships products on its own.

$YOLO is the platform's token, paired with $IMD on Ethereum. 👉 moneycanbuy.fun