Weekly Newsletter

ICE made a minority investment in trade.xyz — the builder behind most of Hyperliquid’s RWA perps — and will exclusively operate its regulated US markets, subject to CFTC approval; Druckenmiller confirmed a stake.

Bitcoin Core published three security advisories on 28 October — including a malicious-peer memory-exhaustion flaw on non-Linux nodes — with fixes shipped simultaneously across all four maintained branches.

Kaiko research cited by coverage reports USDC has overtaken USDT in euro-denominated stablecoin trading as MiCA regulations reshape the European market. Coinbase is separately reported as converting 14 stablecoins held by European Economic Area retail users to USDC on October 30, per multiple outlets covering the compliance action, with coverage noting the EEA stablecoin consolidation as a concrete MiCA implementation milestone.

Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending ZCG’s automatic block-reward funding, Josh Swihart proposed dissolving both developer streams, and Gemini CEO Tyler Winklevoss called to end “the USAID of Zcash.”