Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has launched a privacy feature called Shadow Accounts, allowing users to isolate their main wallets from DeFi activity at the account level, making it harder for external observers to directly correlate on-chain behavior between the two. The feature is implemented through account abstraction and privacy routing mechanisms, but on-chain transactions themselves remain visible.
Bitcoin miners pivoting to AI infrastructure face roughly $50 billion in cumulative funding gaps, with leading firms IREN, Riot Platforms and HIVE Digital all under significant funding pressure as lenders tighten their scrutiny of related deals.
The French legislature passed a supportive vote on October 12 requiring mandatory reporting for crypto wallet holders with assets exceeding €100,000 (approximately $112,000). Failure to declare qualifying assets could result in fines of up to €10,000.
Ether ETFs stretched their outflow run to nine sessions while Solana funds broke a 14-week inflow streak in the latest week. Bitcoin ETFs also logged weekly outflows, pointing to a broad-based softening in institutional crypto positioning.
Meanwhile, the Bitcoin-denominated life insurer backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has closed a new funding round amid a marked increase in international demand for Bitcoin-denominated life-insurance products. The fresh capital will support the company’s compliance build-out and distribution expansion in the US, Europe and Asia.
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has finalized rules allowing crypto asset exchange-traded funds to list on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, limited initially to Bitcoin and Ether, effective October 16, 2026. Retail access through Thai brokers to foreign crypto asset ETFs remains shut, while Thai mutual and private funds gain a domestic route into the new products.
The Block reported that Robinhood added approximately $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, marking a strategic extension of its crypto business from a trading platform toward asset reserves.
According to Cointelegraph, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) rejected cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin.de’s MiCA compliance application, and the company will continue to suspend its trading service. Germany is one of the largest crypto markets in Europe; tighter regulation will affect the compliance rhythm of multiple German local exchanges and service providers.
Crypto exchange Binance will apply stricter requirements on Brazil crypto transfers starting November 1, including enhanced KYC and transfer limits.
Crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange have jointly filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to offer tokenized versions of NYSE-listed stocks on a 24/7 basis under the SEC’s innovation exemption. If approved, the application would mark a landmark integration of traditional Wall Street infrastructure with on-chain assets under a regulatory framework.