Bitcoin goes to work: Sui is preparing to launch Hashi, and behind it are already standing half a billion dollars
Imagine you have an expensive car in your garage that you’ve never driven. That’s roughly what most of Bitcoin looks like today. It sits at more than a trillion dollars, but in decentralized finance (DeFi) it’s used less than 0.5%. The rest just sits there. The team at Mysten Labs, the creators of the Sui blockchain, decided to fix this and came up with Hashi.
The project decided to buy back its own token. All revenue. Every month 🤯
🔥 Pyth decided to buy up its own token. All of it. Completely. Imagine a coffee shop that every evening takes all of the day’s takings and uses them to buy up its own shares so that their price goes up. That’s roughly what Pyth Network does. What it was: the DAO was sending funds to buy back PYTH tokens from the exchange, but only with a third of the money. Let’s call it a “polite” version.
Give an AI a wallet, but don’t hand it the keys to your whole apartment 🔑🤖
AI agents already know how to search, compare, and buy. But who would want to give a neural network full access to their money? What if it decides you suddenly need 400 subscriptions to a “cat service.”
Sui came up with a way around it, called the Sui Agent Pass.
How does it work? You give the agent a “pass” with rules:
🛒 Where it can spend: a list of approved services. 💰 Total amount: the overall budget. ✋ How much at a time: a limit per single payment. ⏳ Until when: the validity period. 🚫 Changed your mind? Access can be revoked at any time.
So the agent doesn’t get into the wallet in full. It’s like a courier with a corporate card that has a $5 limit and can only be used to buy coffee.
Why is it convenient? The agent pays for each request separately, in USDC on Sui, and brings you a receipt you can verify. You don’t have to manually confirm every little detail, but control still stays with you.
The main idea: the AI gets money to do the work, and you get a peaceful sleep. 😴
🚀 Bitcoin has climbed out of the hole. But it’s too early to celebrate!
Remember the panic in June? Since then, BTC has risen about 45% 📈
Here’s what happened: the price jumped above ~$81,700. CryptoQuant considers this the bull confirmation line. It’s as if the market has stepped out of the “bear” room and into the “bull” one 🐻➡️🐂
✅ Money flowed back into ETFs: +$2.4 billion in a week, the best result since October 2025 ✅ A “golden cross” has formed
But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows 👇
⚠️ The record high ($126K) is still a long way off—down ~32% ⚠️ Altcoins are growing sluggishly ⚠️ CryptoQuant’s Bull Score Index cooled from 80 to 60 ⚠️ Even CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju was cautious: based on classic cycles, the bottom may not have been reached yet ⚠️ Yesterday, BTC had already pulled back by almost 3%
Bottom line: this is dawn, not midday. There are some good signs, but the match isn’t won yet ⚽
From $2 to $155? Why Wall Street suddenly fell in love with NEAR
NEAR: Wall Street has found a new favorite cryptocurrency. Should we be excited? Imagine this: you’re scrolling through the news and see the chief investment officer of one of the largest crypto asset managers say that a coin you’ve only heard of in passing has huge potential. Curious? Let’s break it down without the jargon.
The new kid at the big boys’ table: How Ripple nudged Wall Street aside
Crypto giant enters Wall Street’s inner sanctum Imagine a huge club where the same banks have been in charge for decades. Then Ripple shows up—a company once seen as “that crypto startup with XRP”—and calmly takes a seat at their table. How did that happen? Ripple didn’t reinvent the wheel; it went shopping. It bought broker Hidden Road for about $1.25 billion, which became Ripple Prime. It’s a “bank for big players”: it lends to hedge funds, clears trades, and helps with trading. Now Ripple is making money in areas that used to require banks—for example, financing complex leveraged funds (those ETFs that move two or three times as much as the market).
One click from dollars to USDT: Polygon opens the door to TRON
🟣 Polygon and TRON join forces: now you can turn dollars in your bank into USDT with a single click In short: Polygon has added support for TRON to its Open Money Stack, allowing businesses to accept and send USDT through a single integration, without having to piece together a payment system. Why does this matter? The TRON network is essentially the main highway for digital dollars. More than $94 billion in USDT circulates on it, and its cumulative transfer volume exceeds $30 trillion. When people use USDT as everyday money—for sending funds to family, saving, and making payments—they primarily do so through TRON.
⚡ Zcash hits the gas: blocks are now 3 times faster
⚡ Zcash speeds up 3x: the new update is now live on the testnet On October 4, Zcash activated the NU7 upgrade on the testnet (block #4,465,026). This is a dress rehearsal ahead of the mainnet launch, planned for November 5. What’s changing: 🏎 Blocks are 3 times faster. Previously, a new block appeared about every 75 seconds; now the target is 25. Transactions are confirmed faster, like a coffee machine that gets the job done in one minute instead of three. But there’s no increase in the amount of money: the block reward is also divided by 3, and the 21 million ZEC limit remains unchanged.
“25x”: What Tom Lee actually said (spoiler: not what you think)
🐋 The biggest Ether “whale” has hit the brakes Imagine one person buying Ether every week for a year and a half. No weekends off, no vacation. That’s BitMine, Tom Lee’s company. The result: they now hold around 6 million ETH, nearly 5% of all the Ether in the world. One company owns one in every 20 coins.
🔐A quantum lock on the door, while the alarm system is still being hooked up
🔐 A quantum-resistant coin is already on sale. But there are caveats Imagine: one day, quantum computers learn to crack the locks that Bitcoin and Ethereum rely on. The Quantus project decided not to wait for that day and built a blockchain with “quantum-resistant” signatures (ML-DSA, a standard from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) from the outset.
Imagine all of Visa doing less in a year than Sui does in one day on stage. Well, almost.
On October 7 in Singapore, the Sui team put on a show: AI agents played, paid each other, and chatted, while the network clocked 40,614,180 transactions per second. They aimed for 20 million and got twice as much. The previous record of 6 million in July turned out to be just a warm-up.
The result is being verified by CertiK, an independent company known for its security audits in crypto. Its report is expected in the coming days, so hold off on the applause for now.
What’s the magic? Sui uses “tunnels.” It’s like playing with friends in the kitchen and posting the final score in a group chat when you’re done. All the fast actions happen “off to the side,” and the final result is recorded on the main network.
Why does this matter? Sui is betting on AI agents. If bots start buying, selling, and paying each other in seconds, ordinary blockchains will get congested—and Sui is showing it has room to spare.
⚠️ Important: 40 million is “effective” TPS from a demo stage, not what the network delivers every day. But it looks impressive.
USD1 is set to join Mesh’s payment network. Imagine having a digital dollar in your wallet and paying with it at an online store just as easily as with a card. For now, it sounds like a crypto enthusiast’s dream, but it could soon become a reality.
World Liberty Financial, backed by the Trump family, announced a partnership with payments company Mesh. Mesh works like an adapter between crypto and regular stores. You pay with digital money, while the seller receives familiar dollars or euros and doesn’t even notice the difference.
Thanks to this partnership, holders of the USD1 stablecoin (a token pegged one-to-one to the US dollar) will be able to spend it across Mesh’s network of stores. The rollout is promised as soon as this quarter. In parallel, World Liberty wants to connect USD1 to major online companies.
One small caveat: promises in crypto often sound bigger than the results turn out to be. It’s not yet clear exactly how many stores will accept USD1, and “millions of merchants” remains more of a nice dream than a fact. We’ll see what happens when it actually launches.
BNB Chain made a major push into the stablecoin market
Nearly 13 million new addresses holding stablecoins appeared on BNB Chain in Q3 2026 alone.
That was the largest increase among major blockchains. For comparison, Celo, TRON, and Solana each added just over 2 million holders.
By the end of September, BNB Chain had taken the No. 1 spot worldwide for the number of addresses holding stablecoins.
The market-wide figure is already impressive: more than 300 million addresses around the world have a non-zero stablecoin balance.
And here’s the most interesting part: BNB Chain holds only around 1.2% of the total stablecoin supply, yet accounts for roughly 28.7% of all holder addresses.
💡 Put simply, people are increasingly using stablecoins not just for trading, but also as digital dollars for transfers and other transactions.
BNB Chain is clearly positioning itself as one of the leading networks for the mass adoption of stablecoins. 🚀 $BNB $SOL $TRX
A pawnshop without the pawnbroker: Ledger offers loans against bitcoin
Ledger now lets you borrow money against bitcoin—and you don’t have to sell it A familiar situation: your bitcoin is sitting there and (you hope) going up in value, but you need money right now. You don’t want to sell, and taxes are still a thing. Ledger, the company behind those “crypto USB drives,” has come up with a solution. Ledger Wallet now has a Crypto Loan feature. It works like a pawnshop, only without the pawnbroker: you put up your crypto as collateral and get stablecoins in return.
Ethereum: “backups” are no longer needed—they’ll have to find a new job
Imagine a busy road that’s constantly jammed with traffic. About five years ago, someone came up with a solution: build a bunch of detours alongside it—L2s, in other words. The idea was to ease the load on the main road. Each “detour” was billed as something like a branch of Ethereum, with its own logo.
But things didn’t go according to plan:
The main road unexpectedly got wider. Ethereum became faster than anyone expected. The detours turned out to be less reliable than hoped. Many are still controlled by a small group of people, rather than by their communities.
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin said something along these lines: “Guys, the old model doesn’t work anymore. Just being a cheaper copy isn’t enough. If you want to survive, come up with something that makes you special.”
What this means for L2s:
Become truly decentralized, or you won’t earn people’s trust. Find your own niche: privacy, identity verification, lightning-fast speed.
In other words, L2s aren’t being buried—they’re being sent back to retake the exam. The era of “just a cheaper copy” is ending, and the era of “so, what can you do?” is beginning. $ETH #ETH #Ethereum #ETH🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Cardano is no longer the “Wild West”: tokens now have a beat cop 🚓
🔒 Cardano has learned to freeze your tokens (but not all of them, and not for everyone) Remember how Cardano used to boast that no one could get into your wallet and say “stop”? Well, the blockchain now has a new option: a “stop button” for token issuers. What happened? The Cardano Foundation has launched the CIP-0113 standard. In short, these are smart tokens with a “built-in security guard.” The token issuer can set rules for who can own the token, who it can be transferred to, and who needs to be stopped.
🚀Aptos changed its engine mid-drive. It’s 55 times faster, but there’s a catch
🚀 Aptos is changing its engine mid-drive: meet MonoMove Imagine you've driven a good car a thousand times, and then the engineers say: “We replaced the engine. Now you can go several times faster.” That’s roughly what Aptos, one of the popular blockchain networks, has done. It unveiled MonoMove: a completely redesigned “machine” that executes smart contracts. These are programs that carry out transactions, swaps, and payments on their own, without intermediaries.
🦄📈 You can now buy Apple, Tesla, and the S&P 500 right from your crypto wallet!
News for those who want to stay in crypto and invest in U.S. stocks: 1inch has added support for bStocks.
What are they? bStocks are tokens on the BNB Chain, each backed 1:1 by a real U.S. stock or ETF. If the stock goes up, the token’s value rises. If the company pays dividends, those are factored in too.
What’s great about them? 🕐 Trade 24/7. No need to wait for the New York Stock Exchange to open. 🔐 Your money stays in your hands. It’s a self-custody wallet, and only you have the keys. ⚡ Everything in one place: swap USDT for a “stock” and even put it into other BNB Chain assets in a single transaction. 📊 Plenty to choose from: dozens of stocks and ETFs.
What should you keep in mind? ⚠️ Not available everywhere. The rules depend on your country. ⚠️ 1inch just makes swapping easy. The tokens themselves are issued by bStocks, not 1inch. ⚠️ A tokenized stock isn’t the same as a stock held through a broker. Its price may differ slightly from the market price.
Open the 1inch dApp or wallet, find the ticker you want, and swap.
This is not investment advice. Check whether bStocks are available in your jurisdiction, and only invest what you can afford to lose. $1INCH $BNB $AAPLB
🚀 Ethereum stitched its layers together into a single thread Imagine a city with a downtown (the Ethereum mainnet, L1) and dozens of suburbs (L2 networks). Things are cheap and fast in the suburbs, but to move money there or buy something downtown, you need a bridge. Bridges are slow, expensive, and sometimes get hacked. As a result, every suburb developed its own copies of everything downtown had, and the money scattered across “islands.” Gnosis co-founder Friederike Ernst called this “a hundred islands.”
“T+2? Never heard of it: Solana wants to close trades faster than you can finish your coffee”
🪙 How Solana is trying to teach Wall Street to settle in seconds Imagine buying a used bike from a stranger. They’re nervous about handing over the bike before getting paid, and you’re nervous about paying before you have the bike. Usually, the solution is to meet up and exchange “money in one hand, bike in the other.” Big finance works the same way, only with sums featuring six to nine zeros. In the traditional system, a chain of clearinghouses, depositories, and custodians stands between a trade and its settlement. Money and securities can get stuck for a day or two.