BNB Smart Chain has moved its next protocol upgrade to the Chapel testnet, with the Jenner hard fork bundling three BEPs aimed at payments, compliant assets and contract timing. Mainnet activation is planned for late November 2026.

BEP-703 reserves a governable 5% of every block's gas as a Payment Lane for bare BNB transfers and governance-listed payment contracts.

The lane is meant to keep payments includable even when general traffic congests the network. BEP-702 adds CAS20, a protocol-native token standard for stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets with built-in allow/blocklists, pause, mint, burn and seizure roles. BEP-706 exposes millisecond-precision block timestamps to smart contracts.

All BSC nodes must upgrade to the hard fork release before activation on each network, and the exact mainnet time is still to be announced.

The onchain data platform, which counts Visa, KPMG, Coinbase and more than 30 of the Fortune Crypto 100 among its users, confirmed unauthorized access to certain internal systems after detecting the incident on October 25.

Allium restricted access, notified affected customers directly and brought in an independent cybersecurity firm to investigate. The company has not disclosed which systems were reached or what data, if any, was exposed.

The core platform, including the Allium App, Explorer and Explorer APIs, is back online, while some features remain unavailable as recovery continues.

Allium plans to publish a summary of its findings after the investigation and says it is strengthening authentication and monitoring controls. Teams relying on its APIs for dashboards and reporting may face gaps until full service returns.

P2P crypto platform Peer opened a beta that lets users buy and sell USDC for Chinese yuan via Alipay. Buyers pay sellers in CNY through Alipay, while the USDC sits in an onchain escrow contract and is released once the payment is verified.

Peer said 45 buyers have completed 107 such orders since August 21, with a combined volume of about $7,094.

Alipay responded that it does not support virtual currency trading or related services. It called third-party claims of Alipay support for crypto purchases false and unauthorized, and warned users to protect their funds and accounts.

China keeps a ban on crypto trading, so the dispute puts the P2P fiat on-ramp model under direct pressure from the country's largest payment app.

The state's attorney general built the case on an undercover account: an investigator posing as a Utah resident placed a dozen sports bets on Kalshi over 11 days in September, on NFL, MLB and local college games.

Kalshi and co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara face one second-degree felony count of pattern of unlawful activity, 12 third-degree felony counts of online gambling promotion and one misdemeanor. A parallel civil suit claims Kalshi earned between $30.5M and $61.1M from Utah accounts since February.

Utah is the second state to criminally charge a CFTC-registered prediction market, after Arizona in March.

On the same day, the CFTC sued Utah, arguing federal law gives it exclusive jurisdiction over event contracts and preempts state gambling bans. Kalshi called the charges political overreach; a federal judge had already blocked Arizona's prosecution, which the state is appealing.

Nasdaq-listed Datavault AI has been trying since June to move its Bitcoin off the Biconomy exchange, and the company now says it has been unable to complete the withdrawal. The Form 8-K filed on Oct. 26 does not explain what is holding it up. Shares fell 49.55% to $0.067 on Oct. 27.

The coins came from a September 2025 deal in which Scilex Holding paid $150 million in Bitcoin for Datavault stock. Scilex credited 1,309.04 BTC to Datavault's Biconomy account through off-chain balance changes, and Datavault later sold 491.431 BTC back to Scilex for about $40.5 million in cash.

Datavault will restate four financial reports, cutting reported total assets by up to $92.2 million.

The company concluded the Bitcoin never qualified as its own digital asset and will book it as a subscription receivable instead. Because it had counted the BTC as a source of liquidity, management is reassessing its going-concern status and says collection of the amounts Scilex owes is uncertain.

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After a quiet web rollout in mid-October, the Solana memecoin launchpad has officially switched on perpetual futures in the Pumpfun app, with trading routed to Hyperliquid's order books.

Users can long or short 300+ Hyperliquid markets across crypto, stocks and commodities, funded straight from their USDC balance with no bridging.

The integration runs through Hyperliquid's builder codes: HyperCore handles matching, margin, funding and liquidations, while Pump.fun keeps the user and a share of fees. Early reports put max leverage at 40x on BTC and 25x on ETH, and the product is unavailable in the U.S. and Ontario.

The launch pairs perps with Pump.fun's social layer, letting traders call out positions for rewards. It also turns a recent rival into a partner: Pump.fun briefly out-earned Hyperliquid on weekly revenue in late September.

Every position on Hyperliquid is public, so copy-trading bots can track top wallets and mirror their trades within seconds, often leaving the original trader with worse execution. Avail's new ShieldTX tool targets that problem by opening each perpetual position through a separate, freshly funded wallet.

Users deposit USDC into a ShieldTX vault on Arbitrum, with bridging from other EVM chains through Avail Nexus. Orders are then routed to Hyperliquid's native order book, so traders keep the same markets and liquidity without linking positions to their main wallet or trading history.

ShieldTX supports every Hyperliquid perpetual market with leverage up to 40x, and its private beta has processed more than $2.5M in volume.

The product is aimed at funds, market makers and large traders who want to avoid strategy leakage and position hunting on a fully transparent venue.

Strategy (MSTR), the largest corporate bitcoin holder, put its Daily Dividends amendment to a common stockholder vote on October 28. Holders of the preferred shares had no vote on the change.

Preliminary results show 99.3% of votes cast in favor.

The amendment lets the four U.S. listed preferreds (STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD) accrue dividends on every calendar day, including weekends and holidays, with payouts on the next business day. Dividend rates and total regular obligations stay the same.

STRC goes first: daily record dates are expected to start on November 1, with November payments totaling $1.00 per share at the 12% annual rate. Strategy funds these dividends while continuing to build its BTC treasury.

Timed to its 10th Swell conference, Ripple released a year-end business update that puts the company on track to exit 2026 with $900M in annualized product revenue. The figure covers payments, custody, the RLUSD stablecoin, prime brokerage and treasury management.

The number of customers and partners using several Ripple products together tripled this year. Named partners include BNY, Robinhood, DriveWealth and Water.org, while RLUSD is now available on Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and OKX.

RLUSD market cap reached $2.6B, up more than 88% year to date, and the payments network is expected to approach $150B in lifetime volume by year end.

Ripple also received final OCC approval for its national trust bank charter and expanded its work with BNY on tokenized trade finance on the XRP Ledger. The $900M figure is a forward run rate, not reported annual revenue.