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CryptoSlate reports the bank has added XRP custody services but only one deployment structure is currently available. Bank of New York Mellon, one of the world's largest custodian banks, has reportedly added XRP to its digital asset custody offerings.

The derivatives regulator widens its litigation push as states and the federal government clash over who oversees event-based trading platforms. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that oversees derivatives markets in the United States, has extended its litigation involving prediction markets to Utah.

The network logged a 173% jump in new contracts even as active addresses declined over the same period. BNB Chain's smart contract deployments climbed to 12.3 million in the third quarter of 2026. That figure represents a 173% increase, effectively tripling the pace of new contracts launched on the network compared with the previous period.

Ripple confirms the rating as the stablecoin market faces growing scrutiny over credit quality and reserve backing. Moody’s has assigned an A2 rating to RLUSD, the dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Ripple. The company announced the rating itself, presenting it as external confirmation of the token’s credit quality.

The exchange says its own infrastructure was not compromised, placing responsibility on a third-party analytics provider. Coinbase has publicly denied suffering a direct data breach, responding to reports of a security incident connected to Amplitude, a third-party analytics vendor. The exchange said the exposure originated with the vendor's systems rather than its own infrastructure.

The partnership will bring RLUSD to Bitstamp and the Robinhood app while opening the stablecoin to institutional settlement. Ripple and Robinhood are broadening their collaboration around RLUSD, Ripple's U.S. dollar stablecoin, according to reports from BlockchainReporter, CoinTurk News, BitKE, and Fintech News Singapore.

The company disclosed a holdup accessing its Bitcoin treasury on the Biconomy platform, triggering a steep selloff in its shares. Datavault AI, a publicly traded firm that has positioned itself in the data and artificial intelligence sector, saw its stock price collapse after disclosing trouble accessing its own Bitcoin holdings.

The crypto financial services firm swung to a quarterly profit and authorized a new buyback program, lifting investor sentiment. Galaxy Digital reported a $323 million profit for the third quarter, according to disclosures covered by The Block and Bitcoin.com News. The figure represents a swing to profitability for the diversified crypto financial services firm.

Election week is here, and the hottest slogan in American politics has a coin. Americans vote in the midterms on November 3, and the message heading into the final stretch is the one Donald Trump put on a hat himself: America Is Back.

New polling data shows a 22-point gap between general support for financial innovation and support for cryptocurrency. A recently published survey has found that American support for financial innovation in general significantly outpaces support for cryptocurrency as a specific category. The gap between the two measures was reported at 22 percentage points, according to crypto.news.

The number of companies objecting to having their shares represented as tokenized assets on the OKX-ICE venue has reached 26. IBM, Oracle, and Intel have added their names to a list of companies objecting to tokenized representations of their stock on a venue tied to crypto exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange, known as ICE.

The annual Solana developer conference expands its London lineup with former UK political leaders and financial industry figures. Solana Breakpoint, the Solana Foundation's flagship annual conference, has confirmed new additions to its 2026 speaker list for the London edition.

The exchange moves to comply with Brazil's central bank rules while filing for a local crypto license ahead of a Friday deadline. Binance has scaled back its operations in Brazil, restricting eight services and delisting 22 tokens for local users, BlockchainReporter reported.

Conflicting data on large-holder behavior complicates the picture as XRP trades in a tight range. XRP has spent recent trading sessions parked near $1.29 to $1.30, showing limited volatility even as on-chain data points in different directions.

U.Today and Coindoo both cover Ripple's final OCC bank approval but give different years for the earlier conditional approval it followed. U.Today and Coindoo both cover Ripple's final OCC bank approval but give different years for the earlier conditional approval it followed.

The gold-backed token will use Chainlink's interoperability protocol to move across multiple blockchains The Hong Kong Gold Exchange has connected its XGZ gold-backed token to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, known as CCIP. The integration allows XGZ to transfer across different blockchain networks using Chainlink's infrastructure rather than a single proprietary bridge.

The asset manager joins a Japan-based initiative connecting tokenized money market funds with the JPYSC stablecoin. BlackRock has entered into a collaboration with SBI Holdings and Startale focused on connecting tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, a yen-pegged stablecoin, according to reports from CoinGape and Bitcoin.com News.

The asset manager points to Zcash's dedicated development funding model as it marks ten years since launch. Grayscale has pointed to Zcash's developer funding mechanism as a central reason for the privacy coin's sustained technical evolution over the past ten years.