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Key Takeaways Encryption is optional for each transaction. Instructions are revealed after block ordering is finalized. Petra offers the option; Decibel plans to use it. Why a visible pending trade can cost its sender In its October 12 announcement, Aptos said encrypted mempool was live on mainnet. A mempool holds pending transactions before they are included in a block. When t

Polymarket whales are setting up a titanic clash for Thursday night’s game between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. The top earner of the week, with $2.13 million in profit, has bet about $214,000 on the Broncos to win, while a trader down more than $700,000 this week put $290,000 on Seattle.   Massive […]

XLM traded near $0.1836 on October 14 at 21:30 UTC, down 3.57% on its open daily candle. The XLM/USDT chart on Binance shows a session low near $0.1822, approximately level with the 200-day simple moving average. Price recovered only slightly from that low. Stellar reaches its 200-day moving average / Source: TradingView XLM is now roughly 22.6% below the late-September peak near $

AMD says its ROCm-enabled MMseqs2 and HIPSW++ tools move evolutionary sequence search onto Instinct GPUs, with up to 97 TCUPS in internal tests. (Read More)

GitHub launched a star-history endpoint that returns aggregate weekly and daily counts, cutting requests and reducing database load. (Read More)

Polygon Labs has completed its acquisition of crypto payments company Coinme, bringing regulated U.S. payment capabilities to its Open Money Stack platform and expanding its push into stablecoin-powered financial services. Polygon Gets Regulated Payments via Coinme Polygon Labs announced Wednesday, Oct. 14, that it has finalized its acquisition of Coinme, giving its payments busine

Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI have shut down 241 websites and seized 112 servers linked to an alleged Eastern European crypto scam network accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from Americans. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced on…

Illinois officials already agreed to delay implementation of a 0.2% tax on crypto assets, but industry-aligned organizations are pushing for summary judgment on the merits.

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has identified bank policies restricting digital asset businesses in a 47-page review of nine major banks, but has been unable to measure the full extent of debanking. The Office of the…

Binance Research’s October 2026 note points to Bitcoin momentum, real-yield sensitivity and tokenized equity use in DeFi. (Read More)

Chainlink’s data infrastructure is now live on the Stellar blockchain, opening the door to new decentralized finance (DeFi) applications across a network that already supports more than $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Chainlink Arrives on Stellar The Stellar Development Foundation announced that Chainlink’s Data Feeds and Data Streams are available to developers,

A $5 first-person shooter called Hood Warfare 2 has gone from near-obscurity to one of Steam’s most talked-about releases in less than a week. Given the nature of the game, however, it's also drawn scrutiny for its content, its anonymous developers, and the creators who've played it live on stream.Made by an anonymous dev team called TrapStar Games, Hood Warfare 2 is a gang-themed,

Evernorth has selected Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase, and BitGo to support investment strategies using its 473 million XRP treasury, with initial deployment planned for the fourth quarter of 2026. Evernorth announced on Oct. 14 that it plans to generate earnings from…

Glassnode says Bitcoin is below the cost basis of buyers from the past two years while ETFs have resumed net outflows and support sits near $80K. (Read More)