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Solana targets 150-millisecond finality with Alpenglow upgrade on Oct. 21

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14 October 2026 | 09:10 Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade is expected to begin its mainnet rollout on October 21. It targets finality in roughly 150 milliseconds, but it will also remove validator vote transactions from blocks, meaning Solana’s total transaction and TPS charts may drop without any decline in user activity.

Key Takeaways Alpenglow consensus takes over about 5,000 slots, roughly 18 minutes, after the epoch starts. Votor targets finality of around 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT. Vote transactions will leave blocks, requiring transaction-count and TPS dashboards to set new baselines. October 21 starts the rollout, not the instant switch Solana Foundation’s Alpenglow documentation places the start of epoch 1064 at approximately 15:00 UTC on October 21, 2026. Because epoch timing can drift, that clock time is an estimate rather than a fixed activation moment.

The network will continue using TowerBFT for the first 5,000 slots of the epoch, or about 18 minutes. Alpenglow consensus is then scheduled to take over at slot 459,653,000.

The mainnet release covers Votor, the new voting and finality protocol. Rotor, a separate Alpenglow component designed to replace Solana’s Turbine block-propagation system, is planned for a later release and does not yet have a mainnet date.

The upgrade changes different things for different users Who is affected? What changes after Alpenglow Wallet users and ordinary app users Nothing about signing, sending or approving transactions changes. Solana’s transaction format, programs, account model and fees remain the same. Apps waiting for settlement They can use finalized confirmation with far less delay once Alpenglow is live. The old distinction between confirmed and finalized effectively disappears. Indexers, explorers and data providers They must update how they read block data, account for bank_id and re-baseline metrics that included vote transactions. Validator operators They need an Agave-based client and at least 0.8 SOL above the rent-exempt minimum in the vote account for the Validator Admission Ticket fee. This split is important. Alpenglow is designed to leave the ordinary wallet experience intact, but the infrastructure that produces, streams and interprets Solana data will change materially.

Votor replaces vote transactions with direct validator certificates Under Solana’s current TowerBFT consensus, validators cast votes as on-chain transactions. Those votes accumulate across 32 slots before a block reaches finality, creating the roughly 12.8-second wait for the strongest settlement guarantee.

Votor takes those votes out of the block itself. Validators send them directly to one another and aggregate them into certificates, allowing a block to reach finality in one or two voting rounds.

The 150-millisecond target refers to how long a transaction takes to become final. It does not mean Solana will produce a new block every 150 milliseconds. Slot times were reduced separately to 200 milliseconds in October.

For services that wait for finality before crediting a deposit, releasing goods or completing a transfer, the change could remove much of the delay created by Solana’s own consensus process. It does not remove delays imposed by exchange risk checks, bridges, payment providers or other chains.

That matters most in workflows where one party waits for a stronger settlement guarantee before completing the other side of a transaction. Solana’s delivery-versus-payment escrow tool is one example of infrastructure that could benefit from faster finality without requiring users to change how they submit transactions.

Vote removal will change Solana’s transaction data overnight The most visible change for analysts may not be finality at all. Vote transactions will no longer appear in Solana blocks under Votor. Since they have represented a large share of the transactions counted in blocks, total transaction counts and TPS figures can fall sharply after activation.

That would be an accounting change, not evidence that Solana suddenly lost users or application demand. A dashboard that continues to compare post-Alpenglow totals with pre-upgrade figures without adjusting its baseline could falsely report a collapse in network activity.

What not to conclude after October 21

“Solana transactions fell, so Solana usage fell.” First check whether the dashboard includes pre-upgrade validator votes in its historical baseline. If it does, the headline transaction count is no longer directly comparable.

Solana’s own guidance tells indexers and throughput dashboards to re-baseline their data. Tools that previously measured validator participation by parsing Vote Program instructions must also switch to the certificates carried in Alpenglow’s block footer.

Use a basket of activity measures after the upgrade No single metric can describe network demand. Once vote transactions disappear, the cleanest reading will combine several measures rather than treating total TPS as a verdict on its own.

Non-vote transactions: A direct measure of transactions generated outside validator voting. Active fee payers: A better indicator of participation breadth than raw transaction totals alone. Stablecoin transfer count and value: Useful for tracking payment and settlement activity. DEX volume and unique traders: Together, they give more context than volume alone. Fee revenue: Helpful alongside user metrics, though it can also move with fee conditions and trading intensity. That approach makes post-upgrade comparisons more honest. If total TPS falls while non-vote transactions, active fee payers and application volume remain stable, the network has changed its accounting—not necessarily its demand.

What will show whether the rollout worked? The first test is realised finality. The network needs to demonstrate that blocks reach finality close to the stated target without meaningful instability or a rise in skipped slots.

The second is operational readiness. Validators must migrate to supported Agave-based clients; Firedancer and Frankendancer are not supported during the transition. Indexers and RPC/Geyser users also need to handle the new bank_id field, because a slot can contain more than one candidate block.

The third is data continuity. Explorers, analytics platforms and media reports need to distinguish between fewer validator votes and weaker application demand before drawing conclusions from Solana’s post-upgrade transaction charts.

Alpenglow makes Solana faster, and its old TPS baseline obsolete Alpenglow’s immediate promise is much faster finality without changing how ordinary users send transactions. Its less obvious consequence is that familiar Solana activity statistics will need a reset once validator votes disappear from blocks.

After October 21, a fall in headline transaction counts should be treated as a measurement question first. Only a simultaneous decline in non-vote activity, active fee payers and application-level usage would support the conclusion that demand itself has weakened.

This article is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Mainnet activation timing and performance depend on network conditions and implementation readiness.

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Solana (SOL) has fallen 9.34% over the past seven days to approximately $107, as seven consecutive trading days of reported ETF outflows and weakening technical indicators precede the blockchain’s October 21 Alpenglow upgrade.

Summary

Solana traded near $107 after losing 9.34% over seven days, according to supplied market data.
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled for October 21, targeting transaction finality of 150 milliseconds.
Solana ETFs recorded $1.04 million in net outflows on October 13, according to SoSoValue figures.
Technical indicators place immediate SOL support near $105, with stronger selling risks below $100 emerging.
Crypto Patel identified $125 and $150 as potential recovery targets, conditional on bullish confirmation signals.

According to CoinGecko, SOL traded near $107 at press time, with approximately $2.86 billion in daily trading volume and a market capitalization of $63.02 billion. The decline comes as the Solana Foundation prepares to activate Alpenglow, an upgrade designed to reduce transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. 

Despite the approaching launch, SOL remains below important resistance levels around $110 and $115.

Solana price outlook weakens ahead of Alpenglow upgrade
Solana has struggled to maintain its recovery after retreating from late-September highs near $123. The cryptocurrency previously rebounded from August lows around $75, but the latest decline has weakened its short-term price structure.

During the October 14 trading session, SOL hovered around $107.06 after opening near $106.72. Its daily chart recorded an intraday high of $108.20 and a low of $106.68, placing the cryptocurrency close to immediate support between $104 and $105.

Solana remains below its 20-day simple moving average of $115.83. The Bollinger Bands place the upper boundary at $127.20 and the lower boundary at $104.45, with SOL trading closer to the lower end of the range.

A sustained decline below $104.45 could expose the psychological $100 support level. If selling continues below that threshold, the analysis identifies $95–$98 as the next possible support area.

Solana (SOL) price chart, source: TradingView
For a recovery, SOL would need to reclaim $110 before approaching stronger resistance near $115.83. Moving above the 20-day average would improve the short-term technical structure, while $120–$123 remains another resistance zone.

The Relative Strength Index stood at 41.58, below its moving average of 52.41. The indicator’s position below 50 suggested that selling pressure remained stronger than buying momentum, although SOL had not reached the conventional oversold level of 30.

Analyst Crypto Patel identified a similar downside risk on the eight-hour chart. He said SOL had broken below its local price structure and remained under resistance around $112.39.

His analysis placed a potential buying zone between $103 and $96, with particular attention on $95.63–$101.27. The analyst suggested that a decline into this region could precede another recovery if SOL establishes a higher low and confirms a bullish reversal.

Patel identified $125 and $150 as possible upside targets after such confirmation. However, he warned that sustained trading below $95.63 would invalidate his proposed bullish setup.

WILL $SOL SWEEP $100 BEFORE RALLYING TOWARD $150?#SOL has broken down from its local structure and remains under pressure below the $112.39 resistance level on the 8H timeframe.

Key Demand Zone: $103–$96
Resistance: $113
Bullish Targets: $125 → $150

My focus is on a… pic.twitter.com/0vIKBh8e8w

— Crypto Patel (@CryptoPatel) October 13, 2026

Solana Alpenglow upgrade scheduled for October 21
While SOL faces selling pressure, the network is preparing for one of its largest technical changes since its launch.

The Solana Foundation confirmed that Alpenglow is scheduled to activate during epoch 1064, beginning around 15:00 UTC on October 21. The upgrade will replace TowerBFT, the consensus mechanism Solana has used since 2020. Its new voting system, Votor, targets transaction finality of approximately 150 milliseconds, compared with the current 12.8 seconds.

Transaction finality refers to the point at which a blockchain transaction can no longer be reversed under the network’s consensus rules. Although Solana transactions can appear successful almost immediately, applications currently wait longer for stronger confirmation that settlement is complete.

Alpenglow is designed to reduce that waiting period by changing how validators reach agreement. Instead of submitting voting transactions to the blockchain, validators will exchange votes directly and combine sufficient approvals into certificates that finalize blocks.

According to the Foundation, the upgrade will not change how ordinary transactions execute. Wallets and decentralized applications are expected to continue operating through the transition.

The activation process includes a temporary period during which Solana will continue using TowerBFT for the first 5,000 slots of epoch 1064. Alpenglow will then take over approximately 18 minutes after the epoch begins.

Validator operators must prepare before the activation by using software built on Agave 4.3.0. The Foundation said Firedancer and Frankendancer will not support the initial migration, requiring operators using those clients to switch temporarily.

Another operational change concerns validator expenses. Existing voting transaction costs of approximately 1 SOL per epoch will be replaced with a 0.8 SOL Validator Admission Ticket fee, paid from each validator’s vote account.

The upgrade could change how Solana’s network statistics appear. Because voting transactions will no longer be recorded inside blocks, reported transaction counts may decline even if ordinary user activity remains unchanged.

Earlier Solana Alpenglow development and testing established the network’s October target after developers completed preparatory work through Agave 4.2.

The Foundation has confirmed the activation date, although its 150-millisecond finality target remains dependent on actual network performance following the upgrade.

Solana ETFs record seven consecutive days of outflows
Institutional investment data has provided another source of concern ahead of Alpenglow.

According to the supplied SoSoValue data, U.S. spot Solana ETFs recorded approximately $1.04 million in net outflows on October 13. The latest negative session extended a reported streak of seven consecutive trading days of withdrawals.

Solana (SOL) spot ETF net inflow, source: SoSoValue
The October 13 figures placed cumulative net inflows at approximately $1.58 billion, while total net assets stood near $1.71 billion. Trading volume across the tracked products reached $64.26 million during the session.

The daily net outflow means investors withdrew more capital from the funds than they invested during the reporting period. The figure does not establish that every individual fund experienced withdrawals.

Despite the recent negative flows, cumulative inflows remained positive, indicating that the products had attracted more capital than they had lost since their respective launches.

The reported seven-day streak occurred as SOL declined over the previous week, although the available information does not establish whether ETF redemptions caused the price weakness.

With Alpenglow scheduled for October 21, subsequent ETF flow reports will provide further data on institutional demand before the network activates its new consensus system.

Can Solana recover to $150 after the upgrade?
The technical outlook remains divided between weakening daily indicators and analysts monitoring a possible recovery from lower support.

Crypto analyst Sweep reported a bullish divergence on SOL’s chart, suggesting that selling momentum could be weakening despite the recent price decline.

The analyst compared the formation with an earlier divergence that preceded a 30% price rally. However, the comparison does not establish that Solana will repeat the previous performance.

The supplied daily indicators continued to favor caution. SOL remained below its 20-day moving average, while the RSI at 41.58 suggested that buying pressure had not recovered sufficiently to reverse the prevailing short-term weakness.

Patel’s outlook identified $113 as immediate resistance, followed by possible recovery targets at $125 and $150. His bullish scenario requires a confirmed improvement in market structure after a potential decline into the $96–$103 demand region.

A move above $110 would provide an initial indication of improving momentum, while reclaiming $115.83 would place SOL back above its 20-day moving average. Failure to maintain $104–$105 support would leave $100 exposed.

The Solana Foundation’s October 21 activation schedule identifies epoch 1064 as the starting point for Alpenglow. Validators must complete their software migration before that epoch begins and maintain at least 0.8 SOL above the rent-exempt minimum in their vote accounts.

The Foundation has provided a network verification method through the getAgGenesisCert RPC command, which returns the Alpenglow genesis certificate once migration is complete. Before activation, the command returns null, indicating that the network continues operating under TowerBFT.

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Anza sets Oct. 21 for Solana's switch to Alpenglow

Posted October 14, 2026 at 6:32 am ET.

Alpenglow, the consensus protocol built to replace Solana’s TowerBFT, will switch on for mainnet-beta on Wednesday, Oct. 21, Solana software developer Anza said on X on Tuesday. Anza put the go-live at about 14:50 UTC.

“18 months of work for a migration that happens in one slot,” the company wrote, adding that finality would fall “from seconds to ~150ms.”

The mainnet date comes after Alpenglow took over consensus on Solana’s testnet on Sept. 24 and on devnet a day later. Anza’s Alpenglow page says the team picked the mainnet date only after a period of watching those earlier networks, and that operators rehearsed the migration numerous times over the last five months.

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How the Handoff Works
According to Anza’s page, the process begins when a feature gate, SIMD-0384, turns on at an epoch boundary. That starts a 5,000-slot countdown during which blocks hold nothing but validator votes, so they can be rolled back without losing any user transactions. When the countdown ends, validators certify an Alpenglow genesis block backed by 82% of stake, pass consensus to the new voting component, Votor, and resume processing user transactions. Anza expects that step to take hundreds of milliseconds, after which TowerBFT is retired.

Under Alpenglow, validator votes move off the chain as BLS-signed messages that are combined into a single certificate, which Anza says frees up block space. The page says the network can keep running with up to 40% of stake offline or misbehaving, split evenly between the two, compared with TowerBFT’s tolerance of under 33% adversarial stake.

Anza’s page lists a bug bounty of more than 25,000 SOL, work from 115 security researchers, a simulation across 1,500 nodes and nine at-scale migrations as part of the testing.

The Road to Mainnet
Solana validators approved Alpenglow in September 2025, with more than 98% voting in favor. In May, Anza opened it to a community test cluster, and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said at the time that mainnet activation could come the following quarter if testing went smoothly. TowerBFT finality runs about 12.8 seconds.

Anza’s page names Rotor, a replacement for the tree that Solana uses to spread block data across the network, along with faster handoffs between block leaders, as later work.

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According to a statement released by Binance, deposit and withdrawal operations for tokens on the IoTeX network will be suspended on October 19, 2026, at approximately 01:00 UTC. The network upgrade and hard fork are planned to take place on the same day at approximately 02:00 UTC.

The upgrade will take place at block height 53,533,081 on the IoTeX blockchain network. It is noted that the stated times are estimates and the timing of the process may vary depending on the block production process on the network.

Binance emphasized that trading of the relevant tokens on the platform will not be affected during the network upgrade. Accordingly, users will be able to continue trading the relevant crypto assets through Binance, although deposit and withdrawal services will be temporarily suspended.

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Immersive Digital Art Event Scheduled for Breakpoint 2026BEYOND THE FRAME will take place at FRAMELESS London, coinciding with Solana’s Breakpoint 2026 conference. Organizers plan for the event to run from 7:30 PM to 10 PM, inviting participants to experience 3D art specifically created for the venue’s immersive rooms.

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Decentralized Rendering Expands RENDER’s Use CaseRender Network is a decentralized protocol that allows creators to access global GPU computing power for graphics-intensive workloads. The platform’s model enables 3D rendering, animation, and visual effects to be processed outside of traditional centralized data centers.

By supporting exhibitions like BEYOND THE FRAME, Render Network highlights its practical use cases beyond cryptocurrency speculation. The event is expected to attract digital creators and stakeholders from both the art and blockchain sectors, although its long-term effects will depend on follow-up demand for decentralized rendering solutions.

Key indicators for the platform include overall network usage, the amount of rendering completed, and aggregate demand for GPU resources. While the upcoming exhibition serves as a public demonstration of the technology, no guarantees on sustained ecosystem growth can be drawn from a single event.

Mini dictionary: Render Network, a decentralized GPU computing platform, lets users tap into a distributed network of providers for rendering tasks such as 3D graphics, visual effects, and augmented reality, reducing reliance on centralized infrastructure and increasing accessibility for creators.

Analyst Sees Key Technical Levels for RENDERRENDER recently fell to an intraday low of $1.76 before recovering to the $2 range. Technical analysis by Bitcoin Meraklisi, a crypto analyst, points to $2.43 as the immediate resistance level. If RENDER can surpass this price, the recovery could accelerate.

Additional price targets identified are $4.16, $6.56, and $11.58, with each level contingent on sustained buying pressure and positive market conditions. Regarding vulnerabilities, a decline below $1.76 would threaten the current bullish structure, making it a crucial support to monitor.

Bitcoin Meraklisi considers the recent uptrend as a possible end to RENDER’s accumulation phase and expects a stronger breakout if the coin surpasses technical resistance. The possibility of testing higher levels depends not only on chart dynamics but also on broader crypto sentiment and network activity.

Traders are closely watching the $2.43 resistance, while an increase in rendering activity across the ecosystem would provide additional market support.

As of now, achieving the outlined technical goals will require further positive momentum, both on the price chart and through adoption of the Render Network’s core technology.

Price LevelSignificance$1.76Key support (recent low)$2.43Immediate resistance$4.16Next upside target$6.56Intermediate bullish target$11.58Major long-term goalThe BEYOND THE FRAME exhibition provides a platform for Render Network to demonstrate practical benefits, while traders continue to evaluate technical price action and project milestones for signs of continued strength.

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This is a general announcement. Products and services referred to here may not be available in your region. Terms and conditions apply. Fellow Binancians, To expand the list of trading choices offered on Binance Spot and enhance users’ trading experience, Binance Exchange will open trading and enable Spot Algo Trading Bots and Rebalancing Bots services for the bStocks Blackberry (BBB), Mongodb Inc (MDBB), Penguin Solutions Inc (PENGB) and ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXYB) trading pairs according to the following schedule: Trading pairs: BBB/USDT, MDBB/USDT, PENGB/USDT and UVXYB/USDT at 2026-10-14 12:00 (UTC) Spot Algo Trading Bots: Aligned with Spot Listing TimeRebalancing Bots: Will be enabled within 24 hours of it being listed on Spot In addition, users will be able to start trading bStocks against BTC, USDT, and any other tokens on Binance Convert at zero fees within one hour of bStocks being listed on Binance Spot. 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According to TradingBeats monitoring, wallet address 0x6936…9417 opened a long position in GOOGL following the announcement of Gemini 4 Argon’s launch. As of now, the address holds 2,000 contracts, with the position valued at roughly $710,000 and an average entry price of approximately $355.09. The position uses 20x isolated leverage, with a liquidation price of around $344.45. Google announced on Tuesday that Gemini 4 Argon is now available globally to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, developers, and enterprises. Prior to this, the model was first rolled out on September 30 to cybersecurity partners in the Fairwind program.

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Despite a 30-day gain of 64%, the token still sits roughly 68% below its price from a year ago and 97% below its all-time high.

OP, the native token of Optimism, climbed nearly 20% at one point in the last 24 hours after Uniswap announced that Unichain will hand its production operations to OP Enterprise.

The rally came as Bitcoin and several major altcoins faced renewed selling pressure, giving OP a rare boost.

Unichain Handover Sends OP Higher CoinGecko reported in a post on October 14 a 19.4% daily gain for OP that took it to $0.1621, linking the move to Uniswap’s announcement that Unichain would transition to OP Enterprise.

However, at the time of writing, it had given up some of those gains and was trading at around $0.156, still a 14% jump in 24 hours and 28% in seven days. It also gained 64% in 30 days but remains down nearly 68% from a year ago.

Trading activity also rose alongside the price. OP recorded around $226 million in 24-hour volume, a 128% increase from the previous day. The last time the token went higher than it did today was in mid-May when it touched $0.166.

Uniswap’s October 9 announcement explained that Unichain’s testnet migration was scheduled for October 13, with mainnet migration set for October 29. The transition leaves Unichain’s chain ID, contracts, balances, and existing Uniswap v2, v3, and v4 deployments unchanged.

Under the arrangement, Optimism will operate the production infrastructure, including sequencers, remote procedure call services, monitoring, and incident response across mainnet and testnet. Unichain users are not expected to face changes to their existing experience.

You may also like: Hayden Adams Claims SBF Bought Uniswap.com to ‘Flex’ on the Company Uniswap Buys PONS Stake, Token Jumps 40% to New All-Time High UNI Jumps 16% as Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Hits $1.3B The handover also prepares Unichain for native interoperability across the OP Stack. Once that functionality goes live, users will be able to transfer assets, starting with ETH, between Unichain and other OP Stack networks without relying on a bridge.

OP Rallies as Wider Market Struggles The price move stands out against the conditions reported by CryptoPotato yesterday. Several major altcoins lost ground, with NEAR falling roughly 10%, Zcash dropping more than 6%, and both Cardano and Hyperliquid shedding around 5%. Ethereum also briefly dipped to $2,400 before recovering above $2,500.

Zcash seems to have turned things around, recouping more than 4% in the last 24 hours to go above $1,250, while NEAR dumped another 4% and was hovering just above $5 at the time of writing.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin had fallen as low as $80,850 before rebounding toward $84,000, while daily liquidations across crypto markets exceeded $800 million.

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Gulf Labs, part of Thailand's GULF Group, is now live as an institutional validator on Injective ($INJ), with plans to explore tokenized assets, stablecoins and AI infrastructure.

Gulf Labs, part of Thailand's GULF Group, is now live as an institutional validator on Injective (@injective), adding a large Thai conglomerate to the network's validator set. The collaboration also covers tokenized assets, stablecoins and local infrastructure access.

What Gulf Labs will do on InjectiveAccording to the official press release, Gulf Labs is the blockchain and digital-asset investment venture of GULF Holding. It will operate an institutional-grade Injective validator, help secure the network and take part in protocol governance.

Crypto Briefing reported that Gulf Labs went live on October 6 and has bonded approximately 500,000 $INJ to support security and governance. Validators on proof-of-stake networks like Injective confirm transactions and vote on how the chain evolves.

Beyond running a node, both parties plan to study tokenization, stablecoin initiatives and enterprise adoption with Thai institutions. The collaboration also includes access to cloud and AI compute through Gulf Edge, which will evaluate data-center capacity, cloud services and AI compute for developers and institutions considering deployments in Thailand.

TokenPost noted that no financial terms, tokenized-product details, transaction values or launch timelines were disclosed, so the scope of any products remains open.

GULF Group's reach and Binance TH's roleGULF Group has a market capitalization of roughly $27 billion, according to the press release, with businesses across energy, telecommunications, digital assets, cloud and data centers. TokenPost cited more than 24 gigawatts of installed energy capacity and telecom operations serving over 46 million mobile subscribers.

Binance (@binance) TH will contribute to outreach and education through its academy, roadshows and universities. Per the press release, Binance TH is operated by Gulf Binance, a joint venture between Gulf Edge and an affiliate of Binance. It provides digital-asset exchange and brokerage services under licenses issued by Thailand's Ministry of Finance and supervision by the Thai Securities and Exchange Commission.

The deal adds to Injective's growing list of enterprise activity. In July, POSCO International and LG CNS selected Injective for a live trade receivables tokenization pilot. The companies said the proof of concept would issue, transfer, administer and settle accounts receivable from POSCO International's existing trade flows. POSCO International said it plans to finalize a pilot operation framework in the second half of this year.

For Injective, the Thai validator extends its institutional footprint in Asia, though the practical impact will depend on whether the planned tokenization and stablecoin work moves beyond the exploratory stage.

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Story Protocol, now DATA Network, is leaving its own chain behind. Its tokens will move to @SuiNetwork one-to-one, backed by a $30M investment from the Sui Foundation. Read more: ⬇️

US optical module and storage stocks fall in pre-market trading.

According to Bybit market data, US-listed optical module and storage stocks were trading lower in pre-market hours, with the following movements: COHR down 0.27%, LITE down 0.66%, AAOI up 0.22%, NOK up 1.52%, MRVL down 0.31%, STX (Seagate) down 1.47%, WDC (Western Digital) down 1.24%, SNDK (SanDisk) down 2.16%, and MU (Micron) down 0.63%.

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DeFi yield protocol infiniFi unveils INFI token economic model, with 45% allocated to the ecosystem.

According to official announcements, DeFi yield protocol infiniFi has unveiled the token economics model for its native INFI token, with the Token Generation Event (TGE) on the horizon. INFI’s total token allocation breaks down as follows: 45% for the ecosystem, 20% for the team, 20% for investors, and 15% for the foundation. infiniFi stated that its upcoming community airdrop will be allocated from the ecosystem pool. More use cases for INFI will be announced ahead of the TGE, while additional details on the token economics model, allocation mechanisms, and the airdrop are set to be disclosed in the near future.

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US crypto-related stocks rose slightly in pre-market trading.

According to Bybit market data, as Bitcoin rebounded to briefly top $84,000, US-listed crypto-related stocks posted modest pre-market gains, with SBET rising 0.83%, BMNR up 0.64%, GEMI up 0.49%, CRCL up 0.64%, MSTR up 1.49%, COIN up 0.57%, and ASST up 0.94%.

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Liquid AI upgrades its 24B-parameter local model: only 2B parameters are activated, and it outperforms the larger Qwen model in agent tests.

Beating AI Express: Leading edge-side AI R&D firm Liquid AI has launched LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a model focused on enhancing local agent inference and tool calling capabilities. The previous LFM2-24B-A2B generation prioritized operational efficiency; the new version retains a total of 24 billion parameters with only around 2 billion activated per run, while its pre-training data has grown from 17 trillion to 33 trillion tokens, and its context window expanded from 32K to 131K. The new model performs inference before generating responses, and was fine-tuned via reinforcement learning directly on agent frameworks including OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Pi, and OpenCode, training on continuous tool calls, handling return results, and completing multi-step tasks. In an official demo, a MacBook—no cloud model API required—enabled Hermes Agent to search for trending Hugging Face projects, compile briefings, and act on follow-up queries. Official tests show the new model generates 184 tokens per second on Apple M5 Max, up to 1.7 times faster than comparable MoE models. In agent benchmarks, it scored 48.09 on LiveClaw, higher than Qwen3.6-35B-A3B’s 38.19; its AutomationBench score of 27.69 is over three times that of Qwen. However, it only achieved 51% on the SWE-bench Verified programming test, lower than Qwen’s 66.2%.

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Binance: Users with at least 245 points can claim the Alpha airdrop at 18:00 today.

According to official announcements, Binance Wallet will open the claim period for a new round of Alpha airdrops at 18:00 Beijing time today. Users holding at least 245 Binance Alpha points are eligible to claim the token airdrop. The airdrop operates on a first-come, first-served basis and will remain open until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event concludes.

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TRUMP team's allocated address transfers 6.136 million TRUMP tokens to a new address.

According to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa’s monitoring, TRUMP’s team allocation address transferred $11.78 million worth of tokens (6.136 million TRUMP tokens) to a new address after a 12-day interval, likely to be deposited into a trading platform. It is noted that 12 days ago, this address had already transferred $8.87 million worth of TRUMP to the address 52RDq…rkaD1; these tokens were later deposited into OKX via two addresses, using a similar operational approach.

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The refreshed program features vetted security researchers, revamped reward structure, and payouts up to $10,000 per finding

, /PRNewswire/ -- WEMIX, the leading blockchain ecosystem combining over two decades of gaming giant WEMADE's AAA game development success with a proprietary Layer-1 mainnet, today announced the relaunch of its joint bug bounty program with global blockchain security leader CertiK. The initiative features a reorganized reward structure and updated verification scope designed to continuously strengthen the security and reliability of the WEMIX3.0 blockchain.

WEMIX Hosted on CertiK's dedicated security platform, CertiK Hunt, the program rewards security researchers (ethical or white hat hackers) for identifying and reporting code vulnerabilities, with the payout set according to the severity of the finding. For instance, findings under the "Critical" classification address major risks, such as total network outages or direct financial loss.

Target Scope and New Reward Structure

Under the refreshed framework, bug bounty reports will focus on core components of the ecosystem, including the WEMIX3.0 blockchain (DLT) and Governance Smart Contracts. Rewards are denominated in USD and distributed in Tether (USDT) on the Ethereum network based on vulnerability severity:

Asset Type

Severity Level

Critical

High

Medium

Blockchain / DLT

$10,000

$2,000

$1,000

Smart Contract

$2,000 ~ $10,000

$1,000 ~ $2,000

$1,000

Vetted Researchers and Report Verification Process

To ensure high report quality and operational efficiency, participation is restricted to security researchers who have passed CertiK's vetting process evaluating technical expertise, vulnerability history, and community contributions. Approved researchers are assigned to tier levels (Challenger, Sentinel, Vanguard), with reporting privileges reserved for the top Vanguard tier.

The reporting and payout process proceeds as follows:

Report Submission: Vanguard-tier researchers submit WEMIX3.0 vulnerability reports via CertiK Hunt, including a Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstrating the impact of the vulnerability. Triaging by CertiK: CertiK triages the report and verifies its impact, asset, and severity falls within the scope of the WEMIX3.0 bug bounty program. Review and Confirmation by WEMIX: WEMIX reviews escalated report and confirms reward eligibility*, severity, and final payout amount. Reward Distribution: WEMIX directly disburses rewards following mandatory Know Your Customer (KYC) verification. Researchers can monitor report progress in real-time on CertiK Hunt. Active participation from security researchers remains vital to safeguarding WEMIX3.0 as the ecosystem grows, reinforcing WEMIX's commitment to building a safer and more secure network for all users. For full program rules and the submission form, please visit the WEMIX program page within CertiK Hunt: https://hunt.certik.com/explore/wemix.

*Note: Individuals listed on OFAC (SDN) sanction lists, project employees, contractors, and technical contributors compensated within the past year are ineligible. Unfixed vulnerabilities already disclosed in publicly released audit reports are also excluded from reward eligibility.

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About WEMIX:
WEMIX is a leading blockchain ecosystem for gaming and digital economies, powered by its highly scalable, EVM-compatible Layer-1 mainnet, WEMIX3.0. With a wide range of integrated services—including NFTs, DeFi, stablecoin payments, and tokenized in-game assets—WEMIX enables seamless integration between gameplay and real-world value. Designed to be transparent, sustainable, and developer-friendly, WEMIX serves as the foundation for the global Web3 gaming ecosystem. For more information, please visit https://wemix.com/.

About WEMADE
WEMADE is the only company combining over two decades of AAA game development success with a fully operational, game-proven blockchain ecosystem—built entirely on its proprietary Layer-1 mainnet, WEMIX3.0. Known for global hits such as The Legend of Mir, MIR4, NIGHT CROWS and Legend of YMIR, WEMADE is leading the industry in seamlessly integrating gameplay, tokenomics, NFTs, stablecoin payments, and blockchain infrastructure. Through WEMIX PLAY, WEMADE delivers a unified digital economy where players, creators, and investors can own, trade, and benefit from digital assets—powering the next generation of interactive entertainment and driving the evolution of Web3 gaming. For more information, please visit https://wemade.com/.

About CertiK:
CertiK is the largest Web3 security services provider, utilizing industry-leading formal verification technology to protect and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts. Founded in December 2017 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK applies cutting-edge innovations from academia to enterprise, enabling mission-critical applications to scale with safety and correctness.

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XRP could fall another 15.8% from its current price to retest a major level from its recent breakout above a descending channel.

The weekly chart places this level around $1.1449, where the former resistance line could now provide support. If buyers defend the area, XRP could recover above $2. However, a break below it could expose the cryptocurrency to further declines below $1.

XRP Forms Descending Channel The descending channel began to form after XRP fell from its $3.66 all-time high in July 2025. For several months, the pattern limited the asset’s recovery, as rallies repeatedly failed at the upper trendline. Each failed attempt also produced a lower high, keeping the price under pressure.

For instance, XRP attempted a breakout on Oct. 6, 2025, when it reached $3.05, but resistance at the upper trendline forced another pullback. In addition, on Jan. 5, 2026, the price climbed to $2.41 before another decline followed. 

During this period, the channel’s lower trendline continued to support XRP whenever sellers attempted to push the price lower. The last major test came in June 2026, when XRP fell to $1.0080.

XRP Bears Eye $1.14 After Channel Breakout After months of declines and recoveries, XRP broke above the channel’s upper trendline in August 2026, recording a 53% weekly gain. The breakout marked a change in the chart structure and raised the possibility of a longer recovery.

XRP subsequently climbed to $1.70 in August before pulling back to $1.25 by September 2026. This decline brought the price back to the former upper trendline, which aligned with the September low. 

XRP then recovered to $1.65 later in September, but the latest correction has now put the breakout structure under pressure again.

XRP correction eyes retest of channel breakout level If the decline continues, the former channel resistance could provide support around $1.1449. With XRP trading at $1.36, a return to this level would amount to a 15.8% decline. Holding this area would help preserve the bullish outlook following the August breakout.

If buyers defend the $1.14 area, XRP could recover beyond $2 and potentially reach $2.33. Such a move would depend on the price finding support around the former channel boundary and attracting enough buying interest to resume its upward movement.

However, the structure carries downside risks. If buyers fail to defend the breakout level, possibly because of a wider cryptocurrency market crash, XRP could fall below $1. In this case, the price could revisit its August 2026 lows near $0.98.

XRP DMI Shows Buyers Losing Momentum The Directional Movement Index (DMI) further confirms XRP’s current position. The positive directional indicator (+DI) stands at 25.0544 but is trending downward. This suggests that the medium-term uptrend remains intact, although buying momentum is weakening.

The Average Directional Index (ADX) stands at 26.14, indicating that the trend still has strength. However, its downward movement suggests that the trend is losing momentum. Meanwhile, the negative directional indicator (-DI) stands at 19.99 and continues to rise gradually, pointing to increasing bearish pressure.

These indicators suggest that XRP’s recovery trend has not fully broken down, but buyers face growing pressure. The price’s response around the $1.14 channel breakout level could help determine whether XRP resumes its recovery toward $2.33 or falls toward the $0.98 support area.

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According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, the portfolio value of prominent crypto trader Bonk Guy (@theunipcs) has fallen from a peak of $26 million to $10.4 million, a decline of over $15 million. The price of the PONS token has dropped nearly 70% from its high, while the project’s revenue has also plunged from a peak of $11.42 million to just $103,600. Bonk Guy’s holdings of 10.9 million PONS tokens have decreased in value from approximately $10.3 million to $3.47 million.

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Can the most important crypto projects effectively fortify themselves ahead of the arrival of Q-Day or major AI breakthroughs in math?

That’s the grand question, and one that’s being debated more than ever in the wake of Justin Drake’s recent “bunker mode” comments.

Only time will tell if those remarks underestimated or overestimated the timeline regarding math breakthroughs. But, in any case, both the quantum and AI threats are very real. They’re not distant, abstract dangers, and some crypto projects are taking these specters more seriously than others.

Among these projects is Starknet, whose builders made waves last week when they announced they were considering transitioning the chain from an Ethereum L2 to a standalone L1 network.

Why? To harden against quantum and AI more quickly than the chain can while being directly tethered to Ethereum.

As some of you may recall, StarkWare’s post-quantum roadmap from June 30th didn’t float an L1, and StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson has since stressed that this idea has evolved recently from the growing concern that traditional cryptography might get broken much sooner than the crypto industry expects.

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The logic is that as an L1, Starknet could set the pace of its security upgrades rather than follow Ethereum's, putting it on track for what it bills as "the first fully quantum-resistant network," targeted for 2027. So why can't Starknet get there as an L2?

The June roadmap shows why. It splits Starknet's quantum migration into three phases. The first two (e.g. swapping Pedersen hashing for the quantum-resistant BLAKE2, adding post-quantum signatures like Falcon-512, and migrating legacy contracts) are Starknet's to execute, while the third phase isn't, as it covers two pieces Starknet effectively borrows from Ethereum. Namely:

Bridge messaging, which uses quantum-vulnerable elliptic-curve calls to move messages between the two chains. StarkWare is explicit that removing those calls before Ethereum migrates would break the bridge.

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Blob data, i.e. the state data Starknet publishes to Ethereum via blobs, anchored by elliptic-curve-based KZG commitments. A broken KZG would hurt data availability per StarkWare, not the soundness of Starknet's state, which stays guarded by STARK proofs. Still, the June roadmap leaves this fix entirely to Ethereum.

That said, it might be a few years before Ethereum finishes its own post-quantum evolutions, which would put key pieces of Starknet’s defensive roadmap on ice for at least that long.

This is a point that other projects will undoubtedly contend with, too. Since a rollup inherits the L1’s cryptography alongside its security, its quantum timeline is effectively whichever is slower, its own or the L1's.

Thus, simply put, Starknet is anticipating coming up against this wall because it can do its side of the work much faster. What’s interesting too is that some of Ethereum’s own quantum plans will make it look more like Starknet.

For instance, Ethereum is pursuing EIP-8141, which among other things would let accounts adopt quantum-safe signatures on their own timelines rather than wait for a network-wide migration. Starknet, meanwhile, has had native account abstraction (i.e. every account is a programmable smart contract) for years. That's why S2morrow could already build a post-quantum Starknet account around Falcon-512 signatures with no protocol changes.

Moreover, Ethereum plans to swap its BLS validator signatures for leanXMSS, a hash-based scheme, and to compress the bulkier results with zk proofs via leanVM. It also lists STARK-based commitments among the leading candidates to replace KZG. STARKs are hash-based by design and put the "Stark" in Starknet.

In kind, over the past couple of years Starknet has assembled much of the machinery it would need to become an L1, like STRK staking, multiple sequencers, etc. These pieces were originally made to make Starknet a better decentralized extension of Ethereum, but they do shrink the chain’s L1 question considerably.

From what I can tell, the missing parts for now are data availability (i.e. where transaction data gets published so anyone can rebuild the chain), final settlement, and reworking the official bridge as needed.

Speaking of bridging, consider how a StarkGate withdrawal works today: funds only release after Ethereum has verified the proof for the withdrawal's block and the matching state update has landed there. Put otherwise, Ethereum checks Starknet's math, so Starknet's operators can't forge the state that bridged funds depend on.

An L1 Starknet could land anywhere on that spectrum, though. It might keep posting STARK proofs to Ethereum to back a trust-minimized bridge, or it might cut the cord entirely. Those are very different trust models, so this is the open question I'd watch closely.

Remember, too, that Starknet has long pitched itself as a layer that could one day settle on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. That's not the same thing as leaving Ethereum, but a proof-connected Starknet L1 bridging to both would arguably rhyme with that vision more than break from it.

For now, nothing official has kicked off but it seems clear that an L1 architecture will be the path forward for Starknet. Whatever happens, the chain wants to move sooner rather than later, because there might not be a later for the projects that don’t make adjustments in time. Fair enough, I say.

Every time you use the same wallet across DeFi, you leave a trail. On a public blockchain, that trail is open to anyone with a block explorer and some spare time.

Starknet and StarkWare want to make that trail much harder to follow. On October 13, 2026, the pair unveiled Shadow Accounts, a privacy feature that lets users interact with DeFi apps through separate addresses that aren’t linked on-chain to their main wallet.

How Shadow Accounts work Shadow Accounts live inside STRK20, Starknet’s privacy framework. Each one is a persistent pseudonymous address.

Funding comes from shielded STRK20 balances. Value flows out of a privacy pool and into the shadow address, with a contract called ShadowAccountAnonymizer sitting in the middle to cut the connection back to the primary wallet.

What the feature does not do is hide everything. A shadow account’s balances and transactions stay visible on-chain, just like any other address. The thing that disappears is the link between that account and its owner’s main wallet.

The accounts are built to be per-dapp. A user could keep one identity for lending, another for providing liquidity, and a third for trading, with no on-chain thread tying them to each other or to the main address.

STRK20 also includes a selective disclosure feature aimed at compliance and audit needs. In practice, that means a user can open the books to a specific party when required, without publishing their entire financial life to everyone else.

Developer access and the first integrations For builders, the integration runs through two tools: the Starknet Wallet API version 0.10.4 and starknet.js version 10.8.0. According to the research findings, apps can plug in the feature without being reworked.

A demonstration integration with Vesu Prime’s vSTRK vault went live on mainnet right after the launch. The first production integration was scheduled for October 14, 2026, a single day after the unveiling.

Building on the STRK20 privacy layer Shadow Accounts are a second step rather than a first. The STRK20 privacy layer arrived in mid-2026 and introduced shielded transfers, letting users move value without broadcasting the details to the whole network.

Shadow Accounts take that idea a step further, from moving money privately to actually using it privately. Shielded balances become the funding source for addresses that can go out and interact with DeFi protocols.

The specific problem in Starknet’s sights is wallet address reuse. When one wallet handles everything, anyone watching can piece together a user’s positions, habits and holdings, exposing users to unwanted tracking and targeted attacks.

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Ethena [ENA] shed 12.6% in 24 hours, but the move was not just another market pullback.

Daily trading volume rose 37%, while Open Interest dropped 16%, according to CoinMarketCap and Coinalyze data. This suggested that traders were taking risk off the table after ENA’s sharp two-week rally.

The selling came after Ethena climbed 118% in two weeks and reached $0.295 on the 27th of September 2026.

Source: CryptoQuant
Over the past three weeks, Ethena’s Spot Volume Bubble Map flashed overheated conditions. The high rate of change in volume gave the first warning.

Meanwhile, weaker short-term price action over the past two weeks pointed to distribution.

So, the real question was simple. Was this the start of weakness, or just the market catching its breath?

Distribution trends could be a healthy reset for Ethena
Source: ENA/USDT on TradingView
On the 1-day chart, the Ethena [ENA] price structure was firmly bullish. The $0.14 swing high made in May was flipped to support in August, and the $0.263 swing high from January 2026 has also been tested.

A daily session close above this swing high signaled a bullish continuation. Though Ethena prices have pulled back toward $0.20, the bullish price structure was intact.

The OBV has been steadily rising over the past two months, reacting to the surge in the average daily trading volume since August.

The MACD showed bearish momentum in recent days, but the indicator was still above the zero line, showing that a bullish trend was prevalent. A MACD bearish crossover would be an early hint of seller dominance.

Traders’ call to action- Stay bullish
Source: ENA/USDT on TradingView
The $0.198 low on the 4-hour timeframe propelled a move past the $0.263 resistance. Despite the retracement since then, the local support just under $0.20 has been respected.

A breach of the falling trendline resistance (orange) would be a good sign for the bulls that the buyers have some say in the market.

Source: CoinGlass
Before such a move higher, the $0.190 magnetic zone to the south is likely to act as a magnetic zone. A sweep of this area, just under the local support, and a bullish reaction from there would be another sign to the bulls that they can consider going long.

On the other hand, a sustained plunge below $0.17, especially if Bitcoin [BTC] corrects below $80k, could reflect panicked short-term market sentiment and weak buying.

Final Summary

Ethena spot volumes indicated overheated market conditions and warned of a possible pullback.
A sweep of the $0.19 magnetic zone is likely before a recovery past the descending trendline resistance, but a Bitcoin sell-off will affect ENA’s bullish prospects.

Ondo now holds the top spot in tokenized Treasuries

Pump.fun [PUMP] has corrected by 25.8% in the past nine days and has experienced a 12.68% decline in the past 24 hours as of writing. This decline came alongside a Bitcoin [BTC] price slide below $83k, but there were other factors affecting PUMP token sentiment.

Pump.fun faces 6.57M sandwich bot attacks Blockchain data provider Bitquery published data on the vast number of sandwich attacks on Solana [SOL]. Between the 30th of October, 2025, and the 7th of October, 2026, they counted 6.85 million sandwich attacks made by 2,545 bot wallets against 2,154,994 different wallets.

A sandwich bot profits by buying a token just before a user’s trade and selling immediately afterward, exploiting slippage to earn $29.7 million from traders’ worse execution prices.

Notably, 96% of the detected attacks were on the Pump.fun platform, where most new Solana memecoins start trading. The bots took 309,010 SOL, 39% of which was from other rival bots. The $29.8 million estimate was computed using the SOL price at the minute of the attack and does not measure net profit (since some attacks lose money after costs).

The findings likely damaged user trust and could have a bigger impact on PUMP token prices in the future.

PUMP remains inside a steady uptrend Source: PUMP/USDT on TradingView PUMP has been trending higher in recent weeks, starting in early August when the $0.00225 swing high was breached. The A/D indicator has been steadily rising since the second half of August.

The CMF also had a couple of weeks where the indicator’s values were consistently around +0.20 to signal heavy capital inflows. This demand helped the altcoin rally to $0.0054 and $0.0068.

The retracement in the past nine days was within this uptrend. The golden pocket between $0.0041 and $0.0047 could be a buying opportunity for swing traders and investors.

Final Summary Sandwich attacks on Solana measured over 11 months found $29.7 million in SOL extracted over 6.85 million sandwich attacks, 96% of which occurred on the Pump.fun platform. The PUMP token price was in a retracement over the past two weeks alongside the broader market selling pressure.

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