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Each SOFIE token represents $1 on deposit at SoFi Bank, earning 4.40% APY with FDIC insurance—a yield-and-protection combination ordinary stablecoins lack.

Listed vulnerable wallets can require evidence beyond a valid signature before holders regain access, even when an attacker took nothing. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Here's what may come next for these cryptocurrencies.

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 21, 2026

Solana activated Alpenglow on mainnet on Oct. 21 at slot 459,653,000, replacing TowerBFT with a consensus design that targets about 150 milliseconds to finality. Under the new protocol, confirmed and finalized become the same state. At the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), multilateral netting cuts the value of equities payment obligations by an average of… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

CoinDCX tied the transfers to wallets compromised in July 2025, but investigators said the addresses remained linked to its operations. Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX denied a new security breach after analysts flagged suspicious transfers, but investigators questioned its claim that it stopped using the wallets after a July 2025 hack. The flagged transactions involved old wallets created in January 2025, which were “compromised in July 2025” and have not been used by the exchange since, CoinDCX said Thursday on X. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT challenged that account, saying a CoinDCX deposit address remained in use by a liquidity provider for 10 months after the July 2025 incident. He said the address continued transferring user deposits to CoinDCX’s current public hot wallet and receiving funds to cover transaction fees. Read more

Bitcoin as much as 2.9% to around $81,600 as Nasdaq futures dropped, while the CoinDesk 80 lost 3.5% and DeFi index slid 6%.

Police say a car-rental firm near Milan was an underground bank for 'Ndrangheta and Camorra figures, moving money abroad and into crypto.

Bitcoin reversed a run toward $85,000 after Tesla reported lower-than-expected capital expenditure in Q3. Bitcoin (BTC) fell nearly 3% on Thursday after an attempt to break higher was rejected near $85,000. Key points: Read more

The pre-IPO Jio contract on Bitget is trading near $12, a roughly 4% premium on the top price band, as India’s largest public offering remains open for subscription.

XRP was rejected once again at $1.40, but it has defended the $1.30 support, for now at least.

A Tianjin court will hear the application after a six-month notice period, while a parallel fight over the same coins continues in London.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent compared the GENIUS Act to the National Currency Act of 1863 on Oct. 21, the day the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its 721-page stablecoin final rule. He called the law a cornerstone of America's position as the world's crypto capital. The American Bankers Association (ABA) responded… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Bitcoin gave back its run at $85,000 and broke below $82,500 as weak tech earnings soured the mood. XMR bucked the drop with an 11% jump.

StarkWare plans to release a draft whitepaper in November as it explores an independent, quantum-resistant blockchain. Starknet’s community has voted to support research into becoming an independent, post-quantum layer-1 blockchain. The network’s potential departure from Ethereum gained overwhelming support. The governance vote that ran for seven days closed on Thursday. The poll drew about 3,200 votes, with 93.52% of voting power in favor of the transition. The non-binding poll recorded the highest participation in Starknet’s governance history, according to StarkWare, which said it abstained from voting to leave the decision to the community. Read more

[PRESS RELEASE – Willemstad, Curaçao, October 22nd, 2026] BetFury, a leading crypto casino, has integrated Swapped Connect, a deposit tool that lets players fund their accounts in a few clicks, much the way a card payment works. The integration is now live on BetFury and removes the manual wallet-address step that makes standard crypto deposits […]

XMR has defied the odds once again, posting a massive double-digit surge.

One Ether (ETH) now swaps for about 3.7 Monero (XMR), down from almost 13 a year ago. On October 22, 2025, ETH traded near $3,866 and XMR near $305, according to CoinGecko. On October 22, 2026, ETH is worth around $2,400 and XMR around $645: Monero has more than doubled over the year, while Ether […] The post ETH to XMR: How to Swap Ethereum to Monero Without an Account as XMR Outpaces Ether appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin ETF pulled $1.07 billion in three days as a wallet linked to Irish drug trafficker Clifton Collins moved 500 BTC to Coinbase Prime. The post Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $1.07B as Irish Drug Trafficker-Linked Wallet Moves $41M appeared first on Cryptonews.

Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince said the network saw thousands of exploit attempts even before the PHP vulnerability was publicly disclosed. Cloudflare’s CEO Matthew Prince warned that the network saw millions of exploit attempts after two critical PHP vulnerabilities were publicly revealed. In the 10 hours before the vulnerabilities’ disclosure, the network saw thousands of exploit attempts, which have now reached “millions,” Prince said in a Thursday X post. Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that helps websites load faster and protects them from cyberattacks. About one in five websites worldwide routes traffic through its network, according to the company. Read more