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The Zcash Foundation's board appointed David Campbell, a former Electric Coin Company COO and JumpCloud co-founder, as Executive Director. He succeeds Alex Bornstein, who led the Foundation since March 2025 and will stay in a transition role through January 2027.
NEAR announced XRP support on near.com, where users can deposit from the XRP Ledger, swap and pay others with transactions confidential by default. NEAR says recipients get the funds without seeing the sender's address or history.
The Opentensor Foundation announced eTAO, a new system that gives Bittensor subnets control over how their alpha emissions are divided. Subnet owners can now decide how much goes to miners, validators and themselves based on their subnet's needs.
Circle announced a partnership with Argentine firm Allaria, which will provide two-sided USDC/ARS quoting across local markets and support USDC access for eligible participants.
Ondo said 1inch now supports more than 450 Ondo tokenized stocks on Solana through Fusion RFQ and the 1inch app. In a separate post, Ondo said the same lineup is now accessible through Jumper across Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain and HyperEVM.
Centrifuge said positions of up to $100 million in its JTRSY tokenized Treasury fund can now exit into USDC in a single transaction through Grove's Basin.
NEAR launched NEAR Business, a confidential multisig treasury that lets teams pay staff and vendors, swap and allocate capital across 35+ chains with every action approved by their signers. It is free to start and invite-only for now.
Tether Capital participated in AI chipmaker Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion Series E, which values the company at $6.2 billion. Tether says the investment supports open AI computing infrastructure alongside its QVAC on-device AI platform.
Virtuals introduced agentic rule-aware trading on Virtuals App, in which its Butler agent tracks protocol rule changes, team news and onchain data and reprices users' farming positions automatically. It starts with Papertrade's PAPER and is in closed beta.
Plume said nALPHA now has Hyperdrive RWA Markets on Base, letting holders borrow against nALPHA or lever up in one step, priced at NAV. On exit, debt clears instantly while the redemption settles in the background.
A TokenLogic ARFC on Aave's Snapshot proposes the next phase of SVR expansion, prioritizing Aave V3 on Avalanche, Polygon and BNB Chain. Voting runs Oct 21 to Oct 24.
Venice added Mercury 3, Inception's diffusion-based text model, and says it is available anonymously. Venice claims it runs 4x faster than Haiku 5.5 and 8x faster than GPT-6 Luna and beats both on agentic search and coding.
Gitcoin co-founder Kevin Owocki posted an update saying Gitcoin is building Techne, an 'everything app for localism', with one applet and an SDK in private alpha and a local-funding app, Buoy, targeted for November. He said nothing has changed with GTC, which remains a governance token, there are no plans for a new token, and Gitcoin is setting up a 501(c)(3); he noted this is his personal view, not a governance decision, and dates are targets.
Venice announced that Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Max is live on its platform. Venice says it is tuned for speed, producing a 10-second video in about 12 seconds, and runs fully private.
Ondo announced Ondo Private Markets is live with 24/7 trading, offering tokenized exposure to private companies before their IPO.
Filecoin announced its latest network upgrade is complete. Under the upgrade, a growing share of rewards goes to services that bring paying customers onto the network, and that share grows as paid demand grows. Filecoin's status page lists the upgrade as MainNet Version 29 'Solstice'.
The Graph announced Substreams 0.8.0 is live, and new projects created with substreams init already use it. Modules pinned to 0.7 keep building and streaming, and a migration guide is available for upgrading.
NEAR Protocol launched the NEAR Hackathon with more than $250K in prizes. There is no signup: builders ship a public repo and public demo post between November 1 and November 14 (23:59 UTC), building on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud and more. NEAR says judges include Illia Polosukhin, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz and builders and investors from a16z crypto, Electric Capital and Dragonfly.
Gala announced that GalaSwap, its peer-to-peer swap service on GalaChain, has expanded its token roster to include AIOZ, USDT, MEME and PEPE.
The Monero project announced the release of CLI wallet v0.18.5.4 'Fluorine Fermi', described as a minor release with bug fixes.
Plume announced that RedStone now publishes net asset value (NAV) onchain for six Plume vaults on Ethereum, which are live on Pendle and Morpho, so anyone can verify the value of the underlying assets in real time.
An Aave Labs ARFC to onboard PAXGy to the Global Dollar Hub on the Aave V4 Ethereum instance goes to a Snapshot vote from Oct 20 to Oct 23.
Venice announced it has passed 5,000,000 users, saying the platform remains private, anonymous and unrestricted.
Aave announced that its Aave V4 deployment on Arc has crossed $100 million in active loans.
Aave Labs filed a Direct-to-AIP proposal to onboard Anchorage-issued USAT to the Aave V4 Core Instance on Avalanche, and TokenLogic proposed a permissioned GHO Stability Module whose first use would be USAT on Avalanche.
Uniswap announced that UNI is now the first DeFi protocol token with futures listed on CME Group.
Venice announced that MiniMax M3.1 Flash is now available on its platform, including anonymously. Venice describes it as MiniMax's frontier model for coding, agentic work and visual reasoning, running at three times the speed of M3.
NEAR Protocol published an article titled 'The State of NEAR: Q3 2026' on X, its review of the third quarter. The post itself contains only a link to the article.
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin announced the 12th Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco, which NEAR AI is co-hosting. He said he will speak on recursive self-improvement with Peter Norvig and on the benefits and risks of open-source AI with Matthew White; the quoted organizer post says the event is this Thursday afternoon, with sign-up linked in the post.
Virtuals Protocol announced that private payments between AI agents are now live on the protocol. The post quotes an article from ecosystem account @PRXVTai and gives no further technical details.