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Plume, a network of real-world assets, has announced that its brokerage firm Kimber Digital Securities has obtained membership from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and completed its registration as a broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Plume stated that the firm plans to support investors in holding tokenized securities with full shareholder rights in self-custody wallets.The relevant tokenized securities include eligible stocks, ETFs, and bonds, while retaining securities rights corresponding to the book records of the Depository Trust Company (DTC). The related services will comply with regulatory requirements, including best execution, independent oversight of operational and network risks, and clear, ongoing information disclosure.

According to The Block, the prediction market broker River Markets stated that its affiliate River Finance LLC has registered as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the United States and has joined the National Futures Association (NFA), allowing it to hold customer accounts and manage customer funds.River Markets is building a primary brokerage platform for prediction markets aimed at institutional traders, planning to enable clients to manage funds, positions, and risks across multiple exchanges and clearinghouses through a single account, and to support financing arrangements and approved over-the-counter trading.The company was established in May of this year and claims to have transferred over 250 million contracts for clients such as hedge funds and proprietary trading firms, having previously completed a $8.5 million seed round of financing.

PhotonPay today announced that its Canadian operating entity, Photon Dance CA Inc., is now registered with the Bank of Canada as a payment service provider (PSP) under Canada's Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). The registration brings its in-scope retail payment activities within Canada's federal supervisory framework, which establishes requirements for operational risk management, incident response, regulatory reporting and the safeguarding of end-user funds. The registration adds to PhotonPay's growing regulatory presence in North America, alongside its Canadian FINTRAC MSB registration, U.S. FinCEN MSB registration and money transmitter licenses across multiple U.S. states. With 35 payment licenses, regulatory authorizations and registrations across the Americas, Europe and Asia, PhotonPay continues to build the local foundations for its next-generation Financial OS. By bringing together multi-asset wallets, global collections and payouts, foreign exchange, card issuing and embedded finance, the platform connects traditional fiat payment infrastructure with stablecoin capabilities to support businesses managing financial operations across markets.

Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR), a digital asset treasury platform listed on NASDAQ, disclosed in its quarterly financial report for the period ending September 30, 2026, that its subsidiary has submitted an application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) seeking registration as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). If regulatory approval is granted, this FCM will handle U.S. customer accounts for the licensed market deployed under the HIP-3* framework, enabling the company to bring perpetual contracts to U.S. customers within a regulated framework. The company also stated that it cannot guarantee the timeline or final outcome of the application approval.In terms of financial data, the company recorded a revenue of $13.3 million for the quarter, of which $12.3 million came from staking income and validator commissions related to HYPE holdings, and $1 million was interest income; net income was $620.6 million, primarily from unrealized gains of $803 million on HYPE tokens, with a provision for income tax of $172.3 million. As of September 30, the company had total assets of $3.7643 billion, holding approximately 38.52 million HYPE, valued at $3.5053 billion based on a price of $90.99 per token, along with cash and cash-equivalents of $254.6 million, shareholder equity of $3.403 billion, and no debt.During this quarter, the company raised $911 million through committed equity financing instruments and deployed $802 million, of which $785 million was used to purchase 9.1 million HYPE, increasing the treasury holdings from 29.3 million as of June 30 to 38.52 million, and an additional $17 million was used to repurchase 2.7 million PURR shares. The validator node in collaboration with Unit has become the largest non-foundation validator node in the network. Hyperliquid recently announced that it will add deployer functionality under HIP-3*, allowing independent operators to operate their own licensed markets in a compliant manner, while the underlying chain remains a neutral infrastructure layer.

Institutional-level cryptocurrency platform Anchorage Digital has submitted a swap dealer registration application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to expand its institutional cryptocurrency options business. The application was submitted through Anchorage Digital Swap Dealer, LLC to the National Futures Association (NFA) and is currently awaiting NFA's review. The company's CEO and co-founder Nathan McCauley did not provide a timeline for the completion of the review, only stating that further progress will be announced at the appropriate time.McCauley stated that if the application is approved, Anchorage Digital Swap Dealer plans to offer European-style options for Bitcoin and Ethereum, with a maximum term of one year, and will subsequently launch more products as it meets its own approval processes and regulatory requirements. Once the registration is complete, institutional clients will be able to trade digital asset derivatives with CFTC-registered counterparties while also utilizing Anchorage Digital's existing custody and other services.Anchorage Digital noted that the growth of its existing options business primarily comes from publicly traded companies holding Bitcoin and Ethereum on their balance sheets, with asset management firms and funds using options to manage exposure also contributing. Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. became the first federally licensed digital asset bank in 2021, regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; this swap dealer entity will adhere to CFTC requirements regarding capital, risk management, and margin, applying the same framework used for interest rate, credit, and foreign exchange market banks under the Dodd-Frank Act. In March of this year, Anchorage Digital added collateral management features to the Atlas platform, and in December of last year, it acquired the wealth management division of Securitize.

According to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Coinbase has added a registration page for agents, and the company is working on creating financial accounts that support AI.The Coinbase page shows that users can connect AI agents to their accounts, trade according to strategies within self-set limits, and support cryptocurrency and stock trading in natural language.

According to a Reuters report citing an interview with CNBC, Michael Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that the CFTC hopes to provide a federal-level option for exchanges like Binance to register with the CFTC in light of the recent hacking incident.Selig previously mentioned that federal registration is a voluntary path for exchanges rather than a mandatory requirement, and that requiring all cryptocurrency exchanges to register can only be achieved through congressional legislation; however, retail cryptocurrency trading involving margin, leverage, or financing must fall under federal regulation.The CFTC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding relevant retail cryptocurrency trading rules on October 5, with the comment period ending on December 14.

EIP-8450 proposal update, intended to introduce a quantum-resistant public key registration mechanism for Ethereum validators, using a hash-based cryptographic scheme, including leanXMSS keys and VRF tree roots.The update clarifies that the registration and replacement of quantum-resistant keys are authorized by BLS signature keys, and sets a replacement delay of at least one Epoch and a replay protection mechanism; this proposal is currently still in the Draft stage and has not yet been deployed.

According to data from Qichacha, National Data Group Co., Ltd. has completed its business registration with a registered capital of 30 billion yuan. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council invested 6 billion yuan, holding 20%; China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom each invested 4.5 billion yuan, each holding 15%, totaling a 45% stake.Southern Power Grid and State Grid each invested 3.75 billion yuan, each holding 12.5%, totaling a 25% stake; China Xiong'an Group invested 3 billion yuan, holding 10%. The business scope includes big data services, data processing and storage support services, artificial intelligence application software development, blockchain technology-related software and services, cloud computing equipment technology services, and more.

Mike Selig, Chairman of the CFTC, stated that the crypto market should enjoy the same protections as the mature protective mechanisms adopted by the U.S. derivatives market for decades.While Congress has yet to take action, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is advancing a voluntary federal registration mechanism for crypto trading platforms, bringing its regulatory standards closer to the high regulatory standards of the U.S. financial market.

Market news reports that Meta Platforms (META.O) has submitted a mixed securities shelf registration statement, with specific details yet to be disclosed.

CCTV's "Yuyuantan Tian" disclosed that after China launched the AI technology export registration management on October 16, DeepSeek and MiniMax have successfully completed their registration and the related technology has been open-sourced and authorized for overseas use.Currently, the new catalog is still open for comments, and a temporary registration system is being implemented. The Ministry of Commerce previously clarified that technologies that have entered the public domain through open-source are not included in the management scope, and there are automatic licensing and other facilitative measures for new technology open-sourcing, which can basically be reported and released immediately. Providing model services overseas through API, web pages, and apps is also not within the scope of this large model technology export management.

Digital asset treasury company Evernorth Holdings, Inc. and SPAC company Armada Acquisition Corp. II announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has declared the S-4 registration statement related to their proposed business combination effective. This registration statement covers up to 11,499,992 shares of Class A common stock that may be issued and sold upon the exercise of warrants, calculated at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, corresponding to a scale of approximately $132.2 million.According to the arrangement, Armada shareholders registered as of August 20, 2026, will hold a special meeting on September 30, 2026, to vote on the transaction. If the transaction is approved and customary closing conditions are met, the combined company is expected to be listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "XRPN," with the transaction anticipated to be completed by the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2026. Asheesh Birla, founder and CEO of Evernorth, stated that the effectiveness of the registration statement is an important milestone in completing the proposed business combination.Evernorth is positioned as a digital asset treasury company aimed at building institutional-level XRP economic exposure, planning to deploy funds into the XRP ecosystem through strategies designed to enhance the per-share XRP holdings. Its investors include Arrington Capital, SBI Group, Ripple, Pantera Capital, Kraken, and GSR.

According to Bitcoin.com, asset management company Vaneck has applied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to withdraw the registration documents for the Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. The document is dated October 14, 2026, the registration statement never became effective, and the fund has not sold any shares.The product was originally planned to hold liquid staking tokens stETH issued by the Lido protocol, rather than staking Ethereum directly through designated validators. The total locked value of Lido is currently about $23.6 billion, down from $33.3 billion a year ago.BlackRock launched ETHB, which stakes Ethereum directly through validators, in March 2026, with a net asset value of $409.8 million as of March 31.

The second-generation Tesla Roadster supercar has been unveiled, equipped with a cold air propulsion system developed in collaboration with SpaceX. Musk stated that Tesla will begin production of the Roadster sports car in 2028. In August of this year, Tesla, Inc. applied to register the "Roadster" trademark, classified internationally as a vehicle, with the current trademark status being in the application process.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, a German Ledger user @jayr_crypto reported receiving a forged letter again this week. The letter impersonates Ledger, claiming that new regulations require users to register their Bitcoin wallets through a service called ZenLedger by October 31. The letter uses Ledger's official branding elements and mentions German financial regulators, while also including a QR code that directs users to a so-called mandatory registration process.The user believes that addresses exposed in a previous data breach are being used for targeted attacks on Ledger users. In the same week, Ledger coordinated with MediaMarktSaturn to suspend the sale of its hardware wallets in a European retail network covering 11 countries and over 1,000 stores.Earlier reports indicated that malicious spy implants were found inside Ledger devices purchased from European retailers. Ledger confirmed separately that compromised devices sold by a Southeast Asian distributor contained implants capable of stealing recovery phrases and transmitting them over cellular networks. Ledger has not confirmed any breaches of devices in Europe. Ledger users are currently facing physical supply chain tampering and targeted phishing attacks initiated using home addresses. Do not scan suspicious QR codes or enter recovery phrases.

The governance organization of Ethereum Name Service ENS DAO published a new proposal on X, suggesting the activation of ENSv2.The proposal plans to freeze new v1 .eth registrations, allowing domains that have not yet migrated to continue renewing and retaining existing domains, and subsequently transitioning the domain registration and resolution functions to v2.

The proposal for the activation of ENSv2 for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) states that after the official launch of ENSv2, new registrations for ENSv1 will cease, while existing .eth domain holders will not face a migration deadline and can continue to retain and use their registered domains.The proposal also arranges for ENS Labs to transfer its remaining management roles for ENSv2 to the ENS DAO, handing over the relevant management authority to the community.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that the SEC has approved the listing of the 3x Bitcoin ETF launched by Cboe BZX under Volatility Shares, which aims to track 3 times the daily volatility of the Bitcoin futures benchmark.When Bitcoin futures rise by 1%, the fund aims for a pre-fee profit of 3%; when it falls by 1%, the target is a loss of 3%. This ETF still needs to wait for the registration statement to take effect before it can be traded, and the fund holds Bitcoin futures rather than Bitcoin spot.