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Why crypto topics are trending.

What is behind each topic trending in crypto news, researched from the original sources and updated each time it trends again. 22 topics so far.

THORChain
An Ethereum reorg on 31 October caused THORChain to refund a 10 ETH deposit twice, tripping its automatic solvency halt, freezing swaps on 12 of its 13 chains and, Chainalysis said, slowing the laundering of funds stolen from Binance. By 1 November the 10 ETH had been returned, but ten chains, Bitcoin and Ethereum among them, were still halted.
Updated 2 Nov 2026
Binance
Attackers took about $6.3 billion from Binance's hot wallets on 29 October, the largest theft in crypto history, and the FBI has attributed it to North Korea's TraderTraitor. Binance reopened withdrawals in phases on 1 November and says it has covered about 95% of the loss from its own funds, while about $2.4 billion of the stolen assets sits beyond any issuer's reach.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 1 update
Solana
Anchorpoint, the Standard Chartered-backed issuer of the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP, said on 30 October that it plans to support native minting and redemption of HKDAP on Solana, in its first collaboration with a public blockchain foundation. No launch date has been set.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 1 update
Cardano
Cardano node 11.2 was tagged as a pre-release on 28 October, carrying the full Dijkstra hard fork feature set apart from Leios, and on 29 October the Cardano Foundation joined Switzerland's Capital Markets and Technology Association after CMTA recognised CIP-0113 as technically equivalent to its standard for tokenised shares.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 1 update
Ethereum
Two draft EIPs opened on 30 October, the day after the Binance theft, would tighten EIP-7702 account delegation: EIP-8476 would let a wallet opt out of delegation permanently, and EIP-8477 would bind each authorization to a recent block.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 1 update
Bitcoin
A paper from the quantum startup Alice & Bob, posted on 28 October, estimates that a fault-tolerant machine of at most 30,000 cat qubits could derive a Bitcoin private key from its public key in about an hour. That is about 17 times fewer qubits than Google Quantum AI's March estimate, on different hardware and with a slower run time, and no such machine exists.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 1 update
Tether
Tether's Q3 attestation, published on 30 October, reports $1.5 billion of net operating profit and an excess reserve buffer of $7.95 billion, nearly double the $4.1 billion at the end of June and close to the $8.2 billion it held at the end of March.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 1 update
XRP
Two XRP Ledger code changes opened on 27 October would close exceptions that let restricted tokens reach accounts without issuer approval, and RLUSD became available on Coinbase's retail app, Exchange and Prime on 28 October as Ripple projected a $900 million annualised product revenue run rate.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · 2 updates
USDC
USDC is in the news for three developments that landed in the same week. Kaiko data shows it now carries 56% of euro stablecoin trading, Circle and ACI Worldwide have announced a pilot of USDC settlement on Colombia's Bre-B rail, and the reserve income behind the token is contested in court and on the sell side.
Updated 28 Oct 2026
Stablecoins
Canada published draft stablecoin regulations on 24 October, and on 26 October SBI, Startale and BlackRock agreed to study settling tokenized money market funds against the yen stablecoin JPYSC.
Updated 28 Oct 2026 · 1 update
RWA
Tokenised real-world assets reached $46.3 billion by Token Terminal's count, with Treasury bills still the largest category but now less than a third of it, while open interest in real-world asset perpetual futures climbed to about $20 billion by 26 October.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
BNB
BNB Chain published technical documentation on 22 October for a second layer-1 network that runs alongside BNB Smart Chain without a new token, and the Nasdaq-listed BNB Standard rang the opening bell on 26 October while saying it plans to run its own validator on the chain.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
SEC
On 23 October the SEC's Division of Examinations published fiscal 2027 examination priorities naming tokenization and super intelligence for the first time. The document sets examiner focus across more than 34,000 registrants while crypto, stablecoins and decentralised finance still have no standalone priority.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Monero
Kraken's co-CEO said the exchange's Monero withdrawal questionnaires were wrong, withdrew them and confirmed XMR stays listed. The reversal on 24 October came as Monero traded near $602 and its FCMP++ privacy upgrade remained unscheduled.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Initia
Initia halted its layer-1 and rollups on 23 October after a MoveVM bug let an attacker mint 2 million unbacked tokens representing AUSD and bridge out about $2.7 million, by co-founder Ezaan Mangalji's count. The chain remained halted as of 26 October, with a security fix and post-mortem pending.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Memecoins
Memecoins are in the news for how few survive: Bitquery found 79% of Pump.fun tokens traded only on their launch day. Since 21 October, Dogecoin Labs has formed to run the main DOGE products and Pump.fun has replaced its crosschain route.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Ledger
Ledger unveiled Ledger Atom, an $849 Android-based signer open for reservations, on 15 October 2026, while halting sales in southeast Asia and at MediaMarkt after devices sold by a reseller carried an implant that read recovery phrases.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Uniswap
UNI futures began trading on CME Group on 19 October, with FalconX and GSR executing the first block trade a day later, which Uniswap founder Hayden Adams called the first for any DeFi token through regulated traditional finance channels.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Grayscale
Grayscale is letting eligible investors swap crypto directly for shares in ten of its products, removing the cash step between holding a token and holding a fund that tracks it, with minimums from about $80,300 to $364,800.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
Zcash
Zcash's NU7 upgrade, which cuts block times from 75 seconds to 25, is set to activate at block 3,543,405, expected around 5 November, after the height was merged into the specification on 21 October and Zebra 7.0.0 shipped with mainnet support. The same upgrade retires Sprout, the chain's original shielded pool, so holders of old zc funds need to move them before activation.
Updated 27 Oct 2026