Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

Solana DEX Stabble told users to withdraw their funds after a former employee was linked to North Korea. TVL fell from $1.75 million to under $663,000, though no exploit has been reported.

Bitwise has filed with the US regulator to launch the first ETF that would track Uniswap’s UNI token, giving investors access to it through a traditional investment product. The proposed fund would hold UNI directly, with Coinbase acting as custodian if the application is approved.

Hong Kong Prosecutors have asked for more time to organize the sprawling evidence collected during the two-year investigation.

Pump.fun has secretly transferred more than $436 million worth of USDC to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken following a market meltdown that has resulted in a record $19 billion market crash, throttling retail speculation and sharply reducing activity across memecoin ecosystems.

President Donald Trump has long framed himself as the champion of cryptocurrency and financial liberation — echoing Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of decentralization and individual sovereignty. But his administration’s latest policy direction suggests a sharp departure from that narrative.

Days after a false rumor surrounding Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao which have cause a mass liquidation of the ASTER token which resulted in a 16% price freefall, the Binance founder is coming forward with a grand gesture to regain the trust of its users.

Faruk Fatih Özer, the 31-year-old founder of the collapsed Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell in the western Turkish city of Tekirdağ. Authorities have launched an investigation, with early findings pointing to suicide, though other possibilities have not been ruled out.

A single rumor sent shockwaves through the crypto market this week. On October 30, ASTER — the native token of decentralized platform Aster — nosedived nearly 17% in just hours after false claims surfaced online that Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao had dumped 35 million ASTER tokens.

The world's cutest decentralized exchange, Bunni DEX, is facing a harsh reality, after announcing that it will be shutting down operations following an $8.4 million exploit in September, becoming the second DeFi project this week to fold under the pressure of mounting security breaches and financial strain.

BNB, the native token of Binance’s ecosystem, reached a new all-time high of $1,370 on Monday, defying a broader crypto market downturn that wiped out $19 billion in leveraged positions over the weekend.