Decentralized exchange Bunni will permanently cease operations following an $8.4 million exploit last month. The platform said it lacks sufficient funds to cover six- to seven-figure audit and monitoring costs required for a secure relaunch. The stolen assets have been laundered through Tornado Cash, according to Bunni.

T. Rowe Price, which oversees $1.77 trillion in assets, has filed with the SEC to launch its first actively managed cryptocurrency ETF. The proposed fund would hold between 5 and 15 digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The ETF aims to outperform the FTSE Crypto U.S. Listed Index through active management strategies.

XRP declined more than 2.5% over the past 24 hours to trade around $2.1842, erasing most of its early-week gains. Ripple CTO David Schwartz clarified that his advisory role with Evernorth, a newly launched XRP treasury firm planning to raise over $1 billion through a Nasdaq listing, will be limited in scope and duration.

Major cryptocurrency holders accumulated approximately 13 million Chainlink (LINK) tokens over the past week, data show. Decentralized fixed-income platform Treehouse integrated Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to enable asset transfers across multiple blockchain networks. LINK traded at $17.45 with a 24-hour volume of $1.2 billion at the time of reporting.

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, has compared gold's 57% surge in 2025 to bitcoin's current consolidation phase. He suggests bitcoin may follow a similar breakout pattern once its remaining seller base is depleted, mirroring gold's trajectory after sustained central bank purchases exhausted price-sensitive sellers. Since January 2024, institutional channels and corporations have acquired roughly 1.39 million BTC through spot ETFs and direct purchases, creating a supply-demand imbalance that Hougan believes could drive a breakout.

BlackRock acquired 1,884 BTC on October 21 in a transaction worth approximately $200 million. The purchase brought the fund's total Bitcoin holdings to 803,200 BTC, valued at roughly $86.5 billion, data show. The acquisition occurred as Bitcoin declined nearly 3% to an intraday low of $107,552, erasing weekend gains.

Ethereum traded near $3,800 on October 22, down nearly 18% from above $4,700 in early October. Technical indicators showed 19 of 30 signals in sell territory, with the Fear & Greed Index at 25 (Extreme Fear). The RSI at 41.62 suggested the selloff may be nearing exhaustion.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission has approved the region's first Solana spot ETF, to be issued by ChinaAMC. The product will begin trading on October 27 under ticker 3460, making Solana the third digital asset after Bitcoin and Ethereum to receive ETF approval in Asia. The fund will charge a 0.99% annual management fee and will be denominated in Hong Kong dollars, Chinese yuan, and U.S. dollars.