Huo Xing Finance reported on October 22 that Monero surged over 12% against the market trend, with its price now at $647, a new high since January. The rally follows a forecast from renowned trader and chart analyst Peter Brandt, who accurately predicted Bitcoin's 2018 crash, that Monero is preparing for a major upward move similar to the previous silver bull market.

Onchain data shows a large whale address bought about $7.22 million in altcoins over 24 hours, with purchases including LIT, ENA, ONDO, AERO, ETH, QNT, UNI, TAO and PEPE. The portfolio is mostly DeFi and RWA tokens, plus a small meme coin allocation. The activity was reported by Lookonchain.

Papertrade daily revenue fell out of the top 20 protocols, now 20th at $178,000, per DeFiLlama. Launched 12 days ago, it has $61.96 million total revenue and ranked third in the past week. Revenue previously topped Hyperliquid. After the October 20 PAPER nontransferable announcement, trading activity and TVL dropped to about $40 million.

Security researchers say Swell DAO swETH and rswETH management key appears compromised. The attacker is inflating NAV by up to 1% hourly. Four malicious contract upgrades were deployed but not yet queued for multisig execution. If executed, they could steal 2,500 ETH. A key takeover could redirect proxies to a malicious implementation and trigger mint or withdrawal to inflate NAV without backing.

133,990,000 USDC worth $134,020,482 was transferred from Aave to an unknown whale wallet. The transaction was recorded on the blockchain, showing a significant movement of stablecoins.

Token Venice (VVV) zyskał w ciągu ostatnich 24 godzin około 6%, powiększając tygodniową zwyżkę do ponad 11%. To skromny wynik na tle ruchu zapoczątkowanego w lipcu, kiedy kurs altcoina ponad dwukrotnie wzrósł. Wzrosty dokonały się mimo nowej podaży przewyższającej liczbę spalonych tokenów. Sprzyjały im rosnąca dostępność i aktywność na platformie. 21Shares zapewniło europejskim inwestorom ekspozycję z fizycznym zabezpieczeniem aktywów, uruchamiając ETP na token Venice pod tickerem VENC. Instrument jest notowany na SIX Swiss Exchange, a roczna opłata wynosi 2,50%. W pierwszym dniu obrotu ETP zgromadził ponad 1,45 mln USD aktywów pod zarządzaniem (AUM), co otwiera VVV dostęp do rynku UE wartego 2,30 bln USD. Mechanizm spalania o wartości 10,40 mln USD tylko w umiarkowanym stopniu ograniczył podaż. W tym miesiącu spalono 41 tys. VVV, ale do obiegu trafiło więcej nowych monet: 164 tys. wyemitowano, a 309 tys. uwolniono z vestingu. Liczba użytkowników protokołu AI osiągnęła rekordowe 5 mln, a liczba wywołań API wzrosła od lipca o 400% — wynika z danych Costcode. Grono posiadaczy tokena powiększyło się od końca września o blisko 2 tys., ze 154,74 tys. do 156,69 tys. Inwestorzy wybierają model AI. Na wykresie byki wypchnęły kurs powyżej poziomu płynności 25 USD, ale nie zdołały utrzymać wzrostu. Strefa ta odrzuciła dwa podejścia w ciągu niespełna miesiąca. Od połowy września kupujący bronią okolic 21 USD, powstrzymując głębszą przecenę. Wskaźnik Bull Bear Power (BBP) przemawia za stroną popytową, a RSI Divergence od września trzykrotnie dał sygnał kupna. Odczyty te uzasadniają kolejną próbę ataku na wyższe poziomy. Między VVV a powrotem do 34 USD stoi jednak strefa podaży przy 30 USD. Na razie wahanie wokół 25 USD pozostawia pole do fałszywego wybicia. Utrzymanie tego poziomu jako wsparcia wzmocniłoby scenariusz wzrostowy. Kolejne odrzucenie osłabiłoby odbicie, mimo poprawiających się wskaźników adopcji. Podsumowanie: 21Shares uruchomiło dla klientów w UE ETP na token Venice, który pierwszego dnia zgromadził 1,45 mln USD aktywów. VVV testuje płynność przy 25 USD, ale niedźwiedzie nie wydają się gotowe oddać kontroli.

250,000,000 USDC was minted at the USDC Treasury. The minted amount is valued at $250,051,750.

Solana's new consensus protocol, Alpenglow, has gone live on mainnet beta, replacing TowerBFT. Anza, the core development team, said the switch took effect at slot 459,653,000, cutting the time for a transaction to become irreversible from roughly 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds. Validators retired TowerBFT — in use since Solana's network launched in March 2020 — at around 14:00 UTC, completing the largest consensus upgrade in the chain's history. The handoff took place on the running network with the existing ledger preserved, as independently operated parties coordinated a common switchover point. No outage was needed and no ledger state was lost. The change targets finality: the moment a transaction can no longer be reversed, and the point at which exchanges, banks and merchants can treat an asset transfer as settled. Under TowerBFT, Solana confirmed transactions conditionally within seconds, but full finality took about 12.8 seconds. Alpenglow folds the two stages into one. "This is the largest and most ambitious blockchain upgrade since 'The Merge,' and Anza turned it from a whitepaper into a live system on mainnet in less than 18 months," said Anza CEO Brennan Watt, referring to Ethereum's 2022 shift to proof-of-stake. Before mainnet, Alpenglow went through public testing that included red teaming, penetration testing, repeated migration drills and a security competition, followed by deployment on Solana's testnet and devnet. Anza built the protocol into Agave, the validator software it maintains, and independent validators completed activation. Anza's research team, led by ETH Zurich professor Roger Wattenhofer and including Quentin Kniep and Kobi Sliwinski, published the Alpenglow design specification in May 2025. Under Alpenglow, validators no longer write votes into subsequent blocks. They send votes directly to one another, with vote weights calculated from staked amounts. "If 80% of the votes say yes, it's immediately finalized. You'll know right away that the block has been settled," Wattenhofer said last month in an interview with Jacob Creech, vice president of technology at the Solana Foundation. The second path runs two rounds of voting, each requiring 60% stake support; for validator clusters grouped closely together geographically, such as those in Europe, the process can run faster still. The protocol is designed to keep operating even with less than 20% of stake malicious and another 20% offline. If finality is not reached within 10 seconds, validators gradually extend block times until messages get through. "Eventually, even a poor internet connection will get us another block," Wattenhofer said. More upgrades are in the works. Rotor will change how block data propagates across the network, while geography-aware leader rotation aims to cut latency when block production passes between validators. Quantumglow, a research design, would swap Alpenglow's elliptic curve cryptography for hash-based signatures to resist quantum computers while holding finality speed. None of the three has a confirmed date. Validators approved the upgrade in September 2025, passing the SIMD-0236 proposal with 98% support. Max Resnick, Anza's chief economist, told Decrypt at the time: "The most immediate change users will feel will be confirmation delays reduced to approximately 150–200 milliseconds." Alpenglow launched on Solana's community testnet in May 2026, when Resnick said the team was aiming for mainnet activation by the end of Q3 or early Q4. On October 13, Anza confirmed the October 21 date. The upgrade also clears the way for other changes. Developers on Jump Crypto's Firedancer team have proposed scrapping Solana's current limit of 60 million compute units per block once Alpenglow is live, letting block sizes expand to whatever the fastest validators can handle while slower validators abstain through their "skip vote" feature. Critics warn the move could favor better-funded operators and deepen centralization.