The crypto sector recorded 55 major hacks in September with total losses of $766.49 million, up about 462% from August’s $136.3 million, according to PeckShield. Bitget accounted for about $387 million and said it will fully reimburse users from its User Protection Fund, while Liquid Network lost about $320 million, with $285 million returned after attackers withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from the Liquid Federation wallet. Excluding those two incidents, the remaining 53 hacks totaled about $59 million, below August’s overall losses. PeckShield said the two cases now rank as the largest and second-largest crypto thefts of the year to date.

Ripple President Monica Long said on October 3 that the company is running a pilot aimed at launching an XRP-based credit service in 2027 to help payments clients meet short-term funding needs. The model would use tokenized funds to enable 24-hour collateral access and real-time borrowing. Ripple also plans to broaden use of the XRP Ledger’s decentralized exchange in 2027 after a pilot produced positive results.

Wallets linked to the TRUMP token team transferred a total of 81.87 million TRUMP to centralized exchanges including Binance and OKX over eight months, with the tokens valued at about $249 million at an average transfer price of $3.04, according to on-chain data from EmberCN. The transfers account for about 8.2% of TRUMP’s 1 billion maximum supply and roughly 10.2% of the team’s 800 million token allocation. EmberCN’s tracking also shows the team still controls about 718 million TRUMP, or 71.8% of total supply, with an estimated value of $1.49 billion.

On October 2, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published a rule change allowing Investors Exchange (IEX) to list options on trusts backed by bitcoin and other crypto assets. The rule also sets position and exercise limits for options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF and requires each underlying asset to have averaged at least $700 million in daily market value over the prior 12 months. IEX will check the market-value threshold monthly and monitor compliance on an ongoing basis, with non-qualifying products subject to delisting.

COMEX copper inventories have climbed to a record 700,000 short tons, yet prices are still near historic highs. Tariff policy, along with strong demand tied to artificial intelligence and power-grid construction, is reshaping the copper market. Those forces are offsetting the price pressure that typically comes with elevated inventories.

The Independent Community Bankers of America has sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, asking a federal court to declare the agency’s final rule and an interpretive letter unlawful. The case follows the OCC’s approvals for cryptofocused companies such as Ripple to obtain national trust bank charters, drawing pushback from traditional banking groups.

Illinois has proposed a new tax framework for digital assets, including a 0.2% levy on qualifying cryptocurrency transactions starting January 1, 2027. Mining operations that use more than 2.25 million kilowatt-hours a year would also face an electricity excise tax of 2 cents to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. The proposal estimates $95 million in revenue beginning in 2027 and $380 million a year through 2030. The move follows a similar digital-asset excise tax proposal introduced in New York in 2025, underscoring growing state-level efforts to build crypto tax regimes.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) has risen 44.1% in Q3, putting it on track for its strongest third-quarter performance for the token. After a 24% pullback in June, SHIB gained 12.2% in July, 7.55% in August and 19.4% in September. On-chain data show more than 74 billion SHIB in net exchange outflows, signaling a shift toward accumulation. SHIB is trading around $0.00000573, with the next key resistance at the $0.0000075 psychological level.