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.

Brazilian fintech VERT has deployed $130M in structured credit products on the XRP Ledger, marking a concrete rollout of private credit assets on XRPL. Separately, digital asset platform Tradable plans to introduce up to $1B in private credit exposure on the Stellar network. Together, the moves highlight accelerating migration of private credit—traditionally an off-chain asset class—into public blockchain ecosystems.

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.