Briefs below draw on CoinCentral reporting and at least one other publisher.
Ondo Finance launched Ondo Private Markets, which offers tokenized notes tied to private companies. The first note references an unnamed pre-IPO artificial intelligence company and is expected to start trading this week.
OKX launched its standalone OKX Money stablecoin savings and payments app on October 6 2026 at its OKX Now event in Singapore.
AAVE climbed 8% on Friday after Aave Labs released a governance proposal.
Fed Governor Philip Jefferson said he sees no urgency for further rate hikes, suggesting the FOMC could hold rates steady in October. New York Fed President John Williams also saw no urgency.
Base, the Coinbase-backed Ethereum Layer 2 network, launched its third mainnet Cobalt upgrade in late September 2026.
Michael Saylor's Strategy-linked wallets transferred 3,568 BTC worth about $297 million over nine hours, according to Lookonchain, prompting speculation about a possible sale.
Quant (QNT) rose more than 300% from last week's lows after The Clearing House selected it to power its On-Chain Money Initiative. The US payments organisation clears and settles more than $2 trillion each day.
Zano restarted its blockchain at block 3,833,000, immediately before the Hard Fork 6 that introduced Gateway Addresses.
ONDO
−4.0%
USDC
+0.0%
USDG
+0.0%
AAVE
−2.6%
QNT
−6.4%
ZANO
−2.7%