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Week brief · October 19 to 25, 2026

Crypto news, week of October 19, 2026

In the week of October 19 to 25, 2026 the Crypto desk recorded 9 news events on 2 days. Bitcoin led with 3.

The most covered stories of the week

  1. Oct 19 Strategy treasury reaches 848,517 BTC after 267-coin purchase 6
  2. Oct 19 The Manila Times: “Super League Stockholders Approve All Proposals Related to Metaplanet's Proposed 2,100 Bitcoin and Cash Investment” 4
  3. Oct 20 Decrypt reported alleged Drift exploit addresses sent $61.56M ETH to Tornado Cash Oct 20 3
  4. Oct 19 Wallet named in lawsuit moves $33 million in bitcoin 2
  5. Oct 19 Nine issuers object to shares being tokenized on OKX-ICE venue 2
  6. Oct 19 Mastercard brings risk screening to stablecoin payments at Money20/20 2
  7. Oct 19 24X announces second spot bitcoin trade with Standard Chartered, Wintermute 2
  8. Oct 20 USDC on-chain volume rose 151% to $14.8 trillion last quarter 2

Monday, October 19, 2026

6 events. The full rundown for October 19, 2026. The most covered:

  1. 03:34 UTC Strategy treasury reaches 848,517 BTC after 267-coin purchase 6
  2. 12:09 UTC The Manila Times: “Super League Stockholders Approve All Proposals Related to Metaplanet's Proposed 2,100 Bitcoin and Cash Investment” 4
  3. 16:46 UTC Wallet named in lawsuit moves $33 million in bitcoin 2

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

  1. 01

    Decrypt reported alleged Drift exploit addresses sent $61.56M ETH to Tornado Cash Oct 20

    3 outlets · first: cointelegraph.com DeFi

    Machine summary Decrypt reported that addresses alleged to be linked to the Drift exploit deposited 25,700 ETH, about $61.56 million, into Tornado Cash in 100 ETH and 10 ETH chunks on 20 October, following a 23,095 ETH round on 23–24 July. Arkham Intelligence data show 81,454 ETH, roughly $198.58 million, still sitting across 71 linked addresses after the latest deposits. The April 1 attack on Drift's Solana vaults produced $295.7 million in losses on Drift's own breakdown, led by $159.3 million in JLP and $71.4 million in USDC.

    1. Arkham Intelligence data cited by Decrypt shows that wallets linked to the alleged April Drift Protocol exploit sent 25,700 ETH, about $61.56 million, into Tornado Cash over roughly two hours on 20 October.
    2. Deposits went in batches of 100 ETH (about $237,800 each) plus 10 ETH chunks, matching Tornado Cash's fixed deposit pools, according to Decrypt
    3. Arkham's entity page for 71 linked addresses showed 81,454 ETH remaining after the deposits, worth about $198.58 million at prices Decrypt cited; Cointelegraph reported the holdings as $194 million
    4. According to Drift's breakdown of assets, losses on April 1 totaled $295.7 million, with JLP accounting for $159.3 million and USDC for $71.4 million; the majority of that was subsequently swapped and bridged onto Ethereum.
    5. In June, Drift stated that Mandiant had pinned the attack on UNC6862, a North Korean threat group; back in April, Drift characterized the intrusion as a six-month operation conducted by a group that posed as a quantitative trading firm.

    Reported by Decrypt, cointelegraph.com and BigGo Finance.

  2. 02

    USDC on-chain volume rose 151% to $14.8 trillion last quarter

    2 outlets · first: Mitrade Market trends

    Machine summary On-chain transaction volume for USDC rose 151% to $14.8 trillion last quarter and circulation reached $73.3 billion, up 19% year over year, according to a Mitrade insight piece. According to the report, more than 100 institutional and ecosystem participants are building on Circle's Arc blockchain infrastructure, while the company is preparing to move into roughly 40 further markets. The article named Bitcoin, Ethereum and crypto-linked stocks.

    1. USDC circulation reached $73.3 billion last quarter, up 19% from a year earlier, per the Mitrade report
    2. On-chain transaction volume for USDC rose 151% to $14.8 trillion, according to the report
    3. Visa has expanded stablecoin settlement across nine blockchains, the report states
    4. According to the report, Standard Chartered lets institutional clients mint and redeem USDC via its banking infrastructure.
    5. Circle is preparing to expand into around 40 additional markets across Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, the report says

    Reported by Mitrade.

More events reported

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

  1. · 2 outletscointelegraph.com, DecryptNamed in the reports: BlackRock

Summaries and key facts are machine summaries of the reports linked with them; outlets, times and counts come from those reports. How a rundown is built.

What kind of news was it?

  1. Bitcoin 3
  2. Market trends 3
  3. Exchange 2
  4. DeFi 1

Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).