The Incrypted editorial team has prepared for you another digest of the most important events in the field of Web3 and AI. In it we will tell you about the new steiblcoin from Western Union, revelations of the former CEO of FTX exchange Sam Bankman-Fried, crypto market fluctuations due to macroeconomic factors and much more.
On 31 October 2025, the Zcash (ZEC) exchange rate exceeded the $390 mark. This is a new historical maximum for the coin, which provides anonymity of transactions using zero-knowledge technology.
on October 31, 2025, Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) X page (formerly Twitter) posted a document on his behalf. It claims that the FTX exchange was still solvent at the time of the bankruptcy, and that the team managing the process simply took over the company.
U.S. lawmakers continue to advance a key bill on cryptocurrency market structure despite the ongoing government shutdown. According to Bloomberg, Republicans in the Senate plan to pass the document by the end of 2025, maintaining the previously announced deadline.
The 1inch aggregator team announced that it has received international ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 1 certifications. Thus, the project has become the first major DeFi ecosystem to confirm compliance with these security standards, the developers emphasized in comments for Incrypted.
Lookonchain analysts reported a series of liquidations on decentralized platform Hyperliquid. Specifically, a trader lost over $4 million in 30 minutes on futures trading.
Investment bank Standard Chartered predicts that the market for real-world tokenized assets (RWAs) could reach $2 trillion by 2028, a level that would equal the current size of the stablecoin market, according to a report by the bank provided to Cointelegraph.
On October 29, 2025, a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee of the US Federal Reserve (FOMC) was held. According to its results, the regulator decided to reduce the interest rate by 0.25% — to 3.75%-4%.
The European Central Bank intends to launch the digital euro by 2029, if the appropriate legal framework is approved by then. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the progress of the project.
Consensys, the developer of the MetaMask cryptocurrency wallet, is planning an initial public offering (IPO). According to publication Axios, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs will act as underwriters.
On October 30, 2025, the price of bitcoin dropped to $108,000, but within a few hours, it rose again to over $111,000. This behavior resulted in liquidations in the crypto futures market worth $820.1 million, with traders holding long positions suffering the majority of the losses.
The Bitcoin 2140 Forum, an event dedicated to the future of bitcoin and the development of digital finance in the world, has ended in Dubai. This is stated in a press release shared by the organizers with Incrypted.
A group of seven Democratic senators has initiated a request to the US Department of Justice regarding President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ). The initiators see this as a possible conflict of interest, as CZ has financial ties to a crypto project linked to the Trump family — World Liberty Financial (WLFI).
The Cardano network has begun integrating the x402 payment standard, which should allow autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents to conduct transactions on the blockchain without human intervention. This was announced by the Masumi team, which is working on the project, building the infrastructure based on Cardano and implementing x402 support.
After a minor correction on Oct. 28, 2025, retail investors have been active. According to Santiment, mentions of “buy the dip” (buy the dip) have risen sharply.
On October 28, 2025 spot exchange traded funds (ETFs) based on Solana, Litecoin and Hedera debuted on the market, according to SoSoValue. Their total trading volume on the first day totaled $67.92 million, with BSOL accounting for most of it.