On October 5, the price of bitcoin exceeded $125,000, which was a new all-time high for the asset. The first cryptocurrency set the previous record on 14 July 2025.

Tether, the issuer of USDT, and Antalpha Platform Holding plan to raise up to $200 million to launch a new venture that will manage an XAUT-based treasury. Bloomberg reports this with reference to its sources.

The Bitcoin 2140 Forum, organized by global payments platform bepay money and venture capital firm Giakaa Capital, will kick off at Dubai Knowledge Park on October 15, 2025. The main theme of the event is Pioneering the Path to Bitcoin’s Future, according to a release for Incrypted.

Police in Odesa region together with the Department of Cybercrime of Ukraine exposed a criminal network operating under the guise of crypto investment business. The attackers offered investments through fictitious online platforms, and the funds received were transferred to addresses controlled by them.

At the beginning of October 2025, both bitcoin and Ethereum registered positive momentum. On a weekly chart, the former is up more than 10%, while the latter is up 15.6%, according to TradingView.

The BNB Chain ecosystem token under the ticker BNB surpassed the $1,112 mark for the first time in history, strengthening the asset’s position amid the general growth of the cryptocurrency market. According to TradingView, the price rose more than 7% overnight and 15.5% over the week.

In the bill on virtual assets 10225-d have made a total of 2538 corrections. This was stated by deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

Cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has launched a new product Futures Earn, which offers up to 15% per annum. Incrypted reported on the company.

Two members of the Swedish Democrats party, Dennis Dioukarev and David Perez, submitted a proposal to the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, to study the possibility of creating a strategic national bitcoin reserve.

The organizers of the 11th Global Blockchain Summit have announced the first list of speakers who will present their speeches on October 23, 2025, in Shanghai. Among them are the world’s leading Web3 experts who will share their vision and experience. This is stated in the press release shared by the organizers with Incrypted.

The 1inch aggregator team has announced the connection of its Swap API to the Coinbase app, which allows the exchange’s customers to make decentralized token exchanges directly through the built-in wallet. The exchange has become the project’s largest partner in the United States, strengthening its presence in the institutional integration market.

OpenAI has reached a market valuation of $500 billion, according to Bloomberg. This comes after the AI giant struck a deal in which current and former employees sold about $6.6 billion worth of stock to investors.

The privacy coins segment showed a sharp increase. According to CoinGecko, at the time of writing, its capitalization reached $10.2 billion, up 19.9% over the last day, with a daily trading volume of $1.94 billion.

In September 2025, the crypto industry lost about $127 mln as a result of hacker attacks. This is reported by the analytical company PeckShield.

The co-founder of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) gave an extensive interview to Bitcoin Magazine. In it, he talked about the firm’s business model, its endgame, bitcoin’s role in the transformation of the global financial system and the “information noise” around the first cryptocurrency.

In September 2025, trading volume on decentralized platforms (perp DEX) exceeded $1 trillion for the first time. The total figure was $1.143 trillion, up 49.5% from August, according to DeFiLlama.