Two Ripple wallets still held 1 billion XRP on October 29 from four escrow finishes on October 1, XRP Ledger records show. Another 1 billion XRP becomes releasable at 00 00 UTC on November 1, though no funds move without a valid EscrowFinish transaction. Ripple still holds about 31.4 billion XRP in 98 escrow objects and has announced no sales.

US spot XRP ETFs hold about $1.81 billion in cumulative net inflows, yet investors face an estimated $489 million in unrealized losses, CryptoETF Today data shows. Tracked funds list a modeled average entry price of $1.72 versus roughly $1.24 on October 30. Canary Capital's XRPC carries the largest estimated shortfall at $179.3 million. The figures are modeled from fund flows and prices, not official disclosures.

More than 220 million XRP were moved off Binance over a two-day period.

At the time of writing, 1,236,522 ETH worth close to $2.8 billion is waiting to be staked on Ethereum mainnet, according to ValidatorQueue. The same data shows only 1,682 ETH waiting to be unstaked. The gap highlights a strong staking demand imbalance, with deposits far outpacing withdrawals.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Stellar is now the default network in the MetaMask mobile app and browser extension. Every existing MetaMask account will automatically generate a Stellar address derived from its existing seed phrase, with no additional setup required. Users can directly hold, manage, send and receive XLM, Trustline assets and Soroban tokens, and swap between Stellar and other supported networks. Existing Stellar users can also import accounts using their seed phrase.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Circle issued about $10.9 billion in USDC and redeemed about $11.7 billion over the seven days ended Oct. 29, reducing the token's circulating supply by a net $800 million. USDC's total circulating supply is now $70 billion, with reserves totaling about $71.4 billion. The reserves include about $32.9 billion in overnight U.S. Treasury reverse repurchase agreements, roughly $27.5 billion in U.S. Treasuries maturing in under three months, approximately $10.4 billion in deposits at systemically important institutions, and about $600 million in other bank deposits.

Tether reported $1.5 billion in net operating profit for Q3 2026. Excess reserves reached $7.95 billion and USDT issuance was about $184 billion over nine months. Total assets stood at $191.5 billion against $183.5 billion in liabilities. The nine-month profit remains disputed. Most reports cite $4.5 billion, while BitKE says about $10 billion. Tether's BDO report can settle the total.

An unknown wallet transferred 609,699 SOL to Coinbase Institutional, with the move valued at about $58.5 million when flagged. The transaction was reported by blockchain tracking service Whale Alert, based on public ledger data.

ME News reports that, as of October 31 (UTC+8), Lookonchain monitoring shows several large holders selling HYPE. Address 0x2685 sold 912,383 HYPE tokens worth $82.09 million six hours earlier; the tokens were bought a month ago and generated a profit of more than $10 million. Address 0x648F sold 296,705 HYPE tokens worth $26.72 million eight hours earlier; those tokens were purchased 11 months ago, yielding a $16.5 million profit. (Source: PANews)