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Unichain, Uniswap's Layer 2 network, is moving its production operations to Optimism's OP Enterprise stack, according to Uniswap. The testnet migrates on October 13, with the mainnet following on October 29. The chain ID, deployed contracts, user balances and application state stay unchanged, and the Uniswap v2, v3 and v4 deployments are unaffected. Once interoperability goes live, assets will move directly between Unichain and other OP Stack chains without a bridge, starting with ETH; direct user benefits await that rollout.

Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases declined for a second consecutive week while the treasury firm raised spending on STRC preferred stock buybacks. <p>The post Strategy Adds 250 Bitcoin as Weekly Buys Slow, STRC Buybacks Hit $192 Million first appeared on BTCUSA. </p>

Strategy said it acquired 250 Bitcoin over the past week at an average price of $86,194, its fourth consecutive week of purchases. The roughly $22 million buy lifted total holdings to 848,250 BTC, after the company added 2,949 Bitcoin for $248 million in the prior three weeks. Strategy also repurchased $192 million of STRC, its perpetual preferred stock that pays 12% annual dividends, carries a par value of about $100 and trades at $99.89. The firm has disclosed since 2020 that it may buy or sell BTC to manage capital.

The total value of tokenized real-world assets on Stellar has climbed to a record $3.5 billion. That represents growth of roughly 360% from $895 million a year earlier. Net inflows into Stellar investment products reached $17.1 million, ahead of Ethereum's $16 million and Polygon's $5.9 million. The advance places Stellar ahead of RWA tokenization rivals including the XRP Ledger, Solana and Avalanche.

Robinhood added $25 million of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, its first known Bitcoin holding for the company's own account.

The Solana Foundation announced an open-source program, Solana DvP, that lets institutions settle trades in seconds rather than days.

Ethereum exchange liquidity hits a 7-month low on Binance. CryptoQuant analyst Arab Chain flagged the drop, which tracks falling ETH reserves.

Hong Kong adds another route into SOL. The Pando Solana ETF (2831. HK) is set to list on HKEX on 13 October, Solana announced on X.

Bitmine informó que sus tenencias alcanzaron 6.028.946 ETH, equivalentes al 4,9% del suministro total, y que sus activos cripto, efectivo y valores negociables suman USD $16.200 millones. La empresa también destacó que mantiene 5.067.309 ETH en staking y que se encuentra cerca de su meta de llegar al 5% del suministro.