Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

Dogecoin Labs officially launched on October 21, 2026, bringing together three products—MyDoge, DogeOS, and Such App—under an independent organization in collaboration with the Dogecoin Foundation. The initiative aims to expand Dogecoin's (DOGE) real-world utility, particularly in payments, commerce, and blockchain-based consumer services.The new organization is led by Jordan Jefferson, founder of MyDoge and DogeOS. According to the official announcement, Dogecoin Labs will combine application d

The Starknet community has approved a proposal to explore transitioning from an Ethereum Layer 2 network into an independent Layer 1 blockchain, with the goal of strengthening its resistance to potential quantum computing attacks in the future.The vote concluded on October 22, 2026, with 3,236 votes cast, representing approximately 489.3 million STRK in voting power. Of that total, 93.52% supported moving forward with the research. According to StarkWare, this marked the highest participation le

Aerodrome Finance and Velodrome Finance have officially merged to form Aero, a decentralized exchange (DEX) designed to operate across multiple blockchains. The new platform launched on October 21, 2026, U.S. time, expanding its operations across seven networks: Ethereum, Base, Robinhood Chain, Ink, OP Mainnet, Arc, and Arbitrum.According to Dromos Labs, the developer behind Aero, these seven blockchains collectively generate approximately $120 billion in monthly DEX trading volume. This figure

OverviewThailand's new crypto ETF framework took effect on October 16, 2026, creating a formal route for locally established exchange-traded funds that track cryptocurrency prices. The rules were issued by Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8 after public consultations earlier in the year. During the initial stage, a Thailand crypto ETF may invest only in Bitcoin or Ethereum, although the SEC has left room to expand the eligible-asset list later.The framework is more restri

OverviewCircle has cumulatively minted $110.51 billion of USDC on Solana since the beginning of 2026, according to onchain monitoring cited on October 22. In the latest 24-hour period alone, six transactions of $250 million each added another $1.5 billion of gross USDC issuance on the network. The scale makes Solana USDC minting an important indicator of how heavily stablecoin infrastructure is being used on the chain, particularly as Solana expands across trading, payments, tokenized assets and

APP falls 4.71% to $266.13 as analyst price-target cuts pile up and the stock trades 64% below its December highAppLovin Corporation (NASDAQ: APP) closed at $266.13, down $13.16, or 4.71%, extending a selloff that has now erased more than half the stock's value over the past year. The decline came one day after the stock touched a fresh 52-week low of $260.59, and it arrived alongside a cluster of analyst price-target cuts, ongoing securities-fraud litigation stemming from an August earnings rea

IntroductionMicron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) closed at $878.84, down $52.40 or 5.63%, capping a rough week for one of 2026's biggest AI winners. Zoom out and the stock is still up a staggering 360.63% over the past year, but the past month tells a very different story: down 5.93%, including a stretch that saw shares fall from above $1,080 to the high $800s. Monday's pre-market indicator showed a bounce back to $905.96, up about 3.1%, so this is a stock that keeps whipsawing both directions.This MU

IntroductionCircle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL), the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has had a rough stretch since its blockbuster 2025 IPO. CRCL stock fell 5.46% in a single session to close at $82.22 on Friday, October 16, 2026, caught up in a broad market risk-off day alongside a company-specific headline about how much of its revenue gets shared with partners. The stock is now down roughly 40% over the past year and sits far below both its 52-week high and its all-time high near $299 set

JPMorgan's JPM Coin (JPMD) is now live on Ethereum mainnet. See how the deposit token works, how it differs from stablecoins, and what it means for crypto. PrefaceOn October 19, 2026, America's largest bank took another step onto public blockchain rails. JPMorgan's JPM Coin (ticker: JPMD) is now live on Ethereum mainnet, giving the bank's institutional clients a new way to move US dollars on-chain. The token was already running on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, since November 2025.Th

Visa and Mesh will let you spend crypto and stablecoins at 175M+ merchants without a separate card. See how it works, what is still unconfirmed, and what to do now. PrefaceAround 774 million people worldwide own crypto, according toCrypto.com research. Yet very little of it ever reaches a checkout counter.On October 19, 2026, Visa and crypto payments network Mesh announced a partnership aimed at fixing that. The Visa Mesh partnership is designed to let users of participating wallet apps pay