protocol
Filecoin's six-year vest ends mid-October, cutting gross FIL issuance ~75%
Protocol Labs' 300M FIL and the Filecoin Foundation's 100M FIL finish linear vesting around Oct 15; gross annual issuance drops ~75%, from ~88M to ~22M FIL.
Newsroom
IMF Chapter 3 on tokenization: $2.3B equity market, 1.5x more volatile than traditional
The October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report publishes the IMF's first empirical slice of tokenized equities — small, more volatile, with 50%+ of trading off-hours.
regulation
Kalshi probes pre-announcement bets on Trump's press secretary pick
Three wagers totaling ~$173 on Katie Zacharia resolved to roughly $9,600 after Trump named her press secretary; one bet landed 15 hours before any public report.
OpenZeppelin audits Uniswap Universal Router 2.1 and V4 Periphery: one low, no criticals
October 8 differential audit covers PR #457 (cross-chain via Across) and PR #497 (per-hop slippage) — one low finding on router allowances, fixed in PR #461.
regulation
Flaherty v. Kalshi: 11 amicus briefs stack behind states ahead of Nov 9 reply
SCOTUS docket 26-299 drew NFL, Gensler, Dodd, 39 states, 145 tribes and AGA briefs in a one-week window; Kalshi's cert response is now due November 9.
protocol
Zakura rolls PIR into Vizor wallet, targets post-quantum opcodes for Zcash in January
Zcash node developer Zakura ships private information retrieval in Vizor this week and plans hash-based signature opcodes on transparent addresses for January.
regulation
CFTC publishes event-contract rules: casino carve-out immediate, swap rule out for 30-day comment
Selig issues an interim final rule carving casino-style gambling out of the swap definition and a proposed rule folding event contracts in. 30 days of comment follow.
regulation
French committee passes crypto exit tax and stablecoin-swap tax, then rejects the budget
France's Commission des Finances adopted amendments taxing crypto-to-stablecoin swaps and extending the exit tax to unrealized crypto gains, then voted the whole revenue section down 31-3.
exploit
Ledger confirms hardware implant in affected device; CryptoBilis pauses all wallet brands
Ledger says at least one affected user's device contained a hardware implant. The CryptoBilis reseller widens its pause to all hardware wallet brands, not just Ledger.