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Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission on Monday approved the first tokenized funds offered to the public for secondary trading on a licensed virtual asset platform. Two ChinaAMC (Hong Kong) money market funds, one in Hong Kong dollars and one in U.S. dollars, can now be bought and sold around the clock on Futu-owned Cheetah Trade, with primary subscriptions and redemptions as a backstop. The SFC said it will monitor trading closely before considering a wider range of products. Source: RTHK

Exchange MEXC says in an updated country restrictions guide that it is not authorized to provide crypto-asset services under the EU's MiCA rules, as it finishes closing accounts for users in the Netherlands. The guide gives Nov. 16 as the final offboarding date, later than the Oct. 31 completion date in an earlier notice, and MEXC has also said it will stop serving users in Russia and Belarus. Source: crypto.news

Strategy reported no bitcoin acquisitions for the Oct. 19–25 period in its Monday filing, leaving its holdings unchanged at 848,517 BTC. The pause follows a 267 BTC purchase the prior week, funded mostly through share sales, alongside a $193.1 million buyback of its STRC preferred stock. The company reports quarterly results on Oct. 29. Source: The Crypto Times

Bithumb designated INIT as a caution-flagged asset. Unresolved caution flags can lead to delisting in Korea. Exchange notice

Hyperliquid plans to open 11 USDC-priced spot markets for EQX Labs tokens tracking the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100 and shares such as Nvidia, Tesla and Apple at 9:30 a.m. ET on Oct. 26. EQX says each token is backed one-to-one by shares but is legally a limited-recourse debt instrument from a British Virgin Islands segregated portfolio company, conveys no direct stock ownership and is closed to U.S. persons. Source: TokenPost

ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro pilot, using real transactions by ECB and national central bank staff, remains on track for 2027, with 36 market operators helping to prepare it. In an interview published by the ECB on Oct. 24, he framed the project as a way to cut Europe's reliance on non-European payment providers and said he hopes EU lawmakers adopt the legislation by the end of 2026, which could allow issuance as early as 2029. Source: Cointelegraph

Hardware wallet maker Keystone said a third party obtained customer names, contact details, shipping addresses and order information through its Shopify-based online store. The company said private keys, recovery phrases and payment details were not exposed, and it warned users about scammers posing as Keystone. It detected the access on Oct. 20 and disclosed it publicly on Oct. 24, but has not said how many customers were affected. Source: The Block

The Monetary Authority of Singapore said Bank Negara Malaysia and the Bank of Thailand have joined BLOOM, its initiative for cross-border settlement using tokenized bank deposits and regulated stablecoins, as policymaker members. Visa, Mastercard, Ripple, Nium, Airwallex and Maybank are among the new industry participants, and the World Bank Group also signed on. The announcement did not name a specific token, payment corridor or launch date. Source: The Block

Britain's Financial Conduct Authority opened consultation CP26/38 on Oct. 23, proposing to add crypto examples to its Financial Crime Guide covering due diligence, transaction monitoring, blockchain analytics and Travel Rule practice. The draft discourages fixed tracing cutoffs that are not tied to a firm's own risk assessment and expects firms to be able to explain scores from third-party monitoring tools. The guide sets supervisory expectations rather than new rules, and comments close Dec. 24. Source: TokenPost

Franklin Templeton filed to register two index ETFs on Nasdaq that channel stock dividends into bitcoin exposure, with a prospectus naming Oct. 27 as the effective date. The U.S. Equity Bitcoin DRIP fund (FBEQ, 0.09% fee) and a U.S. Innovation version start at about 95% stocks and 5% bitcoin, gained through exchange-traded products or derivatives, not coins held directly, and trim the bitcoin share at quarterly rebalances. Franklin has not yet announced a first trading date. Source: Yahoo Finance