October 19th, Astria, a modular blockchain, launched a shared sequencer called Astria Dusknet, which allows users to deploy Rollups to a remote shared sequencer network without permission. Developers only need to run their Rollup nodes and configure them to use the remote shared sequencer network.

Spheron, a Web3 infrastructure building tool, has started the second phase of its roadmap, with the main goal of solving user experience, security, and reliability issues in the Web3 infrastructure layer. Spheron revealed that it had completed a $7 million financing round in August 2022, with participation from Alphawave Ventures, NexusVP, Zee Prime Capital, Protocol Labs, ConsenSys Mesh, Paradigm Shift Capital, Matrix Partners India, Tykhe Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Aniket Jindal, and Julian Traversa. 

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Israeli blockchain IaaS platform OrbsNetwork team seems to have sold ORBS tokens after the token price increased. Two wallets that received ORBS from the team deposited a total of 81.8 million ORBS tokens (approximately $4.25 million) into OKX in the past 16 hours. An address starting with 0xC13A received 134 million ORBS tokens (approximately $7 million) from Orbs team and founding partner wallets, and deposited 61.8 million ORBS tokens (approximately $3.2 million) into OKX.

According to official sources, decentralized derivatives trading platform Kine Protocol officially launched BNT/USDT, STORJ/USDT, WLD/USDT, MKR/USDT, ZRX/USDT, GALA/USDT trading pairs on October 17, 2023, and supports 1-50X leverage. Kine Protocol provides users with a more efficient and secure trading environment.

Roblox has denied rumors that it will support XRP payments for in-game items, despite claims that spread on social media. The rumors began when payments processor BitPay tweeted that users could use Ripple's XRP token for Xsolla payments in supported games, including Roblox. However, BitPay later deleted the tweet, citing an error. Roblox representatives confirmed that the claims are false and that the only payment options available for in-game currency are credit card, debit card, gift card, PayPal, Venmo, Klarna, CVS Pharmacy payments, or a Paysafecard.

On October 18th, Wizz Wallet, a Bitcoin ecosystem wallet application, announced that a serious incident occurred in the early morning, resulting in the loss of a user's assets. The wallet, which was supposed to protect assets, transferred ATOM during a BTC transaction.

October 18th, decentralized cross-chain trading protocol THORChain announced that its token RUNE has been fully allocated to the protocol and reserves. The Treasury holds only 7 million (2% in circulation) for ecosystem funding. All tokens for OG seed/team/investors were unlocked months ago, and all participating investors have exited.

In response to Uniswap founder hayden.eth's announcement that Uniswap will charge a 0.15% exchange fee for certain tokens, BlockTower Capital CEO Air Paul replied that it is unreasonable to charge for additional front-end or protocol-independent functionality, but also believes that Uniswap's explanation for the fee is a wise communication strategy. Previously, Uniswap announced that it will charge a 0.15% exchange (swap) fee for certain tokens in its web application and wallet, including: ETH, USDC, WETH, USDT, DAI, WBTC, agEUR, GUSD, LUSD, EUROC, XSGD starting on October 17th.

Trader Joe's has filed a lawsuit against the crypto trading platform Trader Joe for violating its trademark rights. The platform, which is registered in the British Virgin Islands and has a headquarters in New York, allows users to borrow and lend funds on the Avalanche and Ethereum blockchains.

Chainlink has released a new update on X platform in the past week, integrating 5 Chainlink services into 9 projects on 7 chains including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Optimism, and Polygon. These projects are Archly, Arkham, Bullion Labs, Cobo, Hotpot, The Junkyard, StaFi Protocol, Thales, and Xena Finance.