Blockchain

Mysten Labs President Kevin Boon becomes CEO; Evan Cheng stays CTO and will lead a new AI business unit for agentic trust. No effective date given.

Nine blockchain organisations launched the Quantum Alliance to define open post-quantum readiness tests. Plans only; no major L1 foundations joined.

Solana switched on Alpenglow on 21 October, retiring TowerBFT. Anza says finality has fallen from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds.

Sui's devnet-v1.82.0 release adds ML-DSA-65, a NIST post-quantum signature scheme, to its developer test network. Testnet and mainnet come later.

DRW and Marex completed a total return swap on the Canton blockchain via Derivnex, referencing an iBoxx bond index tokenized by Kaiko.

Federated Hermes and Prometheum plan tokenized funds sold via regulated brokers. First product expected Q1 2027; no funds or blockchains named yet.

Ontology's mainnet is back after a 41-hour precautionary halt over an ecosystem project incident; it says the network lost no funds.

DATA Network will retire its own chain and run on Sui, with Walrus as default storage. Sui Foundation says it is investing $30 million. Figures are company-reported.

A month-by-month review of what RunOnFlux (Flux) shipped from October 2025 to October 2026, what it has announced next, and where its own accounts disagree.

China's 9 October policy guidelines call for "a national blockchain network". What the official text says, what it leaves out, and what it is not.