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Polkadot upgrade 2025 – SDK 2509 lands early October
Polkadot will finalize three pillars – asynchronous backing, agile coretime, and elastic scaling – culminating in the Polkadot SDK 2509 release targeted for early October 2025. The upgrade also brings Ethereum-compatible contracts on Polkadot Hub and a RISC-V-based PolkaVM for next-gen smart contracts. 
7,872 new BTC millionaires in Q3 2025 – Finbold Report
Finbold unveiled Q3 2025 cryptocurrency market report, that highlights sharp rebounds across key holdings: World Liberty Financial surged to $10.81 billion, BlackRock’s crypto portfolio rose by $22.46 billion, and a pullback in crime losses to $306.8 million, the lowest quarterly total of 2025. 
Fasset becomes the first stablecoin‑powered Islamic digital bank
On October 7, 2025, Dubai-based Fasset announced that it had obtained a provisional banking license in Malaysia. The approval lets Fasset access an innovation sandbox for Islamic fintech and positions it as the world’s first Islamic digital bank operating on stablecoin rails. 
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical post on Oct. 5, 2025, stating that memory access time grows with the cube root of memory size rather than remaining constant. The post appeared on his personal site at vitalik.eth.limo. 
European Blockchain Convention returns to Barcelona
The European Blockchain Convention returns to Barcelona on October 16-17, 2025, as Europe's largest blockchain gathering. The event will host over 6,000 delegates, 300+ speakers from major institutions, and introduce a meeting program with 10,000+ pre-scheduled connections – aiming to redefine networking at blockchain events. 
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