
Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - Bitcoin broke above $87,000 as softer US economic data lifted risk assets, with nearly $275 million in short positions liquidated over the past 24 hours. - Ten of the last 13 Octobers closed green for Bitcoin, the best hit rate of any month on record. - Bitcoin opened October at $83.6k, about 34% below its roughly $126k all-time high; a monthly close above that level would make it an Uptober. - Prediction markets price a 74% chance the Fed holds at the October 27-28 FOMC and 26% for another hike, according to Kalshi and Polymarket. - CryptoQuant's CEO says the bottom is in for Bitcoin and expects a 3-5x move from the lows in this bull cycle. - Midnight's NIGHT token, from Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, rose 159% in September and early October to $0.048, its highest price in six months. - The NEAR Intents attacker sent 1 BNB to the recovery wallet offering to cooperate, inside the 48-hour window that could still lead to returned funds. - South African banking giant Absa, with 13 million clients, has become the first African bank to offer Bitcoin and crypto custody. - The IMF approved further funding for El Salvador while ignoring the country's continued Bitcoin purchases. - US nonfarm payrolls came in at 29K against 90K expected and unemployment rose to 4.2%, strengthening the case for earlier or deeper Fed rate cuts.




