Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - Bitcoin trades at $83,211, up 1.3% on the day, after slipping near $81,400 this morning and dipping below $80,000 over the weekend. - US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $526.6 million on Monday, their best day since September 22. BlackRock's IBIT was the only fund with inflows, at $665 million. - Strategy bought 267 BTC for about $22 million, lifting holdings to 848,517 BTC. MSCI decides on November 11 whether asset-holding companies stay in its indexes. - Ethereum trades at $2,470, up 2.6%, but US Ether ETFs lost $103.3 million on Monday and have seen outflows on 14 of the last 15 trading days. - JPMorgan made its JPM Coin deposit token available on Ethereum mainnet for institutional clients, after its earlier launch on Base. - Solana's Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled for October 21 and targets roughly 150-millisecond finality. Validators holding 20.3% of stake were flagged as unprepared. - SkyAI sold its entire Solana treasury and launched a tender offer worth up to $201.3 million, with recent sales averaging $107.51 per SOL, about 44% below cost. - Qubic said an attacker drained 1,404 wallets of about 2.94 trillion QU through weak seed generation. The network froze 87.1% of the stolen funds. - JPMorgan Asset Management included Bitcoin in its long-term forecasts for the first time, projecting 10% annual returns over 10 to 15 years with 55% volatility. - Switzerland's FINMA approved the country's first retail Bitcoin ETF holding the asset directly, granting an exemption from risk-diversification rules.

Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - Bitcoin fell as low as $79,805 after September producer prices jumped 1.3%, the biggest monthly gain since March 2022, then recovered to about $82,271. - Nearly $944 million in positions were liquidated over 24 hours, mostly longs, with 176,506 traders affected, according to CoinGlass. - Chainalysis reported the United States became a net Bitcoin importer for the first time since 2022, as transfers above $10 million brought in 53,200 BTC. - Ethereum rose 3.3% to about $2,472, but US spot Ether ETFs saw roughly $250.4 million in net outflows between October 12 and 15. - Anza said Solana's Alpenglow upgrade will activate on October 21. It is expected to make finality about 99% faster. - Bitquery put the Ledger supply-chain theft near $102 million, drained from devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis. Tether has frozen about $10 million in USDT. - MSCI adopted rules excluding non-operating companies from its indexes, naming Strategy and Metaplanet for deletion. The final list is due November 11. - Strive priced 7 million shares of 15% SATS preferred stock at $90, raising about $630 million, and bought 2,822 BTC at around $83,266 each. - The European Banking Authority classified USDC as the first significant e-money token under MiCA, placing it under EBA supervision from November 12. - Fed Chair Kevin Warsh declined to signal the next policy move, and the implied odds of an October rate hike fell from about 27% to 15%.

Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - Bitcoin holds near $83,056 after being rejected from the $86,000 to $90,000 resistance zone. It fell from about $87,000 to under $81,000 earlier in the week. - US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $679 million over the week, while analyst Ali Martinez said bitcoin whales added more than $1.2 billion worth of BTC in 72 hours. - US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a ninth straight day of outflows and their largest weekly net outflow since January. ETH trades near $2,505. - An AI agent from Veria Labs found a decade-old XRP Ledger bug that could have minted 18 trillion XRP. It was patched in September; Veria received a $250,000 bounty. - Starknet's STRK jumped about 54% after its October 6 mainnet upgrade, leading altcoin gainers. Celestia's TIA rose 21% and Aerodrome's AERO added 15%. - Papertrade, a 1,000x leverage perpetuals venue on Hyperliquid, drew $118 million in deposits in 24 hours. It now faces allegations of oracle manipulation through $20 million in ETH trades. - Ledger confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in a customer device bought through reseller CryptoBillis. Reported losses may exceed $86 million, and the reseller halted all hardware wallet sales. - Metaplanet sold 10,000 BTC and bought back 11,000 at a price 9.3% higher, a move to show lenders it is willing to sell. It ended September with 44,000 BTC. - The CFTC issued an interim final rule excluding casino-style gambling from the swap definition and proposed including sports, politics, culture and weather event contracts under its exclusive jurisdiction. - A French committee backed taxing crypto-to-stablecoin swaps from 2027 and an exit tax on portfolios above €800,000, but the budget's tax section was rejected and debate restarts Tuesday.

Bitcoin is back at $82,505, down just 0.4%, after a slide to about $80,400 overnight. High yields, oil and $731M of ETF outflows drove that move, and more than $1B in longs were liquidated, with ether longs hit hardest. ETH sits at $2,496, down 2.7%, Solana at $110.65, down 4.0%, and NEAR is off 12.1%. STRK adds 38.9% on the day and 54.2% on the week. Volume is up 17.2% at $114.7B, while Fear and Greed reads 56, down from 69 seven days ago. The majors got their price back. The mood and the headlines stayed where the low left them.

Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - Strategy bought 334 BTC for $28.7 million at an average price of $85,839, bringing total holdings to 848,000 BTC acquired for roughly $63.97 billion. - Metaplanet added a net 1,000 BTC worth $86 million, selling 10,000 BTC and buying back 11,000 for about $870 million. It ended Q3 with 44,000 BTC. - That leaves Metaplanet holding 44,000 BTC worth $3.78 billion, making it the second-largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world. - Strive bought 2,000 BTC worth $169 million last week, with 61% of the capital raised from preferred share sales, and now holds 29,462 BTC worth $2.5 billion. - Bitcoin ETFs took in $240 million last week, bringing year-to-date inflows for 2026 to $1.2 billion. - Lyn Alden, founder of Orange Juice, explained how Bitcoin could move back to $100,000 in this cycle. - The US Treasury and FinCEN withdrew two crypto proposals, the unhosted wallet KYC rule and the CVC mixing surveillance rule. Neither had ever been finalized or enforced. - The SEC is down to two commissioners, both Republicans, after Hester Peirce left on October 2, leaving Chair Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda in charge. - DTCC starts tokenizing stocks, ETFs and Treasuries this month, opening a path for the $114 trillion in securities held at DTC to move onto blockchain rails.

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.

Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - Citi raised its 2027 Bitcoin target to $113,000 from $82,000, citing a supportive macro backdrop, gradual advisor allocation and about $5 billion of ETF inflows over 12 months. - Bitcoin ETFs saw $148 million of outflows on Wednesday, ending a nine-day inflow streak, though September still closed with $2.65 billion of net inflows. - Bitcoin closed the third quarter up 39.6%, outperforming gold, silver and the S&P 500. - October has historically been strong for Bitcoin, with 11 of the past 16 Octobers finishing in the green. - 42 Macro's founder says Bitcoin deserves a portfolio allocation because it is a different exposure than both stocks and gold. - NEAR Intents lost $3.8 million to an exploit in its Omni deposit and withdrawal system; the bug is fixed and affected funds will be fully compensated. - The Dutch Senate withdrew a 36% tax on unsold Bitcoin and crypto over fears of an investor exodus, while gains on self-custody Bitcoin are still taxed at 36%. - Illinois delayed its 0.2% tax on Bitcoin and crypto buys, sales and transfers by six months, with a judge's ruling still pending. - US initial jobless claims came in at 197,000 against 201,000 expected, which together with cooler PCE inflation keeps the door open for Fed easing. - US ISM Manufacturing came in at 54.5 in September, below the 55.0 expected, while prices paid jumped to 77.9, leaving the Fed room to ease slowly.

Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - US spot Bitcoin ETFs bought $3 billion across nine straight days of inflows, with no sign of sell pressure despite failed attempts to reclaim $85,000. - Bitcoin is back to where it traded 19 months ago. - John McAfee once said that if Bitcoin breaks $100,000, you can bet it will hit $1 million. - Strategy's preferred shares climbed to a five-month high, now just $0.70 below their $100 issue price. - The Smarter Web Company, a $310 million UK-listed Bitcoin reserve firm, plans the first preferred shares backed by BTC, raising at least $20 million at 12% yield paid weekly. - Bitwise launched the first US spot NEAR ETF on NYSE Arca, charging 0.75% and staking its NEAR in-house so rewards flow back through NAV. - Morgan Stanley is building an internal crypto lab to test stablecoin payments and tokenized assets, Bloomberg reports. - Goldman Sachs is bringing its roughly $100 billion FTIXX Treasury fund to Lynq, an Avalanche-based institutional network used by more than 30 digital-asset firms. The fund itself is not tokenized. - Hester Peirce, the SEC's most prominent crypto advocate and head of its crypto task force, will resign effective October 2 and join Regent University School of Law in November. - The share of US adults using crypto has grown from 20% to 25% over the past year.

Good Evening Legends! 🔥 Before my GN, today's crypto highlights: - U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs bought $2.39 billion of Bitcoin this week, their biggest weekly inflow of 2026, beating the $1.92 billion record set in August. - Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $134.5 million yesterday, bringing net inflows over the past seven trading sessions to $2.97 billion. - Jason Lowery argues Bitcoin is the neutral proof-of-compute network needed to defend the internet, by making every online action costly for AI agents instead of trying to detect them. - Memecoin creators are routing trading fees to prominent X users through X Money. Service UsePaid says it has paid out over $1.44 million, with single deposits reaching $13,000.

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