🇺🇸 Fed Governor Christopher Waller said cryptocurrency is "woven into the fabric of the payments and financial system."

📊 CryptoRank: analyzing DAT performance in 2025.

🤖 #AI Major AI systems, including Google's ChatGPT and Gemini, misrepresent news content in nearly half of their responses.
An international study involving 22 public media companies from 18 countries found that 45% of AI-generated responses contained "at least one significant problem" when answering news-related questions.

🇭🇰 #SOL #ETF The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) has officially approved the first spot ETF on Solana. This is the third approved spot ETF on the cryptocurrency after #BTC and #ETH in Asia.

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

💸 #BTC Over the last 24 hours, ~$650M worth of contracts have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$352M and shorts ~$298M.

🇺🇸📝 155 crypto #ETF applications are currently pending for 35 different digital assets.

There are currently more than 20 pending applications for #XRP, #SOL, and #BTC ETFs.

🔝 Top DEXs by Trading Volume Growth in the last 30 Days

🎢 #BTC The Bitcoin volatility index has risen above 95% for the third time in a month. Essentially, this is a zone of sharp moves.

🐻 #BTC CQ: The CryptoQuant Bull-Bear Index is flashing bearish.

📈 #ETH CME futures open interest just hit new highs — signaling growing institutional exposure and demand.

💰🤝 Crypto trading firm FalconX to acquire #ETF manager 21Shares

📊👀 #BTC’s derivatives landscape is changing as Options OI begins to rival Futures. Markets are shifting toward defined-risk and volatility strategies, meaning options flows, rather than futures liquidations, are becoming a more influential force in shaping price action.

⚖️🍿 #FTT A hearing on the limited jurisdictions in the FTX allocation will be held on October 23.

Restricted includes 44 countries: China, Morocco, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Ukraine, Russia, etc.

🇺🇸🍿 #WLFI Senate Democrats are demanding that Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff withdraw a $120 million investment from World Liberty Financial and disclose his cryptocurrency holdings, citing possible conflicts of interest.

🙋‍♂ #AAVE DAO has proposed a $50 million annual Aave buyback program to strengthen Aave's economic model.

📈 #APT #RWA Aptos is now the TOP 3 blockchain for RWAs with $1.2 billion in tokenized assets on-chain.

🇪🇸💰 #BTC Spanish coffee shop chain Vanadi Coffee announced that it has already bought another 109 BTC to balance its books.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 #BTC From LuBian wallet transferred another 15,959 BTC worth $1.83 billion to 4 different wallets.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 #tradewars US Trade Representative: Trump's meeting with Xi will go on as scheduled.
Bessent and I will meet with Chinese representatives in Malaysia to see if there are opportunities to move the talks forward