🤝 #SAFE #USDC Circle has selected the Safe platform as the "leading institutional custodial solution" for their USDC stablecoin.

🎁👀 #MON Monad discovered branding MON

📝👀 #MON MON Allocation Criteria:
- Major DEX traders, including traders on Hyperliquid and Phantom Wallet (spot and perpetual), as well as traders of tokens issued on Pump.fun, Virtuals, and other venues;
- significant contributors to major DeFi protocols, including Aave, Euler, Morpho, Pendle, Lighter, Curve, PancakeSwap, and Uniswap;
- longtime owners of various NFTs, including Azuki, Chimpers, CryptoPunks, Doodles, Fluffle, Hypurr, Mad Lads, Meebits, Milady Maker, Moonbirds, Pudgy Penguins, Redacted Remilio Babies, Sappy Seals, Solana Monkey Business and Wassies.

💰 #SOL Brera Holdings (Solmate) announced the $50M purchase of SOL from Solana Foundation.

🇺🇸👀 #BTC The US is seeking the confiscation of 127,271 Bitcoins ($12 billion) linked to an international fraud run by Chinese national Chen Zhi.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 DB: The 127,271 BTC that the US wants to confiscate actually belong to LuBian, from whom hackers stole those BTC back in 2020. They've been idle ever since. It's unlikely they'll be able to confiscate them.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 #BTC U.S. DOJ: The US Attorney's Office and the Department of Justice's National Security Division today filed a civil forfeiture action to seize approximately 127,271 BTC, totaling approximately $15 billion, which are the proceeds and instrumentalities of Defendant Prince Group's fraudulent and money laundering schemes. They were previously stored in unattended cryptocurrency wallets, the private keys to which were held by Defendant. These funds (Defendant's cryptocurrency) are currently in the custody of the United States Government.

💰🇺🇸 #BTC The US government currently owns 325,283 BTC worth >$37 billion.

🥳 #BNB Binance launched the $400 million "Together Initiative" to support users during market volatility.

🖼 Top 10 #NFT collections by volume in the last 30 days

🇺🇸🇨🇳 #tradewars US Trade Representative: Imposition of duties on Nov. 1 depends on China's actions.
Trump and the Chinese president are scheduled to meet.

🇺🇸🍿 #BTC ZachXBT: Most likely either someone hacked Prince Group wallets for the US government or the US government did it themselves.

🇺🇸🕹 A Republican representative introduced a bill called the Retirement Investment Choice Act that would enshrine the executive order of Trump directing the Department of Labor to pave the way for offering cryptocurrency and private equity in 401(k) retirement plans. theblock

👨‍⚖✅ #USDT #CEL Tether paid $299.5 million to Celsius Network as part of the settlement of a bankruptcy lawsuit filed against Tether in August 2024.

🇺🇸👀 #macro Powell:
- Forecasts have not changed much since the September meeting;
- Risks of weakening labor market have increased;
- Fed may complete balance sheet reduction in coming months

🇺🇸👀 #macro NYT: Powell indicated the Fed has more room to cut interest rates this year to support the labor market, despite the recent resumption of accelerating inflation.

🇺🇸🍿 #macro: Powell: If the Fed acts too hastily, it could leave the job of lowering inflation unfinished. Inflation continues to rise.

🥳 Stripe adds payments in stablecoins

Companies using Stripe, such as Notion, ChatGPT Plus, Figma, Patreon, etc. (from SaaS services to content platforms) will now be able to accept regular payments in crypto, not just bank cards. (from SaaS services to content platforms), will be able to accept regular payments in crypto, not just with bank cards.

Stripe is a payment giant analogous to PayPal for professional use (e-commerce)

🕵️‍♂️ A new wallet (possibly belonging to Bitmine) bought 26,199 #ETH ($108M) via FalconX.