Bitcoin's number of wallets holding at least 100 BTC has jumped to 15,970.
https://x.com/santimentfeed/status/1714729052165337294
A Bloomberg analyst said that even if Grayscale wins, the court will not demand the SEC to convert GBTC into an ETF.
https://x.com/ericbalchunas/status/1714673646890049994
Tesla did not sell BTC in Q3 2023.
https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/IR/TSLA-Q3-2023-Update-3.pdf
The Immutable team has delayed the 125M IMX ($64.5M) unlock for another year.
https://x.com/0xferg/status/1714270599214981164
Gensler says the SEC is still reviewing applications for spot BTC-ETFs and negotiating with the companies that submitted applications.
https://m.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/gensler-says-sec-is-still-weighing-bitcoin-etf-proposals--bloomberg-432SI-3202191
Parity Technologies, which develops Polkadot, has announced that it is laying off most of its employees.
The Web3 Foundation may also lay off about 40% of its employees.
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/polkadot-workers-told-to-attend-retreat-after-being-laid-off/
WazirX co-founder Nischal Shetty said that the Shardeum Whitepaper will be released on November 8th.
Shardeum is a linearly scalable EVM-based smart contract platform that can continuously deliver low gas rates while maintaining decentralization and security through dynamic state sharding.
https://x.com/nischalshetty/status/1714599080825950237
The Genesis Drop has concluded with 191,391 claims.
Finalized genesis balances will be available soon at genesis.celestia.org.
Participants will receive TIA directly in their wallet at Mainnet, expected in the coming weeks.
https://x.com/celestiaorg/status/1714553699174113568
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Reddit is winding down Community Points — the blockchain-based “internet points” program designed to reward creators and developers.
MOON, BRICK and DONUT tokens fall 50-80% after the news.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/reddit-is-phasing-out-community-points-blockchain-rewards/
Korea's Financial Supervisory Service will investigate whether SUI's circulation is fraudulent.
Sui Foundation responded by writing in X that the foundation has never sold SUI and every SUI transfer is public.
The Foundation actively fights against any misinformation and FUD.
https://x.com/suifoundation/status/1714349720187859021
Scroll has officially announced the launch of the mainnet.
Scroll Tech is a L2 solution for the Ethereum network. Scroll will create a fully EVM-compatible zk-Rollup, and the project aims to simplify development on L2.
https://scroll.io/blog/founderLetter
According to Fantom Foundation TG group, due to a zero day exploit on Google Chrome, some of the Fantom Foundation’s hot wallet assets were stolen today, resulting in a loss of $657K.
Most of the foundation's assets are stored in cold wallets and are not affected.
https://x.com/wublockchain/status/1714288131716022555
Everscale (formerly FreeTON) has been hacked.
The project reported that a large number of EVER tokens were stolen.
https://twitter.com/Everscale_net/status/1714227498702323912
SEC: “Careful what you read on the internet. The best source of information about the SEC is the SEC.”
https://x.com/secgov/status/1714020932509982771
Aptos was down a few hours ago.
The network has resumed its work yet.
https://x.com/aptos_network/status/1714799744231539064
Invesco filed for a spot Ethereum ETF.
This is the 5th currently active spot Ethereum ETF filing.
https://x.com/jseyff/status/1714736564805214375
Mark Cuban, Elon Musk, Phillip Goldstein, Nelson Obus, Manoush Moshayedi filed a joint amicus brief against the SEC.
In a joint amicus curiae brief, they argued that the SEC's current administrative procedures should be revised.
The current procedures allow the use of staff judges to hear lawsuits filed by the SEC itself and prohibit defendants from having the right to a jury trial.
https://x.com/eleanorterrett/status/1714768782424494430
Since Scroll officially announced the launch of its mainnet, the network's TVL has increased 1091.43% to $5.61M.
https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/scroll
Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) is now available on devnet for Solana.
CCTP lands on Solana mainnet later this year.
https://x.com/circle/status/1714626918421508148
Helix, the perpetuals dex on Injective, has unveiled pre-launch futures — enabling users to trade upcoming tokens before their official launch or exchange listings.
The Celestia (TIA) token will be the first listing via the new product offering.
https://x.com/helixapp_/status/1714628865400918333
https://www.theblock.co/post/258086/injective-dex-helix-unveils-token-pre-launch-futures-trading-celestia
Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz said the spot BTC ETF is expected to be approved by the SEC this year.
https://flash.jin10.com/detail/20231018200738383800
Vitalik Buterin: If you see an article saying "Vitalik sends XXX ETH to [exchange]", it's not actually me selling, it's almost always me donating to some charity or nonprofit or other project, and the recipient selling because, well, they have to cover expenses. I haven't "sold" ETH for personal gain since 2018.
https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0xb8ccf84d
Stars Arena will resume trading within 24 hours.
https://x.com/starsarenacom/status/1714357949991092660
Fidelity has updated its application for the spot BTC-ETF.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1852317/000119312523257755/d375081ds1a.htm
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Binance.US users can no longer withdraw dollars directly from the platform after the exchange updated its terms of use.
U.S. dollar deposits in user wallets are no longer eligible for FDIC insurance protection, according to the updated terms of use.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/17/binanceus-halts-direct-dollar-withdrawals/
The most interesting testimony of former FTX tech director Nishad Singh in the SBF case.
▫️The acquisitions of Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi were made not only to save those companies, but in part to give Alameda access to more borrowed funds.
▫️ FTX never implemented liquidations. If a customer was liquidated at price worse than the bankruptcy price, FTX never implemented any system to deal with that loss. Sam and Gary have been working with this in manual mode.
▫️ SBF wanted to include employee Serum in the collateral, to make it appear like Alameda had more collateral than it did.
▫️ SBF put in Serum's staking revenue (about $50 million) to get a nice revenue figure for the entire FTX exchange of over 1 billion for the year.
▫️ SBF pitched the idea of a deal with Telegram to get TON tokens. This would cost $120 million. It should have been much cheaper to create such a system.
https://x.com/bitmexresearch/status/1714050721643999694
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