SBF said in court that he did not recall discussing the shutdown of Alameda Research with his executives via messenger Signal in 2022.
When asked if he remembered the conversation about how the company's $13 billion disappeared, he said he didn't.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/sam-bankman-fried-trial-testimony
The dYdX version 4 and its standalone Cosmos blockchain has rolled out its alpha mainnet phase.
https://www.theblock.co/post/259658/dydx-chain-officially-launches-on-mainnet-as-standalone-cosmos-layer-1
Bitcoin setting new ALL-TIME HIGHS in countries around the world including: Argentina, Egypt, Laos, Lebanon.
https://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/1716642031085273575
Justin Sun's group of businesses (TRON, HTX, Poloniex, TUSD) reported 3Q revenue of $202 mln, expenses of $104 mln.
4Q forecast: revenue of $190 mln, expenses of $88 mln.
https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1717550486608642061
The second token of DIP Exchange DGT is about to launch with Bounce Finance through a Dutch auction process on November 1st 2023 14:00 UTC.
https://x.com/bounce_finance/status/1717184394371428491
Former Ripple CTO may lose 7,002 BTC ($242m) stored on an IronKey hard drive whose password he forgot.
He only has two attempts at guessing a password remaining.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/recovery-firm-cracking-ripple-cto-bitcoin-hard-drive
Bloomberg has released a movie about SBF and the collapse of FTX.
It's available on YouTube now.
https://youtu.be/3QpdU9LS540?si=pmQAioSwacCxdKQB
Memeland's Community Presale (Fire Sale) has begun.
Price per lot: 0.169 ETH
MEME per lot: 300,000
https://twitter.com/Memeland/status/1717350010634096682
Meta’s Reality Labs loses $3.7 billion in third quarter.
The division's revenue fell 26% to $210 million from $285 million a year earlier.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/metas-reality-labs-loses-3point7-billion-in-third-quarter.html
Beam integrates LayerZero.
Users can transfer assets from Ethereum to the Beam network via the Beam Bridge, including the Merit Circle token and various gaming tokens released on Beam.
https://x.com/buildonbeam/status/1717179437848965273
Interoperability protocol LayerZero has introduced the ability to move wrapped stETH token (wstETH) from the liquid staking protocol Lido Finance across Ethereum, Avalanche, BNB Chain and Scroll.
wstETH has also been integrated into LayerZero’s omnichain fungible token standard, or OFT standard, which aims to eschew wrapped asset risks in cross-chain native token transfers. OFT moves tokens through its decentralized communication protocol as opposed to minting and burning wrapped tokens.
https://www.theblock.co/post/259467/layerzero-introduces-omnichain-token-to-move-lidos-wsteth-across-avalanche-bnb-chain-and-scroll
Chainlink has begun working with Vodafone, one of the world's largest telecom operators, to address logistics challenges.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/10/25/vodafone-chainlink-show-blockchain-can-support-global-trade-processes/
It’s reported that Binance Labs has invested in Cyber Connect (CYBER).
The CYBER price has increased by more than 20%.
https://x.com/binancelabs/status/1717203330156609719
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Binance will support the Merit Circle (MC) token swap, redenomination and rebranding to Beam (BEAMX).
▫️All MC tokens will be swapped for BEAMX at a ratio of 1 MC = 100 BEAMX.
▫️At 2023-11-07 03:00 UTC, Binance will delist all existing MC spot trading pairs (i.e., MC/BTC and MC/USDT) and cancel all pending MC spot trade orders.
▫️At 2023-11-14 08:00 UTC, trading will open for the BEAMX/USDT spot trading pair.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-support-the-merit-circle-mc-token-swap-redenomination-and-rebranding-to-beam-beamx-0b171519f1824ee288af7343ec91ce33
CZ’s wealth has plunged 82% to $17.2 billion since its peak.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-26/binance-founder-cz-loses-12-billion-on-crypto-trading-slump
Republican lawmakers urged the U.S. Department of Justice to figure out the extent to which Binance and Tether might be supporting terrorism funding.
https://www.theblock.co/post/259675/lawmakers-call-on-doj-to-consider-charges-against-binance-further-investigate-tether-over-possible-involvement-in-illicit-finance
Injective has burned over $70 million in INJ.
https://x.com/injective_/status/1717167010574905362
Binance has promoted Kyrylo Khomiakov, its Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) General Manager, to Regional Head for both CEE and Central Asia. In this role, he will work to enhance Binance’s product delivery, growth, education initiatives, fiat channels development, and user experience.
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/leadership/binance-appoints-cee-general-manager-kyrylo-khomiakov-as-regional-head-for-cee--central-asia-5402343661215105450
Celestia (TIA) will be launched on Bybit Launchpool on October 31st.
https://twitter.com/Bybit_Official/status/1717433669302850031
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Clearpool launched on Optimism and received a 150K OP token grant which will be entirely distributed to lenders.
https://x.com/ClearpoolFin/status/1717170948410122561
Bitwise has submitted an updated application for a spot BTC-ETF.
The ETF will trade under the ticker BITB.
https://x.com/jseyff/status/1717291764006998447
Arbitrum will make an announcement today.
https://twitter.com/arbitrum/status/1717300169610342505
Upbit has suspended deposits and withdrawals in SOL, ACS, GMT and RAY due to maintenance of the Solana wallet system.
Deposits and withdrawals will be resumed after repairs are completed.
https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=3801#
The Neon EVM price has increased by more than 40% in 24 hours.
NEON is now trading at $0.12.
https://dropstab.com/coins/neon
FTX and Alameda funds are on the move.
- 2.2M USD LINK
- 1M USD AAVE
- 2M USD MKR
- 3.4M USD ETH
These funds moved to 0xde9 then 0xaee which is a Binance address.
https://x.com/nansen_ai/status/1717114038470250974
Bitcoin dominance has reached its highest since April 2021: 54,22%.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTC.D/
Telegram trading bot Maestro became target of hackers, who successfully stole almost 300 ETH from router contract.
https://u.today/biggest-telegram-trading-bot-exploited-save-yourself-from-losses