➖ A $68 million Bitcoin options position is making a big bet on a price surge toward $90,000 after the midterm elections.
➖ More than 100 economists, including former governor Jacob Frenkel, condemned Netanyahu’s plan to use crypto to evade sanctions, warning of the risk of economic isolation.
➖ Twenty-two major companies, including Wells Fargo, Cisco, and Intuit, have formally objected to the OKX-ICE exchange’s plan to trade their tokenized shares.
➖ Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded around $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week negative streak, although a late-weekend correction weighed on October’s performance.
$PUMP fell 4.9% in 24 hours amid scrutiny over alleged promotional payments to a trader known as kimchi.
According to Lookonchain, kimchi may have received 1.35 billion tokens worth $6.25 million before removing Pump.fun from their bio. The payment has not been confirmed.
At $0.00453138, the price is still up 5.2% over 7 days, with 24-hour volume of $153 million.
➖ Bitcoin held steady above $81,000 as turmoil in the AI market eased and crude oil prices rose.
➖ The Cysic exploiter immediately moved all the stolen funds to Tornado Cash, despite the project offering a 10% ransom or bounty.
➖ Ethereum had to postpone the Glamsterdam fork testnet after auditors found a gas security vulnerability that could cause contracts to fail in real-world use.
➖ HSBC officially expanded access to its first stablecoin to more than 3 million daily retail app users.
$UNI fell 6.6% in 24 hours to $6.97, as Uniswap introduced Aggregator Hooks, opening up a new source of token burns.
The integration connects seven external liquidity sources to Uniswap v4. Protocol fees from transactions routed to other exchanges also help fund $UNI burns.
$STRK down 11.3% in 24 hours as the community approves research into the option of Starknet becoming an independent L1. No decision has been made to leave Ethereum.
The non-binding poll received 93.52% of the votes. A network switch would require a separate binding vote.
Price: $0.053756, down 38.8% in 7 days. 24-hour volume reached $88 million.
➖ Bitcoin fell below $82,000 as AI doubts returned and a sharp sell-off led by DeFi tokens took hold.
➖ Chinese prosecutors are seeking the confiscation of $5.1 billion worth of Bitcoin from the Qian case, previously seized by the UK, sparking a cross-border asset battle.
➖ Italian police dismantled a secret bank run by the 'Ndrangheta and Camorra mafias, which laundered $24 million through crypto.
➖ Amid the price correction, U.S. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $528 million in inflows, bringing the total to over $1 billion in three days.
➖ Buying activity from top-level buyers is holding back Bitcoin's price gains, with the $87,700 level now a critical point watched by the market, according to Glassnode data.
➖ Banks in the UK have faced 10,000 customer complaints about blocking crypto transfers over a 90-day period. Lloyds recorded the most complaints, despite having no official restriction policy.
➖ The OCC has officially finalized stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act ahead of the January deadline, setting strict reserve and redemption standards, though it has yet to announce when permit applications will open.
➖ Zcash's price surged 12% after developers set the block height for activation of the NU7 network upgrade.
$HYPE rose 4.7% in 24 hours to $81.54, while the Hyperliquid Policy Center urged the SEC to clarify crypto rules.
In a letter to the SEC, the organization requested revisions to the proposal related to token classification, airdrops, and trading in secondary markets.
24-hour volume reached $852 million; the 7-day gain was only 0.2%. $HYPE ranked 11th by market capitalization.