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🔴 FSB placed Pavel Durov under international arrest warrant

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been placed under international arrest warrant for aiding terrorism, report media citing the Russian FSB.

According to the FSB, Ukrainian special services allegedly used Telegram chat bots to recruit Russian citizens. The agency claims that the Telegram administration did not remove the service after it was added to the registry of banned resources, which became the basis for the charges.

At the time of publication, no official comments from Pavel Durov had been received.

#PavelDurov | #TON | $TON

🌕 CZ-owned Trust Wallet launches AI agents that can execute crypto trades

The digital wallet owned by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, which has more than 220 million customers, said Thursday that users can now employ artificial intelligence-powered agents to perform a variety of crypto transactions.

"Today, Trust Wallet launches the Trust Wallet Agent Kit (TWAK) — infrastructure that lets AI agents execute real crypto transactions, across more than 25 blockchains, within rules that users define and control," the company said in a blog post. The agents can handle cross-chain swaps across several networks, including Solana and Bitcoin, in addition to managing recurring buys.

Crypto firms are increasingly experimenting with AI-powered automation, aiming to allow users to enlist agents that can actively manage portfolios and execute trades.

The new toolkit offers two ways to operate, one where the AI agent has its own wallet and can execute trades automatically based on set rules, and the other where it suggests transactions that users then need to approve.

"Trust Wallet has always been built on a single principle: your keys, your crypto. TWAK extends that principle into the age of AI agents," also according to the blog post. "With WalletConnect mode, an AI can help you act on your portfolio — research, propose, execute — without ever holding your keys. You stay in control."

While the cryptocurrency exchange initially bought Trust Wallet in 2018, it now operates as an independent company.

#CZ | #AI

🔘 Will APT’s price clear $0.87 after Aptos’s launch of Block-STM v2 upgrade?

Aptos [APT] rebounded by over 13% in 24 hours as the wider market recovered. Altcoins took the lead on this recovery as the total market cap of all cryptos surpassed $2.77 trillion, up by more than 2.21%.

At the time of writing, APTs daily trading volume was $100 million, primarily driven by the hype around the upgrade of the ecosystem. What are the final details of the update though?

🔸 Aptos Labs announces upgrade as network reacts

Aptos Labs announced the upgrade of Block-STM, which has been running in parallel on Aptos since the mainnet. This upgrade was completed on 15th October and was named Block-STM v2, with other chains building on it.

This upgrade has since increased transaction throughput and scalability. In fact, this process was explained by Aptos Labs’ Head of Research Alexander Spiegelman and Near Protocol [NEAR] co-founder Illia Polosukhin.

As a result, the throughput and network activity responded instantly. For instance, the chain’s TPS hit a peak value of 1,308 while the real-time throughput was 174. This revealed that there was a difference between the theoretical and real values.

Additionally, Daily Active Accounts rose from 46,670 to 49,385, a 5.82% uptick.

🔸 Why are bulls struggling to break resistance level?

However, on the 4-hour chart, APT's price was rising but facing a huge blockade at $0.8777. Every time the price hit this level, it got rejected and even had a fake breakout five days ago.

At press time, APT was trading above $0.8777, with the same faintly flipping the SuperTrend indicator to bullish. Still, it wasn’t confirmation if the altcoin’s bulls can keep it out of this consolidation.

This may be why the RSI Divergence has been bearish. However, it broke above the neutral level with a reading of 62.41.

#APT | #Aptos | $APT

💥 Tokenized Tesla surges as Elon Musk unveils SpaceX-powered flying Roadster prototype

Traders rushed into Tesla-linked crypto markets overnight after Elon Musk unveiled a flying version of the Roadster, with trading on Hyperliquid jumping while U.S. stock markets were closed.

The surge shows how crypto exchanges that never close are becoming the first place investors react to news about traditional companies.

Musk demonstrated the prototype, which uses SpaceX thruster technology, on Oct. 15, after Tesla TSLA shares closed at $362.44. Hyperliquid’s TSLA perpetual contract rose about 4.9% to roughly $378, and hourly trading volume leapt about 1,580%, from $2.8 million to $47 million.

It is already the contract’s second-busiest day since listing a year ago, with the daily candle only nine hours old. Binance remained the largest venue, with $279 million in 24-hour volume versus Hyperliquid’s $159 million, according to RootData, but Hyperliquid held the most open interest, at $99 million. Tesla shares were up about 4.5% in premarket trading.

Hyperliquid’s contract, listed through Trade.xyz, is a perpetual future that tracks Tesla’s stock price rather than a tokenized share. It settles in USDC, allows up to 20x leverage and requires no brokerage account. The contract trades around the clock, so it was one of the few ways to bet on Tesla’s price while Nasdaq was closed. Tesla is due to report third-quarter earnings on Oct. 21.

#Tesla | #TSLA | #ElonMusk | $TSLA

₿ Strategy purchased an additional 250 BTC for $21.5 million.

Michael Saylor's company, Strategy, has increased its Bitcoin holdings by another 250 BTC, totaling $21.5 million. The total holdings now amount to 848,250 BTC.

This represents approximately 4% of the maximum Bitcoin supply of 21 million coins, with a total value of around $71 billion. The company's cash reserves remain at $4.88 billion.

#BTC | #Bitcoin | $BTC

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🦊 Just $1 of SHIB Removed as Shiba Inu Burn Resumes From Temporary Hiatus

Just $1 worth of SHIB was burned in the last 24 hours, according to the Shibburn page, highlighting the relatively small scale of the burn activity over the past day.

According to the Shibburn page, 192,678 SHIB was burned in the last 24 hours. This small amount follows the Shiba Inu burn page seeing a brief disruption, which interrupted visibility into the latest burn figures, making burn activity unavailable for users checking the tracker. This caused the total burn in the last 24 hours to briefly show $0.

Shortly afterward, the reported 24-hour burn total showed 192,335 SHIB burned, with burn activity now available. While the update suggests that burn activity is being reported again, the figure remains modest compared with larger burns that have occasionally attracted attention within the Shiba Inu ecosystem. Subsequently, the daily burn rate fell 14.22%.

In the last seven days, a total of 176.35 million SHIB was burned, and a total of 709.44 million SHIB was burned in the last 30 days.

🔸 SHIB price

The crypto market largely traded in the red as liquidations rose 143% in the last 24 hours to $759 million. Heavy trading, shrinking open interest (OI) and forced closures might imply leverage is being flushed out, not added.

At the time of writing, SHIB was down 3.64% in the last 24 hours to $0.00000522 following yesterday's price crash. SHIB price further fell to a low of $0.00000502 before slightly recovering.

Investors look ahead to key economic data releases this week, including the latest inflation print.

September's annual inflation rate, due out Wednesday, is expected to come in at 3.7%, according to consensus forecasts, up from August's 3.4% print. Consumer prices, which exclude food and energy, are expected to rise to 2.5% from 2.4% in August on an annualized basis.

#SHIB | #ShibaInu | $SHIB

• With the monthly high reset, everyone who bought inside that window is now in profit 📈

#APT | #Aptos | $APT

SUI Gains 54% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether

📈 SUI Gains 54% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether

SUI gained about 54% over four weeks through Oct. 10, far outpacing bitcoin and ether, even as the token pulled back over the latest week. The rally coincided with growth in Sui’s DeFi liquidity, though that expansion was smaller than the price increase.

The token traded at about $1.11 at 6:50 p.m. ET, up from $0.7218 at 6 p.m. ET on Sept. 12, according to CoinGecko. The Defiant’s calculation using the same starting time and synchronized latest quotes puts bitcoin’s gain at 7.3% and ether’s decline at 0.8% over the approximately 28-day window.

For traders assessing whether the rally extended beyond the token, DefiLlama’s Sui data show dollar-denominated total value locked in DeFi rising from $458.2 million to $529.1 million, or about 15.5%. Dollar-pegged stablecoins on the network grew from $473.5 million to $500.9 million, about 5.8%, in its Sept. 12 and Oct. 10 daily snapshots. Those liquidity measures rose alongside $SUI , but do not establish what drove its price.

🔸 SUI’s Rally Included Sharp Reversals

The four-week return masks reversals. CoinGecko’s sampled history recorded SUI at roughly $1.27 on Sept. 27 and about $1.03 on Oct. 8, before its recovery to around $1.11. Its latest seven-day change was a decline of about 5.2%.

The latest daily advance also came amid wider gains. In a 45-token non-stablecoin watchlist tracked by The Defiant, 41 rose and four fell over CoinGecko’s 24-hour window at 6:52 p.m. ET. SUI gained 3.8% in that snapshot. This is a one-day breadth measure for a selected group, not a four-week return or a census of the crypto market.

🔸 Liquidity Rises, Trading Cools From September Burst

The DeFi figures measure different things. TVL values assets held in protocols in dollars, so rising token prices can lift it without new deposits. The stablecoin series measures the dollar value of circulating dollar-pegged tokens, rather than trading activity.

#SUI | $SUI

🔑 Here’s How Not To Screw up Your Bitcoin Privacy

Just one transaction can compromise years of discreet Bitcoin activity, Cake Wallet’s chief operating officer has warned.

“If you ever spend your no-KYC coins with one of your KYC coins — which if you just let the wallet do its thing, it could do because it doesn’t know the difference — you immediately connect all of the non-KYC Bitcoin that you spend in that with your identity,” Seth said, referring to UTXO management, also called “coin control” by some wallets.

When you send a payment larger than any one UTXO, the wallet picks several and combines them as inputs to the same transaction — an easy mistake to make, Seth highlighted.

Seth added that unlike in the global South, where people have experienced more oppressive states, citizens in the West will need to “feel pain” in order to realize how important privacy is.

Still, he added that attitudes were changing and people were getting more serious about protecting their privacy.

“It has been shifting, in the last five or six years a lot of people — even in the West — are starting to think [privacy] really matters, we really need to think about this seriously now,” he said.

Using the second layer solution is not only faster and cheaper, it also offers more privacy than Bitcoin’s main chain.

While Cake Wallet supports other cryptocurrencies, including privacy coin Monero, Seth for Privacy added that he’d love it if the digital coin didn’t exist.

“If Bitcoin’s privacy got good enough that you could use it and have at least almost as good privacy as Monero without massive hoops to jump through, and Monero ceased to exist, that’s fine,” he said.

“I would much rather the thing that more people use has better privacy than a more niche tool that has perfect privacy, and that’s something that less people are using because it’s less well known.”

#BTC | #Bitcoin | $BTC

💧 Bitcoin treasury companies get two Anchorage routes into Sui's Hashi

Anchorage Digital will be one of the first companies to connect to Hashi when Sui turns on the Bitcoin finance network later this month.

Companies that already have bitcoin on their books can use its two routes to get cash without having to sell their bitcoin.

Sui told everyone about it at its Basecamp 2026 conference in Singapore on Thursday. Hashi’s mainnet will open in stages, with more people being able to use it as partners finish integrating it.

🔸 Atlas oversees qualified custody, while Porto assists hedge funds

The client’s choice of route is based on how strictly it is regulated. Sui says that public companies and digital asset treasury firms might not be able to directly interact with DeFi right now, so their bitcoin goes through Anchorage’s Atlas system, which is a three-party collateral and settlement system, making sure that it stays in qualified custody.

Porto is for everyone else. Sui says that Anchorage’s self-custody wallet can be linked directly to Hashi by hedge funds, crypto venture funds, miners, market makers, and liquidity providers, letting them use lending, yield, or real-world asset strategies.

Anchorage says it is the first crypto bank in the US to be chartered by the federal government. It also wants to add stablecoin liquidity to the network.

“Public companies and institutions hold enormous amounts of Bitcoin, but their ability to use that capital has been constrained by the technology available to them and the limitations of the DeFi space,” Nathan McCauley, CEO and co-founder, said.

More than 20 companies have promised $500 million before mainnet launch
More than 20 companies have pledged more than $500 million to help fund the launch, including BitGo, Bullish, Cumberland, FalconX, and Ledger. But those are just promises; Sui hasn’t said how much of the money will be in Hashi contracts on the first day.

#BTC | #SUI | $SUI

🩸 US Midterm Elections = #BTC Correction?

An interesting correlation was found on X: The midterm elections of 2014, 2018, and 2022 occurred around the times when BTC started to decline. The next elections are on November 3rd.

Three coincidences are, of course, not a trading strategy, and in previous cycles, there were much more significant reasons for the decline. If BTC starts to fall again in November, by 2030, it will be portrayed as an indicator. 😁

$BTC

🟠 Here’s what bitcoin needs to break above $87,000

Bitcoin BTC$83,654.62 and the other majors are lower today, but zoom out and the picture is flatter than the daily tape suggests: prices have gone essentially nowhere over the past two weeks.

The choppy trading is a part of a typical stair-step rally, according to some observers, and it could soon pave the way for a move above $87,000.

The question is what would turn that pause into a firm break above the range. The answer sits in what drove the September surge: large spot ETF inflows.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs attracted roughly $2.6 billion in September, with the week ended Sept. 25 alone accounting for about $2.39 billion of the monthly tally. Inflows peaked at nearly $999 million on Sept. 21. Since then, however, demand has cooled sharply, with ETFs drawing $241 million last week and just $28 million so far this week.

“I read the current move as evidence that the ETF bid that carried September has not yet returned strongly enough to offset renewed macro pressure. ETF inflows above roughly $300 million a session for several sessions (my threshold rather than a market one) would be an important signal that institutional demand is returning,” Oliver Carding, head of marketing at Tesseract Group, said in an email.

Martin Lee, head of content and data insights at DWF Labs, said large daily inflows matter more than extended inflow streaks that cumulatively bring in only a few hundred million dollars.

"Looking across the year, we've had 93 out of 190 (48%) trading days be negative while still seeing net $1.2B of inflows. Longer-term (week/month) size of flows is more important compared to daily, which is almost a coin flip this year, but definitely something worth monitoring to see how the situation progresses," he said.

Meanwhile, other types of buyers are accumulating.

#BTC | #Bitcoin | $BTC

🤔 Currently, there are more long positions than short positions in the market.

➤ A sharp drop in #BTC to around $75,800 would result in liquidations of long positions exceeding $6,700,000,000.

➤ A sharp drop in #ETH to around $2420 would result in liquidations of long positions exceeding $4,170,000,000.

🚀 Bitcoin Price Today: BTC Reclaims $86K as “Uptober” Rally Begins

The cryptocurrency market kicked off the highly anticipated “Uptober” cycle with strong upward momentum today, as Bitcoin ($BTC ) jumped over 2.2% to trade around $86,150.

The rally follows a $3 trillion bank raising its Bitcoin price target and spot ETF inflows turning positive again.

🔸 Bitcoin Reclaims $86K as Uptober Begins

Bitcoin is up around 2% to $85,956.77, slightly ahead of the broader crypto market, which gained 1.9%. BTC also briefly touched $86,150 as buyers pushed the price back above the key $85,000 level.

The move comes as Bitcoin enters October, a month that has often been strong for $BTC . Bitcoin has closed higher in 10 of the past 13 Octobers, with an average gain of 18.71%. This has added to the bullish mood around the start of “Uptober.”

The rally also triggered liquidations across the market. Around 77,543 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with total liquidations reaching $324.68 million.

🔸 Citi Forecast Leads Bitcoin Rally

The primary reason behind Bitcoin’s latest rally is Citi’s new bullish price forecast. The bank raised its 12-month Bitcoin price target from $82,000 to $113,000, citing stronger crypto activity, supportive macro conditions, and renewed ETF demand.

Along with Citi’s higher target, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $102.7 million in net inflows on October 1, reversing the previous day’s $148.7 million outflow.

This came after Bitcoin ETFs had recorded a cumulative $3.1 billion inflow streak before the September 30 outflow.

🔸 Fed Rate Hike Odds Fall to 44%

Another major boost came from the Federal Reserve. New York Fed President John Williams said there was “no need for urgency” to raise interest rates again.

Following his comments, CME FedWatch data showed October rate hike odds falling to around 44%. Lower expectations for another immediate rate increase can reduce pressure on risk assets such as Bitcoin.

#BTC | #Bitcoin | $BTC

📈 Why Is the Crypto Market Up Today?

Crypto market today is turning higher as Bitcoin, Ethereum and major altcoins regain momentum, putting the broader market back in focus at the start of October. Bitcoin has climbed toward $86,000, while Ethereum and XRP are also advancing as traders position ahead of the U.S. jobs report. Strong September ETF inflows, shifting Federal Reserve rate expectations and easing Treasury yields are supporting the recovery. With Bitcoin nearing a key resistance zone and altcoins following the move, the latest rally is setting up a crucial test for the crypto market’s Q4 direction.

🔸 What’s Driving the Crypto Market Rally Today? Four Catalysts Behind the Rally

Crypto markets are gaining as traders reposition ahead of the U.S. September jobs report and reassess the Federal Reserve’s rate path. Economists expect payroll growth to slow to roughly 90,000, while unemployment is forecast at 4.1%, making the report critical for October rate expectations.

Treasury yields have also eased from Thursday’s extreme, when the 10-year yield touched 5.34%, although it remains around 5.25%, keeping financial conditions tight.

Institutional demand is another major support. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted about $2.65 billion in September, although the latest session saw $148.7 million of outflows after a nine-session inflow streak.

Derivatives positioning is also recovering. Bitcoin open interest has rebuilt alongside price, while the market enters October after a strong Q3. Bitcoin gained more than 40% during the quarter and Ethereum jumped more than 70%.

The result is a market-wide rebound driven by jobs-report positioning, Fed expectations, institutional flows, easing yields and renewed derivatives activity.

#Crypto

🤖 AI crypto FET surges 16%, hits 3 month high – $0.28 possible IF…

Artificial Superintelligence Alliance [FET] rebounded from $0.19, reclaimed $0.20 and touched a three-month high near $0.23. At press time, FET traded around $0.229, up 16% in 24 hours.

Trading activity rose with the price. Volume increased 44% over the same period, while Daily Turnover reached a three-month high of $61 million.

But after FET’s previous rally faded, could this round of buying hold?

🔸 Why did FET rebound?

An earlier AMBCrypto report found that rising Exchange Reserves had complicated $FET ’s previous advance. This time, spot activity suggested buyers had stepped in after the dip.

Spot Buy Volume rose to 123 million FET over 24 hours. Meanwhile, Delta exceeded 9 million FET, indicating that buying outpaced selling on the measured spot markets.

Exchange Netflow also turned negative after two consecutive positive days. It stood near -241,000 FET at press time, suggesting more tokens left exchanges than entered them.

That shift eased the immediate exchange-supply concern. Derivatives traders, however, sent a less uniform signal.

🔸 Are FET traders betting on more gains?

Derivatives Volume climbed 63% to $272 million, while Open Interest rose 21% to $125 million. Together, those increases showed that traders were taking more positions as FET rallied.

On Binance, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance’s [FET] Long/Short Ratio held above 2, showing a strong lean toward long positions among the measured traders.

However, the overall Long/Short Ratio remained below 1. Bullish positioning on one exchange had yet to spread across the broader derivatives market.

🔸 Can FET hold $0.23?

Directional indicators supported the recent price move. The positive directional indicator rose to 33, while the negative directional indicator fell to 8.

Artificial Superintelligence Alliance’s RSI also held in bullish territory.

#FET | $FET