🇬🇪 5 Russian citizens were detained in Georgia for illegal crypto transactions - original

According to the investigation, the defendants in the case worked without a license from the National Bank - they brought cash into the country, bought a crypt and chased transactions through fictitious firms (for tens of millions of $$$), masking the origin of the funds.

During the searches, they found $721,000 in cash. Now they face up to 12 years in prison for illegal business activity and money laundering.

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💃 Donald Trump raises money from the top of the crypto industry to build a banquet hall worth $250,000,000 - original

A closed fundraising dinner was held in the White House.

Among the participants: heads of Gemini, Coinbase, Ripple (#XRP) and representatives of Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

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🧸 The index of fear and greed has fallen to «22» (Extreme fear) - the minimum since April.

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#Inside
❌🇫🇷 Bloomberg: Binance is one of the cryptocurrency companies that have been checked by French regulators for money laundering.

The French authorities have launched a large-scale inspection of more than 100 crypto companies - the ACPR regulator assesses who is worthy of obtaining a MiCA license.

Binance Exchange has already been obliged to strengthen risk and compliance control. If the company does not meet the requirements, it may lose the chance to work throughout Europe.

The deadline for obtaining MiCA in France is until the end of June 2026.

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🤯 Traders are actively betting on the decline of #BTC and #ETH - they are short (liquidation card)

➤ With a sharp increase in ETH to ~$4360, the volume of liquidations of SHORT positions will exceed $5,420,000,000.

➤ With a sharp increase in BTC to ~$120,600, the volume of liquidations of SHORT positions will exceed $14,710,000,000.

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👇 Institutionals (and the crowd) withdraw money from American Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs...

Net outflow for yesterday:

▪#BTC = -$536,440,000.
▪#ETH = -$56,880,000.

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🤩 Blogger MrBeast enters fintech and crypt - original

The most popular YouTuber plans to launch his own fintech brand MrBeast Financial, under which an application with banking and cryptocurrency services will appear.

An application for the corresponding trademark has been submitted, which includes:

➟ Online bank and financial consulting.
➟ Cryptocurrency exchange.
➟ Insurance, loans.
➟ Educational content on financial literacy.

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🇨🇳The founder of Huobi launches a fund to purchase #ETH for $1,000,000,000.

Li Ling, the creator of the Huobi exchange and the head of Avenir Capital, teams up with the legends of the Asian crypto world Shen Bo (Fenbushi Capital), Xiao Feng (HashKey Group) and Tsai Wensheng (Meitu) to launch the Ethereum Trust for $1,000,000,000.

The goal is to provide institutional access to Ethereum and related assets, similar to how Bitcoin ETF opened the way for institutional money in BTC.

The announcement of the project is expected in 2-3 weeks.

Ethereum Trust can become an analogue of Grayscale for Asia.

Recall that Li Ling sold Huobi to Justin San after the ban on crypto trading in China and is now building a «clean» institutional empire from Hong Kong.

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🤔 Eleanor Terrett: On October 22, the leaders of the crypto industry will meet with U.S. senators to discuss the development and regulation of the industry.

(Compodient on the screenshot)

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🤔 Elon Musk has a little PR of the #FLOKI memecoin.

To the question «Does Twitter even have a CEO now?» The billionaire replied that the CEO was Floki. (original)

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#Calendar
⚡️ Calendar of key events for this week:

Monday, October 20:
- nothing important

Tuesday, October 21:
🇺🇸 USA - Fed Conference on Stablecoins, Tokenization and AI

Wednesday, October 22:
🇺🇸 USA - Round table of Democrats with representatives of the crypto industry

Thursday, October 23:
🇺🇸 USA - Initial Jobless Claims - 15:30
🇺🇸 USA - Fed Balance - 23:30

Friday, October 24:
🇪🇺 EU - Manufacturing/Services/Composite PMI (Oct) - 11:00
🇷🇺 RF - Central Bank Rate - 13:30
🔥 USA - Consumer inflation CPI (Sep) - 15:30
🇺🇸 USA - Manufacturing/Services/Composite PMI (Oct) - 16:45
🇺🇸 USA - Consumer inflation expectations (oct) - 17:00

P.S. U.S. macro data may not be released due to the suspension of the U.S. government.

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🇨🇳 The Chinese authorities have slowed down the crypto initiatives of technogiants.

✦ Ant Group (Alibaba) and JD.com suspended the launch of stablecoins in Hong Kong after instructions from Chinese regulators.

✦ Supervisors, including the People’s Bank of China, have warned that private currencies undermine the state’s monopoly on money emission and can compete with the digital yuan (e-CNY).

✦ This cooled Hong Kong’s ambitions to become a test site for yuan stablecoins, which were supposed to promote the internationalization of RMB.

✦ Former head of the Central Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan previously called for «be careful» and reminded that stablecoins easily turn into a tool of speculation.

✦ While the United States and Hong Kong are betting on tokenization and stablecoins, China clearly chooses a different path - full control and development of the digital yuan instead of decentralized money.

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#steth #ldo
🔥 VanEck has applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch Lido Staked Ethereum ETF - blog

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🔥 Michael Sailor bought 168 BTC ($18.8m) - announcement

Purchase price: ~$112,051.

Now on the balance sheet of Strategy 640,418 BTC ($71b).

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💸 Greenlane Holdings plans to raise $110,000,000 to buy #BERA (Berachain).

(Official release)

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😃 #SOL Is the co-founder of Solana preparing a new DEX?

A project was found on GitHub, which Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is working on.

It seems that he is creating a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures (Perpetual DEX) directly on Solana.

If this is confirmed, the market will receive:
⊹ Native platform for trading Hyperliquid futures, but on Solana
⊹ Powerful inflow of liquidity and on-chain volumes.
⊹ A new turn in the Solana DeFi ecosystem.

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🫢 The net outflow of money from Bitcoin ETF last week was $1,230,000,000 - the second largest in history (SV)

$311,800,000 - outflow of funds from spot Ethereum ETFs (#ETH) for the past week.

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😍 BitMine bought 203,800 #ETH ($822.5m) last week - release

Now on the balance: 3,236,014 ETH ($13,b).
Average purchase price: $4022.

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🫥 Many buyers of the #ZEC token do not speculate on it, but keep it in shielded mode!

On Twitter, the growth of the token by 750% since August this year has increasingly been described as «people’s real desire for privacy and confidentiality».

Supposedly, it’s not just a pump of some old coin, but everything is much deeper.

Why this is important: Part of the offer becomes less affordable for immediate sale.

Real-time data: zechub

Shielded is a Zcash mode where amounts and addresses are hidden using zk-SNARKs. This is not a DeFi pool, but a part of the registry itself. Wallets with NU5/Orchard and Unified Address support allow you to «hide» coins and send them privately. Crypto exchanges are more likely to work with transparent addresses.

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