🧐 Cointelegraph: MEV remains a major challenge in blockchains, with over $300K lost to sandwich attacks last month.

Threshold encryption helps by hiding transactions until block inclusion — even proposers can’t see them, as keys are split among a committee.

Shutter pioneered this with per-epoch encryption, later upgraded to per-transaction, now live on Gnosis Chain via its RPC endpoint.

Yet a key flaw emerged: once the epoch key was reconstructed, all pending transactions became public.

📊 #SOL Solana continues to dominate DEX trading, outperforming Ethereum for the 11th consecutive month.

🎢 #BTC 4H RSI is now the most overbought since the July top.

Usually such instances result in a correction or sideways price action for some time.

📊👀 #BTC options cluster around $100K–$120K, with light call interest near $130K. Far OTM strikes up to $300K show cheap upside bets driven by sentiment.

Premium flows stay balanced — traders hedge both ways, showing tactical positioning over strong conviction. glassnode

💰 #PUMP Fitell acquired 216.8 million PUMP

📈 Total #DeFi TVL just hit the highest level since January of 2022.

💵💸 #USDC Circle has minted another 750 million USDC. Circle has minted a total of 8 billion USDC on the Solana network over the past month

📊 #BTC purchased by publicly-traded Treasury Companies in September:

1. Strategy: 7.6K.
2. Metaplanet: 6.6K (+5.3K announced yesterday).
3. Strive: 5.9K (using PIPE).

This excludes mining companies and companies with a large operating business (e.g. Coinbase, etc).

🗽👀 #LDO #ETH #ETF Vaneck registered Lido Staked Ethereum ETF in Delaware.

🔝 Privacy tokens have emerged as the top gainer sector over the last 24 hours. #ZEC #VEIL #ANYONE

Several potential drivers:
– Sector rotation in the bull market, with capital shifting across categories.
– The view that privacy coins primarily gain at the end of market cycles.
– Rising regulation and crypto adoption, positioning privacy as an emerging trend.

📈 Over $130B added to the crypto market cap today

This week, the cryptocurrency market gained more than $400B in market capitalization, bringing its total value to over $4.07T.

🧐 Coinglass data shows that none of the 30 indicators signal a market peak, suggesting the cycle still has room to run before the final phase of the bull market.

📊 Ecoinometrics: Q4 is usually strong for #BTC in bull markets

Last year was no exception: the biggest #ETF inflows of the year happened in Q4, helping Bitcoin surge from $60K to above $100K.

If flows pick up again, our model points to Bitcoin rallying above $135K by November.

📊 #BTC Swissblock: is the conductor, the Market Phase sets the rhythm:

• The beat of Bitcoin
• #ETH as the bridge to alts
• Large caps in unison
• Mid & Small caps close the melody,

The harmony shifts, but the conductor remains the same: Bitcoin sets the tempo every time.

🔮📊 Here’s where options traders think Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana will end 2025:

- #BTC: $140K
- #ETH: $6K
- #SOL: $300

the tallest blue line represents the strongest bet

📈👀 #BTC #ETF Bloomberg: IBIT has surpassed Coinbase's Deribit platform as the largest venue for bitcoin options with $38 billion in open interest.

The growth of IBIT options is the least discussed, but most significant markets structure shift for Bitcoin since the ETFs themselves.

Not only did IBIT surpass Deribit, but Options are now larger then futures by open interest. x

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net inflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$627.2 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$307.1 million.

⛏️🕹 New York State Senator proposes tax on energy use for cryptocurrency mining. #mining #regulation cointelegraph

📝 #HYPE Patrick Scott of Defillama has done the research and says Hyperliquid is still the most profitable Perp DEX platform despite the rise of competitors. x

🤝 #MORPHO #CRO Cryptocom integrates Morpho lending, generating revenue from stablecoins. cointelegraph