📊 #HYPE Hyperliquid has dominated Perp DEX TVL over the last year, but its evident that competitors like #ASTER are making inroads.

— Hyperliquid: $5B TVL (still #1)
— Aster: $655M TVL (peaked $2B in 24h)

🏴‍☠️🍿 #RVV Astra Nova, recently added to Binance Alpha, reported that one of its market makers was hacked and the attacker sold RVV for >$2 million.
Meanwhile, the project's Discord has been blocked.
LoC: After RVV appeared on Binance Alpha, 18 wallets sold ~890 million RVV worth ~$10.66 million.
Crypto Analyst Ember: A total of 860 million RVV (8.6% of the total) was withdrawn from the project's minting contract and exchanged for USDT, which was later transferred to CEX. No hacker would change stolen assets into USDT and hold them, because USDT can be frozen.

💵 #USDT #USDC Tether and Circle minted $6 billion worth of stablecoins after the market crash.

🇸🇻👀 #BTC El Salvador added 8 BTC to its Bitcoin reserves over the past week, bringing its total holdings to 6354.18 BTC.

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

🍿 #RVV Astra Nova: In light of recent events Astra Nova will buy back the same number of affected tokens directly from the market.

🇯🇵🏦 #BTC Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) plans to allow banks to hold cryptocurrencies for investment purposes.

🇭🇰🙅‍♂ Ant Group and JD com have suspended their plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong after Chinese regulators, including the NBK and CAC, demanded a halt to the projects. ft

📈 #NFT trading volume this week increased by over 5% to $158M and the number of NFT buyers and sellers increased by ~125%.

📊👀 #BTC Coinglass: Almost 22,000 BTC have been withdrawn from CEX over the past 7 days.

🐳 A mysterious whale "0x579f" has deposited 2.91M #USDC into Hyperliquid over the past 2 days — going long on #ENA while shorting #BTC and #ETH, with a total position of ~$70M.

🕵 BlackRock deposited 272.4 #BTC ($28.3M) to Coinbase Prime and pulled out 12,098 #ETH ($45.4M) hours later.

📝👀 Projects by diluted valuation launched this week. #RECALL #YB #CLO #ZBT #LAB

📈 #HYPE Sentora: Hyperliquid’s strong growth continues with permissionless perpetuals deployments, a new feature that democratizes market creation that could drive significantly higher perp volumes.

👀 #BTC #MSTR Michael Saylor posts the Saylor Bitcoin tracker, hinting at buying more Bitcoin.

🔓📝 Upcoming Major Token Unlocks:

#ZRO 23.13% ($42.4M) – Oct 20
#XPL 4.94% ($35.2M) – Oct 25
#MBG 19.01% ($17.2M) – Oct 22
#KAITO 2.96% ($7.2M) – Oct 20
#H 2.74% ($5.7M) – Oct 25
#ALT 2.9% ($2.4M) – Oct 25
#SOON 3.87% ($8.7M) – Oct 23
#AVAIL 4.36% ($1.3M) – Oct 23

🗣 NYDIG Global Head of Research: #USDC, #USDT and #USDe are not true dollar pegged stablecoins and their value fluctuates based on market supply and demand. They are essentially just market trading instruments.

🙅‍♂👀 Bybit delists futures on #BDXN, #NODE, #AGT, #FIS, #SKATE, #FHE, #GORK, #TANSSI, #TOKEN, #OSMO, #SCA, #DMC, #MAJOR, #FRAG and #SWELL

📊🤔 #BTC Analysts: In recent years, Bitcoin has been closely correlated with returns, while gold has not. Bitcoin is a more profitable hedging instrument.

🥳 Over $100 billion has flowed back into the crypto market in the last 12 hours.