🤔 #BNB CZ stated that all companies with digital asset treasuries must hold cryptocurrency with third-party cryptocurrency custodians. This comes on the heels of reports that QMMM, which planned to invest $100 million in #BTC, #ETH, #SOL, has shut down following SEC allegations of price manipulation.

💸 #BTC Over the last 24 hours, ~$745 million worth of contracts have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$557 million and shorts ~$188 million.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. 0xebb4 sold 88,227 #AAVE ($19.89 million) at an average price of $225.47 in the last 8 hours, leaving 3,129 AAVE ($697k);
2. 0xFB3B continues contributed #ASTER to Daniel Larimer's Binance wallet. So far, he has deposited 58.6 million #ASTER ($92.3 million) at an average price of $1.57, leaving 14.1 million ASTER ($18 million) in the balance - total losses already total over $23 million;
3. 9gcGLQ, who previously made $3.4M on #ai16z and $3M on #arc, sold 61,845 #SOL ($11.52M) at $186.

🤔 #ETH #BTC BitMEX Chairman: ETH may eventually surpass BTC capitalization similar to how US stocks surpassed gold 54 years ago when the US abandoned the gold standard. cointelegraph

🔝 Top 15 #DeFi Protocols by TVL Growth in the last 30 days

📊 CQ: Volatility surged 22% in a single day and consolidated above 25 - a clear sign of market anxiety.

Investors are seeking to protect their capital by rotating into safer assets such as gold and bonds. #macro

🎢 #ETH and #BTC: Estimated Leverage - All Exchanges

🇫🇷 #BNB France is probing several cryptocurrency companies, including Binance, for money laundering.

📉👀 The altseason index fell from 80 to 45 over the month.

📊 #BNB CQ: on October 13, the number of daily active addresses in the BSC network grew to an ATH of 3.62 million.
Since September 2025, the relationship between active addresses (green area) and BNB price (yellow dashed line) has entered a phase of intense correlation. Although earlier these two indicators showed more independent fluctuations, recently they have been moving almost synchronously.
The peak of BNB price occurred a few days before the peak of the number of active addresses, which may indicate that the price jump triggered a wave of new users, possibly caused by FOMO.

🆕 #ZBT [Trading] New Zerobase (ZBT) Trading Support (KRW, BTC, USDT Markets).

🇯🇵🏦 Japan's three largest banks - MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho - are collaborating to launch a stablecoin pegged to the Japanese yen and US dollar. nikkei

📊 #BTC Glassnode: Bitcoin sits between key support levels, below the 200DMA ($107.4k) and just above the 365DMA ($99.9k), with the 111DMA ($114.7k) overhead.

Holding the 365DMA could steady the trend, while a break lower risks a much deeper correction.

🔮 #ETH Citizen Bank predicts ETH could rise above $10,000 over the next 2 years, citing growing adoption, increasing institutional inflows and shrinking supply. coindesk

🇺🇸🗣 Trump responded negatively to a question about whether high tariffs against China would remain.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 White House economic adviser Hassett: We're not at war with China. I'm confident we'll get the relationship going. #tradewars

🙋‍♂️ #USDT Tether announced the opening of the source code for their wallet development kit (WDK).

💰 Arthur Hayes is seeking $250 million to create a private equity firm that will focus on buying small or mid-sized cryptocurrency companies.

🆕 #BNB Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined LABUSDT and RIVERUSDT Perpetual Contracts (2025-10-17). binance

🏦🙋‍♂️ #BTC YouTuber MrBeast files trademark to offer Bitcoin and crypto services through his new venture MrBeast Financial.

MrBeast has 445 MILLION subscribers