📢 21Shares has launched a physically backed $ZEC ETP in Europe, giving investors direct exposure to Zcash through a traditional exchange-traded product.

📢 U.S. Treasury yields have climbed to their highest levels since 2007.

📢 AI infrastructure spending is projected to reach $10.3T between 2025 and 2032, equivalent to roughly 3.6% of U.S. GDP annually, according to the WSJ.

📢 Bitcoin holders have realized $5.1B in net profits over the past week, a relatively modest figure that looks more like late 2023 levels than previous market tops, according to @glassnode.

📢 Bitcoin wallets holding 100–1,000 $BTC have accumulated 113,950 $BTC since mid-July, pushing their total holdings to roughly 5.24M $BTC, according to Santiment.

📢 An institution scooped up $220M worth of $BTC today, marking another major buy-the-dip move from big money.

📢 U.S. office loan delinquencies in commercial mortgage-backed securities have surged to nearly 12%, exceeding their post-2008 crisis high, according to Trepp.

📢 SoFi is shifting settlement for its $25B+ annual card program to its SoFiUSD stablecoin.

📢 An exploiter breached three hot wallets and a cold wallet, rapidly converting all funds into ETH, paying up to a 5% premium. The affected wallets still retain $530 million, and Bitget has not yet issued an official response.

📢 Ethereum’s exchange-held supply has fallen to a record-low 3.49% of total supply, with 1.16% of $ETH leaving exchanges since June 1, according to Santiment.

📢 Only 4 of the 20 largest crypto treasury companies currently trade above the value of their crypto holdings, raising questions about the funding model used to finance further crypto purchases, according to DWF Ventures.

📢 A new “Shielded Bitcoin” proposal aims to bring Zcash-style private transactions to Bitcoin without requiring a soft fork. It would hide transaction amounts, senders, and recipients using zero-knowledge proofs while keeping transfers verifiable. Users could also provide view-only keys to auditors to verify payments when needed.

📢 DTCC is set to launch a tokenization service covering $114T in assets, including Russell 1000 stocks, major ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries. More than 100 major firms, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan, are already involved in its tokenization initiative.

📢 Individuals accumulated 107,000 $BTC in Q3, according to River.

📢 European corporate bond funds saw around $3.4B in outflows in a single week in September, according to BofA, as uncertainty around interest rates rattled investors.

📢 $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, and $XRP ETFs have recorded net monthly inflows for at least three straight months, with $XRP ETFs extending their inflow streak to six consecutive months.

📢 Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer says Bitcoin has entered a new bull market after holding above $60K, with his model projecting a potential $300K target by 2029.

📢 A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s ban on Anthropic’s Claude, ruling 2–1 that the AI model can be excluded from military supply chains over restrictions on government use. Anthropic may appeal to the Supreme Court, while the ruling could also complicate the company’s IPO plans.

📢 🇺🇸 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their largest weekly inflow of 2026, attracting $2.39B worth of $BTC and surpassing the previous record of $1.92B set in August. Institutional Bitcoin demand has hit a new yearly high.

📢 The median U.S. home cost roughly 3.5 years of household income in 1985. Today, that figure has risen to about 5 years.