📢 CertiK has flagged a suspected exploit targeting 79Vault, with $12.5M worth of $BNB reportedly moved through a privileged function.

📢 More than half of tokenized equity trading takes place outside traditional market hours, according to the IMF, highlighting growing demand for 24/7 access to financial markets.

📢 Grayscale’s Zcash ETF recorded $8.5M in net outflows yesterday.

📢 Bitcoin $BTC has fallen below $81K as $488.9M worth of crypto positions were liquidated across the market in the past hour.

📢 President Trump says the White House views anyone using the term “Artificial Intelligence” instead of “Super Intelligence” as “THE ENEMY.”

📢 Strategy is set to release its Q3 results after U.S. markets close on October 29, followed by an ET webcast.

📢 The U.S. government has transferred another 12,267 $BTC worth approximately $1.01B, according to Lookonchain.

📢 Binance’s $ETH reserves have dropped to their lowest level in six months as withdrawals surge to a record high, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Kraken is reportedly looking into a technical issue that is displaying inaccurate margin data for some users on its app and website.

📢 Ledger is investigating reports of fund losses linked to Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis. The company has urged anyone who purchased a device from the reseller within the past 90 days to avoid setting it up.

📢 Eric Balchunas argues that concerns over the S&P 500’s narrow market breadth are exaggerated, saying the “Magnificent 7” are better described as the “Magnificent 700,” given that Microsoft and Google have each acquired around 270 companies.

📢 Bitcoin could slide to around $74,500 if its current decline follows the average drawdown seen in previous bull markets, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 Businesses accumulated 193,000 $BTC in 2026 through October 5, while individual investors’ holdings declined by 93,000 $BTC, according to River data.

📢 The market cap of tokenized pre-IPO stocks has surged 16-fold to $65.8M in 2026, with OpenAI and SpaceX making up 84.4% of the sector.

📢 AI model costs have collapsed by 95% in just three years, matching a decline that took personal computers 15 years to achieve during the 1980s digital revolution. Data from Goldman Sachs shows the price index per million tokens plummeted from 100 to roughly 5 in about 36 months, indicating an unprecedented rate of technological deflation.

📢 Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky has been permanently banned from the crypto, securities, and commodities industries in New York as part of a major fraud settlement. Under the agreement, Mashinsky faces up to $35 million in conditional payments to resolve allegations that he defrauded investors before his cryptocurrency platform collapsed.

📢 Constance Wang, the former COO of FTX, blasted Netflix's new trailer for The Altruists, saying it literally made her sick to her stomach. She called out the series for focusing on a love story instead of the actual disaster that ruined countless lives.

📢 A massive sell-off erased $170 billion from the total value of the crypto market in less than seven days.

📢 CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost says Bitcoin is struggling around $80,500, the average investor’s break-even level, mirroring a similar pattern seen in late 2025.