📢 Patrick Witt has confirmed his departure as executive director of the White House Crypto Council, describing the role as the privilege of a lifetime and hinting at a transition to the private sector.

📢 OpenAI says AI agents now make up over half of AI usage among its EU enterprise and business customers, while weekly active agent users at small businesses have grown 8.1x since May.

📢 Bitcoin’s realized volatility has dropped from 81% five years ago to 43% over the past year, bringing it closer to the volatility levels of S&P 500 stocks, according to Grayscale.

📢 Machi Big Brother has been fully liquidated, leaving just $21.8K after growing $56K into $12.25M through trading over the past four months.

📢 The number of Bitcoin wallets holding 10 to 10,000 $BTC has reached a record 20,338, rising sharply since mid-July despite ongoing price volatility, according to Santiment.

📢 A task scam operator lost over 60 $BTC, worth approximately $4.8M, in the Ledger theft after attackers drained three addresses containing the scam’s proceeds.

📢 Glassnode reports that fresh large buy orders lifted Bitcoin after bids around $80K were filled, while support below $80K is weakening once again.

📢 Bitcoin funding rates on Binance have dropped to -0.0073%, pointing to growing bearish sentiment as expectations of a rate hike increase, according to a CryptoQuant analyst.

📢 Michael Saylor’s Strategy ($MSTR) plans to pay $1 per share in daily dividends on its STRC preferred stock throughout November, subject to shareholder approval on October 28. The proposed annualized dividend rate is 12%.

📢 Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone warns that Bitcoin could drop toward $10,000, especially if the U.S. stock market experiences a 20% decline.

📢 Tokenized stocks have reached a record $4B market cap, marking an 831.8% increase over the past year, according to Token Terminal.

📢 Gen Z earns 20–40% more than millennials did at the same age across all income brackets, even after adjusting for inflation, according to a16z.

📢 Stablecoin-based remittances are about 84% cheaper than traditional transfers, with a median fee of $2 compared to $12.72 for sending $200.

📢 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have never recorded more than four consecutive months of net outflows.

📢 Anthropic’s Claude reportedly solved a 26-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes, tracing supposedly random curve seeds to timestamps from 1997 and 1998. Anthropic says the discovery doesn’t weaken the curves and makes backdoor fears less plausible.

📢 Nine crypto groups have launched the Quantum Alliance to develop shared standards for quantum-resistant networks and wallets, warning that 6.04M $BTC, around 30% of supply, may be vulnerable to future quantum threats. No existing quantum computer can crack them yet.

📢 Italy, Portugal, and Singapore account for 66.9% of geolocated tokenized U.S. Treasuries, while U.S. residents hold just 10.5%, according to Chainalysis.

📢 Bitcoin has never recorded back-to-back monthly losses in October since at least 2013. Could this year break that trend?

📢 El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserves have now exceeded 7,800 $BTC.

📢 Solana topped stablecoin transfers in September with a record 557M transactions, beating BNB Chain’s 543M by 14M.