One day you will log into Binance and see this, but this time it's going to be for real 🙏

In 2022, Elon Musk rated the odds of this landing happening as "above zero" 🕑

But today, SpaceX's Mechazilla service tower "caught" the first stage of the Starship's Super Heavy Flight 5 rocket on its return trip 🚀

It looks fascinating

✅ We started the week with the bulls failing to reach the Bitcoin price of $64k and then recovering all week after the correction to $59k, during which time meme coins started outperforming the whole market 📈

Weekly news digest:

💎 Crypto

🔸 Peter Todd is named Satoshi Nakamoto in the new HBO documentary, he denies it's him

🔸 The ECB has challenged the idea that stablecoins are a “safe haven” for investors in times of market turmoil

🔸 DOJ charged Gotbit, CLS Global, MyTrade, and ZM Quant with manipulating various crypto markets 

🔸 Uniswap DEX announced their own L2 Ethereum rollup, Unichain
 
🔸 The government of Palau has launched Palau Invest, a “blockchain-based savings bonds prototype system

🏦 Crypto exchanges

🔸 Crypto. com said it sued the U.S. SEC after the regulator sent them a Wells Notice
 
🔸 Bitget announced that it will update the listing standards, including evaluating ethical risks

🔸 Binance has announced the launch of a pre-market trading platform
 
💵 Finances and Economy

🔸 Canary Capital files for spot XRP ETF

🔸 Fidelity confirms 77,000+ customer records were hacked

🔸 Investors and analysts expect China to unleash as much as $283 billion in fresh fiscal stimulus

🔸 The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case concerning the ownership of Bitcoin seized from the Silk Road

⚖️ Law and Order

🔸 SEC Commissioner admits their approach to crypto has been "a disaster for the whole industry"
 
🔸 FBI launched NexFundAI token as bait to bait crypto market manipulators

🔸 The FSC of South Korea has announced that it will investigate the market monopoly structure of Upbit
  
🔸 Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan has been denied bail 
 
🔸 SEC sues Cumberland DRW for unregistered crypto dealer activities

 🗣 Personalities

🔸 Elon Musk has revealed Cybercab robotaxi

🔸 Vitalik Buterin nominated for Nobel Prize in Economics
 
🔸 Justin Sun is elected Prime Minister of Liberland micronation

🚀 Best performers of the week:

SPX6900 - $0.8636 (↑177.8%)
Neiro - $0.0021 (↑80.7%)
WBT - $15.31 (↑33.3%)

Looks like Uptober is real, a new week starts with market gains, Bitcoin nearly hits the $65,000 mark, and a slew of altcoins grow by double-digit percentages 🔼

Monochrome Asset Management is preparing to launch Australia’s first spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund on the Chicago Board Options Exchange 🤑

The fraudster accused of overseeing a $150 million crypto scam has gone on the run after his ankle monitor went dark and he skipped a pre-trial meeting 💰

A man is suing Newport City Council in the UK for $647 million in damages after he mistakenly threw out the hard drive containing 8,000 bitcoins 🗑

Chinese researchers using a quantum computer claim to have breached the encryption algorithms used in banking and crypto ⌨️

🔹 Last 24 hours top 3 gainers:

Ethena - $0.409 (↑21.61%)
Brett - $0.114 (↑16.08%)
Worldcoin - $2.31 (↑15.99%)

#GM

Back to growth! Bitcoin pumps above $65,000 🤑

Chinese monks recite chants to help investors in a bull market. It seems to be working 📈

China stimulus aims at its greatest wall of debt. To spur consumption China may need to spend up to $1.42 trillion or 7% of GDP 🇨🇳

Risk-on assets are rising, Bitcoin is trading above $66,000 🤑

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Top 7 token unlocks for this week 🔒

The total value of tokens unlocked this week will exceed $217 million. Given that the market has started to skyrocket, it's unlikely that these new unlocks will do much to slow the upward movement of these altcoins, but here they are 👇

• Axie Infinity (AXS) — $60.07M
• Arbitrum (ARB) — $49.82M
• EigenLayer (EIGEN) — $42.99M
• StarkNet (STARK) — $26.93M
• Polyhedra Network (PHN) — $17.27M
• ApeCoin (APE) — $11.24M
• Karrat (KARRAT) — $8.78M

#unlocks

✅ Total spot Bitcoin ETF trading volume surpassed $2.1 billion today, most of it was buying as we can see as BTC pumped up 5.3%, rising above $66k at one point 🔼

Daily Digest:

🔸 US President Joe Biden warned Iran, saying that any attempt to kill Donald Trump would be an act of war

🔸 Monochrome Asset Management is preparing to launch Australia’s first spot Ethereum ETF on the CBOE ✨

🔸 The fraudster accused of a $150 million crypto scam has gone on the run after his ankle monitor went dark

🔸 A man is suing Newport City Council in the UK for $647 million in damages after he was barred from searching for his missing 8,000 bitcoins in a landfill

🔸 Chinese researchers using a quantum computer claim to have breached the encryption algorithms used in banking and crypto

🔸 Vitalik Buterin pondered several potential improvements to Ethereum’s proof-of-stake model 🕔

🔸 Someone lost $1.3 million simply due to signing scam transaction

🔹 Prices:

🥇 Bitcoin - $66,120 (↑5.3%)
✨ Ethereum - $2,630 (↑6.6%)
🧪 S&P 500 - 5,859 (↑0.77%)
🕗 DXY - 103.21 (↑0.31%)
🌉 Gold - 2,650 (↑0.06%)

Next target: 100k 🐂

Bitcoin reserves on centralized exchanges just hit a new record low, which signals that investors are moving their BTC to private wallets, reducing the supply available for trading, supply shock = bullish 🧪

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has granted preliminary approval for the launch of a first-ever dirham-pegged stablecoin 🇦🇪

Shares in Metaplanet rallied 15.7% today after the Japanese investment firm announced its latest purchase of 107 bitcoins 🔼

United States spot Bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest one-day inflow in over four months. The 11 ETFs saw aggregate net inflows of $555.9 million yesterday 💰

🔹 Last 24 hours top 3 gainers:

Bitcoin Cash - $361.32 (↑9.55%)
Notcoin - $0.009 (↑7.34%)
Ethena - $0.433 (↑7.72%)

#GM

The fun continues: Price of Bitcoin has surpassed $67,000 📈

ETH to $6,000 in 2025? 😮

As you can see, Ethereum pumped by at least 100% each time after bouncing off the lower boundary of the ascending price channel 🧪

Will we see Ethereum at $6,000 in 2025 if the bull market continues?

Vote with emojis:

Yes — 🐳

No — 😢

Understanding Smart Contracts in Crypto 📜

Smart contracts are self-executing code that runs on blockchain networks like Ethereum. They automatically perform actions when specific conditions are met, cutting out the need for middlemen 🤝

In crypto, smart contracts power decentralized applications (dApps). This lets you trade tokens, lend or borrow assets, and even play blockchain games — all without a central authority.

🤔 Why does this matter? Smart contracts make transactions transparent and secure. For example, in DeFi platforms, you can earn interest by staking your crypto, and smart contracts handle payouts automatically.

For example, NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) use smart contracts to verify and transfer ownership of digital art or collectibles. When you buy an NFT, the smart contract ensures the asset is transferred to you securely.

Without smart contracts you would need someone you trust to arrange a deal with a seller of NFT, smart contracts on the other side are trustless way to trade 😎

#FAQ

✅ Today, Bitcoin price suddenly jumped to nearly $68,000 ruining $285 million worth of short positions but it didn't take long for the market to start retracing 📉

Daily Digest:

🔸 Netanyahu tells U.S. that Israel will strike Iranian military, not nuclear or oil, targets

🔸 Goldman Sachs thinks the Fed has already hit 2% inflation target 📊

🔸 Website of World Liberty Financial, the Trump-backed crypto platform went down during the token sale

🔸 The Central Bank of the UAE has granted preliminary approval for the launch of a first-ever dirham-pegged stablecoin

🔸 Metaplanet, the Japanese investment firm announced the purchase of 107 bitcoins 🛒

🔸 Bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest one-day inflow of $555.9 million yesterday

🔸 Canary Capital has filed registration documents for a spot Litecoin ETF

🔹 Prices:

🥇 Bitcoin - $66,587 (↑1.0%)
✨ Ethereum - $2,592 (↓1.1%)
🧪 S&P 500 - 5,815 (↓0.76%)
🕗 DXY - 103.22 (↓0.07%)
🌉 Gold - 2,661 (↓0.04%)

The new season of meme coin mania is in full swing, with the meme sector outperforming all others, and yesterday saw 25,402 new meme coins created - the most ever 📈

Wallets associated with Elon Musk's Tesla have moved more than 11,500 BTC ($760 million) to other wallets 🔍

Only 7.5% of respondents to a university survey in El Salvador said they had used cryptocurrencies for transactions, while 92% admitted they had not 🇸🇻

Praxis, which bills itself as the world’s first “Network State,” announced it has secured $525 million to build a tech-forward city that will support the development of crypto, AI, energy, and biotech 🌆

So far, World Liberty Financial, the Donald Trump-backed DeFi project, has sold 638 million WLFI tokens in its public sale, worth $9.57 million 🕑

🔹 Last 24 hours top 3 gainers:

Dogecoin - $0.126 (↑9.71%)
Litecoin - $71.36 (↑6.73%)
Bitcoin SV - $51.21 (↑5.37%)

#GM

In the prediction market, Donald Trump is already ahead of Harris by more than 20% in the likelihood of winning the upcoming election 🇺🇸

In fact, Trump is now ahead in every swing state 📊

This should not be excluded from the current factors for market growth, as Trump is associated with a bullish sentiment 🐂

Italy's Deputy Finance Minister, said the government will raise taxes on capital gains on crypto such as Bitcoin to 42% from 26% 🇮🇹

It's hard to call it anything other than stealing 🤷‍♀️

• The government does nothing to help you make money from crypto investments.

• When you get scammed, you're on your own.

• When your investment depreciates, it's your own fault.

• But when you earn something, for some reason you have to pay them almost half of it 😠

✅ Bitcoin reached above $68,000 during this morning's spike, the market is green and it seems that this time the bulls were able to break through resistance at the key liquidity level 📈

Daily Digest:

🔸 Italy's government will raise taxes on capital gains on crypto such as Bitcoin to 42% from 26% 🇮🇹

🔸 More than $50 million has been lost from a cybersecurity breach at the Radiant lending protocol

🔸 Wallets associated with Tesla have moved more than 11,500 BTC ($760 million) to other wallets

🔸 USDT issuer Tether counted 330 million on-chain wallets and accounts that use their stablecoin

🔸 Only 7.5% of respondents in El Salvador said they had used cryptocurrencies for transactions 📊

🔸 Praxis, which bills itself as the world’s first “Network State,” announced it had secured $525 million

🔸 Turns out Donald Trump will get 75% of World Liberty revenue

🔹 Prices:

🥇 Bitcoin - $67,654 (↑1.4%)
✨ Ethereum - $2,611 (↑0.8%)
🧪 S&P 500 - 5,842 (↑0.47%)
🕗 DXY - 103.52 (↑0.25%)
🌉 Gold - 2,674 (↑0.02%)