FinCEN issues warning about virtual currency being used to finance terrorist organizations — link

Digital asset investment products saw inflows for the 4th consecutive week totalling $66m. Total AuM has now risen to $33bn — link

PetroChina completes first international crude oil trade in Digital Yuan: report — link

Deutsche Bank and SC Ventures complete first stablecoin swaps on UDPN: report — link

Grayscale court ruling sends Bitcoin ETF approval back to SEC — link

new ฿ yearly high: $35,198

North America’s crypto market is more driven by institutional activity than any other region’s with a whopping 76.9% of transaction volume driven by transfers of $1 million or more. The region’s on-chain activity is split relatively evenly between DeFi and centralized exchanges — link

CME BTC futures OI has breached 100k BTC for the first time ever.

CME's market share has pushed to a new all-time high of 25%, rapidly approaching Binance (Perps + Futures) — link

Grayscale launches crypto indices product with FTSE Russell — link

Euroclear settles World Bank blockchain bond — link

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust IBTC has been removed from DTCC's list — link | DTCC

BlockFi says the company has emerged from bankruptcy as of October 24 — link | PR

FTX is negotiating with three bidders to restart crypto exchange, firm expected to decide fate of exchange in December — link

This Friday 8 AM UTC, 85K $BTC are set to expire on Deribit with a notional value of $2.88 billion.

Max pain price $28,500, put/call ratio: 0.85

Ethereum max pain price $1,650, $1.53 billion notional value, put/call ratio 0.45

Bitfinex Securities announces tokenized bond — link

Tokenized T-bills have been the largest driver of on-chain RWA assets in 2023, totalling $665 million — link

Bankman-Fried lawyer says client will take stand — link

UK lawmakers pass bill to help seize illicit crypto — link

Sam Bankman-Fried takes the stand — live thread