📉🤔 #BTC Since the beginning of the year, the trading volume of Bitcoin futures on CEX exchanges has decreased by half.

🗽 Wall Street’s next crypto play might not be altcoins — but IPO-ready crypto firms

Matrixport notes a shift in capital from early-stage bets to scalable, late-stage projects preparing for public markets. Up to $226B in crypto IPOs are waiting in the pipeline, potentially unlocking $30–45B in new capital inflows.

Meanwhile, #BTC continues to outperform altcoins, reinforcing a winner-takes-all dynamic as institutional money concentrates on established players.

📊👀 Over the last quarter, #ETH has nearly matched #BTC in annual performance.

📊 #BTC CQ: Coinbase Premium GAP rose to $91.86. This means that US investors are buying BTC on Coinbase at a price $91.86 higher than on Binance. Such a strong positive sentiment from the US could be a signal of a potential new high.

📊 #BTC Glassnode: changes in the index are observed. Medium-sized BTC holders are actively accumulating assets, the distribution of "whales" has slowed, and smaller holders remain neutral. This indicates the emergence of new structural demand despite continued selling by large holders.

🇯🇵 Nomura-owned Laser Digital plans to apply for a cryptocurrency license in Japan. coindesk.com

📊 #TRX CQ: in September, the largest crypto networks recorded >642 million transactions. TRON accounted for the largest share, namely 279 million transactions (40%), followed by Polygon (112 million) and Arbitrum (87 million).

📈 DeFiLlama: Stablecoin market cap has hit $300B for the first time.

📊👀 #ETH saw over $2.2 billion in exchange outflows this week, bringing Ethereum exchange reserves to a 9-year low.

🥳 Fintech company OnePay, majority owned by Walmart, will soon offer cryptocurrency trading and storage services on its mobile app in partnership with ZeroHash. cnbc

🏦 Deutsche Bank made its first cross-border euro payment via the Partior blockchain platform in partnership with DBS.

🕵 #ETH Whale, who previously made $81 million trading ETH, sold 22,500 ETH today.

Whale purchased 60,333 ETH at the end of September at an average price of $4256, and over the past two days he has sold a total of 43,330 ETH at an average price of $4388

🇺🇸👀 #ETF Crypto in America: The U.S. government shutdown has delayed the SEC's routine approval process for cryptocurrency ETFs. While the SEC can still act in emergency situations, approvals of IPOs and ETFs, including pending applications for LTC, SOL, XRP and others, will likely be put on hold until the government reopens.

🔥🤝 #COIN Samsung has partnered with Coinbase to provide cryptocurrency to more than 75 million Galaxy users via Samsung Pay

🔮 #BTC Analysts at Standard Chartered predict BTC will reach $135,000 in the near term if the government shutdown drags on, and expect a price of $200,000 by the end of the year.

🇺🇸👀 #macro US (Sep):
- S&P Composite PMI: 53.9 (pre: 54.6);
- S&P Services PMI: 54.2 (pre: 54.5);
- ISM Services PMI: 50 (pre: 52).

🆕👀 #MORPHO Binance adds Morpho.

📊 #BTC Swissblock: The Short-Term Holder cost basis (~$111.6K) continues to act as the pivot between bullish continuation and bearish risk.

Five successful defenses since May highlight structural resilience.

🎢 The crowd is massively opening long positions in altcoins, which significantly increases the risk of liquidations, experts warn.

🏦 #ETH Goldman Sachs sees an increase in institutional participation in Ethereum

💸👀 CoinGlass: >$130 million liquidated in the last hour