👨‍💻 #TAO #AI Yuma, a development studio and gas pedal for Bittensor created by DCG's Barry Silbert, has launched Yuman Asset Management to provide institutional and accredited investors with easy access to the deAI ecosystem. coindesk

🇧🇭🤝 #XRP #RLUSD Ripple announced a strategic partnership with Bahrain Fintech Bay (BFB), a large local fintech incubator working closely with government partners including the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB).

💰 #FF M2 Capital invested $10 million in Falcon Finance

📝🎁 #MON Monad Airdrop Claim Portal opens on Tuesday, October 14th.

📈🤔 State Street: 60% of institutional investors plan to increase investment in digital assets over the course of the year.

🗣 #SOL #ETF Analysts at JPMorgan said that spot SOL ETFs are likely to be approved soon, but will receive lower inflows compared to ETFs on Bitcoin or Ethereum.

Previously: October 10 is the deadline for the SEC to rule on applications to launch SOL ETFs.

🏴‍☠️ #HYPE Hackers stole $20 million (via private key theft) from Hyperliquid user right after he closed a $16 million HYPE long and sold 100k HYPE.

🇦🇪🥳 #MNT Bybit has received a virtual asset platform operator license from the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). coindesk

🇧🇭👀 #BNB CZ stated that he was "in meetings in Bahrain all day today".

📊🤔 #BTC CQ: To prevent panic selling from STHs, it is crucial for the ongoing consolidation to hold above the $112k line in the short term.

📈 #ETH Ethereum L2s are absolutely dominating the charts.

Quarter 3 set a new record - 1.4B transactions across Layer 2 networks, showing just how fast Ethereum’s scaling ecosystem is growing.

🎁 CryptoRank: New Portion of Airdrop Campaigns in October

📈👀 #AAVE’s growth this year has been exceptional:

— Supply up 96.4% YTD
— Borrows up 89.7%
— $33B in available liquidity

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: +3,356 BTC ($407.04M) 🟢
BlackRock inflows 3,451 BTC ($418.48M) and currently holds 802,198 BTC ($97.29B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: +20,142 ETH ($86.61M) 🟢
BlackRock inflows 32,968 ETH ($141.76M) and currently holds 4,083,486 ETH ($17.56B).

🕵️‍♂️ The Bitcoin OG, who was selling #BTC for #ETH and #USDC, deposited $80M USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a BTC short position with 6x leverage, currently valued at $418M.

🤬💸 CoinGlass: >$100 million liquidated in the last hour

📊 #LDO Sentora: Liquid staking TVL sits at $82 billion, with Lido representing an impressive 44.3% of the total liquid staking TVL.

🔝 Top Crypto Billionaires list

📊👀 #BTC CQ: Large investors are not dominating the sell-off. The pressure is coming from smaller cohorts of wallets

💰 Today's fundraisers:
- CipherOwl completed a $15M seed round of funding with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others;
- LAB raised $5M with participation from Animoca Brands, Amber Group, Lemniscap, et al;
- Fanable (Ethernal Labs), a Web3 marketplace for Pokémon, comics and digital collectibles raised $11.5 million.

🇺🇸🤝 Roger Ver struck a deal with the Justice Department. His fraud and tax evasion charges will be dropped in exchange for a $48 million fine - NYT