💰 Arthur Hayes is seeking $250 million to create a private equity firm that will focus on buying small or mid-sized cryptocurrency companies.

🆕 #BNB Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined LABUSDT and RIVERUSDT Perpetual Contracts (2025-10-17). binance

🏦🙋‍♂️ #BTC YouTuber MrBeast files trademark to offer Bitcoin and crypto services through his new venture MrBeast Financial.

MrBeast has 445 MILLION subscribers

📝👀 #SOL The world’s largest Solana treasury company, Forward Industries, reports holding 6.87M+ SOL worth over $1.5B in its treasury.

🗽👀 #INJ #ETF 21Shares registered Injective ETF in Delaware.

📊👀 #BTC CQ: $100k is the next support level for BTC
$100k is the lower price boundary realized by traders (dashed light blue line on the chart), which acted as the last price support during this bull cycle.

In addition, the $100K is an important psychological support level that could trigger a sell-off if it is broken, and it is where the 365-day moving average stands today.

📊🇪🇺 Chainalysis: The total volume of cryptocurrency transactions in Europe, after a correction in mid-2024, peaked at $234 billion in December of that year and remains at that level in the first half of 2025.

💰 #ETH Huobi founder to launch $1 billion ETH treasury company

💰 Stripe-backed blockchain startup Tempo has raised $500 million - fortune

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:
#BTC-ETFs:
NetFlow: -4,998 BTC ($526.81M) 🔴
ARK21Shares outflows 2,544 BTC ($268.14M) and currently holds 42,474 BTC ($4.48B);
#ETH-ETFs:
NetFlow: +4,202 ETH ($15.81M) 🟢
BlackRock inflows 12,098 ETH ($45.51M) and currently holds 4,052,934 ETH ($15.25B).

🕵️‍♂️ A wallet "bc1ql7c" linked to the co-founder of BTC-e and WEX, who is accused of laundering hundreds of thousands of stolen BTC from Mt. Gox, has transferred all 6,500 BTC ($694 million) to new wallets after a 3-year hodling.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 #tradewars Trump said he may postpone the deadline for imposing 100% of China's tariffs (from Nov. 1).

💰 Astra Nova, an AI-powered web entertainment and infrastructure company, has raised $48.3 million in funding. coindesk

💳🤔 #SOL In Solana is preparing a massive announcement on Octоber 20. It will probably be about the launch of debit cards.

📈 #BTC liquidity is rising again. Value flowing back to Bitcoin has historically preceded major price rallies.

🔮📈 67% of institutions expect #BTC to hit $130K within 6 months, Coinbase survey.

📊👀 Santiment: MVRV (Mean Value to Realized Value) of top caps has jumped into negative range. Average returns of wallets active in the past 30 days implies that a recovery. Average trader returns:

#BTC: -5.8%
#ETH: -8.4%
#XRP: -15.3%

The further below 0% these MVRV's go, the more justification there is to buy the dip.

🔝💸 #HYPE Hyperliquid leads all blockchains in fees over the past 24 hours, surpassing BNB Chain, Tron, and Ethereum.

📈 The number of Transactions sending Altcoins into exchanges has hit a new YTD high.

📊 CryptoRank: Average Asset Allocation of Hedge Funds

The growing participation of hedge funds in #DeFi and crypto markets is a major driver of liquidity expansion. Globally, hedge funds manage about $5 trillion in assets, and even a small allocation to digital assets can inject billions into the ecosystem

📉 #BTC hits most oversold level against gold in 3 years. coindesk