• S&P 500 opens 0.3% higher; NASDAQ rises 0.5% - [DB]

• Bitfinex supports Plasma, a payments chain for USDT built on Bitcoin - [Zoomer]

• BlackRock purchased 14,745 Bitcoin worth $1 billion in the last 3 days and now holds a total of 385,591 Bitcoin valued at $26.55 billion - [NN]

• Fed Governor Christopher Waller: DeFi can complement centralized finance; stablecoins may benefit payment systems - [Tree]

• BlackRock in talks with global crypto exchanges to integrate BUIDL token as futures collateral - [Tree]

• Kamala Harris's team evaluates Brummer and Williams as potential SEC chair replacements, expected to have favorable views on cryptocurrency - [AGGR]

• TAPIOCA DAO recovers funds from hack - [AGGR]

• SEC approves NYSE options for spot Bitcoin ETF - [PN]

• ARK 21Shares (ARKB) reports daily BTC inflows of $109.8M - [Tree]

• GCR transfers $2.3M related to MAGA (Trump) to MEXC deposit address - [AGGR]

• ETF flows on Oct 18, 2024: Bitcoin ETFs see $273.7M net inflows, Ethereum ETFs see $1.9M net inflows - [EI]

• Pump.Fun plans to launch a token in the future - [Tree]

• Stripe completes $1.1 billion acquisition of stablecoin platform Bridge - [Zoomer]

• MetaMask and Space ID announce integration to simplify crypto transactions and wallet access - [NN]

• S&P 500 opens 0.1% lower, NASDAQ down 0.2% - [DB]

• Legal & General, a $1.5T asset manager, considers fund tokenization - [Tree]

• Crypto stocks decline as Bitcoin prices fall 1.3%, with Coinbase down 4.6%, Bitfarms down 2.5%, MicroStrategy down 2.4%, Riot down 4%, and Mara down 5% - [WB]

• Ransomware group breaches crypto payments provider Transak, putting some user data at risk - [AGGR]

• S&P 500 closes down 0.2%, NASDAQ up 0.2% - [DB]

• BlackRock (IBIT) reports daily BTC flows of $332.3M - [Tree]

• ETF flows for October 21, 2024: Bitcoin ETFs see $297.6M net inflows while Ethereum ETFs experience -$20.8M net outflows - [EI]