KAVA trading has started on Binance.
KAVA is now trading at ~1.4x from the IEO price.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/KAVA_USDT
💧 icodrops.com/kava

Blockstack trading has started on Binance.
STX is now trading at ~1.15x from the general public offering price and ~2.9x from the price for voucher holders.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/STX_USDT
💧 icodrops.com/blockstack

Crypto Capital President Ivan Manuel Molina Lee was arrested by Polish authorities, accused of being part of an international drug cartel and involved in its money-laundering operations using Bitfinex.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/44591/ceo-of-crypto-capital-arrested-in-alleged-money-laundering-operation

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has requested that Bittrex postpone the New York account closure deadline until further notice. New York residents will be able to continue to withdraw funds, but may not deposit or trade.

https://bittrex.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029715492-Important-Information-for-New-York-Customers

China president Xi Jinping said on Thursday the communist party should regard blockchain as a core technology for important innovative breakthroughs and should commit to accelerating the development of such technology.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/44646/xi-jinping-says-to-let-china-take-the-leading-position-in-blockchain

Nassim Taleb: "The most potent case for cryptocurrencies: banks are never there when you need them. And they are trying to bully the public so they avoid accountability and profit disbursements.
Bankers are legal crooks."

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1187467132646199300

October 2019 MATIC token release:

✔️100% of unlocked Matic Treasury tokens (Foundation & Ecosystem) to be allocated to staking activities
✔️~40% of Investors are voluntarily not taking any unlocks
In all, ~80% of total unlocked tokens NOT to be released into the market
✔️Only ~20% of the unlocked tokens (248,446,690 tokens) to be released
✔️This was the first & last Investor token unlock (50% unlocked on listing & 50% unlocked now)

https://blog.matic.network/october-2019-token-unlock-100-foundation-tokens-to-be-used-for-staking-activities/
💧 icodrops.com/matic-network

"Bitfinex is the victim of a fraud and is making its position clear to the relevant authorities, including those in Poland and the United States. We cannot speak about Crypto Capital's other clients, but any suggestion that Crypto Capital laundered drug proceeds or any other illicit funds at the behest of Bitfinex or its customers is categorically false", Bitfinex said in a statement.

https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/426

The market is green again. BTC price has risen sharply in minutes and is now trading at ~$8400.

ETH - $178
BNB - $18.7
XRP - $0.294

The price of BTC broke the $10,000 mark, reaching $10,370. But now it is trading around $9,600.

The Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress in China has passed the cryptography law on Saturday and it will be effective on January 1, 2020.

The new law aims to tackle emerging regulatory and legal challenges in commercial cryptography use-cases as they play an increasingly important role in developing the Chinese economy, according to the law’s latest draft proposal prior to approval.

https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-congress-passes-cryptography-law-effective-jan-1-2020

OKEx Announces New Partnership with Klaytn – Kakao Corporation’s Blockchain Project as Ecosystem Partner.

https://okexpressroom.prowly.com/76359-okex-announces-new-partnership-with-klaytn-kakao-corporations-blockchain-project-as-ecosystem-partner

KuCoin Will Launch Margin Trading Service on October 31.

https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-kucoin-will-launch-margin-trading-service

Justin Sun tweeted: "Top 4. At the end of this year. #TRON #TRX $TRX $BTT."

https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1188510832042266624?s=21
💧 icodrops.com/tron

Following CZ's warning, Justin Sun deleted the prediction tweet.

Chinese projects show the best growth after the recent positive statement of China's President XI Jinping on blockchain.

“The People’s Bank of China has been studying DCEP (digital currency electronic payment) for five or six years, and I think the technology has matured. PBOC is probably the first central bank to introduce digital currency in the world,” said Huang Qifan, vice chairman of CCIEE (China Center for International Economic Exchanges).

https://pandaily.com/cciee-vice-chairman-says-pboc-will-be-first-to-roll-out-digital-currency/

Binance.US will list Waves (WAVES). Trading for the WAVES/USD trading pair will open on October 30, 2019, at 1:00 UTC.

https://support.binance.us/hc/en-us/articles/360035627431
💧 icodrops.com/waves

Bitmain competitor Canaan publicly files for $400M IPO on Nasdaq.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1780652/000119312519276263/d773846df1.htm
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/44963/bitmain-competitor-canaan-publicly-files-for-ipo-on-nasdaq

Binance Adds Margin Trading for IOST and VET.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360035635231

Samsung adds support for Tron to its Blockchain SDK.

https://developer.samsung.com/blockchain/keystore/release-note
https://developer.samsung.com/blockchain/keystore/sdk
💧 icodrops.com/tron