FTX announces global partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC), the governing body of cricket, where FTX will be the official cryptocurrency exchange partner for ICC events.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/2288039

Nova Finance, Solana-based programmable asset protocol, has raised $3 million.

Investors: Animoca Brands, SkyVision Capital, Rarestone, Solana Foundation, 3commas, Solanium, AscendEX, Morningstar Ventures, DFG, LIAN Group, Genblock, Spark Digital, Stacker, Jsquare, Mirana Ventures, CitizenX.

https://novafinance1.medium.com/nova-finance-investment-round-successfully-closed-30ed21ff8ae9

BadgerDAO (BADGER) and Rarible (RARI) are now available on Coinbase.

https://blog.coinbase.com/badgerdao-badger-and-rarible-rari-are-now-available-on-coinbase-75575571562b

Alty,the influencer platform that brought crypto to popular chat mediums WhatsApp and Telegram using the Algorand network, has successfully closed a $1.5M seed round led by Borderless Capital.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alty-the-one-click-social-messaging-wallet-migrates-to-algorand-enabling-instant-and-nearly-feeless-chat-based-crypto-transactions-301398047.html

Metaverse marketplace Highstreet raises strategic round led by Binance and Animoca Brands.

https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/highstreet-raises-strategic-round-led-by-binance-and-animoca-brands/amp

The NFT Marketplace Quidd has announced its $QUIDD token.

https://twitter.com/QUIDDToken/status/1448606688358113283

🔥BTC price has reached the level of $60,000 and it is now trading at ~$59,300.

https://dropstab.com/bitcoin

The Sacramento Kings and Ankr announced an official multi-year partnership established from their mutual vision of the future of sports and blockchain as a technology.

https://www.nba.com/kings/news/sacramento-kings-and-blockchain-company-ankr-launch-multi-year-partnership

Highstreet has been listed on Impossible Swap, Pancakeswap and Uniswap.

HIGH is now trading at 7.2x from the IDO price.

https://www.dextools.io/app/ether/pair-explorer/0x3854612b93b140726167cca5418b01e832515d42

The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to allow the first U.S. Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund to begin trading, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-15/bitcoin-futures-etf-said-not-to-face-sec-opposition-at-deadline

CNBC reports that ProShares and Invesco ETFs are likely to be approved by the SEC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/the-sec-is-poised-to-allow-the-first-bitcoin-futures-etfs.html

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission simultaneously filed and settled charges against Tether and Bitfinex, fining the companies $42.5 million.

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21

According to an Oct. 15 notice from the SEC, the agency has accepted the registration of securities from ProShares Trust’s Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, which offers exposure to the crypto asset with futures contracts. In addition, ProShares filed a post-effective amendment prospectus, which states its ETF could launch as early as Oct. 18.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001174610/000168386321006053/f10032d1.htm
https://cointelegraph.com/news/breaking-proshares-follows-valkyrie-in-approval-for-listing-bitcoin-strategy-etf

A portion of the locked FLOW tokens will become unlocked at ~15:00 UTC on October 16th.

Community sale participants will receive 50% of tokens.
The cost of 50% tokens of 1 account at the current price ($17.4) is ~$87k.

At the current price, Flow market cap will grow from $1.18 billion (97th rank of the top 100) to ~$5.2 billion (38th).

https://onflow.org/discord
https://discord.com/channels/613813861610684416/621529603718119424/897930815302942760

Jack Dorsey has announced that Square is considering building a Bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide.

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1449110239442345995?s=20

FLOW tokens have been distributed on CoinList.

On CoinList Pro, the price has dropped from $17 to $7 and is now stabilizing at ~$12.
FLOW is now trading at ~$17 on other exchanges.

FLOW is now available to trade for US residents on CoinList.

Bakkt Holdings, LLC, the digital asset marketplace founded in 2018, announced that it has completed the previously announced business combination (the “Business Combination”) with VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company (“VIH”).

The combined company now operates as Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (“Bakkt,” the “Company”), and Bakkt’s shares of Class A common stock and warrants will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols “BKKT” and “BKKT WS”, respectively, starting Monday, October 18, 2021.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211015005610/en/Bakkt-Closes-Business-Combination-with-VPC-Impact-Acquisition-Holdings-and-Will-Begin-Trading-on-the-New-York-Stock-Exchange-on-October-18-2021

UniLend (UFT) is being listed on AscendEX.
Trading: on October 18 at 13:00 UTC.

https://asdx.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408744426259-Listing-of-UniLend-UFT-
https://twitter.com/UniLend_Finance/status/1449729506944565255?s=20

The blockchain project AcknoLedger has raised $1.53 million in initial seed and private sales to become a gateway to metaverses.

The initial seed and private sales round has come from 30+ venture capitals like Momentum 6, Basics Capital, Krypital Capital, Shima Capital, Magnus Capital, X21, Mayor Capital, Mahadao, Gain Associates, NFT Tech, Oasis Capital, Amesten, Nord Finance, Blockventure, AU21, Synapse Network, RedHat Capital, Pro Starter, Kardia Ventures, Baselayer Venture, Zbs Capital and is backed by angel investors like Carl Runefelt (The Moon Carl) & Evan Luthra.

https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/acknoledger-raises-153-million-in-initial-seed-and-private-sales-to-become-a-gateway-to-metaverses

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