🔥Bitcoin has set a new all-time high, breaking the $66,000 level.

Assemble Protocol (ASM) is launching on Coinbase Pro.

Trading will begin on or after 16:00 UTC October 21, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/assemble-protocol-asm-is-launching-on-coinbase-pro-9b4c6f9c484f

Bounce (AUCTION) is now available on Coinbase.

https://blog.coinbase.com/bounce-auction-is-now-available-on-coinbase-7b1787f163c9

MonoX is now live on Ethereum and Polygon mainnet.

In conjunction with their referral program, MonoX is launching a retroactive airdrop.

https://medium.com/monoswap/monox-is-live-on-mainnet-44b1ec99e8fa

Sommelier Finance, a crypto project that helps automate DeFi trading, has raised $23 million in a Series A funding round.

The round was led by Polychain Capital, with participation from existing investor Alameda Ventures and new investors Zola Ventures, Byzantine Ventures, Tendermint Ventures, Secure Ventures, D1 Ventures, and Ferngrove Ventures.

https://sommelier.finance/blog/sommelier-announces-23mm-series-a-mainnet-round

Subscription for the Lazio Fan Token (LAZIO) Token Sale on Binance Launchpad Is Now Open.

After the subscription is complete, Binance will list Lazio Fan Token (LAZIO) in the innovation zone at 2021-10-21 12:00 UTC and open trading for LAZIO/BTC, LAZIO/BNB, LAZIO/TRY and LAZIO/EUR trading pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/7062300c06bb405ba0725796e65a4cd6

Binance joins Elrond as Staking Provider.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-staking-provider-binance/

Concept Art House, the creator of art for video games and nonfungible token (NFT) collectibles and partners of Dapper Labs for their upcoming UFC digital collectibles experience, has raised $25 million to create NFT art and games.

The investors include Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, Anthos, Appworks, Blockchain Coinvestors, Fabric VC, Hashkey, Liberty City Ventures, One Football, PKO investments, Polymorphic Capital, Protocol Labs, Redbeard Ventures, Spartan Group, Jeff ‘Jiho’ Zirlin (Axie-Infinity), Gabby Dizon (Yield Guild Games), Vinny Lingham (Civic), and Kevin Lin (Twitch). Steve Aoki is an adviser.

https://twitter.com/dapperlabs/status/1450517493781516290?s=21

Cboe Agrees to Acquire ErisX, Entering Digital Asset Space with Spot, Derivatives and Clearing Platform.

https://ir.cboe.com/news-and-events/2021/10-20-2021/cboe-agrees-acquire-erisx-entering-digital-asset-space-spot-derivatives-and-clearing-platform

Injective has announced that the Injective Pro relayer has been launched.

https://twitter.com/InjectiveLabs/status/1450835129702748160?s=20

Polkadot-based privacy project Manta Network has raised $5.5M to continue scaling decentralized finance (DeFi) use cases by boosting blockchain privacy.

Investors: crypto hedge fund CoinFund, ParaFi Capital, Web 3. investment fund LongHash Ventures, CMS Holdings, Divergence, Spartan Group, Global Coin Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Zee Prime and SNZ, Digital Currency Group, Consensys, Bitcoin.com.

Angel investors included SushiSwap’s semi-anonymous core contributor 0xMaki, Dragonfly Capital’s Kevin Hu, ParaFi general partner Santiago Santos and others.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/polkadot-based-privacy-project-manta-network-raises-5-5m

Lazio Fan Token trading has started on Binance.
LAZIO is now trading at ~27x from the IEO price (1$).

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/LAZIO_USDT

The price of bitcoin suffered a flash crash, falling from $65,500 to as low as $8,200 on crypto exchange Binance.US.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/121601/bitcoin-price-flash-crashes-to-8200-on-binance-us-in-possible-trading-mishap

FTX has raised $420M in a Series B-1 funding round.

Sixty-nine investors – including BlackRock and Tiger Global – joined the fast-growing crypto conglomerate.

Investors valued the exchange at $25 billion.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/21/ftx-raises-420690000/

Australia needs to introduce new regulations for digital asset miners, such as tax discounts and a licensing regime for crypto exchanges, to be “competitive with Singapore, the UK and the U.S.”, an Australian Senate report said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2RH018

Sports-focused collectible NFT firm Candy Digital has raised $100 million in a Series A financing round, bringing its value to $1.5 billion.

Insight Partners and Softbank Vision Fund 2 co-led the funding round.

Investors: former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, Connect Ventures, Will Ventures, Gaingels, Com2Us, and Athletes Syndicate through a partnership with Chaos Ventures.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/121632/nft-startup-candy-digital-raises-100-million-in-series-a-round

Assemble Protocol (ASM) is now available on Coinbase.

https://blog.coinbase.com/assemble-protocol-asm-is-now-available-on-coinbase-5411d68dfd2b

Playboy launches new NFT project, Rabbitars.

Playboy Rabbitars will be available for purchase for 0.1953 Ethereum on the official Playboy Rabbitar site using crypto or U.S. dollars (USD) via three different sales:

A pre-sale for whitelisted Eth-paying collectors will take place Sunday, October 24th-Tuesday, October 26th.

The public sale for Fiat/USD-paying collectors will take place Tuesday, October 26th (following the end of the whitelist sale).

The public sale for Eth-paying collectors will take place Wednesday, October 27th.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/10/20/2317683/0/en/Playboy-launches-new-NFT-project-Rabbitars.html

Binance will list Tranchess (CHESS) in the Innovation Zone and will open trading for CHESS/BNB, CHESS/BTC, CHESS/BUSD and CHESS/USDT trading pairs at 2021-10-22 06:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/75ee0166b3ec43aba2266ef98893dd56

Sotheby’s joined a $20 million seed round investment in Delaware-based NFT studio Mojito.

Other investors: Future Perfect Ventures, Creative Artists Agency and NEA’s Connect Ventures.

The investment values the firm at $100 million.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabelcontreras/2021/10/21/sothebys-makes-first-crypto-investment-backing-nft-startup-using-ethereum-blockchain/

The Associated Press will make its trusted economic, sports and race call datasets available to leading blockchains via Chainlink, the world’s largest decentralized network of oracles, enabling smart contracts on any blockchain to securely interact with the AP's real-world data.

https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2021/ap-chainlink-to-bring-trusted-data-onto-leading-blockchains