⛏🇬🇧 The State Duma rejected in the first reading the draft law "On Mining in the Russian Federation", introduced by deputies from the "New People" faction

👀 #BTC Nearly 80% of El Salvadorians think the country's bitcoin strategy has failed
finbold.com

👀 ShapeShift DAO releases decentralized mobile app
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💰 #SOL Helius raises $3.1M to make Solana app development 'faster and cheaper'
decrypt.com

👀 South Africa classifies crypto assets as financial products
coindesk

🙋‍♂️ #GLMR Treasury Program approved by the community
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🕵️‍♂️ According to the FT, around 4,400 crypto investors formed the UST Restitution Group to hunt down Terra founder Do Kwon. inefficiency

📊 On-Chain metrics on 10/18/2022 found that 40,572 BTC were withdrawn from exchanges. And the offer on the stock exchanges decreased to 8.48%.

🙋‍♂️ Coinlist announced a package of 5 Seed Fall 2022 projects: Capx token distribution platform, DB DAO database protocol, Frontrunner sports prediction market, Nillion privacy network, 3A Worldspark Studios game studio.

👀 An exclusive collection of Kardomance “UOS” chests will appear on the Uniq Marketplace.
medium.com

👀 The Celestia Foundation announces that it has raised $55 million to support investment rounds led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital. blog.celestia.com

📊 The 30-day correlation between BTC and US stocks has stabilized at around 0.7 over the past five weeks. The correlation of BTC to gold is at a multi-year high, and the 30-day correlation of BTC with the US dollar index has dropped to -0.64.

🥊 Today, an Ethereum user spent a record 121.56 ETH (more than $158,000) to pay for gas. cryptobriefing.com

👀 The Kingdom of Eswatini is considering introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). techcrunch.com

📊 Harmony Protocol in Q3. Despite a challenging year, Harmony remains focused on developing protocols, expanding the ecosystem, improving developer tools, and striving for a cross-chain future.

Daily user metrics and daily transactions are down over 87% from their peak levels. The QoQ decline in average users per day (-34,000) coincided with the overall decline in GameFi and DeFi users.

Average daily income fell sharply (-82%) to $240 compared to $1350 in the second quarter.

Harmony Protocol TVL is down 26%.

🇺🇸 The US alleges that 5 Russian citizens have used cryptocurrencies as part of a sanctions evasion and smuggling scheme.
coindesk.com

🙋‍♂️ Collectibles insurer Wax is partnering with Luxury Bazaar to allow people to pawn expensive watches. benzinga.com

👀 Financial Times: Around 4,400 investors band together to find Do Kwon's whereabouts. ft.com

👀 Celestia announces the completion of a $55 million funding led by Bain Capital and Polychain Capital. blog.celestia.org

👀 Coinbase Supports Grayscale in Lawsuit Against SEC Over Bitcoin Spot ETF Denial decrypt.com

👀 Blur NFT Market is officially launched and BLUR tokens will be distributed to users twitter.com