🇺🇸 Trade Balance (Aug): -67.4 billion $(prev: -70.7 billion $)

🇺🇸 Non-Farm Employment Change from ADP (Sep) - 208 thousand

📊 GBTC rebate hits new all-time low in 36% last week, and the estimated price of BTC was $12,500.

The current discount implies that GBTC will remain closed until January 2045.

🤝 Coinbase hired Usman Naeem (Goldman Sachs) as the new Head of Global Derivatives and Agency Trading in London.

🇪🇺 The European regulator has listed what is needed for a “responsible crypto sector”.
cryptonews.com

📊 glassnode: If we estimate the volumes of BTC entering and leaving exchanges by whales (>1k BTC), we can estimate their realized price.

The average price of whale deposits/withdrawals since January 2017 is currently ~$15.8k.

👀 SEC Orders CryptoFX Shutdown, which, according to the regulator, received $12 million using crypto scams.

⚖️ XRP vs SEC. The SEC has filed a motion to oppose two firms attempting to provide evidence in support of Ripple in the ongoing SEC lawsuit against Ripple.

I-remit and aircraft company Tapjets petitioned the court to be allowed to file an "amicus briefing". This process allows a third party to provide information about an ongoing case that may influence the decision of the court.

В защиту Ripple I-remit заявил, что у него есть доказательства того, что несколько компаний используют XRP для трансграничных платежей, а не в качестве спекулятивного актива. Tapjets добавила, что ее бизнес-операции принимают XRP в качестве заменителя фиатной валюты.

🙌 Michael Saylor

🙋‍♂️ The mass adoption of NFTs will be driven mainly by their usefulness.
cointelegraph.com

📊⛏ Miners have two sources of income: block reward and transaction fee.

BTC block rewards make up the majority of miners' income. In Q3, the total income of miners received from commissions was 1.7%, What's on 0.1% more than in the previous quarter.

🥳 THORChain - integration completed Avalanche C-Chain.

🔛 Mythical Games creates Mythos Foundation to decentralize Web3 games, and expand its ecosystem with Mythos DAO and control token MYTH.

👀 Two Sigma Securities, a hedge fund with approximately $60 billion in assets under management, will provide Chainlink with data on derivatives.

🖼 Coda Labs study shows that only 3% of gamers own NFTs and, as a rule, do not have a positive attitude towards cryptography.
coindesk.com

🤖 Elon Musk introduced the robot Optimus.
cryptonews.com

🙋‍♂️ Venture Firm Bessemer hopes to identify the most innovative startup opportunities in the world of DeFi and Web3 consumer applications. In March, they announced that they would allocate $ 250 million for the crypt.

👀 Do Kwon

🇸🇻 A delegation from the US spent five days in El Salvador to learn how the recognition of BTC as legal tender will transform its economy.
bitcoinmagazine.com

🇦🇫 Taliban repression led to the collapse of the use of cryptocurrency in Afghanistan, according to a study after a surge last year when the country was cut off from global banking and international aid.

The value of the cryptocurrency received in the country fell on average to less than $80,000 per month since November compared to a peak of more than $150 million last September, just after the Taliban returned to power.

📊 Top 15 DAPPs by revenue in September/