💸 #XRP Ripple CEO: Ripple spent over $150 million on US SEC case

👀🎢 #FTT WSJ woke up and pumped FTT: A company run by former New York Stock Exchange President Tom Farley (Proof Group) is among three bidders to buy the remains of FTX

🥳 #NEAR Near Protocol announced the introduction of a new “NEAR DA” and said that hosting data on the network could be 8,000 times cheaper than staking on Ethereum.

🙋‍♂ #LDO Lido launched #wstETH on Base.

🤝 #RVF #SPACE RocketX has integrated MicroVision Chain into their platform, making it functional with over 100 leading blockchains

💰 Crypto investment app Sock completes $3 million seed funding round

💰 Stackr Labs, an Ethereum scaling startup, has raised $5.5 million in seed funding from a16z CSS, Archetype and others. theblock.com

✅ #AAVE #GHO The Aave community has accepted a proposal to increase the GHO loan rate from 3% to 4.72%

🇨🇭💸 #MKR MakerDAO paid the Swiss government $1.5 million in taxes on US bond transactions. dlnews.com

🤝 #SUSHI #FIL SushiSwap launched on Filecoin

🧑‍💻📉 Developer activity in crypto projects is declining in 2023 (-50% since the beginning of the year)

🇨🇳🥊🇺🇸 Lawmakers introduced a bill to ban the US from doing business with China's #CBDC and Tether's parent company.

📊 Messari. Safe state in Q3:
- Safe demonstrated record highs for most usage metrics;
- registered over 376,000 active accounts per month (up 201% QoQ) across various Safe deployments;
- general share of transactions originating from Safe smart contract accounts reached 1.4% (an increase of 133% QoQ), and commissions for transactions originating from safes, brought 638 ETH (up 67% QoQ).

💰 A group of former Coinbase product experts and engineers have raised $4.1 million for their startup Definitive. theblock.com

💰#GTC #MASK Mask Network launched the 5th round of Web3 social grants on Gitcoin
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🕵‍♂ #STORJ Team Storj wallet transferred 2 million STORJ ($1.43 million) to Binance 45 minutes ago.

🇺🇸🕹 #BTC US Senator Ted Budd introduced a bill protecting the right to self-storage of cryptocurrencies.

📈 #BTC BitInfoCharts: The average transaction fee for using the Bitcoin blockchain was $6.84 on Wednesday and increased by approximately 970% compared to the low of $0.64 reached in August.

This surge is caused by the increase in the minting of Ordinals - over the past two weeks, almost 1.9 million Inscriptions have been uploaded to the blockchain.

21Shares: The revival of Ordinals is also helping to boost profits for BTC miners - blockchain transaction fees now account for about 8.5% of their income.

📊 #BTC Sentiment: The ratio of traders going long (versus going short) reached a 3-month high. In addition, the total open interest on exchanges has increased to $7.2 billion. Ideally, the BTC price will continue to rise after #FOMO stabilizes.

🔄 #FLOW successful held hard fork

📊 #ALGO Messari. Algorand status in Q3:
- 1.1 million new addresses were added, and the average number of daily transactions increased by 2%;
- the number of transactions related to #NFT increased by 321%, facilitated by the Algorand NFT Rewards program