💰 #TON TON Foundation attracted eight-figure investment from MEXC Ventures.
cointelegraph.com

🇺🇸 USA. Factory Orders (Aug): 0.2% (prog: 0.2%; prev: -2.1%)

- ISM Non-Manufacturing (PMI) (Sep): 53.6 (prog: 53.6; pre: 54.5)

👀🗣 JP Morgan's head of blockchain, Tyrone Lobban, said that "99.9%" of his conversations with clients are about tokenized forms of traditional financial instruments, not cryptocurrencies.
decrypt.com

📊 State #EOS in Q3:
- The average number of new addresses per day fell by 50% compared to the previous quarter. The market share of EOS System activity from newly created addresses decreased from 79% to 44% quarter-on-quarter.
- DeFi TVL on EOS EVM is down 92% QoQ to $72,000.

📊 State #WAX in Q3:
- The average daily number of new addresses increased by 81% quarter-on-quarter to 2,900.
- WAX Labs has released an update to Cloud Wallet that allows users to take control of their admin keys.
- Wombat acquired AtomicHub, WAX's most popular NFT marketplace by secondary sales volume. Wombat plans to integrate its existing features, including the #WOMBAT wallet and token, into the marketplace, as well as continue development in other areas.

🥳 #POL contracts are available on Goerli Testnet.
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🗣 Mike McGlone: ​​The emergence of spot #BTC-ETF and #ETH-ETF could herald lower returns, risks - it is not unusual to see high volatility and performance decline in a nascent asset class as it migrates into the mainstream. The launch of US Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and exchange-traded funds could continue the trend of lower volatility and mark price peaks, especially in unfavorable liquidity conditions.

💰 Blackbird raised $24 million led by a16z.
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📊 #ETH futures trading volumes were lower than expected. During the first two days of trading, the total volume was $2.53 million.

🙅‍♂️ #MATIC Polygon co-founder Jainti Kanani is leaving the project.

👀 #TWT Trust Wallet is intriguing

🕵‍♂ #ARB Keith sold 1.7 million ARB for 906 ETH ($1.48 million) ~1 hour ago with a profit of ~$73k.
Also Wintermute Trading deposited 1 million ARB ($870 thousand) on Binance 30 minutes ago.

💰Convergence RFQ, a Solana-based trading platform under development, has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. theblock.com

🌐 #SAND Sandbox partnered with real-time interaction (RTE) platform Agora

👀🗣 #BTC Ex-BlackRock CEO Says SEC Will Approve Spot BTC-ETF in “3-6 Months” and believes approval could lead to "an influx of $150 billion to $200 billion" into Bitcoin investment products within three years.

📈 #AVAX Stars Arena, Friend Tech's competitor, leader in number of daily active users on the Avalanche network, a TVL exceeded $1 million within two weeks after its launch.

📊 #SNX Messari. Synthetix status in the third quarter of 2023:
- volumes and commissions increased by more than 10% compared to the previous quarter;
- profitability for stakers for the quarter increased by more than 12% year on year;
- trading commissions accounted for 46% of staker income 

👀 #STRD #ATOM Stride explores ideas for converting the entire STRD token supply into ATOM

🇭🇰 The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is launching a settlement platform based on smart contracts. cointelegraph.com

📊👀 Sentiment: Watch #FET, #LRC, #REN and #TVK and their growing supply level on exchanges. A high ratio usually means increased likelihood of future volatility.