🇺🇸 ISM Manufacturing (PMI) (Oct): 46.7 (prog: 49; pre: 49)

- Number of open vacancies on the JOLTS labor market (Sep): 9.553 million (prog 9.25 million; pre 9.61 million)

📊💰 The number and volume of venture funding in October reached new lows since 2021

In October, 75 crypto venture investment projects were publicly disclosed, down 10% from the previous month. Total funding in October was $430 million, down 20%.

🖼🤝 Adidas, in partnership with Bugatti, will hold an auction of football boots that will have a digital twin on their Web3 platform.

📊 #ETH According to a CoinShares survey, fund managers view Ethereum as the digital asset with the most compelling growth prospects at the moment:

~45% of survey respondents chose ETH, ~39% for #BTC, a small but significant 6% of participating fund managers preferred #SOL.

📊 Report glassnode:
- The digital asset market has posted impressive returns in 2023, with #BTC and #ETH outperforming traditional assets such as gold by 93% and 39%
- Market corrections for the two major assets were significantly shallower than in previous cycles, suggesting investor support and positive capital inflows
-BTC's dominance continues to grow, with BTC's market cap up 110% year-to-date.

🖼 #RARI Rarible submitted new product RaribleX.

💰 The Waterfall Network platform has completed funding in the amount of $2 million.
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🥳 HSBC is launching a blockchain platform to tokenize gold ownership in its London vaults.

📊 #ETH Ethereum network growth has reached its highest level in the last 24 days, supply on exchanges is at its lowest level since Genesis.

✅ Visa completes digital Hong Kong dollar pilot program with two leading local banks.
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📈 #NEAR today +12% on partnership

🤝 Decentralized cloud infrastructure network Aethir joins NVIDIA's "NVIDIA Inception" program.
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👀⚖️ #FTT US prosecutors make closing arguments in SBF case: This is fraud, simple theft.
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👀 #MULTI Multichain has resumed processing bridge transactions after 117 days of downtime.

🕵️‍♂️👀 FTX address (FTX Cold Storage #2) bought 1,600,645 #SOL (~$65.46 million) from the collateral. Currently, 3,963,725 SOL (~$162 million) are still mortgaged at this address.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong digital asset platform OSL and Harvest International are planning to launch fund tokens into the Hong Kong retail market.
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📊 Growth leaders in October

🆕 Coinbase will add support for Celestia (#TIA) on the Celestia network.

🕵️‍♂️ To Alameda Research received 4.7 million #MATIC ($2.94 million) from the contract for the placement of Polygon POS terminals.

💰 Modulus Labs announced its launch and raised $6 million in its seed round.