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Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin slid to around $80,100, down 1.9% in 24 hours, and closed a daily candle below its 50-day moving average for the first time since August.
- US spot bitcoin ETFs lost $635.6 million in one day, their biggest outflow of the month, with BlackRock's fund down over $254 million.
- Spot ether ETFs are heading for their worst month of 2026 with $1.2 billion of October outflows, as ETH trades near $2,340.
- About 169,770 ETH left centralized exchanges on net in a day, the largest withdrawal in more than four months.
- Arthur Hayes closed Maelstrom's entire directional book, selling roughly $22.28 million in tokens including 6,400 ETH, citing macro and geopolitical risks.
- Initia halted its layer-1 and rollups after an attacker exploited a MoveVM bug to mint and bridge out about $2.7 million.
- Swell paused swETH and rswETH deposits and withdrawals after a rate anomaly; researchers suspect admin key abuse, and Swell says all funds are safe.
- XRP lost the $1.30 support level and trades near $1.27, while Solana is close to breaking below $100.
- Objections to the OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue reached 22 companies, with Wells Fargo, Intuit and Arm joining Microsoft and Alphabet.
- The SEC named tokenization a high-risk focus in its 2027 examination priorities covering more than 34,000 registrants, with no standalone crypto category.
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Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin slipped below $81,000 on Thursday before steadying near $81,678, with roughly $406 million in crypto liquidations as equities and precious metals sold off.
- US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $635 million on October 22, the largest single-day outflow since June 25, ending a three-day inflow run worth about $1.08 billion.
- Whales kept buying through the weakness: 40 newly created wallets have withdrawn 9,458 BTC, worth $771.5 million, from Wintermute since October 1.
- Ethereum developers cancelled the October 26 Glamsterdam test on the Hoodi testnet after ChainSecurity found 13 deployed contracts at risk from EIP-8037's gas changes. No new date is set.
- Ether trades near $2,405 after spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $110.8 million in outflows and several early holders sold, including one selling 3,000 ETH for a 128x return.
- XRP trades near $1.31, down 17% over a month even as XRP wallets reached a record 8.24 million. The XRPL fixCleanup amendment slipped to November 4.
- HSBC launched RedCoin, a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin regulated by the HKMA, to more than 3.3 million PayMe users and over 100,000 merchants.
- Malaysia and Thailand joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative, which sets common rules for accepting and settling regulated stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits across borders.
- JPMorgan Asset Management brought its MONY and JLTXX tokenized money market funds to Solana, available to qualified US investors through the Morgan Money platform.
- A Circle shareholder sued Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial over UAE-linked stablecoin deals, claiming the diverted USD1 business costs Circle roughly $70 million a year.
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Before my GN, today's crypto highlights:
- Bitcoin was rejected just under $85,000 on Wednesday and now trades near $81,750, down 3.2% in 24 hours, with more than $220 million in long positions liquidated.
- US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in about $1.07 billion over three sessions, turning October flows positive at roughly $457 million after earlier outflows.
- Ethereum fell below $2,400 to about $2,408, while US spot Ether ETFs have lost around $1.01 billion in October, $954 million of that from BlackRock's ETHA.
- Solana activated the Alpenglow consensus upgrade on mainnet, retiring TowerBFT after six years. Anza says finality dropped from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.
- Monero rose about 20% on the week to just under $650, its highest level since January, as futures open interest climbed above $300 million.
- XRP was rejected near $1.40 and trades around $1.32. The XRP Ledger's fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment slipped to November 4 after validator support fell below the required threshold.
- The OCC finalized its GENIUS Act stablecoin rule, effective January 18, 2027. It bars issuers from paying yield, and the American Bankers Association said the rule undermines Congress.
- Chinese prosecutors asked a Tianjin court to confiscate 61,896 bitcoin, worth about $5.1 billion, seized in the UK from fraudster Qian Zhimin, with proceeds going to victims.
- Elon Musk confirmed Tesla and SpaceX are exploring a merger. Their combined 30,221 BTC, worth roughly $2.5 billion, would rank sixth among public company holders.
- Ireland's central bank fined Coinbase Ireland 3.25 million euros for failing to safeguard customer funds. Coinbase says no customer lost money or access.
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