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ARTHUR HAYES CLOSES MAELSTROM BOOK TO TAKE PROFIT ON ETH AND ALTCOINS
Hayes announced that he has closed out the entire directional trading book for Maelstrom, taking profits on $ETH, $ENA, $UNI, and other altcoins.
Hayes cited a dicey macroeconomic and geopolitical environment as the primary reason for stepping away from active positions.
He stated that the market needs to go down before it can go up, adding that he will remain on the sidelines until an all-clear signal appears.
FRANKLIN TEMPLETON FILES FOR TWO NASDAQ ETFS COMBINING US STOCKS AND BITCOIN
Franklin Templeton filed Form 8-A to launch two Nasdaq-listed ETFs allocated 95% to U.S. equities and 5% to Bitcoin ($FBEQ & $FIBT):
• One tracks ~500 large-cap U.S. stocks
• One tracks the Nasdaq top 100 non-financials
Stock dividends will automatically be converted into bitcoin:native exposure through EZBC, with quarterly rebalancing trimming the allocation back to 4.5% whenever it crosses 5%.
Kalshi is developing exchange-traded CPI futures to challenge Wall Street's dominance over the $7.6 trillion inflation trading market.
The platform plans to offer standardized monthly CPI contracts, alongside extended May and November contracts.
This pairs Kalshi's institutional network with Michael Ashton's designs to solve historical liquidity challenges.
Binance founder CZ reminded the market that the phrase "Bitcoin is dead" has been repeated many times before.
He pointed out that those exact moments of extreme negative sentiment have historically been the best times to buy bitcoin:native
How many times has the market called the end of crypto too early? 👇🏻
There's more to trading than what happens on the charts.
We joined @BitunixOfficial for an insightful conversation with @BitbullTrading, exploring the ideas and experiences shaping his approach to trading.
📷 Catch the full discussion below.
youtube.com/watch?v=qLcjjbQC…
JUST IN: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a blockchain plan to bypass potential global financial sanctions.
The announcement was made days before Israel's October 27 election, where he emphasized the need to build an "alternate economy" as large-scale U.S. military aid is expected to eventually end.
This strategic pivot occurs while 64 countries have taken or considered diplomatic and financial measures against the nation
ALERT: INITIA CHAIN REPORTEDLY DRAINED OF $2.6M IN INFINITE MINT EXPLOIT
Attackers have allegedly cashed out roughly $2.6 million so far, according to initial investigations by on-chain analyst @spreekaway
Because some of the exploited funds are still in the process of being transferred, actual network losses are expected to increase further before an official investigation report is released.
JUST IN: SEC Division of Examinations Announces FY 2027 Priorities
The agency is focusing resources on heightened risk areas, explicitly naming tokenization, super intelligence, private credit, and complex products marketed to retail investors.
Division Director Keith Cassidy stated that the approach is designed to adapt to changing conditions and deploy examination resources where they can have the greatest impact.
JUST IN: James Wynn ended a 49-day trading hiatus to open a highly leveraged bitcoin:native short position.
The trader executed a 40x leveraged short for 0.4947 bitcoin:native, valued at approximately $40.5K, on the decentralized perpetual swap platform HyperliquidX.
Because of the aggressive narrow margin, the position faces a hard liquidation point at $82,671.48.
NEW HARDWARE TURNS HOME WATER HEATERS INTO BITCOIN MINERS
Heatbit released Bitwater, a water heater element powered by 20 BM1370 chips delivering up to 34 TH/s inside standard 30-80 gallon electric tanks.
The company claims home setups help preserve network decentralization as public mining firms pivot to AI.
Would you mine bitcoin:native with your home water heater?
ICP'S NETWORK ACTIVITY IS SURGING.
New addresses on Internet Computer are up 45% since summer, and daily active users are back to early-2026 levels, according to Santiment.
However, $ICP is still about 64% below last November's Caffeine AI peak.
Is ICP seriously undervalued?
SOUTH EAST ASIA IS GOING BIG ON STABLECOINS.
The central banks of Malaysia and Thailand just joined BLOOM, Singapore's project for moving stablecoins and tokenised bank deposits across borders.
Visa, Mastercard, Ripple and the World Bank are also participating, alongside Coinbase and J.P. Morgan.
MAS announced that Bank Negara Malaysia and Bank of Thailand have joined the BLOOM (Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multi-currency) initiative as policymaker members. mas.gov.sg/news/media-releas…
ETHEREUM JUST PAUSED ITS GLAMSTERDAM TEST.
Ethereum called off the October 26 Glamsterdam test on the Hoodi test network after ChainSecurity warned that two proposed gas-pricing changes could break safeguards in existing contracts.
No new test date has been announced.
THE UAE LED A GLOBAL SCAM CRACKDOWN THAT TRACED $39 BILLION.
In just 3 months, the operation spanned 30 countries and tracked fraud-linked funds and crypto.
It resulted in 960+ arrests, 123M scam attempts blocked, 29 fraud centres raided and 4,126 bank accounts frozen.
CHAMATH SAYS AI WILL HACK BITCOIN TO ZERO.
He claims AI will break Bitcoin's cryptography, causing the network to collapse.
However, CT isn't buying it.
If AI becomes powerful enough to crack Bitcoin's cryptography, banks, email systems and much of the global financial system could be vulnerable too.
At that point, Bitcoin might be the least of our worries.
Chamath just told us that Bitcoin goes to zero, that the Giving Pledge is “reputation washing,” and that he’s the least invested he’s been in 15 years. Elon says the $40 trillion national debt is only solvable by AI and robots. And the FBI arrested an OpenAI engineer for planting a recording device in the executive conference room. Welcome to October.
-- Anthropic’s S-1 commits ~$75-100B in shares to a Public Benefit Fund
-- Anthropic co-founder told the IMF that US GDP could hit $44T by 2030, up from $30T today
-- Chamath locked up 6 gigawatts of power, the US is 1.4 terawatt hours short by 2050, that’s six Californias
-- Elon giving one SpaceX share to every kid in America, 72M kids, ~$10.5B total
THE COUNTRY BUILDING AI RANKS 24TH IN USING IT.
The US builds the world's most advanced AI. Yet only 28.3% of people use it, vs 64% in the UAE and 60.9% in Singapore.
Why are Americans so slow to adopt the tech their own labs are racing to build?
Are tokenized stocks ready to bridge the gap between traditional finance and crypto?
We sat down with Selina Singleton, US Head of BD at Longbridge, to discuss 24/7 fractional trading, shifting Asian regulations, and the future of personalized finance.
Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=0wsWrr4Q…
