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🚨 REPORT: Brian Quintenz will not be the next CFTC chair, following a White House decision to withdraw his nomination. A win for the Winklevoss twins? Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed he was an early Bitcoin investor, buying several thousand $BTC in 2013 at around $700 each. He said Bitcoin is going to $1,000,000 and added, “I am not going to sell it.”

🔥 HUGE: Nvidia has become the first company in history to reach a market cap above $4.5 trillion. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: Tether bought 8.88K $BTC worth about $1.05B. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 Infrastructure is the heartbeat of the crypto industry. Without it, the very blockchains, exchanges, and DApps we rely on simply wouldn't function. Join us at LONGITUDE in Singapore for a panel discussion on infrastru…

🔥 LATEST: Visa launched a pilot with Circle’s USDC and EURC to make cross-border payments faster and more flexible. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 UPDATE: Algo Foundation’s Algoland Week 2 is live. Make your best predictions in Prediction Week with dApp partner Alpha Arcade. Join the draw for a private reading with a world-renowned psychic medium, and keep earni…

🇹🇷 LATEST: Turkey is preparing legislation to empower its financial watchdog Masak to freeze crypto and traditional bank accounts in AML crackdown. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 NEW: BlackRock's IBIT flips Deribit as top Bitcoin options venue with nearly $38B in open interest compared to Deribit's $32B, per Bloomberg. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ JUST IN: Investment platform Republic plans to tokenize equity of Animoca Brands on Solana. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: Around $518M worth of $BTC and $546.9M worth of $ETH were bought on Sept. 29. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 LATEST: The SEC Crypto Task Force met with NYSE and Intercontinental Exchange to discuss crypto regulation including crypto derivative products and tokenized equities trading. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouT…

🇺🇸 TODAY: Wisconsin introduces 'Bitcoin Rights' bill AB471, exempting individuals and businesses from money transmitter licensing for self-custody, running nodes, mining, staking, and developing blockchain software. Re…

🚨 LATEST: Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says odds are "really 100% now" for crypto ETFs approval with the new generic listing standards. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 NEW: Massachusetts to hold hearing to consider a Bitcoin strategic reserve bill on Oct. 7. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇺🇸 JUST IN: The SEC issues a No-Action Letter for DoubleZero, confirming the 2Z token doesn't need to register as equity securities and programmatic flows aren't securities transactions. Read more: ct.com News | Market…

🔥 BULLISH: SEC Chair Paul Atkins said crypto is his top priority right now. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: Retail demand has fallen 5% over the past 30 days, hitting its lowest level since July. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🚨 ALERT: Jim Cramer is telling people to “buy crypto”. Are you going to BUY or SELL? Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇵🇰 BULLISH: Pakistan’s Prime Minister called crypto and AI the tools of the future. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇰🇿 NEW: Kazakhstan launched the Alem Crypto Fund as a state-backed crypto reserve, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ LATEST: Binance launched a “crypto-as-a-service” solution for banks, brokerages, and exchanges, with first adopters starting Sept 30. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🇵🇱 UPDATE: Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCA framework. Violations could mean fines up to $2.8M or 2 years in prison. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 JUST IN: Chainlink, SWIFT, and major institutions launched a blockchain solution to address $58B in corporate action inefficiencies. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ NEW: Perps trading goes social as dYdX and Pocket Pro Bot let users trade directly in Telegram chats, launching a $100K trading competition. Learn more details: [Brought to you by dYdX] Read more: ct.com News | Market…

🔥 JUST IN: Strategy acquires 196 Bitcoin worth $22.1M, now holds 640,031 $BTC. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

⚡️ JUST IN: SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys. Read more: ct.com News | Markets | YouTube

🔥 BULLISH: Singapore and UAE ranked as the world's most "crypto-obsessed" countries according to ApeX Protocol report. Singapore scored 100 with 24.4% population owning crypto, while UAE hit 99.7 with 25.3% ownership. R…