Confirmed: Hyperliquid Users to Receive HYPE Airdrop

️ On today's Top Picks:

Crypto News

• MrBeast allegedly profited $10m+ backing low market cap crypto tokens promoted by influencers.

• ⭐️ Arbitrum DAO member proposes recalling ~$119m worth of $ARB from Gaming Catalyst Program citing failed obligations.

• Vitalik Buterin sells ~$1.6m of donated memecoins; donates proceeds to charity.

• Craig Wright files lawsuit against Bitcoin Core & Square; no specification on the purpose of the lawsuit.

• FTX Executive Ryan Salame begins prison sentence; sentenced to 7.5 years in May after pleading guilty.

• Tether to explore commodities trading & TradFi opportunities

• Digital Asset Investment Products saw $407m of inflows last week.

• CoinGecko publishes 2024 Q3 Crypto Industry Report.

Alpha

• Soneium announces Soneium Spark incubation program winners.

• Initia posts "Initializing Mainnet ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░ 74%" on X.

• Caldera launches Meet the Metalayer: ApeChain quest on Layer3.

• ⭐️ Fuel teases future announcement coming this week on X.

• Reddio to announce next phase within two weeks; previously launched card system a month ago.

• Chainbase teases Zircon Roadmap on X.

• Octant launches Epoch 5 Allocation Window; closes October 27th.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ Hyperliquid establishes Hyper Foundation; $HYPE coming soon.

• WalletConnect announces Gitcoin donators may be eligible for $WCT Airdrop.

• Puffer launches $PUFFER Season 1 Airdrop claim.

• Grass to launch final $GRASS Airdrop One checker on October 21st.

• DeepBook launches $DEEP Airdrop to DBClaimNFT holders.

• Mode to launch $MODE Season 2 Airdrop on October 18th; minimum of 250 points required to qualify.

• Astherus launches Astherus Gems rewarding campaign participants; to convert to Astherus tokens at TGE.

• List of upcoming TGEs, primary listings, product releases by ICO Analytics.

Finance News

• Samara Asset Group to issue up to ~$33m bond to buy Bitcoin.

• Deutsche Bank to provide crypto market-making firm Keyrock with multi-currency accounts & foreign exchange services.

• 35 Countries have confirmed their participation in upcoming BRICS Summit in Russia.

• International Monetary Fund to lower member borrowing costs by ~$1.2b annually.

• Campaigners want UBS blocked from US pension market for previously breaking banking rules.

Security and Exploits

• Bitcoin developers disclose remote shutdown vulnerability affecting over 13% of Bitcoin nodes.

• Microsoft to end Windows 10 support in exactly one year; no more security updates, technical support, or bug fixes.

• Google warns uBlock Origin & other extensions may soon no longer be supported due to deprecation of Manifest V2.

• ⭐️ The Tor Project releases emergency security update to address Firefox vulnerability currently under active exploitation.

• Mozilla releases second Firefox 131 security update; to release a third security update later today.

Token Unlocks

• Starknet $STRK / ~$27m / OCT 15
• Eigenlayer $EIGEN / ~$40m / OCT 15
• Ethena $ENA / ~$5m / OCT 16
• Arbitrum $ARB / ~$49m / OCT 16
• Echelon Prime $PRIME / ~$6m / OCT 17
• Cardano $ADA / ~$6m / OCT 17
• ApeCoin $APE / ~$11m / OCT 17
• Pixels $PIXEL / ~$7m / OCT 19

Funding

• ⭐️ Solv Protocol raises $11m in Strategic funding.

• World of Dypians raises an undisclosed amount in funding from IBC Group.

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