Polymarket Volume Surges Beyond $2 Billion

️ On today's Top Picks:

Crypto News

• ⭐️ Polymarket betting volume surges beyond $2b as US Presidential Election market shifts.

• ⭐️ Do Kwon's extradition delayed again by Montenegro Constitutional Court following an appeal.

• Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's trial postponed; Gambaryan missed scheduled court hearing due to declining health.

• US FBI arrests man behind US SEC social media account compromise; tweeted fake Bitcoin ETF approval.

• FTX’s Nishad Singh asks to be spared from prison citing his cooperation with authorities.

• US SEC approves NYSE options trading on spot Bitcoin ETFs.

• Kraken intoduces $kBTC, an ERC-20 token fully backed 1:1 by Bitcoin held securely by Kraken.

• Worldcoin $WLD rebrands to 'World'; to release Orb 2.0 with fewer parts, better chips, & open-source code.

Alpha

• ethOS launches dGEN1, an 'onchain every-day carry' shipping in Spring 2024; minting live on Base.

• Eclipse launches official bridge; also launches Path of Discovery commemorative NFT mint.

• Aptos launches commemorative Aptos TWO Mainnet Anniversary 2024 NFT mint.

• Karak introduces Karak V2 Mainnet; launches Phase 1 of V2 Mainnet.

• Union hints at potential snapshot ahead of Mainnet launch.

• Portal posts "...testnet soon" on X.

• Ostium Mainnet launches for everyone; no access code necessary.

• Debank launches Ethena $ENA Airdrop Hunter Web3 Badge.

Airdrops

• ⭐️ Scroll $SCR to take snapshot on October 19th 00:00 UTC.

• WalletConnect $WCT Airdrop registration closes; eligibility & claim to be released in November.

• deBridge launches $DBR Airdrop claim.

• Mode launches $MODE Season 2 Airdrop claim.

• Infinex launches GP Migration Tool enabling users to claim $XGP.

• ICYMI Tea Protocol Airdrop Strategy by Earndrop.

• Lombard Finance Airdrop Guide by mztacat.

Finance News

• BRICS to use digital currencies for investments.

• Morgan Stanley $MS discloses $272m of Bitcoin ETF holdings.

• ⭐️ Stripe to potentially acquire fintech platform Bridge.

• Robinhood $HOOD to offer futures trading & index options.

• DBS Bank introduces DBS Token Services; integrates tokenization & smart contract-enabled capabilities.

• Berkshire Hathaway sells an additional ~$370m of Bank of America $BAC shares.

• K Bank withdraws $700m IPO due to weak demand; to restart next year.

• China's Cyberspace Security Association calls for investigation into Intel's $INTC products due to security vulnerabilities & reliability issues.

• Tesla $TSLA selects Omead Afshar to lead North America & Europe operations.

Security and Exploits

• ⭐️ ZachXBT alleges Masa failed to disclose a six-figure hack from September & potentially covered it up as an 'upgrade'.

• Tapioca DAO $TAP vesting contract compromised; ~$4.4m of $ETH & $USDC stolen.

• donnoh.eth highlights multisig threshold for several Ethereum L2's following Radiant exploit.

• EigenLayer X Account compromised; hacker posts phishing links.

• Ambient Finance website domain was temporarily hijacked; domain has since been recovered.

• BlockSec releases dataset on Web3 phishing website detection containing ~26k phishing URLs.

• Linux users with latest generation of Intel & AMD CPUs are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks.

• MacOS vulnerability 'HM Surf' discovered; enables unauthorized access to protected data.

• Verizon allegedly suffers data breach exposing sensitive user data.

Token Unlocks

• Starknet $STRK / ~$28m / OCT 15
• Eigenlayer $EIGEN / ~$40m / OCT 15
• Ethena $ENA / ~$5m / OCT 16
• Arbitrum $ARB / ~$52m / OCT 16
• Cardano $ADA / ~$6m / OCT 17
• Echelon Prime $PRIME / ~$7m / OCT 17
• Bitget $BGB / ~$6m / OCT 17
• ApeCoin $APE / ~$11m / OCT 17
• Pixels $PIXEL / ~$8m / OCT 19

Funding

• Yellow Card raises $33m in Series C funding led by Blockchain Capital.

• zkPass raises $12.5m in Series A funding.

• Drop raises $4m in Seed funding led by CoinFund.

• Plasma raises $3.5m in funding led by Bitfinex.

• Hyve raises $1.85m in Pre-Seed funding led by Lemniscap.

• Surge raises $1.8m in Pre-Seed funding.

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