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Hoskinson said Midnight City could launch fully in the coming months, enabling AI agents to operate with their own wallets and identities.

Balaji Srinivasan said BTC became “a reserve currency of Western institutions,” while ZEC was “the currency of Western individuals.”

Bankless co-founders said BTC climbed into the month from the $60,000s, unlike last year's slide from a record high.

Charles Schwab’s Lynch said BTC’s long-term fundamentals haven’t changed, even as Ethereum fell hard this year.

Darkfost said that Uniswap's TVL surpassed $4 billion in September, as DEX trading volume hit an all-time high of $93.6 billion.

Hayes said Bitcoin remains the core holding in his family office Maelstrom’s fund.

McEvoy said BTC miners that moved into AI had “a good step up,” but it was well short for Zcash.

Over 80% of Armada shareholders chose to redeem their shares for cash, removing nearly $195.3 million from the deal.

Aerodrome’s Cutler pushed back on claims the new chains disadvantage Aerodrome, noting it wasn't first on Base either.

Starknet targeted quantum resistance by next year, in contrast with Ethereum’s 2029 goal.

Arthur Hayes said he remained bullish on NEAR, and Michaël van de Poppe said he expected a short pullback before the token moved toward new yearly highs.

Hayes warned that revaluing gold to 50,000–60,000 an ounce to retire U.S. Treasury debt would be inflationary.

Among a bunch of reported DeFi tokens by Citrini Research, Pendle and Uniswap finished only fractionally ahead of Bitcoin on Saturday, and Ether.fi fell 5.5%.

Winklevoss brothers’ proposed spot ZEC fund would trade on Nasdaq under the ticker “WINK”, with a 0.25% sponsor fee.

Tokens bought with fees from NEAR Intents, which Ternullo said has handled over $32 billion in volume, are not burned but are held currently in a "permanent capital vehicle".

Peter Brandt said XRP has “a ton of overhead supply” to work through and named Monero as his favorite chart.

Analyst Ted Pillows sees $2,800 as a key level for Ethereum, saying a weekly close above it could confirm further upside.

Total value locked in Cardano's DeFi applications rose 8.72% over 24 hours, DefiLlama data showed.

Horsley said advisors are increasingly moving clients from self-custodied Bitcoin and Solana into ETFs.

Arbitrum’s license fees brought in about $4.75 million or 87% of the total revenue, while transaction fees contributed $507,000, and treasury income amounted to $181,000.

CoinGlass data showed that traders betting against WLD were hit hardest, with about $241,590 in positions wiped out over the past hour.

Fundstrat’s Head of Digital Asset Strategy called crypto breadth above the 200-day moving average a near-term "yellow flag."

Grayscale sees AI crypto producing “one or more major winners” over the next five years.

Hougan said crypto's leading investment teams are broadening beyond Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Chainlink.

Goldman’s FTIXX fund itself was not tokenized and remains an existing institutional fund.

CEA Industries said that 5,799 votes were cast over five days across four shortlisted names for its name change.

Chainlink highlighted institutions and crypto platforms including SWIFT, DTCC, Euroclear, UBS and Aave in connection with its CCIP ecosystem.

Peter Brandt said XRP’s charts alone were enough reason to “make a bet,” but did not provide a price target or explicitly predict a breakout.

NEAR Protocol's one-year return has climbed to about 96%, after turning positive in mid-September.

Grayscale flagged ZCSH's limited trading history and warned that the strategy could limit potential gains while still leaving investors exposed to losses.

CME Group said it planned to launch Bitcoin Cash futures and Micro Bitcoin Cash futures on October 19, pending regulatory review.

ZEC open interest is about $2.97 billion, roughly triple UNI's $988.8 million, but UNI's is larger relative to its market cap.

Analyst Willy Woo said Bitcoin’s rally still may have two to four weeks of runway before his indicators show overbought conditions.

The broader crypto market rose about 4% to just below $3 trillion, with XRP, SOL and ETH outperforming Bitcoin.

Kevin O’Leary said he no longer expected Ethereum to become the main blockchain for crypto.

Peter Brandt said he had about 50 years of experience in futures markets and preferred areas where he already had an edge.

ZCSH’s net assets hit $914.53 million, tripling in just three weeks and investors have put in around $271 million since the fund launched in August according to SoSoValue.

The Zcash token was the only gainer among the top ten cryptocurrencies on Wednesday.

Analysts cited Hyperliquid's $38 billion market capitalization and roughly $85 million in monthly revenue.

Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Arbitrum with a $10 target for ARB by the end of 2030, implying roughly 70 times upside from current levels.

Ethereum is up about 58% in the third quarter, putting it on track to snap its first-ever three-quarter losing streak.

Grayscale's Zcash ETP attracted $179 million in 11 trading days with its total asset under management reaching nearly $700 million, supporting Zcash's surge.

Tom Lee said inflation may be less severe than economists think while he remained bullish on Ethereum.

Hayes expects the Fed to accommodate fiscal spending. He argues that, regardless of who leads the central bank, political pressure to support the economy could eventually mean more liquidity.

Ethereum outperformed Bitcoin over the past 24 hours, helping shares of ETH treasury company BitMine Immersion Technologies edge higher in premarket trading.

Van de Poppe said he wouldn’t be surprised to see NEAR hit $4.50-$5.00 in the next few weeks, suggesting an over 100% price increase

DefiLlama showed that Robinhood Chain collected $2.9 million in fees in 24 hours, compared to $12,238 on Arbitrum’s own chain.

SoSoValue data show that three U.S. spot HYPE ETFs have net inflows of $356.58 million since launch and net assets of $480.86 million

ZEC’s 14-day RSI reached over 82, well into the ‘overbought’ territory, and the token traded more than 2 times its 200-day moving average.

Veteran Wall Street investor Jordi Visser said a 0% weighting in Bitcoin was a directional bet, and argued the position was no longer defensible for a diversified portfolio.