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LATEST: @BitMNR added 12,532 $ETH last week, bringing holdings to 6.03M $ETH worth $15.3B, just 76,000 $ETH away from @fundstrat's hard cap of 5% of Ethereum’s total supply.
Democrats wanted a dedicated CFTC office to advocate for retail crypto investors. The Clarity Act does that with the creation of the Office of the Retail Commodity Advocate. Democrats voted no on protecting retail investors with a dedicated CFTC advocate.
Tom Lee (@fundstrat)'s #Bitmine bought another 12,532 $ETH ($31.67M) last week. It now holds 6,028,946 $ETH ($15.24B), 4.94% of the total supply. Just 77,442 $ETH away from its 5% accumulation target.
THE BLOCK: Tom Lee's Bitmine $BMNR acquired 12,532 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to 6.03 million $ETH. The company reported $16.2 billion in total crypto, cash, and marketable securities holdings, including 214 $BTC and an $85 million stake in Eightco Holdings.
BitMine Adds 12,532 ETH as Management Signals Buying Is Largely Complete BitMine said it acquired 12,532 ETH over the past week, bringing total holdings to 6,028,946 ETH, or about 4.9% of Ethereum’s 122.1 million supply. The company said it is 99% of the way toward its 5% accumulation target, with 5.07 million ETH currently staked. In its forward-looking disclosures, BitMine also noted management’s statement that the company is “largely finished buying ETH,” suggesting future purchases may slow as it approaches the target.
THE BLOCK: Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Asset Strategy Amy Oldenburg said the tokenized RWA market will be within the $3 trillion to $10 trillion range by 2030 "without question." "Energy drives energy across our industry. There's a lot of FOMO in the institutional space," Oldenburg said.
Bloomberg Strategist: Bitcoin Has Become a "Stock-Market Puppet" Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone @mikemcglone11 said in an October 1 interview with Wealthion that Bitcoin's high correlation with U.S. equities, combined with its greater volatility, has made it increasingly look like a "stock-market puppet." He noted that Bitcoin is down about 4% this year while the S&P 500 is up around 3%, and that Bitcoin has also lagged the stock market for nearly five years. McGlone added that he still stands by his view that Bitcoin could fall to $10,000 and sees no reason yet to abandon that call. He also said the broader crypto market remains in the process of a "purge."
NEW: @krakenfx receives UAE regulatory approval with @Payward FZCO licensed by VARA to offer spot and margin trading in AED-denominated pairs to retail, professional and institutional clients, launching in the coming weeks.
Payward Receives Full Market Approval from Dubai’s VARA; Kraken Plans UAE Launch in the Coming Weeks Kraken parent Payward has received full market approval from Dubai’s VARA, allowing regulated virtual-asset services for retail, professional and institutional investors. Kraken plans to launch in the UAE within weeks, with AED-denominated spot and margin trading, direct AED deposits and withdrawals, onchain staking and tokenized stocks via xStocks. Institutional clients will also get OTC spot and Kraken Prime. Crypto derivatives and other products are planned for late 2026 into 2027, subject to further approval. Payward received preliminary VARA approval in May.
Tokenized Stocks Hit a Record $3.9 Billion, With BNB Chain, Ethereum and Solana Holding 70% Tokenized stocks reached a record $3.9 billion in market cap, Token Terminal data showed. BNB Chain led with $1.2 billion, followed by Ethereum at $841.9 million and Solana at $741.7 million. The three chains held about 70% of the market.
THE BLOCK: Crypto investment manager 3iQ has received in-principle approval from the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) for a Category 4 license via its UAE entity. Last year, 3iQ partnered with UAE-based Further Asset Management to launch a joint fund with $100 million in seed capital.
🚨 BREAKING: Iran's IRGC says a crude supertanker struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz—the third tanker incident since Saturday.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs Saw $681 Million in Net Outflows Last Week; Spot Ethereum ETFs Recorded $542 Million in Net Outflows From October 5 to October 9 (ET), spot Bitcoin ETFs posted net outflows of $681 million, ending a three-week streak of net inflows. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded net outflows of $542 million, with BlackRock’s ETHA leading the outflows at $477 million.
THE BLOCK: MoonPay CLO & Former CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham explains why crypto does not need Congress and can proceed through agency rulemaking alone. "There is very little that the CFTC's jurisdiction doesn't touch, because the way that the Commodity Exchange Act is drafted, pretty much everything is a commodity except for onions and movie box office receipts," Pham told The Block.
A mysterious whale is selling $BTC and buying $ETH! The whale sold 410.14 $BTC ($34.16M) on #Hyperliquid, then bought 14,341 $ETH ($36.14M) on DEXs. https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/4912c96f-9ab6-4120-8d26-16be1899bc39
Ethereum Foundation-Linked Wallets Send Another 4,393 ETH to Kraken, After Moving 49,751 ETH Over a Decade According to monitoring by @EmberCN, two Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets sent 4,393 ETH, about $11.13 million, to Kraken about four hours ago. The wallets received 59,751 ETH from an Ethereum Foundation wallet 10 years ago, and 49,751 ETH of that has been moved to Kraken over the past decade at an average price of about $658.
THE BLOCK: A trader netted $1.28 million on new 1,000x exchange Papertrade by moving ETH prices on Hyperliquid. Papertrade says it is tightening open interest caps in response.
Asia's weekly TOP10 crypto news: Kyrgyzstan Shuts Down USDKG, South Korea Tightens Cross-Border Crypto Rules, China Plans a National Blockchain Network, Thailand Finalizes Crypto ETF Rules, and Hong Kong–Malaysia Explore Stablecoin Cooperation.
Papertrade Faces Allegations of BBO Price Manipulation on HyperEVM X user @Dr_bobo54 alleged that two wallets exploited Papertrade’s pricing mechanism by using roughly $20 million orders on Hyperliquid to move ETH quotes by 10–20 basis points while holding much larger long positions on Papertrade. The HyperEVM-based perpetual platform reportedly uses the midpoint of Hyperliquid’s best bid and offer as its execution price, making it potentially sensitive to short-term BBO manipulation. Trader Rune noted that Papertrade’s own documentation lists BBO manipulation as an unresolved protocol risk. The allegations have not been independently verified, and Papertrade has not confirmed any losses.
THE BLOCK: US spot ether ETFs posted $542.1 million in net outflows last week, their worst week since January, extending their outflow streak to nine days. Solana ETFs lost $24.8 million, ending a record 14-week inflow streak with their largest weekly outflow since launch.
Vitalik Buterin: Without AI, Ethereum's Lean Roadmap Might Have to Wait Until 2040 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin @VitalikButerin said in an October 9 interview with Balaji Srinivasan @balajis at the Network State Conference 2026 that AI has become an important factor in advancing the Lean Ethereum roadmap. Buterin said that given the roadmap's current goals and level of ambition, without AI, the work might have taken until 2040 or even 2050 to complete. He added that AI is now contributing to a significant amount of research and coding, substantially accelerating progress on the roadmap.
GRAYSCALE'S MINI ETH ETF HAS BOUGHT $103M Grayscale's Mini ETH fund bought $103.3M of ETH over the past 20 days. Its older ETHE fund saw $71.6M of outflows in the same window, which appears to be a rotation into the Mini fund. Grayscale clients have net bought $31.7M of ETH.
At Token2049 in Singapore, the floors no longer carried the old energy of cat-ear headsets, spandex, and meme-laden hoodies. Bankers, asset managers, and executives from established firms moved among founders and protocol teams, the quieter dress code signaling a broader realignment. What once represented cultural rejection now looks like institutional arrival—Wall Street has stopped treating digital assets as an external curiosity and begun integrating them into its operating system. This is more than aesthetics. Crypto’s earlier identity was deliberately anti-establishment: permissionless, resistant to hierarchy, and skeptical of traditional finance. Its visual language reflected the belief that money and settlement could operate beyond banks, clearinghouses, and regulators. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have attracted tens of billions in cumulative flows, with BlackRock’s IBIT becoming a standard portfolio allocation. Institutions that weathered the drawdown from late 2025 into mid-2026 largely maintained or increased exposure, treating weakness as an accumulation opportunity. Allocations remain modest, typically one to two percent, but increasingly persistent—positioned as a long-term store-of-value complement to gold rather than pure speculation. Tokenized equities and real-world assets have also expanded across formerly crypto-native platforms. Wall Street’s posture is pragmatic. High yields and renewed Federal Reserve rate hikes did not prevent digital assets from reclaiming the $3 trillion market-cap threshold or delivering a strong quarterly recovery in 2026. ETF inflows during August and September turned year-to-date figures positive, largely driven by regulated investment vehicles. CME booths and banking sessions at industry conferences have become ordinary channels for distribution and risk management. Tokenization of equities, commodities, and credit is increasingly discussed alongside custody, prime brokerage, and collateral eligibility. Infrastructure is being designed around institutional volume, reliability, and compliance rather than experimentation alone. What began as an alternative financial ecosystem is becoming mainstream market infrastructure, with traditional institutions shaping how capital moves through the space. Yet this transition carries tension. Crypto’s original promise was not merely faster settlement or tokenized assets; it was an architecture of trust that could make intermediaries optional. Institutional participation makes digital assets investable at scale, but reintroduces gatekeeping and coordination costs the technology sought to reduce. As banks and asset managers become primary distribution channels, permissionless infrastructure may survive in code while economic value concentrates in regulated products. Price discovery and capital allocation still occur on-chain, yet the marginal dollar increasingly arrives through structures governed by securities laws, fiduciary standards, and balance-sheet constraints. The result is a hybrid model: open protocols underneath, closed institutional channels above. This structure can scale beyond crypto-native experimentation, but risks diluting the original vision. For Wall Street, the adaptation is continuous. Equities and fixed income absorbed electronic trading and quantitative strategies without abandoning their institutional character; digital assets appear to be following a similar path. However, crypto’s volatility, continuous trading, and composability demand faster operational change. Real-time collateral management, programmable settlement, and on-chain transparency are increasingly viewed as advantages rather than threats. Firms that once dismissed the sector now evaluate it as another asset class with distinct liquidity, correlation, and custody characteristics. Cultural signaling at conferences matters less than the operational shift: risk committees have models, compliance teams have playbooks, and portfolio managers have benchmarks. Crypto’s institutionalization is no longer simply about acceptance; it is about building systems capable of sustaining capital flows. What remains uncertain is whether this absorption preserves crypto’s friction-reducing advantages or introduces new fees and access controls around faster settlement. Early internet platforms underwent a comparable evolution, shedding their experimental identities to become commercial infrastructure. Many radical projects were acquired, regulated into conventional businesses, or outcompeted. Crypto’s version of that process is still unfolding. The suits at Token2049 do not prove decentralized technology has been domesticated. They demonstrate that capital allocators now consider digital assets durable enough to require professional standards. Ultimately, markets will test whether that durability rests on the underlying rails or on the institutions now wearing the suits.
Bitcoin Spot ETFs See $21.13M in Net Inflows; Ethereum ETFs Post Ninth Consecutive Day of Outflows on Oct. 9 (ET) According to SoSoValue data, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $21.13 million in net inflows on October 9 (ET), with BlackRock’s IBIT attracting $22.38 million and Fidelity’s FBTC posting $3.58 million in net outflows. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $56.10 million in net outflows, marking their ninth consecutive trading day of outflows, all of which came from BlackRock’s ETHA.
#Ledger devices bought through reseller CryptoBillis were tampered. Funds deposited on those units were drained. Loss is about $90M. This is not a one-off. GoPlus reminder: buy hardware wallets only from official channels → check the packaging and seal → verify authenticity and activation status on the official site. Wallet makers should also ship tamper-response as standard — including wiping keys if the device is opened — to cut off this class of risk. Main attacker addresses (per Specter and tanuki42): Bitcoin： bc1qjqgwejnp8dc0x2938x9n9954hj97t82unx49dl bc1qqnkwurxs99xkx5t4yffqhq3u6qwy0qpjyujtm9 bc1qgqheemzla77pesl227hdtgf5ykz62d0zvld26n Tron： TK6DWNpNe1w2iJRNFpU8aHdrPTATxvXT6C TBkcUMYC7CkTK99tkTnaStQVBastfrs9d9 TCGE3xp6YGRKXxDZiLfysgJW3f22KfMNsW TSDWtuZ2pARUVz4v3PkL2hi3iXPjowAr5a EVMs： 0x69c8f401cfc6cd40ac94691d6d7c48e3b7a47841 0x033636e45d519bebb7b5c2520ca6ce56fbdb4f7a 0x83aeac166f6832ae3500000a24510a95a052a599
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