According to data from Skew analytics, Open Interest on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has surpassed that of retail exchange Binance and taken the second spot.
The move was noted by long-term Bitcoin trader Nick Cote who likened it to an 'institutional takeover.'

Citing Whale Alert, 11,500 ETH ($4,771,628 USD) stolen from KuCoin were just transferred at 07:40:23 UTC on October 3.
The transaction hash is 0x68b43c9e2748edd477fdf145435548feef6f87641dabb13f8705985b6c27680d.

Uniswap, an intelligent trading platform, currently has total liquidity of about $3.03 billion (+2.02%) of tokens with a 24h trading volume of about $228 million (-11.93%).
The top three gainers are KORE (+58.37%), YfDAI (+48.95%), and XFI (+45.97%), and the top three losers are $ROPE (-34.96%), XSP (-29.35%), and DFK (-26.16%).

Citing JGZ.com, as of 04:00 UTC on October 23, BTC contracts of the entire network in the past four hours were comprised of 49.96% longs and 50.04% shorts.
Note: the ratio represents the proportion of positively-bought or positively-sold volumes.  

Tyler Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini, stated via Twitter that PayPal is an important bridge between the mainland and the island of crypto. The diaspora from legacy finance is happening and this is the kind of infrastructure that will help make that happen. Soon there will be a flippening and crypto will be the mainland & fiat the island, according to him.

Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 74, one unit more than yesterday's, indicating the crypto market is still in "Greed."
Note: As per the index, a value of 0 means "Extreme Fear" while a value of 100 represents "Extreme Greed." The current index is for Bitcoin only and is measured based on volatility (25%), market momentum/volume (25%), social media (25%), surveys (15%), dominance (10%), and trends (10%).

As of 03:00 (UTC) on October 23, Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading above the $12,900 level and is approaching $13,000. At present, the coin marks $12,981.26 with an increase of 0.87% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Strong Buy" with one indicator sending out a selling signal, three showing neutral signals, and 14 indicating buying signals.
The broad market is still trading upwards, with 30 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap dropping.
The global market cap reads $394.33 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $102.93 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 12,998.07 USDT on Binance, $13,014.00 on Bitfinex, $13,018.10 on Coinbase Pro and 12,991.00 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $414.01 (+4.41%); XRP marks $0.2582 (+0.56%); BCH marks $268.39 (+0.30%); LTC marks $54.56 (-0.38%); EOS marks $2.68 (+0.27%); ETC marks $5.58 (+1.17%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: AMPL (+16.45%), EWT (+15.41%), and RSR (+11.44%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ABBC (-6.40%), HEDG (-6.24%), and CRO (-5.04%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: BTC (+$307.55 mln), ETH (+$269.04 mln), and BSV (+$41.78 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: BUSD (-$11.88 mln), BUSD (-$10.31 mln), and USDC (-$3.66 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (-$33.78 mln), Bitfinex (-$4.75 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$35.67 mln).

Citing the official information, the proposal of establishment of YFII DAO grant system and grant application template was passed. The proposal proposes a Grant system in YFII (DFI.MONEY) DAO to stimulate economic contributions to community members. This proposal also provides a template for Grant applications.
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Monitored by CoinNess.com, from 00:00 to 02:00 (UTC) on October 23, BTC registered a net inflow of $42.46 million in the past two hours.
1. The Top 3 net cap inflows in the crypto market are: BTC (+$42.46 mln), SEELE (+$1.37 mln), and TRX (+$988.67 k);
2. The Top 3 net cap outflows in the crypto market are: XRP (-$13.69 mln), ETH (-$13.11 mln), and BCH (-$5.94 mln).
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Citing data from Boboo.com, as of 01:00 UTC on October 23,
1) the BTC perpetual contract price is $12,937.10, meaning the premium of $24.10 compared with the BTC spot price ($12,913.00).
2) The ratio of longs to shorts decreases to 1.78 from October 22's 2.56.
3) The carrying charge marks 0.0108%, marking a big change compared with October 22’s 0.0148%.

Paul Tudor Jones II, a billionaire pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, said he's even more bullish on bitcoin and lauded the "intellectual capital" behind the leading cryptocurrency in a Thursday interview on CNBC.

A blockchain-based energy trading platform backed by German tech giant Siemens is being publicly demonstrated in a Bavarian municipality today.
The so-called "Pebbles" project — short for "peer-to-peer energy trading based on blockchains" — is holding a virtual demo of its blockchain-based marketplace platform for optimized electricity trading. The demo was officially announced by the project on Oct. 22.

Crypto prime broker Bequant is offering separately managed accounts (SMAs) so its institutional clients can manage investment strategies in one place, the company announced Thursday.

Hodl Hodl, a non-custodial bitcoin exchange, is launching a lending product. The exchange claims it will be "the first true Bitcoin DeFi" (decentralized finance) product.

Bitstamp, one of the world's oldest and largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is replacing its CEO for the first time.
Nejc Kodrič, the firm’s CEO who co-founded Bitstamp back in 2011, is stepping down from his position. He will be moving into a new advisory role on the company's board of directors, Bitstamp executives told Cointelegraph on Oct. 22.
Julian Sawyer, who currently serves as the managing director of the United Kingdom and Europe at major global crypto exchange Gemini, will replace Kodrič, becoming the second CEO in Bitstamp's history.
The replacement is purportedly a response to the dynamic growth of the exchange over the last nine years.

The head of the Russian parliament's financial markets committee Anatoly Aksakov said there are "no anti-blockchain voices in the government," major industry players remain crypto-keen – and believes that a "cryptoruble" pilot will begin next year.
Per media outlet RBC, Aksakov – the chief architect of Moscow's crypto and blockchain policy and legislation – was speaking at the recently held Blockchain Life 2020 forum. And he added that token issuance is becoming a hot topic in the Russian business world.

Now BTC is trading at 12,884.82 USDT on Boboo.com, up 4.36% in the past 24 hours.
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Decentralized finance yield farming platform Yearn Finance has a doppelganger that is tricking visitors into sharing the private keys of their cryptocurrency wallets.
The scam website of Yearn Finance perfectly copies almost every aspect of the original yearn.finance website down to its design, website copy and even domain name. The scammers behind the website chose the domain name "yaerm.finance," making it look extremely similar to "yearn.finace."
They have also promoted their landing page for the search keyword "yearn finance" so it shows up on top of the search results when people search for the actual real website.

The Estée Laudercompany is working with ingredient supplier LMR Naturals by IFF and one of its Madagascan vanilla suppliers Biovanilla, as well as blockchain scale-up Wholechain, to pilot the technology. Some 450 smallholder farms are involved in the pilot and Aveeda claims this is one of the biggest blockchain pilots in the beauty and cosmetics sector.

IBM and R3, an enterprise software firm, today announced a new collaboration to formally expand choice for clients scaling blockchain technology while delivering their highest levels of performance, compliance and data privacy.
As part of the collaboration, R3 announced a new open beta program to bring R3's enterprise blockchain platform, Corda Enterprise, to IBM LinuxONE next month across the hybrid cloud—both on-premises and the IBM Cloud—delivered via IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services. The R3 on IBM LinuxONE beta program will open on November 2, 2020 and be available on IBM Cloud and on-premises. General availability (GA) is expected in Q1 2021.

StarkWare has released the road to L2 Interoperability that means allowing users to move funds between L2 systems with minimal L1 friction.
The proposed L2 interoperability solution relies on our previously suggested Conditional Transaction (Tx) cryptographic primitive.
StarkEx 2.0 (Nov 2020) will offer L2-L1 interoperability (Fast Withdrawals), using on-chain Conditional Txs.
StarkEx 3.0 (Feb 2021) will offer L2-L2 interoperability across StarkEx systems, using off-chain Conditional Txs.

According to JGZ.com, in the last hour, $3.65 million in cryptos was liquidated on OKEx; Huobi Global liquidated $11.50 million in cryptos; BitMEX liquidated $2.52 million worth of BTC perpetual contracts.

Now BTC is trading at 13,015.82 USDT on Boboo.com, up 6.56% in the past 24 hours.
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Now ETH is trading at 414.14 USDT on Boboo.com, up 9.27% in the past 24 hours.
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Philippine central bank governor Benjamin Diokno has announced that the institution's "exploratory" study of central bank digital currency study suggests that much more work is needed to make a digital peso a reality.
During the summer, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas had confirmed it was investigating the feasibility and potential policy implications of issuing its own CBDC, or digital counterpart to the physical peso.
In a press briefing, Diokno reportedly rejected the possibility that a CBDC could be issued any time in the near future. The study so far has suggested that ongoing research is needed to look into capacity-building and the creating of networks between other central banks and financial institutions.

As of 11:00 (UTC) on October 22, Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading above the $12,900 level. At present, the coin marks $12,961.28 with an increase of 6.31% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Strong Buy" with two indicators sending out selling signals, four showing neutral signals, and 12 indicating buying signals.
The broad market is still trading upwards, with 13 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap bleeding.
The global market cap reads $393.74 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $117.30 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 12,952.98 USDT on Binance, $12,970.36 on Bitfinex, $12,965.32 on Coinbase Pro and 12,950.59 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $408.01 (+7.64%); XRP marks $0.2609 (+5.62%); BCH marks $266.88 (+5.99%); LTC marks $55.47 (+13.54%); EOS marks $2.68 (+4.35%); ETC marks $5.47 (+5.11%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: RSR (+43.83%), CEL (+18.86%), and QNT (+13.95%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ABBC (-18.39%), FIL (-12.98%), and HEDG (-9.95%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: BTC (+$445.00 mln), ETH (+$332.24 mln), and BCH (+$48.90 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: BUSD (-$11.88 mln), BUSD (-$10.31 mln), and USDC (-$3.66 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$13.09 mln), Bitfinex (+$87.21 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$31.20 mln).