According to the announcement of Zilliqa, following the recent mainnet upgrade to v.6.4.2, the staking contract was successfully upgraded today at 08:42 UTC. All funds have been safely transferred to the new contract which has now been unpaused, i.e. staking-related transactions are now enabled.
The new contract has reverted to the reward cycle of 1800 blocks, which means you can claim ZIL rewards roughly once a day. Rewards from the 2 missed cycles, blocks 838600 & 840400 have already been disbursed.

Citing Whale Alert, 75,000,000 USDT (75,092,322 USD) were transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury at 09:12:45 UTC on Oct 22.
The hash is ee718890e508d88637ad58e8a9ea02a6103e470760c008629a09d7390ecd9cc6.

Citing information from DAppTotal.com, as of 09:08 UTC on October 22, Tether issued 150 million USDT on the Ethereum network at block height 11105094. The transaction hash is 0xc1fc62b61d04d2e741fcf64731db6095133b1a10be40f83240215852b45095e0.
At press time, the total issuance of ERC20-USDT on the Ethereum network reports 10,484,246,184.

CoinNess Market Index shows that BTC surges by 1.0% within 5 minutes. BTC currently marks 12,751.3 USDT on OKEX.
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As of 09:00 UTC on October 22,
1) The total market cap of DeFi coins marks $15.63 billion (+0.83%), and the top five coins by market cap are WBTC ($1.378 billion), cDAI ($1.246 billion), DAI ($929 million), Uniswap V2 (WBTC/ETH) ($682 million) and Uniswap V2 (USDC/ETH) ($624 million).
2) Assets locked in DeFi are by far worth $12.07 billion (+7.09%), where $2.72 billion (22.58%) is from Uniswap, $2.09 billion is from Maker, and $1.37 billion is from WBTC.

Beijing plans to carry out 100 innovation measures in the financial sector, which includes the experiment on the digital currency, said Sun Shuo, executive deputy chief of Beijing's Xicheng district, during the 2020 Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum that kicked off in Beijing on Oct 22.

Vitalik Buterin shared Ethereum community's considerations on the Kate commitments to commit to Ethereum contract code to reduce witness sizes. In the most recent All Core Devs call, the co-founder again proposed that they use Kate Commitments when committing to contract code.
In stateless, Ethereum miners will need to add proofs for all executed code to the witness. Currently their proof sizes are linear in the size of the code, they must include the entire code segment.
Kate commitments go further; they promise constant sized proofs. The witness for a contract's code will need to include the executed code chunks along with a single group element (~48 bytes), this is almost no overhead at all. Given that witness size is a key factor in whether stateless Ethereum is possible at all, this makes Kate commitments seem quite appealing.

At UTC 8:00 am Oct 22, MoonSwap successfully burned 20,200 cMOON and completed the deflation plan. This part of the cMOON came from the sale of ConFi NFT in the MoonSwap ecosystem.This is also the second deflationary operation performed by MoonSwap. Previously, MoonSwap had burned 1.25 million MOONs.

"We've been informed by one of our cloud providers that there've been some network issues and it's now hard to confirm its scale," revealed Johnny Lyu, CEO of KuCoin. He then stressed all services have not been affected as of now.

"UBI has 5 core characteristics which are universal, unconditional, periodic, individual and cash payment," tweeted Circles.
Circles then pointed out the difference between Circles and UBI, writing that "The Universality of #BasicIncome has been theoreized within the political boundaries of nation-states. Its universe ends with state borders and citizenship. Circles is hyperlocal and potentially planetary in scope, yet its universe ends in access to the technology where it lives."
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At today's 2020 Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum, Han Seung-soo, a former Prime Minister of South Korea, said that the trend of central banks adopting digital currencies is irreversible.
According to the politician, most central banks are still in the research stage, and many of them will issue central bank digital currencies from a long-term perspective.

Binance CEO CZ shared his opinions about CBDCs, saying the first versions of CBDC are all likely going to be fairly centralized.
"Even as they use blockchain and cryptography technologies, they will be fairly different from Bitcoin," he added.

Nestor Espenilla, the governor of the central bank of the philippines, stated that few central banks plan to issue their own digital tokens, according to a Oct 22 report by Jin10.

European crypto exchange LGO and publicly traded brokerage Voyager are merging.
The deal is the latest M&A deal in the digital asset market following tie-ups between Binance and CoinMarketCap as well as FTX and Blockfolio. A spokesman for LGO did not comment on the financial details of the merger, noting that LGO's assets will be "operated under the Voyager brand."
"As part of the merger, the next version of the Voyager token will be minted which will allow holders of the VGX and LGO token holders to swap into the new token," according to the companies. "The holder ownership percentages will commensurate with the existing fully diluted market caps of the tokens. The new token will include decentralized finance features such as community governance."

The Tether (USDT) Treasury has minted almost half a billion new USDT tokens and distributed more than 185 million tokens to exchanges and other addresses in the last 36 hours.
As shown by blockchain tracker Whale Alert, two transactions of 150 million and 300 million USDT tokens were minted on Oct 20 and Oct 21 respectively.
The first 150 million was printed only hours before Paypal's announcement and the Bitcoin (BTC) price rally that followed.

Decentralized finance's (DeFi) explosive third-quarter brought significant growth to Ethereum (ETH)-compatible stablecoins.
According to crypto market data aggregator Messari, the supply of MakerDAO's DAI stablecoin grew by 623% in Q3 2020, pushing the token's value above $1 for four consecutive months.
Since starting July with a market cap of nearly $130 million, DAI's supply has expanded to more than $940 million today.

FTX founder SBF tweeted, "Looks like probably things are going to be back for good now on FTX, AWS says problems are over. Also, we've failed over many of the services to other regions in case."

Uniswap, an intelligent trading platform, currently has total liquidity of about $2.97 billion (-10%) of tokens with a 24h trading volume of about $258 million (+16.22%).
The top three gainers are XSP (+111%), XFI (+90.87%), and BREE (+49.78%), and the top three losers are ALEPH (-100%), KORE (-51.42%), and UNICORE (-48.59%).

According to data from filfox.info, the effective hashrate of Filecoin's entire network marks 616.86 PiB, and the number of active miners is 553. The FIL production in the last 24 hours reads 152,568, and the amount of pledge collateral is 13,053,422 FIL. The top five miners in effective hashrate ranking are shown in the figure.

Crypto analyst Willy Woo took to Twitter to claim, "Presently 2.4% of the world population are hodlers of Bitcoin. We are now broaching the early adopters' phase. You are very early on the curve. User adoption is about to go exponentially according to the adoption of S-curve. This is why BTC will decouple stocks, and it is very soon."

On October 22, the TRON Foundation issued an "Announcement on Termination of 1:1 TRX Redemption and Withdrawal on OKEX." TRON Foundation and Justin Sun announced the "Decision of TRON Foundation and Justin Sun on OKEX TRX Unlimited Rigid Redemption and Withdrawal" at 15:38 UTC on October 20, which won recognition and welcome from the majority in the currency circle including the TRON community. Unfortunately, within 53 minutes after the announcement issued on October 20, the OKEX banned the official TRON payment account. At 10:18 on October 21, TRON announced the second new official payment account. After the account was registered, within one minute, OKEX banned the new account again, so no money could be transferred to the second account. The TRON Foundation has decided to terminate its 1:1 TRX redemption and withdrawal on OKEX. the team will continue to follow up on transactions that have not been processed.

According to Grayscale's disclosure data, the total scale of Grayscale's crypto asset exceeded $7 billion, of which Bitcoin trust holdings were valued at $5.798 billion and Ethereum trust holdings were valued at $897 million.

According to an announcement of OKEx, Aave has enabled contract migration from LEND token to AAVE token, on the ratio of 100 LEND/1 AAVE. OKEx will open deposits of AAVE at 05:00 UTC and AAVE/USDT, AAVE/BTC, and AAVE/ETH at 06:00 on Oct 22.

ZHAO Changpeng previously said that a cloud service provider of Binance had encountered a problem and the monitoring tool was closed as a result. The matter is currently being negotiated. SBF, the founder of FTX and Alameda Research, reposted the tweet and said that FTX was affected in the same way and it seemed that some AWS parts had problems. FTX is making a backup plan, hoping that AWS will not collapse.

According to ZHAO Changpeng's tweet, some margin-related systems in the Binance exchange seem to have problems, and it may be caused by a failure of Amazon's cloud service AWS. ZHAO later confirmed that one of Binance's cloud service providers had encountered widespread problems, and the monitoring tools were also currently affected and closed. The matter is currently under negotiation.

Citing statistics from alternative.me, the Fear & Greed Index currently reads 73, 12 units 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%).

According to an official source, blockchain security company CertiK announced that the CertiK Chain mainnet will be launched at 14:24 UTC on October 24, 2020.

As of 03:00 (UTC) on October 22, Bitcoin (BTC) has been fluctuating above the $12,700 level after falling below the $13,000 threshold. At present, the coin marks $12,779.91 with an increase of 6.61% in the past 24 hours.
The CoinNess.com Bullish vs. Bearish Indicator shows our four-hour technical bias on BTC is "Strong Buy" with three indicators sending out selling signals, one showing a neutral signal, and 14 indicating buying signals.
The broad market is trading upwards, with 15 out of Top 100 cryptos by market cap bleeding.
The global market cap reads $387.26 billion, and the 24-hour trading volume is $122.10 billion.
Major Coins
1. BTC quotes show 12,788.50 USDT on Binance, $12,807.00 on Bitfinex, $12,806.00 on Coinbase Pro and 12,781.15 USDT on Boboo.com;
2. CoinNess.com Market Index presents quotes for major cryptocurrencies besides BTC as following: ETH marks $393.52 (+5.85%); XRP marks $0.2563 (+4.50%); BCH marks $266.25 (+8.88%); LTC marks $55.26 (+16.29%); EOS marks $2.64 (+3.90%); ETC marks $5.47 (+7.33%).
Top 3 Gainers and Losers in Cryptocurrencies
1. Top 3 gainers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: RSR (+47.33%), LTC (+16.29%), and AMPL (+15.54%);
2. Top 3 losers among Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap: ABBC (-18.95%), FIL (-14.77%), and TMTG (-8.57%).
Cap Flows of Coins/Exchanges
1. Top 3 capital inflows within the last 24 hours: BTC (+$444.80 mln), ETH (+$329.82 mln), and BCH (+$60.35 mln);
2. Top 3 capital outflows within the last 24 hours: BUSD (-$19.56 mln), USDT (-$6.94 mln), and USDC (-$5.60 mln);
3. Net inflows/outflows of exchanges: Binance (+$7.76 mln), Bitfinex (+$27.74 mln), and Coinbase Pro (+$71.15 mln).