Brian Quarmby

“The reason I own Bitcoin is because the U.S. government and every government in the western hemisphere is printing money now to the end of time,” said billionaire Barry Sternlicht.

Sanchan Saxena, the vice president of product at Coinbase, said yesterday that the “insane” amount of traffic from signing up to the waitlist temporarily broke the site.

According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas there are “good signs” that the SEC will approve Bitcoin futures ETF applications from Ark Invest and Valkyrie.

Instead of a safe harbor for crypto firms, SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw called for a “bridge” in which crypto firms work with the SEC to determine compliance plans.

Guy Oseary has signed on to represent Yuga Labs in the entertainment sector, with the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project slated to expand into music, gaming, TV and film.

After pulling back from Bitcoin three years ago, Stripe is looking to reenter the crypto sector.

Institutional investors piled $225 million into Bitcoin products, while Ether products saw outflows of $13.6 million this past week.

After launching its NFT marketplace last month, FTX.US has expanded support to the Solana blockchain and plans to integrate Ether tokens soon, too.

Abracadabra.Money enables users to provide collateral via interest-bearing tokens and borrow the Magic Internet Money stablecoin against their holdings.

Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu has urged new NFT users to look past profiteering and examine how nonfungible tokens can redefine culture.

Arcane Research says that Lightning Network usage has been on a steep upward trajectory since late last year, but in September, growth went parabolic off the back of El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption.

According to Easy Crypto, the $11.75 million in a Series A funding round may be the largest sum of investment raised in New Zealand for a local start-up.

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary stated that “crypto for the first time is more than gold for me” and doesn’t see a situation where crypto “goes away” as a result of regulation.

Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin singled out crypto as a threat to the U.S. dollar and stated, “I wish all this passion and energy that went to crypto was directed towards making the United States stronger.”

“[Crypto] is a trend that has barely started — money is the easiest application and the Bitcoin use case started there,” said Bank of America.

Institutional crypto appetites have shifted away from altcoins back to Bitcoin, with BTC investment products leading the inflows for digital asset products for the second week in a row.

The NFL has official confirmed its partnership with Dapper Labs to drop NFTs, renowned DJ Paul Oakenfold is dropping a tokenized album on Cardano, DC is giving away free comic book cover NFTs.

Talking about a digital asset plan being cooked up by a Senate inquiry, Senator Andrew Bragg said, “We will want the major parties, including my party, to adopt these policies as part of their election manifestos.”

Billy Markus has talked up a proposed Dogecoin-to-Ethereum bridge so that DOGE can be used on top NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea.

The listed crypto options providers named by the CFTC include relatively unknown names such as Bitfxprofit, Star FX Pro, Smarter Signals and BinanceFx Trade.

Kraken has urged BATMTwo ATM owners and operators to change the admin QR code for their ATMs to avoid potential attacks.

The Eternal Beings team stated on Discord that Lil Uzi Vert has only temporarily walked back from the NFT project to work on his new album.

Dapper Labs will reportedly become the second-largest source of digital licensing revenue for the NFL Player’s Association as part of a deal to launch tokenized NFL collectibles.

The SEC asserts that the defendants unlawfully gleaned more than $700,000 through a wash-trading scheme that targeted exchanges offering market maker rebates.

While institutional Bitcoin products have experienced outflows for 13 of the past 17 weeks, the sector has now seen three straight weeks of inflows.

As part of its partnership with Arca Labs, Securitize will help launch tokenized financial products for the firm, starting with Arca’s registered tokenized treasury fund.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has stated that the SEC won’t meet with the firm while asserting that 50% of Washington officials are concerned over the risks of crypto.

AMC CEO Adam Aron has stated that the cinema giant will look to support Dogecoin movie ticket payments by the end of 2021, and real estate tokenization platform RedSwan is accepting DOGE, too.

Following the $250-million funding round, Dapper Labs intends to launch more licensed collectibles in music, entertainment and other sports codes.

NFT collector revealed to be Snoop Dogg, hybrid NFTs are coming, and an investor lost $300,000 in tokens to hackers.