First Mover Americas: BTC Peeps Above $69K as Macro Favors Bulls The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Oct. 21, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: SOL Surges 7%, Leading Index Gain Since Friday Hedera joined Solana as a top performer, rising 5.6% over the weekend.

Stripe in $1.1B Acquisition Deal for Stablecoin Platform Bridge Bridge, which has raised $54 million in funding, previously said it aspired to become the blockchain version of Stripe, operating a global system in which other developers could integrate.

Crypto Employee’s Use of Laptop Outside of Work Cited in Data Breach Affecting 93K Transak Users Transak, which is used by platforms like Metamask, Binance and Trust Wallet, says the leak was limited to “names” and “basic identity information.” A ransomware group says it has obtained more sensitive user data as well.

Bitcoin Pulls Back Below $67K; Is Another Crypto Rally Failing?

U.S. Election Betting: Kalshi’s Polymarket Rival Quickly Gets Traction In just three weeks, Kalshi’s presidential prediction market has passed $30M in volume. It still trails Polymarket’s $2 billion.

U.S. Senator Lummis Proposes the U.S. Buy 1M Bitcoin to Reduce National Debt

Bitcoin Prices See Wild Trading as Trump Plans to Establish BTC as U.S. Strategic Asset BTC jumped above $69,000 earlier Saturday on hopes Trump would announce buying the asset if elected president.

In Donald Trump’s Own Words – a Partial Transcript of His Bitcoin 2024 Speech The following excerpts from former President Donald Trump’s speech – aided by AI transcription – focus on portions of his remarks in Nashville, Tenn., in which he addressed crypto and the industry directly.

Trump Says Democrats Winning Election Will Be Disaster for Crypto: ‘Every One of You Will Be Bone’

Democratic Crypto Supporters Call for Crypto-Friendly Party Platform More than a dozen Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and a long list of candidates for congressional seats are pushing their national committee to adopt a pro-crypto stance, according to a letter they sent on Saturday.

Democrats Pushing Harris Campaign for ‘Reset’ on Crypto Stance, House Rep Says Democratic members of Congress wrote a letter to the Democratic National Committee asking for it to embrace pro-crypto policy.

Wall Street’s Cantor Fitzgerald to Open Bitcoin Financing, Lending Business

Key U.S. Senate Republican Tim Scott Makes Crypto-Fan Debut U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee who may be in position to be its next chairman, argued at a Bitcoin 2024 appearance on Friday that the government should “make it easy” for the crypto industry to innovate in the U.S.

Bitcoin to Account for 7% of Global Wealth, Surge in Price to $13M in 21 Years: Michael Saylor The Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy spoke Friday at Bitcoin 2024.

Trump Speaks Saturday at the Bitcoin Conference. Here’s What Attendees Like ‘The Crypto Patriot’ Hope He Says

Bitcoin Layer 2 Rootstock Verifies Zero-Knowledge SNARK Rootstock verified the SNARK using BitVMX, which is Rootstock’s modified version of BitVM

Ledger Unveils Second New Wallet of 2024 “Ledger Flex”, like the Stax wallet which launched in May, incorporates touchscreen technology to “redefine the experience of self-custody,” CEO Pascal Gauthier said.

Stablecoin Default Guarantees Pose Risks to the Issuing Banks, Swiss Regulator Says FINMA’s guidance explains how banks can limit the risks associated with guaranteeing stablecoin customers’ deposits.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: RNDR’s 12% Gain Leads as Index Rebounds CoinDesk 20 Index jumped 4.4% fueled by RNDR’s 12.6% rise and NEAR’s 7.7% gain.”