ApeCoin Traders Make Bold Moves in PowerTrade’s Altcoin Options Market APE has doubled in value to $1.5 since the weekend.

Indonesia Extends Deadline for Crypto Exchange License Requirements Following Regulatory Updates Exchanges will now have until the last week of November to meet new requirements.

Ripple Co-Founder Larsen Flooding Kamala Harris’ Election Effort With XRP Ripple co-founder and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen said he’d added another $10 million in the Ripple-tied token {{XRP}} in an effort to boost Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democrat faces off against former President Donald Trump in next month’s election.

Chainlink Partners With Major Financial Players to Improve Corporate Actions Data Reporting Using AI and Blockchain Automating and standardizing corporate actions data could help significantly reduce operational inefficiencies that currently cost businesses millions of dollars every year due to errors and manual data processing, the report said.

No, Polymarket Whales Aren’t Evidence of Prediction Market Manipulation If you think the Trump bulls are wrong, bet against them.

Crypto ETFs Look Unlikely to Expand Beyond Bitcoin, Ether Under Kamala Harris, Experts Say More crypto ETFs might not ever be approved if Kamala Harris wins the presidential election.

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits All-Time High as Publicly-Listed Miners’ Share of the Network Peaks Bitcoin’s 7-day moving average (7DMA) hash rate surpassed 700 EH/s for the first time, marking a 13% increase since April’s halving.

Sui Launches ‘Incubator’ Hub in Dubai for ‘On the Spot’ Solution Engineering The Sui blockchain has launched a hub in Dubai which will act as an incubator for blockchain developers and entrepreneurs, one of its founding developers told CoinDesk in an interview.

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.