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Benyamin Netanyahu asked his advisors to prepare a blockchain-based plan to reduce Israel's vulnerability to potential banking sanctions. However, the Prime Minister did not specify the cryptos considered, the project leaders, or the timeline.

Thursday, October 22, American bitcoin ETFs experienced $635.49 million in net outflows, their heaviest single-day loss since June 25. BlackRock and Fidelity account for nearly three-quarters of the withdrawals. In one day, this movement erased nearly 60% of the inflows recorded over the previous three sessions.

Tether is accused of having paid $6.3 million to a senior White House adviser to shape stablecoin laws to its advantage. The US Senate has just launched an official investigation.

Minterest has closed its site but keeps its contracts active. Immutable X and Polygon zkEVM have migrated the funds. Blast and Abstract announced their closure in 2026. What remains recoverable.

Gold falls below $4,000 as markets suffer a wave of selling that affects several precious metals. On Thursday, losses accelerated in a context marked by rising oil prices and inflation fears. Even with bond yields declining, this safe haven did not attract investors. This drop raises questions about the strength of the upward trend and occurs as Peter Brandt directly challenges Peter Schiff.

Benjamin Cowen observes that several bitcoin rebounds have lost momentum around the 21st of each month since August. The analyst now envisions a new low in mid-November, but this pattern is based on few observations and does not constitute a statistical rule.

Bitcoin Core changes its way of handling certain vulnerabilities because of artificial intelligence. Developers now acknowledge that a bug can be so easy to find that a simple prompt sent to an AI model is sometimes enough. In this case, keeping the flaw secret for several months no longer really protects users. Bitcoin Core prefers to fix faster and publish the security notice at the same time. No new critical Bitcoin bug is announced. It is the defense policy that evolves.

China sets 2030 as the deadline for its national blockchain network. Its 15th informatization plan specifies priority regions and targeted uses, from finance to logistics. However, Beijing does not question its ban on crypto-related activities.

Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial face a new lawsuit concerning their crypto activities. J. Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder of Circle, claims that two operations linked to the United Arab Emirates allowed the president and his companies to illegally benefit from foreign payments. The two transactions represent 2.5 billion dollars: 500 million for 49% of World Liberty and 2 billion invested in Binance via the stablecoin USD1.

An address tracked by Lookonchain bought about $7.22 million worth of cryptos in twenty-four hours. Its portfolio favors Ethena, Ondo, Aerodrome, and Uniswap, while Pepe represents only a small part of the operation.

Bitget is taking its real-world asset (RWA) strategy a step further. Instead of limiting users to tokenized stocks and ETFs, the exchange now lets eligible securities move from external brokerage accounts into its ecosystem. It also plans to improve liquidity through a dedicated trading engine. However, the figures suggest the business still has room to grow.

BitMine is approaching the end of one of the largest crypto accumulation campaigns conducted by a company. Tom Lee states that the company will stop buying Ethereum when it reaches 5% of the ETH supply. BitMine already holds 6,041,481 ETH, or about 4.9% of the 122.1 million ETH used as reference. At a constant supply, about 63,500 ETH still separate it from its cap.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US find buyers after several weeks of capital outflows. In three sessions, they attracted 1.07 billion dollars, thereby erasing losses recorded since early October. However, this investment recovery is not enough to support prices. The market remains under pressure as investors watch the upcoming Federal Reserve moves. This discrepancy raises questions about the strength of the current rebound.

The computing power of the Bitcoin network has reached the threshold of 1 zettahash per second, its highest level in nearly seven months. This rebound strengthens the protocol's security, but it also signals a new increase in difficulty that could reduce the revenues of less competitive mining companies.

The hacker behind the massive Drift Protocol breach has just injected over $122 million in ETH into Tornado Cash. While Arkham traces this unprecedented scale laundering, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) reminds a brutal reality: 100% security does not exist in the crypto world.

Bitcoin approaches a decisive threshold as markets await new American inflation indicators. After several positive sessions, inflows into spot ETFs have sharply slowed, reducing support for prices. On Friday, PMI indices and household inflation forecasts could change investor expectations before the next Federal Reserve meeting. Maintaining the 80,000 dollar level will therefore also depend on these economic signals.

A study published by the Bank for International Settlements estimates that Bitcoin does not have the necessary architecture to become an everyday currency. Michael Saylor reaches a similar conclusion but advocates a different solution: keep BTC as capital and build credit products on top of this asset.

Ethereum researchers want to reduce the finality time of transactions from 16 to 4 minutes. Behind this technical improvement is a concrete economic issue: to allow transfer services to mobilize less capital while waiting for the final confirmation of operations. For now, the project is still under study and does not plan any deployment date.

Ken Griffin believes investors are "almost certainly" in an AI-related bubble. The founder of Citadel does not, however, question the technology itself. His concern is mainly about the amounts invested, the cost of GPUs, and the difficulty many companies have in turning their expenses into productivity gains. For him, a correction could eliminate many players while allowing the future giants of the sector to emerge.

The rise in bond yields in the euro area revives the debate on the "vicious circle" linking the health of banks to that of states. European institutions hold 4,300 billion euros in sovereign debt, but their capital reserves are stronger than during the crisis of the 2010s.

Bitcoin briefly approached 84,800 dollars on Wednesday before erasing almost all of its gains. BTC was trading around 82,800 dollars on Thursday, just above the closely watched 82,500 dollar support. The reversal is not only due to concerns about artificial intelligence. The war with Iran keeps oil at high levels, while US inflation remains at 3.7% and the Fed meets on October 28. Meanwhile, Bitcoin ETFs have nevertheless attracted more than one billion dollars in three sessions.

Dogecoin Labs wants to give a new dimension to DOGE. Created with the Dogecoin Foundation, the company brings together the MyDoge wallet, the DogeOS platform, and Such App, dedicated to merchant payments. At its head, Jordan Jefferson intends to create a true ecosystem of applications around cryptocurrency. But between the stated ambitions and concrete uses, there is still a way to go.

The cryptocurrency market is recovering after several difficult sessions. On Wednesday, Bitcoin reached a two-week high, triggering a strong rise in Strive and Strategy stocks. Both companies, which hold significant cryptocurrency reserves, directly benefit from this recovery. However, their performances also depend on their financing choices, recent purchases, and uncertainties related to stock indices. This dynamic occurs in a context still marked by several risks.

The PHP project asks administrators to update their servers after the discovery of two vulnerabilities that can lead to remote code execution. The alert concerns a language very present on the Web, but the 70% figure mentioned in the press does not correspond to the number of sites actually vulnerable.

The Cardano Foundation opposes a MiCA crypto regime dedicated to DeFi and staking. Its position partly aligns with that of ESMA, but not on intermediated services.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have just attracted nearly 550 million dollars in two sessions. After 526.6 million dollars on Monday, the funds added 23.16 million on Tuesday. The turnaround is quick: they had lost about 228.6 million the previous week. Meanwhile, Ether ETFs remain in the red with 129.41 million dollars of outflows since Monday.

The cryptocurrency market faces a significant obstacle, as several groups of investors seek to recover their purchase price. According to Glassnode, this situation is currently slowing Bitcoin's progress to around $87,700. Holders who entered the market recently exert selling pressure when prices reach their breakeven threshold. Meanwhile, on-chain data reveal several support levels likely to influence the market's next movement.

Solana replaced TowerBFT with Alpenglow on its mainnet on October 21, in its most significant consensus change since launch. The new protocol targets a finality close to 150 milliseconds, compared to about 12.8 seconds previously, but part of the planned architecture is still to be deployed.