Market situation:
- Bitcoin around $123,728;
- Ethereum around $4,529;
- Fear and Greed Index: 67;
- Bitcoin dominance: 59.26%;
- Altseason Index: 71;
- Market capitalization: $4.15 trillion.
🕕 Michael Saylor recommended Mr Beast to buy BTC at the current highs.
😐 Analysts believe that Bitcoin reached ATH yesterday amid ETF inflows of $3.2B (institutions are rotating from small cap stocks and commodities into BTC) and a 12% YTD drop in DXY, they are bullish ($150K target), but are hedging predictions with a pullback to $108-118K.
➰ Morgan Stanley through the Global Investment Committee has issued a recommendation for 16,000 advisors (managing $2 trillion in assets) to add crypto to multi-asset portfolios, calling Bitcoin "digital gold." The same advisors who have been FUDding crypto for clients for years have now been instructed to sell it to retail at current highs.
🥇 VanEck in its latest research report claims that Alpenglow, the next major upgrade of Solana, will make the network faster, smoother, and easier to operate. Solana Alpenglow is the largest consensus upgrade since launch: transaction finality of 150ms instead of 12 seconds. More details - here.
🗝 In the next 7 days, tokens worth $555M+ will be unlocked: large one-time unlocks ($5M+) - ATH, APT, LINEA, BABY, BB, HOME, IO, MOVE; daily linear unlocks ($1M+/day) - SOL, TRUMP, WLD, DOGE, AVAX, ASTER, TIA, SUI, ETHFI, DOT, TAO, NEAR and others.
⚙️ eCash (XEC) will launch Pre-Consensus on November 15 - integrating Avalanche-style consensus into PoW blockchain for instant finality (~3 seconds) without waiting for multiple block confirmations.
🪂 Aster DEX has completed Stage 2 and is launching Stage 3, giving participants a choice (October 10-12): airdrop $ASTER or a full refund of trading fees for S2, tokens available on October 14.
👉 Rumors have spread in the crypto community that in 2026 several state banks of the Russian Federation will be able to legally exchange cryptocurrency for rubles for residents, the next step may be the blocking of offshore exchanges that refuse to operate under Russian legislation.
