Daily Summary, 22 October

News of the Day, October 22

📊 Cryptomarket and Projects

* Project Kadena: The blockchain project Kadena announced its closure due to exhausted funding. A year ago, its coin was valued at nearly $2 billion.
* Ethereum Foundation: The foundation transferred 160,000 ETH ($650 million) to a wallet that was previously used for selling coins.
* Binance: Is launching direct operations with the US dollar through a regulated provider in Bahrain.
* ETF:
* Already 155 applications for crypto ETFs have been submitted, covering 35 different assets. Over 200 crypto funds may appear on the market within the year.
* In Hong Kong, the world’s first spot Solana ETF was approved.
* Jim Cramer’s Opinion: Stated that cryptocurrency is expected to experience a sharp rise today.

🏛 Regulation and Law

* Roskomnadzor: Partially restricted the work of Telegram and WhatsApp in southern Russia “to counter criminals using messengers.”
* Russian Ministry of Finance: Has begun forming a register of miners, which already contains 1,364 registered persons.
* Tatarstan: 10 people were detained who, through a fake payment processing service, served online casinos and also laundered money through crypto.

🚀 Technologies and Innovations

* Coinbase: Will soon launch “private transactions” using the acquired team Iron Fish.
* nof1.ai Experiment: AI models are trading with real money:
* ChatGPT has lost 65% of its capital.
* Deepseek is in the plus by 11%.
* OpenAI: Is working on an AI banker called “Mercury,” capable of independently building financial models and presentations to Wall Street standards.

🛒 Mass Adoption and Partnerships

* US Retail: The 110-year-old retail chain Bealls has begun accepting payment in cryptocurrency in more than 660 stores across the country.
* NHL: Has entered into contracts with the prediction platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.

⚠️ Incidents and Fraud

* Ukraine, Ternopil: A 64-year-old man lost $28,100 (all his savings) by transferring it to an unknown “broker” who disappeared along with the money.

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Brief Summary: The day was marked by significant movements of major players (Ethereum Foundation, Binance), important ETF news, and a tightening regulatory background in Russia. Against this backdrop, technological experiments with AI continue and the penetration of cryptocurrencies into traditional retail is growing.