1. Bitwise: Gold's Price Rise Far Outstrips Bitcoin's in 2025, Heralding BTC's "Golden Moment." The current crypto market has two core questions about Bitcoin: 1. Why is gold's price so much outperforming Bitcoin? 2. Given the massive buying from ETFs and companies, why has Bitcoin's price remained stagnant? A careful answer to the first question reveals the answer to the second—and this answer paints a highly bullish picture for Bitcoin's future. 2. Bloomberg Reports: Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Other Major Asia-Pacific Stock Exchanges Oppose DATs. The three major Asia-Pacific stock exchanges are cracking down on cryptocurrency hoarding companies disguised as listed companies, known as DATs. According to people familiar with the matter, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has raised questions in recent months about at least five companies seeking to establish digital asset treasury (DAT) strategies as core businesses, citing regulations prohibiting them from holding significant amounts of liquid assets. These sources requested anonymity because the applications are confidential. To date, none of these companies have been approved. So-called DATs have faced similar opposition in India and Australia. Click to Read

3. A Comprehensive Review of Web3 Privacy Projects

In the Web3 world, privacy is often overshadowed by the issues of decentralization, self-custody, and transparency, but its critical importance cannot be ignored. In an ecosystem built on a public ledger, all activity is visible to anyone with a block explorer. While this ensures accountability, it also deprives us of the right to keep parts of our digital lives private. Today, numerous projects are reshaping privacy as a core feature of decentralized architectures through advanced technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs, secure multi-party computation, trusted execution environments, and mixed-coin networks. Click to read

4. What signals does the Federal Reserve's latest fintech conference send?

October 21st, Washington, D.C. A conference room at the Federal Reserve headquarters was filled with people who, just a few years ago, would have been considered troublemakers in the financial system. The founder of Chainlink, the president of Circle, the CFO of Coinbase, and the COO of BlackRock sat face-to-face with Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller to discuss stablecoins, tokenization, and AI-powered payments. 5. How will Friday's CPI release impact Bitcoin? Bitcoin is preparing for the release of the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September on October 24th—the first major macroeconomic data release since the federal government shutdown. Analysts at "The Kobeissi Letter" emphasized the importance of this data update, noting that it is the first CPI release on a Friday since January 2018 and comes just five days before the Federal Reserve meeting on October 29th. 5. How will Friday's CPI release impact Bitcoin? Bitcoin is preparing for the release of the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for September on October 24th—the first major macroeconomic data release since the federal government shutdown. Analysts at "The Kobeissi Letter" emphasized the importance of this data update, noting that it is the first time CPI data has been released on a Friday since January 2018 and comes just five days before the Federal Reserve meeting on October 29th.