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Leveraged traders lost $973M in positions over 24 hours, and longs took $892M of it (91.7%). About half hit in a single hour overnight, as ETH fell over 5% and BTC slid toward $80K. 182,685 traders were liquidated.

Binance carried 53% of the total, followed by Hyperliquid and Bybit. ETH led coins at $293M, ahead of BTC at $203M. The largest single order was a $12.03M BTC long on Binance, closed at $80,209. Data: CoinGlass.

This week's theme: Wall Street's toolkit is shrinking to wallet size. A prime broker for Hyperliquid, options with no liquidations, strategy funds anyone can launch, a share of a real GPU from $100.

9 early-stage projects, from a broker that hides your wallet from the market to credit lines for AI agents.

Blur's website goes offline on November 12, and it is far from alone. Of 56 top NFT marketplaces launched in 2017-2023, only 21 still trade.

The other 35 shut down, sold, pivoted or turned into zombies, lasting 3.9 years on average. Six exchange and retail NFT shops closed, from Coinbase to Binance.

Fees collapsed with volume: OpenSea earned $25.1M in 2025 against $1.55B in 2022, and monthly NFT sales fell 91% from December 2023 to $167.2M in September 2026.

This week's six have Sequoia, Ribbit Capital, Jump and Castle Island money behind them. All live right now:

• Catalyst: AI Trading · Sequoia-led $30M, waitlist open

• Kintsu: Canton Lending · private beta in waves

• Navra: AI Wallet · from the SoFi co-founder, October rollout

• Imperial: Perp DEX · Season 1 points

• dreamDEX: Perp DEX · $15,000 trading competition

• Tria: Crypto Neobank · card packs with 6% cashback

Full step-by-step breakdown for each 👇

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Papertrade opened on October 10 with BTC and ETH perps at up to 1000x. Notional volume has passed $770B, but in a day open interest fell from $3.3B to $51M and margin to $6.4M.

Nobody seeded the house pool: it starts at $0 and grows only from trader losses, which also mint PAPER. The pool holds about $5M, and stakers have collected around $25M in USDC.

The weak spot is pricing. The only feed is Hyperliquid's mid, and one wallet netted $1.28M by moving ETH there, so Papertrade tightened its caps. Deposits peaked near $102M and now sit around $59M.

A full list of Major Upcoming Events, to be updated

Seven teams have officially pointed to Q4: Fables (TGE on Oct 20), Variational, Saturn, Strato, AlloX, infiniFi and Catapult. All 35 are on our upcoming TGEs tracker.

Strong signals: Jumper closed its Legion sale on Oct 2, Predict.fun opened pre-market trading on Oct 9, Cambria's $RSGP follows its sold-out Charter mint, and Extended's final points season ends Nov 2. Multipli.fi, Byzanlink and Cashmere Labs have finished their sales or presales, and the XDAO airdrop checker is live.

No official date yet for Ritual, Ink, MagicBlock, Hibachi, Vest or Theo, though Polymarket gives most of them 34-55% odds of a token by Dec 31. Dates may shift.

That's 7.1M BTC, about $589B. If ECDSA breaks, these coins could be taken without their owners doing anything.

Why now: on Oct 7, a day after OpenAI dropped 722 AI-made math results, Justin Drake said ECDSA could break before quantum computers do, "in the worst case in months not years". Vitalik agreed it "might fall even faster than expected".

The twist: it's mostly not Satoshi. His era's coins hold 1.71M BTC. Reused addresses hold 5.18M, 73% of everything exposed. That's wallets in use today, including Binance, Robinhood and Bitfinex cold storage, which Drake named directly.

The fix costs nothing: send to a fresh address and never reuse it.

This week's theme: trading is turning into a game. Sports bets with XP and card packs, competitions against AI agents, portfolios copied in one click. And the plumbing underneath is growing up.

9 early-stage projects, from a way to buy Waymo without the rest of Alphabet to private transfers on Bitcoin.