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Christensen wrote that three proposals are being considered to address community concerns: continue with Sky as the core brand to build on its recent momentum, recenter the Maker brand with its original identity and reinstate MKR as the sole governance token, or bring Maker back with a refreshed brand that aligns with the current ecosystem while maintaining its established trust and stability. Read the full article here

The broad-based CoinDesk 20 (CD20), a liquid index tracking the largest tokens by market capitalization, fell nearly 2% while bitcoin lost 1%. Traders, however, foresee a run to $80,000 in the coming weeks as the U.S. elections draw near, regardless of who is elected president. Read the full article here

“Central banks think policy is tight and want to cut gradually. If employment cracks, they will cut fast. If employment bounces, they will cut less. Two months ago, bonds were pricing a strong possibility of falling behind the curve. Now the recession skew is gone, yields are up. That is not bearish risk assets and it doesn’t mean the Fed has screwed up,” Dario Perkins, managing direction, global macro at TS Lombard, said in a note to clients on Oct. 17. Read the full article here

Crypto options market has grown multi-fold in the past four years, with contracts worth billions of dollars expiring every month and quarter. That said, its still relatively small compared to the spot market. According to Glassnode, as of Friday’s data, the spot volume was approximately $8.2 billion, while options volume was roughly $1.8 billion. In addition, BTC’s open interest of $4.2 billion due to expire this Friday is less than 1% of BTC’s market cap of $1.36 trillion. Read the full article here

“We have serious people working in financial innovation that can create a lot of jobs, generate wealth, cement America even more as the world’s financial juggernaut,” he said. “But there are pitfalls, and there are things to watch out for, and regulators and lawmakers need to make sure we’re building a foundation, but not an overly prescriptive set of rules. So I think it’s hard to sit here and not get excited about some of the innovation that’s happening, but at the same time, how are we going to regulate it? How are we going to ensure that the innovation…

“Privacy is a critical requirement for most institutional transactions,” said Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink co-founder, in a prepared statement. “So far the blockchain industry has not provided the level of privacy necessary for these institutional transactions to move forward successfully, limiting the entire industry’s growth. Read the full article here

“There is no place like the U.S.,” he said via video link at DC Fintech Week in Washington. “I think it’s very, very important that sensible crypto regulations and stablecoin regulations will come to fruition in a way that will protect the end users,” he said, predicting that would happen in the U.S. Read the full article here

“These risks may materialise in different ways due to the effects of token arrangements on market structure, e.g. due to a change in the roles played by intermediaries when previously separate functions are combined on one platform,” the BIS report said. Plus, conflict of interest could also emerge, the report added and called for sound governance. Read the full article here

The U.S. is at an “incredible moment in history,” said Tudor, with the national debt ballooning to nearly 100% of GDP now from 40% only 25 years ago. Whoever will be elected next month will have to deal with the issue, he added, but campaign promises of additional spending and tax cuts made by Harris and Trump would only exacerbate the problem. Read the full article here

“The introduction of DARe represents a stepping stone in our journey towards building a global hub for the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem,” Luc Froehlich, chief commercial officer of RAK DAO said in the statement. “By offering a structured legal framework, we enable DAOs to interact with the off-chain world, such as opening a bank account and owning both on- and off-chain assets.” Read the full article here