LATEST: Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs, declared the ELIZAOS token “completely” dead, said its foundation is closing and urged holders to sell, while vowing to keep building the underlying software without a new token. Read the full story by @shauryamalwa on CoinDesk. https://t.co/CYPSAaSc4u

🎥 @IOHK_Charles warns crypto can't survive 15 more years of users losing everything to hacks. Midnight is something that we "desperately needed as an industry," he said, arguing wallet, bridge and AI agent insurance are key to going mainstream. https://t.co/nD1HCbH6Ff

LATEST: SBI Holdings and the @SolanaFndn form a strategic joint venture to build on-chain financial markets in Japan. Solana takes a stake in SBI R3 Japan, renamed SBI Solana Global, targeting stablecoins, tokenized RWAs and cross-border settlement. https://t.co/QsD6eXr080

Securitize posted 106% growth in distributed value over 30 days according to RWA․xzy, as momentum builds in tokenized credit. @jennsanasie brings you Brand New Rails presented by @Realfi_co. https://t.co/J3edDDZloD

"I'm using 5X margin and think I can get out at 12 cents." @buyerofponzi’s high-conviction call this week is XPL. @jennsanasie brings you 10X, presented by @krakenfx Pro. https://t.co/otACbw7cXf

"I'm using 5X margin and think I can get out at 12 cents." @buyerofponzi’s high-conviction call this week is XPL. @jennsanasie brings you 10X, presented by @krakenfx Pro. https://t.co/mWkra0YUHq

NEW: Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said tokenized equities and ETFs, not just tokenized Treasuries, could be the catalyst that grows the real-world asset (RWA) market from roughly $30 billion today to as much as $5 trillion. Read the full story by @cryptauxmargaux on CoinDesk https://t.co/pEH5Gio2Vp

NEW: @Morpho has raised $175M from Paradigm, a16z and Ribbit Capital to build on-chain credit infrastructure, the lending protocol already has $11B in deposits and counts @Coinbase, @Binance and @Krakenfx among its users. https://t.co/TiZaLibTdV

NEW: @virtuals_io is migrating $700M+ in $VIRTUAL from @LayerZero_Core to @chainlink CCIP. Continued fallout from the $292M Kelp DAO exploit. https://t.co/uh0oz6qSfz

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short newsletter: - Sylvia To on AI agents choosing denationalized money. - Top institutional headlines - Kamino hits $90M in OnRe liquidity while $KMNO drops 16% Chart of the Week https://t.co/y98rOncE0e

🎥SPOTLIGHT: Bitcoin OG @ErikVoorhees on the separation of money and state, the danger of a US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and why crypto was actually built for AI. 01:20 - Voorhees' First Memory of Money Mattering 04:00 - Discovering Bitcoin As a Solution to the Financial Crisis 06:13 - Could Bitcoin Replace Gold Completely? 07:17 - When Will There Be A Complete Financial Collapse? 10:47 - The Separation of Money and State 13:57 - Why Voorhees is Divided on Governments Holding Bitcoin 15:53 - Crypto Industry Engagement with Politicians Is "Gross" 19:49 - Voorhees' History with the SEC 21:48 - From Satoshi Dice to Prediction Markets 24:09 - What Does "Sufficiently Decentralized" Actually Mean? 27:35 - Ethereum's Trajectory 29:07 - Voorhees Predicts Base Will End Up the Predominant L2 32:01 - Sci-Fi and Technological Optimism 34:06 - Learnings from ShapeShift's DAO Structure 38:01 - Venice AI: Separation of Mind and State 40:24 - How Do We Avoid a Dystopian Future? 43:19 - How Venice AI Differs from ChatGPT and Gemini 47:46 - Unprogramming Human Instincts for Privacy 50:24 - The VVV Token 54:25 - Crypto is Built for AI Machines 56:56 - How He Lost 50K BTC Fighting The SEC ...and more on CoinDesk Spotlight with @JennSanasie.

💡 NEW: São Paulo pilots blockchain microloans for farmers with Tanssi tech, offering up to R$15,000 in fast loans. Launching next month! 🇧🇷 @FranciscoMemor reports https://t.co/5qOqJ59y4z

ETF NEWS: Canary Capital is widening its bet on niche crypto assets with a new filing for an exchange-traded fund tied to $MOG Coin, a cat-themed memecoin born from TikTok culture. By @shauryamalwa https://t.co/HqkjhGs3bv

NEW: Circle has launched public testnet of its Arc blockchain with global banks, asset managers like BlackRock, HSBC, Apollo onboard. @sndr.krisztian reports https://t.co/LVhYo9WXMT

📊 Institutional flows dominated Q3 as spot BTC and ETH ETFs drew over $18B in inflows, and public firms added 190K BTC, bringing holdings to 5% of supply. Altcoin treasuries are rising too, led by ETH, SOL, TRX, WLD, and ATH. Josh de Vos (@JdvXbt) brings you "Chart of the Day," presented by @cryptocom.

🔥 LATEST: PLUME Rises 25% as Network Registered by SEC as Transfer Agent for Tokenized Securities. @godbole17 reports. https://t.co/kT0XJ6jEiX

DefiLlama earlier today pulled Aster’s perpetuals data from its tracking page after spotting XRP trading volumes that mirrored those on Binance, raising doubts about how the newest DEX challenger was reporting activity. By @shauryamalwa https://t.co/QU0bu305f3

STABLECOINS: Stablecoin and RWA tokenization OGs Avtar Sehra, founder of Kaio, and Reeve Collins, a co-founder of Tether, have joined forces on STBL, a startup focused on GENIUS Act-aligned digital dollars. By @IanAllison123. https://t.co/2TE9WR4ioS

STABLECOINS: Stablecoin and RWA tokenization OGs Avtar Sehra, founder of Kaio, and Reeve Collins, a co-founder of Tether, have joined forces on STBL, a startup focused on GENIUS Act-aligned digital dollars. By @IanAllison123. https://t.co/2TE9WR4ioS

🚨 UPDATE: The token crashed ~90% to $320M. Not financial advice.

🚨 NEW: Kanye West launches his own Solana memecoin, YZY, which briefly hit a $3B market cap. Not financial advice. https://t.co/f8kA1CyzW1

🗞️ Tom Lee's Bitmine plans to raise $20B to acquire 5% of the total ether supply. 🗞️ Circle posts a Q2 net loss of $482M, even as revenue hit $658M and the company announced a new L1 blockchain called Arc. 🗞️ Led by BlackRock's ETHA, spot Ether ETFs hit a record $1B in daily inflows for the first time on Monday. @JennSanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." Thank you to @MidnightNtwrk 👋 for being a sponsor of the CoinDesk media network.