Morning Minute: Move Over, Saylor, There’s a New Top Buyer in Town

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Right now’s high information:

Crypto majors rebound forward of CPI; BTC at $83.6k
Vivek’s Attempt purchased $280M in BTC final week, 13x Saylor’s buys
BTC and ETH ETFs flip again to inflows, ETH breaks 10-day outflow streak
STRC hits $99.90 and highest stage since Might depeg
Solana core dev pronounces Alpenglow reside on October 21 on mainnet

BitcoinBTC · USD

$83,122−0.44%

Oct 7Oct 9Oct 11Oct 12Oct 14

$84.2k$83.1k$81.9k$80.7k

24h ExcessiveExcessive$84,025

24h LowLow$82,919

VolVol$1.0B

Market projectionsOdds by Myriad

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🟠 Transfer Over, Saylor, There’s a New Prime Purchaser in City

For 5 years, “who purchased probably the most Bitcoin this week” had one reply. That’s quietly stopped being true.

Vivek’s Attempt Asset Administration (Nasdaq: ASST), run by Matthew Cole, simply scooped up 3,311 BTC for roughly $280 million between Oct. 5 and 9, shopping for the dip at a median of ~$84,500 because the market offered off. It’s Attempt’s greatest single buy since January, and it caps a real tear: $94.5M in late September, $169M in early October, then $280M. Complete stack now sits at 32,773 BTC, about $2.73 billion.

In that very same stretch, Michael Saylor’s Technique purchased 250 BTC for about $21.5 million. Attempt outbought Technique by roughly 13 to 1.

This isn’t a one-week fluke of timing. Technique’s shopping for has shrunk for 2 straight weeks, and that very same week it spent almost 9 instances extra shopping for again its personal most popular shares ($192M) than it spent on Bitcoin. Its mNAV simply dropped beneath 1.0 for the primary time, which means the market values the corporate at lower than the Bitcoin sitting on its steadiness sheet.

Now to stage set by whole holdings, this isn’t remotely shut. Technique nonetheless sits on 848,250 BTC—a ~$51 billion place, greater than 25 instances Attempt’s stack. Saylor isn’t being dethroned because the king of Bitcoin treasuries. However “greatest holder” and “most aggressive purchaser proper now” have, for the primary time, turn into two completely different titles.

The newcomer is accumulating on the tempo the pioneer has deserted—and it simply advised us the way it plans to maintain going. Attempt is selling 5 million shares of a new preferred at $100 a chunk, a $500 million increase paying a hard and fast 15% day by day, with proceeds earmarked for extra Bitcoin. That’s a 15% annual coupon—$75 million a yr in money out the door—which is a really costly method to be proper. However with STRC at $99.90, Saylor’s BTC faucet is about to show again on, too. Let the battle of the Bitcoin giants start…

🌎 Macro Crypto and Markets

Crypto majors are barely inexperienced and rebounding; BTC +0.2% at $83.6k; ETH +0.2% at $2,507; SOL +1% at $107; HYPE -1% at $82; ZEC +3% at $1,250
Prime alt movers embrace PENDLE (+8%), STX (+4%) and VVV (+6%)
Oil +4% at $96; Gold -0.4% at $4,160
Inventory futures are blended forward of CPI; DOW +0.3%, Nasdaq -0.2%
Coinbase, which custodies roughly 5% of all bitcoin in existence, laid out what Bitcoin needs to survive quantum computers, backing the BIP-360 (P2MR) and P2TRv2 proposals as versatile sufficient to bolt on new signature sorts later and pushing a phased rollout the place lively wallets can spend with both an outdated key or a quantum-safe one
Solana core developer Anza scheduled the Alpenglow consensus upgrade for mainnet-beta on October 21, swapping TowerBFT for Votor to chop finality from about 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds and transferring validator votes off the chain totally
Interactive Brokers switched on ETH staking for its clients by way of infrastructure supplier zerohash, including a Staking Dashboard to the Consumer Portal
A Bitcoin pockets that held by way of each crash since 2020 moved its entire 4,581.94 BTC balance value about $377 million on October 12, splitting it throughout 5 new addresses
Binance is shutting down Binance Pool and each service connected to it, disconnecting miners on November 10 and exiting mining after 9 years and roughly 2.3% of community hashrate
BNY and Citadel Securities completed a test transaction using tokenized U.S. Treasuries to maneuver the bonds from settlement into financing, aiming to let companies pledge collateral and recycle money quicker than present methods permit
Trezor is ending all reseller authorizations on January 1, 2027, days after Ledger’s safety group discovered wallets from a Southeast Asian retailer carrying a hidden element

Company Treasuries & ETFs

The Bitcoin ETFs saw $175M in net inflows on Tuesday; the ETH ETFs noticed $25M in inflows and broke a 10-day outflow streak
Attempt is selling a second class of preferred stock to purchase extra bitcoin, providing 5 million SATS shares at $100 every for $500 million at a hard and fast 15% dividend paid day by day, after lifting holdings to 32,773 BTC value about $2.7 billion

Meme Coin Tracker

Meme leaders were barely inexperienced; DOGE +1%, SHIB even, PEPE +3%, PENGU +1%, TRUMP +1%, SPX +1%, BONK even
Robinhood chain leaders rebounded 10-25%; Pons +18% to $225M; AI +28% at $107M; Cashcat +18% at $118M; Orbio +18%, Boner +18%, Priors +30% and Shroom +50% led high movers
Solana high movers included Veil +280%, Altai +1600%, Claudia +80% and Bordr +80%

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🚚 What is going on in NFTs?

NFT leaders had been inexperienced and rebounding; Punks even at 31.5 ETH, BAYC +6% at 5.5 ETH, Pudgy +8% at 2.37 ETH
Credit (+40%), Normies (+29%) and Claus (+17%) led high movers
zkSnarks announced ‘Apparitions’ as a brand new character requiring 26 burned zkSnarks to mint