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Stellar is preparing to introduce quantum-resistant security features to its blockchain. The network's upcoming Bell (Protocol 30) upgrade is scheduled for November, introducing new capabilities designed to protect smart contracts against future quantum-computing threats. • Quantum-resistant signatures: Smart contracts will be able to verify ML-DSA signatures, a post-quantum cryptographic standard developed to withstand attacks from sufficiently powerful quantum computers. • Improved smart accounts: New address functionality will allow businesses, exchanges, and custodians to manage multiple customers through a single smart contract without deploying separate contracts for each user. • Faster transactions in the future: The upgrade introduces millisecond-level ledger timing, laying the groundwork for faster transaction processing in subsequent upgrades. Most blockchains rely on cryptographic algorithms that could eventually become vulnerable to sufficiently advanced quantum computers. Quantum computers aren't currently capable of breaking these systems at scale, transitioning to new cryptographic standards could take years. Stellar is taking an early step toward addressing that risk. Importantly, this won't make the entire Stellar network quantum-resistant overnight. The initial protections apply to smart-contract authorization, while standard network transactions will continue using existing cryptography. The timeline: • November 3 - Testnet upgrade vote • November 23 - Mainnet upgrade vote Both upgrades require validator approval.

Tradermayne reveals that you will soon be able to trade perps and predictions simultaneously on @Polymarket. "You’re going to be able to have a perp position comboed in with a prediction. So perhaps you have a view on the Fed announcement. You think that they’re going to hike rates, and in anticipation of a rate hike, you want to short the S&P 500, or you wanna short Bitcoin, you’re going to be able to do that in one place." Feat. @Tradermayne

Solana’s tokenized stock holders just hit 1.5 million addresses. An all-time high and roughly 5x since August. Worth noting the count is addresses, not unique people, and incentives played a role. Still, the growth in onchain equity exposure is hard to ignore while SOL itself has been chopping near $100.

Tradermayne notes that he thinks the market crash will happen after the AI IPOs. "Wouldn’t it be poetic if the average retail participant finally gets exposure or an opportunity to get exposure to these hyper-growth AI companies. And at that exact moment that, hey, you and your family can now buy is when it’s the absolute pico schmico top, and they just dump it relentlessly. And people who were able to get in early just nuke it on your head." Feat. @Tradermayne

The Conference Board will release its October Consumer Confidence Index at 10:00 AM ET, offering a fresh look at how Americans feel about the economy, jobs, and their financial situation. Here's where things stand: • August: 88.6 • September: 81.9 • October forecast: 80.5 September's reading marked a significant deterioration in sentiment, with consumers becoming increasingly concerned about job availability, rising prices, and their future income. The report today will show whether that pessimism has continued into October. Why does it matter? Consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, making household confidence an important indicator of potential changes in spending behavior. With the FOMC interest rate decision coming tomorrow, another disappointing reading could add to concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy.

Ripple just got final OCC approval for Ripple National Trust Bank. Federally supervised now to manage the segregated reserves behind RLUSD, act as collateral trustee for holders, and offer institutional digital-asset custody. Issuance stays with the existing NYDFS-regulated entity, so RLUSD sits under both state and federal oversight. “Crypto and banks work better together” in practice. Another piece of the regulated infrastructure stack moving from pitch deck to real charter. 🍿

Tradermayne shares his thoughts on solana:pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn. "This is literally just a weekly order block retest. Market structure break, order block. If we’re bullish, this thing should put in a low around here. The market’s gonna bounce. This is a great place for it to bounce." Feat. @Tradermayne

Tradermayne questions whether local AI on your phone could affect OpenAI and Anthropic. "He effectively was telling me that we’re not far from a place where the models that we have today, like 95% of them, are gonna be able to be run locally from your phone. So does that change the required expenditures or the profitability of some of these, and these would be open-source models, not closed-source. Would that change the viability of some of these companies, Anthropic, OpenAI, et cetera?" Feat. @Tradermayne

"Still hanging on."

Tradermayne illustrates his plan to long near:native. "Near’s got stuff going on, right. Near’s also absorbed a ton of selling. NEAR is a coin that I like. If we get a pullback on Bitcoin, you can fill some NEAR down here." Feat. @Tradermayne

Tradermayne says the institutional bid for bitcoin:native has changed the bear/bull market. "We have the biggest banks, the richest people on the planet, telling you that they think Bitcoin is going to be not just the best asset in the last decade, it’s going to be the best-performing asset in the next decade. And they all want and have exposure to this. And stuff like this is part of why I think we could have had a very truncated and shallow bear market, there is just an institutional bid for Bitcoin. There is institutional interest in Bitcoin." Feat. @Tradermayne

One of the biggest market weeks of the quarter and it kicks off with a full moon. 🌕 Major earnings, the FOMC, inflation data, consumer confidence, and GDP, there's no shortage of potential market-moving catalysts. Here's what's on the calendar: Monday, October 26 • Verizon earnings • Cadence Design Systems • Celestica (CLS) Tuesday, October 27 • U.S. Consumer Confidence • Durable Goods Orders • Boeing, Coca-Cola, Visa, and PayPal earnings Wednesday, October 28 • FOMC interest rate decision • Fed Chair press conference • Microsoft, Alphabet, and Ford earnings Thursday, October 29 • U.S. Q3 GDP • PCE Inflation • Initial Jobless Claims • Amazon, Intel, Caterpillar, Eli Lilly, and Mastercard earnings Friday, October 30 • Employment Cost Index • Chevron, ExxonMobil, and AbbVie earnings • Bitcoin monthly options expiration For the moon-cycle traders out there, here's something interesting. A historical study covering major U.S. stock indexes and 24 other countries found that stock returns around new moons were roughly twice as high as returns around full moons. That doesn't mean a full moon guarantees a selloff, and the pattern hasn't been consistently established as a reliable trading edge. Whatever happens, this is one of those weeks where risk management matters more than trying to predict every move. 🍿

Tradermayne shares that he's expecting volatility heading into midterms "I think we’re in for some volatility and craziness going into midterms. So midterms are within the next couple of weeks. So I think seeing some fuckery going into the midterms, along with just where things are with the Fed decision coming soon." Feat. @Tradermayne

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Tradermayne outlines his thoughts on @ThinkingUSD. "You look at Flood and the posting that he’s making about being bearish equities, not wanting to hold Bitcoin in the face of a potential equities correction. He’s operating at an entirely different level than you are, and he’s playing a completely different game. Flood is managing a family office, which means it’s essentially a hedge fund, but it’s his money. So they are positioning themselves across a variety of different markets, not just crypto, cash, commodities, AI, tech, whatever. Crypto is part of it." Feat. @Tradermayne

Opportunity is knocking. In 10 previous gold-miner breadth washouts like this, $GDX was higher one month later in 8 cases, averaging a +5.5% return. But only 4 out of 10 continued climbing in the following two months. potential rebound is likely, tho not necessarily a complete trend reversal, regardless.. it's worth looking into it.

Tradermayne breaks down the below-$60 K scenario for bitcoin:native. "Scenario four, which I think is the most unlikely scenario, is total destruction in equities, rate hikes, stock market pulls back 15%, 20%, and we get some sort of doomer pull on Bitcoin, and we somehow make a lower low, which is still within line with the four-year cycle." Feat. @Tradermayne

Tradermayne gives his take on @elonmusk wealth and world hunger. "There's people who are going to try and tell you that Elon’s money would be better given to Africa and it would solve world hunger. As if we’re going to give people in Uganda a billion dollars and they’re going to create internet and flying cars. We’ve given trillions of dollars there. The problem is not necessarily the money, it’s the corruption." Feat. @Tradermayne