Crypto market

BTC – $26800 -0.22%.

The growth leaders among altcoins are LOOM, RUNE, TWT.

Leaders of the fall are XDC, MNT, XRD.

BTC dominance - 50.02%.

Altseason index 22.

 

NFT market

For the seventh week in a row, NFT sales continued to decline. In the last week alone, NFT transactions amounted to $66.11 million, down 11.65% from the previous week.

 

Despite this, there is a positive side: the number of NFT buyers increased by 17.77%, and sellers by 15.82%.

 

Galxe will pay 110% compensation to victims of website hacking

The developers of the leading Web 3.0 community platform Galxe will reimburse users affected by the hacker attack 110%. On October 6, as a result of hacking, the platform’s website redirected users to a malicious page within five hours, where they were asked to link their crypto wallet.

According to preliminary estimates, the total damage exceeded $396,000, individual users (about 1,120 in total) lost from a few cents to $53,000. Payment of compensation will be made in USDT stablecoins from Tether on October 16.
 

Mastercard has tested CBDC in Australia.

Payment services provider Mastercard has partnered with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Co-operative Research Center (DFCRC) to pilot a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Australia.

Also participating in the program were NFT platform Mintable and data payment service provider Cuscal.

The project tested how verified individuals could store, use and redeem CBDC. The study also tested the possibility of purchasing Ethereum-based NFTs using a central bank digital currency.

 

Trezor introduced a new hardware wallet Trezor Safe 3.

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor introduced new gadgets: Trezor Safe 3, a limited edition device of the same name with a focus only on Bitcoin, and Trezor Keep Metal, a solution for backing up a seed phrase.

Trezor Safe 3 supports over 7,000 cryptocurrencies and integrates with the Trezor Suite app for a variety of transactions.

The device has tamper-proof hardware components (EAL6+). It provides additional protection against physical attacks.

If Trezor Safe 3 is lost or stolen, owners can still protect assets with a secure password stored outside the wallet.

 

The USDR stablecoin collapsed by ~40%.

USDR is a stablecoin on the Polygon blockchain that offers high yields of up to ~20% APR like UST at one time…