OVERVIEW

Zcash Refuses To Die, Fine Wine Refuses To Ship, Ocean Refuses To Explain 😐️

Before we dive in, here’s today’s crypto market heatmap:

And here’s a look at crypto’s total market and altcoin market cap charts:

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Zcash Just Won’t Quit 🤯

In case you forgot, $ZEC.X ( ▲ 20.57% ) dropped nearly -20% on Tuesday, and ended that day at $127. Not gonna lie, I thought the Zcash pamp was probably over - because that’s literally what’s happened to Zcash for eight years. 📆 

Then yesterday happened, with a +39% gain. And it’s currently (1400 EST) up +14% and returned to the $200 value area for the first time since March 28, 2022.

That’s over 3.5 years. Crazy. Another thing that’s crazy is the volume. Just check out the monthly volume:

Zcash’s October 2025 trading volume has already hit $1.16 million ZEC, which is about 82% of the previous record month in May 2022 ($1.41 million) - and it’s only been nine days. That means October has chewed through nearly an entire record month’s worth of activity in less than a third of the time.

And there’s no clear signs that’s slowing down - today’s volume is the highest since October 2, 2025.

Oh, and if ZEC were to close this month at or above $196, it would be the first close above the monthly Cloud in it’s history. 🧠 

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AVALANCHE
Fine Wine Meets Fine Code: CruTrade Turns Cellars Into Smart Contracts 🍷

The fine wine market has always been rich, but not exactly liquid (pun 100% intended). CruTrade decided to fix that by parking the corkscrews and building on $AVAX.X ( ▼ 0.8% ) - the chain apparently classy enough for Bordeaux. 🍾 

Collectors usually get wrecked by middlemen who skim up to 35% in fees and by shipping that ruins one in six bottles. CruTrade flips the table.

Every bottle gets an RFID tag, its provenance is verified, and the asset gets minted as a token on Avalanche. Ownership trades instantly, but the bottle never leaves its cushy, climate-controlled vault. No heat damage, no sketchy brokers, no “lost in transit” drama.

CruTrade piggybacks off Crurated’s inventory of $60M+ in verified bottles, connecting collectors straight to top producers. Think of it as DeFi meets sommelier, minus the cork taint.

And this might just be the start of unlocking $9B of trapped capital sitting in cellars worldwide. With tokenization, those vintages become tradable assets that behave like digital securities but taste like 1982 Foodoo FooFoo PoshyPosh Voila.

 By 2030, the secondary market could hit $25B. 🍇 

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AI
OCEAN Leaves The ASI In A Huge Dick Move 😡

Ocean Protocol abruptly left the ASI today. 🤔

Which, to me, seemed really weird. And I wasn’t the only one. According to Fetch.AI founder Humayun Sheikh, who had to jump on X to calm the mob, Ocean’s exit wasn’t exactly clean.

He said Ocean had converted roughly 400M of its tokens back in June - months before the split - and when Fetch’s team approached them for clarity, the responses “didn’t appear normal.”

But the dick move (sounds illegal too, but I’m not a lawyer) was the tokens Ocean dumped were community tokens that were meant to be distributed over ten years. 😠 

Sheikh hinted that something about those allocations and wallet movements didn’t line up. Tokens were dispersed across multiple wallets, with a portion allegedly sent to a Cayman Islands entity. Even stranger, Bruce Pon and Trent McConaghy from Ocean haven’t been in communication with Fetch.AI.

For now, Fetch.AI says they’re investigating and ensuring “everything is ok.” But Ocean’s limited participation over the last six to eight months. And Sheikh said they’re taking legal action to tackle this alleged theft. 🕵️ 

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AI, Stablecoins, & Privacy News 🕵️

🧱 Oasis Puts a Bitcoin Bounty on Its TEE Security

Oasis just locked one Bitcoin in a smart contract and dares the world to steal it - if you can break its secure enclave tech, you keep the coin. The challenge tests Sapphire’s confidential computing system, which hides private keys inside hardware that even its creators can’t access. It’s like leaving a dollar under glass and saying, “If you can lift the vault, it’s yours.” Oasis.

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Real World Asset Tokenization (RWA) News 🪙

🏛️ BlackRock & Brevan Howard Bring Tokenized Funds to Sei via KAIO

Two of the world’s biggest money managers just went onchain. KAIO, a regulated platform for real-world assets, launched tokenized versions of BlackRock’s dollar liquidity fund and Brevan Howard’s master fund on the Sei Network. Sei.

⚡ Plume Acquires Dinero to Marry Institutional Staking With RWAs

Plume just bought Dinero, the team behind Ethereum’s fastest-growing liquid staking protocol. The move merges Dinero’s regulated ETH, SOL, and BTC staking products with Plume’s real-world asset platform - meaning institutions can now earn yield and tokenize assets under one roof. Plume Network.

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Metaverse, NFT, & Gaming News 🎮️

🏟️ Chiliz Takes Fandom to MERGE Madrid

Picture owning a sliver of your favorite club’s jersey, but on a blockchain instead of your wall. Chiliz is bringing its sports-and-blockchain gospel to Madrid’s biggest Web3 conference with panels on digital ownership, gaming, and RWA tokenization in sports. CEO Alex Dreyfus will discuss how fan tokens let supporters own a literal piece of the game. Chiliz.

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DeFi, DEX, & Lending News 🏦

🌍 BizMerchant and Nano Are Turning Global Trade Into a Fee-Free Game

Imagine wiring money to another country and it just arrives - that’s what Nano is doing. At the BizMerchant 2025 summit, 300 entrepreneurs proved small businesses don’t need banks to trade globally anymore. Nano’s feeless blockchain makes sending money across borders as easy as sending a text - no middlemen, no waiting, no 10% fee for the privilege. Nano.

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Protocol News 🏦

💧 Uniswap Acquires Guidestar to Supercharge AMMs

Uniswap just scooped up Guidestar, a stealth team obsessed with smarter trading tech and new market models. They’ll help Uniswap tailor its automated market makers for everything from stablecoins to tokenized assets. Uniswap.

🔗 IOTA’s Trust Framework Turns “Blockchain for Business” Into Plug-and-Play

If you’ve ever used a “verified checkmark” online, this does that for everything from supply chains to diplomas. IOTA launched an open-source Trust Framework packed with tools for identity, notarization, tokenization, and gasless transactions. It’s basically blockchain Legos for businesses - stackable, free, and regulation-ready. IOTA.

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