From October 11 to October 18, 2025, Incrypted’s editorial team recorded 32 investment deals, 25 of which exceeded the total amount of $2.2 billion. Among them were corporate investments, traditional venture rounds, tokensales and other forms of financing. Details are in our weekly digest.

NFT-marketplace OpenSea will release its own token SEA in the first quarter of 2025. This was announced by the project’s co-founder Devin Finzer.

The Incrypted editorial team has prepared another digest of the week’s main events in the Web3 sphere. In it, we will tell you about the allegation of manipulation of liquidation data on CEX, including Binance, the maximum FUD on the crypto market, the false issue of 300 trillion PYUSD, the unethical launch of e-hryvnia, and much more.

A group of Republicans has prepared a bill aimed at codifying Trump’s executive order to include alternative investments in retirement plans, including 401(k). This was reported by The Block with reference to one of the authors, politician Troy Downing.

Telegram has sent a warning to French users about the threat to privacy that has arisen in connection with the Chat Control initiative. This was reported by the founder of the messenger Pavel Durov.

Citigroup said that the wave of the largest liquidations in the history of the crypto market on the night of October 10-11, 2025, proved that bitcoin shows a high correlation with the stock market. This was reported by CoinDesk with reference to an analysts’ report.

AI Expo Europe will take place in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, between 2 and 3 November 2025. Organisers in conversation with Incrypted said the event will bring together the most influential people in artificial intelligence, robotics, automation and emerging technologies.

After a two-year pause, the South Korean Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has resumed consideration of Binance’s application to acquire the local crypto exchange Gopax, which could open the way for the company to officially return to the South Korean market. This was reported by local media.

German AI-developer Black Forest Labs is in talks to raise $200 to $300 million in investments at the company’s valuation of $3.25 billion, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the deal.

JPMorgan Chase plans to launch trading in crypto assets in the future, but not their storage. This was stated in a commentary for CNBC by Scott Lucas, head of Digital Assets Markets (Markets DLT) at the company.

Blockchain analyst Eye said that the information it discovered could indicate insider activity in the highest circles of the US government.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has admitted that he has changed his mind about cryptocurrencies since 2017, when he called bitcoin a “money laundering index.”

On the evening of 12 October 2025, users of non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet Trust Wallet experienced balances disappearing in the app. According to the team, the situation was due to a market data synchronisation issue.

Jeff Yan, founder of the Hyperliquid blockchain, said that some centralized exchanges (CEXs) deliberately underreport liquidations by hundreds of times, creating the illusion of stability during market turmoil.

Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange trader who became famous after earning more than $150 million on a successful short before the crypto market collapse on the night of October 10-11, 2025, opened a new short position worth more than $160 million.

Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek called on regulators to investigate the platforms that saw the most liquidations on the night of October 10-11, 2025.