[New Fundraising] Lombard Systems Completes $4 Million Seed Round Led by Ethereal Ventures Lombard is an onchain Bitcoin infrastructure protocol that brings native BTC into DeFi. Its core assets are LBTC and BTC.b: staking BTC mints LBTC, which accrues Bitcoin-denominated yield through Babylon staking and institutional off-chain strategies while remaining liquid across chains; BTC.b is a simple 1:1 Bitcoin representation without yield. Assets are validated by a multi-institution security consortium and monitored by Chainlink Proof of Reserve. Source：https://lombardsystems.com/lombard-systems-raises-4-million/
PANews cited CryptoQuant analyst CW8900 as saying that total stablecoin market capitalization decreased from October 1 by 6900000000 USD to 263400000000 USD, with continued net outflows over the past 1 months. The analysis considers a return to net inflows for stablecoins to be one potential condition for a market rebound.
PANews reported that Michael Saylor stated on X that Strategy the current USD duration is 3.3 years,STRC the Bitcoin credit spread narrowed by 1 basis points to 59 basis points.
21shares The report stated that Bitcoin 2026 rose in the third quarter of the year 42.7%, while U.S. spot ETF increased net holdings by 79,800 coins BTC, nearly twice the newly added supply during the same period. Purchases by Bitcoin treasury companies during the same period declined to approximately 1000000000 USD。
Metaplanet repaid ahead of schedule 2027 April yen-denominated bonds due in 8000000000 and changed the corresponding use of fundraising proceeds to Bitcoin purchases.
PANews cited Lookonchain as saying that an address that had been dormant for over 6 years transferred out all of its 999.953 BTC, with the reported value estimated at approximately 78120000 USD。
BlockBeats, citing analyst Axel Adler Jr., reported that, as of November 1, Bitcoin 30-day average active addresses were approximately 629000, 2024 December below the year's peak by 43%. During the same period, 30-day average daily transfer volume was approximately 819000 BTC, only approximately below the peak. 5.4%。
Next Technology's board unanimously approves the sale or pledging of approximately 5833 BTC, but the quantity and timing have not yet been determined, nor does this represent a full sale. The company said the move is intended to reduce risk and enhance liquidity.
BlockBeats summarized that Binance stolen funds were allegedly laundered by North Korean hackers, while He Yi denied the related romance rumors; PlanB is bullish on a new Bitcoin bull market, and the number of companies opposing OKXICE stock tokenization has increased to 50 companies.
PANews, citing SoSoValue data, reported that October 26 to 30 U.S. Bitcoin spot ETF ETFs recorded aggregate net outflows 203000000 USD，FBTC recorded net outflows 166000000 USD the largest;IBIT recorded net inflows 177000000 USD。
Coin Bureau says that the bottoms of Bitcoin’s past three cycles all occurred shortly after U.S. midterm elections, and the period from the end of 2026 to the beginning of 2027 may become the next 1 cycle bottom window.
