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Markets are split today, bros. The Nasdaq closed at a fresh ATH, up 1.1% to 27,477.31, keeping Wall Street’s risk appetite alive.

Crypto ETFs told a different story on Oct. 5: $BTC -$89.8M, $ETH -$18.9M, $SOL -$9.2M and $HYPE -$2.7M.

For now, this looks more like uneven risk appetite and crypto consolidation than broad market panic.

Here’s what we got for you today:

• 👀 Using AI to verify crypto gems

• ⭐ CFTC’s FTX fix: new rules

• ⭐ ZachXBT inside North Korean laundering

• 🔥 Burning hot takes for the road

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Most people ask AI the wrong crypto question:

“Will this coin pump?”

In crypto, AI works better as a research partner than a crystal ball. It can help you cut through whitepapers, compare projects, spot weak claims, and turn hype into a checklist of things you actually need to verify. In this lesson, we break down:

• How to prompt AI like a researcher, not a gambler

• How to scan narratives without getting dragged by hype

• Why CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, explorers, and official links still matter after AI gives you an answer

The key idea is simple: AI gives you the first draft. Onchain data and trusted sources give you the truth. 👇

🏛️ CFTC DROPS NEW CRYPTO RULES AFTER FTX’S $8B FRAUD – BUT EXCHANGES CAN OPT OUT

FTX is still shaping U.S. crypto regulation years after its collapse.

The CFTC has opened public comment on a new framework for retail crypto trades involving leverage, margin or platform financing. Chairman Michael Selig pointed directly to FTX, where founders misappropriated roughly $8B in customer funds, as the kind of disaster regulators want to prevent before it happens again.

📍 Important, bros: this isn’t a final rule yet. It’s an early rulemaking step, with comments open for 60 days.

1/ The FTX lesson: separate the money

The irony is that the FTX entity already overseen by the CFTC kept customer assets protected, while roughly 130 related companies collapsed.

So the CFTC’s pitch is basically: bring more leveraged retail crypto trading under a federal market framework with stricter guardrails. Potential requirements include:

• Keeping customer funds segregated

• Monitoring for manipulation

• Limiting conflicts of interest

• Following crypto-specific compliance rules CFTC

The agency is also considering a new registration category called a “crypto asset market.”

2/ The carrot and stick: voluntary opt-in

Because Congress hasn’t passed sweeping crypto legislation yet, the CFTC doesn’t have the legal power to force exchanges into this new regulatory framework. So, they’re using a classic carrot-and-stick approach:

• The Carrot: Registered exchanges can legally offer retail traders margin and leveraged trading in the US – something standard state money-transmitter licenses strictly prohibit.

• The Stick: In exchange for offering leverage, exchanges must strictly segregate customer funds (no Alameda-style piggy banks), enforce anti-manipulation rules, and eliminate internal conflicts of interest.

3/ Kraken & Bitnomial are already positioned

Institutions are already placing their bets.

Bitnomial became the first crypto-native exchange to grab all three CFTC licenses to offer leveraged retail spot crypto trading.

Kraken’s parent company, Payward, didn’t drop $550M to buy Bitnomial for fun; they’re building a compliant bridge to bring Hyperliquid-style retail leverage to US traders legally.

🧠 My take

If major exchanges opt in over the 60-day comment period, onshore US liquidity could see a massive revival in Q4 and beyond. Legal leverage is coming home. Just make sure you manage your risk!

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He’s pointing to one of AI’s biggest untapped opportunities: farming. 

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🧨 ZACHXBT GETS INSIDE NORTH KOREAN LAUNDERERS… THEN KIM JONG-UN COMES UP

This might be one of the weirdest crypto crime stories of the year.

ZachXBT says he posed as a scammer, joined a Chinese laundering operation allegedly handling funds linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, and spent months chatting directly with one of its members on Telegram.

The result? Onchain clues, laundering routes, frozen funds… plus rabbit stew photos and mahjong invites.

1/ ZachXBT became the “customer”

The trail started after the $1.5B Bybit hack in February 2025.

ZachXBT spotted accounts in Telegram and Discord asking for help moving suspicious funds. One user, “Jimmy Green,” openly advertised services for cleaning flagged BTC, ETH, $SOL ( ▼ 1.35% ) and $TRX ( ▼ 0.99% ) .

ZachXBT approached him with a cover story: convert marked $ETH ( ▼ 3.13% ) into clean $USDT ( ▼ 0.0% ) on Tron. The fee? 5%.

On one test, he sent $25,000 and got back exactly 23,750 USDT. Across the operation, ZachXBT says he fronted roughly $349,700 of his own money while pretending to be a real client.

2/ The launderer kept talking

Jimmy allegedly referred to his North Korean client as “Kim Jong-un” and gave regular updates about when funds were moving, when operations paused and which chains they planned to use next.

At one point, Jimmy claimed his group had laundered almost all of Bybit’s $1.5B in stolen ETH.

Important caveat, bros: that remains Jimmy’s claim, not a verified total. But some of his tips reportedly matched onchain activity.

In one case, he shared three Solana addresses that helped expose a cluster containing $12M+ in Bybit-linked funds moving between BTC, ETH, SOL and Tron.

Tether later froze about 442,000 USDT connected to that cluster.

3/ Crime op by day, rabbit stew by night

Jimmy sent food photos, invited ZachXBT to play mahjong, talked about family trips to Disney and even showed a phone wallet holding roughly 1.2M USDT.

He also called his crew “honest businessmen.” Yes, while allegedly laundering stolen crypto. ZachXBT says he eventually handed the intel to private investigators and law enforcement. Since 2022, he estimates his DPRK-related investigations have contributed to $75M+ in frozen funds.

🧠 My take

Crypto crime is getting more sophisticated technically, but sometimes the weakest link is still surprisingly human:

people talk too much.

🔥 BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD

“More orange than ever.” Michael Saylor’s Strategy just bought another 334 $BTC ($28.7M), taking its holdings to a record 848,000 BTC worth. Read more

Elon Musk is a trillionaire again after $SPCX ( ▲ 0.49% ) jumped nearly 8% to $171.09, lifting his net worth to about $1.04T. Read more

CZ’s post-prison life in Abu Dhabi reportedly includes a $5M villa, four bodyguards, and a Nissan SUV. Read more

FinCEN dropped its crypto-mixing rule, citing concerns it could chill legitimate self-hosted wallet activity. Read more

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