Crypto Market Weekly Summary: October 4 - October 8, 2021

Crypto Market Highlights
NFT sales surpass $10B in third quarter
Billionaire investor George Soros' family office owns bitcoin, confirms Soros Fund CEO/CIO
SEC Chairman Gensler: The SEC can’t and won’t ban crypto — it’s “up to Congress”
Ethereum miner balances (in USD) hit new all-time high at $1.85B
Stellar Foundation partners with MoneyGram to enable near-real-time settlements
Celsius reportedly borrowed $1B from Tether with Bitcoin as collateral
Crypto exchange Binance looks to Ireland for regional HQ
DeFi Total Value Locked reaches milestone high of $210B
Yearn Finance signals multi-chain entrance with launch on Fantom Network
Chinese crypto ban makes over 20 crypto-related companies withdraw from China
SEC may approve four Bitcoin ETFs in late October - Bloomberg