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Winning EuroMillions numbers tonight: Full National Lottery results £45m jackpot Friday, October 24 – Liverpool Echo

Tonight is the second of this week's EuroMillions draws, and one lucky winner could scoop the huge jackpot of £45m. Receiving that much tax-free cash would be life-changing. If you won, the world would be your oyster.
You could leave your job, pay off your debts, and travel to pretty much anywhere you wanted. You could also give generously to friends, family and some deserving causes close to your heart.
The EuroMillions jackpot will be claimed by players who pick five correct numbers from one to 50 as well as two Lucky Star numbers from one to 12.
The Thunderball game also takes place tonight. The winner will claim £500,000 if they match five numbers from one to 39 as well as the all-important Thunderball number from one to 14.
The EuroMillions draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday; a ticket costs £2.50 and includes automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw, which creates new UK millionaires every week, guaranteed.
The Thunderball draw will take place at around 8pm and the EuroMillions slightly later at 8:45pm.
The ECHO will keep this page updated with the winning numbers when they are announced. Good luck!
The National Lottery is a moment that can change the winner’s life forever. Whether it’s a modest windfall or a multimillion-pound jackpot, Allwyn – the operator of The National Lottery – said they ensure every winner is guided through a "secure, supportive, and confidential process" so that they can start to enjoy their good fortune as quickly as possible.
From the moment a winning ticket is confirmed, Allwyn said a dedicated team of winners’ advisors steps in to provide access to a whole range of emotional and practical services. This ranges from expert guidance to emotional support and access to professional financial advice.
Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at Allwyn, said: "Everyone dreams of that huge win when they buy their National Lottery ticket – and for those lucky enough to experience it, we’re here to make sure it’s a positive and secure journey. From financial advice to emotional support, our role is to help winners take control of their new future with confidence."
Read more here about what happens when you win the National Lottery.
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XRP Surges as Ripple Completes Hidden Road Acquisition – The Defiant

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XRP, the native token of Ripple’s payment network, jumped on Friday after Ripple said it had completed its acquisition of global prime broker Hidden Road, now rebranded as Ripple Prime.
XRP is trading around $2.50, up about 5% on the day and 8% over the past seven days, after suffering losses most of last week amid a broader market downturn, according to The Defiant’s price page. It is currently the fifth-largest digital asset with a market capitalization of over $148 billion.
Ripple said Ripple Prime’s business has already grown threefold since the $1.25 billion deal was announced earlier this year. The company also noted that RLUSD – Ripple’s stablecoin with a market cap near $899 million – will increasingly be used as collateral on the platform as more institutions adopt it.
The rebrand of Ripple Prime marks the first time a crypto company “owns and operates a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform,” according to a company blog post.
The move underscores Ripple’s efforts to expand beyond payments and into broader institutional finance. The company says it believes this move will boost XRP’s real-world utility and make RLUSD more trusted by institutions.
“Ripple’s foundational digital asset infrastructure across payments, crypto custody and stablecoin, as well as the use of XRP, will complement the services offered within Ripple Prime,” the post reads. “In the future, Ripple Prime will look to leverage blockchain capabilities in its business to streamline operations and optimize costs.”
The deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions by Ripple, including treasury management system provider GTreasury last week, Rail in August 2025, Standard Custody in June 2024, and Metaco in May 2023.
Following the acquisition of GTreasury, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse reflected in a post on X that the past few years have “reminded this industry why payments, first and foremost, is THE primary use case for crypto and blockchain.”
He explained that payments are where Ripple first began for these reasons. “The infrastructure is complex, siloed and inefficient, but as we know, perfectly positioned to benefit from decentralized financial technologies,” he added.
In August, Ripple recorded another win when the company and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided to jointly drop their appeals, marking the end of a five-year long battle.
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What to Know About Trump’s Pardon of Binance’s Founder – Time Magazine

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Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of Binance Holdings Ltd., during an event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Zhao discussed the future of digital assets at the event today. Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao, the richest man in crypto, has been granted a pardon from President Donald Trump, marking a dramatic reversal of a yearslong federal crackdown on crypto.
Zhao, who founded cryptocurrency exchange Binance in 2017 and is worth an estimated $85 billion, pled guilty to violating anti-money laundering laws in 2023 and served four months in prison.
Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange in terms of daily trading volume, allows customers to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrencies on its platform. Trump signed the pardon Wednesday, which forgave Zhao’s conviction and could ease barriers to any future role at the company, though legal and compliance restrictions remain.
“President Trump exercised his constitutional authority by issuing a pardon for Mr. Zhao, who was prosecuted by the Biden Administration in their war on cryptocurrency,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. “The Biden Administration’s war on crypto is over.”
Zhao lobbied the Trump Administration for a pardon, including via lawyer and lobbyist Ches McDowell, a longtime friend of Trump’s son Don Jr. 
Binance also has ties to the Trump family’s crypto start-up World Liberty Financial, prompting criticism from Democratic lawmakers who have called the pardon a form of corruption.
Zhao is the latest of a number of high-profile crypto businessmen to receive a pardon since Trump took office this year. Days after his second-term inauguration, Trump granted clemency to Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace powered by Bitcoin. And in March, Trump pardoned Arthur Hayes, co-founder of crypto exchange BitMEX who had pled guilty to money-laundering violations. Hayes was quick to congratulate Zhao on Thursday, posting on X: “Welcome to the club @cz_binance”.
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Trump has changed his tune on crypto over the years, from once calling Bitcoin “a scam against the dollar” to promising to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.” He has launched a Trump memecoin, while his family last year entered into a new crypto venture. The President has also issued an executive order establishing a U.S. crypto stockpile, and set up the White House position of “crypto czar.” After announcing that he would accept cryptocurrency donations to his 2024 presidential campaign, the crypto community embraced Trump, pouring donations into his campaign and turning to him to roll back what they saw as unfair targeting by the Biden Administration.
U.S. regulators have also dismissed a major lawsuit against Coinbase, the largest U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, while Trump has slashed regulations for cryptocurrency and issued new regulations that benefit the industry.
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The Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service, under the Biden Administration, placed Binance under investigation in 2021, although Seattle prosecutors reportedly began investigating the company in 2018, after cases of criminals using the platform to move illegal money. Zhao and Binance pled guilty in November 2023 to failing to comply with U.S. laws for preventing money laundering, which had allowed people in sanctioned countries, including terrorist groups, to move money on the platform.
“Binance turned a blind eye to its legal obligations in the pursuit of profit. Its willful failures allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers through its platform,” then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in 2023.
As part of the settlement, Binance agreed to pay more than $4 billion, remediate their anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance programs, and retain an independent compliance monitor for three years. That latter term has reportedly been up for consideration by prosecutors last month, even as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has urged the DOJ to ensure Binance is complying with the “ongoing requirements” of the settlement. Zhao served four months in prison—a relatively light sentence compared to his counterparts at other cryptocurrency firms—and stepped down as chief executive of Binance. He retained his majority stake in the company.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed charges against Binance and Zhao in June 2023, alleging that the platform had illegally served U.S. users and misused customer funds. The SEC formally dropped its lawsuit in May.
Zhao’s pardon could allow him to return to running Binance. Last month, Zhao changed his profile description on X from “ex-@Binance” to “@Binance”, fuelling speculation that he was planning to return to the company.
“Deeply grateful for today’s pardon and to President Trump for upholding America’s commitment to fairness, innovation, and justice,” Zhao posted on X on Thursday. “Will do everything we can to help make America the Capital of Crypto and advance web3 worldwide.”
Binance posted on X, “Incredible news of CZ’s pardon today! Thank you, President Trump @POTUS for your leadership and for your commitment to make the US the crypto capital of the world!”
A Chinese-born Canadian businessman, Zhao has continued to be one of the most influential figures in the crypto world, even after his guilty plea. After his release in September last year, he has made appearances on several crypto podcasts. He became a dual citizen of the United Arab Emirates, where he now lives. Zhao is also known for having tweeted in 2022 that Binance would sell its holdings of then-rival FTX’s token, FTT, which led to a selloff and the collapse of FTX.
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The Trump Administration’s deregulation of the crypto industry and rollback of the previous Administration’s crackdown on crypto crime come as the Trump family has deepened its investments in crypto.
Last year, Trump’s sons co-founded World Liberty Financial, alongside the sons of Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. Trump is listed as “co-founder emeritus” on the company’s website. The Trump family owns around 25% of World Liberty’s tokens, which earned them around $5 billion in paper wealth after the WLFI tokens became available to trade.
The company has developed close ties with Binance, which reportedly wrote the basic code to power World Liberty’s stablecoin, USD1. In May, MGX, an Abu Dhabi-led investment firm, used USD1 to invest $2 billion in Binance, which could net the Trumps tens of millions of dollars per year.
The ties between Binance and World Liberty have led some lawmakers and others to call Zhao’s pardon a form of corruption.
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“This is yet another example of the administration’s brazen flouting of the rule of law,” Eswar Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University, told the New York Times. “There is little justification for this pardon and highlights how far this administration will go to promote the cryptocurrency industry.”
Warren said in a statement, “First, Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to a criminal money laundering charge. Then he boosted one of Donald Trump’s crypto ventures and lobbied for a pardon. Today, Donald Trump did his part and pardoned him. If Congress does not stop this kind of corruption in pending market structure legislation, it owns this lawlessness.” Warren, alongside Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), called for a probe into the MGX-Binance deal in June.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R, N.C.) told reporters on Thursday that the pardon sends “a bad signal.” He added that Zhao “was convicted. He’s not innocent.”
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The pardon also comes as lawmakers work toward a bipartisan deal on a landmark bill that would establish new crypto regulations.
“The President and the White House have a very thorough examination of every pardon request that comes to the President’s desk,” Leavitt told reporters on Thursday.
“This was an overly prosecuted case by the Biden Administration,” she added. “The previous Administration was very hostile to the cryptocurrency industry. The President wants to correct this overreach of the Biden Administration’s misjustice.”
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Unlock the Job Search Code: Winning Tips for Every Generation – WCNC

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Between AI-driven hiring systems, marathon interview processes, and fierce competition, landing a new job has never been more complicated. But according to Charlotte-based career and leadership coach Megan Spivey of Career Outfitters, every generation faces its own unique set of challenges… and strengths.
“Every generation feels the impact, in their own way,” Spivey told Charlotte Today. “But each generation also has tools they can lean into, and blind spots they need to watch out for.”
Spivey explained that while most job applications begin online, many resumes never even make it to a real person. And while digital networking has made it easier to “connect,” forging genuine professional relationships has become harder than ever.
During her appearance on Charlotte Today, Spivey broke down what each generation brings to the table:
Boomers bring deep experience and long-standing professional networks.
Gen X shines with adaptability and a blend of digital and in-person networking skills.
Millennials stand out for their tech fluency, purpose-driven values, and storytelling abilities.
Gen Z impresses with a digital-first mindset and openness to non-traditional career paths.
But every generation also faces hurdles. Spivey reminded viewers that “every generation has their own hurdles to overcome.” Here’s what to watch out for:
Boomers: Often have a weak online presence, making them less visible to recruiters.
Gen X: Tend to delay updating resumes and LinkedIn profiles — and sometimes start job searches too late.
Millennials: Frequently over-apply online without following up and may prioritize meaning over stability.
Gen Z: Can lack in-person polish and sometimes overshare online, especially about side hustles.
Spivey’s message was clear: no matter your generation, success in today’s job market takes self-awareness, strategy, and a willingness to evolve. You can find Megan on LinkedIn, and at career-outfitters.com

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