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Binance CFO Kaiser Ng quits days after the $6.3 billion hack, and the exchange says it was planned
Co-CEO Yi He says Ng is leaving for a new venture after more than five years, with a handoff plan "over the last half year." Justin Yek takes over as finance chief. Binance has not tied the exit to the theft, and nothing we found does either.
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Crypto PACs put $137 million into the midterms and got a Democratic Congress, not a bill
FEC filings show Fairshake and its two affiliates reported $136.9 million in independent spending through Oct. 14. The CLARITY Act was 11 votes short of 60 in September, and the chamber that must find them just changed hands.
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White House starts review of SEC crypto broker-dealer rules, but nobody outside has seen the text
The White House budget office logged the SEC draft on November 3 as economically significant. The record names the rules in play, not the changes, and the SEC's own timetable has slipped four months.
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Bitcoin at $75,815, Ether at $2,240: crypto prices today, November 7, 2026
Bitcoin touched $74,762 on Friday, its lowest since August 21, after a jobs report far above forecasts raised the odds of a December Fed hike. Every alt we track is down 4% to 7% on the week.
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Treasury cuts crypto exchange MEXC off from U.S. banks and sanctions 8 Canadian firms over Iran
FinCEN says MEXC Global moved at least $16 billion in illicit funds, including about $22 million for Iran's central bank and the IRGC. OFAC separately blacklisted eight Canadian money services businesses that convert Iranian rials into crypto.
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Ex-FBI agent admits stealing $2.47 million in crypto from wallets the bureau was tracking
Patrick Yaroch pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after about 100 transfers tied to 35 investigations. He faces up to 20 years, with sentencing set for March 4, 2027.
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Chainalysis says hackers took credentials and live tokens for all its users
The blockchain-analytics firm's own notice grew from "non-sensitive" metadata on October 30 to password hashes and live tokens for every user by November 4. Here is the timeline, what customers are told to do, and what is still unknown.
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Europe's biggest fund manager puts a 600-stock index fund on Ethereum, the second Amundi product there
Amundi issued a tokenized share class of its STOXX Europe 600 equity index fund on Ethereum, a year after its first tokenized money market fund. Ether itself fell about 4.6% on the day.
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Greece passes a 10% crypto gains tax, with a separate 15% levy on staking and DeFi income
Parliament approved the country's first dedicated crypto tax on Thursday. It starts Jan. 1, 2027, exempts the first 500 euros of yearly gains, and does not tax swaps between coins.
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Bitcoin at $75,810, Ether at $2,234: crypto prices today, November 6, 2026
All eight coins we track are down 4% to 9% over 24 hours as the tech rout reached crypto. Bitcoin is sitting on its 50-week average, and Bitcoin and Ether ETFs lost $530 million on Thursday.
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Bitcoin falls 6% to a seven-week low near $75,500 as the AI selloff erases its election bounce
Bitcoin gave back all of Wednesday's post-midterm gain and slipped under its 50-week average as stocks had their worst day since April 2025. Ether, down 8.5%, fell harder.
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Citi pitches Bitcoin ETFs to wealth clients as the funds lose $1 billion in two sessions
Citi Wealth's October ETF primer arrives while US Bitcoin ETFs shed about $1 billion over two sessions. Bitwise's new 2036 base case of $1.6 million implies roughly 35% a year from here.
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Paraguay seizes Ueno Bank, freezing 3 million customers, and some USDT sellers ask 13% extra
The central bank put the digital lender into resolution on a solvency ratio below half the legal minimum. Deposits are insured up to about $38,000, but the freeze has locked roughly 60% of the country's adults out of their accounts.
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Bitcoin at $79,673, Ether at $2,394: crypto prices today, November 5, 2026
Every coin we track is up over 24 hours after the midterm rebound, but Bitcoin, Solana and Cardano are still lower than a week ago. Bitcoin and Ether ETFs took in money again on Wednesday after days of outflows.
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Bitcoin retakes $80,000 and Ether jumps 6.5%, while Trump-linked tokens fall 18%
Bitcoin is up 4.2% in 24 hours on Coinbase after a midterm-night dip to $75,601, and the Fear & Greed Index has swung from 34 to 50. The one corner of crypto moving the other way is tokens tied to President Trump.
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Stripe now lets US businesses pay crypto wallets in USDC: $5.50 on a $1,000 payout, New York excluded
Global Payouts stablecoin sends are in public preview for US businesses, reaching recipients in more than 160 markets. Stripe's own pricing page shows the cost, and it beats a wire only on smaller payments.
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Circle's revenue rose 17%, but without a $182 million token presale it fell about 8%
The USDC issuer's third-quarter results lean on the sale of its new ARC token. Interest income on reserves fell 8%, USDC in circulation was flat on the year, and the company cut about 5% of its workforce.
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Bitcoin at $78,249, Ether at $2,314: crypto prices today, November 4, 2026
Bitcoin is up 1.3% in 24 hours after a dip to $75,601, but still 3.7% lower on the week, as spot Bitcoin ETFs have lost $1.16 billion in three sessions and the Binance hackers keep laundering.
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Binance says its $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview and a poisoned AI tool
The exchange's first incident report traces the theft back to June, names a fake-recruiter trap in September and says a three-hour Ethereum wallet exploit did the rest. About $2.85 billion is frozen.
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The CFTC lets stock perpetual futures trade on U.S. exchanges for the first time
Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday that perpetual futures on individual stocks can begin trading on CFTC-registered exchanges, taking a crypto-born product into the regulated equity market.
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Bitcoin at $77,202, Ether at $2,277: crypto prices today, November 3, 2026
Bitcoin slipped to a 24-hour low of $76,239 and every coin we track except XRP is lower on the week, as a second suspected theft, $133 million from an EU entity, runs through Kraken, OKX and Crypto.com.
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North Korea's $6.4 billion Binance haul will take months to cash out, and 44% is already frozen
Elliptic says the hackers used 12,000 wallets and 40,000 transactions in four days, then slowed down. Pyongyang denies the FBI's attribution. The gap between moving the money and spending it is where the stolen funds can still be stopped.
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Strategy buys 811 bitcoin for $65.5 million after a quiet week, then spends $208 million on STRC buybacks
Strategy's filing this morning ends a week with no bitcoin purchases. The new buy is about 0.1% of its holdings, and the company put three times as much cash into buying back its own preferred stock.
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Bitcoin at $77,605, Ether at $2,279: crypto prices today, November 2, 2026
Bitcoin is down 3% on the week and all eight coins we track are lower, as $7 billion leaves Binance after its record $6.3 billion hack and the thieves start swapping Solana for Bitcoin.
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Binance customers pull $3.64 billion in a day as it reopens after the $6.3 billion hack
Withdrawals restarted Sunday on 15 networks. Binance says it has replaced 95% of the stolen assets, while DefiLlama counts higher outflows than the exchange does. Bitcoin is barely moving.
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Binance says 90% of hacked assets are replenished, but withdrawals remain shut
Binance says it has replenished 90% of the assets affected by a security incident it estimates caused an approximately $6.3 billion loss. The exchange says ten major tokens are fully backed, while withdrawals remain suspended until a planned Sunday restart of customer withdrawal services.
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Binance estimates $6.3 billion impact, with about $3 billion frozen on-chain
A preliminary laptop-to-container account shifts attention to transaction permissions. Frozen assets, the promise to cover losses and completed customer repayment remain different measures, not one total.
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Polymarket restores trading after one-hour outage and pledges to make affected users whole
The official incident log records a compromised third-party provider. A restored trading screen does not yet answer the size or timetable of compensation payments.
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HTX leaves the UK after FCA settlement; residual assets need a separate withdrawal process
The regulator says new sign-ups and deposits have ended. HTX describes a conditional 48-hour window for eligible existing users, not a blanket deadline for everyone.
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Polygon adds Solana to its bank-to-stablecoin payments stack
The integration covers money coming in, wallet balances, cross-chain routing and payouts. A supported chain still does not establish a merchant’s price or settlement time.
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Coinbase reports $719 million profit, but its adjusted figure is only $78 million
The earnings reconciliation separates investment gains from the trading platform. Prediction markets and stablecoins add a different growth story, but neither measure can be treated as quarterly profit.
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Bitcoin at $81,087, Ether at $2,352: crypto prices today, October 28, 2026
Bitcoin rebounded above $81,000 on Fed decision day, up 1.1% in 24 hours but still 3.5% lower than a week ago. Cardano is down 8.6% on the week, the weakest of the eight coins we track.
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Strive buys 6,182 bitcoin for $511 million, paid for with a 15% preferred stock
Strive's filing shows its largest weekly purchase this autumn, nearly twice the bitcoin miners issued in the same week. The $700 million preferred stock behind it now carries a $105 million a year dividend.
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Bitcoin at $79,730, Ether at $2,309: crypto prices today, October 27, 2026
Bitcoin slipped under $80,000 as the Fed meeting began, down 3.9% over seven days, with Avalanche and Cardano off 9% to 10%. Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $110 million on Monday but are still negative for October.
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Ripple wins final OCC approval for its own national trust bank, to hold RLUSD reserves
The charter lets Ripple run a federally supervised bank for the reserves behind its $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin and for institutional crypto custody. It is not a deposit-taking bank, and it does not involve XRP.
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South Korea weighs a fourth delay of its crypto gains tax, to 2029, over missing U.S. data
The 20% tax (22% with local tax) is due to start in January 2027. Officials say the U.S. will not share exchange data until 2029, and a bill to move the date is pending in parliament.
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Franklin Templeton puts $150 million of fund shares on the XRP Ledger, all in one wallet
The tokenized money market fund now holds nearly 193 million shares on XRPL, second only to Ripple's RLUSD. Who owns them is not public.
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Bitcoin at $80,181, Ether at $2,327: crypto prices today, October 26, 2026
Bitcoin is hanging on to $80,000 as Fed week starts, down 2.0% over seven days, with Cardano and Avalanche down more than 6%. Markets expect the Fed to hold on Wednesday.
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Wells Fargo and Intuit join OKXICE tokenized-stock objections, which reach 22
An October 23 notice added six companies, up from 16 four days earlier. The notices do not say why they object. The venue is not live yet.
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Bitcoin at $80,432, Ether at $2,335: crypto prices today, October 25, 2026
Bitcoin dipped under $80,000 on Saturday on Middle East security headlines and is back just above it, while Cardano and Avalanche lead the weekly losses among the eight major coins we track.
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Bitcoin at $80,512, Ether at $2,362: crypto prices today, October 24, 2026
Bitcoin slipped below $81,000 and its 50-day average after Friday's oil spike and the largest spot ETF outflow since June, while all eight major coins we track are lower on the day and on the week.
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Why Bitcoiner Didi Taihuttu skips Ether: ETH's 2025 peak was only 2% above 2021, Bitcoin's was 83% higher
The Bitcoin Family's Didi Taihuttu says Ether going nowhere across two cycles is why he sticks to Bitcoin. We checked his chart claims against Coinbase daily data.
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Bitcoin holds $81,562 after ETFs lose $635 million in a day: crypto prices today, October 23, 2026
Bitcoin is flat over 24 hours after its calmest stretch in days, while Avalanche and Cardano are still down 4% to 8% on the week. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs saw their biggest outflow since June.
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Viral post says Circle minted $1.5 billion of USDC on Solana. Supply there is flat at $6.8 billion
A "money printer is back" post spread on October 22. We could not verify the mint transactions, and DefiLlama's daily data shows USDC on Solana was $6.80 billion on Oct. 19 and $6.82 billion on Oct. 23.
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Bitcoin slips to $81,656 and Avalanche falls 8% on the week: crypto prices today, October 22, 2026
All eight major coins are lower over 24 hours. Bitcoin's share of the crypto market has reached 60%, the highest since May, as smaller tokens fall harder.
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Standard Chartered signs binding deal to buy all of Zodia Custody, as banks fight stablecoin yield
The bank signed definitive agreements on October 21 to acquire 100% of the crypto custodian. Zodia's software arm becomes a separate company under SC Ventures. Price and closing date were not disclosed.
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OCC drops its stablecoin yield presumption but gives exchange rewards no safe harbor
The Comptroller of the Currency finalized the first GENIUS Act rule on Wednesday, effective January 18. The ban on stablecoin yield stays, and existing rewards programs will be judged case by case.
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Microsoft, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs block OKXICE tokenized stocks as objectors reach 16
Sixteen companies have now used the SEC's opt-out to keep tokenized versions of their shares off the planned NYSE-owner and OKX venue. Its co-chair calls that "a very natural response."
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XRP jumps 4.4% as all eight major coins rise: crypto prices today, October 21, 2026
Bitcoin trades near $83,472 and Ether near $2,466. Chainlink and Avalanche are still lower on the week, and Glassnode puts the next bitcoin resistance near $87,700.
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CFTC tells court CME has no standing to attack perpetual futures: its own crypto volume rose
In a reply brief filed last Friday, the regulator argues CME has shown no concrete injury from perpetual contracts and says it cannot tell investors one thing and a judge another.
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Mastercard will score stablecoin payments for fraud and sanctions risk before they settle
The new Stablecoin Security service gives banks a risk score before funds move on-chain. It launches in North America first, with worldwide availability expected in 2027.
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Ethereum staking hits a record: 43.8 million ETH, 35.9% of supply, Bitwise says
Bitwise's Q4 staking report shows a sixth straight quarter of growth, with 1.99 million ETH of net inflows, even as the staking yield slipped to 2.63%.
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BlackRock files for a bitcoin fund that limits losses to about 10%, with capped gains
The iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF (PBIT) uses options on IBIT in three overlapping tranches. The protection is a design target, not a guarantee, and the upside cap and fee are still blank.
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Didi Taihuttu on going all in on Bitcoin today: his 10-year case, worked on a $100,000 example
Watch: The Bitcoin Family's Didi Taihuttu answers critics who say early buyers "got lucky". His long-term reasoning, his growth-rate scenarios, and our arithmetic check. He says he is not a financial adviser.
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Didi Taihuttu's five Bitcoin charts: the cycle signals he watches before changing strategy
Watch: The Bitcoin Family's Didi Taihuttu walks through the charts he says shape his approach, from moving-average crossovers to a midterm-election pattern. His levels, his words, and his reminder that he is not a financial adviser.
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Didi Taihuttu opens sealed Ledger wallets on camera: the safe-buying checklist he shows
Watch: The Bitcoin Family's Didi Taihuttu cracks open new hardware wallets to check for tampering. We turn his video into a plain guide to buying one safely. He says he is not a financial adviser.
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Kazakhstan court bars Coinbase and five exchanges, but only inside Astana's financial center
The AIFC Court granted default injunctions against six unlicensed crypto platforms. The order covers one jurisdiction, not the whole country.
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Didi Taihuttu and the Bitcoin Family: the family that sold everything for bitcoin in 2017
Nine years after trading a settled life for bitcoin, Didi Taihuttu and his family still travel full time, still live unbanked and still hold for the long term. How they did it and what he says about this cycle.
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BlackRock's IBIT pulls $665M as oil tops $100, but bitcoin ETFs are still negative for October
One strong Monday does not make a trend: US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $526.7 million on Oct. 19, their biggest day since Sept. 22, and nearly all of it went to a single fund.
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Wall Street's plumbing goes on-chain: DTCC tokenization launches this month after trades with 30+ firms
DTCC says its tokenization service launches in October 2026 after live July trades with more than 30 firms, including Citadel Securities. A specific Oct. 28 start has circulated online; DTCC's own pages do not state it.
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Cross River Bank brings Ripple's $2.5B RLUSD stablecoin into its banking core
Cross River Bank will let fintech clients move between dollars and the $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger. The release does not mention XRP the token or X Money.
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JPMorgan sees bitcoin beating stocks and gold for the next decade: 10% a year vs 7.5% and 5.5%
The bank's 2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions give bitcoin a return range for the first time. Its 10% compound figure tops the other assets reported, yet JPMorgan says bitcoin is not included as an allocation.
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Didi Taihuttu's midterm playbook: Bitcoin dipped after the last 3 elections, then was up 24% to 92% a year later
The Bitcoin Family founder expects a possible dip around the November 3 vote and keeps buying for the long term. The daily prices from the last three midterms show why that approach has worked.
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Bitcoin at $81,424, Ether at $2,384: crypto prices today, October 20, 2026
Every major coin we track is lower on the day and the week. Bitcoin ETFs took in their biggest inflows in a month on Monday, while France advanced a tax on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps.
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Tom Lee says ether could top $10,000 within 12 months. From $2,395 that is a 4.2x gain
The chairman of Bitmine, the largest ether treasury, repeats a $10,000-plus call on a 12-month horizon, while also saying $5,000 by year-end. Bitmine holds 6.04 million ETH, so he gains if the call is right.
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JPMorgan brings its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, for approved institutions only
The largest US bank is extending its dollar deposit token from Coinbase's Base network to Ethereum itself. It is not a stablecoin and it is not open to the public.
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Strategy buys 267 bitcoin for $22.1 million, spends $193.1 million on STRC buybacks and raises the program to $3 billion
The filing behind Sunday's "more orange" hint shows a small bitcoin purchase, a preferred buyback nine times larger, and a board decision to add $1 billion of room for more buybacks. Holdings are now 848,517 BTC.
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White House crypto council has no staff left after Patrick Witt departs, with the CLARITY Act stalled
Witt was the last remaining staffer on the council. The White House has named no successor and says crypto remains a priority, while the market structure bill missed a Senate vote in September.
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Deutsche Bank plans Bitcoin and Ether custody for European institutions, pending regulatory clearance
The German bank says its custody service would start with Bitcoin, Ether and three stablecoins, USDC, EURC and EURAU, for corporate and institutional clients. It still needs a regulatory green light.
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Mizuho, MUFG and SMBC finish a joint yen stablecoin test run July 17 to 23 for Mitsubishi Corporation payments
Japan's three biggest banks say their pilot issued coins as trust receivable rights. The release points to live transactions of a three-bank coin during fiscal 2026, which in Japan runs to March 2027.
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Bitcoin at $82,281, Ether at $2,420: crypto prices today, October 19, 2026
Bitcoin is up 0.7% on the week while the rest of the majors we track are lower, with Cardano down 6.2%. JPMorgan is taking its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum.
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MSCI adopts non-operating company rule: Strategy and Metaplanet flagged, final list due Nov. 11
MSCI has finalized a screen that could remove Strategy, Metaplanet and Yellow Cake from its global indexes after the close of trading on November 30. None is confirmed yet, and the $2.8 billion figure circulating belongs to an older proposal.
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Bitcoin's October record: up 10 of 15 years, average gain 14.4%, not the 26% going around
We rebuilt October returns from Bitstamp price history. Bitcoin is down 3.0% this month, about 6% above its 50-week average near $76,500, and the seasonal edge is real but smaller than the circulating claim.
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Evernorth's XRPN closed its Nasdaq debut at $16.91 as 80.3% of SPAC holders took cash and left
The XRP treasury company holds about 473 million XRP and raised about $300 million gross. Ripple's David Schwartz called the listing a bridge to traditional finance, but the redemption figure is the number to read first.
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Ledger: Bitcoin Family's three Singapore units opened clean, but a Flex from the same airport had an implant
Didi Taihuttu says he opened three Ledgers bought at Singapore airport and found nothing. Separately, a Flex from that airport was reported to hold a spy implant, and MediaMarktSaturn has pulled Ledger products. Ledger still ties every confirmed loss to one reseller.
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Bitcoin at $81,975, Ether at $2,416: crypto prices today, October 18, 2026
Bitcoin is up 0.7% in 24 hours but 2.0% lower on the week, and every other coin we track is down 4.7% to 12.5% over seven days. A weekend flush in round-the-clock chip-stock contracts and a bridge exploit at Cysic were the day's stories.
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Solana's Alpenglow goes live October 21, aiming for 150 ms finality, with SOL at $104, down 5% on the week
The consensus rewrite cuts finality from about 12.8 seconds to a targeted 150 milliseconds. Users do nothing, and the price has not moved ahead of it.
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FinCEN withdrew its 2020 unhosted-wallet and 2023 mixer proposals. Neither was ever a rule
Treasury's FinCEN pulled two crypto proposals on October 5. What that changes for self-custody users is less than the headlines suggest, because nothing that was in force has been repealed.
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Bitcoin at $81,474, Ether at $2,431: crypto prices today, October 17, 2026
Bitcoin is down 0.6% in 24 hours and 1.7% on the week, while all eight coins we track are lower than a week ago. Bitcoin-treasury stocks were hit hard Friday after MSCI finalized its index rules.
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Standard Chartered's UAE bitcoin trading opened to institutions in September, wealth clients this week
A viral claim says wealthy UAE investors can now buy bitcoin through a global bank for the first time. The rollout was in two steps, and both are limited to qualified clients.
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Didi Taihuttu's $81,000 Bitcoin line matches the 50-day average; the 200-day sits at $72,400
The Bitcoin Family founder flags a daily close below $81,200 as the level to watch. The moving averages line up with his levels.
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Bitcoin at $82,336, Ether at $2,468: crypto prices today, October 16, 2026
Bitcoin is up 2.4% in 24 hours after a brief dip under $80,000 on Thursday, but all eight coins we track except Avalanche are still lower than a week ago.
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Kraken parent Payward agrees to acquire Saldo Bank, a Lithuanian lender with 164 million euros in assets
The price was not disclosed and the deal is not expected to close until 2027. What Payward gets is a licence, not a balance sheet: the bank is small, but it is authorised in four EU markets.
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Ledger in Europe: one user's MediaMarkt report is real, but a Germany sales halt is not confirmed
Videos say Ledger pulled devices from MediaMarkt in Germany. What we could confirm is a single user report. Bitcoin Family's Didi Taihuttu, who says he bought three Ledgers in Singapore, plans to open them.
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Saylor's bitcoin numbers checked: 38% a year holds up, the 200-week average premium is 24%, not 25%
A recent Michael Saylor interview made three checkable claims about bitcoin. We recomputed each from exchange price data, and what the figures leave out matters as much as what they confirm.
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Bitcoin at $83,553, Ether at $2,507: crypto prices today, October 14, 2026
Bitcoin is flat on the week ahead of this morning's September CPI report, while Solana, Cardano and Avalanche are each down about 7.6% over seven days.
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Morgan Stanley pushes tokenized stock trading to Q1 2027, saying the products and demand are not there yet
The bank had planned to support tokenized equities on its trading system in the second half of 2026. Its digital asset head now says the first quarter of 2027, and gives a reason that is less flattering than the headlines suggest.
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Strategy buys 250 bitcoin for $21.5 million, while $192.4 million went to buying back its STRC preferred
The filing behind "Strategy buys more bitcoin" shows the company spent about nine dollars retiring its own preferred stock for every dollar it put into bitcoin last week. Holdings are now 848,250 BTC.
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Bitcoin at $83,216, Ether at $2,498: crypto prices today, October 13, 2026
Bitcoin held about flat on the day while every other coin we track fell, with Cardano and Avalanche down more than 6%. Traders are watching Wednesday's U.S. CPI report.
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Ether falls 4.8% to $2,420 as bitcoin slips below $82,500 and oil climbs
Ether has lost about $120 since the Chronicle's morning report and bitcoin is within 0.2% of its 24-hour low. The Cointelegraph wrap names no crypto-specific trigger; the wires point to oil and risk appetite.
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Bessent says US will "probably" seize $1 billion of Iran-linked crypto; no seizure confirmed yet
The Treasury Secretary spoke Thursday; his figures have been revised before. In May he said $1 billion, and Treasury's own release cited nearly $500 million.
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JPMorgan's $266,000 bitcoin number is eight months old and rests on $8 trillion of gold, not $31 trillion
The figure is circulating again as a fresh "3x undervalued" call. The note was written in February, when bitcoin was $65,600, and JPMorgan called it unrealistic for 2026.
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Ledger drains: the $86 million figure is an analyst estimate, and the cause is still unconfirmed
Ledger is investigating losses among Southeast Asian buyers of devices sold by reseller CryptoBilis. Videos say the company was not hacked; what is actually confirmed is narrower.
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Bitcoin at $83,251, Ether at $2,541: crypto prices today, October 12, 2026
Every coin we track is up on the day, but all eight are still lower or flat on the week as traders wait for Wednesday's CPI. Bitcoin sits about 1% above the $82,500 weekly support level.
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Bitcoin at $83,127, Ether at $2,506: crypto prices today, October 11, 2026
Bitcoin and Ether held flat over 24 hours on a quiet Sunday while Ledger confirmed a hardware implant in a reseller's device and the XRP Ledger disclosed a patched supply bug.
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ESMA gives EU crypto platforms until January 8 to stop serving non-MiCA stablecoins such as USDT
The EU markets regulator told authorized platforms to stop new buying and trading of unauthorized stablecoins and allow only wind-down services. National regulators handle the details.
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Securitize launches 12 tokenized US stocks on Solana, settled in USDC, with NYSE trading still pending
The tokens are security entitlements backed one-for-one by real shares, not shares on the issuer's register. The NYSE and OKX-ICE venues are planned but not live.
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Standard Chartered plans digital-asset custody in Singapore by year-end, but has not said which coins
The bank announced on October 8 that it will offer custody to institutions and accredited corporate clients, pending regulatory approval. Videos called it bitcoin custody; the bank has not named bitcoin.
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One year after crypto's $19 billion wipeout, bitcoin sits about 27% below that day's close
Saturday marks the anniversary of October 10, 2025, the largest liquidation day on record. Coinbase data show bitcoin closed that day at $112,980; it trades near $82,700 now.
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Russia's Sberbank plans bitcoin products from December 1, but 'trading for all customers' leaves out the limits
The Bank of Russia published its first registers of licensed crypto firms on October 7. Sberbank says bitcoin, ether and USDT come to its apps on December 1. Retail buyers face a reported cap of 300,000 rubles a year, and payments in crypto stay banned.
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SAP Pay adds USDC and EURC through Tereina, but only Circle Mint account holders can use it
Circle and the SAP-backed payments company Tereina are putting dollar and euro stablecoins inside SAP finance software. Eligibility rules and testing plans show how early it is.
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Samsung Wallet will make USDC its default dollar stablecoin for U.S. Galaxy users in late October
Coinbase says USDC will be the default in Samsung Wallet across about 82 million U.S. Galaxy devices, with transfers to wallets and bank accounts in more than 60 countries.
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Schwab's '64%' crypto number is about millennials who already own it, not millennials in general
The survey behind this week's viral headline says 33% of millennials own crypto and 64% of those owners plan to add more. That works out to about one in five millennials, not two in three.
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WSJ says Ripple is becoming a Wall Street rival, and Paxos adds XRP for its bank partners
Ripple's prime brokerage earns about 8% annualized from one leveraged fund, the Journal reports. Separately, Paxos now lets partners offer XRP, though each partner decides whether to.
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IRS Rev. Proc. 2026-20 lets crypto trusts stake without losing tax status, but only exchange-traded ones
The October 6 guidance replaces last year's safe harbor with 14 conditions. It does not tell individuals how their own staking rewards are taxed.
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Hong Kong confirms a crypto licensing bill by year-end covering dealing, custody, advice and management
The finance secretary told lawmakers on October 5 that the bill goes to the Legislative Council before 2026 ends. It is not law yet, and the rules are the point, not a China opening.
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Wells Fargo is reportedly in talks with Kraken's parent to supply crypto trading liquidity
Two people with knowledge of the talks told CoinDesk the bank is discussing a liquidity supply deal with Payward. Neither company has confirmed it, and no terms have been reported.
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Polygon plugs into Tron's $94 billion of USDT, and Tether signs a tenge stablecoin study with Kazakhstan
Two stablecoin announcements on October 7: a payments link to the biggest pool of USDT, and a non-binding agreement with a central bank. Neither is a launch yet.
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Robinhood says it bought $25 million of bitcoin for itself, about 300 coins, but no filing backs it yet
A Robinhood crypto executive described the purchase in an interview at Token2049. It is the company's first reported corporate bitcoin buy, and it equals roughly 0.026% of its market value.
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Bitcoin at $83,245, Ether at $2,505: crypto prices today, October 9, 2026
Bitcoin recovered from a Thursday dip to about $80,350 after President Trump said the U.S. would not strike Iran before the midterms, while Ether, Solana and Dogecoin stayed lower on the week.
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U.S. government moves 12,267 bitcoin from a Bitfinex wallet, and no exchange deposit shows up
About $1 billion of seized bitcoin changed addresses Thursday. Two outlets say it did not reach an exchange. Here is what that does and does not tell traders.
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Bitcoin at $82,266, Ether at $2,529: crypto prices today, October 8, 2026
Every major coin we track fell over 24 hours as spot Bitcoin ETFs posted their biggest outflow since June and the 30-year Treasury yield pushed toward 5.7%. Bitcoin sits about 2% above the $80,550 average analysts are watching.
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Bitmine says it will stop buying ether at 5% of supply, about 100,000 ETH away, as ether falls 5.7% in a day
Chairman Tom Lee told TOKEN2049 the largest ether treasury will stop accumulating once it holds 5% of circulating supply. At 4.9% it has about $256 million of buying left to do, against $643 million of cash.
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Bitcoin at $83,614, Ether at $2,576: crypto prices today, October 7, 2026
Every coin we track fell over 24 hours, with Ether down 5.1% and Cardano down 8.4%, as roughly $550 million of leveraged positions were liquidated and oil climbed on Strait of Hormuz tanker attacks.
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Didi Taihuttu calls the Bitcoin bear market bottom: 12 months after the $126,000 peak
The Dutch bitcoiner who went all in on Bitcoin in 2017 says the low is probably in. The cycle dates and the October record line up with his call.
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Retire on 163 Solana? The 256x math assumes Solana takes 11% of the world's stock market
A popular crypto video says $20,000 of SOL becomes $5 million by 2030. The arithmetic checks out. The assumption underneath it is the part to read twice.
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Strike now pays 3.6% on dollars, in bitcoin. A 3-month Treasury bill pays 4.22%
Jack Mallers' app launched interest on cash that is paid out in sats. It is FDIC-insured, with no minimum, and it pays less than the risk-free rate.
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Strategy, Strive and Metaplanet disclosed 3,334 bitcoin in one day, but Strategy bought only 334 of them
About $285 million of bitcoin was reported in a single day by three treasury companies. The breakdown, the buying periods and who now ranks where tell a different story from the headline.
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Bitcoin is up about 28% and gold down about 21% since the Iran war began, but the gain came after June
The scoreboard is real, with a catch: bitcoin was still below its war-start price on June 17. And the popular $400,000 target needs a market value near $8 trillion.
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BlackRock says AI agents may save in bitcoin and spend in stablecoins, but the evidence is simulated model answers
The world's largest asset manager published a paper on how AI agents could use digital money. The headline finding comes from asking chatbots, not from watching agents with real wallets.
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Is the Fed printing money again? Its balance sheet is $156 billion bigger than a year ago, and this week's repo use was $1 million
A viral claim says the Fed injected $1.9 billion today. The New York Fed's own operation data does not show it. The real picture is a balance sheet growing about 2.4% a year, a slow drip rather than a flood.
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BlockHorizon opens its bitcoin on-chain charts for free, and PlanB is telling traders to use it
The Netherlands-based analytics site offers 150+ cycle charts, alerts and CSV, Excel and JSON downloads at no cost. Its Cycle Index reads 34, in the bearish zone, as bitcoin trades near $85,700.
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Bitcoin at $86,284, Ether at $2,714: crypto prices today, October 6, 2026
Bitcoin holds near the top of a two-week range after a third rejection at $87,000, while Cardano and Avalanche lead the majors. Bond yields eased from 24-year highs ahead of Wednesday's Fed minutes.
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Kraken parent Payward adds 24/7 dollar settlement through Singapore Gulf Bank's $20 billion-a-month network
Crypto trades every hour of the week, but the cash behind it has not. A new link lets select institutional clients fund and settle in dollars on weekends, and banks are racing to do the same.
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OKXICE files to trade 60+ tokenized US stocks around the clock, with prices set by pools, not an order book
The NYSE owner and OKX want a 24/7 venue where Nvidia and Tesla tokens trade against stablecoins. Cerebras has already objected, and the SEC relief behind it lasts five years.
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SEC clears first 3x bitcoin and ether ETFs: a 30-day replay shows what daily resets do
Six Volatility Shares funds were approved on Oct. 2 but cannot trade yet. Run on Coinbase's last 30 daily closes, a 3x daily fund would have returned about 19.4% to bitcoin's 7.2%, not 21.7%.
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CFTC opens a 60-day comment period on a rulebook for leveraged retail crypto trades
The agency published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on Monday, the earliest formal step. It would create a registered "crypto asset market" category, but no rule text exists yet.
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Stripe plans stablecoin cards in 100-plus countries by year-end as monthly card spend hits $1.2 billion, triple a year ago
The payments company says it will issue stablecoin-funded cards through Bridge, now run by a new head of crypto. The volume is real and still small, and the reports do not say what it changes for the merchant taking the payment.
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Metaplanet sold 10,000 bitcoin at $78,925, bought 11,000 at $86,246, and still holds 44,000 below cost
The Japanese bitcoin treasury company added a net 1,000 coins in the third quarter. Its average cost of $98,454 is 12% above where bitcoin trades today, a gap that looks very different from the one at Strategy.
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Strategy books a $20.91 billion third-quarter bitcoin gain; bitcoin now sits 13.9% above its $75,441 cost
The gain flipped a roughly $14 billion paper hole at June 30 into a $6.9 billion cushion, released a $4.12 billion tax asset and cost $1.88 billion of deferred tax. It also bought just 334 bitcoin last week while repurchasing $176 million of preferred stock.
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Bitcoin at $86,124, Ether at $2,715: crypto prices today, October 5, 2026
Bitcoin came within about $400 of its late-September high before pulling back, while Cardano jumped 11% in a day. A dollar at an 18-month high is the main outside pressure.
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Bitcoin at $85,329, Ether at $2,700: crypto prices today, October 4, 2026
A quiet Sunday after Friday's round trip: Bitcoin touched $87,249 on the weak jobs report, then closed the day below where it opened as Treasury yields finished higher. Weekend trading is running at about a fifth of Friday's volume.
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Community banks sue the OCC over crypto trust charters after 21 approvals, at least 13 of them crypto firms
The ICBA wants a federal court to strike the OCC's March rule and vacate Protego's conditional charter. Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm with a national trust charter, is reported to be cutting 17% of its staff the same day.
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Blast is shutting down: the Ethereum layer-2 holds $32 million, down from $2.26 billion, and earned $2,067 in fees last month
Blast says running the chain costs more than it earns. Users have until Oct. 26 to withdraw through its interface, and about $32 million is still sitting on the network.
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Bitcoin at $86,363, Ether at $2,746: crypto prices today, October 2, 2026
All eight coins we track rose overnight, led by Solana and Bitcoin, as traders added leverage ahead of the September jobs report. Bitcoin is now sitting on the level where the average U.S. spot ETF buyer breaks even.
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SEC proposes crypto custody rules for advisers and funds: self-custody only when no custodian will hold the token
State trust companies would count as custodians for crypto. Self-custody comes with a quarterly test, two-person key control and an outside controls report within six months. Comments run 60 days.
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Citi lifts its Bitcoin forecast to $113,000; its old $82,000 call was already below today's price
Citigroup raised its 12-month Bitcoin view to $113,000 and Ether to $3,028, CoinDesk reported. Both old numbers sat under the market, and the new one assumes ETF inflows about six times this year's net total.
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New York and Wyoming crypto pact: a six-month licence review for firms with three clean years, but only a goal
NYDFS and Wyoming's banking division signed an MOU to share exam data and fast-track crypto firms licensed in the other state. The signed text says regulators will "endeavor" to decide in six months and creates no enforceable rights.
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Crypto hacks hit $1.25 billion in the third quarter, the most since early 2025; two cases were 56% of it
Our tally of DefiLlama's database: 119 incidents, a median loss of $580,000, and stolen keys behind 47% of the dollars. NEAR Intents opened the fourth quarter with a $3.8 million exploit.
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Illinois agrees to push its 0.2% crypto tax to July 2027; at today's price that is about $168 per bitcoin
State officials and two industry groups asked a judge to delay the Digital Asset Tax by six months. The state's draft rules show the tax falls on the value moved, not the fee, and spare retailers that take crypto.
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MetaMask exits staking validators after security incident; Lido says ETH may take 45 days to return
MetaMask says no wallets or customer funds appear affected, but its precautionary validator exits mean weeks of forgone staking rewards. A researcher puts the exits at about 523,000 ETH, roughly $1.4 billion.
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Bitcoin at $83,885, Ether at $2,704: crypto prices today, October 1, 2026
All eight coins we track opened the fourth quarter lower after spot Bitcoin ETFs snapped a nine-day inflow run. Chainlink nearly doubled in the third quarter on Coinbase prices, the best of the group.
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UK opens crypto licensing: firms have 151 days to apply, and current registration does not carry over
The FCA began taking applications on Wednesday, with a February 28, 2027 deadline and a full regime from October 25, 2027. The same day, the U.S. market-structure rule was still at the pre-proposal stage.
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CFTC sends the White House rules to make event contracts swaps; one could take effect before public comment
The White House's review list shows two CFTC rules received September 28, neither labelled economically significant. A new definition would answer the Sixth Circuit's first ruling against Kalshi, but not the second.
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Open USD stablecoin goes live with $1 billion from Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Shopify
The new dollar token launched on four blockchains. Its founders pledged liquidity worth about 1.4% of USDC's supply, but the bigger issue for Circle is that Coinbase, its main distribution partner, is one of the five owners.
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Bitcoin at $83,829, Ether at $2,695: crypto prices today, September 30, 2026
Every major coin we track slipped or stalled ahead of Wednesday's PCE inflation print, with Chainlink and Avalanche giving back 5%. Bitcoin sits about 2% above the $82,000 floor analysts are watching.
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SEC drops to two commissioners when Peirce leaves Friday; with the CFTC's one, seven of 10 seats will be empty
The SEC's own quorum rule lets two members act, but a 1-1 vote fails. That leaves crypto rules in the hands of three people as the Clarity Act stalls.
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Robinhood adds AI trading agents and 10x crypto perpetuals; weekend stock trading waits until early next year
At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood also doubled intraday margin to 4x and set perpetual fees at 0.01%. The weekend stock session is pending regulatory review, and the leverage math matters more than the fee.
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Coinbase wins CFTC approval for its own clearinghouse, but only for fully collateralized contracts
Coinbase Clearing LLC was registered as a derivatives clearing organization on Sept. 28. The order covers fully funded futures, options and swaps, not the leveraged perpetual-style contracts Coinbase says are driving its $4.2 trillion a year derivatives business.
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Ethereum sets Glamsterdam for Sepolia testnet on Oct. 6, but no mainnet date; ETH steady near $2,690
The upgrade brings enshrined proposer-builder separation and a gas repricing that could break contracts with hardcoded gas limits. The Ethereum Foundation says ETH holders do not need to do anything yet.
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Bitwise NEAR ETF starts trading as NRR after NEAR more than doubled in two weeks, to $5.07
The first U.S. spot NEAR fund charges 0.75% and plans to stake the tokens it holds. Its prospectus shows why redemptions settle in two days: staked NEAR takes about 48 hours to unlock.
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Bitcoin at $84,394, Ether at $2,731: crypto prices today, September 29, 2026
Bitcoin rose 1% overnight even as the 30-year Treasury yield closed at 5.56%. Avalanche jumped 13% with no cause we could find, and ETF inflows slowed to a trickle.
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Blockchain.com targets a $500 million IPO at up to $6 billion, more than Gemini, BitGo and eToro combined
The valuation Bloomberg reported is 57% to 71% below Blockchain.com's 2022 peak. Against the crypto companies that listed since, it is not a discount at all.
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SEC staff narrow their crypto token buyback answer three days after issuing it: "no central party" now required
Friday's FAQ said buybacks of tokens on a functional network were not a promise of managerial effort. Monday's update adds a second condition, that the network has no central party, which many token projects with active foundations may not meet.
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Goldman and Franklin push Treasury funds into crypto trading; Franklin's Benji assets are down two-thirds since April
Goldman's $100 billion FTIXX is now on the Lynq network and Bybit takes Franklin's tokenized fund as collateral. The headline sizes are big; the money actually moving is much smaller.
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Citi and Coinbase open stablecoin payments to Citi's business clients; the merchant never holds a coin
Coinbase will run the crypto side and convert to dollars, Citi settles as bank of record. The headlines say merchants can now take stablecoins. The fine print says which merchants, and what they actually receive.
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Chainlink launches CCIP 2.0 as LINK rises 7%; users who add nothing now rely on one verifier network, not two
The bridge upgrade lets apps bolt on their own security checks after April's $292 million Kelp DAO hack. It also retires the separate safety network Chainlink used to promote, a detail easy to miss in the launch.
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Senate Democrats call Tether a "lifeline" for Iran; Tether says it froze about $550 million of Iran-linked USDT
A minority report says Iran's government moved an estimated $2 billion through crypto last year and that Tether was slow to block wallets. Tether points to its freeze record. The two itemized freezes it lists add up to about $474 million.
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Strategy buys 1,665 bitcoin, but 42% of the $246 million of stock it sold went to buying back its preferred
Strategy returned to selling common shares last week. $142.7 million of the proceeds bought bitcoin; $103.5 million, plus $48.1 million of cash, went to repurchasing STRC preferred.
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THORChain refuses Bitget's request to block the hacker, who swaps 2,390 ETH for 75 bitcoin, under 4% of the stash
The cross-chain swap network says its emergency halt cannot target one address. Monday's swaps cost the attacker about 2% in fees and slippage, and liquidity limits bounced some orders back.
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Bitcoin at $83,244, Ether at $2,671: crypto prices today, September 28, 2026
Every coin on our board fell overnight as oil jumped back above $100. Bitcoin is down 3.9% on the week even after spot ETFs took in $2.39 billion, their biggest week of the year.
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Bitcoin at $84,942, Ether at $2,712: crypto prices today, September 27, 2026
Bitcoin rose 1.1% overnight and Solana led our board with a 2.5% gain. The Bitget hacker has moved about 54 million stolen XRP, and exchange withdrawals are due to restart Monday.
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Bitget reopens withdrawals from Sept. 28, but XRP waits until Oct. 2 as the hacker moves $83 million of it
Bitcoin withdrawals come back first, then ether, then USDT. XRP falls in the last group, while the attacker spreads about 103 million stolen XRP that nobody can freeze.
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Bitcoin at $84,099, Ether at $2,687: crypto prices today, September 26, 2026
Bitcoin slipped 0.4% and XRP fell 3.5% overnight. The week still shows gains across our board, but nearly all of it came on one day, Monday, and prices have drifted lower since.
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Bitget raises hack tally to $387.5 million; its bitcoin fund covers that only while BTC is above $70,455
The exchange added Zcash and TRON transfers it missed at first. Its protection fund is held in 5,500 bitcoin, so whether it can pay users in full depends on the bitcoin price.
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SEC's Hester Peirce leaves Oct. 2, cutting the commission to two members as crypto's top lobby changes CEO
The commissioner who ran the SEC's crypto task force is resigning, leaving only Chairman Atkins and Mark Uyeda on a five-seat commission. The same day, the Blockchain Association said its CEO Summer Mersinger will step down.
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Appeals court rules Ohio and Tennessee can regulate Kalshi's sports contracts, deepening a split headed for the Supreme Court
A unanimous Sixth Circuit panel said Kalshi's sports-event contracts are not swaps, and that federal law would not shield them from state gambling rules even if they were. That second holding is the one that matters.
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Circle CFO Fox-Geen to step down and co-founder Neville leaves board; most of the stock's 4.4% drop came first
Circle filed the news at 4:05 p.m., after shares had already closed down 4.4% at $88.93. The filing also shows a $1.05 million payment tied to a 12-month non-compete.
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CoinMarketCap, bought by Binance in 2020, acquires CoinGlass and its exchange-by-exchange leverage data
CoinGlass tracks leverage, funding rates and liquidations across 28 exchanges, Binance and its rivals included. Its pricing and API stay the same, but who owns the scoreboard now matters for traders.
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Quant jumps 39% and Ondo 30% on bank tokenization news, but the banks' network runs on deposits, not tokens
The Clearing House picked Quant's technology for a tokenized-deposit network due in 2027. Its announcement never mentions the QNT token, and futures trading in the coin ran far ahead of spot.
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Circle and Tether freeze $318,000 from the Bitget hack, under 0.1% of the $351.6 million taken
Stablecoin issuers can blacklist their own tokens, but most of the stolen money is in ether, which nobody can freeze. Bitget now says the attack spoofed its signing system rather than stealing keys, and it suspects North Korea.
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Strategy proposes daily dividends on its preferred stock; STRC at $98.40 is still short of its $100 goal
Holders of STRC, STRF, STRK and STRD would be paid every business day for every calendar day if shareholders approve on Oct. 28. The company says the total paid does not change. What changes is how the securities trade.
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Bitcoin ETFs turn positive for 2026 at $787 million, but $6.1 billion came in since August
U.S. spot bitcoin funds have erased a deficit of more than $5 billion. The headline hides how late the money arrived, and how fast the latest streak is slowing.
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KelpDAO sues LayerZero and its CEO over the $292 million rsETH bridge exploit
The restaking protocol filed a civil claim in British Columbia, blaming LayerZero for April's hack. The fight turns on one setting: whether a single verifier was enough to secure a bridge holding about a fifth of rsETH.
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U.S. seizes $84 million tied to a Tether banking partner; Tether says its exposure is under 0.034%
Prosecutors want to keep money held for Dominica-licensed EQIBank through U.S. payment processor Capstone. The bank says it could be forced into liquidation. For Tether, the loss is small; the question is the dollar plumbing.
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Bitcoin at $84,637, Ether at $2,720: crypto prices today, September 25, 2026
Every coin on our board rose, but bitcoin gained only 1.3% while Chainlink jumped 15% and XRP 9%, as money rotated into altcoins even with the 10-year Treasury yield at a new high of 5.18%.
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Bitget pauses withdrawals after a $351.6 million hot-wallet breach, about 76% of its protection fund
The exchange says cold wallets and user balances are intact and that its $464 million protection fund covers the loss. The first on-chain estimate was about half the final figure, and withdrawals stay shut until a security review is done.
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EU bank regulator wants crypto lending and DeFi access regulated, and may loosen stablecoin deposit rules
The EBA's 41-page MiCA review says two stablecoins dominate crypto lending in Europe, one of them not even authorized there, and opens the door to cutting the 30% to 60% bank-deposit reserve rule.
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CFTC staff let futures brokers put customer cash in tokenized Treasuries; stablecoins are still off the list
New staff FAQs say a token counts only if the asset behind it was already allowed. Blockchains can serve as official records, with a backup plan required on public chains.
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Fed proposes stablecoin rules: 2% capital on the first $20 billion, reserves in Treasuries of 93 days or less
The Federal Reserve put out its GENIUS Act rules for bank-owned stablecoin issuers on Thursday. The capital charge is the number that matters: at today's bill yields it soaks up roughly five months of an issuer's reserve income.
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Sequans sells its last 314 bitcoin and ends its treasury strategy; it once held more than 3,200
The French chipmaker says it now has no crypto and no debt apart from government research financing. It did not say what the final sale raised. At today's price the coins were worth about $26 million, close to 60% of the company's market value.
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New York sues Polymarket as an illegal gambling site; licensed sportsbooks hand the state 51% of their take
The attorney general wants Polymarket US to forfeit its New York gains and pay triple fines. The state's own data shows what is at stake: licensed mobile sportsbooks sent $1.33 billion to education last fiscal year.
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ARK tokenizes its venture fund on Ethereum; OpenAI and Anthropic were about 5% of it in its last report
ARK Invest is putting interests in the ARK Venture Fund on-chain through Securitize. The fund's own SEC filing shows what buyers actually get: 84% hard-to-value private holdings, a 2.9% expense ratio and 5% quarterly redemption windows.
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Bitcoin at $83,369, Ether at $2,643: crypto prices today, September 24, 2026
Every major coin on our board fell as the 10-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2007 and October Fed hike odds jumped, leaving bitcoin about 2% above the average spot ETF buyer's cost, according to Coinbase data.
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Kalshi denies a CFTC probe; its ether perpetual traded $539 million a day on $3.1 million of open positions
Kalshi says it has not been contacted by the CFTC and that clusters of identical trades come from its liquidity incentive program. The numbers raising questions show daily volume at about 174 times open interest.
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Zcash tops $1,600, a 10-year high, but it is still about half its 2016 launch-day peak
The privacy coin touched $1,676.81 on Coinbase and has nearly doubled in a month. Some headlines called it a record; the price data show a 2016 peak near $3,192 it has not reclaimed.
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BitMEX, the exchange that invented the 100x perpetual swap, closes after 11 years; withdrawals stay open
Trading and deposits ended at 04:00 UTC Wednesday. Customers can still pull funds, but balances left behind now face an account fee, and API withdrawals end Sept. 28.
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Bitcoin falls below $84,200 after $1.7 billion of ETF buying, with $280 million of longs wiped out
Two strong days of fund inflows did not hold the price once Treasury yields jumped. Where the average ETF buyer now stands depends on whose cost estimate you use.
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NYSE signs a non-binding deal to offer tokenized stocks to Blockchain.com's 44 million accounts
The pitch is 24/7 trading of U.S. stocks for crypto users worldwide. The memorandum sets no launch date, the NYSE platform has not launched, and the release never mentions last week's SEC exemption.
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No, the SEC did not just declare Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Solana commodities
Order 34-106268 is real, and it matters. It also does not do the thing the headlines say it does. Here is what actually changed, including the two provisions with real consequences that almost nobody mentioned.
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Bitcoin's $16 billion options expiry Friday: only about $550 million of it is actually in the money
About 183,000 bitcoin options expire on Deribit on September 25, the biggest share of the exchange's book. Our count of the open contracts shows the cash value at stake is a small fraction of the headline, and it changes by only about $220 million between a $76,000 and an $85,000 settlement.
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MoonPay buys broker North Capital for over $60 million in stock, a licensed path into tokenized securities
The crypto payments company is buying a Utah broker-dealer and trading platform that has handled more than $8.7 billion of securities deals. The price was not disclosed by either side, and the firm it is buying works mainly in private markets, not the listed stocks the SEC just opened up.
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The Clarity Act failed, crypto rallied, and the industry got something weaker than a law
The Senate blocked the market structure bill 49 to 50 on 15 September. Two days later the SEC opened a path for tokenized stocks. The popular read is that the agency route is stickier than legislation. It is the opposite.
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Bitcoin at $85,493, Ether at $2,722: crypto prices today, September 23, 2026
Bitcoin stalled near $87,300 for a second day and slipped back as rising Fed hike odds lifted the dollar and short-term yields, while spot bitcoin ETFs added another $715 million and XRP was the only major on our board in the green, according to Coinbase data.
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With the Clarity Act stalled, the CFTC's crypto rule at the White House is only a pre-proposal
White House and Treasury officials say crypto rules now fall to the regulators. The government's own review list shows the CFTC's plan is at the earliest stage of rulemaking, and an SEC custody-rule proposal has been waiting there since August.
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Canada's six biggest banks explore a shared tokenized deposit system, with no launch date or network named
BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD will start by moving tokenized Canadian-dollar deposits between banks. The short joint release commits to exploring, not issuing.
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Bitcoin Cash jumps 27% after CME plans BCH and Uniswap futures for October 19
The contracts still need regulatory review. Bitcoin Cash traded about five times its normal daily volume on Coinbase, while Uniswap barely reacted after doubling over the past month.
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EU central banks want the stablecoin yield ban extended to lending and staking, and the 60% deposit rule dropped
The ECB and national central banks want to close the back doors to stablecoin yield. They also want to replace MiCA's bank-deposit rule with a cash-within-five-days test.
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Strategy buys 950 bitcoin for $75.7 million, but spent $174 million buying back its own preferred
Headlines say Strategy is buying bitcoin again. Its filing shows it sold no stock, and over three weeks put $489.6 million into repurchasing STRC preferred against $75.7 million into bitcoin.
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Animoca Brands shelves its Nasdaq merger with Currenc, and Currenc shares fall 5%
The crypto investor would have owned 95% of the combined company. Currenc's filing shows the talks had run past their exclusivity deadline, and that Currenc now wants room to raise money.
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Harmony (ONE) is up 469% in a week, and trading more each day than the whole token is worth
The move is real: ONE went from $0.0007 to nearly $0.0044 in three days. So is the rest of the picture. It fell 17.6% on Tuesday, it is down 57% on the year, and it remains 99% below its 2021 high.
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Binance faces a U.S. sanctions probe days after its $100 million Circle deal. Circle shares barely moved
Manhattan federal prosecutors are examining whether Binance let trading continue despite knowing it broke sanctions law, Bloomberg reported. Circle's filing shows what a legal order could mean for Binance's new stake.
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Binance bought $100 million of Circle at $80.84 a share after a sell-off, and is already up about 17%
Circle's filing calls the price a discount. It was below every trade on the day of the deal, but above the prior close. The bigger number for shareholders is what Circle pays distributors.
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Bitcoin at $85,929, Ether at $2,743: crypto prices today, September 22, 2026
Bitcoin is holding near its eight-month high after spot bitcoin ETFs took in almost $1 billion on Monday, while Dogecoin and XRP led the day and AVAX gave back part of its big weekly run, according to Coinbase data.
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Bitcoin hits $87,397, an eight-month high, but it is still below where 2026 began
A short squeeze and returning ETF money pushed Bitcoin to its highest price since January 29. It is up about 48% from its July low and still roughly 2% down for the year.
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Bitcoin at $84,951, Ether at $2,722: crypto prices today, September 21, 2026
Bitcoin jumped 5.6% in 24 hours to its highest level since January as a wave of short liquidations forced bearish traders out, and every major coin we track is higher on the day, according to Coinbase data.
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Bitcoin at $80,466, Ether at $2,579: crypto prices today, September 20, 2026
Bitcoin slipped back toward $80,000 on Sunday morning but is still up almost 5% on the week, while Avalanche's AVAX kept running on tokenization news and is up more than 40% in seven days, according to Coinbase data.
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Strategy (MicroStrategy) stock: what is actually going on
Strategy closed Friday at $153.92, up 16.4% as bitcoin returned to $80,000. The company holds 845,050 bitcoin, has not bought any since early September, and is now buying back its own preferred shares instead.
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Coinbase stock: what is actually going on
Coinbase traded at $184.54 on Monday, October 5, about 54% below its 52-week high even with Bitcoin near $85,000. The last reported quarter showed a $359.5 million net loss, and almost half of net revenue no longer comes from trading fees.
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Why we're watching VeChain: a 2017 supply-chain coin quietly rebuilt itself for 2026
VET is up about 69% in a month and still down 97% from its 2021 high. Behind the move: a hard fork that landed this week, staking that has locked up billions of tokens, a Franklin Templeton fund running on the chain, and Walmart China still tracking food on it.
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Coinbase, Kalshi and Kraken file to bring crypto-style perpetual futures to US stocks
Three crypto trading groups asked regulators this week to list single-stock futures with no expiry date. Nothing is approved yet, and none of the contracts is trading.
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Bitcoin at $81,425, Ether at $2,638: crypto prices today, September 19, 2026
Bitcoin is holding above $81,000 on Saturday after a strong week, while Avalanche's AVAX leads the major coins with a 17% jump over 24 hours, according to Coinbase data.
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Bitcoin tops $81,000 and Ether gains nearly 10% in the days after the Fed's hike
Crypto prices rose after the Federal Reserve raised rates on September 16, with Bitcoin climbing about 7% and Ether about 9.5% from their Fed-day closes, according to Coinbase data.
