Abstract will shut down its Ethereum L2 on December 15, citing thin liquidity, limited DeFi activity and high costs. Users must bridge assets off the chain before shutdown or risk losing access; Igloo is shifting its focus to Pudgy Penguins.
The CFTC opened public comment on proposed rules for leveraged retail crypto trading and voluntary federal registration. Chairman Mike Selig says the agency will use existing statutory authority after Congress failed to pass legislation.
Iran is escalating tanker attacks near Hormuz, with nearly 20 commercial ships attacked across the surrounding region over the past month. The threat to oil exports adds to Iran-related risks traders have linked to crypto selling.
FinCEN withdrew its proposed unhosted-wallet reporting rule and crypto-mixing surveillance rule. Neither took effect; the withdrawal removes proposed reporting, identity checks and recordkeeping requirements for the covered transactions.
Winklevoss Asset Services filed for a spot Zcash ETF that would list on Nasdaq as WINK, with Gemini custody and a 0.25% fee. Winklevoss Capital indicated interest in buying up to $100 million of shares.
US 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields recently reached 5.34% and 5.70%, their highest levels since 2002, raising borrowing and default risks for companies. Bitcoin advocates are pointing to rising sovereign debt costs as a reason to hold BTC outside the government debt system.
Cambria is reviewing applications for 4,096 Founding Charters and expects first-wave approvals by October 7. The charters establish the in-game Crown Treasury ahead of its Genesis MMORPG release.
OKX and ICE filed with the SEC to let retail and institutional investors trade 63 tokenized U.S. stocks around the clock. Their planned Uniswap v4 venue on X Layer would limit trading and liquidity provision to approved wallets, with third-party contracts also requiring approval.
K33 says Bitcoin looks to have bottomed early, citing exhausted sellers and long-term holders in control. It remains fully allocated a year after Bitcoin's roughly $126,000 peak.
ETH has traded in a tight range of roughly 5% for about two weeks. Traders see a possible breakout toward $3,000, but one expects Bitcoin to move higher first.
Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade activated and finalized on Sepolia, advancing testing ahead of mainnet activation.
ZEC is down 11.4% over the week and is trying to turn its short-term price structure bullish after a support retest. Traders remain split, with some alleging long-term holders are selling into leveraged retail buying.
Bitcoin has been rejected three times at its weekly open, with technical traders also pointing to rising four-hour support within an ascending triangle. A daily close above $87,500 could open a move toward $90,000.
STONK is bouncing near range lows after repeated failed rebounds, leaving a bottom uncertain. StonkFun recorded $456,429 in revenue, $274,232 in buybacks and 1.39 million STONK burned on October 5.
Jiwa opened the public mint for Lagrange Bend on OpenSea at 0.04 ETH. The generative art project includes an interactive agent experience.
Arbitrum's DRIP Season 2 offers USDG rewards through GMX's dollar vault and ARB rewards through Gauntlet's USDG vault on Morpho. Paxos's USDG is now live on Arbitrum One, where the ecosystem can earn rewards tied to its reserves.
Strategy reported a $21 billion gain on its Bitcoin holdings in Q3 2026. It now holds 848,000 BTC alongside $5.7 billion in USD assets.
Pons daily token volume on Robinhood fell from $931 million on September 4 to $70 million on October 4, a 92% drop.
A trader says SI's largest holder threatened to sell, sending its market cap from $25 million to $18 million. The holder then bought $200,000, and SI recovered above its pre-threat level.
Bitcoin is up about 2.7% in October’s opening week. Since 2013, it has finished October down only three times, though that record does not settle this month’s outcome.
October 6 updates put one-day Bitcoin ETF net outflows between $89.9 million and $91.72 million. Lookonchain's seven-day total remained positive at $93 million.
PaperDAO opened public whitelist applications on October 5 for its planned community treasury launch on daos.world. Participants pool ETH for trading on Papertrade and farming PAPER, with PULP representing their treasury share.
OKX added Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures and Qube Research & Technologies as investors at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, without disclosing the amount raised. OKB rose 6.1% after the funding announcement.
Strive bought 2,000 BTC for about $169 million last week, lifting its holdings to 29,462 BTC. It also disclosed a facility to repurchase up to $500 million of its SATA preferred stock.
NEAR is showing early signs of holding its multi-year downtrend as support after breaking above it. Continued stability there could support a new macro uptrend, but the retest is not yet confirmed.