
Bybit wins Dubai VARA licence for spot crypto trading
Bybit's Dubai unit secured a VARA licence for spot exchange services on October 22, adding a sixth regulatory approval to its 2026 tally — derivatives are not covered.

Bybit's Dubai unit secured a VARA licence for spot exchange services on October 22, adding a sixth regulatory approval to its 2026 tally — derivatives are not covered.

The benchmark 10-year yield dropped by over 19 basis points for its largest single-day fall since March 2023, closing in at 4.9591% on October 23 as the AI tech rout pushed investors toward government bonds and long-dated funds gained nearly 2%.

Payward received conditional approval from Kazakhstan's AFSA to run a digital-asset trading and custody business inside the AIFC zone.

Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon report this week while the Fed decides on October 28. With hyperscaler capex near $800 billion and S&P 500 profits up over 32%, the AI rally faces its toughest test of the year.

Weekly outlook: gold, Bitcoin and EUR/USD key levels, marked charts and themes for the week ahead.

The Dow Jones lost 652 points on Friday as the tech-led selloff spread into defensive stocks, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.52% and the Nasdaq held steadier as chip stocks bounced.

The euro closed Friday around 1.1190, roughly 93 pips above its 200-week moving average at 1.1105. France's bond selloff and a week packed with central-bank decisions leave the pair with little room for error.

NVDA at 212.10 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

Robinhood says price contracts on bitcoin, gold and oil are its quickest-growing prediction-market products — and September's biggest event contract followed the Fed's rate decision, not sports.

US500 at 7,635.30 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland €3.25 million for safeguarding and outsourcing breaches — the second Irish penalty on the exchange in under a year.

Price charts show where coins sit; volume shows where money actually changed hands. Ranked by 24-hour trading volume, October 23's five most-traded coins turned over more than $100 billion — two of them dollar-pegged stablecoins, and every one of them moving on a verifiable 2026 catalyst.

ETHUSD at 2,401.01 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

Volvo Cars shares plunged nearly 30% to a record low after a SEK 3.7bn third-quarter loss that was five times worse than expected, as the automaker cut 2,500 more jobs and blamed China's demand collapse — a pullback now reaching even Hermès and Cartier.

Brent crude climbed to $113.75 on Friday after Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, an Aramco headquarters evacuation and a Libyan pipeline shutdown deepened supply worries.

GBPUSD at 1.33755 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

EURUSD at 1.12126 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

Japan's Nikkei dropped 1.3% on Friday, closing out a brutal 5% weekly loss, as Thursday's Wall Street tech rout spilled across Asia and investors pared bets on further Fed tightening.

Binance is putting up a 600,000 XRP pool for anyone who keeps Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin in a Binance wallet for the next four weeks, and the first payout arrives on October 30.

The Nasdaq Composite plunged 2.6% to 26,008.86 on Thursday, October 22 — its steepest one-day fall since early June — as earnings from Meta and Tesla reignited investor fears about the cost of the AI spending race.

XAUUSD at 4,035.35 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

Spot gold slid 2.4% to $4,041 on Thursday, its weakest since Aug 3. The drop came with an odd twist — a sinking dollar and a jumping yen — that has traders asking whether Washington intervened in FX.

TSLA at 379.46 — daily, 4H, 1H and 15M key levels, marked charts, fundamentals and scenarios.

Axis Robotics' AXIS token debuted on October 21 with listings across Binance Alpha, Upbit, Coinbase, KuCoin and a dozen more venues, climbing above $0.30 on nearly $190 million of turnover.