Bitcoin, Ethereum and digital assets — prices, regulation and on-chain trends.
Celestia's TIA ripped to an 11-month high near $0.73 as Eden — an experimental chain where AI agents transact on-chain — switched on October 16, with trading volume up 160% and open interest up 45% on the day.
Nine issuers — from Broadcom to Verizon to UnitedHealth — have refused to let tokenized versions of their shares trade on the OKX-ICE venue, knocking out roughly 14% of its planned 63-stock lineup before it goes live.
Zcash climbed 13.2% to $1,232.85 on Friday while its U.S. spot ETF recorded the largest one-day outflow among altcoin funds — a split-screen rally powered by the October 20 NU7 review.
On October 12, Bybit switched on US stock and ETF trading for eligible users — over 1,000 securities, settled in USDC, with real shares held in custody by Alpaca.
A federal judge rejected the rare joint request by Gemini and the CFTC to erase their $5 million settlement, keeping the exchange under a permanent injunction — while Bitcoin held near $82,000 through the week's hot inflation data.
Firelight's onchain protection activated October 15 for Kraken's Protected Strategies USDC pool: $30.5 million registered, capped at $100,000 per wallet.
Bitcoin tested $80,000 for the second time in a week as a hotter-than-expected September CPI print repriced Fed hike odds — then bounced back above $82,200 as buyers stepped in.
Investors may soon be able to bet on Coinbase's reported trading volume itself through SEC-approved binary options — a first for exchange-traded contracts on company metrics.
Walrus (WAL) is up 56% on the week after the Sui Foundation's $30M DATA Network deal gave Walrus the storage job for DATA's 250M+ AI data receipts — even as the rest of crypto sinks on the hot US CPI print.
Binance confirmed on Oct 14 it will remove QUICK and EPIC from spot trading on Oct 28 after its latest listing review. Futures settle Oct 20; withdrawals run until Dec 28.
CCI and the Blockchain Association asked an Illinois court to fast-track the challenge to the state's 0.2% digital asset tax, seeking a ruling by March 2027 while enforcement stays paused until July 1.
Payward has agreed to buy Lithuania's Saldo Bank, making it the first digital-asset company to own a European bank — a direct bid for regulated deposits, loans and card services across the EU.
