
Standard Chartered Opens Bitcoin, Ether Trading to Wealthy UAE Clients
Standard Chartered has opened direct bitcoin and ether trading to professional investors in the UAE, with custody and settlement handled inside the bank.

Standard Chartered has opened direct bitcoin and ether trading to professional investors in the UAE, with custody and settlement handled inside the bank.

Bitcoin touched $84,000 early Wednesday and slipped back to $83,200 as a chip-led risk-off trade and the September CPI print kept buyers on hold.

New York Fed President John Williams sees one more 2026 hike and none in 2027. Futures price a December move plus two more, a gap crypto trades against.

Coinbase's October 13 post sets out its priorities for Bitcoin's post-quantum migration, from P2MR and staged protection to the coins that cannot move.

A single Bitcoin address spent 4,581.93824000 BTC on Oct.

Bitcoin fell under $81,000 then recovered above $83,000 while South Korea's KOSPI closed 5.5% lower. Liquidations topped $800 million and CPI lands Wednesday.

Strive plans to raise $500 million selling 5 million shares of its 15.00% Series A Perpetual SATS Preferred Stock at $100 each, junior to its SATA preferred.

The High Court in London decided that Chinese law governs victims' claims to 61,000 BTC seized from Zhimin Qian, a ruling that helps the UK keep the coins.

Strive's October 13 filing shows bitcoin holdings rising from 29,462 to 32,773 in a week, as Class A shares grew and warrant shares fell by almost 8 million.

Metaplanet plans ¥52 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds due 2031 to repay Bitcoin-backed loans and fund buybacks without selling its 44,000 BTC.

Bitcoin ended a rough Asian session roughly flat as Korea's Kospi fell 5.5%. Liquidations, ETF flows and Strategy's buying show where the strain sits.

Bitcoin is at a crossroads. Here's what the charts are really telling us right now.

Bitcoin fell below $82,000 as $771 million in crypto positions were liquidated over 24 hours. Long traders took most of the losses as ETF outflows and a sharp decline in South Korean stocks added to market pressure.

A wallet idle for years moved all 4,582 BTC on October 13, worth $377.58 million. No on-chain evidence yet of a sale or an exchange deposit.

SWI Group raised €800 million ($894 million) on Oct. 12 to fund AI data centers, and it controls the former FTX-owned bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets.

The US Dollar Index reached an 18-month high near 102.56 as Bitcoin traded around $83,000. Futures price an 87% chance of a December Fed hike.

Strategy bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million and repurchased $192.4 million of STRC in the same week, spending nearly nine times more on the buyback.

Twelve months after a record $19 billion liquidation day, the anniversary flush was one-nineteenth the size, and leverage has not returned.

Meanwhile raised $37.5 million led by Bain Capital Crypto for its bitcoin-denominated life policies, which pay a death benefit in BTC outside the US.

U.S. government-linked wallets moved about $770 million in seized Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime, while a separate 12,267 BTC transfer linked to the Bitfinex hack sent another $1.01 billion to new addresses.

MARA sent about 996 BTC worth $81.13 million to an address linked to Galaxy Digital, per Lookonchain data. The transfer does not confirm a sale.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $484.9 million on 7 October, their largest daily outflow since June, as forced long liquidations pushed Bitcoin below $81,000.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $487.07 million in net outflows on October 7, with every tracked fund seeing withdrawals as institutional demand reversed sharply.

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