Bitcoin Holds Near $83K as Korea's Kospi Sinks 5.5% on Chip Fears
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 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.
Pando Finance lists Hong Kong's second spot Solana ETF on HKEX with a 0.6% management fee, below ChinaAMC's 0.99%. The fund will not stake SOL.
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The FSB told G20 ministers that multi-issuer stablecoins could see redemptions pile onto one entity in stress, while crisis plans remain undeveloped.
SkyAI sold about 1 million SOL to fund a $201 million share tender offer that requires SOL to stay above $100, as Solana slipped below $110.
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XRP spot volume across centralized exchanges fell $1.943 billion between August 26 and October 11, CryptoQuant data shows, with Binance losing $429 million.
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STRK fell between 13% and 28% in 24 hours, giving back part of a 200% monthly rally two days before Starknet unlocks 127 million tokens.
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RLUSD custody is live at Standard Chartered's Dubai branch after the stablecoin added $765.3 million in Q3. The LMAX collateral link is still planned.
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Evernorth's XRPN closed its first Nasdaq session at $16.91, down 1.05%, with the XRP bought using $214 million of advance funding about 46% below cost.
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BLUR fell to a record low of $0.01267 after Blur said its website closes on November 12. Blend stops new loans the same day, and Upbit has flagged the token.
Solana treasury firm SkyAI sold about 1 million SOL and plans to buy back up to 95% of its stock at $3.00 in cash, if SOL stays above $100 during the offer.
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BNY expanded its Digital Asset Custody platform to EU institutions under MiCA.
South Korea's FIU says 27 sites run by unregistered crypto operators, including KuCoin and MEXC, will lose domestic access after an October 6 and 7 review.
Binance will discontinue Binance Pool and related services on Nov. 10, 2026.
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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.
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Aptos put encrypted transactions on mainnet on October 12. The feature hides your order from frontrunners, and it doubles the minimum gas price.
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Canton Network recorded $155.36 million in third-quarter fees, topping CertiK’s comparison. Its average daily fee pace was lower than the rate reported in June.
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.
NEAR Intents' GM says only part of the $3.8 million exploit refund came back in Bitcoin, with the rest in Monero the team still must convert.
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Solana plans to retire durable nonces for an onchain signer program. Both designs roll back a failed transaction's nonce, so a signature can be resubmitted.
Ontology resumed block production on Oct. 12 after a two-day security halt tied to an unnamed ecosystem project, its second shutdown in about six weeks.
Cardano processed 1,780,896 transactions in Epoch 660, its busiest five-day stretch in about five years, while two governance votes expired short of quorum.
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.
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Morgan Stanley now expects to support tokenized equities on its Trajectory Cross trading system in Q1 2027, moving past its earlier second-half 2026 target.
Bybit opened trading in over 1,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs on Oct. 12, 2026, funded in USDC and executed through Alpaca. No volume or fee data was disclosed.
