Bitcoin
Bitcoin Dips Below $83K as Oil Shock Rattles Markets: What Happens Next?
Bitcoin fell sharply as oil topped $101 and the 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2002. The daily chart still leans bullish. The four-hour chart disagrees.
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Exchanges
Gate bets all-in-one money app is crypto’s biggest consumer trend this year and next
Gate rebrands around Gate Money, which combines accounts, asset conversion, savings and card payments as the exchange broadens beyond its trading base.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin price drops to $82.7K October low as bond sell-off resumes on Iran nerves
Bitcoin fell below $83,000 to reach month-to-date lows as stocks reversed after all-time highs and bond yields spiked higher.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Beats Equities, Real Estate Among Wealthy Investors: Survey
Another survey of investors with deep pockets signals strong interest in digital assets, especially bitcoin, as these assets were the most common pick for the best long-term performer among wealthy respondents in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany—ahead of equities and real estate. However, bitcoin still needs to compete for space in digital asset portfolios. […]
Projects
Crypto Long & Short: Zcash and the case for privacy in the age of AI
AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t age out. Michael Zhao of Grayscale Research explains how Zcash’s shielded transactions address this problem, and why close to 29% of all ZEC ever mined now sits in the shielded pool.
Ethereum
Bitmine's Relentless Ethereum Buying Is About to End, Tom Lee Says
Speaking at Token2049 in Singapore, the chairman said Bitmine is about 100,000 ETH—roughly six to seven weeks—from its 5% cap, setting an end date on a buying spree that made it the world's largest Ethereum treasury.
Ethereum
Ethereum price plunges toward $2,500: Could this support trigger a $3,000 comeback?
Ethereum price has fallen below $2,600 as escalating tensions around the Strait of Hormuz triggered a wider crypto sell-off and pushed ETH toward a key technical support zone. Ethereum (ETH) price traded around $2,565 at press time on Oct. 7,…
Macro
Tether tapped by Kazakhstan’s central bank to explore stablecoin and tokenization
The National Bank of Kazakhstan said it will study a local currency-linked stablecoin and tokenized real-world assets with Tether.
Projects
Moody’s gives Sky Protocol B3 rating as institutional interest in USDS grows
Moody's assigned Sky a B3 issuer rating with a stable outlook, its first rating of a stablecoin protocol. Sky is also rated B- by S&P.
Projects
Solana x402 Lets AI Agents Batch USDC Payments, Slashing Fees
Solana has rolled out batch payments for the x402 standard with PayAI Network and BlockRunAI, allowing AI agents to make many USDC payments before settling them in a single onchain transaction. BlockrunAI Saves $20K a Month Using Solana x402 Payments Solana is trying to solve a payments problem humans rarely encounter, but artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Security
Europol warns crypto wallets face quantum threats
Europol warns quantum threats could expose crypto wallets and stored encrypted data, urging early moves toward post-quantum security.
Projects
Circle brings USDC and EURC payments to SAP
Circle and Tereina are bringing USDC and EURC into SAP Pay, giving eligible businesses stablecoin payments inside existing workflows.
Exchanges
Quantum computers threaten exposed private keys rather than blockchains, Europol warns
EU law enforcement agencies urged developers, exchanges, and users to initiate phased post-quantum migrations immediately to prevent future unauthorized fund transfers.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price Slides to $83K as Short-Term Bears Take Control
Bitcoin’s price range is trading near the floor of its 24-hour range after an overnight selloff dragged the BTC/USD pair to $83,404. The 1-hour picture is firmly bearish, with price below every listed moving average and the relative strength index (RSI) at 27, but the daily structure hasn’t completely cracked. Bulls now need to defend […]
Ethereum
Ether is about to lose a steady buyer as Tom Lee says Bitmine will stop token purchases
Tom Lee said Bitmine will be “done stacking” once it owns 5% of ETH, setting an end date to an accumulation streak that began in mid-2025 and made the company the world's largest Ethereum treasury.
Bitcoin
Engineer Gets 32 Months for Bitcoin Extortion Plot Against His Own Employer
Daniel Rhyne locked his company's IT administrators out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, then worth $750,000, to stop the shutdowns.
Projects
Tether, Kazakhstan plan tenge stablecoin pilot
Tether and Kazakhstan will study a tenge stablecoin pilot and asset tokenization framework, with Alatau City set to host testing.
Projects
Crypto trading giant GSR's new vault business is a $100M bet on onchain credit
The firm is putting its own capital into stablecoin and tokenized gold vaults as institutional finance moves further onchain.
Projects
Chasing 100x tokens is game of ‘irrational exuberance,’ says Polymarket CEO
Some traders are looking for more predictable prediction market opportunities, rather than playing “hot potato” with the next 100x gem, according to Polymarket’s Shayne Coplan.
Exchanges
Morning Minute: OKX Raises at $25B From Circle, Ripple, and StanChart
OKX raises more, $500M+ in crypto longs liquidated after a late evening selloff, and Abstract calls it quits.
ETF
Can XRP price hold $1.40 as U.S. ETFs add $3.14M?
XRP price falls toward $1.40 despite $3.14M in ETF inflows as traders watch bearish signals, XRPN trading and XRPL upgrades.
Bitcoin
Why is Stacks (STX) going up?
Stacks has gained more than 100% over the past 90 days, backed by institutional Bitcoin Staking that is creating a new use for STX that could grow as more BTC enters future bonding periods. According to CoinGecko data, STX was…
Projects
Swift blockchain ledger requires key internal layers, Taurus co-founder says
Banks need their own permissioned ledger, wallet tools and smart-contract capabilities before they can use Swift’s tokenized-deposit network, Taurus’s Lamine Brahimi said.
Bitcoin
Blackrock Pulls $122M Into Bitcoin ETFs as Ether Loses $202M
U.S. bitcoin ETFs returned to positive territory Tuesday with $118.86 million in net inflows, led almost entirely by Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether funds suffered a sixth consecutive day of withdrawals, while XRP and HYPE attracted modest buying. Bitcoin ETFs Flip Positive With $119M Inflow Institutional positioning split sharply across the crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market Tuesday. […]
Projects
Crypto card access doesn’t match global demand, Tangem says
Crypto card demand can be stronger where access is harder, Tangem says, as it expands its Visa payment offering, allowing users to spend from its self-custodial wallet.
Bitcoin
Here’s what bitcoin needs to break above $87,000
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 7, 2026
Ethereum
The shrinking economics of Ethereum layer 2s
Ethereum made rollup transactions cheaper by giving them lower cost data space. The savings helped users and applications, but they also made it harder for a small chain to earn enough from transaction fees to support a sequencer, bridge, security…
Exchanges
NEAR’s Polosukhin sees shrinking need for centralized exchanges as onchain tools expand
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin said users no longer need centralized exchanges for "a lot" of crypto activity.
Bitcoin
Live updates: Bitcoin edges up from worst levels as yields pull back
Ether underperformed, losing 6% after Tom Lee said Bitmine would soon stop purchasing additional ETH.
Projects
Cardano put issuer controls inside its tokens. Who can use them?
Cardano’s new programmable token framework lets an issuer make transfers depend on its own rules, including identity checks, allowlists and, where selected, freezes or forced transfers. The public chain enforces those rules for the particular asset, but the entity that…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price Slips Under $84K as Tom Lee Eyes Biggest Bull Market Ever
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee told a Singapore crowd that crypto is “2 days past the bottom” on the same morning a flash crash liquidated more than $400 million in longs, while his treasury company Bitmine said it will stop buying ether at 5% of supply. What Did Lee Say? Lee, chairman of ether treasury company Bitmine […]
Security
Europol Warns Crypto Wallets Are 'Primary Risk' for Quantum Attacks
The EU police agency expects blockchains to adapt to the threat, while a second report weighs the risk of data stolen now and cracked later.
Projects
Stablecoins move billions across borders. How much is payment activity?
Stablecoins can cross a blockchain in minutes, but a transfer between wallets does not establish that a supplier was paid or a migrant sent money home. New classifications put observable payment activity in the hundreds of billions of dollars, far…
ETF
Bitcoin’s recovery stalls just short of rescuing its last underwater cohort
Yearly buyer cohorts and U.S. spot ETF investors offer a map of potential support and resistance as bitcoin retreats below $84,000.
Security
Liquidations jump to $547 million as oil rally hits crypto market
Bitcoin fell below $84,000 as oil climbed on Iranian tanker attacks, while smaller tokens fell harder and liquidations rose to $547 million.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin funds are buying again. Why is spot demand still weak?
U.S. spot Bitcoin funds took in billions of dollars in late September, yet an onchain estimate of demand for coins across the wider market remained negative. The figures measure different things, and their divergence has become central to judging whether…
Regulation
Russia approves first crypto exchanges and custodians under new rules
Russia has registered its first four cryptocurrency exchange operators and five digital custodians under the regulated crypto market that opened on Sept. 1. According to the Bank of Russia, the first companies were admitted under transitional provisions of the country’s…
Bitcoin
Ledger adds Bitcoin-backed loans through Morpho to its wallet app
Ledger has introduced Bitcoin-backed borrowing through Morpho in its wallet app, allowing eligible users to pledge cbBTC or wBTC for USDC or USDT loans. Ledger, in a press release dated Oct. 7, said Crypto Loan would begin a gradual rollout…
Bitcoin
Prosecutors Cite Bitcoin Fog Ruling Against Roman Storm's Venue Challenge
The Tornado Cash founder hit back in a tweet, noting FinCEN withdrew a proposed mixer rule over concerns it could chill legitimate activity.
Bitcoin
‘Old money’ has stronger Bitcoin ‘diamond hands,’ says BingX exec
BingX strategy chief Kevin Lee says wealthy investors are taking a longer-term approach to Bitcoin, though family-office crypto exposure remains limited.