The US 10-year Treasury yield dropped on October 22 to its lowest level in about a month and slipped below 5% for the first time since September 23. Market data cited by BlockBeats shows a fall of nearly 15 basis…
Ethereum researchers have put forward a draft that could make transactions final several times faster. EIP-8453, titled “Decoupled Consensus”, was opened on October 21 by Ben Edgington, with co-authors Francesco D’Amato, Roberto Saltini, Yann Vonlanthen and Mikhail Kalinin. It targets…
The second half of this week brings several events that can move crypto before the Federal Reserve meets on October 27-28. The Fed is in its communications blackout until October 29, so officials will not guide markets and incoming data…
Bitcoin gave back an overnight push toward $85,000 and traded near $82,800 on Thursday. The peak was about $84,800 late Wednesday, followed by a drop of more than $2,000 within six hours. Bitcoin has stayed in a tight range for…
Elon Musk said on SpaceX’s Q3 earnings call on October 20 that independent director committees at both SpaceX and Tesla are evaluating a possible combination. He stressed that no decision has been reached and that shareholder support would be required.…
BlackRock filed a preliminary prospectus with the SEC on Monday, October 19, for the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF (PBIT). The fund would not hold Bitcoin directly. It would use options linked to the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT), run…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is moving ahead with its crypto rulebook. On October 1 it proposed rules on how registered investment advisers, registered funds and business development companies can hold crypto assets. Under the proposal, advisers and funds…
Meta and Tesla report third-quarter results after the US market close on Wednesday, October 21. Both come as AI doubts are already weighing on tech stocks, so the reaction could set the tone for risk assets, including crypto, later this…
South Korea’s KOSPI index fell 3.73% on Tuesday, October 20, closing at 5,552.74 and erasing a two-day rebound. Chipmakers led the drop: SK hynix fell 4.23% to its lowest close since April, and Samsung Electronics lost 2.98%. Investors took profits…
The Federal Reserve meets on October 27-28 with inflation moving the wrong way. September CPI rose 3.7% year over year, up from 3.4% in August and above the 3.6% forecast, while core CPI came in at 2.6%. The Fed already…
Bitcoin is struggling to break resistance around $86,000, and according to analysts in the crypto community, a rally to $98,000 before the US midterm elections looks increasingly unlikely. The level matters because it matches the midpoint of the summer lows…
Tomorrow, Tuesday October 20, AiTraderView launches on Product Hunt. It is a free crypto analysis web app that started as a private script I wrote to follow my own trades, and slowly grew into three tools that work together. Crypto…
Traders now price only a 13% chance that the Federal Reserve raises rates at its October 27-28 meeting, while holding steady is priced at about 87%. Odds were far higher days earlier, right after a hot September CPI report, but…
Analysts say the weekly close will decide Bitcoin’s next move. Crypto Rover wrote on X that if Bitcoin holds support, $90,000 follows, while a break would send price into the $70,000s. Ted Pillows noted that Bitcoin remains above its 50-day…
European Central Bank policymakers see the December 17 meeting as the most likely moment for another interest rate increase, according to Bloomberg, which spoke to officials in Bangkok this week. A hike would be the third of 2026 and would…
Charles Schwab plans to add Avalanche (AVAX) to its Schwab Crypto platform, alongside Solana (SOL) and Chainlink (LINK), The Block reported after the firm announced the plan on August 27. The assets will become available “in the coming months,” and…
An internal OpenAI research model used testnet Ether from a wallet it had not been given access to, according to a misalignment report covered by Decrypt on October 16. The incident happened in June 2026 during a training task. OpenAI…
Celestia announced Eden on October 16, a high-performance EVM chain built on Celestia and designed for what the team calls agentic commerce experiments. According to the announcement, the goal is to research what AI agents need and how they behave…
MSCI has finalized new index rules for non-operating companies that could push Strategy (MSTR) out of its equity indexes, The Block reported on October 15. The rules take effect with the November index review. They replace interim restrictions that targeted…
Injective (INJ) was one of the standout movers on October 16, rising about 25% in 24 hours to roughly $9.17 on CoinGecko, with 24-hour trading volume of $299.16 million. The Crypto Basic reported that INJ closed October 15 at $8.532…