Zakura has launched P2Pv2, an experimental networking layer for Zcash (ZEC) built on QUIC. It runs on Testnet by default, with Mainnet support planned later.
Zakura (@ZakuraZcash) has launched P2Pv2, an experimental networking layer designed to improve block propagation on Zcash (@Zcash) $ZEC. The upgrade is aimed at one of the main constraints on scaling the privacy-focused network: how quickly full nodes can exchange block data.
P2Pv2 runs alongside the existing peer-to-peer network layer. Mainnet support is planned for a later stage.
What P2Pv2 changes
The design also adds more control over resources.
The Visa-scale targetThe longer-term goal is to help Zcash scale toward 50,000 transactions per second.
Zakura is a full node implementation that launched earlier this year.
Risks and statusThe upgrade is still early.
For now, the testing phase on Testnet will show whether the new networking layer can deliver on those goals before any move to Mainnet.
Zcash developers want to stop a public swap address from exposing unrelated incoming payments to future quantum attacks. The proposed protection still needs cryptographic review.
Zakura has published an experimental implementation that gives swap addresses separate incoming viewing keys while retaining the account’s spending authority. Its October 15 release candidate says the key derivation requires review before live addresses are issued.
Key Takeaways
Different swap addresses can share access to the same incoming-payment history.
The proposal separates their viewing keys without creating separate spending accounts.
Private lookups help restored wallets locate payments without revealing address ownership.
A refund address can expose more than one swap
Swapping ZEC through NEAR Intents requires an address for returning unused funds. In an engineering explanation, Zakura’s Adam Tucker says this shielded refund address is recorded on NEAR’s public blockchain when the deposit registers, even if no refund follows. Swaps into ZEC also publish the receiving address.
These addresses can look unrelated while sharing one incoming viewing key. Recovering that key could therefore reveal receipts beyond the swap itself.
The attack described requires a sufficiently capable future quantum computer to recover the key from an exposed address. It could then identify incoming payments associated with that key, including amounts and memos. The proposal addresses that future confidentiality risk, rather than reporting an attack already taking place.
Separate viewing keys would keep the spending account intact
Zcash distinguishes viewing authority from spending authority. Its wallet key-derivation standard supports deriving keys and addresses from a single seed, allowing wallets to manage multiple addresses without requiring a separate backup for each one.
Simply generating another address does not necessarily create an independent incoming viewing key. Zakura’s proposed change operates behind the address: it derives a separate viewing key for each swap refund or incoming swap.
The implementation preserves the account’s spending authority. A user could spend funds received through those separate swap keys from the same account, avoiding the operational burden of splitting balances across many accounts.
What changes behind the address
Shared viewing key: Recovering one key can expose incoming payments across several addresses.
Separate swap keys: Recovering one swap’s viewing key would expose receipts tied to that key without automatically opening unrelated incoming payments.
A viewing key does not itself authorize spending. The intended protection is narrower: limit the payment history that one compromised key can reveal.
Recovery must find payments without revealing ownership
Separate keys create a discovery problem when a wallet is restored. Regenerating keys from a seed does not tell the wallet which ones received payments. Trying every swap key against the entire transaction history would increase recovery work with each additional swap.
Outbound swaps provide a place to leave a recovery record. The proposed implementation puts an encrypted memo in a note belonging to the user’s funding transaction. That memo records the index used to derive the refund key. During restoration, the wallet can recover the index and reconstruct the corresponding key and address.
Incoming swaps need another approach because the Zcash wallet did not create a funding transaction in which to leave that memo. The design instead checks deterministically derived addresses in sequence, using records of addresses paid or already disclosed to the swap provider to determine how far discovery must continue.
To locate payments, the receiver-discovery system uses public filters that the wallet checks locally. A possible match leads to a private information retrieval request, or PIR, which identifies the relevant transaction without sending the server a readable query naming the address.
The wallet can then decrypt the payment with its corresponding viewing key. This avoids making each recovered key perform a separate search across the entire chain.
Private queries also prevent a readable series of lookup requests from revealing that several addresses belong together. Otherwise, a server could receive requests for address A, then B, then C and associate them with one wallet, undermining some of the separation created by the new keys.
Review and wallet support remain unfinished
The experimental code does not establish that wallets have enabled the feature for ordinary users. Cryptographic review remains outstanding, and the implementation specifies that hardware signers need firmware qualification before one-time keys are enabled for hardware accounts.
Zakura’s engineering post anticipates integration into compatible software wallets, including Vizor, in the coming weeks. That is a development estimate, not a confirmed release date.
This work is separate from January’s planned protections for transparent Zcash payments, which concern payment authorization. The swap proposal concerns the privacy of shielded incoming-payment history.
New derivation also cannot remove addresses already recorded publicly. Isolating future swap keys would not erase earlier disclosures tied to an existing shared viewing key.
The remaining delivery work is specific: review the derivation, integrate payment discovery and restoration, and qualify supported signers. Those steps must be completed before users can rely on the proposed separation in a released wallet.
This article is provided for informational purposes only. The proposed feature is experimental and requires further review before live use.
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The design, still in review, would give each shielded address posted during a NEAR Intents swap its own key, so a future quantum attacker who breaks one sees only that swap.
Zakura proposes per-swap viewing keys
Posted October 19, 2026 at 5:15 am ET.
Zakura, a team building Zcash node and wallet software, published a design that would give every shielded address posted during a NEAR Intents swap its own viewing key, limiting what a future quantum computer could learn from any single one. Zakura’s engineering page lists the work as in review, and it has not shipped.
Adam Tucker, who wrote the post, said that until Zcash’s planned Tachyon upgrade arrives, “a single published shielded address lets a quantum attacker link every payment that address’s key has ever received.”
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Why Swaps Expose Addresses
Each Zcash shielded account relies on one incoming viewing key behind all of its addresses. Classical computers cannot work that key out from an address, but a sufficiently powerful machine running Shor’s algorithm could, exposing the value and memo of every payment the account has received, according to the post. No such machine exists yet.
In ordinary use, a Zcash holder gives an address privately to whoever is paying them. NEAR Intents, a cross-chain swap service, works differently. When a user swaps ZEC for another asset, the wallet supplies a shielded refund address, and NEAR publishes the address on-chain once the deposit is logged, and it stays there whether or not the user gets money back. Swaps into ZEC publish the receiving address too. The addresses look unrelated, but one key sits behind all of them.
How the Proposed Fix Works
Zakura’s approach changes only the randomness that goes into the viewing key, deriving a fresh key for each swap from a hashed index. The spending key stays the same, so funds remain in a single account. Tucker wrote that opening a new account per swap was ruled out because Keystone hardware wallets sign only from the first account and Ledger devices spend from one account per transaction, “which wasn’t an acceptable UX to us.”
More keys would normally mean a slower restore from seed, with one full chain scan per key. Under the design, the wallet leaves itself an encrypted memo noting each swap’s index, checks published filters, then uses private information retrieval to look up matching NEAR bridge payouts without the server learning which addresses it asked about. For swaps into ZEC, the wallet checks addresses in order and stops after 30 unused ones in a row.
Zakura expects software wallets using its libraries, such as Vizor, to be able to add it “in the coming weeks.” “Hardware wallets will follow once their firmware supports it,” the post said.
Related Listen: How NEAR Intents Identified a Suspect and Got Its Stolen Funds Back
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TLDR On-chain investigator Specter issued a warning on October 17 about stolen crypto flowing into Zcash. The warning covered funds tied to the Bitget breach and other reported security incidents. A September 30 trace found about 2,746 ZEC, worth roughly $3.9 million, moved into Zcash’s Ironwood shielded pool. Shielded transactions hide sender, recipient and amount details, making funds harder to trace. The activity does not show that Zcash’s cryptography has been broken. Investigators are raising new concerns about stolen cryptocurrency moving into Zcash. The privacy-focused network has become a hard place for analysts to follow funds taken in hacks.
On October 17, on-chain investigator Specter issued a warning about reported flows tied to several crypto security incidents. These included the Bitget breach and other reported thefts.
The warning builds on earlier tracing work. On September 30, analysts tracked roughly 2,746 ZEC entering Zcash’s Ironwood shielded pool.
At the time, those coins were valued at about $3.9 million. Investigators linked the wallets that sent the funds to the Bitget attacker.
How Shielded Pools Affect Tracing Before funds reach a shielded pool, analysts can often see a lot. They can sometimes identify funding wallets, transfers and swapping patterns on public blockchains.
Once the assets enter the pool, that trail becomes harder to follow. Shielded transfers do not publicly show the same details about the sender, the recipient or the amount.
This means investigators may gather clues up to the point of entry. After that, tracking where the money goes next becomes much more difficult.
Specter and other analysts describe this as a recurring tactic. Thieves may leave a visible path on public chains before moving funds into a privacy system.
What the Flows Do and Do Not Show The movement of stolen funds into Zcash does not mean the network’s cryptography is broken. The system is working as designed by hiding transaction details.
The presence of suspect funds also does not prove wrongdoing by everyone who uses private transactions. Privacy is a legitimate feature of many cryptocurrencies.
The situation shows a long-running tension in crypto. Users value financial privacy, while investigators need visibility to follow stolen money.
Some figures remain uncertain. The combined total of flows from the newer incidents is less firmly established than the earlier Bitget transactions.
Analysts say estimates from different incidents should not be added together without checking each transaction. The same funds may pass through several intermediaries, which can lead to double counting.
For exchanges and forensic teams, timing matters. The most useful point to step in may be before stolen assets leave public view.
Once funds are inside a shielded pool, options for tracking them shrink. That puts more weight on spotting suspicious activity on public chains first.
Specter’s October 17 warning has put renewed attention on these transfers. Investigators continue to monitor reported flows linked to Bitget and other recent thefts.
In brief
Zcash full node developer Zakura has proposed "one-time" viewing keys to stop a future quantum computer from linking a user's shielded Zcash payments.
The fix targets swaps through NEAR Intents, in which the user’s shielded address is posted on NEAR’s public chain.
Wallets built on Zakura's open-source libraries, such as Vizor, will be able to add the feature in the coming weeks, with hardware wallets to follow.
Zakura, a developer of Zcash full node software, has proposed a way to stop a future quantum computer from linking users' private Zcash payments, in an engineering post by Zakura developer Adam Tucker announced on Sunday.
The approach needs no network upgrade, Zakura said in a tweet introducing what it called "post-quantum unlinkable swaps for Zcash."
Zcash's shielded transactions hide the sender, recipient and amount. Each shielded account has a single incoming viewing key behind all of its addresses, which its wallet uses to find and decrypt payments sent to any of them.
A classical computer cannot recover that key from an address. But a sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor's algorithm could, according to the post, and would then be able to see the value and memo of every payment the account has received and tie them together.
"Until Tachyon ships, there is a glaring hole: a single published shielded address lets a quantum attacker link every payment that address's key has ever received," Tucker wrote, referring to the proposed scalability upgrade for Zcash that its developers say would also deliver full post-quantum privacy.
The biggest risk comes from swaps through NEAR Intents, a cross-chain swap service, according to the post. Each swap out of ZEC writes one of the user's shielded addresses to NEAR's public chain as a refund address, whether or not a refund is ever made. The addresses look different, but they all belong to the same account, so breaking one would expose all of them.
Around $600 million to $700 million had flowed through Zcash's NEAR Intents route by May, Zcash Open Development Lab CEO Josh Swihart said at the time.
Zakura's fix derives a separate incoming viewing key for each address that has to be published, while leaving the account's spending key untouched. A quantum attacker who breaks one posted address would learn only about the payments to that address.
"If a quantum computer ever breaks a posted swap address, it will not be able to link this to any other transaction," Tucker wrote in a Twitter thread.
To stop the extra keys slowing down restores from a seed phrase, the wallet looks up NEAR's payouts using private information retrieval, a technique that lets it query a server without revealing which addresses it is asking about.
Zcash's quantum roadmapThe proposal follows Zakura's plan for quantum-safe transparent addresses earlier this month, which also uses private information retrieval and said post-quantum signature opcodes were expected in Zcash in January. Swihart said in May that Zcash was aiming for full post-quantum status within 12 to 18 months.
Concern over the cryptography that secures crypto wallets is growing, with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warning that AI could break it before quantum computers do.
Myriad: Best AI model? Click to make your prediction.Wallets using Zakura's open-source libraries, such as Vizor, will be able to integrate the one-time keys for software wallets in the coming weeks, and hardware wallets will follow once their firmware supports it, the post said.
ZEC was trading at $1,165 Monday morning, up 3.6% on the day per Decrypt data.
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In brief
Zcash full node developer Zakura has proposed "one-time" viewing keys to stop a future quantum computer from linking a user's shielded Zcash payments.
The fix targets swaps through NEAR Intents, in which the user’s shielded address is posted on NEAR’s public chain.
Wallets built on Zakura's open-source libraries, such as Vizor, will be able to add the feature in the coming weeks, with hardware wallets to follow.
Zakura, a developer of Zcash full node software, has proposed a way to stop a future quantum computer from linking users' private Zcash payments, in an engineering post by Zakura developer Adam Tucker announced on Sunday.
The approach needs no network upgrade, Zakura said in a tweet introducing what it called "post-quantum unlinkable swaps for Zcash."
Zcash's shielded transactions hide the sender, recipient and amount. Each shielded account has a single incoming viewing key behind all of its addresses, which its wallet uses to find and decrypt payments sent to any of them.
A classical computer cannot recover that key from an address. But a sufficiently powerful quantum computer running Shor's algorithm could, according to the post, and would then be able to see the value and memo of every payment the account has received and tie them together.
"Until Tachyon ships, there is a glaring hole: a single published shielded address lets a quantum attacker link every payment that address's key has ever received," Tucker wrote, referring to the proposed scalability upgrade for Zcash that its developers say would also deliver full post-quantum privacy.
The biggest risk comes from swaps through NEAR Intents, a cross-chain swap service, according to the post. Each swap out of ZEC writes one of the user's shielded addresses to NEAR's public chain as a refund address, whether or not a refund is ever made. The addresses look different, but they all belong to the same account, so breaking one would expose all of them.
Around $600 million to $700 million had flowed through Zcash's NEAR Intents route by May, Zcash Open Development Lab CEO Josh Swihart said at the time.
Zakura's fix derives a separate incoming viewing key for each address that has to be published, while leaving the account's spending key untouched. A quantum attacker who breaks one posted address would learn only about the payments to that address.
"If a quantum computer ever breaks a posted swap address, it will not be able to link this to any other transaction," Tucker wrote in a Twitter thread.
To stop the extra keys slowing down restores from a seed phrase, the wallet looks up NEAR's payouts using private information retrieval, a technique that lets it query a server without revealing which addresses it is asking about.
Zcash's quantum roadmapThe proposal follows Zakura's plan for quantum-safe transparent addresses earlier this month, which also uses private information retrieval and said post-quantum signature opcodes were expected in Zcash in January. Swihart said in May that Zcash was aiming for full post-quantum status within 12 to 18 months.
Concern over the cryptography that secures crypto wallets is growing, with Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warning that AI could break it before quantum computers do.
Myriad: Best AI model? Click to make your prediction.Wallets using Zakura's open-source libraries, such as Vizor, will be able to integrate the one-time keys for software wallets in the coming weeks, and hardware wallets will follow once their firmware supports it, the post said.
ZEC was trading at $1,165 Monday morning, up 3.6% on the day per Decrypt data.
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ESMA adds 9 new crypto asset service providers, bringing its total number to 375.
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Qubic (QUBIC) fell 5.2% over the past 24 hours to $0.0000004394, according to BeInCrypto Markets data. The drop came after an attacker drained 1,404 Qubic wallets and validators halted the network.
The total crypto market declined 2.8% over the same window, so QUBIC fell nearly twice as hard. The steeper slide lines up with a security incident the project disclosed on October 18.
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How Weak Seeds Opened 1,404 WalletsQubic, the AI-based mining protocol behind last year’s disputed Monero majority claim, said the drain took under two hours. It began at 23:42 UTC on October 17 and ended at 01:26 UTC on October 18.
The attacker took about 2.94 trillion QU, worth roughly $1.29 million at the current price. Qubic traced the theft to wallet seeds generated with insufficient randomness.
Qubic said seeds created in any browser on an iPhone or iPad before October 18, 2026, were affected. The same applies to seeds made with Safari on a Mac before that date.
Seeds from the Qubic iOS app created before July 2025 were also affected. A fix in version 4.26.4 stops any new weak seeds from being generated.
“The issue was in seed generation, not in the Qubic protocol itself,” the team said.
Frozen Funds Leave QUBIC Holders Waiting on the QuorumQubic’s Computors coordinated a halt at tick 85,371,949. The pause stops all transactions, which keeps the stolen funds locked in place.
Qubic said 87.1% of the drained funds stayed on its network. MEXC received the other 12.9% and froze the receiving account within roughly an hour. Exchanges have also suspended QUBIC deposits and withdrawals.
“Any resolution is a decision for the Computor quorum, under the rules of the network,” the post added.
Meanwhile, Qubic’s Core team is mapping affected identities and drafting proposals for the quorum.
Cysic Bridge Mint Adds to October’s Exploit TallyA separate exploit hit Cysic’s cross-chain bridge on October 17, the same day Qubic’s drain began. The Cysic Foundation said an attacker minted 10 million unauthorized Cysic (CYS) tokens on BNB Smart Chain.
Early findings show the attacker breached a database behind the bridge’s services. It then exploited flawed processing logic to forge a mint message.
Cysic blacklisted the recipient address within about 76 minutes, restricting the roughly 2.8 million CYS still held there. The bridge remains closed, and Cysic says no existing user assets were stolen.
The team has not yet quantified the damage, noting that the minted amount does not equal the final dollar loss.
The two incidents add to 11 exploits DefiLlama has recorded so far in October. Those account for about $6.2 million in disclosed losses. The largest was a $3.8 million bridge logic flaw at NEAR Intents on October 1.
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Algorand continues to make commendable progress towards post-quantum security. In an X post, the blockchain declared that it now ranks first in the industry in post-quantum (PQ) transactions.
Over 2.7M post-quantum transactions on mainnet, more than any other blockchain on the planet. Others are still talking about the quantum threat. We’ve been shipping since 2022, and nobody has caught us.
Simply put, if there were functional quantum computers today, Algorand’s transactions won’t be cracked or funds stolen.
But blockchain’s mainnet transactions are just one part of the stack that should be secured. There are wallet addresses, consensus mechanisms, price oracles, and more that should have PQ signatures too for a chain to achieve full post-quantum security.
Currently, Algorand has a hybrid model that supports classical (elliptic curve cryptography, ECDSA) and post-quantum signatures for transactions, cross-chain communication, and wallets.
This allows for a more gradual transition and for users to migrate at their own pace for now. In fact, this is the approach Coinbase wants Bitcoin to adopt.
Comparing Algorand’s post-quantum readiness As of September, Algorand had a ‘C’ grade for post-quantum readiness assessment. As mentioned earlier, the ‘C’ is because the chain has PQ signatures for transactions and the consensus mechanism.
However, it still lacks PQ-ready schemes for privacy features, zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, and P2P connections.
It shares the same C rating as Zcash. However, its PQ progress and readiness are way better than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, which have D and F ratings.
Source: Migration Fail That said, responding to the update, Dr. Joseph Kearney, technical advisor at Quantum Resistance Ledger (QRL), congratulated Algorand but noted that they still lead in PQ transactions with over 6M.
The fact that some blockchains are now competing and bantering about which platforms have the most PQ transactions is utterly impressive. Especially amid renewed quantum and advanced AI fears in the past few days.
But will the narrative boost the value of the underlying tokens?
Impact on Algorand’s ALGO? On the price charts, ALGO market sentiment was at a ‘neutral’ level after this week’s broader market pullback. The latest post-quantum update seemed to have little impact on the token’s market sentiment, at least in the short term.
Hence, the upcoming macro volatility and broader market could have more influence on ALGO’s next price moves. As of writing, ALGO was down 19% and could drop to $0.10 or lower if the risk-off deepens.
Source: ALGO/USDT, TradingView Final Summary Algorand post-quantum transactions hit a record high of over 2.7M The blockchain had a ‘C’ grade for post-quantum readiness compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum, which had ‘D’ and ‘F’ ratings
CME Group is scheduled to launch futures on Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) on Monday, October 19, adding the tenth and eleventh single-asset cryptocurrency contracts to the Chicago exchange's lineup. CME announced the products on September 22, and its product page still lists the launch as pending regulatory review.
Each token gets a standard and a micro contract. Bitcoin Cash futures cover 250 BCH, with a micro version sized at 25 BCH, while Uniswap futures cover 10,000 UNI and the micro contract 1,000 UNI. At current prices of $272.06 for Bitcoin Cash and $6.96 for Uniswap, a standard contract carries a notional value of about $68,000 for BCH and $69,600 for UNI.
"As crypto markets continue to mature, participants require broader, regulated tools to navigate evolving digital asset related price risk," Giovanni Vicioso, CME's global head of cryptocurrency products, said in the announcement.
The two contracts extend an altcoin expansion that CME began earlier this year with Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche and Sui futures. The exchange said those five products have generated more than $1 billion in notional value year-to-date. That is a small slice of its crypto business, where futures and options averaged 279,800 contracts a day, or $8.3 billion in notional value, in the first half of 2026, with average open interest of $15.4 billion.
The Uniswap listing has implications beyond hedging. Bitwise filed an S-1 registration statement for a spot Uniswap ETF in February, naming Coinbase Custody as custodian. Under the generic listing standards the SEC approved in September 2025, a commodity-based exchange-traded product can list without a bespoke rule change if its underlying asset backs a futures contract traded for at least six months on a CFTC-regulated designated contract market, as Commissioner Hester Peirce set out at the time. If the CME contract launches as planned, it would meet that test in April 2027.
CME publishes volume and open interest daily, and the first weeks of data will show whether institutional demand for regulated altcoin exposure extends to tokens with market capitalisations of around $5 billion, per CoinGecko.
TRON founder Justin Sun recently discussed Hyperliquid during a 3.5-hour offline conversation with Jin Ming, calling it one of the biggest new breakthroughs to emerge in this cycle. The U.S. stock perpetual contracts it launched have opened up new horizons for the industry. However, as more projects enter the U.S. stock perpetual contract space, Hyperliquid is facing intensifying competition. Sun also noted that the future competition between decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and centralized exchanges (CEXs) hinges on how U.S. regulators define Hyperliquid’s regulatory boundaries. If Hyperliquid can secure regulatory exemptions similar to Uniswap, a large number of CEXs could shift to the DEX model to cut compliance costs and gain broader global operational room, which would likely squeeze CEXs that fail to transition. Conversely, tighter regulatory requirements would also put significant pressure on Hyperliquid. Hyperliquid’s maturity in regulatory affairs and U.S. domestic operations still lags behind onshore compliant firms like Circle. Thus, the long-term competitive landscape between DEXs and CEXs largely depends on regulators’ stance toward new trading models and the compliance boundaries they establish.
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The NEAR Protocol ecosystem has reached peak operational efficiency metrics. Over the last 24 hours, transaction volume through the NEAR Intents cross-chain swap protocol hit $130.7 million. The current surge keeps the platform's 30-day turnover at $4.59 billion, and cumulative trading volume since launch has exceeded $35 billion.
$130.7M traded through NEAR Intents in the last 24h.
7-day run rate $859.9M; $4.59B over 30 days. https://t.co/hyoDSJsoZw
— NearStats (@nearstatsorg) October 19, 2026
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At the same time, the native NEAR token has settled in the $4.97–$5.10 range, quickly buying back the short-term market dip to $4.62. Large capital is clearly entering the network for specific practical purposes rather than for speculation.
Institutions, Zcash, and Paranoid Security: How This Growth WorksDaily activity was driven by a sharp surge in demand for protected transactions, which now generate almost a tenth (9.4%) of NEAR Intents' total monthly volume. In monetary terms, this hidden liquidity flow amounted to $91.9 million. The main direction of capital movement was direct cross-chain transfers between Zcash (ZEC) and Bitcoin (BTC).
Over the course of the day, on-chain radars recorded a series of large transactions by institutional players (whales), who converted hundreds of thousands of dollars from shielded ZEC pools directly into BTC in one click.
As a result, the ecosystem's confidential TVL (total value locked) settled in the $151–$152 million range, turning the platform into one of the key legal hubs for protected operations.
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In parallel, NEAR's technological focus has shifted toward long-term protection against fundamental risks. Co-founder Illia Polosukhin confirmed that users can migrate the keys of their NEAR accounts to the post-quantum ML-DSA standard right now. NEAR's architecture allows security standards to be updated within the wallet seamlessly, without affecting the funds themselves and removing the need to use third-party bridges.
Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR) daily net inflows and net assets chart as of October 2026, Source: SoSoValueThe network's technical resilience is also supported by Wall Street money. The spot Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR) recorded a daily net inflow of $2.61 million, raising cumulative inflows to $83.05 million. The fund's net assets under management reached $82.36 million (1.26% of NEAR's total market capitalization), which is a strong protective buffer for the market.
The network itself is digesting these volumes without delays. The decentralized MPC computation system has expanded to 17 independent operators, which has stabilized block generation time. Meanwhile, the recent liquidation of short positions on exchanges has noticeably eased selling pressure, clearing the way for a test of local resistance levels.
The best crypto to buy right now comes down to one number: market cap. Bitcoin has reclaimed $82,000, Ethereum is holding $2,400, and Solana is two days from the largest consensus change in its history — three dated setups where the arithmetic, not the chart, decides which one gives $1,000 the most room to run. As of 01:00 UTC on October 19, 2026, the only one of the three where a 10x is still mathematically possible is Solana, whose Alpenglow upgrade goes live at about 14:50 UTC on October 21, according to Solana’s official upgrade page.
The 10x arithmetic that rules Bitcoin out of the moonshot Bitcoin trades at $82,249, up 0.9% over 24 hours, with a market cap near $1.65 trillion and dominance still north of 60%, per CoinGecko. The size is now the whole story. A 10x from here would value Bitcoin at roughly $16.5 trillion — about six times the value of the entire crypto market today. That is arithmetic, not a forecast, and it makes Bitcoin the capital-preservation pick rather than the upside pick. The reclaim of $82,000 after a Saturday dip below $81,000 follows the same pattern our last look at a Bitcoin reclaim described: round levels hold until a macro catalyst moves them, then they give way. A return to the $126,080 all-time high is a slow grind, not a rerating.
Ethereum’s catalyst is a schedule, not a candle Ethereum trades at $2,414, up 0.3% on the day, with a market cap near $295 billion. The story is the upgrade calendar, not the price. Glamsterdam — the largest change since the Merge — bundles enshrined proposer-builder separation (EIP-7732) with Block-Level Access Lists (EIP-7928), and it is moving through its testnets: Sepolia ran first, Hoodi is next, and mainnet is targeted for the fourth quarter. A 2x from here is a $590 billion outcome, credible for the network that still settles more value than any other, but the trade carries no hard date yet. Ethereum is the middle-risk pick — bigger than Solana, smaller than Bitcoin, still waiting on its catalyst instead of counting down to one.
Why Solana’s Alpenglow is a dated event, not a rumor Solana trades at $104.23, up 0.6% on the day, with a market cap near $61 billion. The catalyst is Alpenglow, which replaces TowerBFT — the consensus mechanism Solana has run since launch — with a voting protocol called Votor. Under TowerBFT, validators post their votes as on-chain transactions and a block becomes final only after 32 slots of votes pile up, a process that takes about 12.8 seconds. Votor changes the mechanics: validators message each other directly, bundle those votes into certificates, and lock a block in one or two rounds of voting. The target is roughly 150 milliseconds to finality — about 99% faster.
Mainnet activation begins at epoch 1064, around 15:00 UTC on October 21, behind feature gate SIMD-0384. That is a hard date attached to a specific mechanism, and our full breakdown of the Alpenglow upgrade walks through what the handoff requires — validators certifying a new genesis block with at least 82% of stake — and what breaks if it misfires.
The arithmetic is where Solana separates. A 10x from a $61 billion market cap is $614 billion, roughly Ethereum’s size today. Solana is the only one of the three where that multiple is still on the table, and the only one with a dated catalyst firing this week. The risk is execution: a consensus migration of this size has never been done mid-flight on a network settling this much volume, and 150 milliseconds is a target, not a measured result. Bitcoin offers safety with the 10x math closed. Ethereum offers a credible 2x with no hard date. Solana offers the only live 10x path, gated on a handoff that has to go right in a single slot. That is the arithmetic and the calendar — the only honest way to answer “what to buy now” while the market chops sideways.
Frequently Asked Questions What is the best crypto to buy now? It depends on the goal. Bitcoin is the capital-preservation pick with the 10x arithmetic closed, Ethereum is a credible 2x play still waiting on its Glamsterdam upgrade, and Solana carries the only live 10x path via the Alpenglow consensus upgrade on October 21 — at the highest execution risk.
Why can’t Bitcoin deliver another 10x? Market-cap arithmetic. A 10x from Bitcoin’s $1.65 trillion market cap would value it near $16.5 trillion, roughly six times the entire crypto market. Larger assets need far more capital to move the same percentage.
When does Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade go live? Mainnet activation begins at epoch 1064, around 15:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, behind feature gate SIMD-0384. It replaces TowerBFT with Votor and targets about 150-millisecond finality, down from roughly 12.8 seconds.
Is Solana’s 150-millisecond finality guaranteed? No. 150 milliseconds is a design target, not a measured result. The migration happens in a single slot and the handoff must be certified by validators holding at least 82% of stake, so execution risk is real.
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Crypto-native traders are chasing Zcash and Hyperliquid. Grayscale’s head of research, Zach Pandl, says the bigger opportunity may be in the large smart contract networks those traders are overlooking. Pandl said Ethereum, Solana and BNB Chain “are not a consensus trade” among crypto natives right now. His advice to investors was “don’t sleep on the classics.”
Why Ethereum, Solana And BNB Chain Are Pandl’s Top Picks
Pandl’s case rests on where traditional finance is heading. He expects trillions of dollars in assets to move on-chain and said almost all of that activity will need a smart contract platform, including:
Tokenized real-world assetsStablecoinsTokenized bank depositsPandl said many crypto-native investors are buying privacy tokens and revenue-generating projects while ignoring the core infrastructure. He described the three networks as having “an absolute key role to play in a crypto portfolio.”
Zcash: Privacy Moves Into The Mainstream
Pandl said he still has a positive view of Zcash, which Grayscale offers investment products for. He argued that crypto has spent years exporting innovations such as stablecoins and perpetual futures to Wall Street. Financial privacy, he said, is something crypto now needs to import from traditional finance, where people expect their salaries, debts and tax payments to stay confidential.
He expects Zcash to keep gaining market share among privacy-focused currencies. He also expects privacy tools to spread to smart contract platforms, stablecoins and perpetual futures markets, and called privacy “a huge part of the next cycle.”
Hyperliquid And The Spread Of Perpetual Futures
Pandl said perpetual futures will become a standard instrument for institutional and retail traders. He pointed to Grayscale’s own Hyperliquid ETF for US investors as a sign of demand. For firms like Grayscale, he said, the open questions are regulatory: whether they can use these platforms to hedge their balance sheets or run carry trades. He credited the CFTC with making progress on those rules.
Grayscale Thinks Bitcoin’s Bottom Is In
Pandl’s broader view of the market is constructive. Grayscale’s estimate is that Bitcoin bottomed near $58,000 at the end of June. He said prices have recovered even though recent news has been mixed:
The Federal Reserve raised rates.Long-term bond yields climbed.The CLARITY Act failed to pass.He took that resilience as a sign that crypto was oversold over the summer. He said institutional clients buying Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs still see them as long-term portfolio diversifiers.
Pandl also linked part of the summer sell-off to pressure on Stretch (STRC), the preferred product issued by Strategy. That pressure peaked around Bitcoin’s late-June low. As STRC has moved back toward its $100 target price, he said, concern about tail risks has eased.
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Pandl does not expect another Fed rate hike this month. He said hiking just before the election would be “a bit bold,” though one more increase in December is possible. Even so, he said Bitcoin can absorb one to three small hikes, since nothing like the 500 basis points of tightening in 2022 and 2023 is expected. He blamed higher interest rates on heavy borrowing by both the government and private companies funding the AI buildout.
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A recent forecast from cryptocurrency YouTuber Crypto Rover has generated significant conversation, with bold predictions for the leading digital assets over the next 8 to 16 months.
High targets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRPCrypto Rover projected that Bitcoin could reach $200,000 during this period, while Ethereum may surpass $10,000. He also expects Solana to climb to $1,000, and sees the possibility for XRP to rally to $5.
He expanded on his XRP outlook, suggesting that in a potential super bull market, XRP’s price could range between $11 and $15. He called on investors to be prepared if such a scenario unfolds.
Crypto Rover envisions a scenario where Bitcoin targets $200,000, Ethereum moves above $10,000, Solana advances to $1,000, and XRP approaches $5, with the possibility of XRP reaching as high as $11 to $15 during a strong market surge.
Currently, Bitcoin trades around $81,500, Ethereum sits near $2,430, Solana is about $104, and XRP is around $1.30. These figures illustrate the substantial growth needed to achieve his targets: Bitcoin would have to increase by 145%, Ethereum by 312%, Solana by 860%, and XRP by approximately 285% to hit $5.
XRP’s biggest potential upsideAmong the projected gains, XRP’s targets are particularly notable. Achieving $5 would mean a 285% jump from current prices. The upper end of his super bull market forecast, between $11 and $15, equates to gains of roughly 746% to 1054%.
This outlook for XRP comes as CoinDesk recently highlighted that the token remains below its 2018 peak and has not delivered returns comparable to Bitcoin or Ethereum. If Crypto Rover’s projections materialize, XRP would surpass its all-time high of $3.65, a move that some proponents expect could attract new institutional interest, especially with regulatory headwinds potentially waning and growing adoption in cross-border payment solutions.
Community reaction and need for liquidityReactions within the crypto community were mixed. Some users voiced support for these ambitious predictions, while others questioned their probability. One observer underscored the critical role of liquidity and Bitcoin confirmation before major altcoins could follow such substantial upward moves.
Doubts also surfaced regarding XRP’s specific targets. While some agreed Solana could reach $1,000, they remained unconvinced about XRP hitting $5, raising skepticism over the credibility of such forecasts. Further skepticism was expressed in light of possible macroeconomic challenges, including inflation, interest rate hikes, geopolitical tensions, and oil price volatility, which could all impact overall crypto market momentum.
Other commentators stated that a proper market-wide bull run would be essential for these levels to become realistic, suggesting that broader market conditions would ultimately dictate any potential surge in large-cap altcoins like XRP.
Given the market’s sensitivity to major macro events and rapid shifts—such as a single decision by the Federal Reserve or an unexpected altcoin listing—retail traders are increasingly moving toward privacy-focused solutions like CryptoAppsy to streamline their trading workflow. By using platforms that offer real-time charts, smart price alerts, coin-specific news, and integrated macro data on one screen and without requiring account creation, investors are able to react quickly and efficiently to emerging trends.
The next 8 to 16 months could see significant changes for crypto investors, given the volatility and unpredictability of the current market environment.
Solana has not recorded any reported outage of its mainnet for two years. In a study published on October 16, the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology estimates that the network has made significant progress in resilience, economic security, and performance. However, the assessment remains incomplete: staking, validator hosting, and their software remain concentrated among relatively few actors.
In brief Solana has not experienced any reported mainnet outages for two years. About 18 validators gather more than one third of the staked SOL. Fidelity mainly monitors the concentration of staking, hosting, and client software. Solana gradually wipes out its old outage problem For a long time, network availability was one of the main arguments used against Solana. The situation has changed. Fidelity notes two consecutive years without any reported mainnet outage. The validators’ vote success rate was about 99.7% in 2026, while the average vote latency hovered around 1.08 slots.
The network is also accelerating. Solana has already reduced its block creation time to 250 milliseconds, after several successive reductions since August. Performance accompanies a much larger financial activity. According to the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology report, the value of real-world tokenized assets using Solana rose from about 1 billion to 4.4 billion dollars in one year.
The network also processed more than 2 trillion dollars in stablecoin volume in the first quarter of 2026. Solana still has capacity. After raising the maximum block size to 100 million compute units at the end of July, Fidelity observed usage between about 30 and 45% during its study period. The blockchain thus runs faster without constantly operating at its limit.
18 validators concentrate one third of the staking This is where the report becomes much more cautious. About 18 validators are currently enough to gather more than one third of the staked SOL. In Solana’s consensus system, this threshold holds particular importance: if this amount of stake simultaneously stopped participating, block finalization could be interrupted.
This would not allow these validators to steal users’ assets or rewrite already finalized transactions. The concentration remains visible, however. Solana had already lost 68% of its validators in three years, dropping from about 2,500 operators to fewer than 1,000. Fidelity adds another nuance: several validators may belong to the same company. For example, Figment operates several significant identities. Kraken and Coinbase also have multiple validators.
Counting validators therefore does not exactly mean counting independent operators. Physical infrastructure is also concentrated. Nearly 59% of the stake would be hosted in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Frankfurt and Amsterdam alone would represent about 40%. A hosting provider also concentrates about 29% of the stake, above the 25% target set in the Solana Foundation delegation program.
Fidelity also monitors validator software The third risk lies in the code. On paper, Solana now uses several client configurations. Diversification is therefore better than a few years ago. But a large part still shares the same software base. Jito variants represent about 63% of the stake in the data studied by Fidelity. Other solutions, like Harmonic, are also largely tied to the Agave code.
A bug present in this common base could thus affect several validator categories at the same time. Firedancer brings a real difference. Developed by Jump Crypto on an independent C++ base, it accounts for about 15% of the stake when its various configurations are combined.
This diversity becomes important as Solana seeks to accommodate more institutional finance. The network recently surpassed 4 billion dollars in tokenized assets, with growing flows toward Treasury bills and tokenized stocks. Fidelity therefore no longer describes Solana as a fragile network. The problem has shifted. Outages have become much rarer. The next step is mainly to prevent a handful of operators, data centers, or software from becoming common points of weakness.
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Solana had a stronger third quarter in 2026. Revenue, transactions, trading volume and tokenized assets all grew compared with the second quarter.
This article collects the main Solana statistics from Q3 and September 2026. The figures come from Blockworks, the Solana Foundation, Solana Compass, Castle Labs, RWA.xyz and other reports.
Each section covers one part of the network, from application revenue to price forecasts. The numbers show growth, and they also show where the risks sit.
Sources define their metrics in different ways, so totals for the same topic can differ. Where that happens, this article names the source and explains the gap.
Solana Q3 2026 at a Glance Table of Contents
Blockworks published its Q3 2026 Solana report on October 15, 2026. It showed real economic value (REV) rising 48% from the second quarter to $75.7 million. This was the first quarterly increase in REV since Q4 2024.
Application revenue also rose 48%, to $299.1 million. That is the highest quarterly total since Q3 2025.
Trading measures grew as well. Decentralized exchange (DEX) volume rose 23% to $197.2 billion. Tokenized equity trading reached a quarterly record of $7.1 billion, up 40% from Q2.
Metric Q3 2026 Change vs Q2 2026 Real economic value (REV) $75.7 million +48% Application revenue $299.1 million +48% DEX volume $197.2 billion +23% Tokenized equity trading volume $7.1 billion +40% Completed non-vote transactions 8.78 billion +23.3% Sources: Blockworks (REV, application revenue, DEX volume, tokenized equities); Solana Compass (transactions).
REV measures selected value from network activity, such as transaction fees and priority fees. Application revenue is different, because apps earn it and not the Solana protocol. The two figures should not be added together.
Figure 1: Solana growth in Q3 2026 compared with Q2 2026 across five measures. Solana Application Revenue Statistics Applications on Solana earned $299.1 million in Q3 2026. That is 48% more than in Q2. The number counts what apps earn from their users.
The growth built up month by month. Application revenue was $75.4 million in July, $106.5 million in August and $117.1 million in September. September was the strongest month since January 2026.
REV moved in the same direction. Blockworks reported $30.1 million of REV in September alone. That is about 40% of the $75.7 million earned in the whole quarter.
Application revenue is not the same as SOL token revenue. An app can earn more money without that money flowing to SOL holders. The token gains value through transaction fees and other network-level links.
Month Application revenue Change from prior month July 2026 $75.4 million Not available August 2026 $106.5 million +41.2% September 2026 $117.1 million +10.0% Source: Blockworks. Monthly changes are calculated from the reported figures.
Figure 2: Solana application revenue rose each month in Q3 2026. Which Apps Earn the Most Revenue on Solana
Revenue is spread across several apps, but one app leads by a wide margin. Pump generated $121.5 million in Q3, about 41% of all application revenue.
Collector Crypt followed with $35 million. Fomo earned $24.9 million, Pacifica earned $18 million and Axiom earned $16.2 million. Together these five apps earned $215.6 million, or about 72% of the total.
Growth was not limited to the biggest names. Fomo’s revenue quadrupled from Q2. Axiom’s revenue grew 65%.
Still, revenue sits with a small group of platforms. If one of them loses users, the total could change quickly. Analysts often watch this kind of concentration as a risk.
App Q3 2026 revenue Share of total Pump $121.5 million 40.6% Collector Crypt $35.0 million 11.7% Fomo $24.9 million 8.3% Pacifica $18.0 million 6.0% Axiom $16.2 million 5.4% All other apps $83.5 million 27.9% Source: Blockworks. Shares and the ‘All other apps’ line are calculated from the $299.1 million total.
Figure 3: Pump earned about 41% of Solana application revenue in Q3 2026. Solana Transaction Statistics Solana completed 3.18 billion non-vote transactions in September 2026, according to Solana Compass. It was the third monthly record in a row. The Q3 total was 8.78 billion, which is 23.3% above the 7.13 billion in Q2.
Non-vote means validator votes are left out. Votes are part of how the network reaches agreement. Leaving them out shows activity by users, apps and bots.
Blockworks analyst Sam Schubert counted about 3.2 billion successful non-vote transactions in September, up 7.5% from August. His Q3 total was 8.92 billion. That is 1.6% above the Solana Compass count, and both datasets show a record.
Schubert described Q3 as 18% above the prior quarterly high in his series. Solana Compass reports 23.3% because its data starts in December 2025 and it compares Q3 with Q2. The two percentages use different baselines.
Reverted transactions fell in September. A reverted transaction runs and then rolls back, often because a trader’s price limit was hit. These dropped 30%, from 2.19 billion in August to 1.52 billion in September.
As a result, the share of non-vote transactions that completed rose from 57.3% to 67.6%. Solana Compass treats completed transactions as the stricter test of work done for users. High counts can still include bots and short-term trading.
Figure 4: Completed non-vote transactions on Solana rose every month from May to September 2026. Solana DEX Volume Statistics Blockworks reported that DEX volume rose 23% in Q3 to $197.2 billion. The Solana Foundation put September DEX volume at $78.33 billion, up from $65.29 billion in August. That is a 20% rise.
Other sources give different totals. DefiLlama counted about $78 billion in September, based on the DEXs it lists. Solana Compass counted $184.1 billion of spot swaps over 1.17 billion trades, across 95 programs and more than 1.6 million markets.
The gap comes from method. Solana Compass counts every spot swap its tool sees, including circular and bot-driven trading. Bitquery classified $117.7 billion, or 58%, of Solana DEX volume from August 24 to September 22 as circular or bot-like.
Aggregators routed 27.1% of the September volume counted by Solana Compass. Readers who compare DEX figures should check which source and method sit behind each number.
Source Period Figure Blockworks Q3 2026 $197.2 billion Solana Foundation August 2026 $65.29 billion Solana Foundation September 2026 $78.33 billion DefiLlama September 2026 About $78 billion Solana Compass September 2026 $184.1 billion Bitquery (circular or bot-like) Aug 24 to Sep 22 $117.7 billion (58%) Figure 5: Solana DEX volume for September 2026 ranges from $78.3 billion to $184.1 billion, depending on the source. Solana Stablecoin Supply Statistics
The Solana Foundation’s September ecosystem report put stablecoin supply at a record $17.51 billion. Its payments review reported $17.3 billion on September 25.
Supply and transaction volume are different measures. Supply is the value of stablecoins on the network at one point in time. Volume is the value moved over a period, so supply can stay flat while volume changes a lot.
Traders use stablecoins to move between positions without converting back to cash. DeFi apps use them for lending, collateral and liquidity. Businesses use them to move dollars across borders and outside banking hours.
Payments news added to the picture in September. Column integrated stablecoins into its banking core, so businesses can convert between supported stablecoins and dollars on the same ledger used for ACH, wires and SWIFT.
Open USD also launched on Solana on September 30. Its reserves are held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY.
Supply alone does not show how the money is used. Some balances sit idle or support leveraged trades. Transfer activity, active users and payment volume give a fuller view.
Figure 6: Stablecoin supply on Solana was about four times the value of its tokenized real-world assets in September 2026. Solana Tokenized Real-World Asset Statistics Castle Labs research shows Solana’s tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market grew from about $700 million to $4.3 billion in a year. That is a gain of about $3.6 billion, or 514%. The figures leave out conventional stablecoins such as USDC and USDT.
Ethereum is still much larger. Its tokenized asset base grew from $15.5 billion to $16.6 billion, a rise of 7.1%. Solana’s RWA market is now about 26% of Ethereum’s, up from about 4.5% a year earlier.
RWA.xyz data cited in an October 1 SEC filing by Forward Industries put Solana’s distributed RWA value at about $4.3 billion on September 30. That was up from more than $3.3 billion at the end of June, or roughly $1 billion in one quarter.
The Solana Foundation reported $4.6 billion across more than 3,000 assets. That is a different snapshot and may cover different assets.
Growth spans Treasuries, investment funds, equities, private credit and insurance products. OnRe’s tokenized reinsurance asset, ONyc, rose from $203.4 million on June 30 to $286.2 million on September 30.
Value changes can reflect new issuance, redemptions and price moves in the underlying assets. They are not the same as net investment inflows. Tokenized assets also depend on issuer obligations, custody and regulation.
Measure One year earlier October 2026 Change Solana tokenized RWA value $0.7 billion $4.3 billion +514% Ethereum tokenized asset value $15.5 billion $16.6 billion +7.1% Solana as a share of Ethereum About 4.5% About 26% Not applicable Source: Castle Labs, reported by FinanceFeeds.
Figure 7: Solana’s tokenized asset value grew far faster than Ethereum’s over the past year, from a much smaller base. Solana Tokenized Equities Statistics
Tokenized equities are shares of listed companies issued as tokens that can trade around the clock. Trading value on Solana reached a record $7.1 billion in Q3 2026, up 40% from Q2.
The Solana Foundation’s October 6 report said tokenized stock supply reached about $684 million in September. That was up 47% over three weeks. Trading volume for the month was about $4.4 billion.
Holder counts vary by provider. The Foundation reported one million holder wallets. Token Terminal data shared on October 1 showed more than 1.2 million wallets, a new high.
Crypto Briefing also reported more than 1.2 million holder wallets across the ecosystem, including Raydium and xStocks. The report said regulation, ETF approvals and partnerships will shape future growth.
SolanaFloor, citing Blockworks, reported that Solana carries more than 32% of daily tokenized equity trading volume across chains. BNB Chain holds 27% and Robinhood Chain holds 25%. The xStocks platform has issued 74% of Solana’s tokenized equities.
This market is young. Trading volume can rise and fall quickly with market mood, so a record quarter does not guarantee a repeat.
Metric Figure Source Q3 2026 trading value $7.1 billion (+40%) Blockworks September trading volume About $4.4 billion Solana Foundation September token supply About $684 million Solana Foundation Holder wallets 1 million to 1.2 million Foundation; Token Terminal Share of xStocks in Solana equities 74% SolanaFloor Figure 8: Solana carries more than 32% of daily tokenized equity trading volume, ahead of BNB Chain and Robinhood Chain. SOL Price and Market Value Statistics SOL traded between about $102 and $105 in mid-October 2026. The KuCoin ticker showed $104.72 on October 16. 24/7 Wall St. reported a price near $102 and a market value of about $60.2 billion on October 15.
October began near $118, peaked at about $124 and fell as low as $102. The price is still about 64% below the all-time high of $293.31, set on November 6, 2021. Solana traded near $149 in January 2026.
XRP traded at $1.31 with a market value of about $82.6 billion. That put it roughly $22 billion ahead of Solana. According to 24/7 Wall St., Solana would need to gain about 37.3% against XRP to pass it.
Recent moves against XRP have been mixed. Over 30 days, Solana gained 2.7% while XRP fell 5.6%. Over the last week, Solana fell 9.8% and XRP fell 6.3%.
Fund flows have been weak this month. SoSoValue data showed US Solana funds had withdrawals in nine of ten October sessions. Earlier, US Solana ETFs took in money for 14 straight weeks, their longest run yet.
The price also fell 5.1% to $102.19 after a September CPI reading of 3.7%, which was higher than expected. A network upgrade called Alpenglow is set for October 21 and aims for about 150 millisecond finality. A faster network does not automatically mean a higher price.
Measure Figure SOL price, October 15 to 16 About $102 to $105 SOL market value About $60.2 billion XRP market value About $82.6 billion Gap to XRP About $22 billion Gain needed against XRP About 37.3% All-time high (November 6, 2021) $293.31 Sources: KuCoin, 24/7 Wall St., CoinStats.
Figure 9: SOL fell from a peak near $124 to about $102 in October 2026 and remains far below its 2021 record. Solana Price Forecast Statistics Price forecasts are estimates, not data about what will happen. The CoinStats forecast page lists projections from banks, research firms and software models. They vary widely.
Standard Chartered, as reported by CoinDesk on February 3, 2026, targets $250 in 2026, $400 in 2027, $700 in 2028, $1,200 in 2029 and $2,000 in 2030. A Finder panel put the end of 2030 at $892. Model-based tools are lower, with CoinCodex at $341.66, DappRadar at $146.41 and Binance at $122.43 for 2030.
For the end of 2026, CoinCodex estimated $140.24 and a Finder panel averaged $182. Changelly gave a 2026 range of $100.14 to $123.59.
The gap reflects different assumptions. Bank models assume Solana wins a growing share of payments, stablecoin transfers and tokenized assets. Technical models lean more on past price behavior.
CoinStats also set out its own scenarios. For 2027 it gave a range of $100 to $400, with an average of $250. For 2030 it gave a range of $250 to $2,000, with an average of $900.
At $2,000 per SOL, Solana’s market value would be about $1.175 trillion using today’s circulating supply of 587 million SOL. CoinStats says that is about 17.8 times the market value it used in its report.
Source Forecast Date published Standard Chartered $250 (2026), $2,000 (2030) Feb 3, 2026 Finder panel $892 (end of 2030) Apr 28, 2025 VanEck $9.81 bear, $335 base, $3,211.28 bull (2030) Oct 27, 2023 Stealthex $180 (2026), $800 (2030) Aug 13, 2026 CoinCodex $140.24 (2026), $341.66 (2030) Sep 17, 2026 Changelly $100.14 to $123.59 (2026) Sep 16, 2026 DappRadar $111.16 (2026), $146.41 (2030) Aug 28, 2026 Binance $122.43 (2030) Sep 17, 2026 Source: CoinStats price prediction page. Older forecasts may no longer reflect their authors’ views.
Figure 10: Solana 2030 price forecasts range from about $122 to $2,000, depending on the source. What the Solana Numbers Show Solana’s Q3 2026 data shows growth across several areas. REV and application revenue both rose 48%, transactions set records and stablecoin supply reached $17.51 billion.
Tokenized assets grew from $0.7 billion to $4.3 billion in a year. Tokenized equity trading hit $7.1 billion in the quarter.
The same data shows limits. One app earned about 41% of application revenue, and application revenue does not flow directly to SOL holders. Transaction and volume counts also depend on how each source measures them.
The price tells a different story from the network data. SOL is down from its 2021 high and US Solana funds saw outflows for most of October.
Reports also separate three ideas that are easy to mix up. Application revenue shows what apps earn, protocol revenue shows what the network collects, and token demand shows what buyers pay for SOL. Each can move on its own.
Key items to watch include the October 21 Alpenglow upgrade, revenue spread across more apps, the staying power of stablecoin supply and fund flows. Broader market conditions will matter too.
This article is for information only and is not financial, legal or investment advice.
Sources Solana Q3 2026 Report: Revenue Jumps 48% as Stablecoin Supply Reaches $16.8B (KuCoin) Solana Logs Record 3.18B Completed Transactions in September 2026, Capping a Record Q3 (Solana Compass) Solana’s Tokenized Real-World Asset Market Surges From $700 Million to $4.3 Billion in One Year (FinanceFeeds) Solana Hits Record $7.1B in Tokenized Equities Volume in Q3 2026 (Crypto Briefing) Solana Is 37% Away From Passing XRP. Could It Happen by the End of 2026? (24/7 Wall St.) Solana (SOL) Price Prediction 2026-2030 (CoinStats)
Anthropic, a prominent AI company, has seen its tokenized pre-IPO asset become available on CoinGecko, despite lacking a public stock ticker. The asset, issued as a tokenized proxy by PreStocks, is now available for exchange on the Solana blockchain. This token offers a speculative glimpse into Anthropic’s valuation ahead of its confidential IPO filing with Nasdaq. Priced around $984.87, the token reflects a market capitalization of approximately $7.56 million, with a 24-hour exchange volume reaching $274,000 on October 19, 2026.
Key Takeaways Market activity suggests increased interest in Anthropic’s pre-IPO valuation, consistent with increased market cap predictions. Current market pricing implies a moderate likelihood of Anthropic’s market cap exceeding certain thresholds at IPO close. Exchange activity around the tokenized asset could indicate market confidence in Anthropic’s future public valuation. What to Watch Observers should monitor any updates regarding Anthropic’s official IPO filing with the SEC and potential Nasdaq listing details. The token’s pricing trends may provide further insights into market sentiment and anticipated valuation at the time of public offering. Market participants will likely pay attention to any new disclosures from Anthropic that could affect its perceived valuation and influence market outcomes.
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The Fan Token® ecosystem offers supporters a way to engage with their favorite sports teams, be it voting on the music that blasts when they walk onto the pitch or participating in a virtual meet-and-greet.
But it’s not all about getting closer to the starting XI. For a Fan Token digital asset to be purchasable, it needs to have a price – something which holds true of all goods, be they physical or digital. And determining that price falls to thousands of Fan Token holders, whose trading activity helps to determine the fair market value for the digital asset at any given point in time.
Which brings us to Solana, a blockchain that’s particularly suited to SportFi including the use of Fan Tokens in a multitude of ways, from holding in wallets to transferring between users and trading on decentralized exchanges.
In this guide, we’ll explain what core Solana technologies including DEXs, liquidity pools, and DLMMs do, how they fit together, and what you need to know before using them, whether you’re a SportFi fan or a general token trader.
Getting to know Solana
First, a tl;dr on the blockchain that makes all of this possible. Solana is a Layer 1 network that supports smart contracts – programs that execute automatically when certain conditions are met. These allow developers to build everything from blockchain games to decentralized exchanges.
What distinguishes Solana from other Layer 1s is its emphasis on speed and affordability. Transactions typically settle in seconds, while network fees are generally a fraction of a cent. That’s useful when you’re trading digital assets, since nobody wants to pay several dollars in fees every time they swap one token for another.
Solana’s native cryptocurrency is SOL, which is used to pay network transaction fees. Even if you’re only interested in trading Fan Token digital assets, you’ll generally need a small amount of SOL in your wallet to cover these costs.
It starts with a Solana wallet
Before you can start exploring Solana, you’ll need a wallet that supports the network. Popular options include Phantom, Solflare, and Jupiter, all of which are available as browser extensions and mobile apps. Unlike a traditional bank account, a self-custodial wallet such as the aforementioned options puts you in control of your assets. There’s no bank or exchange holding your tokens on your behalf.
Technically, your tokens aren’t stored inside the wallet. They exist on the blockchain, while your wallet manages the cryptographic keys that allow you to access and transfer them. To be more precise, the wallet is a digital keyring that provides access to your blockchain assets. But from a user perspective, the tokens live to all intents and purposes inside your wallet and only leave it with your say-so.
When you create a non-custodial wallet, you’re given a private key, often represented as a recovery phrase consisting of a series of words. Keep it somewhere secure, never share it, and don’t enter it into websites or applications claiming to offer technical support. Once your wallet’s set up, you can use it to receive compatible tokens, check your balances, and connect to decentralized applications.
Decentralized applications such as exchanges where you can trade tokens. Which brings us to DEXs…
Next you need a DEX
Instead of depositing your digital assets with an exchange operator, as is the case with a centralized platform, a decentralized exchange – or DEX – requires you to connect your own wallet and trade directly through smart contracts.
This means you retain control of your assets until you authorize a transaction. There’s no need to transfer your assets, be it stablecoins, protocol tokens, or FAN TOKEN® into an exchange account before trading them.
Solana has a well-established DEX ecosystem, with protocols such as Raydium and Orca enabling users to swap tokens through liquidity pools. There’s also Jupiter, a DEX aggregator that searches different liquidity sources to find suitable trading routes. Rather than operating like a conventional exchange, it helps users access liquidity distributed across Solana’s decentralized trading ecosystem.
Where does Meteora fit in?
If we’re going to talk about liquidity, we need to speak about Meteora, the leading decentralized liquidity protocol built on Solana. Meteora provides infrastructure that allows tokens to be traded through liquidity pools. These pools contain assets made available for trading by liquidity providers, allowing buyers and sellers to exchange tokens without needing to find someone willing to take the opposite side of their trade.
Imagine a currency exchange booth that already holds supplies of pounds and euros. You can walk up and exchange one for the other without waiting for another customer who happens to want the reverse transaction. Liquidity pools perform much the same function, except they’re governed by smart contracts rather than operated by a cashier.
Meteora supports several types of liquidity pools, with the best known being its Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker (DLMM). This is where things get particularly interesting, since DLMMs offer a flexible mechanism for trading newly launched assets and allowing their market prices to develop through supply and demand.
DLMMs: A smarter way to manage liquidity
DLMM stands for Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker and is a type of automated market maker, or AMM, that organizes liquidity into individual price ranges called bins.
Liquidity providers can choose where to position their assets and when someone buys tokens, their trade draws upon the liquidity available at the current price. If buying demand exhausts the available tokens in one bin, trading can progress to the next, higher-priced bin. Selling pressure can move trading in the opposite direction.
Price discovery works the same way on centralized exchanges: prices are determined by market supply and demand (buyers and sellers), not by the exchange operator. The exchange simply provides the matching engine to execute trades.
Meteora’s DLMM also supports dynamic trading fees, which can adjust according to market volatility. For users, the main thing to understand is that a DLMM provides the underlying machinery for token swaps.
But understanding the basics will help you make sense of the prices you’re quoted and why they can change.
Four pieces of the same puzzle
There’s a lot of terminology to absorb when you first encounter decentralized trading on Solana, but the relationship between the different components is relatively straightforward.
Solana provides the blockchain on which transactions take place. Your wallet gives you control over your assets and allows you to authorize transactions. DEXs provide the interfaces and smart contracts through which tokens can be exchanged. And liquidity protocols such as Meteora, using mechanisms including DLMMs, make assets available for trading at different prices.
Each serves a distinct purpose, but together they create an ecosystem in which digital assets can be exchanged without relying on a traditional centralized intermediary. Which makes them four pieces of the same puzzle and the key to trading on Solana while keeping control of your assets at all times.
Circle has reportedly minted about 3.75 billion USDC on the Solana blockchain over the past seven days, according to data shared by @SolanaFloor on social media. This significant issuance represents gross minting and highlights the ongoing expansion of USDC liquidity on the Solana network. As of early October, Solana’s native USDC holdings were approximately $7.3 billion, constituting about 10% of the total USDC supply. This development suggests that Solana continues to be a key platform for stablecoin activity, supporting various applications in payments and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Key Takeaways The minting of 3.75 billion USDC on Solana suggests increased liquidity provision on the platform. This development appears consistent with scenarios that could support a rise in Solana’s price, as enhanced liquidity may drive demand. Market pricing implies moderate confidence in Solana reaching higher price targets, with some sub-markets reflecting this sentiment. What to Watch Markets will be monitoring any further increases in USDC minting on Solana and its potential impact on Solana’s price. Key indicators include regulatory developments, such as SEC decisions on spot-SOL ETFs, and technological milestones like the successful activation of Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade. These factors could influence market sentiment towards Solana’s price reaching or exceeding significant thresholds, such as $190, in October 2026.
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StakerX’s AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch
StakerGPT trades crypto markets around the clock and publishes every trade it makes, as more than 8,200 users join the platform
StakerX.ai, an agentic trading platform built by Switzerland-based StakerX Strategies AG, has passed $40 million in assets staked on Solana less than three months after its public launch on July 13, 2026. Users fund their stakes with more than 40 cryptocurrencies from most major blockchains, and StakerGPT, the platform’s agentic trading agent, puts that capital to work in crypto perpetual futures markets every day.
An AI agent that shows its work
An agentic system is AI software that carries out a multi-step task on its own. StakerGPT is built on rare-access Claude Mythos: it monitors crypto markets around the clock, reasons over potential trade setups, filters them through risk controls and routes the approved trades for execution, without a human placing each order.
Every trade is public. StakerX publishes the full record daily at stakerx.ai/trades, with the market, direction, entry and exit prices and return of each position, including both live-executed and signal-derived trades. As of October 18, 2026, the record holds 804 trades across 139 trading days since June 1, 2026, so anyone can check what the agent did on any given day instead of relying on summary figures.
Fund it with almost any coin
Users can deposit USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX and more than 30 other cryptocurrencies from Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Tron and other networks. Each deposit is converted and credited as USDC, a dollar-backed stablecoin, on Solana, so users do not need to bridge or swap anything themselves. Stakes start at $10 and run for 30 days.
Three months of growth
As of October 18, 2026, StakerX.ai reports:
$40 million currently staked on the platform
More than 8,200 registered users, of whom more than 3,000 have funded an account
804 trades published across 139 trading days
More than 27,700 completed withdrawals, totalling $10+ million
Nearly $12 million in yield credited to users since launch
Coming to the App Store and Google Play
StakerX is preparing native mobile apps for iOS and Android, expected in December 2026, which will bring the dashboard, deposits and the live StakerGPT trade record to the Apple App Store and Google Play. The platform is available today on the web at stakerx.ai.
About StakerX
StakerX is an agentic trading platform built and operated by StakerX Strategies AG, a quantitative trading and investment firm based in Switzerland. Its AI trading agent, StakerGPT, is built on rare-access Claude Mythos and evaluates crypto markets, applies risk filters and routes trades, and the platform publishes every trade in its record daily. Its goal is to make agentic trading accessible to anyone who holds crypto, from any chain, with every trade on the record. StakerX launched publicly on July 13, 2026. More information is available at stakerx.ai.
Media contact
Rimma S. – StakerX Strategies AG | Media Relations
StakerX’s AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch
StakerGPT trades crypto markets around the clock and publishes every trade it makes, as more than 8,200 users join the platform
StakerX.ai, an agentic trading platform built by Switzerland-based StakerX Strategies AG, has passed $40 million in assets staked on Solana less than three months after its public launch on July 13, 2026. Users fund their stakes with more than 40 cryptocurrencies from most major blockchains, and StakerGPT, the platform’s agentic trading agent, puts that capital to work in crypto perpetual futures markets every day.
An AI agent that shows its work
An agentic system is AI software that carries out a multi-step task on its own. StakerGPT is built on rare-access Claude Mythos: it monitors crypto markets around the clock, reasons over potential trade setups, filters them through risk controls and routes the approved trades for execution, without a human placing each order.
Every trade is public. StakerX publishes the full record daily at stakerx.ai/trades, with the market, direction, entry and exit prices and return of each position, including both live-executed and signal-derived trades. As of October 18, 2026, the record holds 804 trades across 139 trading days since June 1, 2026, so anyone can check what the agent did on any given day instead of relying on summary figures.
Fund it with almost any coin
Users can deposit USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX and more than 30 other cryptocurrencies from Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Tron and other networks. Each deposit is converted and credited as USDC, a dollar-backed stablecoin, on Solana, so users do not need to bridge or swap anything themselves. Stakes start at $10 and run for 30 days.
Three months of growth
As of October 18, 2026, StakerX.ai reports:
$40 million currently staked on the platform More than 8,200 registered users, of whom more than 3,000 have funded an account 804 trades published across 139 trading days More than 27,700 completed withdrawals, totalling $10+ million Nearly $12 million in yield credited to users since launch Coming to the App Store and Google Play
StakerX is preparing native mobile apps for iOS and Android, expected in December 2026, which will bring the dashboard, deposits and the live StakerGPT trade record to the Apple App Store and Google Play. The platform is available today on the web at stakerx.ai.
About StakerX
StakerX is an agentic trading platform built and operated by StakerX Strategies AG, a quantitative trading and investment firm based in Switzerland. Its AI trading agent, StakerGPT, is built on rare-access Claude Mythos and evaluates crypto markets, applies risk filters and routes trades, and the platform publishes every trade in its record daily. Its goal is to make agentic trading accessible to anyone who holds crypto, from any chain, with every trade on the record. StakerX launched publicly on July 13, 2026. More information is available at stakerx.ai.
Media contact
Rimma S. – StakerX Strategies AG | Media Relations
[email protected]
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StakerX's AI Agent Surpasses Passes $40M Staked Assets on Solana Within Three Months of Launch
StakerGPT trades crypto markets around the clock and publishes every trade it makes, as more than 8,200 users join the platform
StakerX.ai, an agentic trading platform built by Switzerland-based StakerX Strategies AG, has passed $40 million in assets staked on Solana less than three months after its public launch on July 13, 2026. Users fund their stakes with more than 40 cryptocurrencies from most major blockchains, and StakerGPT, the platform's agentic trading agent, puts that capital to work in crypto perpetual futures markets every day.
An AI agent that shows its work
An agentic system is AI software that carries out a multi-step task on its own. StakerGPT is built on rare-access Claude Mythos: it monitors crypto markets around the clock, reasons over potential trade setups, filters them through risk controls and routes the approved trades for execution, without a human placing each order.
Every trade is public. StakerX publishes the full record daily at stakerx.ai/trades, with the market, direction, entry and exit prices and return of each position, including both live-executed and signal-derived trades. As of October 18, 2026, the record holds 804 trades across 139 trading days since June 1, 2026, so anyone can check what the agent did on any given day instead of relying on summary figures.
Fund it with almost any coin
Users can deposit USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, TRX and more than 30 other cryptocurrencies from Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, BNB Chain, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Tron and other networks. Each deposit is converted and credited as USDC, a dollar-backed stablecoin, on Solana, so users do not need to bridge or swap anything themselves. Stakes start at $10 and run for 30 days.
Three months of growth
As of October 18, 2026, StakerX.ai reports:
$40 million currently staked on the platform More than 8,200 registered users, of whom more than 3,000 have funded an account 804 trades published across 139 trading days More than 27,700 completed withdrawals, totalling $10+ million Nearly $12 million in yield credited to users since launch Coming to the App Store and Google Play
StakerX is preparing native mobile apps for iOS and Android, expected in December 2026, which will bring the dashboard, deposits and the live StakerGPT trade record to the Apple App Store and Google Play. The platform is available today on the web at stakerx.ai.
About StakerX
StakerX is an agentic trading platform built and operated by StakerX Strategies AG, a quantitative trading and investment firm based in Switzerland. Its AI trading agent, StakerGPT, is built on rare-access Claude Mythos and evaluates crypto markets, applies risk filters and routes trades, and the platform publishes every trade in its record daily. Its goal is to make agentic trading accessible to anyone who holds crypto, from any chain, with every trade on the record. StakerX launched publicly on July 13, 2026. More information is available at stakerx.ai.
Media contact
Rimma S. - StakerX Strategies AG | Media Relations
BNB Chain has claimed a 42.59% share of the tokenized stock market, with $1.47 billion in assets on its network, surpassing the combined holdings of Ethereum and Solana.
Summary
BNB Chain claims its share of the tokenized stock market rose from 35.55% to 42.59% over the past 30 days. The network reportedly holds $1.47 billion in tokenized stocks, exceeding Ethereum and Solana’s combined $1.22 billion. Binance’s bStocks platform surpassed $1 billion in assets under management four months after its June launch. Separate market trackers report different totals for tokenized equities, leaving BNB Chain’s exact market share independently unconfirmed. According to data shared by MSB Intel, BNB Chain’s market share climbed from 35.55% over the past 30 days, a gain of 7.04 percentage points. Ethereum accounted for $730.43 million in tokenized equities, while Solana held $489.72 million.
The two networks had a combined $1.22 billion in tokenized stocks, approximately $250 million below BNB Chain’s reported holdings.
BNB Chain shared the figures in an October 19 post on X, citing MSB Intel’s market data. The figures have not been independently confirmed against an equivalent dataset from RWA.xyz or another market tracker.
Based on the reported figures, the total tokenized stock market would be worth approximately $3.45 billion, with BNB Chain accounting for more than two-fifths of the outstanding value.
BNB Chain tokenized stocks gain market share as bStocks expands Binance’s bStocks platform has emerged as one of the largest tokenized equity products operating on BNB Chain, reaching more than $1 billion in assets under management four months after its launch.
In an October 15 announcement, Binance said bStocks had crossed the milestone after launching on June 11, 2026.
The exchange reported more than $40 billion in cumulative trading volume, nearly 100 listed tokenized securities and $6 billion in conversions between tokenized assets and their underlying securities.
Binance said the figures were based on Dune Research data as of October 15. The company described bStocks as tokenized representations of U.S. securities backed on a one-to-one basis by the underlying assets.
The platform allows eligible customers to convert supported stock positions into tokens, trade them around the clock and transfer them to compatible blockchain wallets.
As crypto.news previously reported, the exchange introduced a conversion service allowing eligible customers to move between supported stock holdings and their corresponding bStocks without conversion fees.
Customers must maintain eligible stock accounts to convert their tokens back into the underlying securities. Binance’s offering is unavailable to U.S. persons and operates under approved prospectuses in Abu Dhabi Global Market.
The exchange has expanded the products’ use beyond spot trading. In October, Binance added tokenized securities representing JPMorgan Chase, Eli Lilly, Securitize and StablecoinX to its eligible margin collateral assets.
Supported tokens can be used across Cross Margin, Portfolio Margin and Portfolio Margin Pro accounts, subject to the exchange’s requirements.
BNB Chain had already reported substantial activity in tokenized equities before the latest market share figures.
In June, the network said more than 709 tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds were available across its ecosystem, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $5 billion and market capitalization surpassing $1 billion.
Its tokenized equity infrastructure includes decentralized trading platforms and lending protocols such as PancakeSwap, Venus and Lista DAO.
BNB Chain’s latest market share announcement did not provide an issuer-level breakdown showing how much of the reported 30-day gain came from newly issued bStocks, existing tokenized securities or other products.
Tokenized equity market reaches billions in outstanding assets Recent industry reports have placed the tokenized equity market between approximately $3 billion and $4 billion, although the figures differ depending on the assets and platforms included.
An October 16 industry report from DWF Labs valued the market at $3.8 billion, approximately six times its value at the beginning of January.
The report found that weekly decentralized exchange trading volume reached $2.54 billion during the week of October 5, compared with $45.8 million during the opening week of the year.
Trading activity remained below the $7.26 billion weekly peak recorded in late August, according to the research.
DWF Labs identified Ondo Finance as the largest tokenized equity issuer, while xStocks and Binance’s bStocks each approached $1 billion in outstanding value during the reporting period.
The research estimated that $313 million in tokenized equities had been deployed across decentralized finance protocols by October 15.
Separate data compiled by Castle Labs from CoinGecko placed the tokenized stock market at $2.47 billion across 250 tracked assets on October 18.
Its issuer figures put bStocks at approximately $1.02 billion, xStocks at $837.2 million and Ondo Global Markets at $822.6 million.
The tracker warned that issuer categories can overlap, while its coverage and classifications differ from those used by other market data providers.
Neither dataset directly confirms MSB Intel’s 42.59% estimate for BNB Chain. The figures cover different market classifications, and issuer totals cannot be treated as equivalent to blockchain-level holdings.
Ethereum and Solana remain major tokenized stock networks Ethereum and Solana continue to host tokenized equity products issued by companies including Ondo Finance, Backed Finance and other financial technology providers.
Backed’s xStocks platform has expanded across multiple blockchain networks, with products linked to publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds.
In March, Kraken-backed xStocks introduced its xChange platform, an on-chain trading engine designed to support tokenized equity transactions across Ethereum and Solana.
At launch, the platform supported more than 70 tokenized equities and reported $3.5 billion in on-chain trading volume, alongside $25 billion in total trading volume.
Ondo Finance has pursued a separate distribution strategy through integrations with wallets, exchanges and blockchain networks.
In June, Exodus Movement partnered with Ondo Finance to introduce trading for more than 200 tokenized stocks, ETFs and other real-world assets through its wallet application.
The service allows eligible users in supported jurisdictions to access tokenized securities on Solana, including products linked to Exodus shares.
Robinhood has pursued tokenized stock distribution through its European offering, while Ethereum and Solana issuers have continued developing products for blockchain-based equity trading.
Earlier industry figures showed differences between the number of token holders and the value of securities issued.
In July, tokenized equity adoption data shared by DWF Labs showed approximately 752,000 holders across five major platforms, up 92% over 30 days.
Robinhood accounted for around 328,000 holders, representing 44% of the tracked total, but held approximately $44 million in tokenized assets.
Ondo led by asset value at $857 million, followed by xStocks at $487 million and Securitize at $245 million.
Binance expands tokenized stocks into collateral and decentralized finance Binance has continued developing services around tokenized securities since the June launch of bStocks.
The exchange’s October 15 announcement said eligible retail traders could use supported bStocks as margin and futures collateral, allowing the assets to serve as trading positions and collateral within supported accounts.
The company said traders could borrow quote assets against supported tokenized securities, with leverage of up to five times under applicable conditions.
BNB Chain has pursued development of trading infrastructure through its tokenized stocks hackathon, organized with Binance Web3 Wallet.
The program opened September 16 and accepted submissions until October 11, with a $20,000 prize pool for developers building applications around tokenized equities.
According to the official program schedule, judging runs from October 12 through October 23, with winners scheduled to be announced during the week of October 26.
The program covers applications involving market data, tokenized stock trading, portfolio management and automated blockchain transactions.
In one year, real-world tokenized assets on Solana increased from around 700 million to 4.3 billion dollars, according to Castle Labs. The network thus narrows the gap with Ethereum and now represents 26% of its tokenized value, compared to only 4.5% a year earlier. However, this growth has paused since last month.
In brief Solana reaches 4.3 billion dollars in tokenized assets, an increase of about 514% in twelve months. Ethereum retains the top spot with 16.6 billion dollars, but Solana is gradually closing the gap. Despite a stable overall value over thirty days, the number of holders and transfer volumes continue to increase. Solana narrows gap with Ethereum At the end of September, tokenized assets on Solana reached a record $4.6 billion, according to rwa.xyz. In its report, Castle Labs reviews this spectacular growth, which multiplied the total value by more than six times in twelve months.
More precisely, the increase from 700 million to 4.3 billion dollars represents an increase of about 514%, not 600%. As the figures are rounded, this estimate remains indicative.
At the same time, Ethereum grew more modestly, rising from 15.5 to 16.6 billion dollars, about 7%. As a result, Solana now accounts for 26% of Ethereum’s tokenized value, compared to 4.5% a year earlier. The gap remains significant since the rival network still weighs nearly four times as much. Nevertheless, Solana is clearly gaining ground.
Stable value, but more activity According to data from rwa.xyz, Solana shows approximately 4.39 billion dollars in tokenized assets as of mid-October. However, their value slightly declined over the past thirty days. In other words, most of the annual growth now seems behind the network, at least temporarily.
Activity remains dynamic though. In one month, the number of holders jumped 46%, exceeding 907,000 addresses. Meanwhile, transfer volume increased by 47%, reaching 9.09 billion dollars.
This evolution shows that adoption continues despite the stagnation of total value. Furthermore, at the beginning of September, Solana led net flows of tokenized real-world assets. The network notably hosts tokenized financial securities, credit products, and yield-generating instruments.
Is tokenization enough to support SOL? This growth does not guarantee a rise in the SOL price. Indeed, the increase in tokenized asset value does not automatically translate to purchases of the native token. What follows will notably depend on the arrival of new issuers, available liquidity, and application development.
Tokenized stocks illustrate this mixed dynamic. Their value rose from 63 to 455 million dollars in one year, after a peak of 540 million in early September. They thus remain below their recent peak.
Moreover, Castle Labs estimates application revenues at 193 million dollars over thirty days, while other calculation methods suggest 163 million.
Finally, Solana must contend with ongoing competition, notably from other blockchains gaining ground, as highlighted by this analysis of BNB Chain versus Ethereum and Solana. To maintain its progress, the network will need to attract new players and retain those who already trust it.
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Nearly half of Binance-listed altcoins have dropped back below their 200-day moving average. That share reached 48.4% on October 18, up from under 10% in early October.
Blockchaincenter’s 90-day Altcoin Season Index still reads a neutral 51. However, its 30-day Altcoin Month Index has dropped to 29, close to the 25 level that marks Bitcoin season.
The Rally That Pulled 9 in 10 Altcoins Above Their TrendThe breadth reversal follows a run that started in late August. At that point, 81% of Binance altcoins traded below their 200-day average, analyst Darkfost wrote in a post.
By early October, that share had shrunk to less than 10%. That left roughly 9 in 10 of the exchange’s altcoins in a confirmed uptrend. Darkfost estimated that more than $814 billion flowed into altcoins over those two months.
However, over the past 15 days, more than $134 billion has left altcoins, the analyst estimated. He said quick profit-taking likely drove a large part of that exit.
Percentage of Altcoins Below 200 MA. Source: X/DarkfostFollow us on X to get the latest news as it happens
Bitcoin Takes Back the Lead While Exchange Stablecoins ShrinkThe cooling also appears when altcoins are measured against Bitcoin (BTC). Blockchaincenter’s indexes track how many of the top 50 coins beat Bitcoin over a set period.
Its 30-day gauge rose above the 75 altcoin season threshold in late September before falling to 29. The 90-day index has held up better because its window still includes the August and September gains.
Altcoin Month Index Falling From Above 75 to 29 in October 2026. Source: BlockchaincenterOver the past 90 days, Bitway (BTW) led the top 50 with a 2,993.3% gain. The token of the Bitcoin-compatible blockchain only began trading on March 2, 2026.
Quant (QNT) and NEAR Protocol (NEAR) followed with gains of 199.3% and 163.3%, compared with Bitcoin’s 25.9%. Among the top 50, 7 coins more than doubled, while Ethereum (ETH) beat Bitcoin by just 1.5 points.
Still, the Altcoin Season Index has gone 388 days without reaching altcoin season.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin dominance has climbed to about 60.7%. The metric tracks Bitcoin’s share of total crypto market value, so a rising reading means Bitcoin is holding its value better than the rest of the market.
The reading has risen from roughly 59% in late September. Dominance pushed back above 60% in the second week of October and now sits above its early-September high near 60.4%. That puts it at the highest level on the daily chart since at least late May.
Bitcoin Dominance Daily Chart Climbing to About 60.7%. Source: TradingViewOn the buying side, CryptoQuant data puts exchange reserves of Ethereum-based (ERC-20) stablecoins at $57.4 billion. That compares with almost $78 billion in November 2025. Smaller reserves leave less stablecoin capital parked on exchanges for fresh purchases.
Darkfost noted that altcoin sentiment shifts quickly, but he pointed to a pattern for patient buyers.
“Yet history shows that it is when interest in and performance of altcoins are at their lowest that it becomes worthwhile to consider building an appropriate exposure,” he said.
For now, the 30-day index sits 4 points above Bitcoin season territory, while stablecoin reserves on exchanges continue to shrink.
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Bitcoin rebounds to $83,000, up 1.09% in the past 24 hours.
According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has returned to the $83,000 mark, currently trading at $83,096, with a 1.09% gain over the past 24 hours.
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Financial Times: Total deposits in crypto vaults have surged from $4 billion at the start of last year to over $10 billion.
According to the Financial Times, the total deposits in crypto "vaults" have grown from $4 billion at the start of last year to over $10 billion. Financial technology firms, digital asset treasury management institutions, and hedge funds are the main depositors of these vaults. These vaults operate via smart contracts on DeFi platforms. Each vault has a "manager" (equivalent to an investment manager) responsible for selecting lending and borrowing strategies, setting risk limits, and collecting fees. Their yields typically range from 3% to 10%, while higher-risk strategies can even generate returns of 20% or more. However, this exposes depositors to collateral risks, liquidity risks, and smart contract risks.
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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung: Will take necessary measures to normalize the stock market.
According to Yonhap News Agency, in response to the sharp valuation drop of South Korean domestic stocks held by the National Pension Service amid the recent stock market slump, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said on the 19th: "We are continuously assessing what policy measures are needed to normalize the stock market. We will hold a comprehensive review soon and take necessary actions." Lee noted that "adjustments are inevitable after a sharp rise in stock prices, and no one knows how far the correction will go. Unlike in the past, the government now finds it difficult to directly intervene in financial or securities markets, and such intervention is also not advisable." However, he pointed out that "South Korea’s stock market is severely undervalued. One of the biggest reasons for this is that negative perceptions regarding market transparency and fairness have not been fully eliminated." On market trends and prospects, he said the government is closely monitoring the situation. He added: "Many people in the stock market keep telling themselves, 'It won’t fall, it won’t fall,' only to end up trapped. We need to minimize such situations as much as possible."
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Trillion-Dollar Merger Valuation: Market Eyes SpaceX's Financial Report, Speculation and Confidence Surrounding a Tesla Merger
SpaceX is set to release its third-quarter earnings report after Tuesday’s market close, with investors closely monitoring its revenue performance and capital expenditures to assess the company’s valuation and the feasibility of a potential merger with Tesla.
Barclays analysts project that if the two companies merge, the deal would likely be structured as an all-stock swap, with the higher-valued SpaceX serving as the surviving entity. Barclays’ reference valuations stand at $2.1 trillion for SpaceX and $1.5 trillion for Tesla, respectively; based on these figures, Tesla shareholders would likely receive approximately 0.7 SpaceX shares for each Tesla share held.
Analysts note that strong revenue growth and manageable capital expenditures at SpaceX would help boost market confidence in the merger plan. Conversely, if massive AI infrastructure spending continues to weigh on cash flow, the market may reevaluate SpaceX’s valuation and the deal’s rationale.
Market forecasts put SpaceX’s quarterly revenue at around $128.9 billion, while capital expenditures could reach as high as $196 billion, resulting in a free cash flow of negative $116 billion.
It is important to note that neither company has officially announced a merger, and the above deal structure and share swap ratio are purely analyst projections.
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Galxe提醒用户于10月26日前完成G质押解绑及提现
Galxe officially announced that as the Gravity Alpha mainnet is being phased out, most of its core services have been migrated to the Gravity Layer 1 (L1) network. Given that unstaking and fund withdrawals require a 7-day waiting period, users holding G tokens in staking or Smart Savings balances must complete relevant operations before 11:00 AM (UTC+8) on October 26, 2026. The G staking page will be officially taken offline at that time. Smart Savings users who fail to manually withdraw or migrate funds by the deadline will have their remaining assets automatically transferred to Smart Balance, and these funds will no longer be withdrawable afterward.
Revolut’s newly established cryptocurrency entity, Revolut Global Digital Assets Limited, has obtained a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license from Gibraltar. The approval will support its international crypto business expansion strategy. Revolut states it currently has over 80 million retail customers, including 16 million crypto users.
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PANews reported on October 19, citing SoSoValue data, that crypto sectors were mixed, with the PayFi sector up 1.12% over 24 hours, led by Monero (XMR) up 2.37% and Zcash (ZEC) up 2.32%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) rose 0.89%, breaking above $82,000; Ethereum (ETH) rose 0.45%, oscillating narrowly around the $2,400 level.
In other sectors, the Layer1 sector rose 0.48% over 24 hours, with NEAR Protocol (NEAR) up 2.22%; the CeFi sector rose 0.48%, with Binance Coin (BNB) up 0.77%; the DeFi sector rose 0.14%, with Convex Finance (CVX) up 6.06%.
In addition, the Meme sector fell 0.02%, with Pons (PONS) down 10.35%; the Layer2 sector fell 0.32%, with Starknet (STRK) down 4.31%; the RWA sector fell 1.32%, with Maple Finance (SYRUP) down 3.82%; the DePIN sector fell 1.57%, with Grass (GRASS) down 3.56%.
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Middle Eastern crude oil exports rebound, with sharp surges in freight rates leaving Asian refiners unable to mask their profit squeeze.
Middle East crude oil exports continue to recover, but surging transportation and insurance costs are sharply squeezing the profits of Asian refiners. Data from HiLo Analytics shows that Asian refiners have an average gross profit of around $40 per barrel. After deducting roughly $33 in freight costs, net profit shrinks to just about $7 per barrel, with freight eating up approximately 82% of gross profit. In contrast, this figure is only around 16% for refiners on the U.S. Gulf Coast and in Northwestern Europe. On the supply side, data from Kpler indicates that Middle East crude oil exports rebounded to 15.4 million barrels per day in September, roughly 90% of pre-war levels. Asia’s crude oil imports in October are projected to hit 23.5 million barrels per day, the highest level since February this year. However, Iran’s attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz continue to drive up freight and insurance costs, with transportation costs on some routes reaching several times pre-war levels. To attract Asian buyers, Middle East oil producers have been forced to slash crude oil prices significantly, with some discounts reaching up to $30 per barrel. But this strategy of trading lower prices for higher volumes still struggles to offset the pressure from logistics costs. If refiners further cut operating rates or switch to other crude oil sources, the recovery in Middle East exports could be hampered again.
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Omarchy author DHH slams Chinese software as overly crude, naming WeChat, Alipay and HarmonyOS.
Beating AI News, a crypto and blockchain news outlet, reports that renowned developer DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) introduced his self-developed Linux desktop system Omarchy at the GOSIM conference in Shenzhen on October 17, and later attended a developer gathering with over 500 registrants. The next day, he praised Huawei’s MateBook Fold foldable device as futuristic, but in the evening criticized Chinese software as overly crude, naming WeChat, Alipay, and HarmonyOS.
DHH stated that while he greatly admires China’s AI models and hardware, its software design remains confusing to him. He elaborated that the issues center on interface aesthetics, user workflows, and detail refinement, citing problems like insufficient white space, inconsistent margins, jarring page transitions, rough animations, and disorganized information architecture. DHH noted that large Silicon Valley apps still hold a clear lead in these areas.
Some netizens pushed back, arguing that WeChat and Alipay integrate a wide range of lifestyle services including payments and transportation, reducing the need for users to switch between apps, so complex interfaces are unavoidable. DHH disagreed, asserting that rich functionality and refined design can coexist, and there is no excuse for super apps to be so crude.
Others in the comment section pointed out that the complexity of domestic apps is tied to commercialization: splash-screen shake-to-open ads, loan portals, and short video recommendations are increasingly crowding out core functional interfaces. One developer analogized this to adding loan features to X and stuffing TikTok into Stripe.
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KORUB rose nearly 18% in 24 hours, with its market capitalization climbing to $22.65 million.
According to market data, South Korea Bull 3X ETF (KORUB) rose nearly 18% in 24 hours, with its market capitalization reaching $22.65 million and 24-hour trading volume hitting $53.11 million. KORUB is a tokenized bStock that grants users economic exposure to the South Korea Bull 3X ETF; each token is fully backed by the corresponding underlying stocks held by the issuer at a U.S.-regulated broker-dealer. South Korea’s stock market has recently experienced a sharp slump. On October 16, the South Korean Ministry of Finance issued a response, stating it will closely monitor whether stock market volatility spreads to the bond, foreign exchange, and money markets. The government and relevant agencies will enhance stock market monitoring and strictly address any acts that disrupt market order. The statement noted that strong economic growth expectations, current account surpluses, and solid corporate earnings confirm that South Korea’s stock market fundamentals remain sound.
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ETH whale's short positions were forced liquidated again, with total liquidations reaching $16.32 million today.
According to TradingBeats' monitoring, the ETH short position at address 0xb15b…dbae saw another partial liquidation in the afternoon, with around 1,416 ETH forcibly liquidated, a liquidation turnover of approximately $3.46 million, and a corresponding realized spread loss of about $112,000. Earlier that day, the address had already undergone three partial liquidations, totaling roughly 6,747 ETH liquidated, with a total liquidation turnover of $16.32 million. As of press time, the address still holds around 5,663 ETH short positions, with a position value of approximately $13.76 million, an average entry price of $2,365.86, and an unrealized loss of roughly $362,000. The current position uses 25x full leverage, with a liquidation price of about $2,452.74.
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Cathie Wood is bullish on storage chips, while Bank of America warns that risk assets are not yet at a bottom-buying opportunity.
ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood recently stated that memory chips have entered a buy zone, adding that the rapid rise in memory prices and the impact of falling electronics sales have already been partially priced into stocks. In contrast, Michael Hartnett, Chief Investment Strategist at Bank of America Global Research, pointed out that the end of market sell signals does not mark the arrival of a buying opportunity, as two key prerequisites for a return to risk assets remain unmet.
The surge in memory chip prices is mainly driven by AI servers crowding out production capacity, with original manufacturers shifting more output to high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and server DDR5, resulting in tightened supply for consumer-grade memory. According to TrendForce data, DRAM contract prices are projected to rise 90%–95% quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2026 and 58%–63% in Q2 2026, while NAND Flash contract prices will increase 55%–60% and 70%–75% respectively in the same periods.
Soaring memory costs have also begun to impact the consumer electronics supply chain. Citing IDC data, global smartphone shipments in Q3 2026 fell 22% year-on-year to 255.3 million units. Memory original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) benefit from the price hikes, while end-device brands face the dual challenges of rising costs and weak sales. Key areas to monitor going forward include whether DRAM/NAND contract price gains continue to narrow, whether declines in smartphone and PC shipments improve, whether memory’s share of end-device material costs has peaked, and whether memory OEMs will reallocate production capacity to consumer-grade products.
Rockstar Games nearly doubled its staff to 4,711 while building Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6). Parent Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) is still down substantially this year, a month before launch.
Bloomberg reports analysts expect about 40 million sales and $3 billion in revenue within four months of launch. However, TTWO closed Friday at $205.28, down 21.86% over 12 months.
Did Rockstar Fix Its Crunch Problem?Bloomberg News discussed the shift. Rockstar overhauled its production culture to curb excessive overtime. Even so, the studio could not avoid extra hours entirely, according to Bloomberg’s written report.
Headcount rose from 2,441 when Red Dead Redemption 2 launched in 2018 to 4,711 across 12 studios by August.
Meanwhile, GTA 6 took more than eight years and two delays, the second pushing launch to Nov. 19.
Rockstar believes that work could shorten development of its next major release.
Is GTA 6 Already Priced Into Take-Two?Take-Two guides to $8 billion to $8.2 billion in fiscal 2027 net bookings, its measure of digital and physical sales. It reiterated that outlook in August, citing the Nov. 19 launch.
Net bookings fell 3% to $1.39 billion in the June quarter, the first of its fiscal year. Still, GTA typically makes up less than 15% of quarterly revenue, GameSpot reports.
Rockstar also priced the standard edition at about $80, $20 above GTA V’s 2013 launch price, GameSpot reports.
StoneX analyst Mike Hickey keeps a Buy rating and $300 price target on TTWO. He ties the declines to online mode timing, slowing console sales, and early NBA 2K27 sales concerns.
Leak concerns persist, with a pseudonymous GTA 6 leaker threatening to spoil the ending if caught. Separately, Xbox denied reports of exclusive cloud streaming rights for GTA 6 this month.
Ultimately, Nov. 19 will show whether a larger Rockstar can turn eight years of work into the sales analysts expect. It will also test the studio’s belief that its next release could arrive sooner.
CT surges over 48% in the short term, its FDV climbs to $300 million.
According to HTX market data, likely driven by news that Upbit will list CT on its KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs, CT surged over 48% in a short period, briefly breaking above $0.44, and has since pulled back to $0.39, with its fully diluted valuation (FDV) rising to $300 million.
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Bitcoin briefly broke through $83,000.
According to HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly broke through $83,000, with a 24-hour gain of 1.54%.
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Over the past 12 hours, UNITREE saw total liquidations of $1.9284 million across its network, including $1.9049 million in short position liquidations.
According to Coinglass data, UNITREE saw $1.9284 million in total liquidations across the network over the past 12 hours, with short positions accounting for $1.9049 million and long positions only $23,500. Unitree Technology’s stock rose 16.15% today, pushing its market capitalization to 200.58 billion yuan. Meanwhile, UNITREE perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid have recorded five consecutive negative funding rate settlements between 10:00 and 14:00 today, with a cumulative rate of approximately -0.47087%. Hyperliquid’s current funding rate is around -0.13732% per hour, with the estimated annualized funding rate rising to 1,240%. On Binance, UNITREE contracts currently carry a rate of approximately -0.777501% per 4 hours, with the next settlement scheduled for 16:00 Beijing Time, roughly 38% higher than Hyperliquid’s rate. If prices and funding rates remain at current levels, the 24-hour funding cost for a $10,000 short position would be around $338 on Hyperliquid and $467 on Binance.
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Google open-sources Harness²: Allows AI to autonomously improve toolchains, lifting GLM-5's benchmark score by 11.5 points.
Insight: Beating AI Flash News, Google Research has open-sourced Harness2, enabling AI agents to automatically modify system prompts, memory, skills, tool rules, and even scripts and plugins without retraining the underlying model. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0 and supports OpenCode and Codex. Its core mechanism lets agents learn through trial and error: when facing a new task, the system first proposes multiple improvement plans, has different agent versions execute them separately, compares their performance, and finally combines the best elements to form a more suitable solution. Even without a standard answer, it can identify improvement directions based on actual execution processes. After a task is completed, the system retains records of which modifications worked and why, so it can reference this data for similar tasks in the future instead of starting from scratch each time. Google tested Harness2 using GLM-5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash. On WorkBuddy-Bench, GLM-5 paired with OpenCode saw its average score jump from 64.2 to 75.7 after just one round of optimization, outperforming unoptimized Gemini 3.5 Flash’s 72.4 points. In legal task tests, GLM-5’s pass rate for some scoring criteria also rose from 59.6% to 71.4%. However, the experiment defaulted to Claude Opus 4.8 for proposing and implementing improvements, with GLM-5 and Gemini primarily responsible for executing tasks—meaning the evolution was not achieved entirely by these models on their own. Chinese developer Joseph Zhou also demonstrated an experiment integrating Harness2 with Jev 1.14, noting consistent improvements in performance on visual tasks.
A whale withdrew $2.34 million worth of ARB and UNI from a CEX, coinciding with ARB unlocking over 90 million tokens in a single day
Whale address 0x204 withdrew approximately $2.34 million worth of Arbitrum (ARB) and Uniswap (UNI) tokens from Bybit about 2 hours ago.
Notably, Arbitrum just unlocked over 90 million ARB this week. Despite ongoing token unlock pressure, ARB's price has risen sharply recently and remained elevated over the past month.
Bloomberg: Hyperliquid seeks U.S. rules that protect its blockchain and place regulation at the application layer
Hyperliquid Labs co-founder Jeff Yan is seeking U.S. rules that can protect its blockchain. He believes Hyperliquid's regulatory responsibility should fall on the financial institutions operating markets on that blockchain — that is, at the application layer — rather than on the blockchain network itself. This regulatory division would allow Hyperliquid to enter Wall Street without bearing the full compliance burden of a traditional exchange.
Jeff Yan also said that Hyperliquid has not yet opened to U.S. customers. Hyperliquid would rather become the underlying trading technology used by traditional financial institutions than replace existing financial market participants, positioning itself by analogy to how Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides computing infrastructure for enterprises.
Another twist in Nscale's IPO plans: Microsoft exits data center project
Microsoft (MSFT.O) has exited its data center partnership with emerging UK cloud service provider Nscale in Loughton, Essex, England. The move comes at a critical time as Nscale prepares for its IPO, adding another twist to the startup's listing plans.
The report said Microsoft did not specify the reason for terminating the cooperation, but the project has faced a series of delays. Local authorities have informed Nscale that power for the facility is not expected to be available until the 2030s. In addition, Nscale's flagship project in Norway has also fallen about six months behind its original schedule, with only 6.4 MW of the planned 30 MW data center capacity currently operational.
According to Nscale's IPO filings, about 85% of the company's contracts depend on Microsoft and Anthropic. Microsoft had originally planned to be the anchor tenant of Nscale's first UK data center in Essex. Microsoft's exit will be a blow to Nscale, which is seeking to raise up to $3 billion through its IPO and could list as soon as this month.
Analyst: Mid- and small-cap crypto assets rarely lead BTC, but trend reversal risk is high
Crypto analyst Darkfost wrote that since late August, mid- and small-cap crypto assets have shown the strongest market cap growth, with the gap between their monthly average and annual average market cap continuing to widen, and the ratio now reaching 41%. By comparison, Bitcoin's ratio is 7%, and large-cap crypto assets are only 3.5%.
Darkfost noted that this trend is relatively rare, because Bitcoin usually leads the market first, as was the case after the bear market ended in 2023. However, mid- and small-cap assets are more sensitive to market changes, and the current trend could also reverse quickly.
Analysis: Long-end pricing anchor has clearly shifted to a "growth/AI cycle," and the market's pricing power over U.S. inflation is rapidly fading
CITIC Securities released a research note pointing out that U.S. September CPI of 3.7% YoY and PPI of 6.3% YoY both came in above expectations, but the reaction of long-end Treasury yields faded rapidly within 24 hours: after the CPI release on October 14, the 10-year Treasury yield first surged about 13bp to 5.325%, then gave back its gains and closed lower; after the PPI release on October 15, the 10-year rose only slightly by about 2.5bp while the 30-year moved directly lower, and the 10-year then quickly fell back to around 5.048%.
The market's pricing power over inflation is rapidly fading, and the long-end pricing anchor has clearly shifted to a "growth/AI cycle" — the "recession" it is pricing is essentially the tail risk of a downturn in the AI capex cycle, rather than a traditional demand recession, and it can coexist with stagflation. This is still left-side tentative pricing and has not yet formed a confirmed trend. In the short term, U.S. stocks may continue sector rotation, with funds shifting from AI themes to energy, defensive consumer staples, and healthcare that could benefit from expectations of a Democratic sweep in the midterms. Hong Kong stocks may also benefit from the reversal of overseas AI hardware trades, as well as capital allocation from Indonesia potentially being removed from the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
Trader Killa: Still bullish on Bitcoin, will not close position before it reaches $126,000
Trader Killa wrote that Bitcoin's rise is not necessarily because the trend follows logic — sometimes it is precisely because the market defies convention. If market trends always followed logic and every move could be explained rationally, everyone would make money, but the Bitcoin market is not like that. He currently still holds a BTC long position and will not close it before the price reaches $126,000.
A trader transferred 1.662 million ONDO and nearly 30,000 LINK to Binance, with unrealized gains of over $400,000 after holding for 5 months
Trader "KIMCHOWOO" on OpenSea spent $676,500 about 5 months ago to buy about 1.662 million ONDO and nearly 30,000 LINK, and the value of the position once rose to $1.084 million during the holding period. About two hours ago, the trader transferred the entire position to Binance, and would profit over $400,000 if sold.
Data: ZRO, XPL and other tokens will see large unlocks next week, with ZRO unlocking about $43.3 million
Token Unlocks data shows that tokens including ZRO, XPL, and H will see large unlocks next week, among which:
LayerZero (ZRO) will unlock about 23.28 million tokens at 7:00 PM Beijing time on October 20, representing about 3.83% of circulating supply, worth about $43.3 million;
Plasma (XPL) will unlock about 227 million tokens at 8:00 PM Beijing time on October 25, representing about 5.02% of circulating supply, worth about $17.9 million;
Humanity (H) will unlock about 266 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on October 25, representing about 6.84% of circulating supply, worth about $15 million;
SoSoValue (SOSO) will unlock about 23.46 million tokens at 5:00 PM Beijing time on October 24, representing about 5.63% of circulating supply, worth about $6.9 million;
SOON (SOON) will unlock about 20.24 million tokens at 4:30 PM Beijing time on October 23, representing about 3.50% of circulating supply, worth about $6.3 million;
Kaito (KAITO) will unlock about 17.6 million tokens at 8:00 PM Beijing time on October 20, representing about 3.69% of circulating supply, worth about $5 million;
ChainOpera AI (COAI) will unlock about 19.55 million tokens at 3:00 PM Beijing time on October 25, representing about 6.36% of circulating supply, worth about $5 million.
DeepSeek announces API web search and scraping fees: 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests
DeepSeek issued an announcement that the DeepSeek API now supports web search and scraping, billed by request count at 5 yuan per 1,000 successful requests. The announcement said that when users currently use the DeepSeek API in DeepSeek Harness/Claude Code/Codex, they already access the Search/Fetch interfaces through server-side tool calls, and these Search/Fetch interface calls are currently not billed. They will begin to be charged per call starting at 00:00 Beijing time on November 1, 2026.
Strive CEO posts chart again, possibly hinting at Bitcoin accumulation data disclosure next week
Strive CEO Matt Cole again posted the company's Bitcoin holdings data chart on X, with the caption "now stacking sats at double horsepower," hinting that BTC accumulation data may be disclosed next week, a move that may emulate Strategy founder Michael Saylor.
Michael Saylor posts Bitcoin Tracker info again, may disclose position change data next week
Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, again posted Bitcoin Tracker-related information. Based on past patterns, Strategy usually discloses Bitcoin position change information the day after Michael Saylor posts related messages.
Divergence over Bitcoin's year-end outlook intensifies: optimists look to $100,000, cautious camp focuses on inflation pressure
Institutions hold differing views on Bitcoin's year-end trajectory, with optimists looking toward $100,000 and the cautious camp focusing on inflation pressure.
Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen believes that, driven by continued institutional buying through ETFs and corporations, inflation and government debt concerns, and a clearer regulatory environment, Bitcoin could break above $100,000 by the end of 2026. LO:TECH Head of Research Adam Morgan McCarthy expects Bitcoin will most likely trade in the $85,000–$95,000 range before year-end, with inflation pressure and Fed policy remaining market headwinds; to return above $100,000, the market may need to lower expectations for a Fed rate hike in December, and falling oil prices and easing inflation could help bring about that change.
CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill pointed out that the contradiction between persistent inflation and a weakening labor market will affect the Fed's future policy room: cooling inflation could provide room to respond to labor market weakness, while re-accelerating inflation could keep monetary policy restrictive.
Q3 crypto security incident losses up 55% QoQ, Hacken warns audits cannot cover all risks
A report from blockchain security firm Hacken shows that in the third quarter of 2026, the crypto industry saw 107 security incidents with losses of $1.18 billion, up 55% quarter-over-quarter. Of this, about $906.8 million in losses involved breaches of suppliers or development tools, known vulnerabilities not patched in time, and related components not included in the latest audit scope. In addition, some derivatives trading platforms and prediction markets rely on inadequate key management arrangements for asset security, though no actively exploited vulnerabilities have been found on those platforms. The analysis holds that security audits cannot replace continuous vulnerability management, and projects still need to patch known vulnerabilities promptly and ensure audits cover system components that actually affect fund security.
Hyperliquid burned about $891,000 worth of HYPE in the past 24 hours, cumulative burn at 4.96% of max supply
Hyperliquid repurchased and burned about 11,340 HYPE in the past 24 hours at an average price of $78.55, worth about $890,900, while platform fee revenue over the same period was estimated at about $764,900.
To date, HYPE's cumulative burn is about 49.63 million tokens, worth about $3.9 billion at current valuation, accounting for 4.96% of its 1 billion max supply. In addition, Hyperliquid's revenue over the past 30 days was about $69.94 million.
Justin Sun trades PEPE again after two years, received 7.2 trillion PEPE from Poloniex multisig address 22 hours ago
Justin Sun traded PEPE again after a two-year gap. 22 hours ago, the Justin Sun address (0x176…0a132) received 7.2 trillion PEPE, worth $28.44 million, from a Poloniex multisig address.
CZ responds to BNB phone proposal: not sure carrying a crypto phone is a good idea
BNB ecosystem member Spigg proposed launching a dedicated BNB phone that integrates a native wallet, instant payment and transfer functions, and consolidates all DApps in the BNB ecosystem onto a single platform, so users can manage assets, make payments, and interact with on-chain applications on one device.
In response, Binance founder CZ said he rarely disagrees with Spigg, but appeared to remain reserved about whether carrying a crypto phone is a good idea. However, CZ did not further explain his specific concerns, nor did he explicitly oppose launching a BNB phone.
"Bitcoin Jesus" Roger Ver reaches deal with Trump administration, will pay up to $49.9 million to settle U.S. tax charges
Early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver, known as "Bitcoin Jesus," has reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve criminal charges of alleged mail fraud and tax evasion. Under the agreement, if Ver complies with the relevant terms, the indictment against him will be dismissed after one month, and the IRS may recover up to $49.9 million from him, covering taxes, civil penalties, and interest.
The DOJ previously alleged that Ver failed to pay at least $48 million in taxes after renouncing his U.S. citizenship in 2014 and obtaining citizenship in St. Kitts and Nevis. Ver was arrested in Spain in April 2024. Earlier this year, he publicly called on Trump to help end the legal action against him, but ultimately did not receive a presidential pardon, instead resolving the case through an agreement with the Trump administration. Ver expressed gratitude for the resolution of the case and for the leadership and professional handling of the Trump administration.
Qubic discloses security incident that compromised 1,404 wallets, about 2.94 trillion QU transferred
Qubic released a security incident update stating that between 23:42 on October 17 and 01:26 on October 18 (UTC), attackers exploited a vulnerability of insufficient randomness in some wallet seeds to access and transfer assets from 1,404 Qubic wallets, involving about 2.94 trillion QU. Qubic said the issue lay in the wallet seed generation process, not in the Qubic protocol itself.
Broadcom, Verizon and 7 other U.S. companies oppose tokenized trading of their stocks on OKXICE
OKXICE, a tokenized stock trading platform jointly established by OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, disclosed in an announcement released on October 15 that nine U.S. listed companies have opposed trading of their stocks on the platform, including Broadcom, Verizon, UnitedHealth, AppLovin, Applied Digital, Rocket Lab, CoreWeave, Applied Optoelectronics, and Cerebras Systems, which had previously chosen to exit. The announcement did not state the reasons for the opposition. In addition, Nasdaq said it would choose not to have its own stock tokenized under this framework. OKXICE had previously notified the SEC of its plan to rely on the five-year "innovation exemption" launched by the SEC on September 17 to first list tokenized stocks of 63 U.S. listed companies.
Anthropic announces public benefit fund, commits 5% of shares to public interest
The company will inject a portion of its shares into the newly established Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. Subject to shareholder approval, it is committing 5% of shares today; thereafter, each time the company's valuation grows 50% above a set baseline, the board may, at its discretion, add another 2%. The fund is set up as a wholly owned LLC rather than a charitable structure such as a 501(c)(3), and the equity held will not be used for lobbying or political donations in any country. Anthropic said the fund will be used for large donations to traditional nonprofits, direct distributions to specific groups, and other purposes, with a key focus on addressing the labor market impact of AI (the company has already committed $200 million to this). Combined with the founders' commitment to donate 80% of their holdings and an employee equity matching program, about 20% of Anthropic's shares will be used for the public interest, and may increase further with valuation milestones.
Latvia plans to allow residents to pay taxes with crypto as early as 2027, parliament simultaneously reforms crypto tax rules
Dizis Dejus, strategic planning advisor to the Latvian Prime Minister, said at the UN:BLOCK fintech conference in Riga that the country plans to allow residents to use cryptocurrency to pay personal income tax as early as next year. The Ministry of Finance has agreed, but technical integration with payment service providers remains to be completed. The move builds on the crypto tax payment and asset tokenization plan announced in May 2025. The Latvian parliament passed legislation on October 15 to tax withdrawals from crypto investment accounts that exceed the initial deposit amount, replacing the previous practice of taxing each transaction, and introduced a one-time declaration mechanism: holders can pay 10% on the market value of declared assets by the end of 2026 to settle historical tax liabilities, with the declaration period from April 1 to May 31, 2027, and the tax payment deadline on July 23. Dejus did not disclose the payment service providers or eligible currencies.
South Korean stock market opens down 3%
South Korea's KOSPI index fell below 5,600 points in early trading, down 3.17% intraday. SK Hynix fell 4%, and Samsung Electronics fell 3%.
Nikkei 225 intraday decline widens to 2.2%, South Korea's KOSPI intraday decline narrows to 1%
The Nikkei 225 index fell back below 64,000 points, down 2.20% intraday. South Korea's KOSPI index narrowed its intraday decline to 1.00%, after falling more than 3% earlier.
A whale closed a $110 million BTC long and switched to a $45.8 million U.S. stock long
A whale's long position of 1,360 BTC (about $110 million) had a market stop-loss placed at $80,500 that was ultimately not triggered. At 4 AM, BTC briefly fell to $80,684, just $184 away from the stop-loss price, but did not continue lower. At 5 AM, the whale closed the BTC long at $80,949, losing about $3.26 million. It then shifted to U.S. stocks, opening a long position worth $45.8 million, including TSLA, DRAM, and SOXL. The liquidation price of this long position is at $80,034.
Musk comments on Anthropic public benefit fund: suggests "distributing shares directly to the public"
Anthropic announced early this morning that it will inject a portion of its shares into a newly established wholly owned entity, the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, which serves the public interest entirely. The fund's initial size is 5% of the company's shares, and thereafter each time the company's valuation grows 50% above a set baseline, an additional 2% can be injected, up to about 20%. In response, Elon Musk replied suggesting "distributing shares directly to the public," and later added "that's exactly what I'm going to do."
World launches World ID suite for banks, Zoom deepfake detection fully open
World (Worldcoin), the identity project co-founded by Sam Altman, launched a World ID suite for banks and financial institutions, the first industry-specific product for the identity protocol. Co-founder Alex Blania unveiled it at the Money20/20 conference. The suite integrates the World ID app, World ID for Zoom, and World ID for Agents (AgentKit) for AI agents, designed to guard against deepfake fraud and AI impersonation. The Zoom deepfake detection feature has ended its testing phase that began in April and is now fully open. World named OpenExchange, Bain Capital, VanEck Funds, and Outtake as design partners, but did not disclose the specific banks using the product or pricing. More than 18 million people currently hold "Proof of Human."
CZ's autobiography "Freedom of Money" Japanese edition launches, all proceeds donated to charity
Binance founder CZ (Changpeng Zhao) posted that the Japanese edition of his autobiography "Freedom of Money" officially went on sale that day. The English edition, Chinese edition, and Audible audiobook were previously launched, with more languages coming soon. CZ said all proceeds from the book will be donated to charity. He also released a 4-minute-31-second video recounting his personal experience, noting that the video and most of the voiceover were generated by AI.
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According to HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly broke through $83,000, with a 24-hour gain of 1.54%.
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Over the past 12 hours, UNITREE saw total liquidations of $1.9284 million across its network, including $1.9049 million in short position liquidations.
According to Coinglass data, UNITREE saw $1.9284 million in total liquidations across the network over the past 12 hours, with short positions accounting for $1.9049 million and long positions only $23,500. Unitree Technology’s stock rose 16.15% today, pushing its market capitalization to 200.58 billion yuan. Meanwhile, UNITREE perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid have recorded five consecutive negative funding rate settlements between 10:00 and 14:00 today, with a cumulative rate of approximately -0.47087%. Hyperliquid’s current funding rate is around -0.13732% per hour, with the estimated annualized funding rate rising to 1,240%. On Binance, UNITREE contracts currently carry a rate of approximately -0.777501% per 4 hours, with the next settlement scheduled for 16:00 Beijing Time, roughly 38% higher than Hyperliquid’s rate. If prices and funding rates remain at current levels, the 24-hour funding cost for a $10,000 short position would be around $338 on Hyperliquid and $467 on Binance.
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Google open-sources Harness²: Allows AI to autonomously improve toolchains, lifting GLM-5's benchmark score by 11.5 points.
Insight: Beating AI Flash News, Google Research has open-sourced Harness2, enabling AI agents to automatically modify system prompts, memory, skills, tool rules, and even scripts and plugins without retraining the underlying model. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0 and supports OpenCode and Codex. Its core mechanism lets agents learn through trial and error: when facing a new task, the system first proposes multiple improvement plans, has different agent versions execute them separately, compares their performance, and finally combines the best elements to form a more suitable solution. Even without a standard answer, it can identify improvement directions based on actual execution processes. After a task is completed, the system retains records of which modifications worked and why, so it can reference this data for similar tasks in the future instead of starting from scratch each time. Google tested Harness2 using GLM-5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash. On WorkBuddy-Bench, GLM-5 paired with OpenCode saw its average score jump from 64.2 to 75.7 after just one round of optimization, outperforming unoptimized Gemini 3.5 Flash’s 72.4 points. In legal task tests, GLM-5’s pass rate for some scoring criteria also rose from 59.6% to 71.4%. However, the experiment defaulted to Claude Opus 4.8 for proposing and implementing improvements, with GLM-5 and Gemini primarily responsible for executing tasks—meaning the evolution was not achieved entirely by these models on their own. Chinese developer Joseph Zhou also demonstrated an experiment integrating Harness2 with Jev 1.14, noting consistent improvements in performance on visual tasks.
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Brent crude oil slipped below the $105 level, posting an intraday decline of 2.43%.
According to Bitget's market data, Brent crude oil fell below $105 per barrel, with an intraday drop of 2.43%; WTI crude oil declined by 2.21%, trading at $96.76 per barrel.
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According to HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly broke through $83,000, with a 24-hour gain of 1.54%.
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Over the past 12 hours, UNITREE saw total liquidations of $1.9284 million across its network, including $1.9049 million in short position liquidations.
According to Coinglass data, UNITREE saw $1.9284 million in total liquidations across the network over the past 12 hours, with short positions accounting for $1.9049 million and long positions only $23,500. Unitree Technology’s stock rose 16.15% today, pushing its market capitalization to 200.58 billion yuan. Meanwhile, UNITREE perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid have recorded five consecutive negative funding rate settlements between 10:00 and 14:00 today, with a cumulative rate of approximately -0.47087%. Hyperliquid’s current funding rate is around -0.13732% per hour, with the estimated annualized funding rate rising to 1,240%. On Binance, UNITREE contracts currently carry a rate of approximately -0.777501% per 4 hours, with the next settlement scheduled for 16:00 Beijing Time, roughly 38% higher than Hyperliquid’s rate. If prices and funding rates remain at current levels, the 24-hour funding cost for a $10,000 short position would be around $338 on Hyperliquid and $467 on Binance.
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Google open-sources Harness²: Allows AI to autonomously improve toolchains, lifting GLM-5's benchmark score by 11.5 points.
Insight: Beating AI Flash News, Google Research has open-sourced Harness2, enabling AI agents to automatically modify system prompts, memory, skills, tool rules, and even scripts and plugins without retraining the underlying model. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0 and supports OpenCode and Codex. Its core mechanism lets agents learn through trial and error: when facing a new task, the system first proposes multiple improvement plans, has different agent versions execute them separately, compares their performance, and finally combines the best elements to form a more suitable solution. Even without a standard answer, it can identify improvement directions based on actual execution processes. After a task is completed, the system retains records of which modifications worked and why, so it can reference this data for similar tasks in the future instead of starting from scratch each time. Google tested Harness2 using GLM-5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash. On WorkBuddy-Bench, GLM-5 paired with OpenCode saw its average score jump from 64.2 to 75.7 after just one round of optimization, outperforming unoptimized Gemini 3.5 Flash’s 72.4 points. In legal task tests, GLM-5’s pass rate for some scoring criteria also rose from 59.6% to 71.4%. However, the experiment defaulted to Claude Opus 4.8 for proposing and implementing improvements, with GLM-5 and Gemini primarily responsible for executing tasks—meaning the evolution was not achieved entirely by these models on their own. Chinese developer Joseph Zhou also demonstrated an experiment integrating Harness2 with Jev 1.14, noting consistent improvements in performance on visual tasks.
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Brent crude oil slipped below the $105 level, posting an intraday decline of 2.43%.
According to Bitget's market data, Brent crude oil fell below $105 per barrel, with an intraday drop of 2.43%; WTI crude oil declined by 2.21%, trading at $96.76 per barrel.
Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings has transferred 1,000 BTC worth approximately $82.8 million to cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Gate over the past five days, raising questions about another possible sale from its Bitcoin reserves.
Summary
MARA linked wallets transferred 1,000 BTC worth approximately $82.8 million to Binance and Gate over the past five days, according to Lookonchain. The latest deposits follow an earlier transfer of 996 BTC worth roughly $81 million to a wallet linked to Galaxy Digital on Oct. 8. MARA sold approximately 23,093 BTC for $1.63 billion during the first half of 2026 as the company reduced debt and funded operations. The latest exchange transfers have raised questions about further Bitcoin sales, although no completed sale has been confirmed. Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain reported on Oct. 19 that wallets associated with MARA had deposited the Bitcoin into the two exchanges, suggesting the company may be preparing to sell some of its holdings.
The transactions involved wallets identified through blockchain tracking data, including addresses associated with MARA’s mining operations.
According to the wallet activity referenced by Lookonchain, the funds moved through multiple addresses before reaching their reported exchange destinations.
However, the transfers alone do not confirm that MARA has sold the Bitcoin. The company has not publicly established the purpose of the transactions, and the available records do not show whether the funds were converted into cash, used for trading, or transferred for another purpose.
The reported activity follows a series of Bitcoin sales and treasury transactions by MARA during 2026, when the company began using more of its cryptocurrency reserves to fund operations, repay debt, and support investments in digital infrastructure.
MARA Bitcoin transfers follow another $81 million transaction MARA’s latest exchange deposits were reported less than two weeks after another substantial movement of Bitcoin linked to the company.
On Oct. 9, crypto.news reported a transfer of 996.105 BTC worth approximately $81.13 million from a MARA-associated wallet to an address identified as belonging to Galaxy Digital.
Lookonchain flagged the earlier transaction after identifying the movement through blockchain records.
The transfer took place on Oct. 8 and involved Bitcoin moving from a wallet labeled as belonging to a MARA miner.
Although the transaction raised questions about a possible sale, the blockchain activity did not establish whether Galaxy Digital had purchased the assets or received them for another financial arrangement.
The latest deposits involve different reported destinations, with funds moving to Binance and Gate instead of Galaxy Digital.
Lookonchain’s findings identify the exchange transfers but do not establish whether the coins involved were newly mined Bitcoin or assets previously held in MARA’s treasury.
The two reported movements total approximately 1,996 BTC, valued at roughly $164 million using the dollar estimates published for each transaction. However, the available evidence does not establish whether the movements involved distinct coins or whether any assets were subsequently transferred between the identified destinations.
MARA has previously acknowledged that movements involving its Bitcoin reserves can result from activities other than outright sales.
In its third-quarter 2025 shareholder letter, the company disclosed that it had begun actively managing a portion of its Bitcoin holdings through trading activities, which could cause wallet balances to fluctuate.
The company said most of the Bitcoin allocated to its active management strategy remained in lending arrangements.
MARA sold more than $1.6 billion in Bitcoin during the first half MARA’s reported exchange activity comes after the company substantially reduced its Bitcoin reserves during the first six months of 2026.
The miner sold approximately 23,093 BTC for roughly $1.63 billion during the first half of the year, according to its financial disclosures.
Sales were concentrated in the first quarter, when MARA disposed of 20,880 BTC at an average price of approximately $70,137 per coin.
The transactions generated nearly $1.5 billion as the company sought additional liquidity and reduced outstanding debt.
In March, MARA announced that it had sold 15,133 BTC between March 4 and March 25 for approximately $1.1 billion.
According to the company’s official announcement, the proceeds were intended to support the repurchase of convertible senior notes due in 2030 and 2031.
The repurchase transactions were expected to reduce outstanding convertible debt by approximately 30% and generate around $88.1 million in savings before transaction costs.
MARA continued selling Bitcoin during the second quarter, disposing of another 2,213 BTC at an average price of $73,078.
The company produced 2,422 BTC during the same quarter, leaving its total holdings slightly higher than at the end of March.
By June 30, MARA held 35,577 BTC, compared with 53,822 BTC at the end of December 2025.
Its remaining Bitcoin holdings were valued at approximately $2.1 billion at the end of June, based on a reference price of $58,524 per coin.
MARA’s second-quarter financial results showed revenue falling 27% year over year to $174.9 million, while the company recorded a net loss of $611.3 million.
The company attributed part of its financial performance to changes in the fair value of its digital assets, which resulted in approximately $343 million in losses associated with Bitcoin and related receivables.
Despite the weaker financial results, Bitcoin production rose 3% year over year, while energized hashrate reached 70.3 exahashes per second.
MARA’s second-quarter shareholder letter said the company expected to continue monetizing Bitcoin when market conditions and capital requirements supported doing so.
The policy permits sales to fund operations, provide liquidity, and finance capital projects.
Bitcoin reserves are supporting MARA’s financing plans MARA has increasingly used its Bitcoin holdings for financing arrangements alongside direct sales.
In August, the company pledged 18,750 BTC as initial collateral for two credit facilities that provided $600 million in new borrowing.
The arrangements involved Coinbase Credit and Two Prime Lending, with each providing $300 million in additional financing.
Coinbase’s facility included the refinancing of an existing $150 million credit line, bringing its total principal to $450 million.
Two Prime separately provided a $300 million loan carrying a fixed annual interest rate of 7.65%.
The facilities were structured with a weighted average borrowing cost of approximately 7.56% on the incremental financing.
MARA said the proceeds could support general corporate purposes, including part of the cash consideration for its planned acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power.
At the end of June, the company had already allocated 9,270 BTC to its digital asset management strategy.
Of that amount, 4,742 BTC had been loaned to counterparties, while another 4,528 BTC had been pledged as collateral.
The remaining 26,307 BTC were classified as unrestricted holdings at the reporting date.
The company generated approximately $4.3 million in interest income from Bitcoin lending arrangements during the second quarter.
MARA’s filings distinguish between unrestricted Bitcoin, assets loaned to counterparties, and Bitcoin pledged to secure borrowing.
The company has not disclosed whether the latest 1,000 BTC exchange deposits relate to any of those existing financing arrangements.
MARA continues investing in AI and energy infrastructure MARA’s Bitcoin treasury strategy has developed alongside its investments in artificial intelligence, power generation, and high-performance computing infrastructure.
The company has been expanding beyond conventional Bitcoin mining operations by acquiring energy assets and developing facilities that can support computing workloads.
Its planned acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power involves a 505-megawatt natural gas power plant in Ohio and a site that could eventually support more than one gigawatt of computing capacity.
The proposed transaction, valued at approximately $1.5 billion, forms part of MARA’s effort to control energy infrastructure used by its mining and computing operations.
The company has identified Bitcoin-backed borrowing as one source of financing for the acquisition.
MARA has pursued another large development in Texas, where it acquired a 1,200-acre powered site with potential access to as much as two gigawatts of grid capacity over time.
The Texas project is intended to support additional digital infrastructure development as the company expands its computing business.
Management has said its potential power portfolio could reach approximately 4.8 gigawatts when its existing assets and planned developments are considered.
The company previously disclosed that it was evaluating the conversion of some Bitcoin mining capacity to artificial intelligence and other computing applications.
MARA’s strategy has included reviewing up to 90% of its non-hosted mining capacity for possible conversion, although the company has not committed to converting that entire amount.
Its second-quarter shareholder letter identified access to electricity, land, and computing infrastructure as priorities for future investment.
The company reported purchased energy costs of approximately $38,690 per Bitcoin at its owned facilities during the quarter.
MARA mined 2,422 BTC during the period and reported that no Bitcoin was purchased in the second quarter.
Its financial disclosures stated that Bitcoin would remain part of the company’s capital management strategy, with holdings available for lending, collateral arrangements, and sales depending on business requirements.
The company has said its Bitcoin monetization decisions remain subject to market conditions and capital allocation priorities.
MARA Holdings (MARA), considered the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining company, reportedly transferred a total of 1,000 BTC to cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Gate over the past five days. On-chain analytics platform Lookonchain stated that these transactions suggest the company may be selling Bitcoin.
According to data shared by Lookonchain, Bitcoin transfers were made from wallets linked to MARA Holdings to Binance and Gate platforms. The total amount transferred to the exchanges over a five-day period was reportedly 1,000 BTC.
The transfers attracted attention in terms of MARA Holdings’ strategy for managing its Bitcoin assets. In particular, the high-volume Bitcoin transfers made by mining companies to exchanges can be linked to potential sales transactions.
However, transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges do not necessarily mean that the assets have been sold. Such transactions can also be carried out for liquidity management, custody arrangements, or other operational needs.
While Lookonchain speculates that the transfers made by MARA Holdings may be preparations for a sale, there is no definitive confirmation that the Bitcoins were sold on exchanges.
The asset movements of Bitcoin mining companies are closely monitored in terms of supply dynamics in the sector. Whether Bitcoins obtained from mining activities are held or sold varies depending on the financial strategies of the companies.
MARA Holdings’ transfer of 1,000 BTC over the past five days has brought the company’s transactions regarding its Bitcoin reserves back into the spotlight.
However, the total dollar value of the transferred Bitcoins, the price levels at which the transactions were made, and details regarding the company’s potential sales plans were not included in the available information.
It is still unclear whether MARA Holdings has made an official statement regarding the purpose of these transfers.
*This is not investment advice.
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This article was automatically generated using Dow Jones technology. All major cryptocurrencies were up at 10 a.m. Hong Kong time, with Sui seeing the biggest change, rising 5.7% to 99.98 cents. Cardano increased 4.0% to 22 cents, while Avalanche rose 4.0% to $9.76. Dogecoin rose 4.0% to 8 cents, and XRP increased 3.7% to $1.31.
Solana increased 3.6% to $104.76, and Ethereum increased 3.1% to $2,421.67. Bitcoin rose 1.8% to $82,349.40, and Tronix rose 0.2% to 33 cents. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, Kraken (END) Dow Jones Newswires 10-18-26 2200ET Copyright (c) 2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Janus Henderson macro chief Richard Bernstein says the AI stock sell-off could lower borrowing costs for small caps. The Federal Reserve is tightening, he argues, and speculative stocks are taking the first hit.
A major chip ETF closed last Thursday nearly 14% below its October high, which many investors read as a warning. However, Bernstein told CNBC the sell-off also reprices capital in a healthy way.
Could the AI stock sell-off make money cheaper for everyone else?Bernstein says capital has flowed to the AI data center industry on easy terms while other companies went short.
If valuations adjust across the rest of the market, borrowing becomes cheaper for the wider economy, he said.
He pointed to small caps, which gained over several recent sessions as long-term rates fell. However, the CNBC host noted they were still down on the week.
He also cited credit default swap (CDS) spreads, a default-risk gauge, as a sign of profit doubts. Meanwhile, chip stocks fell for eight straight sessions, a 16-year record, fueling debate over whether the AI bubble is cracking.
Can anything outside AI escape a Fed that means it?Many investors expect a single hike, he said, a view he rejects. The Fed raised rates by a quarter point on Sept. 16, its first increase since 2023.
He cited hot consumer, producer, and import price readings as evidence of a genuine inflation problem.
Core import prices are rising faster than core consumer prices, a reversal of the past 30 years, he said.
“The United States is now importing inflation.”
Richard Bernstein, global head of macro at Janus Henderson, told CNBC.
Consumer staples, makers of household goods, are performing a little better, which he reads as recession fear entering markets.
In contrast, economist Peter Schiff argues most US stocks are in a bear market. Goldman Sachs data puts the median S&P 500 stock 16% below its peak.
Bernstein concedes a broader market may not help data centers or tech. Still, he expects the long-term story to sit outside the leadership of the past two to three years.
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Identity project World, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has officially launched a World ID verification product tailored for banks and financial institutions. The suite, unveiled at the Money20/20 conference, marks the project’s first industry-specific custom offering. It integrates three products: the World ID app (an identity wallet for storing user "proofs"), World ID for Zoom (a tool to confirm call counterparts are real humans), and World ID for Agents (AgentKit, which allows users to delegate identity verification to AI agents). World ID for Zoom, after limited testing in April, is now fully available; its lead developer Tools for Humanity has also joined Zoom’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. In terms of implementation partnerships, World said it is exploring use cases for the technology in financial services with design partners including OpenExchange, Bain Capital, VanEck Funds, and Outtake, but did not disclose specific bank clients or pricing details. World highlighted that as AI becomes more widespread, businesses are increasingly requiring users to provide "proof" to mitigate fraud risks. Deloitte projects that U.S. AI-driven fraud losses will reach $40 billion by 2027. Currently, over 18 million people globally hold World’s "Proof of Humanity" credentials. Additionally, the project launched last month the self-custodial app World Money, which covers over 150 countries, and raised $52.5 million via a WLD token sale in July.
Worldcoin [WLD] saw a price bounce to $0.547 on the 17th of October but dipped to $0.478 the very next day.
Source: Coinalyze
The short-term volatility came alongside a 5.1% reduction in Open Interest in 24 hours, along with a WLD token price dip of 2.4%. The Spot CVD has been slipping lower over the past week, and the Funding Rate flipped negative in the past 24 hours.
This showed bearish short-term expectations and the market leaning in favor of short positions.
AMBCrypto reported that South Korean retail FOMO and the resulting short squeeze were among the factors at play that led to a price bounce toward $0.55. AI hype and the technological roadmap also helped explain the positive Worldcoin outlook.
Here’s what swing traders and long-term investors can watch out for next
Source: WLD/USDT on TradingView
Plotted from the annual low at $0.227 to the $0.727 peak, the Fixed Range Volume Profile tool showed that the Value Area High and Low were at $0.577 and $0.358, respectively.
The Point of Control (red) was at $0.50, which was also a round-number support level. Worldcoin bulls have been fighting to retain control of this area since late September, but the price has slipped just below this level.
There was another local support to watch. The $0.46-$0.47 zone has seen price wicks into it that bounced slightly higher. A price drop below $0.46 could bring a correction to $0.40 and even to the VAL at $0.358.
Traders’ call to action – Stay cautious
Source: WLD/USDT on TradingView
The $0.466 level on the 4-hour chart has been important since late September. Meanwhile, the $0.56 area overhead was a supply zone that could see a bearish reaction upon retest.
WLD has formed lower highs and equal lows in October. It was a sign that sellers were taking control of the market and could force a price drop below $0.466.
The A/D indicator was flat in recent days, while the RSI was hovering around neutral territory on the 4-hour timeframe. An H4 session close below $0.466 would flip the market structure bearishly, and traders can expect a move to $0.40 thereafter.
Final Summary
Worldcoin has been trending higher since September, but its momentum has weakened in October.
The $0.466 and $0.40 were the next key support levels swing traders need to keep an eye on.
