Altcoins, ETH & general crypto
Bitcoin fell from an overnight high of $79,530 to about $77,400 on Tuesday, hours before the Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The procedural vote needed 60. A widely shared post puts the later price far lower.
An Instagram post puts BlackRock's IBIT at well over 765,000 BTC. Two independent trackers put it higher, and they disagree with each other by about 1,700 coins. The quote driving the post dates to August, not last week.
Applications close at 17:00 CET on 27 October. Selected merchants take beta digital euro payments from central bank staff, for no fee and no remuneration.
Haipo Yang said the security and compliance risks had become hard to contain. Spot trading stops on 29 September and the withdrawal window shuts on 22 December.
Ten institutions joined the round, among them Nasdaq Ventures, BNP Paribas and Coinbase Ventures. Kaiko disclosed no valuation.
TokenLogic's proposal covers Core WETH, USDC and USDT with DAO offsets of 33 ETH and 15,000 each. Umbrella stakers absorb whatever is left over.
Vlad Tenev said in-kind redemption and voting are coming for Stock Tokens. No date was given, and the product disclosure still denies holders any ownership.
A pie chart from a Bitcoin conference account splits $157 trillion of global money into eight wedges and gives Bitcoin 1% of it. The dollar wedge matches the Fed's July M2 print exactly. The gold wedge does not match the tracker this desk checked.
BitMine Immersion bought 27,180 ETH in the week to 13 September, taking its holdings to 5,956,378 tokens, about 4.9% of the supply. The company values the position at $14.96 billion and has 85% of it staked.
Nasdaq 100 futures fell more than 1.5% after a weekend essay argued for slower AI development. Bitcoin traded around $78,200 and 94 of the CoinDesk 100 rose.
Britain's regulator is asking whether a token backed by a bar belongs inside the fund perimeter. London clears about 70% of over-the-counter gold volume.
Version 0.2.6 fixes a peer that could over-allocate fees during a splice and a payment-hash collision that left nodes unable to load their own state.
