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4-Hour Chart: The $85,600 Breakout Gets the Ax Pull the lens back to four hours and the failed breakout becomes harder to miss. Bitcoin ripped to $85,600 during the Sept. 30 12 p.m. UTC candle on 839 $BTC, the heaviest four-hour volume in the observed window, but closed considerably lower at $84,077. Later candles couldn’t hold above roughly $84,400, and the Oct. 1 4 a.m. candle reached $84,357.92 before closing at $83,380. The subsequent candle wicked to $83,130.14 and recovered toward $83,882. The result is a market back in the middle of its 83,100-to-84,400 range, with reactive demand at $83,130…

Price Action Breakdown As Ethereum’s staking activity rises, the network is witnessing unprecedented usage metrics. Recent reports indicate that Ethereum’s transaction volumes and user engagement have surged, reflecting a robust interest in its staking capabilities. This trend is happening despite mixed signals in the broader crypto market, where other assets struggle to maintain momentum. The increased staking activity on Ethereum is likely to bolster its position within the ecosystem as users seek out reliable yield-generating opportunities. Ethereum is a decentralized platform that enables developers to create and deploy smart contracts and decentralized applications (dApps). The increase in staking activity, particularly…

“You shouldn’t need to understand stablecoins to use them,” said Cyril Mathew, co-founder and CEO of Latitude. “We built Latitude so a business can move money in and out of any market and have it just work.” Thirty-Nine Licences Latitude has 39 money transmission licences, one state registration and five no-action letters, with Latitude Payments Inc. registered with FinCEN as a money services business, according to its site. A SOC 2 Type I audit is complete and Type II is targeted for the fourth quarter. The site lists live payout markets in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the Philippines, India and…

A few months ago, Evernorth had initially filed its Form S-4 registration statement with the SEC, leaving shareholder approval and other closing requirements among the final steps toward the public listing. With the recent shareholder approval, the Evernorth–Armada business combination represents a stepping stone to its Nasdaq debut, as the transaction is expected to close on October 7. Upon the close of the transaction, shares of the combined company are expected to begin trading on Nasdaq on October 8. Nonetheless, it is important to note that the shares, which will be listed under the XRPN ticker, are subject to the…

“Markets are becoming more complex, but the tools to understand them should become easier to use,” Binance VP of Product Jeff Li said. Co-CEO Richard Teng made a similar statement on October 5: “Finance has always been built for the people who already understand it […] Blockchain is giving everyone access to markets; AI gives everyone the knowledge to navigate them.” Why exchanges are chasing AI market help The launch follows Binance’s strategy of creating a TriFi superapp that includes crypto, tokenized stocks, and DeFi in one single account. AI could simplify this complex solution for users, but the performance…

A clock skew fix addresses an issue where freshly issued v2 session tokens were rejected when the validating node’s clock drifted slightly from the issuer’s. The gateway also corrects a parsing bug that returned empty rules instead of properly handling GETRANGEHASH records in container EACL, an issue first mitigated in REST Gateway v0.19.1 by skipping unsupported operations gracefully. Object uploads with non-numeric __NEOFS__EXPIRATION_EPOCH attributes are now rejected with an HTTP 400 status, preventing malformed expiration metadata from entering the storage network. RANGE EACL operation support has been removed entirely, and the underlying NeoFS SDK Go dependency has been upgraded from…

That month, the average price of $BTC was $115,101, equating to 394 full-time working days or 1.6 years for the average US employee . The price of $BTC denominated in average US wages has actually been declining from its 1.6 year peak in July 2025. Hours of work to buy 1 $BTC at US average full-time wages, pre-tax. Sources: BLS, CoinMarketCap, Zorinaq.com Protos built this chart using wage averages from private sector employee pay rates per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data starts on October 12, 2009, when New Liberty Standard paid Martti Malmi $5.02 for 5,050 $BTC, the…

“We saw clear, unmet demand from onchain investors for a product that combines real-economy yield with daily liquidity features,” said Connor Dougherty, CEO of Valinor. “VBDC is designed to meet that demand, combining Valinor’s underwriting and credit expertise with Superstate’s onchain infrastructure.” Nothing Tokenized Yet The VBDC token contract at 0xA4E0Ac02de99e23C76480dD75e55894fD74cDECF went live on Ethereum on Sept. 1, an upgradeable proxy pointing at a contract Superstate names FundToken. Its total supply is zero and it has recorded no transfers. Superstate’s asset page lists the fund’s DeFi integrations as “Coming soon.” Robert Leshner, the Compound founder who runs Superstate, described the…

Along these lines, RWA Foundation provided details of stablecoin market cap growth by issuer for Q3 2026. The biggest of the issuers that contracted was Tether, whose market cap was down by $207.7 million. Ripple is among the top 3 issuers based on stablecoin market cap growth, behind only Circle. Circle added $915 million over 90 days, more than any other issuer, while Ripple, which added $765.3 million, and United Stables, which added $474.2 million, were second and third. The fastest growers were not the largest; Ripple’s $RLUSD accounts for only 0.8% of stablecoin supply and U stablecoin holds 0.5%,…

JUST IN: Russia’s Moscow Stock Exchange will allow its 40.1 million clients to invest in Bitcoin and crypto assets pic.twitter.com/ZJOxEPWNNv — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) October 12, 2026 The plan follows Russia’s law on digital currencies and digital rights, which took effect in September and sets comprehensive rules for crypto in the country. Trades can run through existing infrastructure such as exchanges, brokers and trust managers. New players will also join, including crypto exchangers, where assets are bought and sold, and digital depositories, which record ownership. Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, announced last month it was the first in the country to…