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The stated purpose is informational and educational. The study does not constitute investment advice or an offer or solicitation to trade securities, tokens or other financial instruments. Institutional blockspace on Ethereum: the study’s technical scope The ETHGas case study focuses on the technical architecture and functionality of its blockchain protocol on Ethereum. Its subject is institutional blockspace use, with coverage limited to the protocol’s functional, technological and governance aspects. That scope explicitly separates the protocol analysis from any assessment of digital asset prices or investment appeal. The study’s discussion of institutional blockspace on Ethereum is presented as educational material, not…

This leaves policymakers balancing two risks. Keeping interest rates high could help control inflation but put further pressure on economic activity. Cutting rates could support growth but risk keeping inflation elevated. These conditions have raised concerns about stagflation, which occurs when high inflation coincides with weak economic growth. Whether the US economy faces a sustained period of stagflation will depend on how prices, employment, and economic output develop. Expectations of another rate increase at the October meeting have declined after New York Fed President John Williams and Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson indicated that policymakers could take time to assess…

According to the data, the address in question currently holds 11.8 trillion $PEPE tokens. The average cost of a $PEPE position in the wallet is reported to be $0.000004114 per token. According to the same data, the unrealized profit the address has earned from $PEPE investments is approximately $2.085 million. In the cryptocurrency market, large-scale transfers from centralized exchanges to personal wallets are often interpreted as investors preferring to hold onto their assets rather than sell them. However, withdrawing funds from the stock exchange does not necessarily mean that the assets in question will be held long-term. Transfers may also…

Eligible deposits at Saldo Bank, electronic-money balances with an existing Kraken payments entity, and Bitcoin held through a custody service all represent different legal relationships, even when their values are all displayed in euros. People receive salaries, pay bills, and keep savings whether Bitcoin is having an exciting month or doing very little, which is why Payward wants to serve customers beyond trading. The purchase also brings a credit business whose audited accounts show that loans more than 90 days overdue more than doubled in 2025, making the quality of Saldo’s lending as relevant to the acquisition as its deposit…

Lost Keys, OTC Desks and the Patoshi Stack The unnamed 55% is not a census of individual holders, and the snapshot cannot separate self-custody from several other categories mixed into the same bucket. Some of those coins are probably lost: wallets whose owners forgot their keys or died without passing on access, the situation crypto wallet recovery guidance addresses. Others were mined in bitcoin’s earliest years by miners other than the one behind the Patoshi pattern, the set of early blocks researchers tie to a single miner widely assumed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. The bucket may also contain institutions Galaxy…

$ETH Open Interest Falls as Derivatives Sentiment Remains Mixed After breaking the support area around $2,350, the price of $ETH is under intense selling pressure and is having difficulty holding $2,320. The second-largest token appears to be pulling back from its September–October highs based on the overall price action. As the sellers maintain the short-term advantage, the latest price action shows downward pressure. However, the strength of the purchasers and their capacity to maintain the support will play a major role in a recovery to $2,300. The Bollinger bands have started to contract, as can be seen in the chart…

The companies did not disclose a timeline for either initiative. S&P DJI did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for additional details. The agreement follows moves by traditional financial market operators into prediction markets. Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the New York Stock Exchange, committed up to $2 billion to Polymarket in October 2025. In March, Nasdaq filed to offer prediction market-style contracts tied to the Nasdaq 100 Index, before partnering with Kalshi in August to provide market surveillance technology. S&P Global completes OpenZeppelin acquisition S&P Dow Jones Indices parent, S&P Global, separately announced Monday that it completed its acquisition of…

“AI has made finding bugs cheap, but judging them is still expensive,” Jump’s Ishan Bhatt wrote in an Oct. 16 review. Engineers still had to reproduce reported problems and check whether the proposed attacks could work. Some submissions flagged apparent weaknesses while missing protections elsewhere in the software. The backlog peaked at 299 open reports. As reviews slowed, other researchers rediscovered bugs that had already been submitted but remained unfixed or undisclosed. About 80% of duplicates arrived more than three days after the original report. The competition had already charged $100 per submission and limited researchers to one report a…

“Bank transfers represent a crucial on-ramp to add money to their account on our platform,” said Harries. “We are an FCA-registered crypto asset business, but are subject to the same blanket restrictions as the wider crypto asset sector.” Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Halifax and Bank of Scotland, received the most complaints with 2,297, equivalent to 23% of the total. Barclays followed with 1,569, while NatWest Group received 1,278. The figures require some qualification. SWC collected complaints from individuals choosing to use its online tool. The poll is not a representative survey of banking customers and is not adjusted for…

Meanwhile, Bitcoin inflows to Binance from whales have declined to $3.8 billion on Monday from $5.9 billion at the end of August 2026. Essentially, $BTC whale inflows to the Binance exchange have plunged by 35.59% over the past two months. Historically, a rising deposit of a specific crypto asset increases selling pressure and vice versa. As a result, capitulation of retail traders amid renewed demand from whale investors has bolstered bullish sentiment, as whales absorb sellers. “This divergence is worth watching, particularly to see whether whales will maintain this restraint if the price keeps climbing,” analyst Darkfost noted. Bitcoin price…