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CFTC on Oct. 5 opened 60 days of public comment on an advance notice of rulemaking for crypto asset transactions. Comments land before any rule is proposed, so firms with digital-asset exposure get their earliest say on any rules the commission writes.
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Bitcoin rose about 44% in the third quarter, its best since 2017, as US spot ETF flows swung from about $5 billion out to $1 billion in. The price has tracked those funds more closely than bond yields, so the fourth quarter turns on whether they keep buying.
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Bitcoin rose to just shy of $86,950 on Monday, within about $500 of its eight-month high, then fell below $86,000, its second stalled rally in a week. Soft U.S. jobs data drove the move, and clearing the high looks to need both lower Treasury yields and leveraged buyers willing to keep paying to wait.
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Bitcoin briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September against about 90,000 expected. Traders added roughly $2.3 billion of futures positions during the climb, so more leverage now rides on the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $102.7 million on October 1, a tenth of September 21's $999 million, as Bitcoin neared $87,000. That leaves the Fed's October 27-28 meeting, more than the seasonal record, to decide whether fund buyers return in size.
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Bitcoin open interest rose $1.5 billion to $22.4 billion as the price climbed 3.4% past $86,000 before a US jobs report forecast at 90,000. Funding costs show the leverage plainly, but the claim that traders are leaving stablecoins rests on a market-share figure that any rally pushes down.
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Bitcoin gave back much of a softer-PCE jump to $85,500 and traded near $83,700 with the 10-year Treasury yield around 5.28%. Stock futures rose under that same yield, so the long-term holder supply Glassnode counts at $84,000 to $85,000 is the likelier ceiling.
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Myriad traders give Bitcoin 48% odds of touching $90,000 in October, a 7.4% climb that is half the month's median gain since 2013. Rates explain that discount better than fund flows do, since September's spot-ETF buyers have so far barely sold.
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Bitcoin rose 0.9% to $84,376 after August core PCE came in at 3.0%, below the 3.3% economists expected. Lower odds of an October Fed hike did little for a market whose September rally ran on ETF inflows that have since faded.
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Bitfinex says bitcoin needs ETF buying back near $190 million a day to extend a September gain of more than 6.5%. About 1.39 million coins were bought between $84,000 and $86,500, and holders waiting to break even can sell into any climb.
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Bitcoin gained about 6% in September as the dollar index rose nearly 2% and the 10-year Treasury yield passed 5%. Most of that gain came from a burst of ETF buying, so allocators who treat bitcoin as a bet against the dollar are really underwriting that flow.
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Bitcoin fell to $82,568 on Monday, about 4% under the $86,000 average cost of US spot-ETF holders, two days before its September and third-quarter closes. Corporate treasuries paid $80,500 on average, so Wednesday's close sets whether each group ends the quarter in profit or underwater.
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Ether led a short-liquidation cascade of the kind Bitcoin usually leads, and negative funding left the bears paying to hold. A month of net inflows into the iShares Bitcoin Trust averaged less per day than the shorts closed in that hour.
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Forced closures of bearish bets, counted at $648 million by Crypto Briefing and above $600 million by CoinGlass, carried bitcoin to its highest price since January. Glassnode puts the US spot ETF cohort's average entry at $85,638.
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Cryptobriefing traces every dollar of crypto's $740 billion gain since late August to the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks. Cointelegraph, reporting the same prices on the same day, does not mention it. Perpetual futures leverage is near $160 billion in both accounts.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $998.95 million on September 21, the year's biggest single day, and another $648 million of buying came from short sellers being liquidated in a market still about 30% below its October 2025 high.
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Open interest in cash-settled Anthropic perpetuals has reached $79.27 million, with more than $20 million trading in a day, against a company that told the SEC in June it had not fixed a share count or a price.
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A Glassnode and Bybit report with data through August 23 found coin-denominated open interest fell 12.6% as Bitcoin rose 24.6%, and the same short squeeze repeated this week when the Fed paired a hike with a dovish forecast.
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Bitcoin slipped from about $79,500 to $77,000 on August 22 and roughly $547 million of crypto positions were force-closed. At 50x, a 2 percent move is the entire margin.
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Traders are waiting on Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI, but the order book already brackets spot at 78,800 and 80,500, and with a quarter-point hike 58.4% priced there is less left for the Sept. 16 meeting to move.
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