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XRP Ledger's Batch amendment went live on mainnet with 30 of 35 validators in favour, letting one operation bundle two to eight transactions. In its all-or-nothing mode one failed leg stops the rest, so OTC and delivery-versus-payment trades can settle on the ledger itself.
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JPMorgan analysts count about $50 billion of crypto inflows so far this year, an annualized pace of roughly $66 billion. Third-quarter buying moved away from corporate treasuries toward ETF holders and futures traders who can exit in a day, at about half of last year's pace.
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Gate will roll out a Visa card that converts crypto to fiat at checkout in more than 40 countries and territories. Until Gate names those markets the figure is a target, and the card looks built to keep customer balances inside the exchange's app.
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NEAR is up 135% in 30 days at about $5.16, with $1.63 billion of futures open interest and a proposal to cut annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%. At that price the cut would withhold about $61 million of new tokens a year, a small sum beside the leveraged positions.
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Hong Kong plans four new licensing regimes for crypto dealing, custody, advisory and management in a bill due before the end of 2026. The bill still has to pass the Legislative Council and no start date has been reported, so a 2027 licensing deadline is, for now, each firm's own estimate.
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U.S. crypto investors on extension must file 2025 returns by Oct. 15 from Form 1099-DA statements that mostly report sale proceeds without cost basis. Taxes were generally due in April, so what the date now tests is whether filers can document what they paid.
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U.S. spot Ether ETFs lost a net $118 million in the week to Oct. 2, after taking in about $689.8 million the week before. The selling shrank as the week went on, and with ETH stuck under $2,800, Glamsterdam's Oct. 6 Sepolia activation is the dated event to watch.
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Zcash's NU7 upgrade goes to testnet on Oct. 6, cutting target block time from 75 to 25 seconds with daily ZEC issuance held roughly flat. Nothing changes this month on the chain carrying real ZEC, so the token's October price trades on a test result and a scheduling call.
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South Korea's five big crypto exchanges traded about 20.5 trillion won in the week to Oct. 2, down 19.56% from the week before. At about 2.9 trillion won a day, the week ran at the first-half average regulators reported on Oct. 1, so trading is back at the year's pace after one busier week.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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Federal Reserve proposals released September 24 let insured state member banks seek approval for stablecoin subsidiaries, with a $5 million capital floor. Wallet and software firms cannot apply on that route themselves, so access runs through a bank that controls the issuer.
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Doubling the cap on long-dated bond buybacks moved Bitcoin more than any exchange event did. The futures book shows how much of the move was mechanical.
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Transaction v1 heads to testnet in late August 2026 with a 3.3x bigger payload. It also deletes Address Lookup Tables, which 62% of sampled traffic was using.
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Abraxas Capital's Hyperliquid position is a funding-rate harvest, not a doomsday call. The exposure everyone else has to price is what happens when the largest whale needs to exit.
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