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This Wednesday, October 7, digital asset custodian BitGo Bank & Trust enabled its Lido ETH staking service for eligible institutional clients in the United States. Following the successful rollout of this solution across Europe and Asia in mid-2025, the company is now extending to U.S.

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Orca and Loopscale unite as Formation, targeting financing for AI, energy, robotics and defense.

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The deployment adds WLD to Solana's ecosystem as traders watch volume, order-book activity and network usage.

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The proposed integration would let users borrow supported assets against Bitcoin held on its native network. Testing is live on Aave v4, but no production launch date has been announced.

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Babylon Labs announced a partnership through which HashKey Cloud will integrate its Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV). This infrastructure allows Bitcoin holders to use their native BTC as loan collateral and directly access Aave v4 liquidity markets without the need for wrapped tokens, cross-chain bridges, or centralized intermediaries.

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Dogecoin slips to $0.0886 on Wednesday evening and thereby leaves the lower boundary of the wedge at $0.090. A count of our own shows that the meme segment carries only 3.9 percent of the altcoin market, and 41.7 percent of that sits in DOGE alone.

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Binance's bitcoin reserve has fallen by 41,700 BTC to around 663,100 bitcoin since September 20, the largest weekly outflow since June 2023. Why the price is giving way all the same, and what the finding means for your custody.

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Open interest fell from $91 million to $85 million during the drop.

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Bitcoin weakened as bond yields hit a 24-year high and US stocks sold off. Is 'Uptober' and its $90K–$100K upside off the table, or do the bullish catalysts hold?

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Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake urged holders to calmly move funds to unused addresses, warning that AI-driven math could break crypto signatures before quantum computers do.

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Spot Ether ETFs lost about $408 million over six straight sessions through Tuesday, while spot Bitcoin funds took in $119 million, led by IBIT.

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Bitcoin dropped 3.5% over 24 hours after trading as high as $86,648. The Federal Reserve released its latest meeting minutes at 2 p.m.

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Charlie Lee mined Litecoin's genesis block on Oct. 7, 2011. Public mining began six days later after a community poll, with code available before launch.

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China's crypto access push comes at a key time as bitcoin selling pressure starts to build.

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TL;DR: US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $201.9 million in net outflows on October 6, according to Farside Investors. Bitcoin ETFs moved the other way with roughly $118.8 million of net inflows, creating a sharp one-day divergence between institutional flows into the two largest crypto assets.

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Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to its corporate balance sheet. The trading platform framed the purchase as a statement of commitment to crypto, not a bet on returns.

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The planned system would let AI agents pay machines providing inference, but no live payments or paid production use have been confirmed.

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Genius Group acquired 10 BTC for approximately $854,000 between October 2 and 5, 2026, at an average price of $85,364 per unit. The company liquidated its entire previous reserves on April 1, 2026, to settle an outstanding debt of $8.5 million. The U.S.

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Integrating Bitcoin payments into AI networks could revolutionize decentralized compute markets, enhancing autonomy and efficiency in AI transactions. Spiral is adding Bitcoin payments to Mesh LLM so machines can buy AI compute.

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Glamsterdam was activated on the Sepolia testnet on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 13:53 UTC, as confirmed by Ethereum contributor Pooja Ranjan. The upgrade introduces proposer-builder separation, access lists, and changes to gas pricing to improve network efficiency.

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The plan targets a fourth-quarter 2026 conversion and will denominate institutional loans in RLUSD rather than XRP.

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HYPE received six selections, SOL five and ZEC three in a 10-model exercise that produced forecasts rather than verified market outcomes.

 

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake on Wednesday laid out how holders can protect their coins if AI cracks wallet security. His main step is moving funds to brand-new addresses that have never sent a transaction.

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Clearpool received 97% approval to migrate its Ethereum-based CPOOL token to the CLEAR token on XRP Ledger. Each CPOOL will be exchanged 1:1 for one CLEAR, with an estimated circulating supply of 1.1 billion tokens. Institutional lending will be denominated in RLUSD, Ripple's stablecoin.

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Bitcoin failed to reclaim its $87,700 yearly open as futures open interest fell and U.S. spot ETF inflows slowed sharply from the previous week.

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Solana's new addresses increased 33% since September 1, according to data shared by Santiment, while SOL gained around 20%. Ethereum's new-address activity remained broadly flat, while Chainlink recorded growth of less than 2% over comparable periods. Solana's expanding DeFi, stablecoin and tokenized-asset activity provides additional support for the network's growing on-chain usage.

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Users can create up to five named allocations, move Bitcoin between them without fees or limits, and transfer funds back before sending or withdrawing.

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The latest data shows weaker ETF demand and lower leverage, with key levels now likely to shape Bitcoin's next move.

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ADA's latest 10% rally looks more like fresh leverage building up rather than a pure short squeeze.

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Strike's Stacks feature could enhance Bitcoin financial management, attracting users seeking organized savings strategies and improving retention. Strike launches Stacks to sort Bitcoin savings into goal-based buckets.

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Polygon recorded $933 billion in stablecoin transfer volume in 2025 and $741 billion through Sept. 29, 2026, as payment infrastructure use grows.

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TL;DR: Ethereum's Sepolia testnet is testing a 200 million block gas limit as part of work around the Glamsterdam upgrade. The experiment is more than three times Sepolia's previous 60 million target and is intended to show how clients and validators behave under much heavier Layer 1 execution loads.

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Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD recorded a new mint of 30 million tokens, adding to a steady issuance activity that reached $59.5 million in just two days during the last week of September. The operation was detected by the Ripple Stablecoin Tracker, a tool that monitors on-chain minting and burning operations.

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Addresses tracked as US government holdings moved bitcoin on Tuesday for the first time since August 26, sending a combined 833.6 BTC worth a little more than $71 million toward Coinbase Prime.

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Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) dropped 7% Wednesday, but a daily golden cross remains intact as DOGE tests key support levels. Prominent analyst analyst Kevin highlighted the $0.083 to $0.089 range as a major support zone for Dogecoin after the meme coin recently broke above key daily moving averages that had capped price for roughly a year.

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Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says capital is increasingly rotating beyond Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) into perpetual futures, pre-IPO companies and tokenized equities, with AI-linked assets emerging as a new area of investor interest. Crypto Capital Has New Places To Go, Where?

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BitMine Immersion Technologies has bought Ethereum every single week since June 30, 2025, becoming the most dependable source of demand the token has. BitMine's Chairman, Tom Lee, has announced that the long-running accumulation of ETH by the company will end once it holds 5% of the supply.

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XRP trades near $1.42 after losing $1.50. We check the $10 forecasts, the charts and the market cap math to see if XRP can really reach $10.

 

Franklin and Canary saw outflows on Oct. 6 even as the five tracked funds gained net inflows, while wallet migrations complicate the supply story.

 

The planned consensus upgrade targets 100- to 150-millisecond finality, compared with about 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT.

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Flare CEO Hugo Philion challenged Ripple CTO David Schwartz, claiming he underestimates the real potential of XRP lending. Through Protocol Managed Wallets and Flare Confidential Compute, the infrastructure has already channeled $7.2 million in loans backed by 10.8 million Wrapped XRP.

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Ethereum researcher Justin Drake is urging the crypto community to start planning for what he calls "bunker mode", as he claims the ever-growing leaps in AI might threaten Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other key blockchain networks.

 

Bitcoin wiped out its gains from early October by falling back to around $83,300 on October 7, after surpassing $86,400 the day before. The $81,300 level now draws attention, but its loss would only become truly worrying with ETF outflows and loss-making sales by recent investors.

 

The investment values OKX at $25 billion before the new capital. The amount invested was not disclosed, and the announcement adds no new OKB utility or token allocation.

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The prolonged negative Coinbase premium gap suggests sustained US institutional caution, potentially impacting Bitcoin's market dynamics. Coinbase premium gap sinks to -$64 as Bitcoin trades at a US discount.

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OKX is strengthening its institutional position, but sustained stablecoin activity will determine whether the momentum can last.

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Another Ethereum Layer 2 chain bites the dust: Just days after the creators of the once-hyped Blast said they're shutting down the scaler, Abstract is about to follow suit. On Tuesday, Igloo Inc.

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TL;DR: Cardano's CIP-0113 programmable token standard is now live on mainnet. It gives issuers the ability to build controls such as KYC requirements, sanctions screening and transfer restrictions directly into native Cardano assets, targeting regulated stablecoins, funds and tokenized securities.

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Africa's Bitcoin ecosystem shows robust grassroots growth, indicating a strong foundation for future economic innovation and financial inclusion. Africa's Bitcoin directory tracked 189 projects across 23 countries in Q3 2026.

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Robinhood is adding $25 million of Bitcoin to its balance sheet, framing the purchase as a strategic move to diversify company assets. The allocation equals less than 0.5% of Robinhood's $5.362 billion cash balance, keeping the initial exposure modest relative to its financial resources.

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Ether fell nearly 6% toward $2,500, while more than $221 million in long positions were liquidated over 24 hours.

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Bitcoin broke below $84,000 support Wednesday as Treasury yields surged to 24-year highs. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $83,332.93 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $2,558.02 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $116.70 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $1.42 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) $0.0885 Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) $0.055392 Notable Statistics: Coinglass data shows 124,815 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $716.71 million.

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Kevin Lee of BingX stated that “old money” investors have stronger long-term conviction in Bitcoin than crypto traders. A CoinShares survey of 2,230 investors with at least $500,000 in assets found that long-term appreciation outweighs speculation as an investment motive.

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Shiba Inu has been trading on Solana since October 4. Two verified tokens now carry the same ticker there, and the one with the most holders is not Shiba Inu.

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Ethereum's slide toward $2,500 has put about $1.35 billion of leveraged long positions at increasing risk of liquidation. CoinMarketCap data showed roughly $1.35 billion of ETH long exposure sat at liquidation levels below the prevailing price, compared with about $999.78 million of shorts vulnerable above it.

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The platform runs core functions and ckBTC transactions through Internet Computer canisters while keeping media storage and mobile notifications centralized.

 

Litecoin's genesis block carries the date October 7, 2011, which makes it 15 years today. On the anniversary the price falls around 6 percent to about 66 dollars, while the network confirms 156,026 transactions a day and the confidential MWEB area reaches an all-time high.

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Most Federal Reserve officials said another interest rate hike would likely be appropriate this year, minutes of the September 15–16 meeting showed on Wednesday. US stocks and gold barely moved on the release.

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The Bank of Russia formalizes the registration of bitcoin in Sberbank and VTB in their crypto registers. A major turning point that paves the way for BTC to 140 million clients.

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Cardano staking pays 2.74 percent a year gross and 2.12 percent net on average. Where the reward pot comes from, why 170 ADA in pool costs take almost half the yield at small pools, and when the first credit arrives.

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Wintermute sold 619.59 BTC valued at $51.7 million through Binance.

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Version 1.43 supports Canton Coin and eligible CIP-56 tokens through on-premises and hybrid SaaS deployments, with validators operated by customers or their node providers.

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Ripple Custody version 1.43 adds Canton Network support, letting institutions hold and transfer Canton Coin and CIP-56 tokens in one platform. Ripple Custody adds Canton Network support for institutions.

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XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) fell 4% Wednesday even as Ripple signed a new partnership with South Korea's Meritz Securities to bring digital asset custody to the country's capital markets. What the Meritz Partnership Covers The signing ceremony took place Oct. 1 at Meritz's headquarters in Seoul, with Meritz CEO Jang Won-jae and Ripple President Monica Long both in attendance.

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Litecoin marks 15 years of continuous network operation as Grayscale research chief Zach Pandl highlights the veteran cryptocurrency as an “OG altcoin.” The anniversary arrives alongside Grayscale's renewed effort to convert its Litecoin Trust into a spot ETF on NYSE Arca.

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Bitcoin fell below $84,000 after a third failed attempt to clear the $87,722 yearly open, making the lower boundary decisive for near-term structure. Bitfinex says short positioning and dense onchain cost basis around $84,000 could amplify either a squeeze higher or a faster decline toward $81,300.

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The revised July rate was 4.6% as spending rose faster than disposable income. The data does not establish Bitcoin's effectiveness during financial stress.

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Bitcoin's Q3 rally suggests a shift in market dynamics, potentially requiring traders to adapt strategies and indicating stronger institutional demand. Bitwise says Bitcoin's Q3 rally signals a regime change.

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Ether traded at $2,554 on Binance at 2:01 p.m. ET (18:01 UTC) on Oct. 7, after trading at $2,549 15 minutes earlier.

 

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported a personal savings rate of 4.1% in August 2026 in the United States. The reading is the lowest since 2022 and, excluding the inflationary shock after the pandemic, the weakest since 2008. The decline was 0.5 percentage points from July and 1.6 points since January 2025.

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TL;DR: Ripple has expanded its relationship with global investment manager Brevan Howard, with Ripple Prime now providing multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing services to Brevan Howard funds. The agreement pushes Ripple further into institutional market infrastructure spanning both traditional and digital assets.

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Ripple has released an update to its institutional platform, Ripple Custody version 1.43, adding support for the Canton Network. The release allows banks and funds to custody the native Canton Coin (CC) and CIP-56 tokens within a single secure environment, marking a major strategic move by the company to dominate the Wall Street tokenization market.

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OUSD's rapid growth on Ethereum highlights institutional influence in stablecoin markets, raising concerns about liquidity concentration and market stability. Open USD supply on Ethereum tops $100M in its first week.

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Cardano's booth at TOKEN2049 did not feature its biggest and most popular project, Midnight. The privacy-focused blockchain is a major part of the Cardano ecosystem, yet it wasn't featured anywhere in the branding.

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A former engineer who locked his New Jersey employer out of its network and demanded 20 BTC, about $750,000, got 32 months in federal prison.

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Long positions accounted for $10 million of the total, while Ether fell 0.76% to $2,549 during the same period.

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Ether was trading at $2,549 on Binance's spot market at 1:46 p.m. ET Wednesday, down 0.76% from an hour earlier.

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The single Ether perpetual-futures position was liquidated at 2:41 a.m. ET on Oct. 8.

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Sberbank wins Russian approval to custody Bitcoin and crypto assets as the country expands its regulated digital asset market.

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Japan's October 6 auction drew firmer demand at a higher yield after earlier foreign-debt sales, raising a potential Bitcoin financing risk.

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The integration enhances cross-chain liquidity and efficiency, positioning Polygon as a pivotal connector in the evolving stablecoin ecosystem. TRON plugs into Polygon's Open Money Stack to widen stablecoin rails.

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) pushed through the $85,000 resistance wall but failed to hold the breakout, with Glassnode data flagging mounting risks that could threaten the sustainability of BTC's rally. Why Couldn't Bitcoin Hold The Breakout?

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Dubai, UAE – October 7, 2026 – Polygon Labs today announced that Polygon Open Money Stack now supports the TRON network, giving fintechs, remittance providers, and payment platforms a way to connect bank funds directly into the world's largest network for USDT (TRC-20).

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Paxos has added XRP to its Crypto Brokerage platform, enabling partners to offer buying, selling, holding, depositing, and withdrawing for a token the company says is held across more than 8.1 million wallets.

 

The proposed contract would be tied to the Volmex Bitcoin ETF Volatility Index, but its terms, launch timeline and regulatory pathway remain unconfirmed.

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Bitcoin broke below the level in two moves, during Asia trading and at the U.S. open, and has not recovered it.

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Justin Drake recommended moving crypto assets to fresh addresses that keep their public keys hidden behind a hash.

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The $1 billion XRP fund postponement comes amid a clerical error, not a market condition-based adjustment.

 

The transfer highlights the government's active management of crypto assets, potentially impacting market dynamics and policy perceptions. US government moves $470M in seized Bitcoin and Tether to Coinbase Prime.

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Bitcoin traded near $83,000 and spot gold tested $4,100 on Oct. 7 after the Federal Reserve raised its policy range to 3.75%-4% in September.

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Bitcoin and Solana still have clear long-term catalysts. XRP and Cardano face a murkier future.

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Bitcoin price dropped to an intraday low of $82,734, erasing early-month gains. Despite forced long liquidations, open interest remained steady, signaling aggressive new short positioning by traders. Surrendering Key Support Bitcoin continued to slide Wednesday, dipping below $83,000 amid a marketwide pullback that dragged several high-cap altcoins down by 4% or more.

 

The transfer was valued at about $71.56 million, but blockchain data does not confirm a sale or a sale order.

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Could these government wallet movements trigger a Bitcoin sell-off?

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TL;DR: Robinhood has added $25 million worth of Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet, marking its first proprietary BTC holding separate from customer assets. The amount is small relative to Robinhood's roughly $100 billion valuation, but the company says that is partly the point: the purchase is intended as a signal of alignment with Bitcoin and the wider crypto market.

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Jack Dorsey's Block is pushing so hard for bitcoin adoption, it gifted 1 BTC to a lucky conference attendee at this year's ComplexCon in Los Angeles.

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From The Quantum Issue: a breakdown of how much of Bitcoin's supply is vulnerable to quantum attack, and the logistical questions of changing that.

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Russia's largest bank has announced it is the first in the country to have been approved to custody bitcoin. Sberbank said in an announcement Wednesday that the Bank of Russia gave the company the green light for “digital currency record-keeping” and to facilitate the transfer of such assets.

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Tokens left the wallet at 4:14 p.m. ET the previous day and were sold in four equal lots over nine minutes.